Youtube comments of surely you joke, mein failüre (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531).

  1. Trump's relative silence, since losing the election, has been the single nicest thing he's done for America in the past 4+ years.
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  2. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  3. This is like Hitler trying to claim at Nuremburg "I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews!" or like when Trump said he was just joking about injecting disinfectant.
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  4. Didn't MTG just tell people to shoot at anyone going door-to-door? They should get their messaging problems straightened out.
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  5. Putting clowns into high places doesn't turn them into mature, responsible politicians .. but it does turn your party into a circus.
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  6. June 9, 2024 at a rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And they cheered :(
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  7. Russia has already admitted that their own stuff randomly blows up and catches on fire. So this is normal for them.
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  8. No matter how kind you are .. German children are always kinder.
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  9. Every day it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, 4000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  10. This is like Hitler going public with, "I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews!"
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  11. It's always a nice day when you can watch the trash take itself out.
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  12. Trump Timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault. " "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault. " "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stockmarket!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose reelection.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT!!!" "Those corpses are just crisis actors!"
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  13. Trump: "Only I can decide when to reopen the country!" Also Trump: "I take no responsibility for this."
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  14. This is hilarious. Junior still doesn't realize how much of a hot radioactive mess the Trump family is just now. Hope they lose millions on the attempt.
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  15. The net Republican goal (by whatever means) was to block direct aid to the American people. They succeeded :(
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  16. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist—a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  17. Let's not forget all the Republicans and others who have not only enabled Trump's attempts to subvert the rule of law, but have cheered him on or turned a blind eye to his excesses. They are traitors all alike.
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  18. How much money did Trump and his FOXed Noise buddies make off their little state-sponsored pump-and-dump stock play?
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  19. Turns out she was just another of Trump's many attempts to remain in office. Like hiring DeJoy to sabotage mail-in ballots during the pandemic.
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  20. Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Casino, Trump University, Trump Airlines .. same channel, different day. Always a dumpster-fire scam.
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  21. "He didn't do it. If he said he did it, well, he was just joking. And if he did it, well, it's not illegal. And if it's illegal, well, everyone does it anyway. And look at how great the economy is. And look at how they just don't like him." LAMEST. EXCUSES. EVER.
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  22. Kari Lake could have done the right thing (concede gracefully, just like Herschel Walker did) but noooooo, she had to do full Trump and try to force the election she clearly lost. Now she's out of politics permanently. Don't let the door hit you, Kari!
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  23. Couldn't they just refer to the water as "fake news"?
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  24. Gohmert: This thing is a hoax. Masks are for librul never-Trumpers. Coronavirus: Fresh meat!!
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  25. Every day, I give thanks that the Marmalade Caligula is not in charge of anything important. The fact that he's got supporters at all is what's scary. Didn't know we had that many psychopaths in the US :(
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  26. Too bad Trump's former top aides didn't have their moral compasses functioning back when it would have mattered more.
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  27. The coronavirus has hurt Trump's littleboy feelings. He can't sue it, can't belittle it, can't keep it from infecting Stephen Miller, can't crowd it out of the news, etc.
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  28. The cognitive dissonance is frightening. At one end, the guy's saying he engages in atrocities everywhere and doesn't give a f*ck .. and at the other end he's telling his gf to be careful not to be the victim of other Russian soldiers committing atrocities.
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  29. The funny thing is, Kari could have just conceded the election loss, could have behaved responsibly and within the law, and go on to run again another time. Instead, she has shown herself completely unfit to hold any kind of office. She's knocked herself out of the game just like crazy Sarah Palin. Buh bye!
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  30. Nothing quite says "I want to be above the law" like firing the people who followed the law by reporting your ethics violations.
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  31. Sorry to say, but with the current batch of conservatives, it was only a matter of time before they'd take that step. Nearly all political extremist killings in the USA have been committed by right-wingers (reich wingers really) stretching back several years.
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  32. This is just more of Putin's 5-D chess. Unknown to everyone, the Moskva is also capable of submarine operations. It is on a very long undersea mission now.
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  33. It's pretty clear who's the author of a lot of this stuff - Stephen Miller, pronouns he/himmler.
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  34. We used to say that a coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise. Now it's becoming apparent that the failure to punish a coup is more like an open invitation to continue the coup :(
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  35. Every day it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, 4000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  36. Well, Trump DID in fact promise to run America like one of his own businesses. Looks like the one promise he's delivering on.
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  37. Just remember, Republicans had far more outrage over Obama wearing a tan suit than they did for Trump trying to overturn an election.
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  38. If it's not in a courtroom with a legal judge presiding, it's not a hearing, it's more like a staged PR event.
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  39. For Germany, it was Hitler. For Norway, it was Quisling. For America, when it comes to traitors, Benedict Arnold is about to move down to second place.
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  40. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our god.
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  41. Too little too late. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  42. It's clear: Donald Trump has no plan, and he's sticking to it.
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  43. The only true thing Trump ever says in public is, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  44. I like presidents who don't call for suspending the constitution right after they've lost the election.
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  45. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: Nothing to see here, folks. Check out this heroic rescue of a cat from a tree!
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  46. What a horrible human being. Anyone who's supported him has much to answer for.
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  47. He's just 2 steps away from declaring himself the KKK grand wizard :(
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  48. Too little too late. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  49. About Mitch McConnell asking Canada to keep buying Kentucky liquor .. did Mitch somehow forget his own culpability in putting Trump in power? He makes a big show now about protesting, but that's like an arsonist saying "wow, this is bad, who ever knew?" while the building is still catching fire.
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  50. Trump votes by mail because it's safe and convenient, but tells the rest of us that we've got fake votes if we do what he does. Trump has himself tested constantly, and takes medication for it, but tells the rest of us to go back to work and that we don't need testing. Houston, there's a pattern to his lies.
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  51. Probably some of the speakers have got Russian accents. That wouldn't play well in the press.
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  52. She hoped that he'll change?? Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  53. And, somehow, that makes him irresistible to conservatives. What does that say about them?
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  54. Oh wait, FOXed Noise already requires this of their personnel. Does that mean that FOX will get fined? Or will move out of Florida?
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  55. Like everything else, this will just get kicked up to SCOTUS for justice beer bong to fix.
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  56. Mr. Putin, those are some awful nice air bases you have on Russian territory. It would be a shame if anything bad were to happen to them.
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  57. To be fair, Trump DID in fact promise to run America like one of his own businesses. This is normal. Most of his ventures have been abject failures. Couldn't even run a casino.
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  58. Funny how no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up. He likes his lies to last at least a week or two.
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  59. Speaking as an American, I'm begging you to keep the the 'FU Trump' cheers and posting them on social media. His thin skin needs that kind of special treatment. And stop doing business with us until there's some regime change.
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  60. When Susan Collins talked about Trump learning his lesson, the only lesson he learned was that he can do any third-world tin-pot-dictator shenanigans he wants, and not only will Republicans not protest it, they'll help grease the skids for it. Their goal is ONE PARTY RULE.
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  61. This is about what happens when you let your drunk, senile, elderly, FOX-Noise-addicted, racist uncle cosplay at being president for awhile.
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  62. That's because certain Caucasian men have read Margaret Atwood's book "The Handmaid's Tale" and thought of it as a good idea :(
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  63. Trump wasn't too far out of character today, lying and blaming other people for his own mistakes.
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  64. No disease in history ever went away just because it was politically or economically inconvenient for the people of one particular nation. Diseases can be controlled through testing, consistent messaging, public health measures, and the cooperation of the people. We don't have those elements here in the US :(
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  65. Remember, kids - just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean we should put the Joker in charge of the batcave.
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  66. Gold plating, plummeting value, and broken engines .. that's a perfect metaphor for the Flim Flam Man. Our former Mango Mussolini.
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  67. That's what I've been asking .. why is there a $10K bounty on women suspected of seeking an abortion, but no $10K or even $100K bounty for men suspected of being rapists?
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  68. And Fox whined about Democrats being "too elitist". Huh.
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  69. They're mad at Lindsey only because of the pre-midterms timing of his announcement. They wanted that to come after the midterms.
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  70. What could Trump possibly expect to say to the American public to get them to vote for him? It would not suffice even for him to say things like, "I"m sorry, I won't be such a whiny & obnoxious lawbreaker next time, I promise not to suck up to foreign dictators next time" and things like that. He's lost the popular vote twice, and the second time was by a much wider margin.
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  71. This sorry episode has shown me how Germany once fell to someone like Trump, with Rupert Murdoch playing the part of Goebbels basically.
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  72. Like George W Bush famously said - If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. And Trump is trying to hide quite a lot.
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  73. Just remember, kids: when Winston Churchill famously said that Americans would do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities - it wasn't meant to be taken as a command.
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  74. The Supremes are what you might call a "hire court" - just ask Harlan Crow!
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  75. Every day in America it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, more than 7,000 people have died from coronavirus in the US as of today.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  76. Think about all the lies they've told that they DIDN'T get sued for.
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  77. That Trump's staffers even tried to cover up his insanity renders them forever unfit for any kind of public service. No doubt Hitler's staffers did the best they could too.
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  78. "A big, strong man came up to me - the biggest guy anyone has ever seen, probably a veteran, possibly a veteran - with tears in his eyes, and he said, sir, you should have been in jail years ago."
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  79. Every day it's like this: Dr Fauci: "Donald, there are still hundreds of millions of Americans who haven't been tested." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing?"
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  80. And ban abortions, of course.
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  81. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a full on police state here with them in charge of everything.
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  82. The wood of the bridge was visibly charred in some of the close-ups.
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  83. What HS graduations happen in mid-April? That usually doesn't happen until summertime. BS
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  84. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  85. "We're not going to try to control the pandemic" is why the stock market just nosedived. Suddenly everyone wanted to be anyplace but here.
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  86. Ignore the rosy news and the polls - get out and vote!! I'm not resting easy until I see Sweet Potato Hitler led away in tiny handcuffs, and all his Republican enablers removed from office, along with all the unconfirmed toadies he installed in various positions, an the ambassadors who paid him for their posts, etc.
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  87. If you took out the bits that were meant to "own the libs" by harming America, its people, and its future, there wouldn't be much left to the Republican platform.
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  88. The switchblade drone swarm is getting hungry for some fresh targets. Uncle Pooty seems to be providing more. Go home Ivan while you still can.
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  89. They do this in China and Russia - maybe this is his way of saying he wants to be more like Vlad and Xi.
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  90. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Trump.
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  91. AKA "Save the unborn today - so we can shoot them for trespassing tomorrow"
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  92. The most powerful bully in the world has the thinnest skin. He's like that roommate who stomps on the floors and slams every door, yet then complains about anyone else making even the slightest noise late at night.
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  93. "You didn't hear me right - I said I hate JUICE, not Jews!" Adolph Hitler in court
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  94. Unfortunately, the 12 people most responsible for spewing anti-vaxx nonsense are themselves probably vaccinated.
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  95. Trump has decided that if the jackboot fits, he's going to pull it on and start goose-stepping. Seen that movie before, don't like it.
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  96. The thing with the phone call to the leader of Turkey was just like his meeting with the Juul executives. Before the meeting, he said he was going to come down hard on them, and after the meeting he came away feeling like they were a bunch of real swell guys. Any competent 10yo could spin that fool around.
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  97. This would have the net effect of making Idaho larger and even poorer, since most of those eastern communities are net takers of state dollars. The tax base of the Willamette valley is what pays for Oregon to be Oregon - even if some yahoos don't want to acknowledge it.
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  98. Fauci: “Donald, 3000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  99. Losing my toxic, abusive, culty parents was the single best thing I ever did for myself.
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  100. Doesn't sound like a bad thing, does it! :)
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  101. Looks like the most powerful man in the world again feels threatened by a foreign teenage girl just because she gets better press than his "Be Best" behavior does.
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  102. Trump has never understood that his ideas of "justice" differ from those of the law. Examples: He called for the Central Park 5 to be put to death, even though they were innocent. He called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up, even though she's never been found guilty of anything. He's calling for Roger Stone to get off easy, even though Roger Stone was convicted of serious crimes. He's calling for Nancy Pelosi to be locked up, even though she's never been found guilty of anything.
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  103. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. Republicans: We see no evidence of wrongdoing. We're voting for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal.
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  104. Trump's "unfortunately or fortunately" comment still gives me the chills.
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  105. This is Trump's war on cities where he's unlikely to win any votes, and it's a show put on for the benefit of his fringe yahoo base that lives out in the hinterlands.
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  106. The only time Trump squawks and flaps this much is when he's been caught breaking the law. Hope everyone stocked up on popcorn. The world's most thin-skinned princess is going to be feeling a pea under the stack of mattresses 😈
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  107. "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas.
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  108. This must be why the Republicans won't allow the press into their convention. Too many GOP shareholders showing up with their thick Russian accents.
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  109. I watched it live on TV that day! :( Horrifying. Called my friends, told them to get to a screen. It was a 9/11 level of horror.
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  110. After four years of El Trompo's word salads and tilting at windmills, hearing a president who can speak English in long sentences with multiple clauses is quite refreshing.
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  111. McConnell before 1/20: It's too soon to hold a legit impeachment. McConnell after 1/20: It's too late to hold a legit impeachment. Also, he's guilty as hell but I voted to acquit. Farewell, rule of law, it was nice knowing ye.
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  112. It's almost as if all the people who protested this pipeline, claiming that it would spill and render harm to the environment, had some kind of actual point instead of being just a bunch of commie leftist anti-capitalist stooges acting in thrall to China. /sarcasm
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  113. Can't improve on what actual conservatives have said about Trumpty Dumpty: “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  114.  @Matlacha_Painter Marching towards his time in prison. A disgusting character.
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  115. News flash: Sweet Potato Hitler couldn't care less about his actions, even if they caused his own brother to die of covid. Scaramucci had it partway right - not only are people just objects to Trump, but everyone and everything around him is just potential fuel for the bonfire of his towering vanity.
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  116. They can always hold the RNC meeting in the white house bunker. No masks required. Poor air circulation. "It will go away .. like a miracle."
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  117. When Nunes was spooling out conspiracy-theory fodder up on the dais, trying to jam the big square peg of reality into the tiny hole of a Trump-approved narrative, it sounded as if he was awful familiar with the chatter at Infowars and 8chan. Then later we find out he knows the material so well because he helped make it up :(
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  118. This is like being in a marriage where one party wants to "resolve" differences by burning the house down while everyone is still in it :(
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  119. Funny, but when offered an opportunity to speak his mind, with every camera and microphone in the nation pointed right at him in the Senate, he refused to testify on his own behalf. No surprise there. Most crooks try to avoid courtrooms.
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  120. Notice how it's "disrespectful" when others laugh at him, even while he continues to call everyone else childish nicknames. He's dipped in sht.
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  121. Nebraska in March: We don't test enough, so some counties have no cases, so those counties can continue as normal. Nebraska in September: Lots of jobs and real estate available here! Please move to Nebraska!
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  122. This tells us more about Republicans than they could possibly know. Every accusation of theirs is a confession.
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  123. Only in America could a con-man president get away with cheating on his taxes while railing about "moochers" who don't pay their "fair share" while getting cheered on by his imbecile fan base who simultaneously think that a) it's wrong to cheat on taxes and b) cheating on taxes is what makes him a patriotic genius.
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  124.  @irenafarm  Meantime, he was probably thinking that he'll get rid of all them once he's back in power .. this is the same guy who said he has the "right" to use military forces against his political opponents.
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  125. America has officially lost it. Seriously, what other country has got angry people bringing assault rifles to protest necessary health measures during a global pandemic, while the president openly encourages protest in states where the governor is from the opposite party? That's beyond insane.
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  126. "To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine
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  127. Imagine thinking that a narcissistic dude living in a gold tower with his name all over it, using a golden toilet, etc is "just a regular working guy".
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  128. There are housecats with more than a million followers on Insta. The perp must live in a fishbowl if he thinks 3K is impressive.
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  129. Watching non-rich white people vote Republican is like watching chickens vote for Colonel Sanders.
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  130. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  131.  Jose Torres  Considering that it took out an AT&T operation that caused several 911 and other emergency services to go offline, it's entirely possible that that was part of the cover for something else that happened this morning. Guess we'll know by sometime next week.
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  132. His disrespect for justice and laws was prominently clear back when he posted that sick editorial calling for the execution of the Central Park Five - all of whom were later exonerated.
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  133. Fire up the UCMJ and send this oathbreaker to Leavenworth!
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  134. When he said "It will go away like a miracle" it's clear now that he was talking about his failed confederate presidency.
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  135. The "American carnage" Trump spoke about was indeed his dark vision for America's future :(
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  136. Gangster politicians. Remember, Cheeto idolizes the likes of Putin, Kim Jong Un, Duterte, etc.
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  137. Miss Lindsay is oh so spineless. Here's what he said back before the shifty-eyed grifter in chief turned him around: "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  138. It's so much worse. Even if Russia captured Zelinskyy and killed him in some ugly public fashion, the resistance is already fired up and running. Ukraine is doing to Putin now what they did to Hitler some decades ago. From here on out, it's downhill for Putin in Ukraine.
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  139. How communist-y of them to take that step. Back in the good old Soviet Union, any criticism of the Party was similarly forbidden.
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  140. Republicans showed their truest colors back in 2019. Who else remembers this? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  141. First Watergate .. now this. And both done by the Republicans. The stock value of "both sides are the same" is now in penny territory ;)
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  142. May I add another description? Our lord Cheeto is a guy who's supposed to be caretaking a long-running enterprise (the USA) which has many operational norms & practices & longstanding agreements & consistent goals over many decades. His only job is to manage it for 4 years in much the same manner it's always been done. Instead, he's treating it like a bag of money you find in the road :(
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  143. Funny how all the Democrats who are dogpiling on top of Bernie are the same ones taking money from Big Pharma, Big Healthcare, and Wall Street. Go figure.
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  144. Republicans are still peeing in their own breakfast cereal, then eating it, all "to own the libs". It may take them awhile to figure out how far into the wilderness Trump led them, and how many decades they'll be out there wandering. Thoughts & prayers.
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  145. There are a great many people here in the USA who have no immunity to Russian propaganda. They say things like, "Eww, Ukraine is so corrupt" without realizing that Ukraine is in the middle of the list and making improvement, whereas Russia is at the bottom of the list (extreme corruption) and not improving at all.
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  146. Uggh, she's to politics what the Kardashians are to news. Nada.
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  147. AKA "That's a nice country you got. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it."
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  148. Every day it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, 4000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  149. History will forever know that when fascism tried to come to America, Republicans went along with the program. They fully own Trump and all the messes he's made.
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  150. Being stupid and telling lies has always worked for him before - why should he change methods so late in the game?
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  151. Her screeching, angry performance for the RNC convention put her right up there with Josef Goebbel's wife for sheer nuttery.
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  152. DeSantis: Full speed ahead on ignoring the virus! Don't back down for anything! Corona: Yay, fresh meat .. hope you got lots of PPE and coffins.
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  153. We, the American voters, had one simple job in the 2024 election: to keep the monster moron out of office. And we totally blew it.
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  154. Love the way she referred to him as "Donald Trump" and not "president Trump" in the first few seconds of the video.
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  155. The sad part is, Trump will throw them under the bus the moment he no longer needs them. For him, respect is a one-way street.
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  156. Which is why we the people need to deliver on the vote in November.
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  157. Love it!! The GOP could not pick a better pair of concrete lifejackets to strap on to their drowning party ;)
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  158. Cult behavior / stockholm syndrome / strongman worship / the love of dark circus.
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  159. Trump did say he'd be running America like one of his own businesses. This looks to be one of the few promises he's kept.
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  160. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  161.  @TheMrCougarful  Alaska has one of the highest rates of gun sales per capita in the USA. Just how does Russia imagine that's going to work out for them? The National Guard might sit back and laugh while the civilians take care of it.
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  162. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And it is good to have a president who can speak the truth, after four years of the last one.
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  163. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.” -- Mitt Romney, 1/6/21
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  164. To be fair, I tried to find the manager of the "Anglo Saxons" to ask them if Putin's claims were true. They don't even have a Party headquarters, let alone a website or a manager. He's tilting at windmills. Again.
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  165.  @RespectableSpectacle  I've been assuming that he & Musk will bring along a bunch of trucks, and the drivers may have Russian accents.
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  166.  @PabloTheThinker  You're confusing him with your cult leader Trump. Again.
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  167. It's a disaster by design. Betcha the results will amplify the population numbers of rural & right-wing places and squelch the population numbers of cities and places that didn't vote for Trump.
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  168. This is the pattern we've been seeing everywhere - even as the rivers run dry, pretty much anyplace can experience catastrophic rainfall. Happened in Las Vegas not long ago. Seoul and Sidney too.
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  169. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  170. Trump makes Nixon look like an Eagle Scout who had a single moment of bad decision making.
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  171. "We have lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence." -- Rudy Giuliani
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  172. This is a cult leader phenomenon. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and others have done this sort of thing.
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  173. The one good thing Trump did was to reveal to the rest of us that we have so many crazies among us who would go along with whatever nutty idea entered his head at any given moment. It was as if they saw in him one of their own - angry, violent, delusional.
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  174. Basically so that the same people who spent last month yapping about grocery bills and trans schoolkids and caravans have got some new imaginary thing to whine about - right as grocery prices are going up. Well-done mass hysteria.
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  175. Hmm, they got in bed with a known serial grifter, lowlife, con man, etc, and now they're complaining that he's a serial grifter? Oh my poor Republican princesses, thou doth protesteth a bit too much.
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  176. Suffice it to say, when Clump took the oath of office, his word was just as worthless then as it's always been.
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  177. Definitely she turned the crazy up to 11. Must be in on the grift.
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  178. "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you!" And the MAGA faithful cheered.
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  179.  @thegasmaskwarrior341  You must be blind to have so wilfully missed the videos of federal goons going out of their way to attack and detain protesters who weren't even on federal property. Pick one: troll, or just ignorant.
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  180. This is awesome. Never knew how good it was to watch law enforcement swoop down on traitors. LOCK THEM UP
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  181. Cheeto's idea of economics is to get his grubby little mitts onto as much OPM (other people's money) as possible. That's it.
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  182. Basically Trump captured the hearts and minds of one of America's two main political parties. It was a cult-leader type thing.
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  183. Watching the FBI round up traitors and insurrectionists is more rewarding than I had realized. Keep it coming!
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  184. He's waging unofficial war on the cities where he won't win any votes. It's a show put on for his Bundy-clan type rural fan base.
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  185. Trump: I'm cutting off the WHO because they covered things up. also Trump: I had a navy captain fired for refusing to cover up virus spread on his ship.
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  186. A big man came up to him, a very big man, perhaps a veteran, with tears in his eyes, and he whispered, "Sir, this is the most beautiful indictment anyone has ever seen."
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  187. We can do this. Make sure everyone is registered to vote (particularly all the ones who turned 18 since the election or will have by the next election) and make sure they have whatever ID's are needed for voting. Make sure they know where the polling locations are, and make sure they have transportation there. Make sure they have whatever food/water/shade/etc may be needed in case the lines are long. We can do this. When the turnouts are large, the elections always turn out blue.
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  188. "We cant release the video unredacted because our people will get arrested" is quite the admission.
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  189.  @AIsavesDemocracy  Let's send thoughts & prayers to the Republicans as they are forced to bear a nonviable candidate to term. The irony of the situation probably escapes them.
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  190. Already done. He showed his Fox colors back during the pandemic.
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  191. A weakened Russia would have been the inevitable result anyway; Putler merely hastened the process. Transformation from USSR to Russia had the primary effect of reducing lifespans, reducing economic equality (such as it was), and impoverishing the bulk of its people. The population replacement rate there is negative. They're much less of a superpower now than they used to be.
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  192. Don't forget - we have almost a whole political party that loves Trump to pieces because of all those extremely negative qualities.
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  193. But the threats and bullying will get much worse before that lesson is learned by the right people.
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  194. This is awesome! Did you hear the people laughing? He's almost ready to be a cruise ship comedian. He holds his train of thought about as well as a fishing net holds water.
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  195. This is like a voluntary tax on stupidity. Fools and their money were lucky to get together in the first place - and soon parted.
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  196. I wish the camera had panned out to show the faces of the people nearby. Their facial expressions would have been hilarious.
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  197. Leslie Van Houten tried that line in court when it was her turn to face justice for participating in the Manson family murders. Didn't work for her either.
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  198.  @TheNeroScout  Nope, sorry, there aren't any US troops fighting. Just the people of Ukraine, which has the 55th largest economy in the world by GDP. Maybe someday Russia can join the G50 after the "special economic operation" now underway.
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  199. If the House used rank choice voting to select a speaker, Jeffries would already be moved into his office by now.
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  200.  @mariegarside8830  Similar to the way Moscow Mitch blocked nominees during Obama's time only so that Trump could fill the vacancies later. 84 presidential nominees had been blocked in all prior US history. Mitch blocked 82 in just 8 years.
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  201. I have relatives who watch Fox, who insisted I was just making it up when I tried to explain to them that Big Orangey has many times said he would be a dictator on day one. Slow learners.
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  202. "I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain." -- Liz Cheney, June 9 2022
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  203. When they're turning blue and trying to dial emergency services, just tell them to stop being such crisis actors, you heard the president say this thing is just a liberal hoax. Tell them that a batch of thoughts and prayers is being sent to them right away.
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  204. Every day in America it's like this: Dr Fauci: "Donald, there are still hundreds of millions of Americans who haven't been tested." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing?"
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  205. Workers for Trump .. NLRB gets disbanded, pensions get cut. Hispanics for Trump .. deported. This reads like that poem by pastor Niemoller.
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  206. .. but of course he didn't mean Biden or Obama.
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  207. Huckabee has grown to like the taste of Russian dressing on Trump word salad, obviously. He thinks it's the greatest thing and we should all be eating it!
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  208. It won't be hundreds more in the coming days and weeks .. it will be thousands. By the time people show symptoms and test positive, there have been several more generations of transmission with R0 numbers of 3 and above. That part of the east coast is a very crowded place and the coronavirus will spread fast.
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  209.  @andrewvelonis5940  Glad to see this .. I've been asking for awhile why Texas has no $10K or even $100K bounty for turning in suspected rapists. It's as if they don't really care about the problem.
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  210. Seems like conservatives have not fully thought out the ramifications of allowing anyone's vote to be overruled just because some politician got offended over the results. From the beyond, comrade Stalin salutes what these conservatives are trying to do.
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  211. Bingo. Because nothing says "I love my country" like attacking a policeman who's trying to defend the capitol against insurrectionists.
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  212. Good luck with that. The self-annointed "king of crazy" is so far underwater that the fish have no eyes.
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  213. She did not die senselessly. Apparently her three tours in Afghanistan, a country racked by violence and mob rule, was enough to convince her that America should be something like that. She died attempting to make America into the same sort of violent hell-hole she served in.
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  214. I'm past losing patience with networks that still don't bleep out 45's lies.
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  215.  @LunaBoo12  Kind of like that time NPR had their people read aloud the Declaration of Independence, and the R's got all mad because they thought the references to king George were about Trump instead.
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  216. They've never been able to handle the truth, but it's gotten a lot worse in the last couple decades.
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  217. This can happen anyplace where covid gets out of control too quickly. Hope the people of India can get help ASAP.
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  218. That's roughly the position the 2020 senate took, when they voted to hear and see no evidence at Trump's impeachment trial, then declared him not guilty. By the same precedent, they can make other weighty decisions with zero evidence.
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  219. Oh look, Dr Frankenstein is scolding the monster he created. Where's them pearls? They need clutching.
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  220. As Gordon Gekko famously said - a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place, and soon parted.
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  221. Fascists are gonna fash. Let's see if they stick around for the Nuremburg season ender .. don't want to give away the story, but it always leaves them hanging.
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  222. Trump: Everybody go back to work, you don't need to be tested, it's safe outside. also Trump: Nobody can work here unless they get tested every day. That virus is dangerous!
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  223. There's still time. None of them have yet fled to Russia like the Russian assets they are.
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  224. It's another facet of why and how Trump appeals to the dumbest. They've never had one of their own kind sitting in the big chair before.
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  225. "Rules for thee, not for me." That is the Republican way.
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  226. I only came here to read the comments of the nutters who say this is a hoax, that it's being overhyped, that it's a conspiracy, whatever. Those are the kind that went down with the Titanic, secure in the belief that it was unsinkable. Total dummies who don't belong breeding or voting.
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  227. If victory has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan, Trump is the deadbeat dad running an orphanage.
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  228. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  229. Seeing those traitors chant "treason!" is like seeing Al Capone shout "Tax evasion! Yeah!"
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  230. Must be hard for them not to wear that look when they're looking forward to permanent power, never being voted out.
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  231. Just one of 365 days a year of "I take no responsibility for this."
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  232. A horrible year for Republican party general secretary Trumpski is a good year for America. May he have many more.
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  233.  @armandotorres-iy1cw  Military vehicles get expensively maintained. Some parts get replaced after every ride.
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  234. Correct. No one else is going to pardon her.
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  235.  @courtneytyree-jones8563  You gotta admit, though, that Trump did a good job of revealing how many potential traitors the USA has.
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  236. Not really. Remember those stark mad raving nutters who screeched every day that Obama was taking away their guns and outlawing Xmas and shredding the constitution? And when you asked them for proof, they couldn't name a single damn thing? That was them at the time.
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  237. "Here we are with half the public terrified and confused and our president appears to be dedicated to upholding the honor of the Office of the President rather than acknowledging that the people who will be taking over that office are going to burn the entire institution to the ground." -- Politicsgirl
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  238. Funny how Texas didn't set up a hotline/website and $10K bounties paid for ratting out suspected rapists. It's almost as if that wasn't even a goal. /s
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  239. This is what happens when you let the crazy children do what the adults should be doing. McCarthy is guaranteeing Nancy Pelosi's return to the Speakers office. Good job, Kevin.
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  240. Hope you get out of it safely and go on to a full recovery. One of my friends had symptoms for 14 weeks. Damn near killed her. She's stuck with permanent lung damage now and other issues :(
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  241.  Ncyim  Where on god's green earth did you hear the hogwash that healthy people can't get it or can't die from it? Jeez, at least try to follow the news, not just the parts that make you feel happy. https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article243322656.html
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  242. She's in way over her head, and her 15 minutes in front of the camera is over. Next!
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  243. States: We don't want our people to die. People are dropping like flies and we don't have enough ventilators. Trump: I need the economy numbers looking good, you need federal medical supplies, let's make a deal.
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  244. In other words - "The dog ate my homework" - "We have plenty of theories, we just don't have any evidence" - "Fedex lost Hunter's hard drive"
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  245. @Carl Rosa Michael Cohen spoke about this in a recent video. He's still struggling to understand what was wrong/missing in him that he would seek the approval of an obviously unlawful con man of the lowest order, like Trump.
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  246.  @aggressiveattitudeera887  The kind that are still mad about Lincoln setting some "farm equipment" free, in other words.
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  247. Two men being aggressive towards a woman in uniform trying to hold 45 to the same rules as everyone else. Through his little henchies, 45 treated her the same way he treated the Capitol police back on J6.
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  248. Correct, Swnsasy, the damage to America is far more serious than we see now. For decades, the American way of life, as we know it, has been bankrolled by the benefits of American soft power. Trump took a flame thrower to all of that. When the world sees that our democracy is a sham and that it takes only a corrupt senate leader working with a corrupt president to defeat the separation of powers .. when the world decides it doesn't want or need the 800 or so US military bases on their soil .. when the world decides that the word of the USA on a treaty isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot .. when the world decides they want to use something other than the US petrodollar for international commerce .. then we're going to see the full impact of the damage Trump did with the full blessing and cooperation of the Republican party.
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  249. Welcome to Iran/Russia :(
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  250. That's perfect that his advisers are begging him to dump Ghouliani. Knowing Agent Orange, he will reflexively think of this good advice as bad advice, and instead he'll double & triple down on personal commitment to Ghouliani. Then just minutes later he'll be saying he doesn't know Ghouliani, never met him, has no idea who he is, etc.
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  251. Bad analogy, but it's like this: Newbie skydiver: "Hey, I've slowed down a bit. Can I take off this stupid parachute now? It's chafing."
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  252. Not sure those MAGA folk are ever going to be moored to reality again. That being said, it seems to help some of them when they're in court, then prison, for their criminal actions on behalf of Trumpster.
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  253. This is like putting the Flat Earthers in charge of NASA :(
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  254. If there was any remaining doubt that Dump45 was illegally interfering in the electoral process, he just removed it. Bravo.
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  255.  @anthonyg9739  It's nature's way of letting the trash take itself out.
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  256.  @ProDemocracyMan  June 9, 2024 at a rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And they cheered :(
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  257. Ironically, those oppressed working MAGA people got behind a guy who won't pay his fair share of taxes, who won't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and who moves the production of his trinkets overseas .. in other words, they support the rich guy who does to them precisely what they're complaining about "elites" doing to them.
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  258.  @FranksHairSalon  But only after she did her parts to make sure that America now faces much worse times ahead. Putin smiles at her for her help.
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  259.  @mikec886  Not only that, but Trump would change his mind a few seconds later no matter what he'd just said.
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  260. Mild correction - Trump never learns anything. It's impossible to add anything to a toilet bowl that's already overflowing.
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  261. To be fair, Trump lost the 2016 election by a couple million votes, so it's not unreasonable to expect that he's still as disconnected from reality as he was then, or perhaps even worse.
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  262.  @bragsdriesen1 And, no matter how hard Trump tries, he can't evict Obama from his mind, where he's been living rent-free for decades now.
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  263. Trump is a weak person's idea of what a strong person is like, a dumb person's idea of what a smart person is like, and a loser's idea of what a winner is.
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  264. Considering that all his life he's gotten ahead by lying, spinning, deflecting, projecting, gaslighting, etc, these past few months must be a puzzling and unwelcome aberration for Trump.
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  265. Need to see more of this guy. He has a very good way of speaking.
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  266. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  267. I have an elderly coworker just like that. She doesn't yet realize that she's only 30% as intelligent as she thinks she is, so I shoot down her nonsense with ease on a daily basis, and she keeps being surprised by this just like sheep and chickens are surprised to see the sun come up every morning.
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  268. Watching the Tuck romanticize the authoritarian damages done by Orban (or the Nazis) is no surprise at all. Rupert Murdoch is very pro-authoritarian. His outlets push that nonsense. Tuck wants to be the tip of that spear.
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  269. They're not the only ones afraid Trump would do just that.
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  270. Republicans at the roadside: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Republicans in court later: "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement."
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  271. It won't even make the NY Times top 100 for fiction entries.
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  272. Putin must be very happy with how his little sputniks (these nutty Republicans) are doing here in America :(
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  273. Migrant stripper bride Old man tweeting wildly Oh no, he's crazy
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  274. If anything, the official covid numbers are an undercount. The excess deaths number vs last year is already in the 400K-500K range and climbing.
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  275. "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away."
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  276. This guy definitely doesn't need his pension. He doesn't need to live outside of Leavenworth either.
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  277. The joystick snapped off in Trump's hand back on election day, and since then, just like a chimp tasked with landing a 747, his only response has been to shriek and pound the controls.
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  278. Abbott is what the Brock Turners and Brett Kavanaughs of the world become like when they get older - at least some of them. They never stop being pro-rapey in the same way that shit leopards never lose their spots.
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  279. For a guy who's bumbled through life by lying, gaslighting, denying, deflecting, being a racist, being a truly horrible human being, etc, these last few months must be a puzzling and most unwelcome aberration for Wussolini.
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  280. Yup :( He's an aspiring Mitch McConnell wannabe :(
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  281. Further exponential growth in the USA is almost a certainty. I have witnessed the crowded campgrounds, the crowded beaches, the license plates from all over, the crowds of people tight together and ignoring masks & distancing unless some plucky store/restaurant employee forcefully reminds them of the rules. With the current high prevalence of virus and random community spread, there's almost no chance those people aren't circulating the virus.
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  282. Sharing this gem of a comment posted recently by AC: (posted the week before the election) As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  283. The analogy I've been using lately is this: traditionally, America has been ruled jointly by both parties, sometimes with one or the other having the upper hand, often changing places so it works out to 50/50 share over the long term. Sort of like flying a 747 and the pilot & copilot changing seats every now and then. Sometime back in Obama's time, Republicans decided they'd rather fly the 747 smack into a mountain than endure the "horror" of not being in full exclusive control of everything all the time. In other words, they've gone full fash.
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  284. Hitler tried the same nonsense when he knew Germany would be no longer his. The only difference between the Nazi party then and the Republican party now is that the Nazis didn't let him wreck Germany. Otherwise, the Republicans have been A-OK about Trump taking a chainsaw to America's soft power. They were angrier about Obama wearing a tan suit than they are about Trump trying to overturn a legit election.
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  285. In the land of steroscopic vision, the guy who shoots out his own eye is insane 😅
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  286. He can leave peaceably or by force, but one way or another he's being removed. Might be straight to a waiting guillotine or a scaffold, depending on how much damage he tries doing.
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  287. This is part of why I stopped buying from Amazon years ago. They're on a whole new level of corporate fuckery.
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  288. Some people are drawn to the dark circus. It fills some weird need they have.
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  289. Mitch McConnell had a huge hand in that. Remember when, for Obama, 9 months before an election was much too late in his term for the appointment of a Supreme Court justice, but for Trump, 8 weeks before an election was perfectly OK?
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  290. Rochester police management: we'd rather walk off the job than be told we can't cosplay as runaway slave catchers.
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  291.  @ecstanton  I do think, though, that new House speaker Mike "straight outta Gilead" Johnson helped increase the reach of Drumpf's famous reverse Midas touch.
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  292. In other words, Trump used her to get where he was going at the time, and she's now a discarded first stage booster while he's on the way to the m-o-o-n.
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  293. Yeah, but they did it one day at a time .. sort of like a serial gambler with bad luck, who over time loses enough money to retire off. This is what happens when Dear Leader tells himself, every morning, that the other side is about to crumble any day now - they just have to push a little harder!
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  294. Yah. Over here, anything to the left of Hitler / Trump / Pat Robertson is labelled "radical commie leftist" by folks like Ben.
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  295. If Trump put the energy into fighting covid that he's putting into overthrowing a legal election that he lost, he would have won the election, but noooooooo.
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  296. The Republicans call it "disenfranchisement" and "stealing the election" and "fraud" when more people vote blue than red. DeJoy's tainted post office mysteriously can't find 300K ballots and ignores the order to look for them.
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  297. Who could forget how his culties run back and forth every time they try to keep up with 45's latest lie? First he denied having offered to buy Greenland, then he denied having insulted the PM of Denmark, then he said everyone does things like that, then he admitted to having insulted her but definitely did not offer to buy Greenland, then only later admitted that he did in fact offer to buy Greenland. At every 180 degree turn, his little culties ran back and forth to adjust their positions with every reveal. They could have saved all the trouble by simply accepting that he lies constantly, but instead they joined his mountain of discarded doormats.
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  298. This year it's not Presidents Day; it's Co-Dictators Day.
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  299. Denmark is in charge of Greenland. Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancellation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans (ambassadors, congressfolk, senators, etc) all rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. Denmark surely hasn't forgotten the incident.
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  300. Even stranger .. today Republicans are saying that impeachment is a horrible thing that should never happen to a president .. and in the next breath, they say that if Biden is elected they'll impeach him over their conspiracy theory about Ukraine. Are they licking the lead paint chips or something?
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  301. If ever there was a time for some honest person to stand up and shout "YOU LIE!!!" at Trump, it's at his propaganda events. You might get kicked out of the WH press association but you'll be a hero to billions of people around the world.
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  302. Kansas, where there's also a huge TB outbreak underway (now spreading to Ohio), definitely voted for the orange cult leader who just fired all the government scientists working on that problem.
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  303. Looking for patient zero is like looking for the arsonist's cigarette lighter while your house is rapidly catching afire. Jeez people :(
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  304.  @norezenable  Great thinking. So instead of getting the status quo, we all get much much worse. You had one job.
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  305. God. Listening to that screechy Karen scream "you know it was rigged!" long after it was public knowledge that no court in the land had found any systematic irregularities was too much of a reminder that we're going to need a whole lot of copium clinics for those sorry lost souls.
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  306. Every day in the USA it's like this: Fauci: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested more than a million people in the USA!" Pence: "See? See?? Donald knows all and sees all. Keep sucking up." Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 320 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??"
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  307. It would seem that he didn't appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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  308. Aside from the fact that he's "their guy", those cult mushrooms have zero experience with living in dictatorial fascist states.
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  309. I wouldn't put it past him to try to nuke the places that didn't vote for him. He really is that petulant. So let's take the time to remember all the people who've supported his actions all along, whether they be politicians or ordinary people. Pay close attention to them. They absolutely hate the notion of American democracy and will do anything to destroy it.
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  310.  @agolden10  Rupert Murdoch, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh etc showed the way: call your lies "free speech", crank up the temperature, watch your audience get agitated, keep them on simmer so you make eyeball share money.
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  311. Time to start playing "Swan Lake" on loop on every Russian TV channel.
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  312. Unfortunately, whipping the reich-wingers into anger is practically redundant at this point. Which is why Portland OR recently had more shots fired in the New Cold Civil War.
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  313. It's very educational to watch Trump freaking out about the virus reaching into the white house. So all of a sudden it's not just a hoax, or a flu, and he believes in the whole test-trace-isolate protocol that places like Germany and South Korea have extended to ALL of their citizens. He couldn't be bothered to support the test-trace-isolate protocol for ordinary Americans. He doesn't care if we die by the millions.
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  314. Five years of the dumbest idiots, the ones who probably shouldn't even be trusted to use a glow stick safely, believing the most transparently false nonsense that escaped our Mango Mussolini's lips. Especially when they're beating a police officer with a US flag after invading the capitol.
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  315. Every day in America it's like this: Dr Fauci: "Donald, there are still hundreds of millions of Americans who haven't been tested." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??"
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  316. In Texas it's practically the dark ages. Wondering when the zealots out there will set up a hotline/website so people can collect bounties for identifying suspected LGBTQ people?
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  317.  @JOHNWLOUCKS  Saw a video clip from not long ago. 45 speaking at one of his rallies. He made the claim that bacon has been outlawed, and people dutifully cheered the nonsense coming from his mouth, even though a bunch of them probably had bacon at Denny's that morning. Cognitive dissonance turned up to 11.
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  318. March 13, 2020 Wussolini proclaimed, "I don't take responsibility at all." For once we need to take the serial liar at his word.
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  319. The only significant thing you need to know about Clump, and his followers, is that they would be ecstatic to plunge America into decades of bloodshed, chaos, division. Just look at their work in making America #1 for coronavirus illnesses & deaths :(
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  320. Just like his ex-wives had to do, America is trying to walk away from an abusive relationship with Trump .. with the abuse being entirely one-way :(
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  321. Welp, that didn't take long. Rest assured, more and much worse abuse of the law is coming :(
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  322. Trump let his people out from under their rocks.
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  323. Trump's "train of thought" is a bunch of disconnected cars on different lines, going to different destinations. Some of them have been parked on sidings for awhile and are covered with graffiti.
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  324. The good thing about Trump is that when he reaches for a smoking gun, all he has is a smocking gun, and the result is inevitably hilarious to anyone who's not one of the Trump KKKult faithful.
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  325.  @marythorpe928  Grandpa Joe (AKA Dark Brandon sometimes) has vastly exceeded my expectations for how good he would be. I'll definitely vote for him again. He might not be perfect, but he's definitely not batsht crazy like the Republican candidates.
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  326. When Pooty calls you to threaten you, the proper response is to tell him that you have lots of space for burying invaders. And Finland has buried a lot of Russians there.
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  327.  @cherylklaver7233  Or like chickens voting for colonel Sanders.
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  328. Translation: "I fell for Trump's dumb lies about the integrity and results of the election, and all I've got to show for it is customers voting with their feet."
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  329. When the founders wrote "free speech" into the law, unfortunately they weren't thinking of what a glaring loophole that would leave for a narcissistic wannabe fascist authoritarian who lies with nearly every breath. Damn careless of them. On the plus side, this has shown which people and institutions among us are the most gullible to that kind of nonsense.
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  330. Reinstating their rank, benefits, and position would go a long way. For withstanding the ogre, they deserve promotion.
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  331. Trump telegraphed his plan in advance: "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  332. The kindest thing I can say about Trump is that, to his followers, he gave them his personal permission, from the highest office in our land, to be their worst selves. Obviously some had been waiting their whole lives to get that kind of go-ahead. It's gonna be the work of generations to fix this. Some of them might never go back to being normal civilized people.
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  333. Unfortunately so many in the US seem intent on giving Republicans dictatorial powers that they'd shriek about if the same things were extended to the other party. These people are pure nutballs :(
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  334. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a full on police state here with them in charge of everything.
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  335. He'll take the Republican party down with him, out of spite. Some of them saw this coming a long time ago: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  336. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  337.  @williamr1088  In doing so, he made it obvious that America has a huge mental health problem, and it's not being helped by all the nutters who tell them that masks and vaccines are slavery, or that overturning a lawful election is the way to a better America.
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  338. Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  339. It's good that Michael Cohen is speaking from the position of being an ex-cultist. It should make it easier for Trumpanzees to hear him. For sure they don't listen to the rest of us :(
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  340. Trump: "Waaah! I won't be able to interrupt and won't be able to infect Biden. Waaah!"
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  341.  @johnwebster76  45's people in particular seem cursed with goldfish memory spans :(
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  342.  @jf6962  Wasp spray works nicely for insect pests. Just saying.
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  343. "We do that all the time with foreign policy." "Get over it." Soooooooo .. how many other times has this administration withheld funds [to anyone] in exchange for favors?
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  344. This is the same guy who said in March that the virus would be gone by April -- that's how good his word is.
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  345. Hint: the vertical axis of the chart needs to be logarithmic to show progress or lack thereof.
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  346. The ghosts of the House Un-American Activities Committee members are probably mobilizing over this.
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  347. His supporters aren't far behind in the need for mental help of the interventional kind. I'm starting to understand why our nation used to have a large network of mental hospitals.
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  348. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  349. Republicans in 2020: We don't know who this Trump fellow is. Never heard of him. Never had anything to do with him.
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  350. Left mostly unchecked, it only took a month for this virus to go from 400 cases in the US to 400,000 cases. Just because folks have been watching Netflix for a month doesn't mean this virus has gone away. There's not a state in the country that's not seeing an uptick in cases every day.
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  351. She's been "learning" from Dump: when asked a question that you can't answer, just spin BS while bragging as much as possible.
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  352. Looks like the clown bus is really going over the cliff now. Anyone got popcorn?
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  353. Those "peaceful" protesters carried assault weapons and blocked ambulances from getting to hospital. At minimum, some of those folks need to get the book thrown at them. Maximum fines for public endangerment.
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  354. Sharing this gem of a comment posted recently by AC: (posted the week before the election) As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  355.  @stoverboo  An election victory would send many of them on a rampage. They would feel they'd gotten the go-ahead to do some very bad things.
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  356. Dear Russians, if you truly oppose the war levied against Ukraine, please do your best to wreck Russia's infrastructure (and military capacity) from within. Don't leave a dam standing or a recruitment center still standing. Rip of the train tracks, drop trees on the power lines, have a party. Taking down the Putin faction is how you will go forward.
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  357. Another one like that: If Trump promised he'd accept the election results but only if he won, does his long fight against the 2020 election results mean that he knows he lost and he's passively admitting it?
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  358. Like Zuckerberg, they would probably sell it to anyone who approaches them with a suitcase of cash. The Trump family, Putin, Cambridge Analytica, Monsanto, Pepsi, they don't care. There's money to be made in that biz.
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  359. Trump might not have pulled the trigger, but for sure he tweeted out all the ammunition about "invasion" :(
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  360. How cute, Lavrov didn't have his puppy on a leash.
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  361. All that was rotten in America flocked to him to do his bidding, too, even as they keep doing 2+2= vote recounts in order to make the answer be 5.
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  362. Let's see what kind of forces get shuffled now that Sweden & Finland are talking more openly about joining NATO. Uncle Pooty once told them not to, but they can see now for themselves what kind of "love" Pooty shows for his Lebensraum.
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  363. Who put the one (so far, anyway) downvote on this video? Because if you think it's OK for a president or ex-president to defy the constitution and the law, I'm going to retroactively bring back Barack Obama for a third term, and charge Trump with illegally taking power after he lost the 2016 popular vote.
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  364.  @Tolpuddle581  Good people don't try to overthrow a government just because their favorite wannabe-dictator lost the election. Good people don't commit crimes while livestreaming it. Good people don't suck down the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat.
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  365. Someone's been overdoing the botox and silicone.
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  366. SCOTUS has never considered giving immunity to anyone, until their favorite cult leader came along that is.
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  367. People who've lived in "shithole" countries will recognize Trump's actions for what they are - he's using the powers of the state to reward his personal friends and punish his personal enemies.
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  368. Arizona Republican Party has jumped the shark. Stick a fork in it.
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  369. History will recall that Trump and his administration did nearly everything possible to accelerate the spread of coronavirus in the USA.
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  370. "Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very .. there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation" -- Donald Trump, Sept 23, 2020
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  371. Trump has no plan whatsoever, and he's sticking to it.
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  372. When the NE 33rd drive camps get cleared, the residents all move to 17th. When 17th gets cleared, the residents all move to Springwater/82nd. When Springwater/82nd gets cleared, the residents all move to the woods near NE Airport Way/138th. When the woods near NE Airport Way/138th get cleared, the residents all move to Rocky Butte. When Rocky Butte gets cleared, the residents all move to Marine Drive. When Marine Drive gets cleared, the residents all move back to NE 33rd. This shell game costs a lot of money, lets the city say something is happening, and doesn't accomplish anything.
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  373. Good luck with getting conservatives to give up telling themselves (and others) total lies. They got addicted to that back when they were all gibbering about how Obama was supposedly seizing their guns and melting them down into Korans etc etc etc.
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  374. Truly, his reverse Midas touch knows no boundaries. Thank you Scotland! :)
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  375. Every red state needs ads like that. What kind of frigging kangaroo court is it when the sympathetic jurors get to decide if there are witnesses or not? Without witnesses & evidence and discussion of those things, it's not a trial, it's a cover-up.
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  376. A corrupt president can't take it down himself. For that he needs a willing accomplice as the senate leader (Moscow Mitch) to block the previous president's judicial nominees in order to have a lot of vacancies to fill and thus stack the courts. Fun fact: before he was Hitler's #1 Nazi employee, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power. Just like Moscow Mitch is doing now.
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  377. Cultists and criminals alike are famous for the hissy fits they throw when getting called on what they did.
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  378. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Republicans: GFY, Americans.
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  379. The sky won't fall. And if his remaining flying monkeys act up, they'll get dogpiled and hauled to court too. We got plenty of prison space.
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  380. Looks like the good people of Ohio remember when a 10yo rape victim had to travel out of state to avoid a "criminal abortion" in Ohio. And so much for the myth that rape almost never causes pregnancy.
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  381. Wonder how much he was charging for rent and protection? Nice gig he had going on there.
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  382. Once you understand that Republicans these days are an apocalyptic death cult (complete with an insane, bloodthirsty cult leader) their actions come into better focus. Putin must love them for what they're doing :(
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  383. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating. He needs to practice what he's preaching.
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  384. I enjoy awakening the FOXed mushrooms .. No Obama investigations. No Obama Special Counsel investigations. No Obama administration indictments. No drama... Obama. Hillary Clinton Benghazi "Investigation" 4 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Hillary Clinton Email "Investigation" 2 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  385. Amazing. Despite Trump's transparent attempts to rig the election, with DeJoy sabotaging the post office (they knew months in advance how the election would go), with the attempts to disenfranchise millions of minority voters (like leaving a county of 4 million people with just one ballot box), the will of the people still somehow got through. Americans, we have a lot to do. Near half the ballots cast were for a zipperhead who checks off every single box on the "characteristics of fascism" list. Good fricking grief. We have to fix that before an even more clever tool of Satan comes along, which could be as soon as 2024.
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  386. Well, hopefully this is going to put an end to all those times the US invaded some other country on the charge that they were a banana republic with corrupt leaders.
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  387. Sheeple are easy to spot these days .. they're the ones taking livestock medicine, designed for barnyard animals and available at Agway stores everywhere, to ward off covid. Baaaaaaa mah mah freedumbs baaaaaaa
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  388.  @tori7667  Let's let Biden do his 2 terms then Harris do her 2 terms. And we can rest assured that he's training her now for that just like Obama did with him.
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  389. I keep hoping that Biden will do an interview on FOXed Noise wearing a tan suit, maybe hoisting a sandwich and saying how much he likes Dijon mustard.
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  390. Republicans took to Trump like ducks to the sticky tar of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  391. To be sure, it's hard to overthrow a democracy without making threats to the good people who would stand up to thugs.
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  392. In other words .. Twitter is strengthening its ties with the Proud Boys.
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  393.  @Beautytrix Prison awaits the insurrectionists.
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  394. Can't get over this classic: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  395.  @randomnonymous  "Pillow Mike" Lindell perfectly represents the 45 cult.
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  396.  @nocturnalrecluse1216  You misspelled "regressive right". In voting, as in politics, you vote (R) to move backwards and (D) to move forward.
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  397. As we all remember, the Arab Spring happened when there was a MINOR rise in the cost of grains. What's coming our way (unless Ukraine gets planted ASAP) will be Africa and the Middle East on fire later this year. Thanks Putler :(
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  398. The SDNY prosecutors are officially off the leash. The the fun begin.
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  399. Face it, 32 hours per week is rough on a guy who never spent more than maybe 10-12 hours per week at his desk job, but just lived in the residence, golfed, traveled for rallies, and sat on the toilet bloviating on social media.
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  400. Birds of a feather. She certainly fits the white house coop.
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  401. The second shutdowns will definitely occur .. it's only a matter of when. Maybe it takes the hospitals being full to saturation, then piles of bodies stinking in box trucks parked on the streets outside hospitals - and while cases keep increasing.
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  402. Let's see if the law turns a blind eye to him as it does to other Republican terrorists.
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  403. No. It's like a virus he's passed on to his sheeple followers :(
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  404. Funny how their "star witness" still has no evidence that will stand up in court.
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  405. Trump and those who follow him are going to destroy the Republican party. Most of them don't yet realize how much of a monster they embraced. Meantime, they need to keep losing elections for the next couple decades so American can move forward.
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  406.  @thedemocraticchristian2348  Re "To be fair, Senator Loeffler was appointed, not elected. This is her first time." << so true. Apparently no one ever told her that acting like a spoiled Botox Barbie who doesn't like her insider trading scams revealed isn't exactly conducive to winning elections.
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  407. They know he's going to lose. It's just that they're OK with tossing the whole concept of democracy into the fire, in favor of some regressive apartheid regime with only one party running everything. They long for Rhodesia :(
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  408. Laughably doomed. It's only a matter of time before it becomes the next 4chan or 8chan, where mass shooters post their manifestos which strangely echo Trump's words, then it get shut down.
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  409. In other words - this was his idea of conceding the election, long overdue as usual.
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  410. Lost my parents to Faux and basically the whole family too, save for a few cousins, aunts, uncles :( Their souls were sucked down the rabbit hole :(
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  411. Orange is the new orange.
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  412.  @zeroyou3060  Most of his supporters are a whole lot of fries short of a Happy Meal.
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  413. As the kid of a fresh immigrant, I too am besides myself over this. Trump's character flaws on display now are the same ones he was openly flaunting since the 80s, at least to anyone who paid attention.
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  414. Trump: I want the churches packed on Easter!! Virus: You bring the body bags, I'll do the rest, just like in Italy ;)
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  415. It's nice that the banks and Wall Street can go have a big expensive circle jerk while 100+ million now-unemployed Americans are scrambling to pay their bills. Hint: you can't hose down a raging stock market fire with paper money.
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  416. That would make a great interview for the news.
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  417. While carrying a gun, she chases after them calling them crisis actors. Thankfully she's not a guy. She'd be that 6 foot 5 bearded dudebro trying to give unsolicited hugs and unwelcome backrubs to rape victims while telling them that rape is perfectly normal.
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  418. It's an open bet as to whether Putin's autocratic, oligarchical economic system has more waste in it than the former USSR did. Measured by their military capabilities, Putin's system is even more grotesquely wasteful & incompetent than that of the USSR.
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  419. Never thought I'd see the day when a US president is so whacky that he essentially puts the Onion out of business by doing/saying things weirder than what the Onion staff would think up. And I don't mean this in a good way.
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  420. When he can't escape justice any more, and he has no routes left for seizing control of the United States, 45 may well tell his followers to do bad things. He was always going to take his toys and leave if the playground can't be his.
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  421. Guess Bill Barr just missed his chance to get on the pardon bus! It's packed already anyway.
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  422. He still does not understand that people answer to the law and not to him personally. He still does not understand that the USA is not a monarchy and that he is not the king. He couldn't conceive of people being responsible to the law and not to him.
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  423. Republicans at the roadside: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. That just proves your bias. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Republicans in court later: "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement." Republicans after losing in court: "Nobody got hurt by the speeding car so the laws don't apply!"
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  424.  @johnswof  Take a look at Idaho now. It's high time that everyone who refuses a vaccine should sign a waiver giving up hospital care if they should test positive for covid later. No point in those dummies clogging the hospitals when those resources are needed by people who aren't suicidal.
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  425. That sounds funny coming from the Rage Tweeter in Chief, the same one who made up fake Time Magazine covers to hang at his roach resorts, the same one with the thinnest skin ever.
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  426. Things in the UK could be less panic-y if only they would reduce the level at which testing is performed, like we have here in the US. That's sarcasm, sorry. But it enables hundreds of millions to pretend that this is no big deal, and go about their business as usual while spreading the disease even further.
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  427. Trump timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault." "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stock market!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose re-election.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT! Another hoax!" "Ignore those corpses, they're just crisis actors!"
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  428. Also more hoops for medical care in general and family planning in particular.
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  429.  @rwh1818  Every culture on the planet has a cautionary tale for the children. It goes something like this: One day you meet a stranger who spins these yarns, takes you up to a high place, shows you some amazing vistas, and tells you that you could have a part in owning all of that .. if only you can do this one little favor for him, just a small thing that happens to be illegal or immoral or both. 45's talent, such as it is, lies in finding people who forgot that important lesson about why you don't make deals with the devil.
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  430. I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to decide that all current and former presidents have full lifetime immunity .. then co-emperors Biden and Obama can clean up that godawful mess on aisle 45.
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  431. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  432. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  433. The orange slothgollum will long be remembered for that look.
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  434. I LOVE the way Republicans are stuck in the Trump rut. He's about as useful to them as a 16-ton weight is to someone swimming across the river. The longer they cling to him, the more they drown.
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  435. Also to ask along those lines - if we let Putin take a free country for no reason other than to satisfy his pique, how long before he gets hungry again? The West tried playing that game with Hitler long ago. Didn't work. The enemy you fail to confront today may only be stronger when he comes after you tomorrow.
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  436. That's what happens when political figures cheer on the cruelty. And the Republican party totally owns it.
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  437.  @Freaysclaw56 Right. And I am grateful that the non-crazy parts of the Republican party are still around. Don't care for their politics much, but as long as they're not lunatic insurrectionists they're OK by me.
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  438. Kidnapping via inveiglement. Glenn Kirschner (Justice Matters) has covered this.
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  439. The fact that he doesn't call himself by his real name (Rafael Eduardo Cruz) and pretends to be a white southern immigrant-hating conservative is good enough for me. In actuality he's from Canada and was son to a Cuban refugee who fled there.
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  440. If covid is the knife that Republicans choose to Rapture themselves with, I only wish they wouldn't take it out on our healthcare personnel, who must otherwise bear the brunt of that particular strain of stupidity.
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  441. Apparently 45 is now the oldest candidate in US history. Between that and his obvious cognitive decline .. heh
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  442. Actually it is Brazil that should be banning Americans. The case rate per million is almost 3x higher in the US than in Brazil.
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  443. Trump: The virus makes prison too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone, it's an indoor group setting. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them or you, my campaign depends on it!
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  444. Yeah :( I am nearly about to consider this proof positive that we're circling the bowl and coming in for a landing :( Just for reference .. Hitler's first attempted coup, named the Beer Hall Putsch, took place November 8, 1923. Two days after the attempt, Hitler was arrested and charged with high treason. The trial began Feb 26th, 1924 which was 111 days after the crime. For Trump, Bannon, Guiliani, and the others, we're currently at 303 days since the crime, with no arrest of the ringleaders yet.
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  445. @S Drake .. there is nothing to understand. Every nation has its own broken people, its people who would burn down the country if they could, its people who loathe the rule of law because it doesn't rule their way, its people who are irrationally malcontent and somewhat evil. Those are all Trump's people.
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  446. Debating with 45 is completely useless. Just like a pigeon playing chess, he'll strut around the game board, knocking over the pieces, crapping all over the place, making a lot of noise, then flying away squawking that he won. A waste of time.
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  447. Trump: "OMG, they are sending ballots to everyone! People might vote against me! Can't have that"
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  448. Puerto Rico: this is just Trump's way of asking you for dirt on Hunter Biden. You know what to do!!
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  449.  @natureblank1401  When you say "Russia's goal is to capture Ukraine not destroy it" perhaps you are not following the news about how all they do is wreck stuff. Hospitals, theatres, infrastructure, schools.
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  450. Trump is the arsonist who starts fires, then takes credit when other people put them out, while whining that the whole process was somehow unfair to him, then later he whines that the fires weren't bigger.
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  451. Texas: Shooting people with a gun is a crime. Therefore, we're going to aggressively deny medical treatment for anyone shot with a gun and put bounties on doctors treating gunshot wounds. And as an afterthought, have the governor make an unaccountable and vague promise to remove all shooters from the streets without any specific plan on how that's going to happen.
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  452. Just imagine some brave Londoner during the blitz, turning on all their outdoor lights, insisting that it's just a hoax that the Nazis are bombing them. Only instead of having your town flattened, you set off a chain of infections that reaches out to thousands of victims, killing some of them. Oy :(
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  453. In other words, Trump was criming from day one in office.
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  454. Truly, Rudy spoke for the soul of today's Trump party when he said, "We have lots of theories, but we don't have any evidence."
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  455. By their actions, the Republicans are showing that they occupy a position that doesn't belong on the political spectrum in any country: being willing to break any law to deny other parties any shot at power. That's how Communist Russia, Communist China, and Nazi Germany all do or did business.
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  456. It would be a shame if she had some postal address for people to send all those "happy holidays" cards to, just saying ..
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  457. Who ever heard of limits on the number of witnesses or the amount of evidence that the prosecutor could use?????? What a frigging cover up :(
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  458. Attention DOJ - if you let this crime go unpunished, we won't have a nation for much longer.
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  459. 7 months too late, the con-man-in-chief realizes that a) this virus is contagious, b) this virus spreads, c) this virus kills people. It only took 144,000 dead Americans to get this through to him. Almost 3x as many as died in the Vietnam war back when Trump dodged the draft.
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  460. "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump Sept 23, 2020
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  461. I for one do not miss the days when we had to wake up stressed from worry about what stupid, illegal, short-sighted, hateful thing that 45 might have done while we slept. What good allies he trashed, what dictators he sucked up to, what American intelligence agencies he threw under the bus, etc.
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  462.  @procellsearchlightpictures4328  Re "Trump being indicted would make a great 4th of July celebration!" << Some major block parties will surely unfold across the USA, like the ones after his legit election loss. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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  463. You can't add anything to a toilet bowl that's already overflowing .. Trump does not learn anything.
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  464. Save the hospital beds for the vaccinated. If any of the unvaccinated show up with respiratory problems, put them in a cot next to some plants. Plants make oxygen, right? Oh and some thoughts and prayers.
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  465. Al Capone: "So what if I didn't pay taxes on a few things?" IRS: Gotcha!!!
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  466. You have to admit that Dump and his GOP majorities in Congress are doing a fine job showing their constituents that both parties are not the same.
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  467. If you think we should let the Republicans overturn an 8 million vote difference in the election just this once to assuage their butthurt .. just remember what Winston Churchill said: "Appeasement is feeding a hungry crocodile, hoping it eats you last." Appeasement didn't work in 1939 and it's not going to work now.
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  468. Ironically, Mexico may yet build a wall and pay for it themselves. Obviously the USA leads the world in case counts and new cases per day (yesterday alone more than 26K new cases) and is #1 on the descending sort. Mexico has got 12 cases per million people whereas the USA has 742 cases per million. Gotta keep out those dirty foreigners carrying viruses.
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  469. That's Fox for you.
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  470. Not "for all" - unless you mean for the benefit of all? He still did many other crimes and needs to face justice for them. In particular there needs to be an inquiry into his gross mishandling of the covid pandemic. The US had a much higher death rate than it should have had.
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  471. Because 10 months before an election (Garland) was much too soon for Obama, but 8 weeks before an election (Amy Handmaids Tale) was perfectly OK for Trump.
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  472.  @francesmeyer8478  It's part of why cats and dogs don't like him either.
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  473. Watching the FBI swoop down on traitors is more satisfying than I had known. And, to be fair, those perps are safer in custody anyway. Most Americans have no use for the traitors who would willingly end our democracy and usher in an era of totalitarian rule by an obviously petty, shallow, sadistic wannabe-thug like Trump.
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  474. Hitler sure chose the wrong time to make war on the USA. If he had only waited a bunch of decades, he'd have a 70+ million MAGA moron army here working for him behind the lines.
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  475. All those assaults on reporters - yup, this is part of the high price of tolerating Trump's hate speech directed at a free press.
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  476. It's strange how the Trump administration dings China for politically-motivated arbitrary arrests, yet Trump sends out federal officers to do the same thing in American cities.
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  477. The law shouldn't be any nicer to Trump's cult members than it was to Charles Manson's.
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  478. The Republicans were a lot angrier at president Obama for wearing a tan suit and using mustard than they are now over Trump suggesting using military force to redo an election on American soil.
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  479. His culties already trust him over what their own eyes tell them :(
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  480. Even if the perps all wore Trump merch and told Pence that Trump sent them, some Republicans would still try to claim that Antifa did it.
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  481. Those war criminals will have their turn in the Hague someday.
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  482. No such luck on him reaching an end to the list. He's been a human blame generator for decades.
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  483. I like presidents who don't downplay a dangerous virus after being told by China in January how deadly it was, that it was airborne, and that it's already circulating.
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  484. Putin never had better foot soldiers here in the US than Trump and his followers.
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  485.  @monde1208  Put it this way - the MAGA nutters could witness Trump shooting someone on live TV and seconds later they'd be looking for a way to blame the UN, Obama, flying saucers, Bigfoot, anybody except Trump.
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  486. How long before FOXed Noise and the rest of the RWNJ loons start referring to Bolton as that deepstate librul plant, a never-Trumper, someone who was appointed by Obama?
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  487.  @James_Knott  I like your thinking. We could always let the problem sort itself out by adding a few Biden/Harris stickers to their vehicles and sending them to interview an NRA rally. Then just retreat to a safe distance.
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  488. Some staffer must have caught video of Trump watching the insurrection live and cheering about how "his people" were going to keep him in power.
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  489. Trump is playing a very dangerous game too. We're seeing what things are like when approx less than 30% of the adults have no respect for the law because they've believed Trump's lies about the election. Wait until Trump finds out what it's like when more than 70% of the adults witnessed a coup and decided to do something about it.
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  490. Canada is like the nice people living over a biker bar.
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  491. Germany was like that by 1947. Few would admit to ever having supported the funny mustache guy.
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  492.  @mottthehoople693 Who knows, maybe Trump will lead them away to Russia someday. We can only hope.
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  493. Bingo. The correct name for Republicans is "bad faith negotiators". Fuck them and fuck their retrograde agenda that's held America back for so many decades.
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  494. On this the Supreme Court seems to be a lot better check on power than Moscow Mitch ever could be.
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  495. These are basically the same people who spent 8 long years screeching every odd thing about Obama, except now they're older and nuttier :(
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  496. It is the only way he knows how to make a "deal". He left the Afghan people & government completely out of his dialog with the Taliban when he gave them the country - and I want to know what they paid him personally for it. He left the Palestinian people completely out of the Abraham Accords too. It is his pattern. And now he is leaving Ukraine completely out of his "deal" with Russia .. and it's basically the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with a few names changed.
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  497. Trump wants to rule, not to lead. Leaders care about the lives of the people - rulers don't.
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  498.  @sarahdawn7075  What part of "any civil or military office" magically doesn't apply to the presidency?
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  499.  @laurienicosia3870  We're not here to talk about half the Hollywood actors, but about Mr Limbaugh and how he so cruelly mocked the illnesses of others. Your point?
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  500.  Magic 21  Thank you for the laugh. Trump wasn't cheated. He lost. Every single vote fraud case of his has been thrown out for lack of evidence. Do you know what lack of evidence means? In the same way there's no evidence that water runs uphill, that the sun rises in the west, that lizard people secretly control the US, and so on, there's no evidence that Trump did anything other than lose the election by getting less votes than Biden. How long do you want to keep showing off how dumb, how delusional, how space-cadet-y you are?
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  501. DeJoy is still there all right but has largely been rendered impotent in his ability to further damage the postal system. Biden appointed 5 postal governors to the USPS Board of Governors.
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  502.  @sred5856  Yup. The former shining city on the hill is now just another failed Trump family biz. Everything he touches dies.
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  503. The more rabid followers of Reverend Jim Jones did NOT like it when the faithful failed to drink the kool-aid.
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  504. Bingo. Clump employed the same losing strategies that he developed in the business world. His main skill is in leaving a mess behind.
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  505. Unfortunately the Elon Muskovite type of rich donor doesn't want their taxes to pay for any of it. What they think of working people is somewhat lower than what most people think of their doormats.
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  506.  @-qk7vp  Correct. When confronted with it, Trump will say he doesn't know them, never heard of them, might have been in a few pictures with them, but he's in lots of pictures with lots of people, and some of them are very fine pictures indeed, and people even call him up and say, sir, those are some very fine pictures, the best ever.
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  507. Barr needs to be impeached. He can reflect on his crimes later in prison like Nixon's criminal AG did after Watergate.
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  508. You don't have to die on that hill. Reinforcements are on the way. A couple hundred million of us are right behind you.
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  509. The kinds of manufacturing plants that open here would be the modern high-tech kind. The kind where three technicians and one software person oversee some 200+ pieces of robotic machinery that process, assemble, and pack stuff. Not the kind that employ large numbers of non-specialized workers at high pay and stable wages & benefits.
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  510. Fascism is never more alive than when we sleep, or allow it to pass by.
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  511. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to care about the letter or the intent of the law when you're busy engineering a slow-moving coup to produce a one-party state. Their idea of "fair and balanced" is a one-party state, with them in charge.
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  512. Bingo! How many millions of covid orphans will there eventually be? People who lost loved ones, parents, siblings, grandparents, providers. Shit bags like Phil Valentine never did anything to help the families of those who lost someone to covid because that person took their lies seriously. I hope there are huge class-action lawsuits coming down the pipe.
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  513. I love it. He just lost more votes. Put him in front of reporters more often, please.
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  514. It's more a duty than a favour/favor, but yes.
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  515. So many Americans, fed up with 6+ weeks of staycationing at home with their Netflix, legal weed, and munchies etc are now eager to get out and disregard the masks and social distancing. Anne Frank had to hide in an attic for two years and couldn't even make soup in case someone would smell it. You can recover from being broke but you can't recover from being dead.
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  516. "Someone else was in charge of my social media account" has got to be the worse ever. Let's see how FOXed Noise spins it. Probably by covering stories of rescuing cats from trees.
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  517.  @katherinewillfong9585  America is such a free country that sometimes the trash decides to take itself out.
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  518.  @suzpeters6  Seriously. One of these days, there will a rainbow in the skies of Miami after it rains, and DeSantis will order the Florida air national guard to nuke it 😅
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  519. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  520. This is the stage where more people begin to realize that the ex-emperor is not only naked, but crazy to boot.
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  521. What is it with the Republicans and their skeletor-Barbie type chicks who tell lies almost constantly? Do they have mommy issues or something?
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  522.  @andrewmiller159  The Comet Pizza shooter had trouble understanding that as well. Seems it had never crossed his little brain that someone might deliberately mislead him.
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  523. Who would have thought that letting a failed casino operator run the country into the ground wouldn't exactly make people proud to be Americans?
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  524. Hopefully the new administration will use the defense production act on the Oxford vaccine. F*ck the profits, we're talking about saving potentially millions of lives here.
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  525. Remember when the ACA was in play? Republicans yelled (without proof of course) about government killing Grandma. Now it seems they want to swing the hammer themselves :(
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  526.  @charlessmyth  Getting the cops to give a damn is the hard part then. Especially since they're often wishing Trump would just seize power.
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  527.  @DefyVelociity  Good thing you weren't in charge in WW2, otherwise we'd all be speaking German now.
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  528.  @reality6968  Fascism is a profoundly right-wing thing, something you would know if you'd ever been in the same room as a history book. It is very nearly always a populist, socially-regressive movement that's in bed with big industry behind the scenes. Banning abortion is a fascist thing. Did you get left and right confused again?
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  529. They're not that bright, and they want to hear the lies he tells.
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  530. Sure, sure, open those churches, and 3 weeks later everyone who went to mass will be hacking their lungs out in ICU. Not a good idea to throw more fuel onto this particular fire. That's kind of what the virus is, a fire. To stay in existence it needs fresh victims. Starve it of victims (by social distancing) and it dies out.
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  531. They've been voting against their own interests for a long time. They're like the Jim Jones followers who just can't resist the funny-tasting fruit punch.
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  532.  @sr2291  Look at what the Texas Taliban (called the MAGAban by some) are doing. Next they'll have a hotline/website up, with bounties paid out to anyone who can report suspected LGBTQIA people. Turning the citizenry into fearful sheeple, endlessly reporting on each other, is part of the Soviet-ization of America that Putin's little helpers are trying to accomplish here :(
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  533. Perhaps someone should show up at one of their gatherings and put Obama-Biden stickers on half the vehicles there, then retreat to a safe distance and let nature take its course. Just saying.
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  534. When did the two parties switch names? I think maybe she's confusing them. Especially if you've seen that video of Trump and Epstein pointing out their favorite teens on the dance floor.
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  535. Correct. So every other year, we need to put in the time to get EVERYONE registered to vote. With 80%+ turnout in every election, we can make the neo-Whig party (aka Republicans) nearly extinct, or at least hooked to a ventilator.
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  536. Trump isn't just stoking those fires mentioned .. he's pouring gasoline on them and throwing matches just to rile up his base. He's fomenting civil war just to keep the law off his tail for tax evasion and other crimes, and maybe for an opportunity to stay in power illegally.
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  537. When it comes to masks or vaccines, conservatives are all "Keep YOUR laws off MY body", unless you happen to be female, in which case they want to be in every orifice.
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  538. Trump is like the serial arsonist who complains that there are fires all over town and that only he can fix it.
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  539. Correct .. because a failed coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise.
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  540. I prefer candidates who don't easily get fooled by propaganda .. like Bernie Sanders! But regardless of who the Democrat candidate is, let's vote to put an end to Trump's reign of error.
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  541. If the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims, DeathSantis would be trying to fine people for using seatbelts and airbags.
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  542.  @letterman4290  Go home, Ivan, while you still can. The tide already turned.
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  543.  @tylerpestell  Same .. I'm not sleeping well until after the inauguration. Those culties just don't know when to let go of their swamp fever dream of ignoring the vote.
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  544.  @jamesoneill2933  You need to understand that NATO expands only by nations petitioning (of their own volition) to join NATO .. it does not expand by forcefully annexing places after illegally invading them. That's how the USSR worked and how Putin is trying to work now. They are not flip sides of the same coin.
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  545. Santos has been elected, and now the Republicans should be forced to carry him in congress for his full term.
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  546. President Biden has vastly exceeded my expectations. Honestly I don't GAF if he wants a nap every now and then, he and his team are doing a great job. He's got my vote.
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  547. They knew this beforehand. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  548. Correct on how Australia / New Zealand are the only places doing it right. For the most part they've been able to function normally throughout all this thing, with occasional localized lockdowns when outbreaks happen.
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  549. Obama tried to be president for all, not just those who voted for him, yet some of them spent 8 long years hallucinating daily that Obama was taking away their guns, forcing them into gay marriages, making them eat vegetables, and make them live under Sharia law. Let's see what nonsense the ex-Teap Party ex-Trumpers come up with this time.
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  550. Please recover. The world needs you, and the deniers need to hear your story.
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  551.  @Costa-73  He doesn't fit the definition of human. For instance, he lacks introspection, compassion, humility, any sense of irony, self-awareness, empathy, warmth, honor, restraint, patriotism, loyalty to others, and any sense of shame.
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  552. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  553. Not just a con man, but one who uses the shallowest propaganda that a stoned cat could see through easily enough.
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  554. During the pandemic, an Axios reporter totally called out Trump on his lies. If every reporter all along had said, "No, Mr Trump, that's a lie" then we might not be in this situation.
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  555. For Germany, it was Hitler. For Norway, it was Quisling. For America, when it comes to traitors, Benedict Arnold is about to move down into second place.
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  556. The sheeple are easy to spot these days - they're the ones who take livestock meds purchased at AgWay. Meds designed for barnyard animals. So appropriate.
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  557. There are several requirements for a candidate to be eligible to be (or run for) the president of the US. This is but one of them. What other requirements would the Republicans want to evade if we let them do this one? Might they put a 30yo Russian-born friend of Putin forward as a candidate?
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  558. If the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims, DeSatan would be making seatbelts and airbags illegal :(
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  559. I hope everyone in the West can keep in mind what the OP said. Should the good people of Russia throw off Putin, retreat from Ukraine, make reparations, etc, then those sanctions go away the next day and we welcome the people of Russia back to the civilized world. With a stable democracy, they could be one of the great nations of the world. Instead Putin is taking them down a hole.
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  560. Figured it wouldn't take long for Mr "I'm so innocent, I had to hide all the evidence against me, nya nya nya" Trump to get vindictive.
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  561. Actually it's even better than that. Ukraine will be attacking the Kherson area before the water freezes enough to let the orcs escape early. They're going to be isolated and starved out. Remember Mariupol. Time for payback.
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  562. He and his fellow goose-steppers will not be looked upon kindly by patriotic Americans, who stand with the constitution and with our longstanding allies.
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  563. It's not hypocrisy, it's armed terrorism. Time for automatic 20 year sentences for political terrorism.
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  564. It's kind of like when Trump claimed at his rally that he was nice to Michelle Obama. Unfortunately, we all remember when he spent 4+ years retweeting all kinds of memes calling her a gorilla in heels.
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  565. Special thanks to AG Garland for letting 681 days elapse between the J6 insurrection and the appointment of special prosecutor Smith. If Garland had been less milquetoast this matter could have been much further along by now.
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  566. Put it this way: Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  567. "Alternate slate of electors". Well, at least we can thank Trump for having illuminated which people among us are happy to burn democracy to the ground just to get their way.
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  568. Let's not forget the 89 million who sat out the election (do they still say 'both parties are the same'?) or the 2.8 million third-party protest voters who also would have swung the election. Fcking thanks.
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  569. Bingo. "Everything that Trump is trying to take apart is all the stuff our ancestors put together to prevent WW3." Spot on.
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  570. I remember the refrigerator trucks full of bodies, parked on city streets. I remember April-May 2000, when the authorities were finding as many as 200+ people per day dead in their own apartments. I remember when cities in Italy and Spain had to use churches and ice skating rinks to stack dead bodies because the morgues were all full. All of these things were widely covered in the news at the time. How could anyone ever forget?
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  571. Aaaaand now we know why Moscow Mitch McConnell blocks all aid packages that don't include letting corporations off the hook for their failures to protect employees.
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  572. Tells you what he thinks of what his own party has become - after years of him turning the other way or helping grow the monster.
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  573. One of the few honest things Trump says at his rallies is the punch line to the fable of the serpent - "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  574. The USA needs to de-fund Trump, since he's actively causing harm. The WHO, on the other hand, is doing useful work and needs our full support.
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  575. They have, but then he fired all those ones.
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  576. As one Republican famously said .. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  577. Cruz Control is perfectly describing how Trump stacked the courts then expected them to go along with his attempt to steal the election when the results didn't go his way.
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  578.  @FireAlarmHowTooGuy  You misspelled DeSatan. FIFY
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  579. Sorry for your loss, Human. Uggh. I have four former coworkers who caught it early in the pandemic. One of them had a horrific long-haul case, in and out of hospitals for 14+ weeks. She used to be a gym rat (totally buff, strong AF) now she's got severe health issues and can't do any of that. My worst fear is that tens of millions of covid survivors will need specialized long-term care - kind of like when sanitoriums were built all over the USA because there were so many people suffering the aftereffects of TB. At one point there were hundreds of these facilities across the USA. All because that inept lying Former Guy thought a pandemic would negatively affect his re-election chances, so he undertook to minimize, downplay, distort, lie, and otherwise misinform the public about the severity of the pandemic.
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  580. It's worse than that. Newborn babies don't screech at you about how they're allegedly smarter than everyone else, even though they can't prove it.
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  581. Is there any situation under which we can accept having the people in power bring fraudulent cases to court that are not supported by any evidence? No. The appropriate responses range between some folks losing their law licenses and some being charged with sedition. It is what it is.
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  582. Speaking of which .. one of the differences between Elon Musk and God is that God doesn't think he's Elon.
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  583. He's going to be the Incredible Sulk. What a sulky little boy.
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  584. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.” -- Mitt Romney, 1/6/21
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  585. No. Let's not stop the stupids from Rapturing themselves. This is just another mass Darwin Award scenario. Let them go. The country and the economy will do far better without those slack-brained yoyos around during the recovery phase.
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  586. Funny how he could get pushed out for racist comments, but not arrested for the multiple laws he's broken by accessing private info. Wtf?
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  587. Bingo. Because nothing says "I'm a patriot who loves my country" like wearing Trump garb and beating a policeman with an American flag while breaking into the capitol.
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  588. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  589. Next up is Moscow Mitch! I hear turtle soup tastes good, and it doesn't spoil the taste if you catch it with a pitchfork. Just saying.
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  590. Re the "Army of Trump" -- this is an excuse for reich-wing militia to drive into urban areas (displaying their guns of course!) where people aren't much prone to voting for the criminal-in-chief. Call them the Kyle Rittenhouse memorial goon squad.
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  591. You'd think they'd get a clue after he lost them the house, the senate, and the presidency in just one term, all while being impeached twice? But nooooooo .. because he's so racists, classist, ugly, etc, to them he's sort of a god.
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  592. Yeah, sorry, that's coming sometime. The supreme corp is leaving standing a huge hole in the wall that separates church and state. This is nothing less than the religious laws of a minority of Texans being turned into state-of-Texas laws applied to everyone. To be fair to the other major religions, we should let them in on the act. Perhaps to be fair to Muslims, Texas should ban pork and forbid women from going anywhere without being accompanied by a male from their household.
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  593. Did Canada make the offer for reals? That would be so cool. The blue state economies are actually productive assets.
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  594. If they think Smelly Steve has been doing criminal stuff, wait until they see what Jared / Ivanka / Beavis / Butthead have been up to. As well as the rest of their little grifter klan.
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  595. These conservatives are declaring their preference to live in a one-party state -- otherwise known as the sort of place where the will of the people doesn't matter one bit. I suggest we oblige them and send them off to China, Russia, North Korea. A little education in the realities of single-party regimes would do them some good.
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  596. That's why transcripts, in print, are so much easier. His voice is like fingernails on the blackboard.
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  597. Keep that blue, you're going to need it. Life in the far red places is going to get pretty ugly.
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  598. Sad part is, FOXed insists on its own people being vaccinated, and has an internal vaccine passport system and regular testing. But they make a lot of money off selling fiction to idiots.
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  599. The quickly-increasing numbers of homeless people everywhere tell more truth about the real economy than anything Trump or his mouthpieces might say.
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  600. Funny, Charles Manson's followers had a similar problem understanding why they couldn't just go around murdering people.
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  601. Ukrainians will someday make fine allies and NATO partners. For now, though, I just wish the free world would come to understand that feeding your neighbors to a hungry alligator isn't a very good approach to security & prosperity.
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  602. Mark my words - by the time he leaves office, he'll have been selling nukes to terrorists and pulling a "final solution" on detained refugees. There is no limit to how much harm he will cause out of spite. Leaving a mess behind is his way of "punishing" everyone for not fully kowtowing to his every little narcissistic whim.
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  603. Like the saying goes .. just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean that we give the batcave to the Joker.
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  604. The Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits are paving the way for every wronged group of Americans to follow suit.
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  605.  @patrowan7206  All this easily-aroused mass hysteria is amusing.
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  606. Apparently the 405,399 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2 suffered from Hitler Derangement Syndrome.
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  607. Sadly, this "deal" is all too much like the "piece plan" that Hitler and Stalin concocted for Poland back in 1939. Poland was not invited to the discussion, of course. We know this today under the code name operation "Lebensraum".
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  608. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  609. Justice delayed is justice denied.
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  610. You can't. They're cult members. Heck, some of Charles Manson's former cult members are still lost down that rabbit hole. Trump sucked them down the hole by the millions.
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  611. It's a tiny sub, the kind that carries only a limited amount of air :(
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  612. The foxes are in the chicken coop, and it was largely the roosters who voted them in. This won't end well.
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  613. Don't forget the part when on Friday, Nov 20 2020, Trump had two Michigan politicians flown to the White House so he could personally pressure them into changing the vote results. These were Michigan state senate majority leader Mike Shirkey (R) and Michigan state house speaker Lee Chatfield (R). Upon their visit being discovered, they distanced themselves from Trump and said there was no reason to change the vote results.
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  614.  @thomashassall96  Already happened. He essentially sicced his MAGA mob on district attorneys not turning a blind eye to his insurrection. Georgia DA is already asking the FBI for protection. That's how it's going to be, domestic terrorism on a grand scale and with the blessing of the Republican party and its general secretary, comrade Trumpski.
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  615. And that's the thing: they think they are immune from the effects of the political violence they wish to unleash on America. Couldn't they just live in Somalia if that's the sort of society they desire?
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  616. Trump did us a favor by revealing that if a petulant, racist, whiny wannabe-authoritarian were to try to wreck our democracy from within, the Republican party and a startlingly large number of voters would not only be perfectly OK with it, but would break the law and commit violence to defend that attempt to enact one-party rule.
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  617. .. or for those who resist his tyranny? Just asking for some friends.
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  618. Trump taught them well how to destroy their own party just like he's been doing. The ultimate reverse Midas touch.
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  619.  @samburkett3902  Tough? All he's got is a firehose of lies.
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  620. Ssssh. Watching the FOX Noise hosts grimace is priceless. Lindsey - keep sinking your own party. Good job.
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  621.  @phoenixlight1111  After seeing a number of them fall down the rabbit hole, I think Trumpanzees represent the intersectionality of two distinct groups, a) those who are mentally/emotionally damaged and can thus hold strong conflicting views (such as "All fetus lives are precious!" and "Those refugee children should die in the desert after we shoot their parents!") and b) those who are especially vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda.
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  622. When a narcissist shows you who he really is - pay attention. Thankfully, every time Dump flaps his pie hole, he loses more votes.
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  623. And if the supreme corp had enforced the 14th amendment, section 3, about not letting insurrectionists run for office.
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  624. America is like all of us living together in the same large house .. and one group has decided to burn the house down because their guy isn't in charge of the TV remote. We all voted. Their guy lost. Burning the house down hurts all of us and our kids too. Wtf.
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  625. Perhaps it's his odd way of saying that he should be as far under the ground as the other corpses of 170 years ago?
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  626. Mr Esper obviously requires the coaching services of Sarah Huckabeast, who was much better at pivoting with every fresh lie from the Traitor-in-Chief.
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  627. Love that name for him. "The 77yo criminal defendant who wants to be dictator."
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  628. Even Sweden stopped with the herd-immunity scheme because too many people were dying.
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  629. Considering that Trump made no secret of his disdain for democracy, guess that means we have a whole lot of potential insurrectionists here - and/or mentally ill people here.
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  630. It's so good to know that the reich-wingers are suddenly now behind people making their own decisions for their own bodies - as in whether to choose to get vaccinated or not. Now if only they could protect a woman's choice on family planning the same way they protect anti-vaxxers.
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  631. Looks like their little pump-and-dump stock play reached its conclusion.
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  632. Putin will be very happy. This is exactly what he asked his apprentice to do. Also asked him to undo NATO, the UN, and make sure that the US dollar would no longer be the world's reserve currency. Comrade Donald is still working on these things.
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  633. Looks like they put Justice Beer Bong in there just in time.
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  634. He gets a bad rap in some circles, but Saint Darwin is notoriously effective at cleaning out the shallow end of the gene pool.
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  635. Probably Trump didn't want to risk leaving any DNA evidence there, no matter how incidental. Just touching a paper cup and leaving it behind would have been enough.
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  636.  @carriew2944  I call them Uday and Qusay - Saddam's sons.
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  637.  @Gulf_of_MEXICO_stupid  Mmm, I think we should borrow a page from Abbott, let the DOJ start offering bounties of $100K for turning in suspected insurrectionists from the 1/6 event or any of their practice events in state capitols last year. A website with pictures/video of the ones still not identified. Between that and covid19 taking them down, there will be fewer GQP votes in the next election.
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  638. Meaning that the portion of the population to whom it's just a cold will keep spreading it around and around. What a mess. South Korea showed how to do this. Pervasive testing, contract tracing, isolation. They brought it under control even faster than China did. You have to understand that the pandemic is a fire that survives only by getting new fuel (new people to infect) and that you need to deprive it of fuel.
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  639. I fear that at-risk residents of large apartment buildings throughout the dense northeast corridor in the USA are essentially in the same situation as cruise ship passengers who, even when isolated and kept in their own suites, still manage to spread the virus quite effectively throughout the ship.That whole area from DC / Philly / Baltimore / NYC / Boston is very dense.
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  640.  @jordanvictoria  America thanks you!! :) Good god Moscow Mitch has been too evil for too long.
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  641. If Amy Handmaid's Tale had any integrity at all, she would step down -- since, as Moscow Mitch McConnell enunciated in 2016, even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, and the will of the people must be heard first.
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  642. Afghanistan has been the elephants' graveyard of imperial overreach for a very long time. The only way to win that game is not to play it.
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  643. What he's essentially saying is that even they can already see that the Trumptardian approach of "Damn the torpedoes, let's just open the economy and see what happens" is causing so many more new infections that the subsequent wave of death will be more like a tsunami.
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  644. After weeks of FOXed screaming "Liberate!" this smells like future disclaimer material. Even the MAGAtards can see what's coming next: a wave of infections (and a later wave of deaths) in the states where people were dumb enough to take their advice.
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  645. Funny how right-wingers think it's a "coup" when Congress questions Trump's mental stability, yet think it's normal when Trump calls for his political opponents to be jailed. I'm starting to lose concern for whether Trump's fine people serve their time in prison, in mental homes, or in cemeteries.
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  646. Joe is playing nicey-nice with the guy who wants to burn everything down. Sigh.
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  647. The phrase "rhetorical hyperbole" will never be the same by the time the Republicans stop using it as an excuse for every lie.
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  648. The lives of Florida people may be a high price to pay for the governor trying to avoid being on the receiving end of nasty tweets from Wussolini, but it's a sacrifice the governor is willing to make. If you're still alive in November, vote blue.
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  649. Funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  650. Congress is using the rules that the Republicans re-wrote back in 2015 (when they were a house majority and when, according to them, they faced a president who they were sure was a Kenyan muslim socialist out to rob honest Americans, force everyone into gay marriages, and institute drab soviet style communism, and do it all under a smokescreen of environmental and LGBT rights legislation) and now the Democrats are using those against a visibly corrupt president.
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  651. You can try fooling some of the people all of the time, then you can try fooling all of the people some of the time, but once a certain threshold is reached you can't fool all of the people all of the time. That third stage is what Wussolini has reached.
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  652. No one can deny what the Republicans are like these days - Investigators: We're collecting evidence. OJ Simpson: No. Your investigation is a fraud. Investigators: Alright. Sorry for bothering you, sir. Here, take this parking ticket. Your vehicle was illegally parked at Nicole's place. OJ Simpson: Those bloody gloves are going to stay in my safe until I can burn them.
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  653. Forget that dishonorable discharge. Their oath of service has no expiration date on it. Re-activate them and charge them with treason. Leavenworth awaits, or something worse.
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  654. Besides the fact that he won the popular vote twice; got a second term; didn't get impeached once in 8 years as president; can speak intelligently in whole sentences. Yeah, that's a lot for El Trompo to hate.
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  655. Wonder if Susan Collins learned her lesson yet? ;)
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  656. That's much too kind. That crowd is begging for the same treatment they've given to others.
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  657. Even worse, tens of millions of his groupies caught that particular disease from him. The effects are similar to BSE.
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  658. It's almost as if there really was a pandemic after all. Huh. Who could have known?
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  659. No need to go all the way to Mumbai to see squalor when you can go check out the trash display along Prescott St in front of the Albertsons at 60th.
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  660. When 45 lies, they need to bleep it out / play a buzzer / run the actual facts below in text / draw a red box around him / etc. Anything but airing his lies without correction.
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  661. He does tell them who he is. They're just not listening. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  662. The wheels are grinding pretty slowly, which means that they re-geared it to grind stuff down to atoms. Got popcorn?
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  663.  @sblumenstein6688  Jack Smith has experience going after the worst of the worst - war criminals.
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  664. One of the many things I like about Farron here is that he does not play the audio of dolt45. That whining manbaby tone is something the world doesn't need and won't miss.
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  665. America, where healthcare is considered a privilege, not a right, and where it costs more than a gun.
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  666. Correct. The use of the word "groomers" just got a bunch of people in Colorado shot.
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  667. Musk always did look foolish and immature .. some just weren't able to see it too clearly before.
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  668. As one of the three founders of the Back to British Rule Society .. hell yeah 👍 Especially this vote of no confidence thing. Trumpy would have been tossed quite awhile back on that alone.
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  669. There's a joke circulating in Europe. Goes like this: Q: What borders on stupidity? A: Canada and Mexico
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  670. The cruelty is the whole point of these ALEC bills. These are people who reacted with glee to news of Matthew Shepard's killing at the hands of people who watch FOXed Noise.
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  671. Fox Noise brain worms.
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  672. Susan Collins said she hoped that Trump will change. Huh?? Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  673. The only thing he forgot was that it would be a sniffling failed game show host and serial cheater who nonetheless got the backing of the evangelicals.
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  674. Those things are explicitly banned in the terms of use. Sorry, no free speech against certain snowflakes who are very easily triggered.
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  675. It's not dissimilar to the way Trumpanzees try to paint the esteemed Dr. Fauci as a bad guy when he's trying to prevent a pandemic disaster. Once you understand that the reich-wingers are simply another apocalyptic death cult, working directly or indirectly for Putin, their actions make more sense.
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  676.  @RevShifty  I was sick of it when he put out that full-spread racist rant about the Central Park Five :( and yes, he has always been like that.
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  677. Using other people's money, of course. But then, OPM is the only kind of money he's ever tried to get his hands on. Without that he'd be broke.
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  678. Looks like the Mango Mussolini was looking for the CDC to help push his agenda. Again.
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  679. The hilarious thing is that every time the alt-reich folks try to start up their own chat platform (Parler is merely the latest example of this type) the basement-dwelling-incel crowd quickly fills the place with the sort of chatter (discussions of how and when to invade capitol buildings, what zip cuffs are the cheapest, how to disguise your weapons during an insurrection, etc) that ultimately resorts in them being investigated and shut down. No doubt the FBI are going through the feeds / messages / emails of all the perps to cast a wide net as to who was complicit in the DC terrorist attack.
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  680. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  681. One of my coworkers gets alt text messages like that. Straight from the Blaze or Epoch Times or another birdcage liner. She got one the other week saying that the FBI had seized Nevada's voting machines, even though in reality no such thing happened. There's a whole industry out there making money spreading nonsense to people even dumber than them.
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  682.  @sergeant_salty  Re "thank you for volunteering Americans" << If this is your way of suggesting we all look the other way while Putin commits atrocities against civilians, then you probably don't even understand why your dad joined the air force.
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  683. Thanks to the draft-dodger-in-chief's pardon of an obvious war criminal, American men and women serving all over the world are now in higher danger of being used as photographic background material just as Gallagher did in his infamous pictures. We just sent the world a big signal that it's OK by us to do things like that :(
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  684. The best way to treat your covid case in the US is to be the president, so you get a whole floor of Walter Reed, and experimental expensive treatments not available to the general public, about $100,000 in care for paying almost nothing in taxes. Meanwhile, in North Dakota the hospitals are so full, they're sending people home with aspirin to take care of themselves.
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  685. File this with the standard Republican theme of fixing things that aren't broken, and for no good reason. There are big problems facing us all in the future - the hammer of climate change, for one - yet they somehow think that banning trans kids and making abortion difficult for poor women is going to fix anything?
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  686. That's not all Trump did .. he basically sicced his MAGA mob on any district attorneys who don't kneel down to the orange buffoon.
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  687. Doesn't hurt that MAGA has totally jumped the shark.
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  688. Thankfully, conservatives aren't destroying law and order, but covid-19 is flattening conservatives. The delicious irony. The same disease that Trump lied about, then encouraged people to go against safety protocols for, is precisely what's turning red places purple and purple places blue. Everything Trump touches dies. Big thanks to Marsha Coats for her endorsement of Trump back in 2016, haha :(
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  689. Or as some say .. Trump has no plan and he's sticking to it.
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  690. Reminds me of what happened with state rep Mike Nearman of Oregon, who was expelled from the state legislature for letting armed insurrectionists into the building, who had plans to kidnap and/or kill lawmakers. His constituents were so happy with that, they wanted to re-elect him.
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  691. There is no point whatsoever. Let them go. They're either unfit to live (normal organisms have a survival instinct) or they're secretly suicidal. Just let them go.
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  692.  @letterman4290  You gotta forgive me .. I don't get "news" from Pravda like you do. From America with love.
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  693. David Duke was one of the first to endorse Trump.
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  694. Dark Brandon rolled the GQP again. Even though they call him "senile" and "doddering" and "sleepy", he walks all over them every time they get together. Go Joe! ;)
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  695. Damn, that sight might even put the buzzards off their feed. Gross.
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  696. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our god.
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  697. Another interesting data set would be the video from the capitol complex security system covering the weeks and days before the 1/6 insurrection.
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  698. Some people are their own worst enemies. Trump is one of those people. So I say let him continue to self-inflict harm on his own interests and those of the GQP Republican party. Fools and their money were lucky to get together in the first place.
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  699. Being the 11th province would be a big step up for the US in terms of stability, prosperity, democracy, human rights.
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  700.  @lindadbse1919  There is almost surely lots we haven't heard yet. I kept wondering if some staffer shot video of 45 sitting there in front of the big screen on J6, celebrating as the capitol was overrun, pointing to the TV and referring to them as his people.
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  701.  @victoriawilliams2786  They can join him in the penalty box for all I care.
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  702.  @davidpaul6656  Correct.
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  703.  Joy Division  What nonsense are you talking about? The popular vote is 78,753,377 Biden to 73,119,421 Trump and the EC is 306 Biden to 232 Trump. Do you remember in 2016 when the Republicans called 306 EC votes "a landslide" and "a mandate"? Those kinds of votes still are landslides and mandates, and the mandate of the people is to get rid of Trump. Sorry these facts hurt your feelings. Want a lollipop?
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  704. Reports have made it clear that Trump's drug of choice kills veterans. Wonder how much money he and his buddies at FOXed made off that state-sponsored classic pump-and-dump stock play?
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  705. Mind you, this is the same Donald Judas Trump who has everyone around him tested constantly, votes by mail, won't let his own kid go to school, but then tells us we don't all need to be tested, that voting by mail is fraudulent, and that we've got to send out kids to school - where they will all be infected.
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  706. "Conspiracy theories don't commit crimes, people do. And if he didn't hear a conspiracy theory from me, he would have just heard it from someone else, or maybe he would just use a hammer instead." -- Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson
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  707. 45 offers bile and angertainment and gaslighting and cult-member feelgood. But nothing else. Sad that we have so many who want that in their diet :(
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  708. Funny how Trump was the one condemning China for attempting to cover-up the extent of the virus spread.
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  709. That wannabe Culp up in Washington (he ran for governor) is doing the same whiny thing as Trump. Seems there was a massive conspiracy to have the people vote more for Inslee than for him.
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  710. You never go full stupid.
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  711.  @Memento2mori  The thing that cult leaders specialize in is reaching out to the gullible ones and separating them from any sense of history, community, morality, etc. Whether they regain their senses (some may have never had them in the first place) is an open question.
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  712. "Deplorables" is not a strong enough term for them. More like "despicables". The kind who get gleeful over the 10yo rape victim being forced to bear their abuser's baby.
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  713. He's been obvious about his total disdain for US laws .. is anyone surprised that he's moving up to violating international laws?
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  714. Let's see how those two potential traitors (Chatfield and Skirkey) deal with the pressure to help Trump steal the election. Trump is the test that the Republicans so far have been mostly failing.
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  715. The ONLY thing the Republican party says to Trump is "Please, sir, I'd like another" :(
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  716. OP - this wouldn't be a problem if not for one of America's major political parties falling head-over-heels in love with a wannabe dictator.
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  717. More like a how-to manual, but I digress.
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  718.  @commiesnzombies  Re "but it is ok to rig a national election" << Well, if you'd bothered to read any of my comments on the internet, you probably would have already known my stance against the Trumpanzee effort to rig the 2020 presidential election.
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  719. It's hard to get someone to understand something that their official ignorance of is the only reason they get paid.
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  720. He didn't mention the "stolen election, his "landslide win", or the "evil radical-left Democrats", so I'm guessing that was his stand-in actor reading the speech.
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  721.  @vinny6967  Do you mean that if one coughing person gets on a bus, everyone aboard gets pregnant?
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  722.  @richardprice8274  Mo Brooks too .. what was he wearing body armor in anticipation of?
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  723. What Trump really meant was, on day 1 he might shut down the free press, dissolve both chambers of congress, have the supreme court shot, and maybe the next morning he might decide to remain dictator indefinitely.
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  724.  @untseac  False. The USA ranks #27 among nations at number of tests per million population. Sort on that column to see it for yourself: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries So are you a troll or a mindless parrot?
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  725. Bingo. Trump has already made it clear how the Heritage Foundation feels about non-white / non-hetero / non-cis / non-xtian people.
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  726. Someone took their love of party more seriously than their duty to follow the law and respect the constitution. Just like their orange cult leader's example.
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  727.  @virginiapoot4916 Closely related to that is bringing people together, something Trump never did or even tried to do. Everything was completely tribal with him, "his" people, and dumping on anyone (up to whole states) that didn't vote for him. His first term was already a retribution episode.
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  728. Couldn't Republicans just move to N Korea or Russia if they want to be in a place where democracy is a small thing and guaranteed election results is a big thing?
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  729. Fox is HQ'd on cable, which doesn't require broadcast licenses.
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  730. Those are the same (TP + hangers-on) people who spent 8 long years screeching about the tan suit, the mustard, chemtrails, agenda 21, jade helm, etc. We-the-nation need to have a serious conversation about whether to bring these people back to reality, and how, because in their current form they are toxic to democracy. They could have just as easily coagulated around someone much, much worse than Trump. They may do that someday if we don't fix the problem.
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  731.  @YM-gi1qm  It's not good enough just to send the Republicans a message. We must remove them from power in every place, at every level, in every capacity. Let them spend a couple decades in the woodshed of history to reflect on how they embraced a crook and his methods. Heck, if they had slapped him the way they went over Obama for the dastardly, horrible, unconstitutional crimes of using mustard and a tan suit, things would have never gotten this bad.
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  732. Gonna be a lot of sweet deals on Craigslist .. a lot of rural 2nd homes for sale .. some job opportunities and other openings. No better way to improve the breed.
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  733. The covid deniers are frustrated about the disappearance of their Q-Anonsense channels from most social media. They miss having a place where they can commiserate about how the sun rises in the west, how the earth is flat, and so on.
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  734. Just in time for Pence to be raptured by the covid he once said we should just pray away, and just in time for the 25th so Pelosi can see us safely to January 20th.
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  735. Dump45 always has trouble when previously-recorded video shows him admitting to something he's fervently-denying ever having done.
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  736.  @racoonfrenzy3617  This is class warfare, and he's a political prisoner.
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  737. Putin is already beyond just being embarrassed. The hopes of a swift victory are over now. With every hour, the defense is strengthened. Arms and other support are pouring in from the free world. Next it's up to the Russians themselves to have a regime change.
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  738. Obviously there's a political party that's changed a lot from "Tear down that wall, Mr Gorbachev!" and welcoming people fleeing for their lives from behind the iron curtain. The rest of America, not changed so much.
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  739. On the plus side, Mike Pillow unwittingly gave us a window into his vision for America, which is everyone in gulags except for the narrow-minded group of nutters that want to end American democracy in favor of appeasing Trump's hurt feelings.
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  740. So are his MAGAt Brownshirt irregulars. I have grown fond of the red hats and traitor merch. So good of these people to out themselves. I just wish they had some kind of mark that they can't take off. People deserve to know who harbors hate against their own nation, and who's dumb enough to break the law just because the angry cult leader said so.
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  741. The cheering in the background for the "kung flu" line had a lot in common with the cheering at the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremburg. All it was missing was some torches.
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  742. I take comfort in knowing that soon after Nixon's guilt became obvious, known, and part of the permanent record, every single congress person who continued to support him (even after his guilt became known) lost their seats in the next two elections. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  743. I've been thinking it's fragile because all it takes is two crooks acting in concert (president and senate majority leader) to turn the US into Somalia.
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  744.  @unknownwriter1265  Indeed, with the red coats of the British, the stars & bars of the confederates, the blood red Nazi banners, and Trump's MAGA crowd, America's enemies know how to pick hi-viz colors.
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  745.  @kevinkelly2162  Yes, there are.
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  746. .. because nothing screeches out your innocence in all caps like withholding evidence then retaliating against witnesses.
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  747.  @EEX97623  Wonder if Susan Collins has learned her lesson yet?
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  748. Herd immunity doesn't exist for anything from the coronavirus family of viruses - SARS, MERS, the common colds, the common flus, none of them induce herd immunity. If you are lucky enough to have a good immunity system and you don't get any serious high-viral-load exposure to covid, good for you, but otherwise this thing is killing Americans by the hundreds of thousands.
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  749. That's going to be safe only until Trump whips up hate against retired people, in much the same manner that he whips up hate against journalists, Democrats, nonwhites, immigrants, refugees, Jews, Muslims, anyone he felt any momentary rage towards. And at some point he'll call all the retired/disabled people "the moochers who are destroying America with their greed!" if he feels that way just then :(
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  750. I would rephrase that as saying it takes 10 years of training to be a doctor, two years of training to be a pastry chef, 91 days of training to be a cop, and no training at all to be a president. That fully explains the current predicament.
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  751. To be fair to Donny, Hitler didn't like anti-fascists either. Perfectly normal for someone like either of those two to feel that way.
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  752.  @Daniel-iv6kb  96 hours is what it would take for NATO to de-occupy Ukraine. Let's hope those bumblef*cks at the Kremlin have a few sensible people on staff.
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  753. Bingo. The end of Stay-At-Home orders doesn't mean the pandemic is over. It just means there are now some empty beds in the ICU. When they run out of space in the ICU, you get to die at home. Freedumb!
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  754. Who'll ever forget when Moscow Mitch McConnell said that 8 months before an election was way too soon to confirm a SCOTUS judge ..
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  755. Treasury dept: Hand over your books, Capone, we've crunched the numbers and we know that you've broken the law. Al Capone: You guys have been after me for 8 years. That just proves your bias. This is nothing but a witch hunt hoax. Crooked judge: OK, Treasury goons, you heard the man. You'll have to make your case without any evidence. Lady Justice: Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away??
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  756. That's something that Russia does .. and now it's something that Putin's apprentice does here :( so sorry :(
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  757. Trump timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault." "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stock market!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose re-election.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT! Another hoax!" "Ignore those corpses, they're just crisis actors!"
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  758.  @zees358  You left out the part in your scenario about the US attacking Mexico first, claiming that all of Mexico used to belong to the USA and that because everyone there understands English, they should be part of America. Also America kidnapping millions of Mexicans and offering US passports to all Mexicans. Call us back when those things happen, K?
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  759. From what I've seen of my relatives living in Red states .. he and Fox have the easily-misled ones gibbering in fear/rage that somewhere in rural Arkansas there might be a trans kid playing sports. Gets their blood boiling somehow.
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  760. Right during the thick of the 1/6 violence, in a phone call between Trump and McCarthy, Trump said, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” He definitely knew about it while it was happening.
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  761. This is probably the closest the USA has ever been to the "Red Dawn" type scenario. A whacked president, desperate to hang onto power by any means, calls on his buddies in Russia and NK to help put down the states that didn't vote for him.
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  762. But but but but but .. Hillary's emails! /sarc
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  763.  @olasylvia1  And they will be the best allies we could wish for. Ukraine will be like another Germany someday - a strong country, and industrial powerhouse, a fantastic ally.
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  764. So what he's saying is that he's so horrible that the only way to avoid being banned from a social media platform is for him to own the platform? That's not exactly a brag.
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  765. Fauci: “Donald, 3000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  766. Yah. I've read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" many times, but seeing Agent Orange mislead a large minority of the US population really drove home the lesson about how that works. Thankfully Agent Orange is a repugnant con man to most of us.
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  767. Gym Jordan has amply displayed his contempt for the law. He shouldn't even be the town dog catcher.
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  768. They tell themselves such BS to salve their wounded pride. Helps Rus-splain the whupping they're getting.
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  769. Senator Tuberville was at least keeping Putin happy in that regard.
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  770. No disease in history ever went away just because it was politically or economically inconvenient for the people of one particular nation. Diseases can be controlled through testing, consistent messaging, public health measures, and the cooperation of the people. We don't have those elements here in the US :(
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  771. Trump has been going through buckets of paint, always painting himself into a shrinking corner. That's about when he sets the building on fire, blames his problems on others, and scurries off to create his next scam.
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  772.  @MrKakibuy  That's not how they calculate over there. In this, the Kremlin has gone full Robert McNamara - as in, "We can win if we just throw MORE resources into it!". And you never go full McNamara. Their demographic future was horrific even before this Three Day War .. now Putin has guaranteed that the population of Russia will be half its current level in 50 years.
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  773. Bingo. There's nothing Wussolini won't throw on the bonfire of his vanity. Anyone with half a brain knew this about him a decade ago.
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  774. The flag of Ukraine flies all over the free world. We stand with you.
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  775. Fix title: ".. that no ONE is discussing"
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  776. According to the data on Ballotpedia, Tr*mp did get more votes than Harris, but the sum total of the 3rd party votes would have been more than enough to make the difference.
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  777. He had a lot of help from the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Alex Jones, Tucker "Lord Haw Haw" Carlson, etc who tried to normalize (to the American public) all of Trump's excesses.
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  778. Do they not read the effing news? Australia has had mandatory inbound 14 day quarantine for more than half a year already. Duh.
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  779. Sharing this gem of a comment posted by AC, a few days before the election: As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  780. All to feed the paranoia and race-supremacy needs of Trump's reconstituted Reich :(
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  781. Watching almost every news outlet air 45's lies as-is, for years, definitely make it clear how the funny mustache guy did what he did to Germany.
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  782.  @harleycontrarian6111  As the saying goes - Even though the forest kept getting smaller, the trees kept voting for the axe, because since its handle was made of wood they thought it was one of them.
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  783. They already did :(
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  784.  @patricepatrick9165  Many of them would even kill their own children to please the cult leader, if he asked them to.
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  785. Rather amusingly, he's calling it "Truth", which in Russian would be translated as "Pravda".
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  786. Even more strange, he's still inciting violence and insurrection. Let's not forget his role in inciting attacks on various state capitols last year (over the excuse of anti-mask nonsense) before moving up to inciting an attack on the nation's capitol in DC. For some of the DC insurrectionists, it was their 2nd or 3rd attempt, having practiced in those state capitols. As the saying goes .. an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just another training exercise.
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  787. For the unnecessary loss of lives due to the deliberately-inept mismanagement of the pandemic - yes, there needs to be some kind of punishment. For the attempted insurrection, there needs to be some kind of punishment. For abandoning our forward bases to the Russians and stabbing our Kurdish allies in the back (both of which resulted in loss of lives) there needs to be some kind of punishment.
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  788. Trump's behavior is easier to understand if you assume that Putin is paying him a bounty for every hundred Americans who die from covid.
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  789. It's hilarious to watch Kevin trying to pound that big square peg into that tiny round hole. What a dunce 😅😅
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  790. The protests everywhere give me hope -- so Americans DO still care when one of their own is murdered inside her own home and the officers get only a slap on the wrist.
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  791. Funny how America wants none of the responsibilities of the leader of the free world, yet Trump wants to be able to dictate terms to the free world.
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  792. Prior to this I hadn't quite realized how many absolutely-batsh!t-crazy people we've got in the country - so many stark raving nutters who say "What pandemic?"
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  793.  @mrnobody3161  Canadians are like the nice people who happen to be living over a biker bar with a meth problem.
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  794. MAGA = many are getting arrested.
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  795. We got lucky that Trump is so dumb, offends so many, is so inept, and isn't a good orator. Some even slimier creature may someday enter through the hole he just bashed into the wall of normalcy.
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  796.  @thomascurry886  There isn't a country in the world that would do anything otherwise. I'm just pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of him telling everyone else it's OK to go back to work without being tested, even while he himself won't let anyone near him unless they've been tested every day. It's as if he knows there's a dangerous virus out there but doesn't care if it kills millions of Americans.
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  797. Just as rich and poor alike are forbidden in America from sleeping on park benches, rich and poor alike must pay the same level of taxes on fuel for their private jets and for healthcare and for many other things. What could be more fair? /heavy sarcasm
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  798. "Smelly Steve", as they came to call him inside the beltway, fancies himself to be a revolutionary, but in actuality he's more like a standard Hitler crony, the kind who would happily usher in a retrogressive populist leader to truly fuck up the country. People like that exist in every country. They are the topsoil that fascism needs as a growth medium.
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  799. His face .. his voice .. his fascism .. the little goose-steppers who enable his worst excesses. The lot of them need to be sent to cult deprogramming.
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  800. Thank you, MOSCOW Mitch McConnell, for all your hard work to make this moment possible. That is what you will be remembered for. Your grandchildren will be ashamed of their family name. Good job, bozo :(
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  801. Johnson was one of the Hateful Eight Republicans who chose to celebrate July 4th 2018 in Moscow. It's not that Putin has dirt on Republicans (though I'm sure he does) as much as he offered them a path to remake America the way they want it to be. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. They know their platform is unpopular on its own merits, so a techno-apartheid state is what they must seek. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-july-4-in-moscow
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  802. Mind you, this is the same GQP that fought to keep Trump's tax information from being seen by Congress. Hypocrisy much?
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  803.  @kdbwiz  Even then, we are not free of him. When he has no more routes left to seize power by any means, he may well tell his followers to go out and do bad things. He was always going to take the toys and leave if he cannot rule the playground.
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  804. She lost all credibility when she stood aside Trump as he said it would just go away - like a miracle - sometimes it goes away when the weather turns warm - it just goes away.
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  805.  @chrismagallanes8154  The punch line (to that snake tale) is one of the few truthful things he says at the rallies. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!!"
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  806. Counting down the days to "I take no responsibility for this".
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  807. It's like they're trying to skip the Weimar era and go straight to where their guy gets appointed high chancellor despite the way a majority of the voters didn't choose him.
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  808. If every journalist had been saying, "No, Mr. Trump, that's a lie" all along at his many and oft-repeated falsehoods, history might have taken a better course.
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  809. As Trump said, "we're saving money" when the ports are empty. Presumably he meant all those wages paid to people unloading the boats and driving the trucks. Just think of it as losing weight by cutting off your arm.
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  810. Correct. This was planned. Trump knew as far back as the summer of 2019 that he was going to lose the election. We know this because that's when he was shopping for someone to make up dirt on Biden. He was all the way down in the U's (having gone through the WH rolodex of allies and contacts) before we learned of him extorting other nations to get them to announce a fake investigation so he could point to it and say, "See? Biden is being investigated by [insert country]!" (how many nations turned him down on this?) Then again by March 2020 he realized many would be voting by mail (thanks to his botched pandemic response) so he quickly put wrecking-ball DeJoy into the USPS to hinder it from within.
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  811. Those folks look like they found the empty iPhone boxes in the trash anyway. Total dumpster diver Soviet pensioner class.
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  812.  @shepherdsknoll  Suddenly the Republicans will have to pivot to saying age doesn't matter ;)
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  813.  @anitakinnear6735  Thanks! We need a blue tsunami every 2 years for the next two decades. Let's do it! :)
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  814. That's part of what galls Trump. In similar fashion, the eastern-front Nazi troops were particularly discomfited to know that the pilots of the Soviet 588th night guards (as well as the mechanics and munitions loaders) were women. They were a very highly decorated unit.
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  815.  @meso8848  That must be the same sort of "pushing" that Poland and Czechoslovakia did in the 1930s (to Germany) when they declined to be part of the Reich.
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  816. To add - Trump isn't just an embarrassment and a disgrace - he's a clear and present danger.
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  817. Trump's people were successful at delaying this until after the midterms. Mission success in that regard. Loose Cannon was expendable.
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  818. Bingo. Remember their "unity" when they said that 8 months before an election was much, much too soon to seat a judge, then they rammed one through less than 8 weeks before the election just for Trump?
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  819. They traded their souls for a guy who wouldn't even piss on them if they were on fire. He'd just call them losers and keep on going.
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  820. Obstructing the will of the people has been Moscow Mitch's job since at least 2009.
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  821.  @NicholasKoeppel  Bingo. Because they have been going along with Trump despite knowing what he's done and what he is.
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  822.  @janejones8672  I'm with ya! Although if you see any Trumptards out committing crimes, get stills and video, be sure to get their faces, their stuff, their associates, their vehicles, what they're doing, etc. We can always expand Guantanamo Bay to make room for more terrorists.
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  823. A much worse problem is Minnesota, which reopened industrial & office sectors last week even though the case rates are rising exponentially.
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  824. Bingo. That's how batsh*t Republicans are these days. "We trust the guy who doesn't pay taxes. Our 'family values' party trusts the guy who cheats on all his wives, even the ex-pornstar ones. Our 'law and order' party trusts the guy who breaks the law every time he breathes. Our 'patriot' party trusts the guy who wants legimitate elections to end so that he can stay in power." And so on. Did Trump hit them over the head with a tire iron?
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  825. There's this cartoon about MAGA. Goes like this. A bunch of sheep grazing in a meadow, looking at a political billboard. A wolf in a suit is saying that he wants to eat them all. The sheep nudge each other and say, "See, I like this guy, he tells it like it is."
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  826. To be fair, a lot of those supporters aren't good at reading.
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  827. China has no real incentive to give anything to comrade Trunpski. He's presently twisting in a snare of his own making. They know any other president will be more reasonable.
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  828. Their attempted plot is looking pretty obvious now .. the final count of votes will be delayed, the swing states with majority Republican legislators will contest the vote and appoint partisan electors, and Amy Handmaid's Tale will be among those on SCOTUS saying that it looks fine by them. So we must vote overwhelmingly blue in numbers too big to hide.
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  829. Trump: "OMG, they are sending ballots to everyone! People might vote against me! Can't have that"
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  830. Like a few other people from a different time, he constantly forgets that what he says in one place is known almost instantly to people in another place. Or that everything he's ever said is available quickly for reference.
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  831.  @SassyPumpkins1313  I know the type all too well :( both of my parents were that type. They leave a mess behind them when they go.
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  832. Big strong men, with tears in their eyes, the biggest guys anyone's ever seen, possibly veterans, come up to Trump and tell him, sir, you go bankrupt better than anyone.
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  833. Think of Trump more like a potentially bottomless negative. Anytime you think you've seen the worst, he's just getting ready to dig deeper.
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  834.  @tajcee  The coronavirus doesn't care about Trump's feelings, and even Trump recognizes it. The solution: blame it on someone else.
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  835. Nothing proclaims innocence like bragging to the world that you're holding all the incriminating evidence against yourself. He just can't help himself :( Oh and FYI in case it's not obvious, he's going to be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally insufferable if Moscow Mitch succeeds in getting him off scot-free. If you're a member of a visible minority, that would be a good time to go underground, because you can bet his MAGA hatters will be out there committing all kinds of bias crimes.
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  836. A long time in Leavenworth might help him recall how the government works.
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  837. LOL cultural hubris probably to assume that we could shoot down aliens. If they made it this far, a F-22 probably looks like a quaint antique to them.
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  838. Soon enough we'll find out if Trump was smart enough to do his break-the-law requests through disposable third parties (like Bannon) or burner phones, or email, or careless enough to allow the request to be recorded. "Just say that I won the election in your counties, and leave the rest to me and the Republicans in congress."
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  839. And, to be fair, he would make Nikki compliant within a week or two, such is the nature of his ability to find weak people and turn them to his ends.
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  840. Space Karen being stuck in a prison of his own making .. now that's priceless.
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  841. Last night on the way home from work I went past a bunch of packed restaurants, with not a mask to be seen anywhere. Good thing they're all vaccinated, right? /sarc
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  842. Think of it as a voluntary form of public stupidity. We can always build more prison space.
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  843.  @mariewheeler6522  And yes we must! Every election for the next 20 years. Make the GQP extinct!
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  844.  @luke_skywanker7643  Watch him closely when he drops that line at his rallies - "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" He's gleeful that the dolts don't realize exactly who he's talking about.
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  845.  @auntiecarrollyn1  Re "Patience grasshopper" .. bingo. The wheels of justice are turning very slowly now only because the machine has been reset for extra-extra-fine grinding. This legal business should consume the news cycle for the next 2-3 elections, so that Republican malfeasance is fresh in everyone's minds when they go to vote.
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  846. The first time El Trompo lost the popular vote, it was by 3 million votes. Four years later, he lost again by 8 million votes. If the progression is flat, his next popular vote loss should be by around 13 million. If it's exponential progression, however, this works out to about 27% per year increase in voter dissatisfaction with El Trompo, so his loss may be by 20 million votes or more. Not that elections matter anymore to Republicans.
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  847. Too late, he's still on the hook for his recent misdeeds.
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  848. Watching Trump refuse the virtual debate format is like him saying, "Waaah! I won't be able to interrupt! I won't be able to infect Biden. Waaah!" And that's OK. Let Biden have the mic for 2 hours.
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  849. We watched Trump do it. His schtik works well on shallow minds. Unfortunately, we have a lot of them here! :(
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  850. There are all kinds of human traffic, and some of it happens right in ordinary-looking corporate environments :(
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  851. Here in Oregon (pacific northwest USA) we've just learned that an elementary public school employee, in a suburb of Portland, has been symptomatic since February 19th and has just tested positive for covid-19. Most likely, they contracted it on or around February 12th (from sources unknown) and have been communicative since at least February 14th. This is time enough for it to spread to the young students (who will make excellent carriers, as they suffer it fairly lightly compared to older adults with medical issues) and their families and whoever those people have collectively been in contact with. If any of those people work in public-facing jobs (as many people do) then Portland is effectively already undergoing early stages of pandemic. 95% of the human population in Oregon (around 4 million total) lives in the Willamette valley and the intersection of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Vast flows of daily commuter traffic go in and out of Portland via routes 5, 205, 30, 26, 84. Looks like we're going to get a firsthand look at how things unfold here in the USA.
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  852.  @atomickaiser1934  Hearing someone as dense, as uninformed, as deeply clueless as you toss around the word "ignorant" is pretty amusing. One more time, in small words, Biden & Harris are both centrist small-d democrats. Nowhere in any of their planks to they talk about the points of communism as I listed above. But, hey, nitwits with overactive amygdala glands like you probably can't stop saying "Biden's a commie!" in the same way that you can't stay out of the cheese whiz even after you've had too much. You're just dumber than you know, and you can't do anything about it.
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  853. Too late, Dump, everyone heard what you said to the Proud Little Boys during the debate.
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  854. Bingo. Now that their failed insurrection attempt is over, and they will be arrested by the hundreds or thousands for their capital crimes, they suddenly want a "let's meet in the middle" Kumbaya moment with the rest of us? Yeah, sure, maybe in 10-20 years after you've served your time in Club Fed.
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  855. Like many other Americans, someday I hope to be calling him president Raskin.
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  856. He knew as far back as the summer of 2019 (when Joe Biden became the D nominee) that he would lose, and began fingering through the White House rolodex to find an ally he could extort into making up some dirt against the Bidens.
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  857. I sincerely hope governor Cuomo had recorders running during his meeting with Trump. Trump has a long history of promising one thing in private, letting the other person come out publicly with what he (Trump) agreed on in private, then publicly knocking their knees out from behind and denying he ever said any such thing.
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  858. As far as we know, his only plan is to steal the election using the DOJ and SCOTUS (his two private legal firms in the DC swamp) for the legal end and DHS / HHS / CBP / FBI / militias / police as his newly-created "Patriot Response Force" to put boots on the ground to handle the large-scale protests that will inevitably follow. From the way Republicans have worked hard to disenfranchise the vote in places that are urban / minority / left-leaning, and their other work to staff the judiciary with incompetent Dominionists, we may safely assume that they know they no longer represent the American people and are preparing to run the country sort of along the lines of an apartheid state like the former Rhodesia.
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  859. Right. So let's be ready for him to say how there are "fine people" on both sides.
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  860. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  861. He got his diploma at the same place Mike Pillow did, basically :(
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  862. Hey there Lying Lindsey, this is a little too late. After spending four years enabling every dumb, horrific, treasonous, or dangerous thing that Trump's done, you don't get to use this one instance to later claim you showed a spine around Trump. That honor belongs exclusively to Mitt Romney.
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  863. I still remember Reagan posing for pictures with the Mujahadeen, who he called freedom fighters. Then there was that guns-for-drugs deal with folks in Latin America. Edit: thank you for your service!
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  864. Atlanta PD officers calling in sick are basically saying "Waaaah, you're not letting us kill blacks randomly for fun. Waaaaaah. Waaaaah. Stop being so mean. Waaaaah."
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  865. I couldn't watch it either. If it came on the radio I changed channels. While it is sometimes amusing to listen to him ramble about toilets, windmills, and how unfair the world is to his attempts at criminal governance, it's disgusting to listen to his lies and bullying and threats (while his spineless, dictator-friendly flying monkeys cheer him on - people who were raised in the bosom of America and who are now trying to destroy that very same America) and really, Republicans, this is the best you've got to offer?
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  866. Disappointing. Thought governor Newsom was smarter than to fall into that one :(
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  867. As we just saw in Virginia, misinformation sells very well these days, whereas almost no one wants to hear unwelcome truths.
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  868. While it's weird to see a goat stuck way up in a tree, we should remember that Fox Noise was the flood [of misinformation] that put the goat there.
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  869. What he tells his delusional followers and what happens in court are always two very different things.
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  870. Yes! It's like she imagines she's embarking on a very profitable legal career. She hasn't realized that Dump is probably her last legal client ever.
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  871.  @brendacollins4518  Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the rise in voter ire towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  872. Reporting from Oregon, USA. Monday at the store, there was a new sign saying purchases of sanitizing wipes, hand sanitizer were limited to 4 per family through the end of April. As of Wednesday the same week, the list was expanded to include soap, gloves, masks, bottled water.
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  873. And on Putin's birthday. That's just perfect 🤣🤣 Hmm. According to wiki there are still several major Russian holidays left in the calendar year. Good people of Ukraine, you know what to do.
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  874. Hey! That inciting is his only connection to his rabid base. Without that he'd have no followers at all.
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  875. In fact .. I'd almost say that anyone who hadn't learned that lesson personally (someone very high in the Obama administration, in other words) wouldn't be able to do half of what Biden has done already. Once again I applaud the move, which I did not understand at the time (back in the summer of 2019) switching the official DNC candidate from Sanders (who was ahead in the party polls then) to Biden. Now I get it. The way things are now (Warren in the Senate, Sanders chairing the Senate budget committee) more stuff will get done than if Biden and Harris were still in the senate and Sanders was president.
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  876.  Emily Moss  The USA is closer to being a banana republic than most people know. I mean, it's perfectly normal to place your adult children in positions of authority - just ask Saddam Hussein!
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  877. Sure, sure, and the years of pro-Trump posts on his facebook feed, and the Trump flag he was carrying, were just part of his "deep cover".
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  878. Hunting down traitors is practically a public service.
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  879. That shitbird DeJoy has got to be removed yesterday. It's going to take a lot to reverse the damage he did to USPS capabilities.
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  880. That is actually typical behavior of when a narcissistic psychopath gets put in charge of an enterprise. Keeping the place unstable, and making sure everyone is at everyone else's throats (all for individual gain) is their comfort zone. Don't ask me how I know this from previous jobs :(
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  881. We're hearing all kinds of happytalk like this while the cases-per-million rates continue to climb in all 50 states. So either they ran out of sick people to give tests to, and they're testing people with mild symptoms (who test positive but don't need hospitalization) or we're hearing more happytalk.
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  882.  @muaythai8467  Got any proof? Crickets. Dumb troll.
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  883. The GQP Republicans are like the passengers in a crowded elevator who pulled the pin on the Trump grenade they brought in with them. Like watching the trash take itself out.
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  884. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  885. Some of them are screeching for internal war (it's not civil) but they've never lived through the horror of one. Some of them are screeching that Trump should be dictator, but none of them have ever lived in a dictatorship. Some of them are screeching for the votes they don't like to be thrown away, but they've never lived in a place where just one party hoards power so zealously.
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  886. Apparently, telling the truth about these things in history class offends the tender feelings of the folks who wear white sheets and pointy white hats.
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  887. Watching the GQP traitors sputter over supposedly "sleepy" Joe, every time he speaks, has got to be one of the enjoyable things this year.
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  888. It's like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird struts around the board, knocks over the pieces, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, then flies away squawking that he won.
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  889. Fox Spews has been nurturing it for decades now. Rush Limbaugh did a lot too. Some people just love to hate. Normal societies don't let them go down the rabbit hole like we do :(
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  890. To be fair, the lie was designed to appeal only to the sort of people who are presently whinging about their favorite Q pages missing from Facebook. They need their daily fix of whack conspiracy nonsense to feel like they're "in the know" on some super-secret data.
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  891. So when Dump said "I'll accept the results - IF I win" .. that begs the question whether his antics since then indicate that he knows he lost.
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  892. Now that we know exactly what type of presidential candidate Republicans go gaga over .. any bets on how long it takes them to field an even more heinous one?
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  893.  @Amanda-k3g1n  Debating 45 is like playing chess with a pigeon - the bird will strut around the board, knocking over the pieces, crapping on everything, making a lot of noise, and then the bird flies away squawking that it won the chess game.
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  894. Spending $3 million of Republican money to get 87 more votes for Biden is something that only a "genius" businessman like Trump could do! This explains why he lost TWO casinos.
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  895. Perhaps Dog the Bounty Hunter wants to re-enact the South Glade Mission Church scene from the movie "Kingsman"?
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  896. Looks like the good people of Ohio didn't forget that time a 10yo rape victim was forced to go out-of-state to avoid a "criminal abortion".
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  897. This is going to leave a pretty harsh stain on Russia and Russians. It's going to be really hard for them to wash it off.
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  898. Trump is remaking the USA into his own image - hateful, xenophobic, self-centered, paranoid, selfish, uncooperative. The world will find another "leader of the free world".
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  899. Bingo!
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  900. Until this thing happened, I had no idea how satisfying it is to watch the FBI swoop down on traitors, then see them face justice for their acts of treason. Anyone who swore an oath to defend the US (an oath that has no expiration date!), got training not available to civilians, then committed treason, etc, deserves the full wrath of the law.
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  901. Wussolini finally got the wall he wanted. Perhaps we can reinforce it then take away the helicopters.
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  902. That's what happens when you let a cult leader drag your party to Crazytown :( .. and twice they had the chance to stop him via impeachment. And they didn't :(
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  903. That silence is most impressive. The Moskva converted itself to underwater class vessel and has been maintaining perfect silence since then. So much quieter than anything the US navy has.
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  904. The one good thing being that he is exposing a whole lot of traitorous fools we didn't know were there.
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  905. Those poor Russia propaganda bots .. what with the ruble crashing to new lows, they must post their nonsense 20x, even 30x more often than before just to make ramen money this week. And they whine about this "economic war". Comrades, no, it is just a special economic operation.
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  906. Not using his name anymore. Just '45'. Oh and let me add .. 46>45.
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  907.  @Sapio420  There are people who'll tell you in all sincerity that there's no global warming because it's snowing where they live right now.
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  908. Trump didn't have any trouble finding a helicopter pilot who would hover dangerously low over journalists and citizens in DC .. and Trump didn't have any trouble finding a federal trooper who would shoot a nonviolent protester in the head. It was pretty much the same way with Hitler too. He had no shortage of Nazi goons for his dirty deeds. The governor was wasely telling people not to take the bait .. although TBH I wish someone would nonviolently ziptie the goons together and put them on a bus back to wherever they came from.
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  909.  @donovan3476  I've been grieving for them since 2009, but in the past year it's turned into some kind of post-grief stage of wondering what we as a nation should do to heal. President-elect Biden is correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  910. Why not? He even tries to infect his own staffers and followers.
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  911. Most of the hawkish Republicans were also draft dodgers (like their boss) so they know little of these matters of uniform, rank, and service to one's country.
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  912. Their followers aren't much better .. and everything you need to know about them can be summed up in a picture of one of them beating a cop to death in DC with an American flag and a fire extinguisher. Rabid & batsh*t insane.
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  913. By failing to deal with this problem, our justice system is in fact normalizing it for other politicians seeking office.
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  914. Is anyone else looking at the remainder of the ratio of recovered to total known? Of the 81,005 accumulated confirmed cases only 30,257 are able to return to work and normal activities. Looking at it another way - the majority of those who fall ill will not be coming back to work anytime soon, and some of them, never. Global recession here we come :(
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  915. The cleanup may take awhile, so let's make sure he's got 2 terms in which to do it all.
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  916. Stop calling him DT. His true working title is more like "Republican party general secretary Comrade Trumpski". Throwing America under the bus and trying to wreck America's alliances was his number one job.
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  917. For a guy who was raised in, and protected by, a democracy for his entire life, 45 has quite the longing for fascism. Weird.
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  918. I thought it was rather Orwellian of them to refer to their coordinated (albeit badly-coordinated) attempt to steal the election as "Stop the Steal". That's something that either Miller or Bannon could have done. Both of them seem to think Orwell's books were how-to manuals and not cautionary tales.
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  919.  @MrWheelerjas  How nice of you to ask. I am one of those who follow the news and keep notes. On ABC's "This Week" program, July 31 2016, Trump said, "You know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that, also. Now, that was under -- just so you understand, that was done under Obama's administration -- Crimea has been taken." Trump made those comments just after saying Putin is "not going into Ukraine." Over dinner at the 2018 G7 summit in Quebec, Trump told everyone that Crimea is Russian because everyone there speaks Russian. (One wonders if he would have called East Germany a part of Russia too because everyone there spoke Russian as of 1988) On the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show, February 22 2022, Trump said it was "wonderful," "so smart," and even "genius" for Putin to "declare a big portion of the Ukraine ... as independent." He claimed Putin will now "go in" and "be a peacekeeper." While Putin has said he's sending troops to the breakaway regions as part of a "peacekeeping" mission. Trump also declared that Putin has "the strongest peace force I've ever seen," with "more army tanks than I've ever seen," and "we could use that on our southern border." Putin is "savvy," Trump continued.
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  920. Funny, in North Dakota the hospitals are all full and they're sending people home with aspirin .. but Trump likes to brag about the $150K in medical care he got for only $750 in taxes. This is a lot like when he claimed in March that anyone can get a test. What he meant was that HE could get tested anytime. For the rest of us, not so much.
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  921. We may have to ask Putin nicely for those documents.
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  922. Since when was it legal to use one's office of government to issue threats against that same government and to tell such grotesque lies from one's position in government?
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  923. That was unreal .. and the taxpayers are supposed to cover the costs?
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  924. "Be there, will be wild" and "Fight like hell" don't sound loving.
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  925. The election was 282 days ago. Results certified months ago, new people already sworn in. There is no "flipping" at this point.
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  926. Or Steve Bannon, for calling for Dr Fauci to be beheaded. What kind of upside-down are we living through that these things are not considered crimes?
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  927.  r385671  You almost owed me a new keyboard for that one. He's such a singularity of negativity, like a resurrected Hitler. How can anyone stand to be around him?
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  928.  @TampaDave  Bingo. Trump had a lot of collaborators, and it's important for all of them to get their just punishments.
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  929. And agrees to make reparations.
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  930.  @melainejackson9153  And be nice to each other. Oooh boy does that rub Republikkkans the wrong way somehow.
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  931. Surprisingly, Trump's message of (essentially) "I'm going to end democracy, plunge the nation into bloodshed, and establish a family dictatorship" resonated with some of those clowns, who've never lived a minute of their lives under such horrors.
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  932. McConnell has got to be defanged, otherwise he'll be telling president Biden next year that 40 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge.
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  933. Bingo. Trumpanzees are those oppressed working people who got behind a guy who won't pay his fair share of taxes, who won't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and who moves the production of his trinkets overseas .. in other words, they support the rich guy who does to them precisely what they're complaining about "elites" doing to them.
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  934. It's been the nicest thing he's ever done for a nation grown weary of his nonstop nonsense.
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  935. "I'm having a hard time with the New York state system" is the closest he can get to "My crimes finally caught up with me and I'm not coping very well"? C'mon, dim-bulb Donnie, you can do better than that 😅
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  936. Trump said we'd get tired of his winning. That's halfway correct. NK & Iran are developing advanced weapons. Russia is out from under the limitations of strategic arms limitations. More than $4 trillion has been added to the debt. Global climate change is accelerating faster.
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  937. To be fair, if they weren't hateful & unhinged people they probably wouldn't be Trump fans.
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  938. Counting down the seconds 3 .. 2 .. 1 until the administration files an appeal and/or tries to kick it up to the Supreme Court. The name of the Red Square Republican game is to lie, delay, stall, obfuscate, deflect etc ANYTHING to prevent the exercise of justice.
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  939. Someday there will be a national monument to the covid dead. Many towering stone slabs with names inscribed. In the center will be a small bronze bust of Trump, covered in pigeon poop, with a running loop recording of his lies .. "It will go away, like a miracle, it will go away" .. "I hear in April the warm weather makes it go away" .. "I don't take responsibility at all" .. "I give myself a 10 out of 10" etc.
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  940. Everyone needs to get video of it, showing their faces, their cars, their weapons, their antics, everything. Let them have their day in court and then in jail or the loony bin.
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  941. Somebody pinch me. After four years of incoherent racist word-salad nonsense, I forgot what it was like to have an adult president who can think and speak clearly.
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  942. Speaking of coronavirus numbers - who else is calling BS over the way coronavirus numbers suddenly stopped shooting for the moon just as Trump doormat Alex Azar puts his agency in charge of coronavirus numbers and tells everyone to keep the CDC out of the loop? So instead all we're going to see are the lagging indicators - hospitals filling up to capacity - morgues filling up - bodies stacked in refrigerated trucks - lots of essential people sick at the same time.
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  943. Considering that all his life he's gotten ahead by lying, spinning, deflecting, projecting, gaslighting, being a horrible human being, being a racist, etc, these past few months must be a puzzling and unwelcome aberration for Trump.
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  944.  @LibraInSeattle  It's the Republican MO: on the one hand they're actively wrecking the government, and on the other hand they're whining that the government is broken.
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  945. "He didn't do it. If he said he did it, well, he was just joking. And if he did it, well, it's not illegal. And if it's illegal, well, everyone does it anyway. And look at how the stock market is higher than under Obama. And look at how they just don't like him. And look at that big beautiful Goodyear blimp." LAMEST. EXCUSES. EVER. It's like they're all channeling Trump's narcissist prayer.
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  946. Hate to ask this, but why exactly are Trump supporters worth saving? They love all the negative things he espouses - anti-science nuttery, racism, ethnonationalism, false nostalgias, violence in lieu of rational discussion, etc. They've had 3 years to see with their own eyes how he wrecks everything he touches. His supporters have been responsible for an incredible uptick in political violence here in the US. They need some quiet time in orange jumpsuits to reflect on their errors.
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  947. Same for anyone attending the spontaneous block parties all over America and Europe.
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  948. "Dig mass graves" -- is this the frigging 1800s or something?
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  949.  @Iden_in_the_Rain  You were talking with an apologist for Howdy Arabia, in other words, to borrow a phrase from Trae Crowder / Liberal Redneck.
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  950.  @gloriarangott8803  We have had to endure too much Trump Party Derangement Syndrome on the part of his cult followers.
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  951. Remember the good old days when we had presidents who didn't use George Orwell's book "1984" as a how-to guide for regulating speech? Who else remembers when the Trump administration banned language about climate change and many other topics of social interest?
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  952. The wheels of justice are turning slowly now only because they've been geared down for extra-extra-fine grinding. The process will still be ongoing by the 2022 midterms (to stay fresh in everyone's memory) and should be concluding soon enough before the 2024 elections that it's still fresh to most people. Got popcorn?
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  953. @pho-kingsoup8126 Some journalist cornered John Eastman on that very issue (asking if VP Kamala Harris gets to pick the next election winner if there are questions) and he said immediately, "Of course not." He only meant it as a one-time thing.
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  954. The people who voted for lower egg prices will instead see higher egg prices once poultry workers get deported and bird flu is raging. The president does not have a set of slider controls for retail prices.
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  955. Some people in the USA have trouble understanding that just because they've gotten tired of staycationing with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies, it doesn't mean the virus has gone away.
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  956.  @linnetcooke5967  That's what he gets for using rhetoric that won't work on anyone whose IQ is above room temperature.
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  957.  @bramposthumus9300  Also - of those 7 Republicans who voted against this rules change, how many of them were among the group of US senators who celebrated July 4th 2018 in Moscow? Those ones were Steve Daines (R-Montana), John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), and John Thune (R-South Dakota).
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  958. In other news: Trump is still wholly delusional.
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  959.  @herberthassen7949  It's the end of the business day, east coast time, and clump is right where he was at the beginning of the day - in a state of denial, somewhere on his Swamp-a-Lago property.
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  960. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  961.  @highyadoin  Got something more important than rooting out traitors who are still on the scene, not yet arrested, waiting for their next chance to do it all over again?
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  962. They need to refer to him as "the convicted felon Donald Trump" in public, and not "the American president .."
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  963. Imagine that. You mean, all the time those propagandized, delusional loons were sending her death threats and chanting "Lock her up!", there was not in fact any actual crime she had committed? Who would have thought? </sarc>
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  964.  @eduwino151  The last time Russia got in a sizeable fight, it was against a smaller invading force that was running out of fuel and couldn't manufacture arms/supplies quickly enough to replenish combat losses. The native populations of the countries they invaded (after pushing the Nazis out of pre-WW2 USSR) were in no position to resist. The situation is entirely reversed now. It's Russia doing the invading .. they cannot keep up with the combined arms production of the Allies .. they are facing people who have not already been just recently subjugated by other invaders (Nazis) .. and they seem to have learned nothing during the 45 years of the cold war.
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  965. Mind you, Trump was congratulating Putin specifically for the act of rigging the election in his favor -- something that he, Trump, would have done successfully if he could.
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  966. "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas.
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  967. Anytime he says, "People called me up and said, sir -" you can hear the air accordion playing a mighty racket as he lies again.
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  968. I love those moments when Mulvaney breaks out that glib, "we're writing a whole new chapter of history" smugness that used to be elicited by smug, petty functionaries of the Third Reich when they talked about how it would last a thousand years. Usually he manages to say something incriminating when he talks like that.
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  969. His most ardent cultists are not far behind him in that regard :(
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  970.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud If you are uncomfortable with the notion of taxation paying for things that benefit all citizens, perhaps you could go experience the alternative .. Somalia is just a few hops away by airline. It should be a paradise by the standards of John Galt, right?
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  971. Coming from someone as dumb as him, that made me laugh. Probably not the reaction he expected to engender.
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  972. I predict the White House is going to get some deep cleaning in January.
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  973.  @shirleyandreas7480  They are what you might call a "hire court" .. just ask Harlan Crow.
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  974.    Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Trump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  975. I usually vote a mix of things (leaning towards progressive) but yesterday I voted straight ticket Democrat for the first time. I felt it was important to send the Republicans a strong message .. something along the lines of "GET OUT OF TOWN YOU BUMS!"
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  976.  @Someone-lr6gu  Re "everyone enjoys capitalism" - bingo. Like all those Amazon employees peeing into bottles just to be able to meet their time quota.
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  977. That tape needs to be running on every station. Fox noise, of course, would never show it.
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  978. Apparently, Rubio's main issue with the Castro regime is that his last name wasn't Castro.
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  979.  @lucboy13  Sorry, buddy, Little Miss Shitbird's rights don't include infecting me (or anyone else) with a deadly disease. Shut that nonsense down.
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  980. They're still not thinking. Or even following factual news.
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  981. She's doing anything now to avoid being the next Elena Ceausescu. You think she would know better than to go down that road, but noooooooo.
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  982. These days, to them, "radical left" means anyone who doesn't go along with Trump's illegal attempts to cling to power at all costs. They're nutballs :(
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  983. Wonder how much it moved the vote that the GOP chose that crazy house speaker who seems straight outta Gilead?
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  984. Even worse - in the absence of consequences, even 6 months after we watched the insurrection live on TV, they push their lies and election rigging and "fraudits" even further. I fear one day we'll wake up and it will be too late :(
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  985. Take a long hard look at how silent Moscow Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans are when he says these things. They're collaborators in his coup and deserve to be treated as such.
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  986.  @djbille4283  Also he said, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!" Extremely true.
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  987.  @suicune2001  Correct, that's where this is going. Eventually his flying monkeys will start setting off truck bombs near courthouses and polling locations. Dump's goal - actually Putin's goal - is to make the US ungovernable.
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  988. Actually it goes back to the days of the Tea Party and birtherism, where he found a willing audience (for his gaslighting and angertainment, of course) on Twitter.
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  989. It would be like burning a Nazi flag in northern Indiana. Kudos to this guy!
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  990. Perfect! May I borrow that?
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  991. His brand of unreasoning hate was on full public display way back when he took out full-page editorials calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, who were exonerated.
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  992. When people whine about the "inconvenience" and "loss of freedumbs" involved in stopping this pandemic, it makes me want to slap them clear into next Sunday. Like everyplace in the world, we are fighting a war against this virus.
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  993. It's not an act.
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  994. Much of Russia always did look as if WW2 was fought there just last year. At the time of reunification, Germany spent huge monies rebuilding the former DDR to modern standards.
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  995. Mind you, these are the same men who said it was "tyrannical government overreach" to ask them to wear a mask.
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  996. Fox is not going to have her on again. They just learned what Trump learned after his one debate with her.
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  997.  @janicepalesch9221  It's roughly the same message that funny mustache guy (1930s Germany) used. Only they should know enough history that by 1947 the country was a complete wreck, and similar fates befell everyone whether they'd voted for him or not back in '32. Fash has always ended badly. Sometimes very very badly.
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  998. Thank you OP for your dedication to the nation over party. Wish we had more like you. I look forward to Americans getting back to disagreeing with each other but still defending the other person's right to speak their mind.
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  999. Mo Brooks certainly knew in advance - he was wearing ballistic armor.
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  1000. Another bit of truth he sometimes says at his rallies is, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  1001. Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. They're a cult :(
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  1002. It's almost as if she's a know-nothing partisan crank who won only because she ran unopposed. Oh wait.
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  1003. I was pretty sure the actual loss happened when he phoned the PM of Denmark and said he wanted to buy Greenland. Then she mentioned it to people and he reflexively denied doing what he had just done. Then he canceled a meeting with the same PM over some flimsy excuse, but he said it had nothing to do with Greenland. Then weeks later he said the reason he canceled the meeting was because the PM rejected his Greenland purchase offer. Trump is an idiot, and American isn't much better for letting him run the place.
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  1004.  @ppenrose2  A dictator has no use for a legislature either, even one as supine and compliant as could be headed by the likes of Mitch McConnell or Mike Johnson. Those two are apparently to vain to realize it.
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  1005. There's rumors on FB about a caravan of big pickup trucks coming from Montana, Idaho, and eastern Oregon to knock holes in those walls.
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  1006.  @pokerman9108  I see your both-sides-are-the-same-ism and I raise you this: "The cancer was very aggressive, but the chemotherapy and radiation were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." Mind you, only one side falsely claimed the election was stolen, tried to have an insurrection, and has been disenfranchising Americans ever since.
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  1007. It's a little worse than that, but you have the essence of it. They were actually HAPPY when he talked about tossing out the ballots to prevent any transfer of power. Huh, so these are people raised in the protective bosom of America, who somehow want to experience one-party rule firsthand? Ship those morons off to North Korea for a little re-education on living in one-party states. Feh :(
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  1008. For the first time in a few years I am feeling hopeful. It's been just 2 months between when the initial whistleblower came forwards to when Trump hears boos and "lock him up!" in public, when Trump's guilty former associates are trying to find seats before the music stops, and when Trump's "help" in an election instead causes Republicans to lose their races. This is warp speed by political standards. Keep it coming! :)
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  1009. Betcha someone in Bannon's orbit has already placed the orders for the armbands.
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  1010. This is a nonexistent problem they're trying to "fix". Reminds me of that funny mustache guy from the 1930s who claimed that getting rid of all the Jews would Make Germany Great.
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  1011. Rafael Eduardo Cruz is the Canadian immigrant who likes to paint himself as an anti-immigrant American racist. The racism is the only honest part of his schtik.
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  1012. Obviously his paycheck hasn't been affected by covid :(
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  1013.  @paulcormier7036  Put it this way: Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  1014. I'm running low on fresh amusement fodder. Does anyone have a link to Trump's latest steaming pile of lies?
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  1015. Trump is openly calling for violence yet again. So stand back but stand by. Your will to defend democracy may be tested.
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  1016. The other players are going to have to withdraw from Five Eyes .. otherwise everything they provide is just going to end up on Putin's desk anyway.
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  1017. Germany learned that lesson the hard way .. they gave young Adolph Hitler a 9-month slap on the wrist for his insurrection attempt .. he used the time to write some godawful tract called "Mein Kampf" .. and now his ideological descendants are here pushing Trump's lies.
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  1018.  @taterkaze9428  Which is precisely why we all have things to do, like these: Make sure all the people who just turned 18 since the last election, or who will have by the next election, get registered to vote. Make sure everyone has the ID's necessary to vote. Make sure everyone knows where the polling places are. Make sure everyone has transportation there, and the comforts they may need for a potentially long wait in line. We can do this.
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  1019.  @elizabethroberts9117  If Obama had cured cancer, Trump would have brought cancer back just to spite Obama.
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  1020. It would be so healing for America if the Trumps could take a trip down the stairs just like the Ceausescu's did.
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  1021. Translation: Trump knows he's going to lose, and with it he will lose his helpers in the senate and the DOJ - without whom he can't be held above the law.
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  1022.  @Nigglebaun  How fitting that it was between a crematorium and a porn shop.
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  1023. Hitler's Brownshirts were similarly crude and interested in creating terror in the minds of their victims. This is a common tactic of regimes that have lost their mandate but don't want to relinquish power. VOTE TRUMP AND HIS ENABLERS ALL OUT IN NOVEMBER.
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  1024.  @pamelagodman308  Remember how the Republicans go on and on about states rights?
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  1025. All that ever meant under Trump was "many are getting arrested".
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  1026.  @Couldnteventhink  Trump: The USPS has got to be eliminated, it's useless! also Trump: We use the USPS to send stimulus checks and census forms because it's the most cost-effective option. also Trump: Mail-in voting should be illegal, and yes I mailed my own vote because it's safer and convenient.
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  1027. The Republican motto is, "Rules for thee, not for me."
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  1028. @Thomas Askins Oh really. Show us the corporate statement from Goodyear that says that. Betcha you cannot, which makes you a complete liar on the subject.
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  1029. The protests everywhere give me hope -- so Americans DO still care when one of their own is murdered inside her own home and the officers get only a slap on the wrist.
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  1030. When fascism came to America, here's what the Republicans did in 2019: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  1031. Well, at least now we know where Q got the inspiration that high-up politicians were involved in pedo. They just cranked up the projectors and blamed it on the other party as a means of distraction from the main event.
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  1032.  @freighttrain7143  No, I meant the question quite straightforwardly. What is wrong with a president who - Has the best interests of the nation at heart? Accrues dignity to the office of the president of the United States of America? Doesn't break the law? Doesn't steal documents? Doesn't trash our allies and suck up to our enemies? Doesn't lie to his base to make them commit crimes? You are of course free to vote for whoever you want to. That's your right. But the next time you vote for someone who angrily vows to tear down America, be careful what you ask for. Failed democracies are not utopias for those who overthrew their governments. You might well want to spend a year living in Haiti or Somalia or Ethiopia if you want to see what you're getting into.
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  1033.  @blissfairchild7194  Antifa didn't beat in a policeman's head with a fire extinguisher, or break into the capitol with guns, zip ties, pipe bombs, molotovs, and chemical weapons on order to execute the second and third in line of presidency. That would be Trump's fine people who did that. Are you saying you want wildly different types of crimes to earn the same punishment?
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  1034. Watching conservatives choke on their own delusions is the funniest sad thing (or saddest funny thing) since Reagan faced west at sunset and proudly declared it was morning in America.
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  1035. I have wondered how reporters can keep a straight face when he says something publicly, in front of cameras, then contradicts it moments later and calls the video of the previous few minutes "fake news".
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  1036. Dark Brandon thanks themselves for embarrassing themselves in public by airing their various insanities.
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  1037. Clarification - that's the Republican climate just now. There's no both-sides-are-the-same to this one.
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  1038.  @Surge1077  Correct. There was no need for this to happen. That Fucker Carlson and Ron DeSatan and Former Guy engaged in these lies just to score cheap points with the "but but but MAH FREEDUMBS!" crowd, and haven't yet been punished for it, is beyond me. Hope they're all sued into oblivion or charged with treason. They're Quislings, pure and simple, enemy collaborators in a time of war.
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  1039. About those political opportunists - naturally, they are nowhere to be seen when this guy is on a ventilator or suffering in the hospital. They are nowhere around when families bury their loved ones, and children lose a parent or grandparent or even several of them. Those opportunists do nothing to help support the covid orphans they helped create through their lies about the disease and the vaccines.
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  1040. Can't get over this classic: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  1041. He hates having to pretend to lead America .. he merely wants to rule America.
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  1042. Because Trump's dark circus stirs their soul, and they ache for it when it is absent.
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  1043. Whenever he's around, we've got "concepts of a plan" like never seen before ;)
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  1044. Something like this already happened, when 82 of Obama's nominees were blocked (the seats held empty by McConnell) only so Trump could later stuff them with his picks. For perspective, in all prior US history a total of 84 nominees had been blocked.
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  1045. Then again, Trump pioneered the use of the phrase, "I take no responsibility for this" being used by a sitting US president.
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  1046. Perhaps she aspires to be the next Herman Cain? He goes through them at a brutal pace.
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  1047. People of the free world, this will be our time to step up and help.
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  1048. Happy to see that people are finally starting to see Fakebook / Wastebook as the nonentity it really is.
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  1049. This is like the Nazis at the Nuremburg trials complaining that the concentration camps evidence is being 'weaponized' against them.
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  1050. This is what Tяump looks like when taking a break from bragging all over the internet how he's successfully withholding the incriminating evidence from investigators. In case this isn't painfully obvious, I suggest that everyone prepare for how thoroughly awful he's going to behave if/when Moscow Mitch succeeds at exonerating him despite the obvious guilt.
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  1051. March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly."
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  1052. Feeling the same way in the USA too! We're way past worrying about escalation. We should be giving Ukraine cruise missiles and other long-range weapons.
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  1053. Thankfully Trump is the same one making it harder every day for his flying monkeys to defend him. His complete lack of self-control, on twitter and elsewhere, is the gift that keeps giving - to the Democrats.
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  1054. President-elect Biden is correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance.
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  1055. Here in the US we call that the Campion Effect, after a character in the Stephen King novel "the Stand". People who, in their zeal to escape a plague, unwittingly carry it with them when they flee.
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  1056. For starters, civics class test and cognitive psych test for anyone holding the high office. 45 lacks knowledge, humility, courage, compassion, insight, generosity, and even a sense of humor. He shouldn't be trusted to drive a garbage truck.
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  1057. Heard that. One less 45 cultie. More importantly, one less vote for 45. Thoughts and prayers for any non-crazy family members.
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  1058. There's no need to protest the Trump supporters. Just watch them the way you would a rare species of bird - safely and from a distance, to admire their colorful but useless plumage. They'll soon be as hard to find as bicentennial quarters, and worth a whole lot less.
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  1059. Russia is going to find things "interesting" if current trends continue. The steady stream of refineries and fuel depots being taken out is definitely going to leave a skid mark. Now their shaheed drone factories are being taken out, and now Putin is taking soldiers from Moscow and St Petersburg. Surely someone, somewhere in the Kremlin command structure has gotten the hint that the Ukrainians are going to go all the way on this.
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  1060.  @ceciliadanielsson9530  Another bit of truth he speaks at his rallies is, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  1061. We got a glimpse of the post-Dobbs world when that 10yo rape victim had to travel out of state to avoid a "criminal" abortion in Ohio. What kind of sick fck would force a child rape victim to bear to term?
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  1062. Most normal national capitols, around the world, in most countries, are heavily protected by military assets that are present all the time. It took us more than 240 years to realize just why they do that. Another component is swift justice, since an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is merely a training exercise -- and we should note that not only had Dol45 gotten experience inciting state insurrections in 2020 over mask mandates, but a bunch of the DC insurrectionists had practiced their schtik in those same armed invasions of various state capitols last year.
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  1063.  @dannybolman7739  Nearly every culture on Earth has some kind of cautionary fable about what to do when you meet the Devil and he offers you everything in exchange for doing his dirty work. The Republicans? All they did was dicker a little about the asking price. By July the next year they were celebrating Independence Day in Moscow.
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  1064. AKA "An insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise for the next attempt."
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  1065. His mask has been off for decades. Some were high on hopium about him, is all.
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  1066. It really helps that Trump has enjoyed a whole political party and media outlets going along with his shenanigans for years now. Who else remembers this stuff from the fall of last year? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  1067.  @neojason8349  Basically they came for the racism but stayed for the angertainment.
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  1068.  @woozy607  No one in this thread mentioned defunding the cops. I score you -5 points for an especially lame attempt to distract. Go back to the FOXed Noise forums buddy.
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  1069. If you want to see the best the GQP has to offer these days, look at that shit show Jim Crow 2.0 voting limitation legislation that Georgia just signed in. The ghost of Sherman has already been summoned and is on the way. This is all on them now.
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  1070. You know what's hilarious? Trumpers almost universally agree that whites are a small, trod upon, embattled minority in the US. They couldn't be more wrong. US census data puts whites at above 75% of the population. Persecution fantasy much?
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  1071. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  1072. Masks, gloves, sanitizing wipes, hand sanitizer. If you must go shopping, go when the store is most deserted. Avoid people. Etc. This will take months to resolve. The 1918 pandemic took more than a year to finally die down.
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  1073.  @christianbuczko1481  Probably because no one can patent vitamin D and make a fortune off being the exclusive distributors of it. As for the people wanting to try out ringworm medicine .. that's like rubbing mayonnaise on your head to stop hair loss. FFS. The hydroxychloroquine crowd strikes again.
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  1074. Likewise, if Russia can invite other nations to partake in the attacks on Ukraine (looking at you, Lukashenko) then surely Ukraine's friends can join in.
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  1075. Just because people don't like Nazi memorabilia doesn't give them a right to shoot at it. Please, people, be respectful.
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  1076. Republicans: Wild applause.
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  1077. Fortunately, his supporters are the only people dumb enough to believe that nonsense. There are still too many of them, even after St Darwin deployed covid on them.
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  1078.  @nocturnalrecluse1216  Re "The far left is just as bad as any far right" << You're dead wrong there, comrade. The far right, starting from even before the Nov-2020 elections, launched an assault on democracy that's still ongoing. They did more damage to the Capitol than the confederate army ever did. I see your both-sides-are-the-same nuttery and I raise you this whopper: "The stage 4 cancer was very aggressive, true, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides. So both sides were just the same really."
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  1079. It is most certainly spreading there. A good reason to avoid Harley riders and anyone who went to Sturgis or hangs out with / lives with anyone who went to Sturgis.
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  1080. The OANN reporter looks to be the "victim" of some bad plastic surgery. Hope that's just bad focus and not her actual look.
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  1081. She was incredibly classy, through and through. Sorry for the loss of your Queen. Much respect from the USA.
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  1082. To paraphrase Pericles .. you might not take an interest in evolution, but evolution can take an interest in you.
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  1083. This is like Hitler saying, "No! I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews"
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  1084. Same. So I try to make it easier on the store employees by going after the anti-maskers myself. They can yell at me all they want, but I'll just shame them into putting a mask on or leaving the store. I've had it with them.
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  1085. I used to work very closely with a boss who was just like that .. I was his EA .. so I could see Trump's crazy from a few thousand miles away. Like a distant black hole, you can see it clearly by watching its effects on other things.
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  1086.  @dominadoramor7767  America is in the process of getting a harsh lesson in how hate speech cannot be protected free speech. Germany got a lesson like that back in the 1930s-1940s.
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  1087. Trump and Kari Lake can commiserate over coffee about their remarkable ability to consistently lose elections then try to overturn them.
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  1088. Somewhere nearby, he's got that Binder Barbie Nazi doll Kayleigh handing him misinformation which he clearly doesn't understand.
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  1089. Perfect. Although Biden is to the right of where I wish he were, at least he's intelligent, can speak well, knows how to govern, knows when to bring in the experts, and, most importantly, he's not a moronic pyschopath like Trump.
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  1090. He's going to be famous for "I don't need a ride out, I need weapons and ammo!" The resistance is solid now and growing stronger by the hour. All those mobile assets - rifles, Stingers, Javelins, Dragons - negate the pipe dream of air and ground superiority.
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  1091. Sir, we need more like you. Please breed.
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  1092. Oz may as well be telling people that since their great-grandparents never had MMR & chickenpox vaccines, neither should they.
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  1093. How many google searches have there been for things such as, "Can I pardon myself for inciting insurrection?"
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  1094. How was Trump supposed to know that Dr. Oz was a total loser? In Trump's narrow way of seeing things, the endorsement of his election lies is the sole criterion for measuring a candidate's worthiness of endorsing.
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  1095. Let's not forget, NO ONE in the country will be safe from or immune from the chaos and retribution he's promising, not even his most ardent followers. Notice how the people who voted for funny mustache guy in 1932 Germany suffered exactly the same fates as those who did not.
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  1096. A big thank you to all the politicians who keep voting down infrastructure improvements to eliminate grade level crossings for freight mainlines.
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  1097. Been using a pulse oxymeter for awhile now plus doing heavy cardio exercise carrying weight up and down hills .. and it's been a plus for my state of mind :)
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  1098. They all surrendered their souls to the cult leader back in 2016-2017. Payback time.
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  1099. Hate to break the news to Trump staffers, but they may as well have a "T" brand burned into their foreheads. They're unhirable. But then, what did they expect would happen, working to help Sweet Potato Hitler erode the rule of law in America? They're lucky the people don't do some very bad things to them.
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  1100. Face it, Moscow Mitch never met an ordinary working American who he didn't automatically hate, or a conniving corporation that he didn't love. Mitch is the patron saint of those executives at Tyson Foods who both a) blocked installing preventative measures to keep the workers from infecting each other, then b) held a betting pool over how many workers would get infected.
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  1101. It is not as if the Republicans did anything to resist the worst of Trump. They raised more stink over Obama wearing a tan suit, or using mustard, than they've done over anything that Trump has done or failed to do.
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  1102.  @jasongoldberg4474  He's still got until 1/19/25 to do stuff.
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  1103. There's a word for people who assist traitors: collaborators. There are a lot of them and it's high time they get treated as such.
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  1104. Also a parade of tanks in the street, with generals pledging their personal loyalty to him. That's what he thinks of as "normal" :(
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  1105.  @dr.mortem6050  No, Zelenskyy was willing to stay and fight the invaders, even long before there were any commitments from other nations to help Ukraine. Remember "I don't need a ride out, I need ammo!" - ?
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  1106. Sadly, the US does not yet have extradition treaty status with Ukraine. But if we ever do, I hope Ukraine charges Tucker "Lord Haw-Haw" with something.
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  1107. Good luck getting any of the whackjob reich-wingers to explain that one.
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  1108. Given that foxes are known to dig holes for themselves .. yeah, this is good. Someone please hand them a bigger shovel 😅
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  1109. A whole generation put down what they were doing, donned uniforms, and spent four long years ducking bullets and watching their buddies get burned or shot or blown up. And we can't bring ourselves to wear masks? I almost want to reincarnate some WW2 vets so they could slap some sense into the whiners.
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  1110. You can't say the Republicans don't dive in headfirst when someone shows them the way down the rabbit hole :( Even for them, this is a batsh*t position to take.
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  1111. Bad news, people, the damage Trump did to America will last decades longer than his presidency. We are quickly heading towards a future when no foreign students will want to study here - when other nations won't make treaties with us because we renege on them even before the ink is dry - when we are known worldwide as the covid capitol - when no one will want to buy our possibly-tainted food products - when Americans are not welcome anywhere as visitors - when other countries move away from using the US dollar. All our former allies and former trading partners know that bad US presidents come and go, and that Trump's time will end someday. What the rest of the world has learned, to their disappointment and chagrin, is that our safety mechanisms and our separation-of-powers aren't worth the paper they're written on. At no point in this mess did any of the so-called adults in the room pull the plug on it, install the VP, and schedule a new election. Instead, we collectively shrugged and told the world (essentially) "Sorry, but our antiquated electoral college picked him. Sorry, we can't do anything. Sorry, we need to wait for the next election." In the rest of the world, they can have a leader hanging from a lamppost the very next day for less than what Trump did. We have been revealed to the world as paper-mache eagles.
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  1112.  Evan Zuppardo  After seeing the mess that the Trump administration is, obviously we need to implement some fixes. That electoral college thingie has got to go. And maybe we need laws requiring the president to take policy info & guidance from US intelligence agencies and not from, say, Hannity and Putin.
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  1113. She's speaking to the set who carry signs reading, "Keep gub'mint hands off my medicare!!" Yes, they really are that stupid.
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  1114.  @illuminatedtiger  Re "This assumes that the personnel manning the silos would be prepared to follow through." << Correct. The people manning the silos have families and children and homes and careers etc. They don't want to see all that vaporized just to serve Putin's pique.
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  1115. I think the Muskrat needs to get a lesson in how the nutters will come out hard when content moderation goes away.
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  1116. When Vikdun Quisling got a handful of his fellow Norwegians to cooperate in the Nazi takeover of Norway, they got to see graphically how many of their own were willing, gleeful traitors. Feels like we're seeing a larger-scale version of the same effect. These people are HAPPY to plunge the nation into violence, into chaos, and watch our democracy burn. They're not normal people.
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  1117. The idea of friendly cooperation between peers is pretty foreign to Mr. Putin and those like him. The use of force to subjugate, on the other hand, comes quite naturally to them.
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  1118. How on earth do the people around him manage to keep straight faces when he does his word salad act? Worse, it's not an act.
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  1119. Cognitive dissonance is easier for those who were never very bright to begin with.
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  1120.  @xiaoka  Speaking of which, that ghoul Miller hasn't been seen much lately. Nor has Jared.
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  1121. 30 tents on a single lot - !! Wow, that's an urban density that surely mayor Wheeler could appreciate, seeing as how scarce housing is here relative to demand.
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  1122. Hitler on the stand: "No, I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews!"
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  1123. Is the second one a 90s/00s 6-part series where the long name is "BBC: A Warning From History: Rise of the Nazis"?
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  1124. Just think, in a few short years we went from Jimmy Carter selling his peanut farm to avoid any conflicts of interest, to Clump45 having visiting foreign governments book whole floors of empty rooms at his hotel (and pay for them) to get an audience with the sitting president.
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  1125. One of the many things that we will be powerless to undo quickly will be the loss of trust and faith that our former allies and former trading partners and former diplomatic relations used to have for the USA. Now that we the people of the USA have demonstrated that we'll allow a racist ignorant buffoon to sit in the big chair for years, and just shrug and say "can't do anything now, gotta wait for the next election" while he trashes alliances, stacks the judicial branch, breaks laws, etc, they will think long and hard before entering into any kind of agreement with the USA. What kind of nation are we when, overnight, we can elect some new fool who withdraws willy-nilly from whatever his predecessors have already agreed to in good faith? The damage he's doing to the country now is much deeper than what will be done to the UK by crashing out of the EU.
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  1126. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. Republicans: We see no evidence of wrongdoing. We're voting for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal.
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  1127. She's obviously the Harvard Law scholar of reich-wingers.
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  1128. Right-wing minded people make excellent gaslighting fodder. You can convince them of practically anything.
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  1129. It's likely those people believe that medical professionals wear masks only because an evil cabal of deepstate leaders, mask manufacturers, aliens, the Illuminati, and Democrats etc to defraud them into wearing masks so they can laugh about it in private while saying "bwahahaha!" To those pea brains, that's more likely than the obvious, which is that masks cut down on germ transmission.
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  1130. "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  1131. Shades of Susan Collins claiming that Trump has learned his lesson 😅
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  1132. Wonder how long FOX was going to keep saying all's well even as their sheeple viewers lose their retirement and medical and jobs.
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  1133.  @pixelrancher  Beautiful, the thought of legions of folks out there rocking that look.
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  1134. He's such a dolt, they should just feed him bogus "sensitive info" (tainted herring) just to see where it ends up.
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  1135.  @rurdy2rk380  Personally I would make sure that abortion pills are freely available to anyone who needs them. Resisting a theocratic state, especially one modeled after the Taliban, is a good thing. The Taliban also forbid abortion.
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  1136. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  1137. America got a preview of post-Dobbs life when that 10yo rape victim had to travel out of Ohio to avoid "criminal" abortion in her home state. Oh and so much for Republicans saying that rape "hardly ever" causes pregnancy.
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  1138. So here in the USA, it costs a person $3500 to get the coronavirus test. In most every other country (including China, S Korea, Italy, etc) this test is FREE. But then, those countries don't let a predatory monopoly set prices for things. And that is why the USA needs to feel the Bern.
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  1139. This is Putin's way of saying to Ukraine, I love you so much, stop making me hurt you. He's blaming the victim.
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  1140. Nothing proclaims innocence like bragging to the world that you're holding all the incriminating evidence against yourself. He just can't help himself :( Oh and FYI in case it's not obvious, he's going to be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally insufferable if Moscow Mitch succeeds in getting him off scot-free. If you're a member of a visible minority, that would be a good time to go underground, because you can bet his MAGA hatters will be out there committing all kinds of bias crimes.
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  1141. Spontaneous block parties all over the nation is what would happen.
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  1142. I'm blaming those who voted for Caligula, those who sat out the election, and those whose 3rd-party protest votes are now going to take so many things (from maternal death rates to US imperialism) from status-quo to much worse. You had one job, people, just one job.
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  1143. You also can't have a functioning democracy under those conditions. A lot of the world already learned this the hard way. We're apparently due for our turn in the barrel :( Weimar Republic USA here we come :( :(
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  1144. Eventually we will probably learn that the operation functioned by Russia facilitating the white house <--> FOXed Noise <--> trollbot cycle to present a continual false narrative on many fronts and suppress the truth wherever possible.
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  1145. Trump: I want the churches packed on Easter!! Virus: You bring the body bags, I'll do the rest, just like in Italy ;)
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  1146. A strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon. That is what he is to them.
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  1147. Removing Donny from the powers of the presidency limits his ability to do harm. If he couldn't harm the Republican party he'd find someone or something else to harm.
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  1148. OP: correct. Trump could have remained a failed game show host, a failed businessman, a none-too-sane Tweeter, a quintessential Karen. But noooooooo, he had to crawl his way onto the big stage, where bright lights and constant scrutiny are the name of the game.
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  1149. Same. I've been out to a dirt roads rural area where some relatives live. Not a single Trump sign there, but back in the summer of 2021 it was still covered with such signs. People have had enough of the MAGA lies.
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  1150. Not only that, but the idiots who tell you "the south wasn't all about racism and slavery" seemingly can't point out a single instance of a rich black man owning lots of white slaves.
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  1151. Also: Trump ripping up the translators notes between him and Putin.
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  1152. Hopefully the FBI is standing by as well as MSP.
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  1153. Hope those seven people insisted on getting paid in advance! Trump never pays his bills.
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  1154. The sad thing is, Russia still had not recovered from the demographic damages of the WW2 era. Even before this conflict began, Russia was a profoundly aged population (like Japan) with a birth rate well below replacement rate. And it's not as if people are climbing over fences, crossing deserts, and swimming rivers just to start new lives in Russia. This is a self-inflicted wound of grievous proportions and long-lasting effects :(
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  1155. It's in the same place that his wonderful, brilliant health care plan always was.
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  1156. I used to worry that he would realize that, and overhaul how he does things, but noooooooo. Wussolini is as convinced of his own imaginary greatness as the Nazis were of their Enigma coding machines. It cost them the war.
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  1157. "We cant release the video unredacted because our people will get arrested" is quite the admission.
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  1158.  @kaypounds9543  Trump knew as far back as the summer of 2019 that he couldn't win a fair election against Biden. We only know this because that's when he began shaking down foreign partners to find someone to make up dirt on Biden.
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  1159. As they say - "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Socialism is the opposite."
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  1160.  @LD86  He is turning out to be so much more than I expected. Color me pleasantly surprised.
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  1161. Hard as it is to believe, his ego is a lot bigger than his giant-sized lard ass, even if you include the front part which is that frozen suet waterfall hanging over his belt. It's so gross when he shows it off while golfing. He may as well get a Davy Crockett hat because it's the only beaver he's going to get.
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  1162.  @thatswhatisaid8908  A registered Republican with a legally-purchased firearm .. notice how no one's mentioning those things together.
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  1163. Biden clearly rattled Putin's cage too, in ways that Putin obviously wasn't expecting. Good. That's what we hired him for and what we fired the former guy over.
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  1164. Remember, Trumpty Dumpty's "My Advisors Get Arrested" red hats are made in China, along with all the other tacky merch from his grifter klan.
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  1165. @Jonny smithy Why, they will blame the Democrats, of course. Trumpty Dumpty and his followers got divorced from reality a long ways back.
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  1166.  @susanford2388  Yes. They have in mind sort of Rhodesian solution.
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  1167.  @MrWheelerjas  But wait, there's more. Sean Hannity on Putin, March 18 2022: For at least the past year and a half, Sean Hannity has regularly made comments targeting President Biden’s mental fitness, some days doing so more explicitly than others. Friday night was no exception, with Hannity telling his audience that the president was spending the weekend in Delaware with “a lot of ice cream” and “a lot of nap time.” On this particular broadcast, though, Hannity also read word for word a statement from a Kremlin spokesperson. “‘Given such irritability from Mr. Biden, his fatigue and sometimes forgetfulness…fatigue that leads to aggressive statements, we will not make harsh assessments, so as not to cause more aggression,’” Hannity said, quoting Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. (The statement was issued Friday after Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a war criminal.”)
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  1168. Oh wait, FOXed Noise already requires this of their personnel. Does that mean that FOX will get fined? Or will move out of Florida?
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  1169.  @kennethgouge131  Bingo. This is more of a feature than a bug.
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  1170. Trump's old tweets need to appear in his feed all over again - for the benefit of his followers of course.
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  1171. Rest assured, these are the tip of the iceberg. Remember, Trump had his lackeys positioned at the Pentagon to roadblock the calls-for-assistance that DC capitol police were frantically making while the insurrection was going down. There were many many others involved.
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  1172. No, there is not. Their message (essentially, "vote for us, you lazy moochers, oh, and we hope you work for low wages and die as soon as you get sick") does not sell very well to the general population, so they must court the billionaires and disenfranchise whoever is most likely to vote against them.
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  1173. Rest assured, Wilbur Ross is but one of many toadies in high places who'll shriek, "If the boss says 2 + 2 = 5, you better agree with it even if you've got a PhD in math!" to anyone in government employment. And yes it's disgusting to see people mistake Orwell's cautionary tale "1984" for a how-to manual on governance.
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  1174.  @jimmims5622  Bounty hunters (licensed) have always been part of the scene. What's new with this is letting private citizens get in on it, and offering them cash. Erich Honecker would recognize the tactic, he used it extensively in East Germany.
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  1175. We can do this. Make sure everyone is registered to vote, has the ID they need for voting, hasn't been purged off the rolls, and has a ride to the polling place if they need one. Make sure all the fresh 18yo and 19yo voters are registered. Make sure enough ballot drop boxes will be in enough places. Make sure polling locations don't get closed. We can do this if we all work together. 20 years of that and the GQP will be a distant memory.
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  1176. It begs the question, are there still any boxes of classified documents still in Dump's possession?
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  1177. Is there any situation under which we can accept having the people in power bring fraudulent cases to court that are not supported by any evidence? No. The appropriate responses range between some folks losing their law licenses and some being charged with sedition. It is what it is.
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  1178. Given how Oklahoma is practically a people desert (ie, its population of 4M is about half the population of metro Chicago) it's sad to see those in charge trying to make it even more so. With whackjob politics like that, any sensible person would flee.
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  1179. Funny how Texas doesn't have a website/hotline for reporting suspected rapists, with $10K bounties paid to those who turn them in. It's almost as if Texas didn't actually care about stopping rape.
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  1180. Sure, sure. People indoors breathing heavily in as confined space, pumping out high volumes of droplets, sweat dripping onto equipment, different people handling the same things - all during the worst pandemic in a century. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1181. To these people, Democrats probably seemed "too elitist" - totally unlike the guy who lives in a gold tower with his name all over it, and appoints billionaires to his cabinet. Right?
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  1182. And yet, the same Republicans who howled at the moon over Obama daring to wear a tan suit or seat a SCOTUS judge are somehow silent and OK with Trump's present behavior.
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  1183. Don't care. I take his statement to be an imperative. Let's not keep him from learning an important lesson the hard way.
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  1184.  @billy9497able  Quoting a little bit from German history a century ago .. then-younger Adolph Hitler received a slap on the wrist, 9 months, for having tried to overthrow the government. While in jail, he wrote a truly awful screed in which he laid out his plans to commit war crimes and genocide and other actions that would ruin the nation. Just as Clump would do a century later, he whined about being silenced when no publisher would put out his stuff. Here we go again :(
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  1185. Re "These liers should be put in jail." << Some of them have gone on to reap what they sow. Marc Bernier, Phil Valentine, Dick Farrel, Tod Tucker, etc are some of the right-wing anti-vax nutters who themselves passed from covid-19. Of course, it hasn't happen at FOXed Ooze, probably because corporate policy requires vaccination and they even have their own internal vaccine passport system - never mind that they publicly pooh-pooh both these things.
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  1186. Remember well each and every one of Trump's supporters and enablers who've enabled him to visit ruin upon America.Traitors, all of them.
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  1187. To be fair, he had a lot of time to prepare for this. By sometime in the summer of 2019 he knew he couldn't win against Biden. We know this for sure because that's when he began shaking down allies to get them to make up some dirt on Biden.
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  1188. If comrade Trumpski's people have their way, here's how things would work: Investigators: We're collecting evidence. OJ Simpson: No. Your investigation is a fraud. Investigators: Alright. Sorry for bothering you, sir. Here, take this parking ticket. Your vehicle was illegally parked at Nicole's place. OJ Simpson: Those bloody gloves are going to stay in my safe until I can burn them.
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  1189. Not since the popular revolution of 1979 has Iran been so united from top to bottom. All thanks to you-know-who's "great and unmatched wisdom".
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  1190.  Snap Dragon  Correct. They dove headlong down the rabbit hole. The uglier Trump was, the more laws he broke, the more contempt Trump showed for the rule of law, etc, the more they were eager to dive down that hole and plunge the nation into bloody chaos.
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  1191. @@JohnSherman3 If you could show another US president doing what Trump did, and then being defended by his party, please feel free to "both parties are the same" all day long. Just not until then.
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  1192. Couldn't Trump sweeten the deal to Kemp by saying that he'll pardon Kemp for it later? That way he too can be as innocent and golden as Roger Stone.
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  1193. OANN exists somewhere between Infowars and the Blaze - two different flavors of birdcage liner basically.
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  1194. Bingo. Nothing says "we're for law and order" like looting, bringing guns / chemical weapons / molotovs / pipe bombs into the capitol, and beating a policeman to death by smashing in his head with a fire extinguisher. Such "patriots" indeed.
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  1195.  @frenchmahala  "All media outlets are equally biased" is the voice of the shallowest and laziest of minds, who won't or can't or don't know how to do the homework to check this.
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  1196. Eh, if the rest of us are supposed to go back to work without everyone being tested first, Trumpty Dumpty should show us by ceasing all this very expensive white house testing.
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  1197.  @regineheine5707  So true. A number of the people who invaded the capitol (based on Trump's lies, which any 8yo with a browser can pick apart) were older people, business owners, veterans, decently wealthy.
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  1198.  @danitacook4890  And, every time we pointed out exactly what things make Trump monstrous, the Republicans got all giddy and gleeful about how those same precise traits are what marked him as their lord and savior. The narcissism, the bad treatment of our longstanding allies, the sucking up to our enemies, the classism, the hostility, the angst, the insane levels of spite, the selfishness. All of that made him irresistible to them somehow. And now they are dismayed that he is exactly what he seems to be? Cry me a river, build a bridge over it, and jump.
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  1199. It's like the authorities here in the USA really don't want to know how bad the problem actually is. The ostrich approach :( hint: it doesn't work. That means cv19 will spread rapidly, and at some point in the next month or three, hospitals everywhere will be overwhelmed. Pay attention to how things go down in Italy because at some point we'll face all the same challenges.
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  1200. @Laura G The only difference between the Nazi invaders and the current Russian invaders is that the Nazis didn't ridiculously claim they were hunting fascists.
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  1201.  @maryelizabeth6797  No doubt a big topic in his discussions with Putin was how to remain in power indefinitely. Same with Kim Jong Un.
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  1202. Trump: The virus makes it too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone, it's an indoor group setting. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them or you.
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  1203. The Ukraine flag flies in every city and town in America. We are with you. We will help you rebuild when the war is over.
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  1204.  @AmySorrellMusic  If you have a crazy mother, the solution is to move out as soon as you can. No need to take it out on the whole country. Just go.
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  1205.  Magic 21  See? You had to go further down the rabbit hole by making up another one (that all the judges must secretly be in on it, even if there's no proof of such). That's like when you people said the other week that Pence must be some Deep State liberal. How deep down that rabbit hole are you going to go? You started with the lie that Trump won the election. He didn't. Get over it.
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  1206.  @nukerzerothefirst3417  He's got that famous "reverse Midas touch" where everything he touches turns to shit.
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  1207. What this means is that we (the west) keep cranking up the heat by sending Ukraine even more sophisticated weapons and in quantity. As for Putin, well, the beatings will continue until his morale improves.
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  1208. Bingo. By letting Trump off the hook twice when he was plain-as-sin guilty, they set that one up.
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  1209. Correct, Alex/Chip/Diane, the damage to America is far more serious than we can see now. For decades, the American way of life, as we know it, has been bankrolled by the benefits of American soft power. Trump took a flame thrower to all of that. When the world sees that our democracy is a sham and that it takes only a corrupt senate leader working with a corrupt president to defeat the separation of powers .. when the world decides it doesn't want or need the 800 or so US military bases on their soil .. when the world decides that the word of the USA on a treaty isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot .. when the world decides they want to use something other than the US petrodollar for international commerce .. then we're going to see the full impact of the damage Trump did with the full blessing and cooperation of the Republican party.
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  1210.  @donovan3476  Forgot to add. Sharing this gem of a comment posted recently by AC, a few days before the election: As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  1211. Yes, those same people who say "We want to use religious excuses to interfere in the private healthcare decisions of women everywhere" yet who also say "Asking me to wear a mask during a pandemic is a violation of my personal freedumbs!"
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  1212. Honestly, with all the reich-wing vehicle attacks that happened in the US after James Alex Fields showed the way at Charlottesville, I was honestly afraid that they were going to ram polling places. That's our future, domestic terrorism that's supported by the one party that needs it to cling to power.
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  1213. Every time one goes by, I give it a "Roman" salute. Elon said it wasn't what it appeared to be, right? ;)
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  1214. He's become a Monty Python character. Cruise ship comedians will be impersonating him for decades.
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  1215. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  1216. The next George Zimmerman LOL.
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  1217. Your friend is probably as lost as all the other cult members of Hitler, or Jim Jones, or Charles Manson. They have some defective inner parts that render them susceptible to cult thinking.
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  1218. Not unless they are willing to do the same with everyone else whose settlements go through court.
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  1219. The SCJ will quickly change their minds on this leniency when it's not Trump and his people facing the charges.
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  1220.  @davidc3943  Congrats on the fine example of whataboutism. Textbook even.
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  1221. Putting any Trump appointee in charge of official numbers is like letting Hannibal Lector be the warden of a remote prison.
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  1222. He likes that. Cosplaying as a truck driver is a welcome break from cosplaying as an adult, something that he finds exhausting and odious and unnecessary.
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  1223. To be sure, it's a strange day when the ratings-obsessed president of the USA openly encourages sedition in states with governors of the other political party and during the midst of a global pandemic.
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  1224. There is (25th amendment) but don't count on it happening when it's the Republicans who need to do it and they're totally in thrall to him.
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  1225. Yeah. I've seen 4yo boys that have more spine and thicker skin than Matt PizzaGaetz. Get over it, loser.
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  1226. This is like banana dictatorship nonsense. Uggh, just think of the message this is sending to actual banana dictators everywhere :( The US can kiss its reputation goodbye.
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  1227. Speaking of those people with guns. So many of them claim the guns are for resisting tyranny .. yet when a tyrant attempted to seize power in the US (Trump, inciting the attack on Congress) so many of them were rooting for Trump. They failed the test bigly.
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  1228.  @GeraltBosMang  Nah. Their neighbors can find some way to thank them for being willing handmaidens to fascism in America. No central authority needed.
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  1229. With covid, just like with teen pregnancy, there are fewer reported cases if you do less testing. At least until things start to show. It's a lame way of kicking the can down the road.
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  1230. Hope they got to change their minds BEFORE voting.
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  1231. He could also bring back Obama so they could be co-presidents. What a team! :)
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  1232. Smells strange; really awkward; still lives in mom's basement at 30+ .. etc.
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  1233. Pretty sure what she did was a violation of the DC concealed carry laws, namely in that told someone that she had a gun, and did it in such a way as to constitute intimidation.
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  1234. Gross dereliction of duty. For chaining the senate to Dump during impeachment, when the senate was supposed to be its own branch of power. For telling Obama that 8 months was too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, then ramming one through in 8 weeks for Dump. Moscow Mitch needs to pay for what he's done.
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  1235.  @jameslane9537  I live in Portland. It's pure hilarity being out in the boonies and hearing the flyover people ask you, in all seriousness, "Didn't Portland get burned to the ground?" So you laugh and tell them that there are still a few buildings left standing.
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  1236. They showed, in every way possible, that they are willing to overturn the votes of millions of Americans just to please their cult leader. They're not fit to be town dog catchers. Wouldn't trust them with a glow stick.
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  1237. January. I first heard about this thing on Amy Goodman's program back in December. Started panic buying masks and sanitizer and food by mid-January.
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  1238. Sad and extremely dangerous. It is as if all of America lives in one giant apartment block. We just held condo board elections. A small, noisy minority are so mad that their guy didn't win the condo board election that they're setting the building on fire and endangering us all. The lawful majority seem unwilling to call in the police and the fire department, even though the fire will threaten them too.
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  1239. Rosa Parks didn't show up at anti-vax anti-lockdown rallies carrying assault weapons.
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  1240. I assume one day he'll do an interview in a tan suit .. then he'll find some excuse to wink at the camera and mention how he likes Dijon mustard. Just to f*ck with them.
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  1241. Any of them who supported Dump in his illegal efforts to overturn the election needs to be removed and face the law.
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  1242. That was the first time in my life I've voted a straight blue ticket up and down. It's not enough just to send the Republicans a message .. we must remove them from power, in every place, at every level, in every capacity. Flush all the turds. Let them spend a decade or two in the woodshed of history.
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  1243. Let's see if someone caught video of El Trompo celebrating the violence while watching it on the big screen, calling them "my people" and crowing about how he'd be in power forever. Maybe that's what it takes to finally convince Merrick Garland that something bad happened on January 6th.
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  1244. Funny how he didn't see things that way back when he spent 8 long years calling for Obama to be prosecuted for any number of imaginary offenses.
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  1245. Once we get things sort of restored to normalcy here, I would not be surprised if the rest of the world asks us some pointy questions, such as what we're going to do to make sure that we never ever again let a wannabe war criminal run the country. And depending on our answers, they might not trust us again.
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  1246.  @robertl.fallin7062  Can't wait until insurance companies have to check people's voting habits before giving them an insurance quote. It's probably coming. Why should they pay for the medical care for anti-vaxxers?
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  1247. They're going to be stupid. You can almost count on it. What happened in Michigan was probably just a taste of what's coming now that those reich-wing extremists see Trump losing bigly. They'd rather turn the US into another Lebanon rather than (gosh!) abide by the will of the people.
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  1248. For that matter, how did that Qcumber pharmacist (the one who deliberately ruined those covid vaccines) be allowed near vaccines without anyone screening his social media? Ditto for members of police, military, and other public service positions.
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  1249.  @veronicastewart1112  Gonna be spontaneous block parties all over the US for sure. Dear god, 45 is like the human tick. Everyone's sick of his whining.
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  1250. Russia whining that NATO is "encroaching" is like a serial arsonist whining that more people are buying automatic sprinkler systems 😅
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  1251. This is what the Brock Turners and the Brett Kavanaughs of the world turn into when they get older :(
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  1252. Sounds like a great idea actually. Ignoring this insurrection attempt would be like ignoring your swollen, stinky, gangrenous arm as if it's not a problem.
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  1253.  @MrJurgenman  There's a place for white supremacy. Probably in a shipping container that gets pushed overboard in the middle of the Atlantic. Seal it up good to keep the poison from seeping out.
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  1254.  @williamplatt1641  Not only that, but how horrible they must be (as people) to think it's better somehow for a 10yo rape victim to be forced to bear to term. How unmoored do they have to be to take that position?
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  1255. In Ohio, everyone got to see the Dobbs decision most painfully when a 10yo rape victim had to travel out of state to avoid "criminal" abortion in her home state.
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  1256. Conservatives lost their minds completely over Obama wearing a tan suit .. but Trump saying he'll be a dictator is totally cool by them.
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  1257.  @UK1uno The willingness to be Putin's puppets is pretty bad too. Makes everyone miss the old-fashioned kind of patriotic conservative who'd bury you for suggesting working with Russia to trash our best allies.
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  1258. Trump bashed a huge hole through what had previously been normal behavior for a president, even down to his petty acts of refusing to have his predecessor's portrait hung up (remember that first?) and dismissing the White House staff on the way out, so that no one would be there to welcome the Bidens. There are much, much worse creatures that will try to get through that opening he just made. Suggested reading: It Can't Happen Here (Lewis) .. Animal Farm (Orwell) .. Last Train from Berlin (Howard K Smith).
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  1259. Kids, poor people, the people of the subjected territories, the Russians who were forced into this and whose corpses now litter the battlefields, there is a great deal of human misery involved. Some day there will be a reckoning for this.
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  1260. Also doesn't help that Republicans have been complicit in shutting down rural hospitals all over the nation - the places where covid rates are now among the highest. A bunch of those people will [finally!] see through Dump's covid lies after their own loved ones succumb to it.
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  1261. When the 2020 elections are upon us, remember this deeply-disturbing malfeasance and send the GOP to the dustbin of history.
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  1262. Bingo. In Europe they can do this practically overnight. Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Trump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  1263. Bingo. Their attempt, if not punished seriously enough, becomes just another training exercise. For some of them, the 1/6 event in Washington was their second or third attempt, having done the same in state capitols during the spring of 2020. Nearly all of that went unpunished. As if it's perfectly normal to bring guns into the capitol to force your whackjob minority views on the government.
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  1264. It's much easier when news people read 45's words instead of playing the tape. My gosh, 45's voice just grates. That singsong crybaby broken record of his is so worn out.
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  1265. On the plus side, there will be a bunch of second homes and vacation homes on sale down there in Georgia & Florida by next summer. Low low prices on some nice pickup trucks too, if you don't mind scraping the MAGA stickers off them.
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  1266.  @mariemelansongundy-vx4ox  Definitely going with Caligula instead of Nero. See the June 19 issue of the Diplo Denizen blog.
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  1267. That tiny risk is significant enough for Trump to keep his own kid out of school .. but he doesn't care if everyone else's kids are infected.
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  1268. Living in the USA these days is sort of like being in a free-range mental asylum. People aligned with president superspreader proudly display their ignorance of science (and everything else) and some are even militant about it. I'm trying to catch as much of their nonsense on video as I can. These are strange times that deserve to be remembered.
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  1269. Unfortunately, part of why his tens of millions of followers love him is that he gave them his personal permission, from the highest office in our land, to be their worst selves. Obviously some had been waiting their whole lives to get that kind of go-ahead. Yup, it's gonna be the work of generations to fix this. Some of them might never go back to being normal civilized people.
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  1270. Reverend Jim Jones is leading his faithful to the kool-aid stand.
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  1271.  @kathleen8104  Correct. Trump knew as far back as the summer of 2019 that he couldn't beat Biden in a fair election, which is why he tried to extort Ukraine into falsifying an investigation of the Bidens.
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  1272. We could always turn Florida into a territory and Puerto Rico into a state. 50 is a nice even number anyway.
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  1273. We need Trump more than ever? Why, did God run out of locusts or something?
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  1274. That "do your research!" quote was priceless! You nearly owed me a keyboard! :)
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  1275. Trump is corrupt AF and even Republicans can see it. LOCK HIM UP!
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  1276. Fox won't have her on again. They just learned what Trump learned during/after his one debate against her.
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  1277. Clump45 turned science denialism into some kind of purity test for his cult members. Governor DeathSantis of Florida is busy racking up the kills to be considered a cult member in good standing :( Unfortunately Clump enjoys his game of "Simon says" so we are not out of the woods yet.
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  1278. Tяump has many times bemoaned the "cost" of "defending the rest of the world". Thanks to his rash actions, that direct cost will in the future be much lower as the rest of the world doesn't want to host US bases, doesn't want to depend on alliances with the US, doesn't want to enter into trade agreements with the US (we can't be trusted to honor our word on a treaty anymore), maybe even doesn't want to use the US dollar for trading. In under 3 years he's burned through political capital that took centuries to build :( all to fuel the bonfire of his great and unmatched vanity :(
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  1279. The Republicans know they don't represent the American people - so their "solution" is to go full apartheid towards urban areas, liberal areas, and nonwhites. Mmmm yeah we all know how Rhodesia turned out :(
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  1280. Smart people learn from reading about things. Normal people learn from watching the mistakes of others. Stupid people don't learn at all.
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  1281.  @113dmg9  They don't notice the stupidity any more than fish notice water.
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  1282. “When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.” – Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
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  1283. More of us see it than don't see it. Trump has lost both of his popular elections. At the rate the loss was widening (yah, I know, hard to figure a trend on just two datapoints 4 years apart) the next loss could be on the order of 11 to 22 million votes.
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  1284.  @aughalough1  By now Trump would have given Putin everything east of Berlin.
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  1285. Haha at Mark Meadows .. he'll soon learn while there's a high-speed revolving door in the White Supremacist House. What an idiot.
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  1286. You almost say that like it's a bad thing.
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  1287. That's rich, an Epstein-island regular talking about womens safety.
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  1288. We all feared that Putin would teach Trump how to be an effective tyrant - to silence and imprison any opposition. Instead, Trump taught Putin how to lose bigly.
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  1289. It's the Fox business model. Everything they say is very formulaic. Example: President Biden - "Everyone have a nice weekend!" Fox host - "This is incipent marxism! Communists mandated a nice weekend too!"
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  1290.  @franklin9400  Hint: if your "shepherd" is facing a bunch of rape allegations and has committed a bunch of crimes, he's not a saint, he's a wolf in sheepdog clothing. Go take your livestock meds.
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  1291.  Boy Haww  You wrote "The world knows The election was fixed" << The only way to know stuff for sure is through evidence (you may have heard that word at one point) and, to date, there isn't a shred of evidence for systematic vote fraud. All of the cases were tossed because there wasn't enough evidence to convince any judge (even the ones appointed by Trump) that there was any valid claim to investigate. So if you claim that dead people voted, but then you're unable to produce a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots, with all of it notarized as to its authenticity, then you're simply a liar. Trump never got above around 40% popularity. Mathematically there is no way he could win the vote with such low popularity.
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  1292. A little orange sputnik ;)
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  1293.  @edmundbell-king4538  Err, regarding "There are many issues with the management of the vote in Michigan" .. you might want to clarify that to say that the "issues" are the sort that don't stand up in court, and keep getting tossed out of court for lack of evidence. Apologies if I've misconstrued what you said. A great deal more work could be done to make sure everyone has equal access to voting.
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  1294.  @nightruler666  My thoughts exactly. Give Ivan a show on May Day.
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  1295. Glad she was able to see clearly.
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  1296. Well, to be fair, Mad King Donald did in fact promise to run the USA like one of his own businesses. Consider the promise kept.
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  1297. "This is our house, let us in!" is but a short hop and skip from an armed mob saying, "These are our nuclear weapons - and we're taking them!"
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  1298. How nice of Russia to gift Ukraine with all this metal for recycling. That "Z" makes a good target.
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  1299. Yeah. And we know now that Trump's only response was to fire Tillerson (or whoever) and put a different obedient lapdog in his place who would merely say "yes" to whatever nonsense came out of his mouth.
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  1300.  @dieterdietert7232  The 101st Airborne has been parked in eastern Poland for awhile now. So Russia wants to try playing "liberate"? The screaming eagles may have something to say about that 😀
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  1301. Gonna be a lot of blue and yellow showing in Crimea next year. Slava Ukraine!
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  1302. It's inevitable that Big Orangey and his associates are going to commit crimes. That and craziness are what bind them together. Birds of a feather and all that.
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  1303. I like yours better than "Lake Effect Kari" 😅
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  1304. The good news is, Trump tends to incriminate himself nearly every time he's caught on tape.
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  1305. Looks like these "fine people" are way beyond just needing remedial civics classes.
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  1306. The Republicans have shown how they're going to play this. Their Plan A is to do everything possible to prevent the house from impeaching Trump. That's not going to work. The Republicans will of course exonerate Trump in the senate, but the remainder of their Plan B must be to seat TWO more supreme court justices, over the next 11 months, in order to pull off the argument that the 2020 election results (in which the Republicans will lose badly) can be disregarded because of the bias from Trump's impeachment - which the Republicans will declare illegal. Any takers?
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  1307. I prefer to call them "Meal Team Six" like their fattie brethren in the militias. The sort of tacticool losers whose bowels would loosen if they ever encountered actual soldiers.
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  1308.  @Someone-lr6gu  They sell capitalism on the "look how many toys you can buy (if you have enough money)" fantasy while somehow glossing over the fact that wealth disparity in the USA is worse than what feudalism had.
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  1309.  @d33j4ybf  Re "American citizens who still fully and wilfully back a quite literal traitor?" << If I may paraphrase a campaign from decades ago .. 74 million flies can't be wrong! Fresh steaming dogshit tastes great!
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  1310. Bingo. He's doing everything possible to ensure that America is polluting a whole lot more than before. How long before our rivers catch fire again? :(
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  1311. @The Wraith The whole point of "concealed" is that no one is supposed to be able to tell that you even have a gun. She totally blew that part.
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  1312.  @victorzhangkq  By being infectious and willingly sharing the virus with others in a public setting, she WAS one of the oppressors. The virus is the enemy. It's what's killing Americans. By her acts, she helped spread the virus to more people. She made the problem worse. She was one of covid's willing accomplices in spreading the disease.
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  1313. Happy to help. We got your six. Love from America.
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  1314. I left it long ago. The rest of my family is still stuck in that cult. They looked the other way when uncles/grandfathers were known to be sexual predators. The kind who bow and pray in church, then sprint for the car and almost run people over in the parking lot trying to get out of there.
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  1315. Wussolini's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16yo girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color, so she gets all pouty and treats it liked the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter & insta to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything.
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  1316. It's no great loss if they Rapture themselves .. most of them are troll accounts anyway. And every time a Trump supporter dies of covid, the future elections get a little more blue. Let's not look this gift horse in the mouth.
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  1317.  @TheOriginalJphyper  Holocaust jokes?? He's nutso. Getting him to joke about ovens onstage would be priceless though.
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  1318. Pinch me. I'm swooning. A president who can speak thoughtfully and in complete sentences? It's been so long, I forgot what it was like.
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  1319.  @efieds  Since burning stuff is a little toxic, why not just donate to the homeless to use as bottom wipes?
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  1320. He could not have done this much damage without a lot of people wanting to help him do exactly that.
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  1321. Well, children, we have 73.9 million voters who were perfectly OK with Trump even though he checks off every single box on the "characteristics of fascism" list. Given that those people are voting for the coronavirus presently (by not masking or distancing) we're going to have an interesting winter.
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  1322. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  1323. The thing that felt best today was taking time off from usual stuff to go volunteer at a food bank. They always need help. And the cheeto would love to see them all out of business.
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  1324. Any veterans among those offenders need to be reinstated just so they can be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth for life. Or worse. They took an oath to the constitution. That oath has no expiration date!
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  1325. Days, weeks, and months go by without people seeing his dumb tweets .. and nobody misses them (or him) either.
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  1326. And Q-anonsense never strayed far from its Tea Party nuttery.
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  1327. Pretzels and snakes have nothing on Republican bendiness 😅
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  1328. Weird, if you listen to the Russian trollbots, it's as if they're suddenly not OK with military units crossing the Russia-Ukraine border.
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  1329. So the schoolyard bully sucker-punches someone, then tells them, "Don't you dare defend yourself or I'll hurt you worse!!"
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  1330. And, like any old feudal lord, he decides which of his homies do or don't get "the treatment". Clearly Herman Cain didn't rate it, but Rudy does.
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  1331. And then, after creating that debt themselves, they turn around and use it as an excuse for why the government is supposedly broken. Kind of like the town arsonist whining that houses keep burning down :(
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  1332.  @iarmandob  Trump has always done that to his people, but somehow every new fool thinks it will be different for them.
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  1333.  @layne7742  Well, it's a good thing you're not in charge of anything important. I mean, back in December 1941, by your thinking at least, the US authorities could have made the decision that the attack on Pearl Harbor didn't even damage 2% of the American GDP, so let's not bother doing anything about it.
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  1334. Correct. Any current or former military, police, politicians, any kind of public servant who took part in this needs to be stripped of their rank, honors, pension, benefits, clearances, the works. You don't get to stab America in the back then go home to collect your benefits from America.
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  1335. Makes the name "Oath Keepers" at best sarcastic/ironic and at worst Orwellian. Edit: funny how their giant-pickup rear-window decals disappeared right after 1/6. They're still around and they're still plotting. :(
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  1336. Welcome to the high-tech version of feudalism :(
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  1337.  @bettymacintire4215  Of course they do. They've been making it superabundantly clear for awhile now. Polls show that conservatives consider political violence to be a solution, that they'd love to have Trump as a dictator. The weird part is, none of them have ever lived under dictatorships or in places where political violence is the norm. You almost need to ship them off to Haiti or Somalia or North Korea for a few years so they can experience firsthand the hell they wish on America.
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  1338. They know it's not a game. In fact, they know damn well that it will bring a horrific level of bloodshed to the US if they go down the path of the coup they've been trying to pull off. But to them, losing elections is much worse than that.
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  1339. Indeed, the fact that he was crass and self-serving only made them think even more that he must be their savior. These people have invented a whole new kind of stupid.
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  1340.  @pattyayers  Responsibility is a funny thing. When people are dying on ventilators, the paid liars who deceived them are nowhere to be found. The enemies of America, who pooh-poohed both the disease and the vaccines, don't even bother to show up for the funerals of those they've killed with bad advice. The party of personal responsibility, eh?
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  1341. Too bad more can't be like that when they realize that their HS education and their job experience in retail doesn't automatically make them smarter than professional medical folks.
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  1342. Correct :( A toxic combination of hubris, inattention to the severity of faraway events in Asia, lack of following the news, and incompetence at all levels of government is what got us to this point. Other countries have developed cheap, fast, effective tests. Other countries shut down and quarantine everyone, and run tests by the millions per week. The first community-transmission case happened in Seattle in early January. But did anyone in our government act before it was too late? No.
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  1343. He never "won" the first term, other than by the hokery of the [s]electoral college.
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  1344. Let's also express some sadness for what the good people of Springfield OH are going through. Basically 45 is now giving their city the treatment he has thus far given mostly to Portland OR.
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  1345. As the saying goes - an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise. See Germany & Brazil? They got after the perps right after their insurrection attempts. But here in the US? They've been loose so long they tried another approach and apparently succeeded.
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  1346. I think what Barr meant to say was that Trump's tweets unnecessarily expose his illegal & partisan activities at DOJ to public scrutiny, and that it would be easier to carry out Trump's dirty work if Trump didn't air it so publicly.
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  1347. Funny how his own son is not attending school in person. But that's Don-the-con for you anyway. He says mail-in voting is bad, but he mails his own vote in. He says people don't need to be tested so much, but he insists on everyone around him being tested all the time. He says chain migration is bad, but then he brings over the in-laws by chain migration.
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  1348. Its sole purpose was to suck in some OPM, fail, while keeping some of it for the next scam.
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  1349. They are probably not done with their attempts to smear everyone involved in bringing the serial con man & cult leader to justice.
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  1350. The irony of Trumpanzees saying that it's not the courts that decide, it's the voters. Move along then.
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  1351. Sharing a little collection with you .. Trump’s 30 Broken Promises 1. ⁠He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.” 2. ⁠He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect. 3. ⁠He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole. 4. ⁠He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized. 5. ⁠He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful,” including “insurance for everybody.” You bought it. But he didn’t repeal and he didn’t replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 24 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, he’s doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about 4 million Americans have lost health insurance in the last two years. 6. ⁠He told you he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You bought it. But now he’s planning such cuts in order to deal with the ballooning deficit created, in part, by the new tax law for corporations and the rich. 7. ⁠He promised to protect anyone with pre-existing conditions. You bought it. But in June, his Justice Department told a federal court it would no longer defend provisions of Obamacare that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the decision was made with Trump’s approval. 8. ⁠He said he’d build a “wall” across the southern border.You believed him. But there’s no wall. 9. ⁠He told you he’d invest $1 trillion in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, there’s no money left for infrastructure. 10. ⁠He said he’d drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 11. ⁠He promised to re-institute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government.” You bought it. But the five-year ban he signed applies only to lobbying one’s former agency, not the government as a whole, and it doesn’t stop former officials from becoming lobbyists. 12. ⁠He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he has created the most dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, and has already fired and replaced so many assistants that people there barely know who’s in charge of what. 13. ⁠He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by negotiating “like crazy” with drug companies. You bought it. But he hasn’t. 14. ⁠He told you he’d “stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for American elections.” You bought it. But foreign lobbyists are still raising money for American elections. 15. ⁠He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.” You bought it. But the giant tax cut for corporations and the rich doesn’t leave any money for this. 16. ⁠He said he’d create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for younger and elderly dependents, and have the government match contributions low-income families put into their savings accounts. You bought it. He’s done neither. 17. ⁠He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. But then he declared China is not a currency manipulator. 18. ⁠He said he “won’t bomb Syria.” You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 19. ⁠After pulling out of the Paris accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment. You bought it. There have been no negotiations. 20. ⁠He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.” You bought it. He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out. 21. ⁠He said he would not be a president who took vacations, and criticized Barack Obama for taking too many vacations. You bought it. But since becoming President, he has spent a quarter of his days at one of his golf properties. 22. ⁠He vowed to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” You believed him. But he hasn’t. Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit college to defraud students. 23. ⁠He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad, especially government contractors. You believed him. Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas. There have been no consequences. 24. ⁠He promised to end DACA. Then in January 2018 promised that “DACA recipients should not to be concerned… We’re going to solve the problem,” then he reversed himself again and vowed to end the program by March, 2018. Currently, the federal courts have stayed any action on it. 25. ⁠He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. You bought it. But coal is still losing customers as utilities turn to natural gas and renewable power. 26. ⁠He promised to protect American steel jobs. You bought it. His tariffs on steel have protected some steel jobs. But industries that use steel – like automakers and construction – now have to pay more for the steel they use, with the result that their jobs are threatened. The Trade Partnership projects that 400,000 jobs will be lost among steel and aluminum users. 27. ⁠He said he’d make America safer. You believed him. But mass shootings keep rising, and Trump has failed to pass effective gun control legislation. After 17 died in Parkland, Florida, Trump promised “immediate action” on gun safety in schools, but has done nothing. 28. ⁠He promised to make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. You bought it. But Trump’s most recent budget contains deep cuts in aid for low-income and first-generation college students, reduces Federal Work Study, and eliminates the 50-year-old Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, which goes to more than a million poor college kids each year. 29. ⁠He promised to eliminate the federal deficit and bring down the debt. You bought it. Yet due to his massive tax cut mostly for corporations and the rich, and his military spending, the deficit is set to rise to $1 trillion, and the debt has ballooned to more than $21 trillion. 30. ⁠He said he’d release his taxes. “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released,” he promised during the campaign. You bought it. He still hasn’t released his taxes.
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  1352. Unfortunately, that's about what it would take for some of those dimwits to make the connection between too-easy gun availability and the resulting mass shootings.
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  1353. Hate to explain this to the sheriff, but the "time for concern" was quite awhile back. You don't wait until the town is fully engulfed in flame before you question whether it was a good idea to hand out gasoline and matches to everyone.
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  1354. "Camps where people are concentrated" .. heard that tune before, don't like it.
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  1355. The rest of us have been saying the same thing for awhile too. Nobody's listening. He promised to wipe out the debt, but then he added $4 trillion to it. Farm bankruptcies are up 24% year over year and China will probably never feel warm & fuzzy about US goods again. US manufacturing is dead in the water. Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others are all moving ahead with new advanced weapons programs. 70+ years of US postwar diplomacy has been destroyed. The US is now seen as weak and ineffectual militarily for running away from Russia and Turkey. Japan and South Korea are at it again, and Japan is re-arming. Trump's fans said they wanted something different. Is this what they had in mind?
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  1356. I hope it takes them a very long time to come to this conclusion - because they will continue to lose elections and shed voters for as long as they've chained themselves to that sinking, 16-ton turd.
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  1357. He's still all butthurt over how groups of TikTok users helped prevent his Tulsa superspreading event from being more widely attended.
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  1358. He's doing everything his father did during the long slide into dementia. So far he hasn't been seen wearing two neckties together, but it's only a matter of time.
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  1359.  @kx4532  Springfield is feeling what Portland OR has been feeling for years. 45 & Fox have been excoriating the place for quite awhile. At the height of his nastiness towards Portland, 45's culties were coming west (usually from Montana/Idaho) in convoys of rolling-coal pickups, looking to break into downtown and cause mayhem. They tried to run over protesters while bear-spraying them from inside the trucks. Most of the time, OSP was successful at keeping them stuck on the ring highway.
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  1360. His Plan B also includes making a huge mess, dragging down everyone else around him, and hindering the process as much as possible. Hopefully he won't be able to sabotage the smooth transition of power.
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  1361. The old "But but but but it would offend his stormtroopers so badly that they'd do some very bad things" isn't cutting it this time around. Don't care how many U-hauls we need to search to bring them in.
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  1362. Oh look, someone from the "park your head in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist" party.
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  1363. She's quoting someone else, basically .. "Take away these effing mags! They're not here to hurt ME!"
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  1364. He's the sort of loser who walks naked by the mirror, with that enormous frozen-suet-waterfall gut hanging out, and thinks how hot he is.
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  1365.  @rhlang11  Like cicadas? Or like things that normally live under rocks?
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  1366. Sounds like one of the major differences is that, with housing being provided by the state, housing was not operated on a for-profit basis, with the provider charging up to the maximum that the market will allow. Housing costs in the USA tend to be speculation-driven, whereas service costs (daycare for the kids, for example) are driven by how cheap the business can pay the daycare workers.
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  1367. Those Russian trains are notoriously unreliable, prone to falling over like that. Perhaps the operator was drunk. Of course, it would be even worse luck if the whole thing caught fire afterwards. And perhaps this derailment could take place on a bridge.
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  1368.  game over man 69  Let's just say it would by no means be the first time Trump did things to harm the lives and interests of the people who support him. In fact the relationship he has with his base is somewhat sadistic.
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  1369. Yup, this is a good way of getting more people to commit hammer attacks. Yup. Get them all inflamed over things that aren't even happening. Like Comet Pizza. "think of the children!"
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  1370. Our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments. A glaring failure. That gurgling sound you may hear is democracy going down the drain.
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  1371.  @animal1nstinct394  If you need a lesson in the meanings of "consent" and "bodily autonomy", that can be arranged.
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  1372. Leslie Van Houten could have told this guy that just because your lying cult leader told you to commit some nasty crime doesn't mean you should listen to him.
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  1373. Eh, those representatives showed their true colors when they voted to hear and see no evidence at Trump's impeachment acquittal ceremony. Mind you, these were the same Republicans who shrieked bloody murder when Obama wore a tan suit and tried to seat a SCOTUS judge a whole 8 months before an election.
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  1374. To be fair, she's yet another weak-minded idiot who got sucked into the online reich-wing echo chamber of disinformation. Back in the good old days, the only "community" people like that had was those godawful "newspapers" for sale in checkout lanes. The kind with giant obviously-faked photos and captions like, "New Jersey Housewife Gives Birth to Two-Headed Alien Baby!" Stupid people veer for misinformation the way flies veer for fresh steaming poop.
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  1375. The sad part is, you can show this video to the Trumpanzee cult crazies, and their reaction is, "IT'S AN ANTIFA PLANT!!1"
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  1376. Ah, the irony of the person in the most powerful position whining about how things are being done around here.
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  1377. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to slow or stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me!
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  1378. He spent 4 years demonstrating that the last time he was in office. Did everyone suffer amnesia or something?
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  1379. He said exactly what he would do.
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  1380. It would be nice if we had this level of concern over the crime of fraud, where you pay weekly or monthly for health insurance, only for your claims to be denied right when you most need help. What a scam! :(
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  1381. He cares as much for his supporters as he does for his own office staff or for the American public: absolutely nothing.
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  1382.  @ProMace  The secret service is really proficient at what they do. However, everyone else (visible minorities especially) might want to keep an eye out for the crazies.
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  1383. Here in the US, some states are still not locked down, children are still going to school, stores and restaurants and offices and theaters and bars are still open, and all over the country the domestic airlines continue to fly from city to city. This will not end well :(
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  1384. It's almost as if the sht apple fell right under the sht apple tree.
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  1385.  @stgeorge28  Re "They're like the damn Manson family." << The big difference so far seems to be that the Manson Family were prosecuted to the fullest for the crimes they committed under the influence of their whackjob cult leader. Trump's people need the same treatment.
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  1386. Exactly! His need for attention is exhausting! No other person in the presidency was EVER like this. He has no idea what he’s doing so he yaps and tweets and signs EOs to give the impression of work. He’s a turkey who thinks he’s an eagle and wants to get the rest of us to believe it too. So he sits there flapping his wings incessantly trying to convince the rest of us that he can soar. Instead, he keeps crashing on the ground and when they report it, it’s “fake” news.
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  1387. AG Garland has decided that appearing to be apolitical supersedes all other needs - including that of doing his fking job.
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  1388. We may share a few chromosomes with the R's, but they seem to have 20% fewer chromosome pairs in the first place.
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  1389. Yesterday a whole bunch of people in Oregon got locked out of their health benefit plans.
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  1390. This is what happens when you've got a lying sociopath president and many parties helping him push entirely false narratives. He scratches some itch we never knew they had. Apparently he was ecstatic watching events unfold on TV. Looking back on his inaugural address, when he spoke of chaos in America, it's clear he was showcasing his plans for the future.
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  1391.  @daniellecormier2060  This laptop-stealing traitor and the PB's are working for the same orange-haired fool who's leaving DC shortly - won't mention his name but you probably know who it is.
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  1392. For the first time in my life I just voted a straight blue ticket. It's not good enough to just send the Republicans a message .. we must remove them from power at every level and in every place. Let them spend a decade or two in the woodshed of history reflecting on where they went wrong.
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  1393. Trump has only himself to blame, since what he said was essentially this: "Look at this chaos and disease. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My response to the coronavirus was perfect, just like the phone call to Ukraine."
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  1394.  @Crawling-Chaos-2024  Tell me again how you think the USSR wasn't a communist-type place. What makes you think that?
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  1395. She was so kind, merely calling them deplorables. More like despicables.
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  1396. Probably that's why he sent Tucker to Moscow to deliver.
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  1397. Their demographics were horrible even before this. And after all they've lost, they're still shoveling coal on a runaway train :(
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  1398. Or his "amazing" healthcare plan, LOL.
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  1399.  @Lilo-A  There is a certain group of Americans I'm thinking of .. the kind who took an oath to defend America against all enemies, foreign or domestic .. the kind that say they're ready to defend America against tyranny. Let's see if this wakes them up. I doubt it.
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  1400. Correct. This is why Trump's properties, and the business of that MyFascistPillow douche, need to be made an example of.
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  1401. This is perfect. I'd sign up as Republican just to help Lindell make it to the RNC primary 😅
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  1402. Alrighty, let's see if the King of Covfefe can put his money where his yuge mouth is. Even better, let's see if our Mango Mussolini will push Mitch on this.
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  1403. Seditious conspiracy charges coming soon to many MAGAts.
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  1404. A daily reminder of why it's important to vote: March 2: -“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” March 2: -“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" October 29: 9,123,229 American covid infections & 233,157 American covid deaths.
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  1405. To be fair to Caligula, no one can stand Space Karen for very long. He's boorish and full of himself.
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  1406.  @truthreigns3465  "Ukraine has already lost" << Who do you imagine, then, is sending long range AI drone swarms deep into Russia to take out refineries and drone factories? Little green men?
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  1407. Bingo. I'd be willing to bet that the virus spreads through dense apartment buildings just as quickly as it spread aboard the Diamond Princess even when everyone stayed in their cabins for weeks.
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  1408.  @katherineweber8955  Trump is a genius to the dullard, a strongman to the weakling, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon. That is the "love" his culties have for him :(
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  1409. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  1410. The sale of favors has got to be a really good business. Remember how he wanted to get Chinese loans for a Trump-themed Indonesian amusement park? He levied sanctions on Chinese companies, then promised to give ZTE an exemption in turn for China making $500M in loans for the park. Or notice how certain businesses don't get raided by ICE when others do? Somebody didn't pay their shakedown money.
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  1411. Here's the only truth Miss Lindsey has ever said: "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  1412. Al Capone as he's led away in handcuffs .. wailing "It's all because those Treasury agents hate me! They've been at it for years! See?? See?? That PROVES they're biased!"
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  1413. A big strong man came up to Trump, maybe a veteran, one of the biggest men I've ever seen, and with tears in his eyes, and he said, "Sir, that was one of the most godawful interviews you could have possibly done. You didn't just hit bottom and reach for a shovel, you brought an excavating machine and two weeks of fuel for it."
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  1414. It would be funny to do that and give her a youtube channel .. she could talk about how great it is out in Siberia.
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  1415. I doubt Trump supporters can feel shame. They're too damn stupid for that. So in a week or two they'll be feeling a headache and a dry cough. Consider it nature's way of taking out the trash.
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  1416.  @alisonwilson9749  He would have only spent his speech time whining anyway, or saying how great Putin is, or how sucky the nations of the west are, or how he might pull out of NATO. You didn't miss anything.
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  1417. He never wanted to be a leader - that's too much work. He's merely wanted to be ruler.
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  1418.  @ecurewitz  Poor Rush. Now that he's FINALLY sober (it's been 349 long days) he's finally stopped with the trash talk.
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  1419. It's just Chump's famous reverse Midas touch in action.
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  1420. Poland, we in the USA stand with you and Ukraine. You need anything, call us 👍
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  1421. America is in the middle of a bad experience with someone who abuses their free speech rights - who does not follow the unwritten rules about how great rights are accompanied by great responsibilities. Hope we can find our way out of the woods on this.
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  1422.  @francoisehembert3243  How much would you bet that behind the scenes, Agent Orange is telling China that he can make some or all of the tariffs go away if they cooperate with him on this?
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  1423. Dr John seriously deserves some kind of knighthood for his tireless work to help the global community.
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  1424. No. His supporters are dolts. When he tells them on stage (as part of a fable) "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" they imagine they're hearing a retelling of the movie 'Anaconda' or a story about a big snake.
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  1425.  @ajj7480  My gosh, can you imagine the Republican outrage? It might keep them so busy, they can't rush that Handmaids Tale "judge" into the supreme corp.
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  1426. There are some good Republicans - people whose views you may not like, but at least they behave respectably and there are no questions about their patriotism. The Trump cult has been busy kicking and voting them all out, too, or they are choosing convenient times to retire.
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  1427. Apparently, the best at telling Big Orangey the things he wants to hear ATM.
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  1428.  @ivanmcbleedy1397  Calling the Trump traitors "deplorables" is an understatement. More like "despicables". People with no regard for the constitution, the rule of law, or democracy.
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  1429. @tradde11 Re "He wants to be the permanent president." Correct. For more than a year now, he's almost surely been kicking himself for not pushing Republican-owned legislatures to enact election-overturning measures BEFORE the 2020 election. And, remember, he was pretty surprised at the 2018 midterm rout.
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  1430. To defuse this, Dump would have to publicly explain, many times over, that he's been lying all along about the results and the integrity of the election. And we know he's not rational or adult enough to do that. I've had pets more adult than Dump :(
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  1431. Pence is probably infectious. People need to start avoiding Trump and Pence "like the plague". Now they'll all have to self-quarantine after meeting with him :(
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  1432. These "people" want to be enemy combatants against the lawful government of the USA? Send them to gitmo.
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  1433. For nonbelievers who live alone (no housemates) just encourage them to visit the covid wards, and breathe deeply without a mask on. Kindest way to let the trash take itself out.
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  1434. There is nothing to grasp. Hitler too had an similar market share - basically all the damaged people who bought into his BS because he made them feel good about hating on other Germans or other nationalities.
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  1435. Love this drone lady .. she is smart and to the point. Slava Ukraine! :)
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  1436. All Brexit did was hasten the process by which Britain becomes a small, less significant island off the coast of Europe.
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  1437. Mr. Putin is determined to ensure that Russia has very few friends left and no money left.
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  1438. Basically, the crazies in the USA foamed at the mouth that one of their own finally made it to 1600 Pennsy Ave.
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  1439. Oh, rest assured, Big Ag has been taking her out to dinner a lot, since they stand to benefit from small farmers going bankrupt.
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  1440. This makes me glad I live in a safely blue state, although it has all too many people shopping without masks because they think it's a hoax. Some of those same people without masks also have really bad coughs that they share with everyone else in the building :( So I wish the governor here (Oregon) would make it mandatory to wear some kind of face covering in public settings, especially grocery stores.
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  1441. When the revolving door (actually a giant conveyor belt) between the EPA and the companies it's supposed to regulate is shut down, we might see some progress.
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  1442. All Putin needs on Trump (for leverage) are his translator's notes for their private meetings and conversations. From Trump's behaviors we can fairly accurately surmise what took place: either Trump asked for, or Putin offered, or both, was advice for how to remake America the way the Republicans want it to be. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. They know their platform is unpopular on its own merits, so a techno-apartheid state is what they must seek.
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  1443. Tell me again please why anyone in their right mind thought that a narcissistic failed reality-TV wannabe would make a good president?
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  1444. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him.
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  1445.  Andrew Ongais  Even they should be able to see for themselves how well that science-denying thing worked for Herman Cain.
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  1446. I'm currently visiting some relatives who live in an area that was formerly diehard Frump. The last time I was up here, in late summer 2021, many Frump signs were still up. Now? Not a single one within miles.
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  1447. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating.
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  1448.  @natureblank1401  When you say "Russia isn't flattening cities" then perhaps you have not been following the news out of Mariupol. Not only is Russia reducing the city to rubble from afar, but they've been targeting the places where civilians are sheltering from the artillery.
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  1449. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere.
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  1450. The parents probably had the MMR vaccine as children, never experienced the diseases themselves, then fell into anti-science claptrap that wouldn't fool a cat. And now the children are suffering for the blunders of their parents :(
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  1451.  @theperfectmotorcycleistwom9921  Billy has obviously never been on the receiving end of that kind of stuff, and his approval (of threats in the name of the cult leader) is conditional on him not being a target of it.
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  1452. Amen, been trying to explain to everyone that 2019-style business-as-usual probably can't be safely done for a few years (if ever) and that everyone everywhere is going to have to wear masks if they're anywhere near other people .. and if you walk into some indoors public place where people aren't wearing masks JUST LEAVE. It's not worth you health.
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  1453. I've never heard of any political leader in history using the differences between country and city just to generate political heat in order to excite their base. That's suicide. It's the recipe for civil war. Look at all the right wing nutjobs he's inspiring to violence.
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  1454. I looked long and hard for Hunter Biden’s name on the ballot and I could NOT find it. So, I just voted for his father instead. 😜
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  1455. Without federal support to at least try to level things, rural living is always less well funded than city living. Comes down to local population and local GDP. Rural Oregon voted Trump anyway .. this is them getting what they asked for.
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  1456. He lied about her. Remember all the times he retweeted RWNJ nonsense calling her a gorilla or a man in heels?
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  1457. The main difference between Jim Jones and Trump is that Trump charges for the tainted kool-aid, whereas Jim Jones handed it out for free.
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  1458. Or even heard of "Yo Semite" national park. Did he skip grade school?
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  1459. As an American, I can't applaud you enough for standing up to our wannabe-Mussolini. We're in the outhouse here. He's salting our fields :(
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  1460. Look at the size of those rear control surfaces .. that thing has some maneuvering potential.
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  1461. If Obama had cured cancer, Trump would have brought it back out of pure spite.
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  1462. Who could have thought that giving tents and tarps to people would result in those same tents and tarps being used for their intended purpose? I'm shocked, I tell you, absolutely shocked.
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  1463. Likewise, NK will soon find out just how good Russian technology is.
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  1464. @human+napping=illegal We may have to do our part. In deference to their rights to be heard in court, though, just dogpile them and have someone call the police.
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  1465. Remember when every day was like this? Pence: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested almost 24 million people in the USA! You're a genius!" Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 296 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??" Trump: "I give myself a 10 out of 10 for handling this."
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  1466. His true label ought to be something like Apartheid Money Bro.
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  1467. Presently Delta is echoing out to wild animal populations (see the news about it infecting wild deer in Michigan and other places in the US) so it will mutate there, then boomerang back to us with changes.
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  1468. "Titanic defiant as iceberg gets closer."
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  1469. Bingo. Look at her behavior during that sht show of an administration. She was nose deep in it.
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  1470. Well, on the plus side, in 8 weeks or so some of them will never ever have to worry about being asked to wear a mask again.
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  1471. The ads practically write themselves .. a shot of his quote ("biblical admonition on civil society") fading to cuts from Handmaid's Tale.
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  1472. Or cosplaying one 😅
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  1473. Dear Republicans, You all had 3+ years to call him out. To stand up for the people you represent. To separate yourselves from his policies and beliefs. To restrain him from pillorying our closest allies and trading partners. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To keep him from embarrassing the US by withdrawing from treaties willy-nilly. Most of what Tяump has done wasn't even grounded in Republican tradition. But you were weak, cowardly, and greedy. And now when you lose, you become the snowflake. Cry me a river, build a bridge over it, and jump off. You will not have the house or the senate back for a generation or more. That is how bad you f*cked up.
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  1474.  @randomnonymous  Apparently 45 was speaking yesterday at some factory and mentioned bringing back "made in USA". Funny how no one stopped to ask him which of his tacky merch offerings are made in the USA. (hint: none)
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  1475. He did say he'd be the retribution president. I pity anyone who thinks they will be safe from his retribution, because none of us will be.
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  1476. Folks are going to have to learn the hard way what happens when you hand the city keys to the whiny, bullying serial arsonist who complains that there are fires all over the place and tells you that only he can fix it.
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  1477. Given that the Republicans are hell-bent on exonerating Trump despite the preponderance of evidence showing his guilt (evidence they are busy hiding), it seems that everyone in the world had better be prepared to see Trump go on a months-long bender of aggrandizing behavior, using his bully pulpit to maximum effect, talking violence, talking trash, threatening friends and allies alike, encouraging his followers to act their absolute worst, and so on. Hate crime rates against all visible minorities are going to go through the roof, and not just in the USA either. People, this is the FASTEN SEATBELTS alert flashing! :(
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  1478. This has some incredible consequences if true .. namely, that the first wave was very stealthy, and that only later (maybe December 2019 or January 2020) did it mutate into the more lethal strains we see now.
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  1479.  @grabnrungranny6003  I have relatives and ex-bosses like him. I know that type all too well :(
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  1480. At 24:43 - "president Balthazar" is the same nickname I use for another one who feels the disease is nothing to worry about and easily dealt with.
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  1481. "When you're born, you get a free ticket to the freak show. But if you're born in America, you also get a front-row seat." - George Carlin
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  1482. Yeah. I've been wondering what shenanigans Trump was getting away with during the 2 years that the Republicans had both houses of congress.
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  1483.  alexdapostman  Tell that to Brazil and Peru, where it's even hotter.
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  1484. Speaking of background research - did Bobo play any role in the recent spate of death threats against Colorado state supreme court justices? Inciting or sending threats? Pretty sure Colorado could remove her from their delegation over that.
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  1485. Chances are high that messages from Individual One are all over that phone.
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  1486. They couldn't mind their own business any better than Benjamin Smith of Portland could.
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  1487. FOXed-Noise-watching people who don't live in Portland seem remarkably inclined to believe the dumbest propaganda about actual conditions here.
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  1488. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  1489. We in the West must make it clear to the good people of Russia that we wish them no ill will, and that we will welcome them back to the civilized world when they've gotten rid of him.
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  1490. He owned them on so many levels that it was something to behold.
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  1491.  @janejones8672  The same crowd can't find Canada on a map.
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  1492. Revenge politics. "If I alone can't have America, watch me destroy it"
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  1493. Check out how other places deal with a coup (like Germany) then compare that with the velvent-glove treatment they get here :(
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  1494. Pre-rigging the EC is a travesty that needs to be nipped in the bud yesterday. Lose that struggle, and we'll all be playing Sophie Scholl in a few short years :(
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  1495. Watching the FBI round up traitors and insurrectionists is more rewarding than I had realized. Didn't know we had so many among us who, after being told the dumbest lies that wouldn't even fool a cat or dog, could be motivated to commit treason. Lock them all up. They don't belong roaming around among us. Hope anyone trying that nonsense gets dogpiled by everyone next time.
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  1496.  @binder38us  His supporters will be very ugly afterwards. But then, they'd be especially ugly anyway if he won the election, and they've been ugly all summer long with their many vehicle attacks on protesters and now on the Biden campaign staffers.
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  1497. The same thing happened in 1930s Germany, when a populist fascist leader convinced ~30% of the voting adults that the world had wronged them. William Shirer has some fine books about that.
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  1498. Trump Jr, Jan 6: "This isn’t their Republican party any more. This is Donald Trump’s party"
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  1499. Basically the lunatics temporarily have control of the asylum :(
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  1500. Right? Who frigging cares what they do as long as they're not breaking any laws.
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  1501.  @russellspeed1693  Is that you colonel McGregor? Mad you never made lt general? 😅
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  1502. So true. When I was born, people had already been sounding the alarm for awhile, and the global human population was still less than 4 billion. Everyone kept breeding like mice, and their kids kept buying cars and houses and having more kids. Whoops.
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  1503. Every election, and for at least a couple generations. They need decades in the woodshed of history for what they did.
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  1504. Sweden, South Dakota, Russia all feel the need to take their turn saying "But but but but IT'S DIFFERENT HERE!" and then they find out the virus doesn't care about their feelings.
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  1505.  @serpico1616  Those two heifers are big enough to drink diesel.
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  1506.  @dynamicworlds1  Bingo. If McCarthy hadn't reneged on his word to president Biden (his promise not to enable the nutters to shut down the government) he might still be speaker.
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  1507.  @LuxFerre21  Not sure those people want to go back to the way they were before anyway.
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  1508. 45 singlehandedly made GWB look like a scholar and a sensitive, cultured man.
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  1509. We use hand-marked paper ballots here in Oregon too. Complete full audit capability from one end to the other, easily verified by machine and hand recounts.
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  1510. There's only 3 ways to get individual people back to work. 1) Everyone wears hazmat suits all the time. 2) Develop a vaccine that works, give it to everyone. 3) Roll out a widespread antibody test, test everyone, and those who have antibodies can go back to work.
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  1511. I was kind of surprised not to see a confederate flag hanging on the wall, that's how reich-wing that chamber seemed.
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  1512. She rolled him and smoked him. He fell for every bit of bait! ;)
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  1513.  @JustForFun-mt9og  For the good of the nation, that's how it needs to happen. Otherwise we're looking forward to playing Sophie Scholl, putting up leaflets against fascism, getting rounded up and put in camps. One of the first things Trump would have had to do, if the 1/6 coup had succeeded, was suspend elections indefinitely under the claim that they're tainted or unsafe somehow. Once congress began to balk at what they were being asked to do, congress would be suspended, and replaced with a new rubber-stamp body of apparatchiks. The plans for all this will probably be found in the near future. it's how all coups go.
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  1514.  @Richard-wh4cq  Some stains aren't supposed to come off. And for the worst of those stains, some kind of forehead brand is probably deserved.
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  1515. The mayor will probably get a 5-10% popularity bump just for telling the flim-flam loser in chief to go pound sand.
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  1516. Trump was worse than inert .. he dissembled at every step on the way here: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  1517. There's a big mess in right-wing (or reich wing) land these days. Some of it is tantamount to domestic terrorism. Bringing those people back to the real world could be a long job.
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  1518. That's their way of seeing that their culture-war game wasn't 100%.
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  1519.  @stephanieclark6154  We'd all better vote like hell or we won't have a country left.
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  1520. I remember the German magazine, Der Spiegel, in 2016 featured artwork depicting Trump as a meteor hurtling towards earth to destroy it. They called it pretty accurately, apparently.
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  1521. Someone give Trump a medal. In the nearly-3 months time that this virus has been circulating, the US has tested three-tenths of a percent of the country. Jeez :(
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  1522. Face it, Republicans embraced Dump's dark ooze the same way small animals fall into the La Brea tar pits.
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  1523. Trump's America wants all the rights of the title "leader of the free world" but absolutely none of the responsibilities of it. That's Trump for you :(
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  1524. Take away the angertainment, and Fox would wither. It's their only way of remaining in business.
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  1525. We didn't coddle our science-denying fools when polio was ravaging the nation's youth .. when requiring foreigners to be vaccinated before they can visit the US .. when other nations require Americans to be vaccinated before visiting .. when we quarantine astronauts after returning .. when we require kids to be vaccinated in schools. Given that this thing has killed so many people (and isn't finished yet) why the F are we coddling their idiocy? Shun the hell out of them. They can stay home while the rest of the world gets on with life.
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  1526. It wasn't an appearance, as in "looking" stupid. He really is that stupid.
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  1527. I was recently traveling through very rural places. The level of disinformation out there is unbelievable. Many seemed to believe that Portland, OR had been burned to the ground and that Antifa mobs are looting the nearby suburbs. It was surreal.
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  1528. Republicans: "But .. but .. but .. Obama wore a tan suit!"
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  1529.  @Sasha1234575  What concerns many of us here in the US is that large minorities here deliberately choose to consume "feel fact" type "news", that is, stuff that on some level they know may not be true, but they like it because they feel like it could be true. The US today is the most hospitable festering petri dish for conspiracy theory extremism :(
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  1530. Normally, it would be pretty strange for someone to get fired from a job they did poorly, then go home and rebuild a copy of their old office where they can pretend to "work" and be relevant. Just saying 😅
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  1531.  @johnbrowneyes7534  Just look at the vote suppression legislation Georgia just passed. F'ing sick. They've gone full Nazi.
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  1532. There's going to be a lot more oaths-of-office violated before this is over. Trump would rather plunge the nation into war, death, chaos rather than face SDNY for his crimes.
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  1533. The best thing said about Jeffrey Clark was what someone told him in a meeting - "Listen, you're an environmental lawyer. Why don't you go back to your desk, and we'll call you if there's an oil spill."
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  1534. When Trump used the phrase "checking off boxes", all I could think was how ironic, he checks off all 14 boxes on the "Characteristics of Fascism" list put together by historian Lawrence Britt.
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  1535. Trump's fans are a lot like him. TBH I didn't realize how many of them we had here. To recycle an old election slogan - 71 million flies can't be wrong .. steaming fresh dog sh*t tastes great!
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  1536. The way it used to be, the parties would each take turns being in the white house - sort of like a long airline flight where the pilot and copilot switch seats periodically, so they spend about equal time being in charge. Lately the Republicans have decided they'd rather crash the plane into a hillside than NOT be in the captain's chair forever.
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  1537.  @MrStark110  Actually very very quick. Down in microseconds. The explosive compression would have vaporized them .. compression -> heat.
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  1538. They would just call it "fake news" anyway - as they do with all real things that are, to them, uncomfortable truths.
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  1539. You people are all being so mean to Trump. Why, back when he had to work with Cryin’ Chuck and Lyin’ Ted, Crazy Bernie and Pocahontas, Dicky Durbin and Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flakey and Liddle Bob Corker, all Trump wanted was just a little basic respect. /sarc
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  1540. Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Trump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  1541. To him, they're all crisis actors anyway, hired by the Obamas to make him look bad.
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  1542. Apparently a Republican president can. Just remember, Republicans had a lot more rage towards Obama for wearing a tan suit (or Jill Biden for having an advanced degree) than towards Trump for trying to steal the election.
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  1543.  @grunge468  Love that phrase, MAGA Judas goat. To be fair, Trump basically has his own media disinformation outlet. Works like this: President Biden: Everyone have a great weekend! Ted Cruz: Did you hear that? It's the beginning of communism! Sean Hannity: Marx mandated a good weekend too!
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  1544. Back in the 2020 election cycle, 45 called Biden too old. They're 3.5 years apart. 45 is now older than the age at which Biden was back in 2020.
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  1545. This is fantastic stuff. Thank you for this video.
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  1546. Trump has never wanted to lead. He only wants to rule.
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  1547. Sweet Potato Hitler is at it again :( He probably thinks all previous presidents were "dumb" not to utilize every arm and branch of government, by hook or by crook, to use for personal purposes such as getting rich and subverting elections and staying in power longer.
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  1548. Michele Bachmann too did her part to mainstream the crazy.
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  1549.  @relativetimeworx8459  Keep talking like that, and certain people will donate half their monthly insulin money to the cause! ;)
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  1550. Interesting that Trump could pronounce "Mein Kampf" correctly but not "Yosemite".
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  1551. Looks like everyone remembered that time a 10yo rape victim was forced to travel out-of-state just to avoid a criminal abortion. Oh and so much for the myth that rape "hardly ever" causes pregnancy.
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  1552. Just imagine how profitable United could be if they switch from denying "only" 32% of the claims to something more like 60%. What kind of scam operation are you running when you deny things to people that they already paid you for?
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  1553. I thought that part was pretty clear already from the evidence of their torture and butchery at Bucha and their cruelty at striking maternity hospitals, theatres, homes, apartment buildings, and other wholly non-military buildings.
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  1554.  @gg80108  A spell that anyone blessed with above-100 IQ could see right through.
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  1555. LOL at the official numbers - 137K virus deaths in the US by early August. We're going to reach 137K deaths before the middle of June. We're going to be at 100K deaths by May 20th or a little before.
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  1556. That's the sound of lawsuit #3 you're talking about.
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  1557. That chud Kay Lie .. I had almost managed to forget about her and her Nazi Barbie Binder act.
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  1558. If this helps - conservatives are the flaming-nutball sect that reads dystopian cautionary tales as how-to manuals. Huxley, Atwood, Orwell, Lewis.
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  1559. Pushing the hate & rage buttons of easily-misled people is his sole trick in life.
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  1560. Whipping up manufactured misleading anger among stupid reich-wingers is unfortunately all too easy. But that's why they're Republicans anyway :(
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  1561. That was one of Putler's main reasons for the war. He couldn't have ordinary Russians going to visit relatives in Ukraine as the place slowly improved and got more aligned with the west .. they'd come home with stories of representative democracy and greater prosperity for all and a hopeful path to the future.
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  1562. For most of them, their dog or cat is the smartest resident in the house.
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  1563.  @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481  Then you have Putin circulating the kill lists while telling Ukraine, essentially, "Look what you made me do to you! If I can't have you, nobody will!"
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  1564. This is why FOXed Noise has got a stranglehold on rural media markets. The schlubs out there in flyover never hear this stuff.
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  1565. Concepts of plans! ;)
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  1566. Pretty soon, getting a comprehensive education in Florida will be about as hard to get as blue jeans & Beatles albums in 1960s Russia.
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  1567.  @joanneskinner5169  Right - to what kind of person is Trump, with all his highly visible faults, so irresistible? Shudder.
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  1568. What's it up to, now, more than a hundred cases that have been laughed out of court due to a complete lack of factual evidence? I love the way these people are making their party go extinct.
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  1569. That happy clown BoJo, Trump's mini-me, would be a good place to start looking.
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  1570.  @tomjohnson4681  They're welcome to whine about me. I'm trying to save lives. They're trying to spread the virus.
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  1571. Trump: "Look at this chaos and disease. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My response to the coronavirus was perfect, just like the phone call to Ukraine."
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  1572. There's no such thing as economic recovery without first bringing the virus under control anyway. Other nations are already 95% of the way back to normal by now, but not us.
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  1573. Way to go Italy! ❤⭐
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  1574. Rest assured, the ONLY reason Trump's doing this is because he's still mad at the way TikTok users pranked his Oklahoma superspreading event by reserving lots of tickets then not showing up. This sets a dangerous precedent, not that he can even spell the word .. what happens next when some other country tells Fakebook/Google/IBM/Intel/whoever to divest their assets in that country and turn them over to locals?
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  1575. Agreed. More states need to do that. It's simple and can be fully audited at every step and has a clear paper trail.
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  1576. "Nothing secret here, just move along".
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  1577. Withdrawing now is Putin's safest option. Russia has not the means to replenish its military equipment at the rate it is losing tanks, planes, and other vehicles in Ukraine. The Allies can easily equip the former SSR's with enough firepower to tell Ivan to go home.
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  1578.  @aioniansage6081  Re "Hope you're enjoying Mr. Biden" Back during the 2016 primaries, some lefties floated the idea of voting for Trump to show their displeasure for Biden not being left enough. As Stephen Colbert said to mock them, it's like going to the deli and ordering a muffin made of broken glass if they don't have the double-strawberry donut that you wanted that morning. In other words - Biden at is his worst is still far better than the inept orange turd we had before.
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  1579.  @madturtle8826  Well, when you say "Pedo Joe", it's already blatantly clear that not only are you not playing with a full deck, your happy meal is missing a lot of fries and you're not the sharpest egg in the carton, considering what nonsense you fall for. Cheers.
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  1580.  @madturtle8826  Well, if you take the 0.003 seconds of that and keep watching it on a loop, it might seem like forever to an attention span as short as yours. But go ahead, keep defending the guy who has to hide his DNA from multiple rape accusers. Just so you're comparing apples to apples. How about them apples, partisan hacks?
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  1581. Along the lines of this excellent video, the book "Ecocide in the USSR" by Murray Fessbach is very good.
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  1582. It's just as well, since Trump probably thinks the other ex-presidents are "suckers" for not misusing the powers of the office to remain president forever or change the election results so they could.
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  1583. Putting Sauron in charge of things turned out to be not so good an idea. They said they wanted an outsider. They said they wanted someone to shake things up. Who knew that he'd weaponize ignorance and the coronavirus to shake things up?
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  1584. I approve of Trump fleecing his loyal base to the end. Consider it to be a sort of voluntary tax on stupidity.
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  1585. Their system of beliefs doesn't function without having some "others" around to hate on .. kind of the way capitalism doesn't function without a reserve army of unemployed & underemployed.
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  1586. This is like what happens when writers from the Onion go crazy and decide to destroy America from within. That's about the only way you can explain reich-wing propaganda these days.
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  1587. Jones on his podcast: The judge is an alien reptile person sent by Satan! Jones in court the next day: It was just rhetorical hyperbole, your honor. I can't help it if one of my whackadoo followers tried to kill you based on my lies.
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  1588. Because they only care about white babies.
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  1589. While I'm glad your uncle finally woke up and smelled the coffee .. what took him so long? A steady diet of Faux?
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  1590.  @freighttrain7143  What's wrong with four more years of a president who's good for America? You seem to be out of touch with how the nation wants to move past Trumpism in all its sordid aspects.
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  1591. You may safely think of him as the golem jointly created by Mitch McConnell, the Heritage Foundation, and Vladimir Putin.
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  1592.  @darlenewaters2370  The Supremes are what you might call a "hire court" - just ask Harlan Crow!
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  1593.  @rmeullover  Believing things without any proof, and when there is an overwhelming amount of proof to the contrary, is what they have in common.
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  1594. Trump for sure, and the hateful eight who celebrated July 4th in Moscow possibly, were given some advice by Putin on how to refashion America to be more the way they wanted. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. Guaranteed election results.
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  1595. Also means he KNOWS he broke the law, and is trying to cover for it.
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  1596. You mean .. it will be as if facts don't care about their feelings?
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  1597. I think this is a step in a bad direction - controlling the news that US agencies are legally allowed to read/quote/use/whatever. This is a step in the direction of telling all federal agencies that the only news source they may use is OANN or FOXed.
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  1598. I remember when Trump's guy, Ryan Zinke, gave the electrical grid rebuilding project to a 3-person company (Whitefish Energy) that happened to be owned by an associate of his. They were wholly unable to do the work, and the bidding process was closed.
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  1599. Hillary was being much too kind .. they are not deplorables, they are despicables.
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  1600. 100% Trump on the south lawn yelling for Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens.
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  1601. And it's not like Barr wasn't a complete corrupt slimeball too.
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  1602. I have a cute little hatch that gets mid-40s mpgs on long highway rides. Paid off years ago. A keeper!
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  1603.  @atomickaiser1934  There you go again, making up nonsense and believing it. There isn't a single thing about the Biden-Harris plan that's even remotely socialistic. They're both as painfully middle-of-the road as US politicians get. But you, blithe dummy that you are, apparently class them as "radical left" just because they're not Trump. FFS. Trump is so far out in right field that no one and nothing is to the right of him, if that tells you where the edge of the range is.
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  1604. 45's disrespect also extends to our allies; the rule of law; the very concept of law and order; the future of the country; the Constitution; all social classes that are not conservative rich white xtian males; etc.
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  1605. At his last such, in Georgia, he ranted to a mostly unmasked crowd for nearly three hours. It was a big win, but only for coronavirus.
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  1606.  @paulaparks-gq7mi  Ever see the close-up of his face when he delivers the punch line to the tale of the serpent? Watch closely as he says the words "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" He enjoys pulling one off on his followers. They just think they're hearing a retelling of "Anaconda" when in fact he's just reminding them who he really is.
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  1607. Human Resources: So let me get this straight. You got fired from a top executive job because you did a poor job. The company immediately hired a new top executive. You couldn't handle that. You were so angry, you refused to leave. You called all your friends to come and vandalize the workplace. When you did leave, on your way out of the office you took a lot of the company's confidential documents. And when you got caught, you refused to give many of them back. Now you're reapplying for the same job?
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  1608.  @Kari.F.  Republicans are the shallow end of the gene pool, and Saint Darwin is doing a bit of cleaning just now. Hopefully the etch-a-sketch looks better by the next election. Fewer red votes.
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  1609. You're not missing anything. They're from the same toxic waste facility that produced Sarah Sanders Hucksterbeast.
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  1610. Without real-time fact-checking, I'm afraid it will be a lot of stuff like Trump saying, "Obama sent death squads after everyone who dared to say 'Merry Christmas', but then I came along and saved America from that Kenyan commie nonsense!" and his followers will swoon and send the Applause-o-Meter off scale.
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  1611. Like a friend said today .. just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean that you put the Joker in charge of the bat cave.
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  1612. How about stopping them from recruiting from the Klan, from the Aryan nation, from our domestic pool of disgruntled psychopaths, from the wannabe slave catcher types, from those who want a license to bully, etc.
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  1613. Same problem here in the US, except some of the protesters bring military-style long guns to their gatherings - where of course few people wear masks or practice distancing. The US state of Minnesota has just opened industrial and office work settings .. but virus cases in Minnesota are rising exponentially, and 7 of the past 9 days have seen consecutive records for the most new cases per day. Offices in particular will be virus incubators. I tire of reminding people that you can recover from being broke, but you can't recover from being dead from the virus. I'm on 48 days without any kind of income, and relying on friends to help me stay afloat.
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  1614. Anecdote from an hour ago - I live in a state (Oregon) where masks are required in public spaces. Yet this morning at a supermarket, I kept running into the same woman who wasn't wearing a mask, and who ignored all the evil eyes she was getting. Finally I looked at her pointedly and tapped the mask. She shouted out that some people are exempt (they're not) and that some people are smart. Huh. "Smart" like Herman Cain, she obviously meant. I moved away from her quickly after that. At least she didn't shoot me.
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  1615. Those meat plants in Iowa that got reduced fines or none at all -- it must have been a hell of a good lunch they took the regulators out to.
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  1616. Every culture on the planet has a cautionary tale for the children. It goes something like this: One day you meet a stranger who spins these yarns, takes you up to a high place, shows you some amazing vistas, and tells you that you could have a part in owning all of that .. if only you can do this one little favor for him, just a small thing that happens to be illegal or immoral or both. 45's talent, such as it is, lies in finding people who forgot that important lesson about why you don't make deals with the devil.
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  1617.  Siobhan M  Hmm. How close did he get to Barr that day? Were those science-denying fool Republicans all mask-free?
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  1618. He's doing it all by the book for that very reason.
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  1619. This is why it's kinda funny to see Ivan whining up a storm over possibly facing F-16s. It's not as if we're donating F-15s.
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  1620.  @gerardbyrnes5780  This is one of the several reasons I prefer the channels where people read aloud 45's words instead of playing the tape. My god, that whiny petulant man-baby voice is so annoying. And that's what motivates America's most gullible into wishing they could end the rule of law? jeez
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  1621.  @Zach-ju5vi  Imagine being dumb enough to try to look for "fraud" that doesn't even exist? Folks that dumb should be sent to a hardware store with a shopping list that includes such things as left-handed sandpaper and adjustable wrenches in both English and metric.
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  1622.  @danjo1967  I honestly hope she gets young people to vote by the millions. Don't care how they vote either, but I can guess.
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  1623. It's like the government buying a stock of Beanie Babies :(
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  1624. Leave while you still can. Before there's barbed wire and checkpoints at the state borders.
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  1625. On the minus side .. living through this strange episode in our country has let me understand how Hitler subverted Germany.
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  1626. 6 years too late is still better than never. Ron Paul is in the "never" camp :(
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  1627. Then don't ride one. And if you drive a car, try not to hit them please.
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  1628. These Meal Team Six / Gravy Seals / Top Bun / Special Sauces / Oaf Tweakers types are going to be speedy target practice if the actual military gets involved in putting down their attempted coup. They ought to be in prison or under rocks for their own safety, really.
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  1629. She already pledged to pardon Trump :(
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  1630. A) It's not an act. B) Is she by chance the "internally-decapitated, time-traveling ghost" who also affected Sidney Powell?
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  1631. And just imagine Al Capone ran for a government office all so that he could label the proceedings against him as "election interference" to his flying monkeys on social media.
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  1632.  @yourbanned4522  Re "you can stay in your house your whole life" << Lamest strawman on the internet. Most vaccinated people go to their jobs every day. A better analogy would be you cutting the seat belts and air bags out of your vehicle because you lack common sense.
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  1633. Trump and his people are fixated on dialing the calendar back to 1950 in many ways while still clutching the latest cellphones and social media.
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  1634. Hopefully this is the last time the US has a president who uses the "14 characteristics of fascism" poster as a to-do list.
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  1635. They're barely little boys - and some of those are more mature than these dolts.
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  1636. Somehow this picture isn't complete without Kevin's pink ball gag.
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  1637.  @renebonniemirandavis3761  Well, the alternative to Georgia goes something like this. Suddenly, after 4 years of letting Trump do any old "acting" appointment to skip the confirmation process, Republicans will suddenly switch to nominees just to gum up the works. And should chief justice John Roberts want to retire next year, Moscow Mitch would be telling us that even 36 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Couldn't possibly be done in less time.
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  1638. Perhaps Ohioans felt the burn when a 10yo rape victim had to travel out-of-state for her abortion not to be criminalized?
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  1639. He hasn't gone near actual public in awhile now. The people at his last rallies were those vetted moon-faced inbred yahoos that constitute his base. The last two times he got near an actual public setting, he was loudly booed by the crowd. Those were the World Series game 5 (2019) and then a UFC event in NY: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-booed-in-new-york-s-madison-square-garden-second-time-many-days-1.8068265
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  1640. The yellowcake, the WMDs (the putative excuses for attacking Iraq) have to this date never been found .. just like any actual evidence that Iran was responsible for the recent attack on Saudi refineries. Unbelievable, those clowns are probably still using Robert McNamara's shabby script for how to pull another Gulf of Tonkin :(
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  1641. You must not have figured out yet what kind of person he really is. No worry, the evidence will show us the way.
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  1642. Uggh, I was so embarrassed (as an American) to witness Trump disrespecting our longstanding allies. You fcking just do not do that. These are the people you can call on in times of need and they will be with you, and you will do the same for them without hesitation.
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  1643. When the alt-reich claim that "the left wants civil war", what they mean is that we're trying to adequately fund education and healthcare and infrastructure. Make sure that all citizens can vote. Try not to torch the planet. Apparently those things are enough to twist their silky panties into knots.
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  1644. Not devastating enough, since he's still apparently alive. So go vote and make sure everyone else gets out to vote too, even if you have to help them get to the polls. I won't rest easy until I see him being led out in extra-small handcuffs.
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  1645. Watching them all run to Mar A Lardo to beg Jabba's forgiveness is always amusing.
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  1646. Russia has the quietest converted submarine fleet ever! Extremely quiet, in fact, no one ever hears from them again. The Moskva has been on an extended underwater mission and has maintained radio silence for more than a year! Impressive submarine operation indeed.
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  1647. I too LOVE watching new people find out for themselves that Trump is absolutely batsh!t insane. Then he makes them humiliate themselves in public. Then he fires them. Even though this process is obvious to anyone, there's somehow an endless supply of fools waiting to take their turn getting smacked by the revolving door.
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  1648. His followers aren't much better. The worse his mental failings progress, the more tightly they cling to him. After all, he's the one who let them out from under their rocks. These crazies previously existed only on the fringes of the GOP and not as major participants in the party. That's all changed.
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  1649. The word for those who help a traitor is collaborator.
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  1650. Basically these are people who use Orwell's cautionary tales as how-to manuals .. such as when an organization of violent traitors, dedicated to overthrowing US democracy, calls themselves "oath keepers". It's as if the only oath they're keeping is to Vladimir Putin. Or when their attempt to steal the election is called "stop the steal". That or they got dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  1651. It’s only hot outside because we have so many thermometers. You wouldn’t know it was hot if we didn’t have them. You’re only perspiring because the weatherman told you to perspire.
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  1652.  @MajorAnthonyNelson  Awww, are you butthurt that nothing done by the George Floyd protesters constituted treason and insurrection?
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  1653. Painful 2 weeks? More like painful next 3 months. People are still traveling all over the US to and from virus hot spots. The US is so far behind on testing that you may as well count it by ER admissions and by people found dead in their homes. MAGA.
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  1654. Like many of the things Trump does to America, it's a self-inflicted wound.
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  1655. Some bad analogies. It's like this: Newbie skydiver: "Hey, I've slowed down a bit. Can I take off this stupid parachute now? It's chafing." Newbie navy recruit: "Hey, the sub is 500 feet down and my clothes are still dry. Is it OK to open the hatch?"
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  1656. Paving technology was around by the late 1800s .. and I'm sorry to say that some cities still don't have it for all streets.
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  1657. Correct. The difference between Trump and God is that God doesn't think he's Trump.
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  1658. Unfortunately some among the allies still have their heads stuck in Cold War thinking. Big bad USSR was a different thing from today's hollowed-out Russia. Unfortunately, many in Russia still have their heads stuck in Cold War thinking too - particularly the expectation that Russian people should be able to go to the coastal areas of Ukraine to vacation anytime, and that happy farmers in Ukraine will continue to toil under the Soviet boot. Like the USSR, that time is long gone, but some folks are slow to realize it.
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  1659. June 9, 2024 at a rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And they cheered :(
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  1660. Intelligence and gullibility are two different things, friend.
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  1661. Russia needs to experience very different kinds of losses - sort of like the losses that inbound missiles and bombs have been inflicting on Ukraine for more than two years now. Dams. Thermoelectric generation capacity. Pipelines. Railroads. Tunnels. Hospitals. Manufacturing of all kinds. Government offices of all kinds. Basically everything. The land of outhouses + imperial overreach needs to feel this one in the shorts. The people of Russia had their chance to show some sentiment in the last election and they totally failed to vote for anyone but Putin. A few brave citizens showed their dissent via actions at the polling places.
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  1662. In other words, the Peck isn't another moon-brained cultist like the ones who do go to prison for 45.
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  1663. They've got to pander to the racist-drunk-elderly-FOXed-Noise-watching segment .. it's the only segment they've got.
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  1664. He said he would be horrible. He said he would be focused on retribution. He said he only wanted their vote, and didn't care about them. Did they not listen?
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  1665. Trump would try to contest winter or the rising sun in court if he could. As Americans, we apologize for putting such a clown on the world stage.
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  1666. Listen to the silence from leading Republicans when it comes to their voters making threats at Trump's bidding.
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  1667. Remember the good old days when war criminals got tried at the Hague, then hanged in public?
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  1668. The loss of independent critical news in the Philippines brings them one step closer to authoritarian rule. If you need a picture of how much authoritarians hate being criticized, just look at Donald Trump aka King Tinyhands the Mad.
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  1669. What's interesting is that there's a certain subset of nutters who like Trump PRECISELY BECAUSE he is so profoundly damaged.
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  1670. He's just a younger version of that drunk crazy uncle who watches nothing but FOXed Noise.
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  1671. Trump has at least 3 personalities. There's the one that's forced to read prepared stuff, and he hates that so he sulks about it in public. Then there's the one who talks to his base via FOXed Noise. Then there's the angry child who has Twitter tantrums. 2 of those 3 personalities think that the 2,227 dead Americans so far from this are just crisis actors trying to make him look bad and that the whole thing is just a desperate libtard hoax.
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  1672. Especially when those "details" bear no resemblance to factual reality in any way, shape, or form.
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  1673. LOL. The same fool who in THREE YEARS did not inspect the strategic health supplies reserve (he went on to blame this on Obama) is expecting us to believe this whopper about how he just happened to be "inspecting" a bunker right when protests were raging outside? And it was just coincidence that the white house exterior lights got shut off right then, like neighbors too cheap to put candy out on Halloween? Pull the other one, Cheeto Wussolini!
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  1674. The Republicans were perfectly fine with it years ago, as you can see by the way they howled in rage when Obama committed horrible, dastardly, unconstitutional crimes such as wearing a tan suit or trying to seat Merrick Garland a whole 8 months before an election - which, we were told, was much much too close to the election. They telegraphed their disdain for the rule of law years ago.
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  1675. In this instance, FOXed Noise is fully actualizing its primary role as being Putin's mouthpiece to the stupider among us in America. The sort of people who, as of the late 1930s, would be mindlessly repeating stuff like, "Who cares if Hitler carves off another nation? How does that affect us?"
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  1676. Huh. So Trump extended that super-special covid treatment that he got to cronies like Rudy Ghouliani, but not to Herman Cain or to the head of WH security.
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  1677.  @thegasmaskwarrior341  Troll AND ignorant. Go watch the video of Portland's mayor getting tear-gassed last night while he wasn't even on federal property.
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  1678. This is about destroying our nation's ability to someday recover from this lapse in democracy.
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  1679. Mewling, newborn kittens with their eyes not yet open have better self-control & maturity than Trump.
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  1680.  @nathanadler8316  That could work. You'd need to include something about how the Fake News that bleach is dangerous was something the liberal deepstate media concocted to make it look as if Trump was lying when he said to inject bleach. Sadly, this stuff practically writes itself.
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  1681. They show it at the end of most every program, but it's one frame only and the print is extremely small. Most people are too dense to spot their slant/misinformation.
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  1682. Frump can find hurt anywhere, like that fabled princess who can feel a pea under a stack of mattresses.
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  1683. Ssssh. Let it be a surprise. These hatriot posers like to imagine that they and only they have guns. Let them retain their cherished delusions.
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  1684. Our little Caligula certainly knows how to appeal to all the others who are also convinced they're right when in fact they are full-180 wrong.
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  1685.  @Tyrell_Corp2019  I think Alex Jones must have been the bus driver who brought them in from the looney bin. This stuff is ripe.
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  1686. Even worse, Tommy can't name a single documented incidence of the problem he's whinging about, let alone a slew of them to point to a trend.
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  1687. Funny how those fuzzy satellite pictures of mass graves in Iran were used recently in America to demonize Iran for not responding properly to the pandemic, but when it happens here in the USA everyone just says "meh".
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  1688. Re "Could you imagine the hell raised if a Democrat even tried to falsify one vote, not even an elector?" Bingo. So if Biden loses the 2024 election, VP Kamala Harris can just overrule the election results as per what the Trumpanzees tried to do. Funny how they screech when you suggest Ms Harris doing what they wanted Mr Pence to do. Almost as if their motto is "Rules for thee, not for me".
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  1689. Sadly, most white racists (like Rand Paul) wouldn't begin to fathom what people are mad about unless someone broke into his home, shot and killed one of his fam, and then only got ticketed with discharging a firearm within city limits.
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  1690. Different spanks for different ranks. Maybe FB just wants to see what happens if they allow the town's serial arsonist access to matches and gasoline again. As if Trump's character has improved in the last two years 😅
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  1691. And yet, somehow this makes him the irresistible crybaby criminal jeebus to a certain type of folks. A mental health crisis to be sure.
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  1692. For the first time in my life I just voted a straight blue ticket. It's not good enough to just send the Republicans a message .. we must remove them from power at every level and in every place.
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  1693. They're so Dunning Kruger. Normal people know their limits. These dolts are so far down the food chain that they don't know they're stupid.
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  1694. Sad that it took advocating the injection or ingestion of cleaning fluids to reveal to the rest of the world what many of us saw long ago.
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  1695. Unfortunately, FOXed and Tucker Carlson seemingly have a license to spew gasoline. Fighting the fires afterwards is going to be tiresome until their supply is cut off.
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  1696. Or leg-humping a flag on stage.
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  1697. About the executions .. Trump knows this is the last time he'll get to use the powers of the government to kill black people.
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  1698.  @kelperdude  "Antifa and BLM were in D.C. yesterday" << And guess what they DIDN'T do in DC? They didn't storm the capitol with guns, pipe bombs, chemical weapons, body armor, zip cuffs. They didn't beat any policeman to death. They didn't try to execute the 2nd and 3rd in line of succession. They didn't break into the capitol. They didn't beat policemen with American flags and spears and baseball bats.Trump's fine people did all those things, however. But clearly Antifa hurt your feelings all the same. Have you ever checked to see if you're a Nazi?
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  1699. Puerto Rica got hit by two back-to-back hurricanes, and he withheld disaster relief on the basis that those people hadn't voted for him anyway.
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  1700.  @apep7188  Sorry but your limp denial isn't enough to overcome Biden's 306 EC vote and 79.7 million popular vote wins. Admit it, the people have spoken, you just don't like what we said. Want a lollipop? Did these facts hurt your poor abused feelings?
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  1701. I was taking it a whole nother way in addition .. now that the senate seems free to make decisions without hearing any contradictory evidence, what else might they do? Rule to disregard the 2020 election results if they don't align with GOP goals? Agree that Trump no longer needs the legislative branch to enact laws? Rule that no further elections are necessary?
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  1702.  @patriciamillin-j3s  Sorry to say, but things here are so much worse than one would typically know from outside the country. If you look at the pattern of who the Trump cult people are issuing death threats to, it's more clear. Certain people in the USA are being subjected to levels of propaganda that probably haven't been seen since Goebbels was wearing out scriptwriters about the supposed "Jewish menace". That's about the only way to get otherwise-mostly-normal people so bent that they threaten the lives of doctors, hospital staff, teachers, school board members, election workers, airline personnel, store clerks, you name it.
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  1703.  @Kleastic  Hate to break the news to you, but the Mueller report was very clear about how it could not exonerate Trump because of all the contact his team had with Russians in order for them to fine-tune their social media interference in the US elections. Go take your meds, you're still delusional. If you can't recover, we need to find you an impatient psychiatric bed.
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  1704. Excellent video, and thank you for sharing this. From Kontantin I had heard that SMERSH is being brought back, so it's already happening. We've already seen the rehabilitation of the monuments to Stalin. Gonna get bad over there :(
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  1705. They're always free to hold the RNC meeting in the basement of the white house. No masks or distancing. "It will just go away .. like a miracle".
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  1706. Red states are in fact showing the sharpest increases in covid19 cases these days. Guess those states are going to become more blue when people move out there for good jobs and cheap homes once this is all over. Folks might have to peel some MAGA stickers off stuff but oh well.
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  1707.  @AncientActivist  That is INSANE. Doing the count over and over again, just because you disliked the results (and despite finding nothing wrong with the count) cannot be a legitimate expense.
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  1708.  @earnesttbass8107  Yup :( this is why friends don't let friends mistake whackjob talking points for 'news'.
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  1709. Hopefully NATO is showing Putin some love by moving a squadron of A-10s closer to Kiev. Surely we can accommodate Putin's desire to turn a bunch of his own tanks into radioactive scrap metal with big holes punched through them. Seems the least we could do for him.
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  1710. @Matt Some of us have started early on that, but then, we don't want our nation to become the next North Korea.
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  1711. The flim flam man knows how to talk to his own kind (crazies) and that is why he loves them and they love him.
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  1712.  @indiesindie1984  Go check the record of the impeachment vote and show us all the democrats who you claim enabled Trump. FFFS, did you get divorced from objective reality or something?
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  1713. Thankfully, his pool of flying monkeys is shrinking.
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  1714. His disease should be called Covid-45, since he had such a hand in letting is spread far and wide here in the US. Another US president had a surprise virus just 3 months into his first term, and stopped it flat at only 93 American deaths.
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  1715. I cannot improve on what the British guy Nat White said about Wussolini: Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensbury rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumps of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God .. what .. have .. I ..created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
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  1716. Here in the US we have many aligned with Putin. Far too many. Makes me want to summon the ghost of senator McCarthy and resurrect the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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  1717. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  1718.  @toneyingram732  About that cult - if the jackboot fits, maybe they should slide it on and start goose stepping.
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  1719. Wouldn't it be a shame if a bunch of tractors got loose and drove all over his golf courses .. with chains on?
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  1720. More to the core - they are right-wing anti-government types. By no small coincidence this is the same type responsible for nearly all political violence in the USA.
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  1721. Way to go NYC! ❤😅
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  1722.  @kayleescruggs6888  If MAGA Mike has only selective faces blurred out (and not all of them indiscriminately) then comparing the two clips ought to reveal who specifically they are trying to protect. We should figure that a whole lot of smaller GOP donors were in that crowd, and that not all of the insurrectionists have been caught yet.
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  1723. It's better than that. He's going to change into a whole nother outfit .. Miss Kitara Ravache (that's the drag name he used) will be his attorney.
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  1724. From the news back around then, I recall groups of people getting flown to the White House to be pressured by Trump directly into doing things like this.
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  1725. @ George Farrington .. what we're actually doing here in the USA is failing to act. If this were Italy, they'd have had him hanging from a lamppost a whole lot earlier in the game. Here in America, we are so milquetoast (heck, the word seems to have been invented just for us) that we'll let a whackjob trash our allies, our alliances, our trading partners, our trading alliances, the word of the US on a treaty, etc, while we just shrug and say it's the 'lectoral college, we can't do anything about it, sorry.
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  1726. I still think it may be a long time before the true extent of his crimes is known.
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  1727.  @atomickaiser1934  More like sarcasm .. and if you can't get it as such, your political compass is spinning and probably needs recalibration. Got any other nonsense while I'm on?
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  1728.  @atomickaiser1934  Here. If you at all have the ability to do some reading and challenge the nutty irrationalities that you've been fed, like a mushroom in the dark, here's your chance. For the 2nd time .. Bernie Sanders is center-right by European standards. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-19/in-europe-sanders-would-be-center-right
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  1729. I for one am interested in Rudy's role in the recent crisis in Venezuela. It is illegal for private citizens to take on diplomatic duties that belong to the state department or the government. Perhaps the house could question Rudy on that. Might be some additional articles of impeachment coming.
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  1730. Oh dear. You seem to have fallen prey to one of the common logical fallacies. Here's an example: Suppose the hospitals are full of gunshot wound victims and most people are wearing body armor in public. A study comes out telling people that body armor is only 60% effective. Folks like you ask, why bother wearing it at all? The answer lies in how it reduces your CHANCES of trouble.
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  1731. That's an ironic thing for him to say, considering that he's the one doing the rigging.
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  1732. This is what the world thinks of us: "When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing COVID-19. They're bringing crime. They're bringing drugs. They're violent. They refuse to wear masks. They refuse to follow social distancing requirements. They want to pretnd there's no virus. They think that having to wash your hands for 20 seconds is just too hard. And some, I suppose, are good people."
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  1733.  j j  It's not Hugh's logic, or yours, or mine. The virus is running the show. Some places (like Minnesota) have had runaway growth all along, even during their supposed lockdown. And some places (like the Dakotas) managed (at least for a little while) to have low growth despite not being locked down. Have you not noticed this from paying attention to the news?
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  1734. I'm sure the FBI is already checking out who received that tweet and whether their positions inside the capitol changed directions as a result of that information. The investigation will be going on for awhile. I'm of the opinion that all communications among the suspects are being heavily monitored while evidence is being collected.
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  1735. To Pence and people like him, it's HORRIBLE if Betsy DeVos has to cut back from 8 to 7 yachts .. but it's a f*cking travesty to them if a working person gets student debt relief or a laptop good enough for their kid to do remote schooling.
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  1736. Considering how Trump complains that more cases are found when more tests are performed, and how he doesn't want "his numbers" to look bad, the USA is probably destined to measure the impact of coronavirus by the soon to be vast numbers of people found dead in their own homes.
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  1737. Let's take no chances. We must do this - make sure everyone is registered to vote, particularly the citizens who've turned 18 since the last election or will by the next one - make sure everyone has the ID's necessary for voting - make sure everyone knows where the polling places and ballot drop boxes are - make sure everyone has transportation to get out and vote - make sure everyone has the creature comforts needed for a potential long wait in line. We can do this! :)
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  1738. All because Trump's little feefee's got hurt when TikTok users pranked his Oklahoma superspreading event by reserving tickets and not showing up. He's been mad at TikTok ever since.
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  1739. Considering how the Republicans feel about abortion .. it seems fitting that they are being forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Wonder if any of them can spot the irony.
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  1740. From the party of crooks, liars, and 53 senators who'd rather toss the rule of law down the toilet, and plunge America into chaos, than risk getting a nasty tweet from the Incredible Sulk.
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  1741. Wussolini's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16yo girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color, so she gets all pouty and treats it like the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter & insta to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything. Wussolini's followers aren't much better.
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  1742. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  1743. Funny how the Republicans are all about government staying out of private business, at least they were until their leader got piqued at TikTok all because its users pranked him last month by reserving tickets for his superspreading event in Tulsa.
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  1744. The death of the GQP couldn't come soon enough. Any bets on whether they (and Trump) were hand-in-hand with Putin on manufacturing the latest "Omfg, we need more nukes!" scam?
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  1745.  @ambriaharris4821  With dictators there are also no other political parties or opposition allowed. Obedience and conformity are required.
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  1746.  @manishjaiswal3523  As the saying goes - "The forest kept getting smaller, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, since they thought that because its handle was made of wood it must be one of them."
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  1747.  @ericechols5806  Trump was worse than that - he openly encouraged officers not to be so nice to suspects.
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  1748.  @Annaisse3112  As an American who's read a fair chunk of history, I was LIVID when 45 trashed our longstanding allies.
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  1749. Anne Frank would have been so proud. Against a siege of boredom, they lasted all of 8 weeks with their phones, internet, Netflix, legal weed, pets, and munchies. Heroes, every last one of them.
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  1750. One assumes that the material released to the public thus far is nowhere near the cutting edge of what the committee has seen. No doubt they possess some extremely damning stuff .. and with the fine nose of a rat, Meadows probably caught of whiff of what's coming for the traitors.
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  1751. In Indonesia, they put the covid deniers to work digging graves for the covid victims. Took them an average of 2 weeks to recover from their nonsense - though for some of them, it came in the form of a bad cough that landed them on a ventilator.
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  1752. Condolences to the family of congress-elect Luke Letlow. Ironically, he pledged to do away with the health measures designed to slow the spread of covid (masks and distancing requirements, etc) so it would seem that his karmic reward (for helping to spread the disease) arrived a mite too early.
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  1753. What about that amazing health care program he kept promising? We'll never know if it got any further than scribbles on a McDonalds napkin.
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  1754. Let's see if it can operate in submarine mode. From pretty deep waters too. Any takers?
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  1755.  @lowhydrogen7018a1  Quit with your lame false equivalences. Calling out the president on his lies, his denial, his gaslighting etc is not "hate" - if anything it is a measure of one's love of the country and willingness to point out the Quislings among us.
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  1756. It would be more true to say that Trump is a poor man's idea of what a rich man is like, or a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is like.
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  1757.  @Chuck26814  Well, if you want a gym or coffeeshop to be open right while a deadly disease is killing ~4K Americans per day, just go to your local business licensing board and apply for a license to kill no more than, say, 10 people per month. Easy peasy. Because that's what will happen if too many businesses are open. You're looking at this from the POV of a human. Try looking at it from the point-of-view of the virus. This has nothing to do with politics. For each normal pre-pandemic human activity, you can derive a "how easily could the virus spread from person to person" factor that's dependent on the following variables: - Is it indoors? - Are there people from different households there? - How good is the air circulation? - How close do people get to each other? - How long are random people in the close presence of each other? Supermarkets, and other large stores that can afford to upgrade their air circulation, are doing mostly OK in terms of not spreading the virus from customer to customer. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the workers in those places, or for stores where they can't afford to implement these measures. The authorities have had to make some hard decisions. Unless we're prepared to deliver food to everyone's homes (as China did during the worst of their lockdown back in Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr) we must keep those stores open. But everything else should probably stay closed. The alternative is going to look like 5000, then 8000 or more deaths per day.
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  1758. Hope everyone is stocked up on popcorn, because our Mango Mussolini's blood pressure is only going to keep rising as more and more of the impeachment inquiry is made public. Remember this time. Remember what Republicans say and do. And remember to vote! :)
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  1759.  @mzny4314  Who can take anyone seriously if they worked for Trump? May as well brand them with a "T" on the forehead, they can look forward to a long life of never having another job.
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  1760. If reason and logic could be used on Trump supporters, they wouldn't be Trump supporters in the first place.
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  1761. For the answer to that, look at one of the few true things 45 says at his rallies. It is the punch line to a story he likes to tell. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  1762. She really needs to start up a "No Brock Turner Left Behind" hashtag. Seriously, wtf?
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  1763. Cops and klan, hand in hand. This is like when law enforcement gave all possible courtesy to the armed gunmen who invaded state capitols last month with their ant-health-measures protests. No need for the Insurrection Act then, huh.
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  1764.  @davidjohnpaul333  Sounds like Sky News talking points are being taken seriously instead of being laughed at for being propaganda. The reality is, Australia needs to get moving ASAP on vaccination. Lockdown type measures will not be effective much longer, now that we know that covid is capable of evolving in the direction of being so much more communicable as to render lockdowns pointless. Mass vaccination is the only way out of this.
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  1765. At a recent rally, 45 made the claim that bacon has been outlawed. His culties cheered, as they always do, even though you can walk into any grocery store and buy bacon. And you don't even need to show ID for it. A bunch of them probably had bacon in their breakfast that morning.
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  1766. Some can be both. If you know how fascism ends (guilty members getting hanged at a Nuremburg court, while the country is occupied and in ruins) you'd have to be crazy to want to take your country down that bad road.
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  1767.  @EEX97623  Actually he had already announced his plan way in advance: "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." -- Donald Trump 9/23/20
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  1768. What did George W Bush say about scrutiny? "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide."
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  1769.  Walter Parris  You are sane :) What we're witnessing now is something like the process by which Hitler took over. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Tяump.
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  1770. This is typical for a political cult. The mushroom people of MAGAstan.
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  1771. Adjudicated insurrectionist too (Colorado) as well as a convicted felon (New York).
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  1772. So, not only are they catching covid from attending his no-masks rallies during a pandemic, but they're going broke in the process while revealing themselves to their friends/neighbors/relatives/coworkers as willing fifth columnists when a fascist comes along. Sounds like Karma is fast-tracking their "rewards".
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  1773. Having some kind of national healthcare here in the US would defeat a few of the aims of conservatives. They would prefer people to breed quickly, require little in the way of healthcare & education costs, work hard for low wages, then die quickly as soon as they get sick or retire. Then again, conservatives want to make the environment ideal for corporations and not for people.
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  1774. Considering the fact that even by 2018 nearly all extremist murders in the US were right-wing, I've been thinking that a cold civil war has already been happening for a while. When Trump trucks drove through Portland and tried to run over protesters (while spraying mace at them from inside the trucks, of course) they were almost entirely from out of the area, and about 60% from other states such as Idaho and Montana. They're a small violent minority.
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  1775. Polling != voting. Polling is like "who do you find pretty today?" whereas voting is like "who are you getting married to?"
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  1776.  @ts2495  There are a few other ones you may find interesting. The NATO Russia Founding Act of 1997. The Minsk Accords. Most interestingly, there is not a single written treaty (between us and them) that contains language covering the issue of former Soviet republics joining NATO. Putin lies about that constantly. There was no such promise.
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  1777. Georgia and Chechnya are taking notes on how to accomplish this de-occupation process that Ukraine is doing. Perhaps NATO can take in a few more new members.
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  1778. The same storm he caused. Good luck with that.
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  1779.  @MajorAnthonyNelson  No, I am not admitting to that. I am merely pointing out that nothing done by the George Floyd murder protestors rose to the level of high crimes (treason, insurrection) committed by Former Guy's brownshirts on January 6th. Learn how to read, dummy.
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  1780. If only Richard Nixon had thought of this strategy of ignoring subpoenas, refusing to hand over documents/recordings, instructed all the staffers not to cooperate with the Watergate investigation, etc. it would have made him look so innocent .. not.
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  1781. Remember when he had to stop showing his face in unvetted public places? It was great the way he got booed. No doubt Nicolae Ceausescu too was pained to learn how unpopular he really was.
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  1782. The USA cannot claim to be under lockdown. Domestic travel in the US still continues unabated, people still gather on beaches in Florida, people still go to spring break in the sun, some states are not yet shut down, etc. Even if most of the country is locked down, those people still socializing and gathering and traveling will spread the disease throughout the country. Air travel, buses, trains, boats, automobiles still continue to go everywhere. A little over 0.3% of the population has been tested.
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  1783. What's that saying? All's well that ends. RIP Whig party.
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  1784. A covid corpse would have beaten Trump in this election, that's how bad he was in his one and only shot s mismanaging the USA.
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  1785. It would be more correct to call them "hatriots". And Rush Limbaugh was their inbred spiritual grandpappy :(
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  1786. Faced with waning opportunities to inflict harm on the America he hates for voting a lot more for the other guy, Trump is turning his famous reverse Midas touch on his own party and supporters. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of fascist authoritarians.
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  1787. Elvira is a classy lady with a sexy voice. Kimberly is more like a horror clown show contestant with a screechy nails-on-chalkboard voice.
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  1788. The way this administration refuses to say when he started testing negative (or stopped testing positive) bespeaks a desire to avoid prosecution or a really damning verdict in the court of public opinion (and hence the election). If he could test positive, and they had incontrovertible proof of it, they would be plastering it all over the place. But they won't or can't.
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  1789.  @ElixirEcho  Yeah OK whatever, Boris. Hopefully some overworked shipping clerk at DOD will sent ATACMS instead of HIMARS missiles. Best way to end the war faster.
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  1790. I am giving free rides to anyone who needs transportation to vote. #OperationBlueTsunami
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  1791. Its Russian name is most appropriate: PRAVDA Social. Except the name "Pravda" is already taken by a famous birdcage liner type rag.
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  1792. Considering that El Trompo's ** instinct is to say "Vote for me, you illegal brown losers, because after some whackjob patriot parrots my tweets and guns you down in public, I'll pose with your orphaned baby and flash a thumbs-up!" what are the odds of him succeeding at this? ** El Trompo is fatty pig meat for tacos.
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  1793.  @KSN580  He's not that concerned with his voters. Check out his recent rally in Georgia. He ranted for nearly 3 hours to a packed crowd with hardly a mask in sight. By the time the January 5th election happens, a bunch of those people will be on ventilators or gone.
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  1794.  @twill9278  They have minds?
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  1795. Trump and his enablers aren't the only problem. The systems that put them there are the problem too. We have a lot of work to do.
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  1796. Sounds like he'd be OK with military resources taking him out at the discretion of the sitting president, right?
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  1797. Hitler thought of himself as a patriot too, even though everything he did was to the ruination of Germany. The apple didn't roll far from the tree apparently.
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  1798. Not only was she spied on, with the options to turn it into a hit, but that activity was conducted by one Robert Hyde, an American, a military veteran, a Trump donor, a wannabe congress person. Doesn't offering to arrange a hit on a United States ambassador violate his oath of service?
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  1799. Always nice to see a man who's OK with his bod.
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  1800. Well, it's nice of Trump to use his authoritarian ways to wave a wand over America and reveal to us exactly which "citizens" would happily throw democracy down the toilet just to appease the tender feefees of their fuhrer. Take note of who they are.
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  1801. Russia should have just stayed home. Their 3-meter-tall soldiers are now pretty normal sized.
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  1802. Trump didn't act alone in allowing this disaster to engulf America. He had lots of help. They will all be held accountable.
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  1803. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  1804. Perhaps it only looks like a garbage can, if someone has the "misfortune" to inherit a huge amount of money and live in a golden tower with their name emblazoned on it.
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  1805. Re "No words for how despicable this man is." << There are words for this. The full measure is not known until later, when the country is a smoking ruin, when former leaders are hauled before an international court and sentenced to death by hanging, when foreign powers divide up the country and forcibly de-Nazify it. That bad place is what Republicans knowingly want to take America to, and all to please the vanity of one butthurt toddler.
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  1806.  @nanarose8537  Definitely hope so. Unhinged easily-misled people with guns ... what could possibly go wrong?
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  1807. Bingo. For a guy who claims to be innocent, Trump is working hard to silence all the first hand witnesses who could prove his case. Hmm, wonder why?
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  1808. Looking forward to the class action lawsuits from families who've lost providers and loved ones due to this guy's medically dangerous propaganda.
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  1809. He doesn't know Lindsey, but might have been in a few pictures with him, but then, he's in a lot of pictures with a lot of people, and many of them are very fine pictures. He says, people call him up and tell him, "Sir, those are very fine pictures."
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  1810. Right during the 1/6 violence, in a phone call between Trump and McCarthy, Trump said, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” He definitely knew about it while it was happening.
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  1811. The US Navy has spent trillions learning about all the things that can unexpectedly go wrong with a submarine. Seems the designer of the Titan was not privy to that design heritage or the lessons learned therefrom.
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  1812. The folks doing this kind of nonsense are some kind of special. Like short-bus special :(
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  1813. Yeah. We had a new thing in Oregon recently, where people wearing body armor, pistols, sporting long guns, throwing chemical weapons etc clashed violently with police and damaged the state capitol building trying to break into it. The Brownshirt irregulars. The did try to start a fire but thankfully it didn't turn into the sort of Reichtag Fire that Trump hoped for.
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  1814. Well, it's less of a secret that some A-10 squadrons have been moved into the area. No better way to show Putin some love other than leaving a lot of perforated armor sitting in a swamp somewhere.
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  1815. You probably figured out the code he speaks in. For instance, when he's telling the fable of the serpent, pay close attention to his face and body language. He is getting off on secretly telling them what he is, and he knows that to most of his idiot sheeple it's just a story about a big snake, and it thrills them just like the movie "Anaconda" did. He's very aware of what he's doing to them.
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  1816. Remember this when it happened? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  1817. Glad you guys like those HIMARS .. more will be on the way. With much love from America. We got your six. If it were up to me I'd send a few containers of Tomahawks ;)
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  1818. Just getting started at turning the clock back to 1850 :(
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  1819. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  1820. All it earns him is the praise of a nutty minority group of Karens. They're unable to show where on the doll it hurts them when a woman has an abortion, but still, they hate it will all the same religious zeal that muslim clerics have when someone somewhere eats pork.
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  1821. After watching Republicans switch from purely-partisan blocking of Obama's nominees to letting Trump do any "acting" appointments he wanted to; after seeing Republicans switch from saying that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge to helping Trump ram one through in under 8 weeks; after watching Republicans howl at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit to helping Trump undermine the results of the most secure election in US history; my trust of Republicans is thinner than cellophane. I'd say they're acting like Hitler's Nazi party did during its attempts to seize power, except it's not an act, sadly.
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  1822. Correct, they're about as delusional (and sure of themselves when they're dead wrong about everything) as the Taliban.
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  1823. Much of what he tweets is in violation of their user agreement, but for some reason they only make the rules apply to other people.
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  1824.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  No, they've gone to other states that are not as immigrant-unfriendly. Ron DeFascist is intent on learning the plot of "A Day Without A Mexican" the hard way.
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  1825. I hate to belabor the obvious, but .. given that the Republicans are hell-bent on exonerating Trump despite the preponderance of evidence showing his guilt (evidence they are busy hiding), it seems that everyone in the world had better be prepared to see Trump go on a months-long bender of aggrandizing behavior, using his bully pulpit to maximum effect, talking violence, talking trash, threatening friends and allies alike, encouraging his followers to act their absolute worst, and so on. He will feel totally above the law even more so than we've already seen. Hate crime rates against all visible minorities are going to go through the roof, and not just in the USA either. We're going to see a completely unrestrained version of Trump, and that's a very bad thing :(
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  1826.  John Galt  He's too well guarded to suffer what he should for letting so many Americans die of covid. But if you're whining about your governor doing her job to protect the people of your state .. go cry on your MyPillow.
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  1827. Alex needs a good lesson in how his right to free speech does not free him from the consequences of saying whatever dumb thing crosses his mind. Can't wait to see it when he goes back in court and tries to claim (despite the video) that he did NOT call the judge a "tyrant".
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  1828. 681 days elapsed between the J6 insurrection and the appointment of special prosecutor Smith.
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  1829.  @godwinmarvo9012  Re "aside from politics he is just a normal guy" << That is where you are totally, completely wrong. Google an old article with the title of "I study liars. I've never seen one like Donald Trump". Chicago Tribune.
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  1830. Funny how the histories don't mention people protesting health measures with guns, or the president openly encouraging sedition in states where the governor is of the opposite political party.
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  1831. What she did was like robbing a bank, then, when caught at it, she's claiming that she really believes the money belongs to her and not the bank --- except she cannot show any proof of it.
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  1832. On the plus side, your kids won't be hiring their kids.
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  1833. Generally, the smarter people are, the more they're aware they they don't (and cannot) know everything. With stupid people, it's the other way around. Generally, the dumber they are, the more convinced they are that they know everything.
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  1834. Being an introvert by nature, I've been avoiding people and crowds anyway for most of my life. So far it's working great. I spend a lot of time in the woods alone.
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  1835. That's "acting deputy VP Hannity", to get around needing any confirmation which would reveal unfitness for the role.
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  1836.  @dennisyoung4631  I'll settle for keeping them behind a fence so they don't stage another insurrection.
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  1837. Unfortunately Russia has not yet run out of convicts to be pressed into service. Maybe then they will have to bring in their Africa division mercenaries, who may have a hard time in the cold weather.
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  1838. You can hear it in just 20 seconds. He's completely nutso.
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  1839. It's not just the sanctions biting. Russian troops apparently don't know why they're fighting. Ukraine is holding strong and denying the invaders any victories. Next comes Putin threatening to use nukes if the world doesn't do what he wants.
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  1840. Russia has fewer planes than before. They keep losing them somehow. Missiles are hungry at this time of year anyway. Especially in Ukraine.
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  1841.  @elvingonzalez6273  He is being so much more than I thought he would be. He's helping Americans - even the stupid ones who still don't realize Trump lost the election.
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  1842. Remember that parable about fools worshipping a golden calf? Yup, that's our little mango mussolini :(
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  1843. Dunno. She seems more like the cheerleader/stripper kind to me.
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  1844. Indeed. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence. It was an acquittal in name only. A party line vote popularity contest.
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  1845. Sinclair Lewis was party correct. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, it had the full knowing cooperation of America's conservatives, who were enthralled by the thought of political violence in service of one butthurt loser.
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  1846. It's batshit insane that so many would go along with a madman and his one-person-party nonsense. I honestly didn't know that the USA had such a high percentage of fruitcakes walking around in public. Or maybe it's just Ivanka's patented Chinese voting machines doing the talking.
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  1847. I couldn't watch it either. If it came on the radio I changed channels. While it is sometimes amusing to listen to him ramble about toilets, windmills, and how unfair the world is to his attempts at criminal governance, it's disgusting to listen to his lies and bullying and threats (while his spineless, dictator-friendly flying monkeys cheer him on - people who were raised in the bosom of America and who are now trying to destroy that very same America) and really, Republicans, this is the best you've got to offer?
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  1848. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  1849. Faced with waning opportunities to inflict harm on the America he hates for voting a lot more for the other guy, Trump is turning his famous reverse Midas touch on his own party and supporters. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of fascist authoritarians.
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  1850. The only way 45 could accomplish some of his plans is to set up a series of toll free hotlines in order to harness the "citizen informants" among their culties. The kind of people who imagine they see illegal immigrants, possible pregnancies, suspected LGBT people, etc lurking behind every bush.
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  1851.  @mazkeraid4039  Mike Johnson was one of the congress people who refused to certify president Biden's 2020 election win. There were more than a hundred MAGA nutters who did the same.
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  1852. The one time that Russia was able to steamroll over an enemy (the Wehrmacht retreat), they were being so massively supplied by the free world that it didn't matter how drunk and disorganized they were. Russia's combat effectiveness hasn't improved much since.
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  1853. Most claim it's a ploy to steal their freedumbs.
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  1854. During WW2 families had to endure wondering if their -son was going to come home -brother was going to come home -husband was going to come home.. -rationing food -rationing gas -curfews -if the country was going to get attacked... We lost 405,000 Americans over the course of 4 years to defeat the Germans and Japanese... So far we have lost over 150,000 citizens to Covid 19 over 25 weeks and all we are being asked to do is to -social distance -wear a mask -and wash your hands It's only been 5 months And we can't deal with that!! PATHETIC
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  1855. A childhood polio sufferer, who benefited from public healthcare measures, he nonetheless spent his career trying to deny those same benefits to others.
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  1856. All anyone needs on various Republicans is copies of their messages to various contacts in Russia, who, rather obviously, they asked for advice on how to refashion America to be more to their liking. Guaranteed election results. Using the powers of state to go after the other party. Dissidents, minorities, and journalists ruthlessly repressed. That's what the Russians offered and/or what the Republicans asked them for.
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  1857. Some Republicans/conservatives are proving themselves to be the ideal fifth columnists, ready to tear down American democracy in order to serve the whim of their mango Mussolini. The air accordion player reached into their shallow souls and found something to manipulate.
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  1858.  @JohnDoe-jh5yr  Re "There is a distinct difference. None of the Democrats threatened violence on a Republican in Congress." << But didn't you hear? That's the "new normal" the Republicans want to take us into. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini etc would all do things the same way.
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  1859. It's good of these cult members to out themselves as the spineless minions of a serial liar. They'll never again have any job that involves having integrity, not after trying to tell those whoppers.
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  1860. Nothing says "We're the party of law and order" like getting into a clash with the police and spraying mace at them.
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  1861. When it comes to Trump, the Republicans are acting like people afflicted with BSE. Trump could go on live TV, saying he broke all kinds of laws, knew it, tried to cover it up, and illegally obstructed the conversation, and all Republicans would do is work through their usual levels of denial: He didn't do it. He was just joking. Even if he did it, it wasn't illegal, and besides, everyone does it. And even if it was illegal, it wasn't impeachable. Their brains are filled with worms :(
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  1862. Good riddance to Scott Atlas, whose words and actions only served to accelerate the spread of covid19.
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  1863.  @Swnsasy  That dig about the plane was good. A followup could be about how he ixnay'd the ghastly color scheme that 45 wanted to revise it to. It's just math .. 46 > 45.
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  1864.  @Swnsasy  Also the way Melania had Jackie's rose garden destroyed? As a sometime gardener, that's high crime in my book.
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  1865. Good job people 👍 send fascists packing
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  1866. Actually Trump spent some time, early in his administration, looking for ways to impeach Obama (after Obama had left office!) or charge him with something, but could not find anything.
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  1867. OP: One of the talents of a cult leader is to be able to find gullible people and then to separate them from their loyalties and community and awareness of history.
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  1868. We all remember how Charles Manson's followers went to prison, even though they were just doing what the cult leader told them to do. Why the sudden change in standards now? Crime is crime, even when you honestly believe the lies that made you do it.
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  1869. She and Kay Lie are not even of the same species.
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  1870. If you absolutely must mention Tucker "Axis Sally" Carlson by name, please use his full name as I just did.
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  1871. And this is why Ukraine needs to step up that long-range hammering on Russian oil production and on high-value infrastructure: thermoelectric power generation, railroad bridges, tunnels, pipelines, dams, large factories.
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  1872. Florida is a good example of bad policy. All throughout the pandemic, governor DeSatan has been pretending that covid is just like the seasonal flu. If he can just let it circulate freely, it'll burn out in a few months and leave everyone immune. Wrong. This is a whole different virus. 18 months later, it's still mutating, spreading, infecting, killing the people of Florida.
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  1873. Obama doesn't just live rent-free in Tяump's head .. he took over the top 3 floors and let Nancy Pelosi take half of one of those floors. The DNC has the other half. Put it this way: if Obama had cured cancer, Tяump would bring cancer back purely out of spite.
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  1874. I prefer it when other people read his nonsense aloud, rather than playing the tape. His whiny adult-toddler voice is so annoying :(
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  1875. Trump: Robs bank. Police: We're taking the money back. Trump: No no no. A buddy of mine needs to go through the loot first to make sure some of MY money didn't get mixed in.
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  1876. It's a brand of radioactive, toxic waste.
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  1877. Almost as if the founding fathers warned us about wannabe kings coming along every now and then.
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  1878. Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Trump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  1879.  @markmartin5248  Another one who feels like me. The traitors should feel so lucky that the professionals are dealing with them. Us amateurs would be a little .. more sloppy. Perhaps even medieval. Prone to leaving public examples swinging until they fall apart.
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  1880. This is hilarious. Wonder where Culp got that idea from? /sarcasm Oh wait! Trump's failed gambit.
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  1881. I'm afraid that the sluggish federal response to an insurrection attempt is only serving to encourage the evil ones to try it again, thus inching us ever close to that all-hands-on-deck type emergency. The federal government has sought to play too nice with militias in order to avoid another Ruby Ridge or Waco type incident, but instead their excessive niceness has led to the proliferation of armed private militias and the expansion of their goals. Events like Ruby Ridge are bad, sure, but a general civil war would be much worse.
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  1882. Probably the same way Clarence Thomas pays for his vacations and his big motorhome .. someone else pays the bills. Some true believer.
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  1883.  @allieelectra23  He's got some nerve talking about womens safety, given how he was a frequent flyer to Epstein island.
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  1884. That's basically how Clump's famous Reverse Midas touch works. He keeps painting himself into corners with increasingly-stupid lies, until his only way out is to set the game board on fire and skulk off to the next scam attempt.
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  1885.  @kirilld6206  If you honestly believe that smart people can't make dumb mistakes or don't get senile, you really need to get out more.
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  1886. This is why I believe nothing that comes from any agency or department that Trump appointed someone to. He lies, they lie. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they've gone all final-solution on those 100,000+ detained migrants/refugees from south of the border.
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  1887. There is NO DEFENSE for pissing off Canadians so badly that they cease doing business with us. Canada! Practically our best ally ever!!
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  1888. Sending other folks' kids to die is the highest aspiration of a draft-dodger who's wormed into a position of power. DC is full of that type.
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  1889. Fixing this problem of a faction of shallow-minded Americans veering towards fascism is an all hands on deck level of emergency.
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  1890. As the rest of the world did for Germany when it went full fash, I hope the allies of the US will then invade us, de-Nazify the place (since we don't seem willing to do it ourselves), and make sure we don't repeat that mistake.
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  1891. Not perfectly true: they will do everything possible to make themselves look awful.
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  1892. The answers are already known for the questions being asked. The point of this exercise is to offer them a way out, which of course they are too dumb to take. And they seem unaware that refusing to answer questions isn't going to keep them from being prosecuted later.
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  1893. Excellent comment! Well, Trump will get his wish on packed churches by Easter. By then NYC will be running out of room to put all the bodies. NYC's cases per 100K population rate is on par with Italy now, but the numbers are still accelerating upwards. Oh, and domestic airlines are still flying people all over the country willy-nilly. This will not end well :(
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  1894. Gonna need a lot more shelter space if this is the plan. Portland alone seems to have 10K+ homeless folks, easily. Finding all of the ones hidden in Forest Park is actually a bit of work.
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  1895. Trump's denial that he doesn't know Parnas is worth about as much as a degree from Trump University .. which is to say worthless.
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  1896. Unpossible!
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  1897. America has the world's largest DEMAND for illegal narcotics.
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  1898. With Trump (and many other conservatives) every accusation is actually a confession.
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  1899. Thankfully, Kevin is going to be VERY slow to realize that Dark Brandon is not sleepy at all.
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  1900. Strange how Russia is telling the USA to keep Ukraine out of NATO. Perhaps they should consider being nice to Ukraine instead.
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  1901. Remember the time when 45 made us all lose sleep, wonder what stupid / illegal / immoral / dumb / embarrassing / harmful things he would do by the time we woke up again? Yeah I don't miss that.
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  1902.  @rodrozil6544  Whatever for? Putin is even more of a bungler than Trump, and that's saying something.
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  1903. If the Republicans insist on having a witness-free evidence-free slam-dunk-acquittal of comrade Tяump, they had better be prepared for the angry mob and the public corporal punishment.
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  1904. Can't wait for the post-mortem on this one. All of those who've spread their lies have left behind a digital trail that even Ray Charles could follow on a rainy night. All those who told lies, who minimized, who deflected, who misled, who got in the way of necessary public healthcare measures, etc, are no less than the kind of collaborators among the French who eagerly assisted their Teutonic invaders in WW2. They need to be treated as such and it needs to be public.
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  1905. Welcome to the thuggy Amerikkka that Republicans have in mind :(
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  1906.  @frenchmahala  Show the receipts if you have them. And if you don't have them, that's what's called a baseless conclusion.
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  1907. I'm definitely sleeping better already. No more waking up early to scramble for the news to learn what hateful / stupid / expensive / illegal / cruel thing he decided to do in a fit of pique.
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  1908. So far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  1909. The leopard is eating its own face. Didn't see that coming.
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  1910. Crazy or not, let's put them in jail and let nature take its course.
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  1911. The bear can barely do one thing at a time, let alone two. A much smaller country with no navy has sunk much of Russia's black sea fleet. BTW some here apparently cannot tell the difference between an old-fashioned top-down held-by-force empire and an alliance of peers who choose (for various reasons) to cooperate.
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  1912. @miyahtallulah Correct. Geopolitics. This support of Ukraine is accomplishing several things. 1) Keeping Russian forces tied down while Sweden and Finland join NATO. 2) Arms manufacturers can test their latest/greatest against Russia's stuff and make improvements. 3) Bleed Russian forces .. the longer this goes on, the less conventional force Russia has. 4) Keep the free world aligned against Russia. 5) Make membership in NATO seem far more appealing to any former combloc places that were on the fence. 6) Diminish Russia's economy. 7) Make repatriation of eastern territories more feasible for Japan and China. The longer this goes on, the more Russia becomes just a bigger version of Kazakhstan.
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  1913. I'm going to go there and slap Biden 2020 stickers onto half the cars there, then retreat to a safe distance and let nature take its course.
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  1914. If it adds 20 trillion to the deficit, Republicans are a-OK with tax breaks for the richest. But if it adds 1 trillion to the deficit, Republicans are dead-set against rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure. Costs waaaaay too much for their comfort all of a sudden.
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  1915. The people who are comfy with Gosar's actions would probably be comfy with Trump suspending congress and calling off all future elections until such a time as the results can be guaranteed in his favor. He'd go full Ortega if he could :(
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  1916. It's more like 30%, and I do hope that something can be done to bring back these people, mostly boomers, all of whom were raised in the same protective coccoon of American prosperity that Trump is presently trying to tear down. Clearly, he's got them lusting for an America in which he has dictatorial powers; in which minorities are silent and invisible; in which Christianity is the law of the land; in which America has all the broadly-based prosperity of the 1950s but without the high marginal tax rates that enabled that same broader-based prosperity; in which America is simpler to them like back when they were children. These people don't just need to move forward 60+ years from wherever the Rat Whisperer has led them, they need to grow up too.
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  1917.  @LostintheTwilightZone  They're still trying the Sweden method long after the Swedes gave it up due to excess deaths resulting. Sigh.
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  1918. It works with some of his lemmings, who ignore their own lying eyes and ears. Ha, well, that's going to change ;)
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  1919. That Kremlin thingie in Moscow has a real pretty roof and walls. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
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  1920. Saw this great video of the FBI detaining one of the insurrectionists and taking them off a plane. Everyone was cheering. Those Q-tards are going to have an extremely rude awakening - and they totally deserve it.
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  1921. You're nicer than me. Both my grandfathers fought against that sh*t in Europe. Seeing it here makes me want to look for the cleaning kit for the Garand. It has a thing for fascists.
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  1922. Have you been watching the numbers on Minnesota? They've got steady exponential viral spread happening. Opening up isn't going to make that go away. And it takes something like 4 weeks for the full effects of wide area virus spread to be found.
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  1923. Remember what we used to do in the old days when we were smarter about spies and treason? -DT
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  1924. I only hope that democracy can someday take root in Russia, and that Russia stops being led by strongman-wannabe types. There's not much reason to support this hope, however :(
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  1925. That's exactly what Trump manipulated certain people (who really should have known better) into saying.
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  1926. The closest I've ever seen to class consciousness.
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  1927. .. and they've decided to subtract some of their number from the voting population. That's a win right there.
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  1928. Yes. It passed through their awareness like a fighter jet through a small cloud. Five minutes later it went the way of all unwelcome truths - right down the memory hole.
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  1929. That was his intention. A lifelong rich guy who doesn't like to pay bills, he wants to live rent-free in as many heads as possible.
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  1930. That's because Sweet Potato Hitler sees the virus only as a public relations problem, not a public health problem. The money would be better spent on bringing rapid testing to everyone, not just the white house staff.
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  1931. But but but he said only for one day .. kind of the same way Hitler said no more conquests after Austria. Remember how that turned out?
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  1932. The Republicans are essentially saying they'd prefer millions of Americans to die at home rather than shut things down for 2 months as China has successfully done already.
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  1933. Don't worry about Dr. Birx. Everyone remembers when she just sat there, silently, when the idea was bandied about that people should inject disinfectant. She would be more respected now if she had leaped up and taken the microphone away from whoever said such twaddle.
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  1934. Let's hold a moment of silence for all the people in uniform who are away from their families today, who are standing outdoors all to feed the ego of a 6-time draft-dodger, the world's biggest snowflake with the thinnest skin ever, who has nothing but contempt for the concept of serving one's nation.
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  1935. Yeah. I always thought that was a particularly Orwellian term.
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  1936. He owes a big apology to Poland and to other US allies who attended the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WW2. He told them he couldn't attend the ceremony due to hurricane-related duties, but then he spent the weekend golfing and took his weather briefings (which he got all wrong anyway) right on the golf course. But then maybe he didn't attend the ceremony because his boss (Putin) wasn't invited.
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  1937. Thanks to the electoral college, each of those rural voters (who mostly see & hear nothing except FOXed Noise and Q-Anonsense) has 5x the voting power of each urban person. That is so wrong!
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  1938.  @bradencampbell464  Would be kind of interesting to check out their browser histories .. betcha the obsession runs deep 😀
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  1939. No. Instead, FOX and OAN will show that reel of firemen rescuing cats from trees.
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  1940.  @stratostatic  Jail time seems to work for some of the J6'ers. And if we lack cell space for that many, perhaps China can take some of the excess.
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  1941. Boris Johnson is hastening the process by which the UK becomes an insignificant island off the coast of Europe. Taking things down is easy (just look at how much damage Trump has done) but building them up takes decades of hard work.
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  1942. Even while he was in office too. Hmm.
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  1943. To be fair, only the people who wanted to get brainwashed got brainwashed. Apparently they would have believed any narcissistic fool who told them the right lies.
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  1944. Feeling sorry for their kids.
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  1945.  @Blakblooded  Loved those old demotivator posters :) Another classic was, "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
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  1946. To be fair, Germany & South Korea both experienced the same issues upon cautiously re-opening on a limited basis.
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  1947.  @suzanneforasiepi3640  Obama was too damn nice with people who hated his guts. When a majority of the people voted for you, you have a mandate to get shit done.
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  1948. Especially when he pardons the convicted people who committed crimes on his behalf! Wtf? You can lay the blame for this at the feet of the Senate Republicans, who refused to see or hear evidence, who voted not to remove him from power even though he was obviously guilty.
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  1949. Nor was extorting Ukraine to make up dirt on his political opponents.
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  1950. Putin is almost certainly a very damaged person. Any normal person would know that you get more from using honey than from using vinegar then beating them over the head with a hammer. And sickle. If Russia truly wanted a sphere of influence, they would be such beneficial and friendly neighbors that the surrounding countries see no upside in joining NATO of their own volition. Instead, Putin treats them in ways that are guaranteed to push them away.
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  1951. Alfred is a little old, sure, but no one questions his loyalty .. and it's not an acceptable form of protest over Alfred's age to hand the batcave over the the Joker.
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  1952.  @wileyschmitt  Bingo - which means it's got community spread already and it's been there for weeks. The current problems in India began showing (in the trends) more than a month and a half ago. Air travel from there was only just now shut down. So we can expect everyplace in the USA to be already seeded with the newest variants :(
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  1953.  @unixtreme  Re "I mean he did his own deal of horrible stuff " << You mean all the imaginary times he didn't take everyone's guns and didn't start Sharia law? 😅
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  1954.  @tyrone-tydavis5858  Just imagine how rich you could get by gladly taking people's coverage payments but then failing to deliver on services 32% of the time. In normal business, it's considered fraud when you charge for something then fail to deliver.
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  1955. Private paramilitary training with weapons is banned in most places. There should be a hotline/website and $100K bounties for turning in the other kind of militias.
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  1956. "Trained not to reveal his soul, if he has any or had any" -- perfect
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  1957. The air accordion never lies! ;)
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  1958.  @themousethatroared3371  You are correct in Trumpism being a cult. I like to remind them of Trump's dialogue with the PM of Denmark. First he made a secret offer to her to buy Greenland from Denmark; then she said no and said it was absurd; then he denied ever having done such, and called her "nasty", as he calls all strong women; then he cancelled a planned meeting with her, saying it had nothing to do with that; then only weeks later did he admit that in fact he had offered to buy Greenland. So he offended a longstanding ally and made the US look like garbage, all so he could do a spur-of-the-moment lie to save a little of his ugly face?
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  1959. Crimes "like no one's ever seen before" probably.
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  1960. America hasn't yet gotten the same lesson Germany did in "free speech". There were some people in the 1930s and 1940s who took "Mein Kampf" as more than just rhetorical hyperbole :(
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  1961. Not for long if we the people can help it.
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  1962. Looks like Boomer rage at being confined in quarantine has trumped, oh, say, the possibility of infecting half the planet. What organizational failure allowed this to happen?
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  1963. Funny how the government uses mail to send census forms and stimulus checks because it's the most cost-effective way of delivering so many millions of individually addressed items .. yet Republicans continue to entertain the fantasy that they must get rid of the USPS.
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  1964. Gonna be hard to top the Gym Jordan / Bill Taylor dialog: Jordan: Who was at the meeting? Taylor: What meeting? Jordan: The meeting that didn't happen!
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  1965. Well, to be fair, the Republicans are all for states rights until suddenly they're not .. all for small government until suddenly they're not .. all for the free market until suddenly they're not. I've seen weathervanes in the shifty New England wind, atop an old barn, that are more steadfast than Republicans.
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  1966.  @michaelzimmerman1745  I see from world history that types like Trump, Mussolini, Hitler, Balsonaro, Ortega, Edrogan, Putin, Orban etc at all too common. Seems we need to take a hint from the Europeans on this, and make wannabe-strongmen understand that they are our public servants and that we can have them replaced within a day if they fuck up badly.
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  1967. As Mulvaney said, "we do this all the time". From the dull-minded arrogance put out by the Trumpers, it seems all too likely that he's been doing things like this all along. So we'd have to go back to the beginning of his abortion of a presidency, look into all his contacts with any foreign nationals, and see what he's been up to.
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  1968. Her comment is Trumpian-speak for "Corporations, give me more $$$$ or I'll be voting against the interests of billionaires"
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  1969. Correction, Putin and the fascist authoritarian REICH WING here in the US have the most in common. Trump and Vlad were like two fingers on the same hand.
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  1970.  @tomkite527  I've lost people over this too .. but .. not sure I want to be around anyone who can be so easily spun into dismantling their own democracy to appease the spiteful, angry election loser.
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  1971. FOX needs to dance with the one that brung them.
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  1972. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  1973. @Josh Thank you for speaking up. I have struggled to explain this same thing to the Trumpanzees - not that they listen to reason. No one who has lived through that type of conflict would wish it on their worst enemy. Atrocities and mass graves is how it ends. Parents being forced to watch as their children are made to drink motor oil before being set on fire in a ditch.
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  1974. Ever notice how the science denial and the covid denial are the thickest in the places that support Trump the most? Dayum, but back when polio was the big danger, you didn't have whole swaths of Americans trying to deny the reality of polio or think that the measures for fighting it were weakness on the part of one of the two major political parties.
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  1975. Bingo. Yet somehow criticism of Musk/Tesla will disappear into the ether.
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  1976.  @Mikejamiew  Trump said there would be so many jobs that everyone would have 2, even 3 jobs. And that even children as young as 10-12 would be working too. (why not, he closed their schools anyway)
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  1977. Agree. Send the Trump party packing. They're less harmful to America when all they can do is sit at home and whine on Twitter.
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  1978.  @chrissett4245  He lost the popular vote by 3 million the first time and 8 million the second time, four years apart. If it's flat progression, his potential 2024 loss could be 13 million. However, if it's exponential growth in voter dissatisfaction, it works out to around 27% per year change, which means his potential 2024 loss could be 20 million. Got popcorn?
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  1979. Fox Noise deserves some of the blame too, always amplifying the nuttiest R's in the room.
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  1980. "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  1981.  @curtisuwuigbe6343  Sorry, troll, but only Ukraine is doing the fighting. You want to go up against a real military? Russia can't even handle the 55th largest economy in the world.
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  1982. It was always going to go this way. Drunk squirrels are smarter than these idiots.
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  1983.  @8eeable  Bingo. And to think, depending on the charges and jurisdiction, some of them may lose their rights to vote or own firearms. And that's fine by me.
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  1984. Not in Oregon! We'd keep Kate Brown on. We're near the bottom of the covid cases per million sort. Good job Kate! :)
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  1985. So many heroes already. The Marines on Snake Island. The engineer who blew the bridge. Their president, who donned military gear and said he needs weapons, not a ride out. The White Ghost pilot. The farmers who steal Russian tanks and tow them away to be repurposed as farm equipment.
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  1986.  @nyclear  Correct. Even if a witness came forth with a 4K video+audio recording of Trump ordering MBS to kill Khashoggi, Trump's flying monkeys and Brownshirt irregulars would just screech that article 2 lets the president do whatever he wants, that it wasn't a crime, and that the president is immune from prosecution. I hope they get out of the rabbit hole someday, but I doubt they actually will :(
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  1987. Folks are going to have to learn the hard way what happens when you hand the city keys to the whiny, bullying serial arsonist who complains that there are fires all over the place and tells you that only he can fix it.
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  1988. Generally, the smarter people are, the more they realize that they don't (and cannot) know everything. With stupid people it works the other way around. The dumber they are, the more they're convinced they know everything.
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  1989. Funny how Trump can pronounce "Mein Kampf" correctly and without support, yet even with teleprompter & staff support he cannot correctly pronounce words/names like "Yosemite" or "origins" or "diversity" or "Ulysses" etc.
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  1990. Sheep are smarter than that. They know a snake when they see one. Trump's base is even dumber than that.
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  1991. Eric needs to do a sequel .. "Seattle is STILL Dying"
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  1992. Basically, he knows how to reach out to all the others who would gladly burn down the country if they can't have things their way.
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  1993.  @Princip666  .. because data coming out of Russia is so accurate? Pull the other one ;)
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  1994. Always wanted to take the train trip across Russia. No clue when it will be safe again, if ever, for American tourists.
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  1995. True fans of King Donald the Mad insist that all those dead people are paid crisis actors.
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  1996. The value of hiding information can't be overstated. For instance, all news of Japanese balloon bomb attacks was suppressed in the US. Eventually the Japanese gave it up because it wasn't producing results. In fact, many had landed in the US. Allied intelligence services analyzed the sand in the ballast bags, figured out where it came from, conducted aerial surveillance, found the plants producing the hydrogen for the balloons, and bombed them.
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  1997. Thankfully, the orange turd still doesn't have the sense to stop repeating his lies, and what with the insurrection investigation heating up, there's no chance of the Republican conspirators not being front-and-center doing the perp walk right during election season. As it should be. (I mean, just ask them how they'd feel about Obama enlisting Kenya to help manipulate the vote results illegally - watch them scream!)
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  1998.  @camcornish2634  Obama has the penthouse there and the top 3 floors below.
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  1999. Oh no. They won't even countenance the fact that they've hoovered up the dumbest lies that any 10yo with a net connection can see through. Stuff that wouldn't fool a cat.
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  2000.  @2greenify  The Ken Paxton types may whine and threaten, but yes, I would agree it's not going to happen.
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  2001. Perhaps Trump will someday gather his remaining faithful, invite them down to his jungle compound in some remote South American place, and charge them exorbitant fees for the special kool-aid. Jim Jones missed out by not charging $5 per cupful 😅 SAD!
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  2002. Might take both of Joe's terms and then both of Kamala's terms to accomplish that.
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  2003. On the other hand, this has been a very instructive time to live through. Didn't know we had quite so many shallow-minded people here who would gladly support the ending of democracy, the dissolution of the middle classes, and the chaos/bloodshed that they'd unleash on their own country.
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  2004. It was last time. He carved out a personal tariff exemption for his own tacky merch, of course, while all the while claiming that we need to bring more manufacturing back to the US.
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  2005.  @mugwump242  I know a few - and all of them are smarter than that particular soon to be disgruntled underwear model.
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  2006.  @madmak9  Garland is kind of like a rookie meter maid being asked to prosecute a string of mob murders that cross state lines. Extremely out of his depth :(
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  2007. Yet another bit Rapists Rights legislation brought to you by the MAGAban, America's version of the Taliban.
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  2008. Bingo. Normal people would preface anything said to him with, "Listen, you two-bit lying sack of sh*t, ..."
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  2009.  @robertpalmer3705  Once again, dipshit inbred fool, every court case got tossed for lack of evidence. A grainy video is not the same thing as incontrovertible evidence. The classic example is when you go to the bank to set up a new account. They take your ID, verify that it's authentic, give it back to you, then set up your account. You can't just give the bank a grainy video of you waving around a piece of plastic and claiming it's your ID - they want to see the real thing. Same as in the court. And there was no evidence of fraud. You poor babies. Don't you know facts don't care about your feelings?
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  2010.  @x-pilot6180  Bingo. It's unreasonable (to say the least) to expect those cultists to admit that Trump lied to them and that they acted on those lies. Instead, they just need to go through some things. It's the only way they'll learn.
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  2011. Apparently they're going to release it all. Have fun Kevin 😅
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  2012. His cult followers, though, would be inconsolable. Something about Trump's dark circus stirs their soul, and they ache for it when it is absent.
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  2013.  @RobertL.Peters  Can't say I'd shed too many tears if the J6 insurrectionists were swinging instead of getting three hots and a cot at our expense.
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  2014. To add to what you said re "The GOP has went to hell in a handbasket" << They JUMPED into the handbasket and floored it. Republicans went full-bore (with the exception of a very few) on ending our democracy and plunging America into chaos and bloodshed. Some people say someone hijacked the party. Bullshit. Nothing was stolen that didn't want to be stolen.
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  2015. In retrospect, we see that the late senator John McCain very accurately saw Trump for what he is.
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  2016. Actually, Republicans would just drive at 120mph through a crowded school zone, then whine that it's a "political witch hunt" when the cop that bags them turns out to have voted Democrat. Such is their nuttiness.
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  2017.  @euniceransfer7873  And yet, that makes him some kind of living deity to profoundly-damaged people here :(
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  2018. The GQP is basically putting the Onion out of business :(
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  2019. 2 years ago is when he turned 18, and became eligible to vote.
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  2020. They need to say hi to the Titanic while they're down there.
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  2021. Or impeachment. Or separation of powers. The Republicans have been derelict in their responsibilities. They DO have plenty of shrieking rage on tap, however, for when Obama wears a tan suit, or when they hear that Dr. Jill Biden has an advanced degree.
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  2022. Exactly. He shouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of anyone under 21.
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  2023. Well, as we found out over the last two presidential elections, there's a substantial minority of US voters who can be variously described as damaged; vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda; narcissistic; prone to anger and violence; easily manipulated; friendly to authoritarianism; easily turned against their own country; and so on. What we now know, perhaps for the first time in history, is exactly how many people we have like that and who they are.
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  2024. Also folks in need (like this woman) should relocate to, or at least visit, a more hospitable state where her basic human rights will be honored.
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  2025. This is similar to how Republicans are just fine with Trump trying to seize power illegally, but if Obama had given himself a third term they'd still be glued to the ceiling.
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  2026. Uhh, it is probably premature to call this Trump's "final" attempt to overturn a legitimate election. As we saw in Salem, Oregon today, what he'll probably do is have his armed supporters (sorry, Brownshirts) attempt to obstruct the workings of government.
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  2027. Just remember - Republicans had more outrage for Obama wearing a tan suit, or for Jill Biden having an advanced degree, than they do for Trump inciting an insurrection and having his mob attack the Congress. They are "hatriots" in the broadest sense.
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  2028. They're about par for the type of "American" that works for Putin.
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  2029. On the plus side, it's not as if America is suddenly missing a president. America has been missing a president for 4 years now.
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  2030. They knew this long ago in NYC and Atlantic City. They tried to warn the nation.
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  2031. Knowing Tяump, this means that Ghouliani just got sent back to Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Levi Sanders (Bernie's son), who, we will soon hear on OANN and FOXed, was involved in some corruption coverup there.
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  2032. The biggest thing the establishment fears is that the slaves will realize there's more than enough money in the budget for universal basic income. Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy cost the budget a lot more than giving every sub-$50K-earning American worker $500/week indefinitely.
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  2033.  @seanhewitt603 The numbers spell it out pretty clearly .. Russia hasn't figured out how to take 100 UA soldiers without losing 200+ of its own clayfoots in the process. They bragged recently about bagging a gen1 Abrams, but how many people and other combat vehicles did it cost them? The numbers are not in Russia's favor on this thing. Will be far more lopsided if/when NATO gets involved.
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  2034. Seems likely they had other failings as well. Drugs & alcohol while pregnant. Eating lead paint chips. Perhaps living downwind from a nickel smelter.
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  2035. Those families separated during Caligula's first term? Some thousands of them have still not been found. Guessing their ashes are somewhere in the desert, or they long ago became fish food.
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  2036. Beautiful. Saved for my collection. May I offer you something in return? Trump at 15 cases: Within a couple of days, it'll be close to zero. 9,000 cases: It's a war. I'm a wartime president! 80,000 cases: We're safe. Let's reopen America! 250,000 cases: I'm not responsible! 644,000 cases: I believe the USA has passed the peak in infections. 925,000 cases: Can we look into injecting disinfectant to make it go away? 1 million cases: I take no responsibility for people injecting disinfectant! 1.3 million: All those corpses are fake! They're crisis actors! It's safe to go back to work, I tell you! 1.4 million: We have prevailed! 100,000 dead Americans: It would have been worse if I hadn't done my job so well!
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  2037. Even Trump referred to him as Lyin' Ted - and for Trump to call someone else a liar says a lot :(
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  2038. 45 has been touring worksites lately, claiming he'll bring back manufacturing jobs. Sadly, there wasn't a single union member or reporter who asked 45 why all of his tacky merch is made outside the US. A gross failure of basic journalism.
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  2039. Even better .. ask those MAGAtards why liberals-in-disguise would try to stop Biden from becoming president. Watch their tiny heads try to figure out that one.
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  2040. To paraphrase Pericles .. just because you don't take an interest in covid doesn't mean covid doesn't take an interest in you. It has a thing for fresh warm bodies.
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  2041. Those people on stage :o the handmaidens of fascism
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  2042.  @guynorth3277  And good riddance to the King of Trash and Lies. No one misses him.
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  2043.  @pain.in2purpose  Bingo. The Republicans are so backwards-oriented, left to their own they would ban Blacks from voting, and try to dial back everything to 1950. Meanwhile, the whole rest of the world is moving on into the future. If you let them, Republicans would guarantee that future generations of Americans are slaves to foreign interests that just use America as a supply province.
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  2044. It's almost surprising they didn't set up a kiddie table off to the side for him.
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  2045. Nobody could implode the Republican party like Trump has done. Truly, destruction of [whatever], via his involvement in that same thing, is his only talent in life.
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  2046.  Terry Tater  Bingo. Because if we have an honest election in November, it will be a disaster for the GOP, and they know it. Hence this push to destabilize things as a means of retaining control.
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  2047.  @shawnhollahan590  Oh look, you're another of those truly dense morons who think that the people who oppose evil must be as bad as the evil they oppose. You're someone's useful idiot.
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  2048. So we got a northern wall, and Canada paid for it. Let's see if Mexico does the same.
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  2049. America's Most Gullible were lucky to get together with their money anyway, and soon parted.
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  2050. High inflation too.
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  2051.  @michelerokes3665  In that regard, Trump has moved up from a mere shovel to an excavator.
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  2052. If America is going to defuse some of the wilder sentiments currently floating around, prominent voices from the Republican party will have to get in front of the cameras and microphones and share some hard truths with their followers. There was no election fraud. Some Republicans, and many reich-wing "news" outlets, were complicit in spreading lies about the integrity and the results of the election. And so on. I have zero faith that they will do the right thing.
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  2053. Perhaps Mr Chomsky needs to get familiar with former PM Neville Chamberlain's attempts to appease a hungry alligator.
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  2054. Clearly we need to write laws that apply even when the defendant is a narcissistic con man that's got half the country in his thrall, including political leaders who refuse to hold him accountable for his crimes.
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  2055. Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? (Greenland is part of Denmark) First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. They're a cult :( and the cult includes senators, congresspeople, ambassadors, judges.
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  2056. It's no longer Reverend Warnock .. it's Senator Warnock :)
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  2057. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us to use unleaded gasoline in vehicles that use public roads. Something about the "common good" and how we all breathe the same air.
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  2058. What she said is typical for the "law and order" "family values" party. Apparently they have in mind some kind of Upside Down nation in which cruelty and lawbreaking are good things, while any attempt to do good is labeled evil.
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  2059.  @im_afraid_of_americans3918  THANK YOU :) :) :)
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  2060.  @trevordickenson3196  He knew as far back as the summer of 2019, or a little earlier, because that's when he started calling allies and shaking them down to make up dirt on the Bidens. We didn't know about it until he was all the way down the the U's in the rolodex.
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  2061.  @crimescene25  While overlooking the full containership of mistaken assumptions you just made .. have you availed yourself of any of the options designed to help you and the millions of other Americans in the same boat? You can get stimulus + unemployment - if you declared income and paid taxes 2018/2019. You can call your auto loan place, explain a full loss of income, and they'll put your payments on hold. You can call your auto insurer, explain a full loss of income, and they'll be happy with $10/month. Did you do any of this?
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  2062. Here in Oregon (pacific northwest USA) we've just learned that an elementary public school employee, in a suburb of Portland, has been symptomatic since February 19th and has just tested positive for covid-19. Most likely, they contracted it on or around February 12th (from sources unknown) and have been communicative since at least February 14th. This is time enough for it to spread to the young students (who will make excellent carriers, as they suffer it fairly lightly compared to older adults with medical issues) and their families and whoever those people have collectively been in contact with. If any of those people work in public-facing jobs (as many people do) then Portland is effectively already undergoing early stages of pandemic. 95% of the human population in Oregon (around 4 million total) lives in the Willamette valley and the intersection of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Vast flows of daily commuter traffic go in and out of Portland via routes 5, 205, 30, 26, 84. Looks like we're going to get a firsthand look at how things unfold here in the USA.
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  2063. The Republicans are going to be wandering in the desert for a couple generations. Let them take the time to reflect on how they became a cesspool of hate and division, how they tried to impose fascism on America, how time and again they voted for Trump's policies or looked the other way as he kept violating the law. They own this mess. Don't miss any opportunity to remind his delusional supporters of it. The bunch of them are going to have a rude awakening in the near future, the kind that loyal Nazis went through in 1945-1947, when they finally realized that blind obedience to a nutball Fuhrer is what helped him wreck Germany.
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  2064. I feel for Ohio (got relatives there) and the American workers at Goodyear, so my car is getting some new Goodyear tires next week.
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  2065. It's much more thorough than foot-shooting. What they're doing now is more like swallowing a hand grenade after pulling the pin.
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  2066. In other words .. "I was only the commander in chief. I take no responsibility for it."
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  2067. "Them who the gods would destroy, first they make proud."
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  2068.  @russellspeed1693  He's one of RT's American mouthpieces. Gets off on talking about how the "enormous" red army will supposedly crush Ukraine.
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  2069.  @janusgahrstre1998  You seem to be completely in denial about who the evil ones are in this regard (Republicans) and what kinds of shenanigans they've been up to for quite a while. Let me refresh your obviously-faulty memory: Republicans showed their truest colors back in 2019. Who else remembers this? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Moscow Mitch: The Senate is in total lockstep with Trump on whatever he says. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  2070. And how can they do that for ex-president Trump without also doing the same for current president Biden and all the other living ex-presidents? Because if Obama has immunity for life (and Biden as well) let's bring them back as co-emperors.
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  2071. It's become superabundantly clear that calling the Republicans out isn't good enough. Dragging them out would be more appropriate, as in dragging them out to the street to be tarred and feathered and hauled around town on a rail.
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  2072. Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol! Posting a selfie now of me stepping on a cop's face!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes!”
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  2073. This is how I imagined it would turn out .. Dr Fauci would end up smelling like a rose, the US would be welcomed back into the WHO with Dr Fauci leading the way, and his ex-boss would slink off to Florida smelling like something bad.
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  2074. The government owns the USGPO (government printing office) just for that reason. If the government needed to print up ration booklets and war posters, that's who would handle the job.
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  2075. So a sub-branch of the government has its own private military, not answerable to congress, in the same geographical/administrative region that holds the supreme court, the house, the senate? Hello coup situation :(
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  2076. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. Republicans: We see no evidence of wrongdoing. We're voting for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal.
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  2077.  @SeventyRS  Bingo. Miller, as we all know, was the architect of the most punitive family separation policy. Separating the families for political reasons, then giving the children up for adoption, was in violation of Hague 29. The ICC is probably most interested in knowing Miller's whereabouts.
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  2078. Funny you should say that. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%. That's where the Republican party is these days.
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  2079. Not like Trump has any shortage of people eager to lie on his behalf. Finding them is one of his few skills in life.
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  2080. When you claim that dead people voted, your claim is completely meaningless unless it's backed up by a stack of signed ballots and a matching stack of death certificates - with all of it notarized as to its authenticity. Anything less than that is blah blah blah.
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  2081. It's painful to watch, but Trump is just doing to the easily-misled what nature would have done to them 200K years ago. "Aww, look at that cute cuddly grizzly bear. He just wants to be friends."
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  2082. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. They had best remember this.
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  2083. In the same way you can infer the presence of a black hole by the movements of astronomical bodies, you can infer the Trump presence by the trail of damage that follows it.
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  2084.  @gailbutcher5246  Sorry to hear that vaccines are hard to get. It may be worth it for people to drive slightly west .. the three West Wall blue states make vaccines extremely easy to get, just walk into any pharmacy and ask. FYI the population of Idaho grew by an estimated 2.1% from 2019 to 2020. The fastest-growing city there seems to be Kuna, which saw 7.5% growth in just one year.
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  2085. Exactly. He's that dense.
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  2086. If it helps, just ignore all the times the conservatives whined about government overreach. Clearly they were complaining about something else. They've never hidden their envy of the way the Taliban operate - or the way Hitler operated. Orban is their current idol.
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  2087. It hasn't backfired yet. One imagines the free world forces are hunting Russia's SLBM assets most intensely just now.
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  2088. That's like cavemen showing off a captured iPhone. Russia can't make anything like an Abrams anyway 😅
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  2089. He's got the most childish sneer. So ugly.
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  2090. Smart people learn stuff by reading. Normal people learn by watching other people make stupid mistakes. Stupid people never learn.
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  2091. I see that and I raise you this - Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to slow or stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me!
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  2092. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one since Nixon's impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover ass for that crook Nixon was voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  2093. Betcha there's a lot more that's going to come out eventually than just this .. and that's why I support keeping the impeachment in the House until the true extent of Trump's guilt or innocence can be conclusively proved by examining ALL testimony, evidence, etc. C'mon, Trump, let everyone testify and release all requested information. What are you afraid of?
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  2094. Trumpism itself is a virus. Just look at Liberty University and how Falwell, so eager to be in line with Mango Mussolini's previous statements about the virus being a libtard hoax, is trying to pretend that classes can carry on as usual, even with students returning from spring break in Florida. Another future hotspot :(
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  2095. Russian messaging has gone into Baghdad Bob mode. "Nasty Ukrainians wished to sink our glorious Moskva ship, but our clever Russian sailors converted the vessel to submarine operations before the attackers could strike."
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  2096.  Titanium Is Real  Ironically, those oppressed working people got behind a guy who won't pay his fair share of taxes, who won't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and who moves the production of his trinkets overseas .. in other words, they support the rich guy who does to them precisely what they're complaining about "elites" doing to them. Battered wife syndrome? Stockholm syndrome? Who knows.
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  2097. Michael Cohen also has some pretty good material out there about what makes a good cultist and how easy it is (for some, anyway) to fall under the spell of a con man.
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  2098.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Sweet! Trump winning the R nomination is the best possible move for the country .. because he will lose the general.
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  2099. Same reason he racked up sht tons of debt while in office. Caring for the country is not on his agenda.
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  2100. Owning the libs, one vote and one corpse at a time.
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  2101. Please spell it MAGAts. Calling them some form of insect life is an insult to all insectkind.
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  2102. It's worse than that. He still talks about himself in third person - like when he tells the fable of the snake at his rallies.
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  2103. Somebody deserves an O.B.E. after his name :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
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  2104. It's like living through the hot parts of the cold war, except the crazy people are in Washington DC and they're itching to destroy America as we know it.
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  2105. Just more proof that the last name should be "Gropebert" ;)
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  2106. MAGA Mike wouldn't be cosplaying as house speaker without Trump's approval.
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  2107. Remember that time NPR hosts read aloud the Declaration of Independence, and all the Trumpanzees got upset because they thought the references to the mad king George were about Trump?
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  2108. Who else remembers that Axios interview Trump did during the pandemic? The reporter, Jonathon Swan I think, called Trump out on his lies. And if every news person all along had been correcting 45 on that, we might not be in this mess today. All they had to do was put on the adult shoes and say, "No Mr Trump, that's a lie."
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  2109. Even they know that Trump is totally guilty, and that's why they won't countenance any of the evidence against him, or listen to any witnesses beyond the ones that have nothing to do with Trump's violations.
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  2110. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  2111. Why yes! At 4% of the world's population, the US has 1/4 of its wealth, 1/4 of the prisoners behind bars, 1/4 of the coronavirus cases, and 1/4 of the abject morons.
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  2112.  @harleycontrarian6111  Hello again Harley and happy new year to you :)
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  2113.  @johnwang9914  Please don't misunderstand. I'm not wanting to see restrictions lifted while things are still so dangerous. I was merely saying that Delta is so much more contagious that we (as a race) need to get better at doing the right thing instead of sucking down the dumbest anti-science propaganda that the internet has to offer up. And there is quite a lot of it. This "ignore the science, just lift all restrictions and let nature take its course" thing has been proven wrong by every single place that's tried it. Every government that did try it, had to later change policy once it became evident that a lot more people would sicken and die. Take a good look at Florida. Not only have they not required masks (via state laws, anyway) but the government has outlawed local legislation to that effect. So by governor DeSatan's thinking (I may have misspelled his name - it's tricky) this disease should have burned itself out already and left behind survivors with covid immunities. Instead, the covid outbreak there just keeps getting worse and worse.
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  2114. It's very difficult not to notice this characteristic of Trump - yet somehow, the fools keep lining up to become his tossed-away doormats.
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  2115. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  2116. He doesn't usually get in front of non-MAGA crowds for that very reason .. he started getting booed back during his sht show of a term in office.
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  2117. Is there any chance they've already ordered some snazzy brown uniforms for their kkkolor guard?
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  2118. That's only because there isn't a single piece of exculpatory evidence and they know it.
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  2119.  @michaelinhouston9086  I have always thought it was because Trump speaks to their inner bits that are composed variously of white trashiness, spite, malice, racism, latent psychoses, etc. All the bad things. And the more Trump shows those same negative qualities the more they cleave to him.
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  2120. Someone needs to put a travel hold on Ghouliani so he too doesn't attempt to flee justice.
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  2121. Unfortunately I have the same fears. We don't want to find ourselves complaining after it's all over, as was the case with Sophie Scholl and her friends. By the time the death camps are set up and voting is suspended, it's a little too late.
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  2122.  Blue Star  None of the Palestinians were invited to that discussion - like letting the foxes run the chicken house :( guess how that turns out for the chickens.
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  2123. To Trump, you're disloyal anytime you fail to set yourself on fire when he demands it. Mitch is refusing to empty a bucket of gasoline on himself just now.
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  2124. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  2125. .. and that's how their swamp keeps getting more toxic.
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  2126. The cult leader is pretty insane. We all knew that anyway. It's the people going along with his craziness who are the problem. He's not being told "No, Donnie, that's a totally stupid idea" often enough if at all.
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  2127. No doubt Trump told her to help rehabilitate the Tates. Birds of a feather ..
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  2128. The Nazis similarly punished people who gave aid to Jews trying to escape. If the jackboot fits, those Trump people ought to slip it on and start goose stepping.
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  2129. Counting down the seconds until Trump starts tweeting about how he doesn't know Bolton, never met him, might have been in a few pictures with him, but then, he's in a lot of pictures with a lot of people and they are very fine pictures indeed, the best ones ever.
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  2130.  @ralfhaggstrom9862  Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the Reischtag (the German senate) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Trump.
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  2131. To make up for this, Trump will post more NFTs of him with laser beams coming out of his eyes.
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  2132. Only FOXed Noise could go from praising convicted war criminals to whining about how awful BLM/Antifa are.
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  2133. He's been like this his entire life. Are people just now noticing this about him?
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  2134. Don't forget the part when on Friday, Nov 20 2020, Trump had two Michigan politicians flown to the White House so he could personally pressure them into changing the vote results. These were Michigan state senate majority leader Mike Shirkey (R) and Michigan state house speaker Lee Chatfield (R).
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  2135. Similar here in Oregon .. 15 cases of documented fraud in more than 20 years. We vote exclusively by mail.
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  2136.  @riparianlife97701  Probably the only reason Pooty waited this long was because he finally realized for himself that, despite all his claims to the contrary, Trump was not about to be back in power and not about to be in any position to withdraw the US from NATO as he (likely) promised he would.
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  2137. No wonder Trump's so mad. He knew as far back as the summer of 2019 that he couldn't win a fair election against Biden - and we know it only because that's how far back he was shopping for an ally to help make up dirt against Biden. Then by mid-March he knew that millions of Americans would be voting by mail and that it would be unfavorable to him - and we know it only because that's when he began shopping for someone to sabotage the USPS from within. No doubt he's been chewing the carpets lately and regretting that he allowed the 2020 election to take place.
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  2138. Please, everyone, for love of all that is holy, do not whip out the label "socialist" until you hear someone talking about the workers and the state seizing the means of production. By comparison to what's in Europe, Bernie Sanders is a centrist.
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  2139. To be honest, anyone who commits crimes on the say-so of a known and obvious liar shouldn't be running around in public. Back in November, Trump told his people to vote twice (a crime) and many did just that. The DC insurrection was a far worse crime. What if another liar comes around and tells people drive the wrong way on the highway, or kill children? These people have no filter apparently. Lock them all up.
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  2140. Almost as if they've been "groomed" not to testify! ;)
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  2141.  @ejnichols05  Facts didn't matter to them back in 2009. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  2142. Here in America, by contrast we are sort-of-but-not-that-quite coddling them. There are no penalties per se (yet) for them choosing to be a biological menace to themselves and their own communities and households. However, with the great reopening of everything, they're on borrowed time now. If they don't have a biologically-secure bunker situation to hide in, Delta will have its way with them. Ask yourself this - is it a bad thing if Saint Darwin takes conservative voters off to the big Rapture?
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  2143. Bolton gets +10 points for this, but -200 points for waiting until the country is on fire before saying these things. It was clear years ago that long-time con man Wussolini would be not be just a failure, but a total disaster as president.
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  2144. I would like to personally thank the Republicans for insisting on public hearings. They were right, Americans deserve to hear this stuff. Republicans did a fantastic Baghdad Bob impression. Gym Jordan fulfilled my every expectation, like when he questioned Bill Taylor: Jordan: Who was at the meeting? Taylor: What meeting? Jordan: The meeting that didn't happen!
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  2145. As far back as July 2019, Trump knew he would lose a fair election against Biden, which is why he withheld aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. And by sometime in March 2020 he began hunting for someone to sabotage the USPS from within, when he realized that lying about the coronavirus hadn't made it go away, and tens of millions of people would be voting by mail in the fall. And even then he still lost.
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  2146. Face it, Trump is like Jim Jones or Charles Manson to ~42% of Americans. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  2147. Agree!! If the USA had even 80%+ voter participation regularly, this would be a much better country, and Trump's reign of error would have never happened.
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  2148. "I have the proof but I can't show it to you" .. yeah, just like your taxes.
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  2149. @Mark Hepworth .. bingo. Although Trump claims not to know Lev Parnas, the recording shows the US president taking Mr Parnas so seriously that in just 20 seconds he goes from not knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed, all based on one (1) person's point of view - someone he claims not to know.
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  2150. @Skip Long Unfortunately here in America we've got some real diehard nutballs. The same Republicans who would support Trump overturning the election results are aghast at the idea of Democrats, four years down the road, having the right to overturn election results that would put a Republican in the white house. They're cult members. Finding common ground with nutty people is a waste of time.
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  2151. You gotta admit, though, he's a champion gaslighter of the most gullible people.
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  2152. I'd rather get it over faster. Send Zelinskyy 5 containers of tomahawk cruise missiles.
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  2153. The US is presently experiencing a lesson in what's more important, the safety of the country or the "right" of a serial arsonist to play with matches and gasoline?
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  2154.  @camwyn256  "Trump is a Democrat plant" << Is that the only way your feeble mind can make sense of the way Republicans flocked to an inept psychopath like he was the new baby Jeebus?
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  2155. Apparently so! Paging Jack Smith!
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  2156. What the Republican party is doing now is what cancers do when they turn malignant - the term is metastasizing.
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  2157.  @hobobobobo2065  Which is why the world is so glad that the Mango Mussolini isn't in power anymore. By now he would have given away everything east of Berlin.
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  2158. Fakebook (or is it WasteBook?), just like Sauron, only has the power over you that you give it. Delete your account yesterday and get on with life.
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  2159.  @donaldindividual-1  Here's the analogy I like to use for that new Texas law practically written by the Taliban: Shooting people with a gun is a crime. Therefore, we're going to aggressively deny medical treatment for anyone shot with a gun and put bounties on doctors treating gunshot wounds. And as an afterthought, have the governor make an unaccountable and vague promise to remove all shooters from the streets without any specific plan on how that's going to happen.
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  2160.  @robertlivingston360  Sure, sure, that's why the US has a frigging out of control pandemic now. Jeebus F Christ on a stick, do you trolls ever get out of the basement?
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  2161. Just imagine if the Republicans had slapped him for his misdeeds as much as they did to Obama for the tyrannical, unconstitutional acts such as wearing a tan suit or using mustard or trying to seat a SCOTUS judge 8 months before the election.
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  2162.  @j.c.5749  I was thinking how nice it is that the trash took itself out. Perhaps we can keep it from trying to come back.
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  2163. I've found this to be a very illuminating time in history. I always knew that we had malcontents among us, people who in other times would have been happy collaborators with Nazi invaders, people with irrational resentments towards the same country that's protected them all their lives, people who would gladly burn the established world to the ground just to rub salve on their feeling of being wronged. I just didn't know we had so many of them :(
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  2164. Bingo. And those same repubs will spend the next 20 years pretending they had nothing to do with Trump. Don't let them get away with it.
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  2165. The Ukrainians are displaying much moxy .. someday they will make fine NATO partners and allies.
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  2166. In a nutshell - he's very angry at the world and everyone in it, and wants to take everyone and everything down to his level.
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  2167. Everything that Trump touches dies. Whatever agency he was allowed to appoint people to, their reputation is useless now because he used them like a cheap, disposable toilet seat cover to bolster his ego or whim at the moment. Whatever longstanding ally he was allowed to interact with, they now think a lot less of the USA now that they know our country is never more than one electoral-college whimsical decision away from appointing an even greater fool to the high office of president. The damage will last a generation or more, and everyone will long remember how the Republicans actively helped him all along the way.
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  2168. I was ready to vote for an urn with president Biden's picture in front of it .. or a rock painted blue .. but, wow, a Harris/Buttigieg team would be dynamite!
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  2169. Hope some sailors don't smoke near the vodka reserves - as happened famously on the Moskva and on the Admiral Kuzetsov.
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  2170. @Reecom98 Looks like Russia will not control much in Ukraine. With every hour that passes, the defense grows stronger. More aid and weapons arrive from the free world. Very soon if not already, hardcore foreign fighters will be on scene. Air and ground superiority will be unattainable goals when Stingers and Javelins are widely available to the resistance.
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  2171. The shit nazi didn't roll far from the shit nazi tree.
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  2172.  @kennyc388  Are you a sore Hardly Ableson owner by chance? Deliriously proud of that hunk of chrome that's an expensive, unreliable means of turning gasoline into noise without making too much power? Just wondering.
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  2173. Bingo! The first mention I saw of this whole covid story was something on DN back around Christmastime .. then I got onto Dr John's channel since around Jan 20th. By then I was already stockpiling food, which now I'm needing.
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  2174. Amazingly, these things happen in countries that Brandon has nothing to do with! LOL you probably blame Brandon every time you forget to clean your fridge ;)
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  2175. Republicans can't win without foreign help and without disenfranchising a lot of voters who won't swing their way. That game is only going to last so long.
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  2176.  @raydemos1181  Why explain with conspiracy what simple stupidity & laziness fully explains? The spending priorities at Surfside showed very clearly how it works. Folks installed plastic sheeting on the ceiling to keep that rusty water off their expensive cars down in the garage .. folks glitzed up the appearance of the building with marble everywhere .. folks voted against fully funding the engineering fixes .. and look what happened. Every condo board has members who simply don't want to pay much. No conspiracy necessary.
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  2177.  @gameburn178  Trump cannot conceive that the US is a long-running enterprise, with many longstanding operational norms & goals, that he is only supposed to caretake for a few years. Instead, he's treating it like a bag of money you find lying in the road.
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  2178. Exactly. There wasn't any analysis supporting those changes.
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  2179.  @stroshow5  Regarding "mRNA are not regular vaccines" << Bingo. They are actually a lot more effective than regular, old-fashioned vector vaccines, which were lucky to be 50%-70% effective. mRNA vaccines are more like 90%+ effective. But everything helps. Chances are, seat belts are required where you live, but they are only 45% effective at preventing death (and only 50% effective at preventing serious injury) in a severe auto accident. But it's enough of a difference that these things are mandated by law. Similar with how vaccines are.
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  2180.  @VegasRT500  Want to read something scary? Pick up a copy of "I Alone Can Fix It". We were closer to trouble than most of us realized through the news :(
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  2181. Dump also tells his followers, to their faces, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" Meanwhile, they think they're hearing a retelling of the movie "Anaconda" ;)
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  2182. It's much worse than that. All over the country, red or purple states are working now to make it harder to vote. So we're going to need to spend the whole of 2022 working to register people to vote, making sure they don't get kicked off the voter rolls, and making sure that polling places don't get closed and/or ballot drop boxes reduced in quantity.
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  2183. It's not an act.
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  2184. Good thing he didn't try tough words like Yo-semite. Who else is ready for the epic Baghdad-Bob style tweetstorm?
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  2185. Anyone who Trump would endorse is automatically a loonie-tunes character anyway.
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  2186. The stock market is going up, gas prices are going down nationwide, and all those loons can do is complain. LOL
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  2187. How ironic, the same people who say Americans don't need testing before returning to work won't let anyone work around them unless they get tested daily.
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  2188. You've just described that loser Roosh V to a T, who once tried to organize a pro-rape rally in Canada, only to cancel it when the local womens' boxing club said they were going to show up. https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/roosh-v-s-pro-rape-rally-cancelled-after-women-s-boxing-club-fights-back-19487
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  2189.  @Michelle-no8tp  Re "Not enjoying Biden does not magically translate to enjoying MAGA" << Exactly! Biden might be bland and centrist, but at least he's not working with Putin to destroy America's alliances and future .. nor is he sucking up to foreign dictators and sending out nonsensical angry tweets while perched on Golden Throne One. These dipshit MAGAts have no clue how much NOBODY misses the shit salad that was Trump's reign of error.
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  2190. Which is why I'm just going to let the leopards feast. The American people had one simple job this fall, and too many blew it.
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  2191. Bingo. Because, for sure, the same thing almost certainly happened in Harris Co, Texas and many other places.
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  2192. Crazy people are a dime a dozen. But when tens of millions of people vote for an obvious crazy, an obvious liar, an obvious con man, well, we have a problem. Nice of the cultists to out themselves however. Perhaps we can trade them for refugees.
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  2193. When they say their party line is more important than the country - you're dealing with authoritarians.
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  2194. Correct. Doesn't matter if he cost them the house, the senate, and the presidency all while being impeached twice .. the fact that he's an overweight older white male who doesn't pretend not to be a racist sexist bigoted jerk is what pushes all their feel-good buttons.
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  2195. Remember back in January 2017 (just after inauguration) Trump spoke of "American carnage"? He essentially promised them blood and fire.
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  2196. Correct, he was the smallest president ever. Nothing was ever too mean, too petty, too small-minded for him. And it is precisely why his fans loved him so much, too :(
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  2197. In other words, there are too many like Moscow Mitch .. when torn between defending democracy and doing whatever it takes to avoid being on the receiving end of some nasty tweet, they tend to choose the latter course while calling themselves "patriots".
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  2198. That one patient has been at the hotel for a week already feeling unwell .. so everyone departing that hotel for the hotel (since he arrived there) is a potential new vector that will pop up in a few weeks when they return to home and start making new clusters.
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  2199. This is sort of like the Charles Manson cult but on a much larger scale. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls, and found something trivially easy to manipulate.
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  2200.  @griggbaylee5808  Confused old grandpa, who dumps in his depends, didn't wash hands, and was allowed to serve food?
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  2201. Like trading cancer for a high-speed flaming auto wreck 😅
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  2202. Trump insists on holding no-distancing no-masks type events. Even Pence went to one last week, where we now know several people were covid-positive. Looks like the virus keeps trying to have a meeting with Trump & Pence.
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  2203. The radical Trumpers are the 20-25% of the country who did not want any evidence in the senate portion of the impeachment. I find it easiest to think that they've developed a taste for licking lead paint. The effect is essentially the same. One minute they wail that impeachment is a horrible thing that should never happen, yet in the next breath they say they'll impeach Biden (if he wins) over their disproved Ukraine conspiracy theory.
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  2204. Letting those places try to make it without federal aid from blue states would be a lesson they're overdue for.
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  2205. Killing off their fan base and reducing the numbers of conservative voters. Saint Darwin works in strange ways indeed.
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  2206. Cult leaders and their loyal sheeple are an unusual part of the human genotype. Hitler and his goons, Charles Manson and his family, Heavens Gate, etc. Same mental/emotional defectives, different day.
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  2207. I love the way he chose that dumb hill to die on .. we've got the artillery all zeroed in on that particular KZ.
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  2208. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" -- Trump telling the punch line to a fable, at his rallies.
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  2209. 1. Locate electric chair or guillotine. 2. Set up pay-per-view event. 3. ????? 4. Profit!
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  2210. Everything that Trump touches dies. Whatever agency he was allowed to appoint people to, their reputation is useless now because he used them like a cheap, disposable toilet seat cover to bolster his ego or whim at the moment. Whatever longstanding ally he was allowed to interact with, they now think a lot less of the USA now that they know our country is never more than one electoral-college whimsical decision away from appointing an even greater fool to the high office of president. The damage will last a generation or more, and everyone will long remember how the Republicans actively helped him all along the way.
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  2211. He's already been making unvetted unapproved appointments for awhile - those are all his "acting" this or that positions. But that's not good enough for mad king Donald, apparently.
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  2212. The main difference between Donald Trump and Benedict Arnold is that the latter didn't get 70 million votes and didn't induce his nutjob base to threaten the lives of the people processing the election results. It's time for Benedict Arnold to move down to the #2 spot.
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  2213. Which one is Diamond and which is Silk?
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  2214.  Chris Pacheco  I am down to grocery shopping just once per week. But still, no store personnel were wearing masks, and only a handful of customers had any kind of mask. I felt conspicuous wearing gloves and one of those hard-to-get N95 masks but oh well. It beats the alternative.
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  2215. How many families lost parents, grandparents, loved ones because they took Phil Valentine's nonsense seriously? We'll never know. Naturally, Phil never bothered to show up at the funerals of those he killed with medically bad advice .. he didn't have any kind of foundation going to help the families who lost a provider due to following his bad advice.
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  2216. To be fair to Putin, he gets much help from Murdoch "news" channels and from some Republicans in the US.
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  2217. Stuff like this makes you wonder if someone's out there dripping LSD into the tap water line for the house. Seriously. How did anyone think this would not be caught?
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  2218. Is there anyone who didn't see this day coming? The same guy whose very words are echoed by mass murderers in the manifestos they leave behind? The guy who's spent more than a decade pushing his hate agenda by twitter and FOXed Noise? If you're surprised by this, you haven't been paying attention.
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  2219. Adult life? How about "post grade school life"? He's clearly never grown up.
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  2220. Oh, look, the shallow end of the gene pool is cleaning itself up! ;)
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  2221.  @serenity6415  The actual recording of it is better. He seemed to think that the votes were actually pieces of red or blue paper in a box. At first, he told them to take a certain number of his votes, cut them all in half, then cut the pieces all in half again, and then it would "correct" the numbers to his satisfaction.
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  2222. I'm sorry for that business owner that he doesn't understand the risks he poses to the community by having people indoors, in an enclosed space, breathing heavily while in proximity to each other. He's probably a great business owner, but he's a lousy epidemiologist, since those are ideal conditions for the virus to spread among people. That's high droplet output.
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  2223. Watching the little rooster boyz tangle with the police makes me want to join the police and continue a family tradition that my grandfathers both engaged in. Something to do with putting fascists in their place. Might not be picky about where that "place" is.
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  2224. Trump is a "victim" of coronavirus in the same way that people who smoke in bed, and set their own homes ablaze, are "victims" of fire.
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  2225. The Trumpers are trying to implement a type of government here that none of them have ever lived under. Lt Colonel Vindman knew that crap when he saw it - and I hope his rank and benefits are restored by the Biden administration. Same for his brother.
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  2226.  @AuntAlnico4  To be sure, it would be hard to find something nice to say about white nationalists as they currently exist in the United States these days. Perhaps the nicest thing you could say about them is that they're proficient in being nabbed by law enforcement officers, like in this case: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/kansas-militia-trial-sentencing.html
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  2227. The person most happy with all of this is comrade Trump's boss: Putin.
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  2228. Like Napoleon said .. never interrupt your adversary while he's making a mistake.
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  2229. Which is why, every election year, we're going to have to put in some time making sure democracy is working. Getting all the fresh 18/19yo's registered to vote. Making sure folks haven't been purged off the voter rolls. Making sure polling locations haven't been closed, moved, or given restrictive hours. Making sure that ballot drop boxes will be in enough places to serve the population. Giving rides to people if they need one to get to the polls. Making sure people have whatever ID is necessary for them to vote. We can do this. It's just going to be work. And in a couple decades, we can make the GQP history.
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  2230. The GQP is doing a fine job inducing Texans to go blue.
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  2231.  @letsRegulateSociopaths  Also a sly way of telling Diaper Don they know what he did. Blood pressure has a way of making him issue further incriminating statements. Win-win.
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  2232. Different videos for different subjects. If you want to watch that, you go find the Georgia video, not look for the Georgia video content in a different video about what Biden wants to say about the US-China relationship.
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  2233. When he was up on the dais, trying to pin conspiracy theories onto the testimony like an ill-fitting suit, we all thought he was just really familiar with the nutjob material on Infowars, 8chan, FOXed .. but then we find out that he helped author those same nutty conspiracy theories. And he did it on the taxpayer dime - !!!
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  2234. @rachel rosser For Germany, it was Hitler. For Norway, it was Quisling. For America, when it comes to traitors, Benedict Arnold is about to move down to second place.
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  2235. Been wanting to know, how many other places did they try this stunt with? Would have been swing states with one or more large urban areas where people don't vote for Trump or other fash. Like Arizona (Maricopa), Georgia (Fulton), Michigan (Wayne), Nevada (Clark), North Carolina (Wake & Mecklenburg), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia & Allegheny), and Wisconsin (Milwaukee).
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  2236. Not sure on the crookedness, but yeah, they would rather give Trump a second term than see Bernie be the nominee - and that's sick :(
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  2237.  Alexander Van Burk  You must have joined the discussion months later than everyone. The mask is designed to keep you from sharing your droplet dispersal with others. When enough people wear masks, infection via droplet transmission is reduced.
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  2238.  @mg2779  Thanks to Trump pouring gasoline all over that particular fire for 11 months, yes, it was burning pretty hot by the time Joe came along. (hint: the prosecutor in an arson case goes after the guy who started the fire, not the people trying to put out the fire)
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  2239.  @bobsap1723  Go back to your closet. DeSatan's stupid policies are why so many of your fellow Florida residents have been sickened and killed. Do you really want to celebrate that? Because if so, look in the mirror and be honest about how you support someone whose policies get more people killed.
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  2240. Not at all. The fact that he's a tax cheat is incidental compared to the way he's not just a traitor to America in the narrow sense of being a puppet of Putin, but in the broader sense that he wants to destroy American democracy. We know now why one of his first steps was to get rid of the Office of Governmental Ethics back in 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-trump-broke-the-office-of-government-ethics
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  2241. Hope DeathSantis (or is it DeSatan?) is proud of how Florida is now having record numbers of covid cases. Is he aiming for a high body count or something?
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  2242. Remember when Moscow Mitch said that even 8 months before an election was much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge?
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  2243. As it turns out, getting the chickens to vote for Colonel Slanders isn't too difficult after all 😓
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  2244. Smart people learn from reading about (or hearing about) the mistakes that other people made. Ordinary people learn only from making those mistakes themselves. Stupid people never learn.
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  2245.  @mikedon5205  One should hope those Russian women make things very difficult for the current regime to continue. Their men are being needlessly sacrificed in a war of aggression that cannot be won. As of the onset of war, Russia still had not recovered from the demographic losses of so many men in WW2, and the Ukraine War is making things so much worse.
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  2246. Trump's fans aren't much better. Many of them die gasping in a hospital, saying it's not possible for them to have covid. It's Jim Jones and the tainted Kool Aid all over again :(
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  2247. Removing incompetent & biased judges is going to be a thing in the coming years.
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  2248. Not honest enough to walk away from it, however.
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  2249. This is where the ghost of Al Capone is wishing he'd had 4 years to stack the judiciary with his own cult members in order to help cover up his crimes later.
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  2250.  @wayneburton8168  And what does it tell us about a certain [treasonous morons] subset of Americans that they worship Trump for those very same things you mentioned?
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  2251. And this is why friends don't let friends get their "news" and "facts" from OAN / the Blaze / Epoch Times / FOXed Noise.
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  2252. Prolly shouldn't be voting either, given his propensity to really unlawful choices for who should be dictator next.
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  2253. You never go full Sarah Palin.
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  2254.  @barrysmith4863  I feel the same. We're just lucky he's so incompetent. A smoother, smarter, younger version of him could have done a lot more damage.
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  2255.  @jkryanspark  The only thing he learned was that Republicans are spineless.
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  2256. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  2257. Nope. Hopefully someone is already hunting down the wannabe abortion bounty hunters. They need some "golden rule therapy" and lessons on the meaning of consent.
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  2258.  @livingtribunal4110  The irony of you telling people to read things properly. The NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997. The Budapest Memorandum. The Minsk Agreements. In the last of those, Russia agreed to respect and defend Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for taking possession of the approx-2000 nuclear warheads and delivery systems that Ukraine had left over from the Soviet times. But sure, why would Putler let a piece of paper stand in the way of his imperial ambitions?
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  2259. Those former service members took an oath to the constitution. That oath has no expiration date! Those ones need the maximum sentence.
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  2260. Sondland threw the entire administration under the bus, then backed up and parked the bus on top of them. Guess he didn't appreciate it when Trump suddenly claimed he never knew him. Lev Parnas had a similar reaction to being DK'd by Dimwit Don - he immediately offered to cooperate with the investigation.
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  2261.  @Babygirlly555  Yes. But it's interesting that Trump refuses to.
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  2262. It's practically why they're his cult followers, actually. See the Manson Family, the Jim Jones cult, Heavens Gate, etc. Same script, same dummies, different day.
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  2263. On January 30th he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment - five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.” On February 26th he said: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” The check is coming in three weeks? Someone go tell him to pull the other one.
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  2264. Putting Pence in charge of anything scientific is like putting the Flat Earthers in charge of NASA. Dear God this administration is breaking all the records for incompetence :(
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  2265.  @chicenburger  Oh, and in case facts help you see things .. the average cost of covid treatment (for those sick enough to need medical care, anyway) is in the neighborhood of $34K to $45K, more than some of those households will make in a year. (reference: https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/hospitalized-care-covid-19-averages-34662-45683-varying-age ) And for those who test positive, the closed case death ratio is 5% of cases (reference: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ ) So, punk, do you feel lucky today?
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  2266. Sadly, we can't relax for reals. Trump's going to keep trying, and others like him will try too.
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  2267. She looked elderly, obese, possibly diabetic, mild dementia .. in 2 weeks we won't have to worry about her voting again.
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  2268. What kind of tin-pot dictatorship is it when the ruler personally decides which of his followers get access to the same treatment he got, which is still unavailable to the rest of us?
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  2269. Good thing that species doesn't get a whole lot bigger.
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  2270.  @carmenflores-wt9fd  Another time he describes himself perfectly (speaking in third person of course) is during a line he often delivers at his rallies, the punch line to a fable: "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  2271. Like a fascist Fred Flintstone.
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  2272. Not just a dimwitted fanatic. A really horrible, negative person whose main emotions are hate and spite. A narcissist with no regard for laws, someone to whom people are just objects in his field of vision and not actual human beings. What's scary is that so many people in America like him so strongly precisely for those same negative traits. We need to build more mental hospitals.
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  2273. That's because it never happened, fool. Hint: when Tucker Carlson gets taken to court for lying, the attorneys from FOXed Noise claim his show is just entertainment.
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  2274. Everyone involved, good job at making the orange fool come closer to the day when he strokes out in front of the camera while muttering "fake news" yet again. You should do more of that every day. I am waiting for some cheeky reporter to ask him why, if he thinks the country can reopen, he hasn't resumed his rallies? He canceled them out of fear of the virus. He hasn't restarted those rallies. It's as if he thinks there's some dangerous virus going around.
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  2275. Somewhere out there, a used car lot in rural Georgia is missing its huckster salesman.
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  2276.  @theresasantiago1788  Look at him playing the air accordion too.
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  2277.  @LulaMae21 She DID however plan to pardon Trump, and that's just unforgivable after what he's done and what he continues to do.
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  2278. A huge mental health crisis.
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  2279. It's the Jim Jones phenom again. She's leading them to covid.
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  2280. For the first time, one of their own was leader of the country. Of course they would destroy America to soothe his monumental butthurt.
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  2281. Notice how Russia is happy to put its arms manufacturing in other places but doesn't bother to protect those places with AA systems. Welcome to Russki Mir, Tatars.
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  2282. Trump: The virus makes prison too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone, it's an indoor group setting. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them or you. My campaign depends on it!
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  2283. This is the same fool that said the American revolutionary army in 1775 rammed the ramparts and took over the airports. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/05/flight-of-fancy-trump-claims-1775-revolutionary-army-took-over-airports
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  2284. He'll be gone someday. Might be sooner than later. The problem that keeps me up late is the damage Trump has done to his followers. Many of them now think of it as normal and acceptable (indeed, they feel they got permission from the angry orange dude in the highest office in our land) to be their worst selves. Some may go to their graves still carrying water for Trump's many lies. This will take generations to fix :(
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  2285.  @Chuck26814  Read what I wrote. Big stores have more capability to increase ventilation, make sure their workforce is appropriately masked, enforce distancing, etc than mom-and-pop stores. Is it unfair? I won't deny that. But the alternative is to let them spread disease among the local population, and that's just plain unacceptable in case you hadn't noticed.
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  2286. They're making quite a hill with their covid corpses :(
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  2287. "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  2288. To heal America, for real, Trump and McConnell and others would need to get in front of the cameras and explain some hard truths to their base. There was no election fraud. Biden won the election fair and square. Trump and many others lied about the integrity and results of the election. Their lies incited people to commit violence. Those are all necessary truths that must be told, but it seems few Republicans dare to say them.
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  2289. These are trying times here in the Colonies. A whole major political party threw its lot in with an obvious authoritarian, a lawbreaker, a party general secretary with no regard whatsoever for law and order. It's going to take them awhile to wash that stain off, and they've barely begun the process.
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  2290.  @Eric_The_Eccentric  For sure. Trump's going to sue everyplace that didn't vote for him. Whether he gets the Republicans to go along with his attempted election stealing is another story.
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  2291. One of the several notable differences is that Nixon didn't hear boos and chants of "lock him up" during public appearances. The Mango Mussolini better keep to his safe spaces.
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  2292. If Putin wants the former Soviet Union to be re-assembled, what is he willing to offer in return? That he goes back to being a cab driver? Because by now it's pretty obvious that Russia would be better off if he'd stuck with the cab business.
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  2293. President Bleach Injection is waaaaay too easy to see through. He tests himself and his staff constantly (as if he's afraid of a dangerous virus) but tells the rest of us to go back to work without workplace testing. He tells us the USPS needs to go, but he uses it to send out stimulus letters because it's cost effective. He tells us chain migration is bad, then he uses chain migration to bring in his mail-order bride's parents. He votes by mail, then tells us that voting by mail leads to fraud. Could he be any more transparently dishonest?
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  2294. Here's what YOU can do: be out there with some kind of video camera. Get their faces, their vehicles, their associates, their gear, where they came from, what they do, and where they go. The local district attorneys will be most interested in that data. If they do the crime, they will do the time.
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  2295. I am so stealing that.
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  2296. Lack of remorse, after inflicting serous trouble on others, is one of the defining characteristics of a sociopath. That describes Trumpolini's party perfectly.
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  2297. When you've united people with hate and anger, it's wise not to expect any happy endings :(
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  2298. Won't be long before you've got people choosing to have their families and homes in more rational places.
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  2299. The Allies are reconstituting themselves in a hurry. Many pieces being moved around on the game board. Someone needs to explain to Pooty that he should avoid things that will turn out badly for Russia.
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  2300.  @nicholasnicholas3306  As they say in Bob's Dog's Story, cut the tail off an alligator and paint it yellow.
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  2301.  jeff mcgowan  Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  2302. But then, if they could be swayed by facts, they wouldn't be Trumpanzees in the first place.
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  2303. It's coming faster than they realize. The rest of us with any sense are growing vegetable gardens and getting ready for a rough winter 2025-26. (American here)
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  2304. Easy peasy. Make up a new country (by whatever name) .. ask Ukraine to cede it a village on their border with Poland .. bulldoze a runway .. bring in the Patriot missiles, phalanx systems, etc .. roll in some jets .. show Putin some love.
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  2305. Losing money has always been his main skill. Lying is a close second.
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  2306.  @markgreen4612  If I may politely disagree on one part of what you said .. they are welcome to leave, but they are not welcome to take over any part of the US. That being said, there's a should-be utopia for them someplace else, a place that has guns and religion everywhere, hardly any government, almost no taxes if any, hardly any regulations. Should be a paradise to their way of thinking, right? I'm sure they'll fit in great in Somalia.
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  2307. The electoral college elected Trump in 2016. The American people did not: he lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020.
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  2308.  @grtzam4184  Probably why the life expectancy is lower in places like that. There's no cheating Saint Darwin.
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  2309.  @JM-ot8ux  Of course. We just have to wish that he gets a trip to the same resort that the Ceausescu's went to.
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  2310.  Leroy Gibbs  Trump has convinced them of the need to flip the calendar back to an imaginary 1950s when minorities were invisible, when women stayed home, when rich white men held all power. Of course they don't want the high marginal tax rates from that era.
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  2311. What's happening seems to be like something pastor Niemoller warned people about.
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  2312.  @lenom1289  Using Louisiana as an example .. Mardi Gras finished 2/25, but the really big daily case increases didn't start until 3/25 and lasted through 4/12. At the worst of it, Louisiana was seeing above 2000 new cases per day. The deaths are about a month behind the hospitalizations.
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  2313. Cult zombies.
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  2314. From the way Don-the-con is holding onto vital evidence, we may safely assume it's such damning stuff that he'd get a lot worse than just removed from power. Heck, I want to see the translator's notes from his initial meetings with Putin.
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  2315.  Testa Rossa  As George W Bush famously said .. they gotta dance with the one that brung them.
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  2316. It's not an act.
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  2317. The schoolyard bully just sucker-punched the Islamic kid, then screamed that if he fights back he'll get hurt even worse. Makes you wish everyone would teach the bully some lessons in humility and consent.
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  2318. It should have been called their "Piece plan", like the one that Hitler and Stalin dreamed up in 1939 for Poland. Code name "operation Lebensraum". One side wasn't even consulted.
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  2319. Some people in the USA have trouble understanding that just because they've gotten tired of staycationing with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies, it doesn't mean the virus has gone away. If anything, in most places your chances of catching it are higher now than they were when the lockdowns began.
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  2320.  @willdigforfood5065  Clarence has a house job at the "hire court" - just ask Harlan Crow.
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  2321.  @carriesee8547  Re "Even though they’re outnumbered and outsmarted. Keep alert" << Also, don't hire them or their kids. Time to let them go.
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  2322. Correct. Thanks to decades of Republican disinvestment in healthcare, education, the environment, technology science, infrastructure, transportation (and many other things) their policies only serve to make our grandchildren the sharecroppers of China's supply province in just two generations. In voting like in driving, (R) goes backwards and (D) goes forward.
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  2323. Trump has always wanted to rule, not to lead. The latter requires the consent of the people; the former does not. He's making that distinction clear.
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  2324. Do you live alone? If so, please prove what you say by visiting a covid ward and breathing deeply, without a mask. Meanwhile, the rest of us will make snide remarks about the trash taking itself out.
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  2325. That's what happens when you get medical guidance from politicians and propagandists.
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  2326. Chances are, they're not feeling a thing. Telemetry & comms were lost together at the same time. And the sub never surfaced at the 24 hour mark like it was supposed to automatically.
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  2327. The justice machine has been set for extra-extra-fine grinding and it is moving slowly .. but nothing is escaping its maw.
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  2328. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  2329.  @brentwalker8596  Bingo - by now it's becoming clear that by next New Years Eve he'll be in an orange jumpsuit.
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  2330. Not only is Trump a crazy traitor, so are the people who support him. Remember their names, those twats who want to be the handmaidens of fascism in America.
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  2331.  @ralphspradley7988  He's also being honest when he tells the rallygoers, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" But the truth of the moment eludes them. They merely think they're hearing a tale about a big bad snake.
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  2332. To be fair, he had a lot of help from other crazy people, from other wannabe traitors, from other folks who wanted to see democracy destroyed. And they all need to pay.
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  2333. Especially if any of these nitwits are their own grandchildren.
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  2334. He's like one of those old people who's frantically stomping the gas pedal as they drive through a crowd of horrified pedestrians .. imagining he's stomping on the brakes but instead just killing more people.
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  2335. And that "investigation" probably means watching Infowars and collecting memes from FakeBook :(
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  2336. When we hear the news about Sanders winning the vote count but Buttigieg winning the delegate count, most of us grimace because that's precisely how Trump "won" the 2016 election despite having a couple million fewer votes than Clinton. Didn't we all just get a harsh lesson in the importance of the actual vote counts?
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  2337. We don't know yet that the tens of thousands of "undesirables" from south of the border aren't getting the final-solution treatment, but we do know that there's been no accounting produced showing the whereabouts and status of each of the many tens of thousands who've been imprisoned in this manner. Considering this administration's hateful rhetoric, though, no one would be too surprised if there are mass graves in the desert, courtesy of Trump.
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  2338. Awww. "Stop being so mean to the guy who's completely ruining the future of the Republican party now that he's no longer allowed to ruin America and its future prospects and the lives of future generations".
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  2339. It's an issue already where to put the infected people? Err, in 6 weeks there will be about 20x more.
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  2340. Trump proves nearly every day how good he is with matches and gasoline.
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  2341. Trump votes by mail because it's safe and convenient, but tells the rest of us that we've got fake votes if we do what he does. Trump has himself tested constantly, and takes medication for it, but tells the rest of us to go back to work and that we don't need testing. Houston, there's a pattern to his lies.
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  2342.  @Baseballmom-1221  Because the people who vote that way here this nonsense every day: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  2343. "I never thought leopards would eat MY face", she says, after supporting the guy who advocates leopards eating people's faces.
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  2344. To be fair to the Ivans, the last time they did OK in combat (1942-1945) they were being bankrolled by Uncle Sam by all kinds of supplies. It's a different story without that.
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  2345. Aww, is Pence just now realizing that he's been working for Satan?
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  2346. Russians need to go home while they still can, or the Ukraine's POW camps are going to be so full they'll have to put the conscripts to work fixing roads.
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  2347. This sort of stuff is also why more people of natural intelligence will flee those looney-tune deep-red states.
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  2348.  @johnwang9914  I love you thinking, but Delta spreads so easily that classic control measures have lost the bulk of their effectiveness. Best would be for anyone unvaxxed to remain in some form of bio-isolation, only the vaxxed to be out adulting, and everyone to continue wearing masks and distancing (and avoiding congregate settings) while the unvaxxed get vaxxed. But that's not going to happen anywhere.
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  2349.  get lost  It must be nice to know you're somehow magically immune to covid-45. Do you have any advice for how other people should replicate your good luck without playing a losing game of Covid Roulette? Because the way things stand now, if you test positive you have a 1-in-20 chance of getting whacked by this thing.
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  2350.  @camaro67-l1g  Putin appointed some new commander for the Russian disaster in Ukraine. Let's hope he rides at the very front of the convoy ;)
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  2351. Bingo. He's beginning to squeal like a pig.
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  2352. I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  2353. Ted is a joke. Rafael Eduardo Cruz is his real name. Only in America could the Canadian-born descendant of a Cuban refugee rebrand himself as a white, southern, immigrant-hating conservative. 😅😅
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  2354.  @TheHipisterDeer  Innocent people get exonerated by full release of all evidence .. which is why the Republicans are working so hard to hide the evidence.
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  2355. Stop the Stall is beautiful! And you can probably give the sign to his culties to put on their lawns. Most of them can't spell anyway.
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  2356.  @dylhemsley9458  He would have just elbowed everyone else aside to get in front of the camera and whine about his imaginary sacred landslide election victory.
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  2357. Nothing says "We're here to preserve law and order" like bashing in a policeman's head with a fire extinguisher.
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  2358. Tough choice. The drunk racist FOXed Noise pervy uncle or the guy who can be president for ALL Americans (not just his own base) and who isn't crazy. Hmm. Tough choice.
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  2359. Fascists gotta fash.
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  2360. Until this week? Did you somehow fail to notice his "lying sack of sht" character previously?
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  2361. Like they say, the law in the USA is like a fine mesh spider web that lets big flies pass right through but catches all the little flies.
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  2362. Last time, he turned DC into a deluxe reptile resort.
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  2363. OTOH the sky is the limit for making the Russian economy "less fine". Railroad depots .. tunnels and bridges .. pipelines .. all of the gantries as the cosmodrome .. leave a mark on red square .. etc. Sit back and watch Lavrov whine about getting back what they've been dishing out. Their poor tender feefees.
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  2364. One of the biggest lies Trump floated was, "What have you done in 50 years in power?" Of those two (Biden and Trump) only one of them has ever been president, and his administration has been a complete f*ckup. And his response is to whine about hard questions. Feh. He's probably still butthurt from that Axios interview.
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  2365. All of these things could make a person question what the meaning of "is" is.
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  2366. I couldn't watch it either. If it came on the radio I changed channels. While it is sometimes amusing to listen to him ramble about toilets, windmills, and how unfair the world is to his attempts at criminal governance, it's disgusting to listen to his lies and bullying and threats (while his spineless, dictator-friendly flying monkeys cheer him on - people who were raised in the bosom of America and who are now trying to destroy that very same America) and really, Republicans, this is the best you've got to offer?
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  2367. This season, don't forget to trigger a few kkkonservatives by wishing them "happy holidays" ;)
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  2368.  @sparky7915  I suspect that he's going to make Bernie Madoff look like a saint by comparison. We shall see.
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  2369. Starting to? The president has been hearing boos and chants of "lock him up!" at every public event from the DC world series game to the NYC veterans day parade. Normally that sort of stuff is quickly followed by a one-way trip to the nearest wall.
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  2370. These are essentially the same people who spent 8 long years screeching about Obama and filling our newsfeeds with the most insane obviously-made-up drivel. They're cultists that just haven't yet gotten their cup of special kool-aid.
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  2371. It was always going to end this way. He's never ever reacted well to not getting what he wants. Too bad more people didn't see that earlier on.
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  2372. Here in the US, we still have whole states that won't impose mandatory mask wearing, and in some places, rural reich-wing authorities won't enforce the laws on masks, distancing, closure of activities that are known to spread virus. The USA will be the poster child for how not to do a pandemic.
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  2373. Correct. Trump sicced the MAGA mob on DA's who don't turn a blind eye to his crimes.
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  2374. Obstruction, emoluments, corruption, bribery, extortion, inciting stochiastic terror, violating international law on refugees, crimes against humanity - bring on all the charges.
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  2375. That payment will be in the form of no one wanting to attend university here (who wants to come to the covid capitol of the world anyway?), no one wanting to buy possibly-tainted American food products, no one wanting to use the US dollar for business, no one wanting to send their ship crews to the plague nation, no one wanting to engage in treaties with a nation that can allow some fool to cancel all previous agreements, etc.Trump will get a wall around the entire nation, but it will be designed to keep us in.
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  2376. Someone needs to put out the Trump rant parodies.
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  2377. We have a lot of stupid in America. Thankfully Saint Darwin is helping clean out some of the crud. Anyone sensible (or old enough) is already vaccinated.
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  2378. It's funny the way some people will seize on any opportunity to NOT wear a mask - even while the cumulative effect of not enough people wearing masks is what's causing the disease to continue spreading. Are you afraid of people laughing if you wear a mask when leaving the home? Are you afraid that wearing a mask outside of the home will mean you'll have to wash the masks more often? What's the expensive, painful, maybe just embarrassing-to-you downside of wearing a mask outside the home?
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  2379. Bingo. The whole reason there was an investigation into how 9/11 occurred was that Republicans were not involved in planning and executing that act of terrorism. Sadly, that's not the case with regards to the 1/6 insurrection in DC.
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  2380. Perfect.
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  2381. DeSatan is a perfect example of government overreach.
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  2382. To be fair, Republican party secretary Trumpski didn't approve of allegiance to the nation over allegiance to him personally.
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  2383. Let's be perfectly clear: Biden is not flipping Texas because he's the most wonderful thing since sliced bread. The truth is that Trump is flipping Texas blue because he's so damn horrible, just like his response to covid and his dumb trade wars and his tax cuts for the richest and his withholding aid from PR until he desperately needs some Hispanic votes.
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  2384. No fundraiser is going to save Scari Lake now.
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  2385. For the first time in my life I just voted a straight blue ticket. It's not good enough to just send the Republicans a message .. we must remove them from power at every level and in every place.
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  2386. It used to be the Mason Dixon line dividing the country .. now it's a line around 94 or 95 IQ.
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  2387. She is wonderfully savage at taking down Trumpist nonsense.
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  2388.  @bonitajanssen5118  God helps those who help themselves. By our votes, we can flush the Trump turd apocalypse down the bowl.
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  2389.  Nichole John  Nearly every culture on Earth has some kind of cautionary fable about what to do when you meet the Devil and he offers you everything in exchange for doing his dirty work. The Republicans? All they did was dicker a little about the asking price. By July the next year they were celebrating Independence Day in Moscow.
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  2390. Where's that meme of a reaper drone, with the caption "From your cold, dead hands, you said? Challenge accepted!"
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  2391. This is even more of an emergency than all the wingnuts who'll chime in and claim that because they don't personally see their own hospital overwhelmed, there's not covid outbreak at all. Sigh. Like the old "There's no such thing as global warming because it's snowing where I am right now."
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  2392. Trump's negative opinion is a fine reason to subscribe to the Atlantic. He just complimented them on their journalism.
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  2393. For centuries, Russia has been ruled by some kind of strongman with the byzantine bureaucracy carrying out his edicts. The czars, the USSR, Putin are all in the same pattern. Russia had a brief experience with some type of democracy. Russia will probably never again be as together, as organized as it was under the Soviets - and that's a good thing. Russia is "great" only as a large, poor nation with pretensions to grandeur. A third-world nation with fine arts.
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  2394.  @lefebvresandra  I wish she would have slipped in a line like this - "Those emails that he said were missing? We built a wall out of them, and he's never been able to get over it!" ;)
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  2395. Trump has an unlimited supply of Susan Collins'.
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  2396. He'll get his turn. His files and devices were seized awhile back. Who knows what plans he was drafting for his AG seat after the coup. There would have been a lot of people to disappear.
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  2397.  @veralenora7368  Good luck with the mayonnaise. What's next? Watching people scramble for snake oil, when real vaccines are already here, is cold amusement to the rest of us.
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  2398. About the horses. A few possibilities. A) They were bought for the kids, the kids went to school, and so the horses went to the glue factory. B) The family rode them until they were almost too old to be ridden, then didn't want to cover the costs of pasturing them for their retirement.
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  2399.  George Dunn  Trump has some kind of very-short-range charisma that only works on certain kinds of people - maybe 30% of Americans. He repels the rest of us. Contrast that with Hitler, whose charisma effectiveness rating was more like 90%.
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  2400. This is WAY TOO MUCH like when Cheney & Rummy swore that Saddam had yellowcake & WMDs but yet they refused to show the "proof" of it - which we now know never existed. This administration has been a sack of flaming lies since the get-go.
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  2401. Clarence Thomas doesn't pay for his vacations, his fancy huge motorhome, or his mother's house. Perhaps Mike Johnson too has rich benefactors.
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  2402. Here in the Colonies we have large (mostly rural) portions of the country that are ill-served only by conservative (whackjob) media outlets busy doing Putin's work of casting doubt on the measures to fight the pandemic - in a nutshell.
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  2403. @4:20 Who else laughed uproariously when he said "the great United States of America"?
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  2404. Omfg .. this almost cost me a new keyboard! Bravo, LP, extremely well done.
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  2405. And now they have fully switched roles .. Zelenskyy is the leader whereas Putin is the comedian.
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  2406. Specifically, it is what's called a dark circus. It stirs the souls of his flying monkeys (not in a good way, either) and they miss it when it's absent.
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  2407.  @cheesegyoza  So, you want people like that to be better-equipped to commit acts of terror? shudder
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  2408.  @vic5015  Much worse. Which is why I cringe to hear MAGAtards saying that they're ready to start the civil war (or the race war) any day now. The only person they're pleasing is Putin :(
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  2409. Perhaps sometime in the future we could haul Trump before the Hague to answer for crimes like this? One can only hope.
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  2410. To be sure, the "kraken" was nothing more than a few too many vodka shrimp cocktails that Sidney Powell had since she stopped taking her prescribed anti-psychotic meds.
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  2411. Thank you for using his name .. notice how Fox always says "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" but never says "Eduardo RAFAEL Cruz".
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  2412. Tie them all together. Let the cinderblock go where it wants.
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  2413.  @dorino9057  These days, too, plenty of men have been misled to have unrealistic expectations. There are plenty of adult-children males who live in mom's basement, sweats covered with dorito crumbs, trying to find the right internet girlfriend, looking at pictures of supermodels, thinking, "Yeah, she's not good enough for me, you can see where her toes are bigger than they should be." etc
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  2414.  @FromtheKing1  Jack Smith is a war crimes prosecutor. He's got this.
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  2415. They had a word for people who wouldn't do what they were told during WW2. Something along the lines of "quisling", "traitor", or "draft dodger". As it is, this damn virus has taken more American lives in one year than WW2 took in four years, so, yes, it's a time of national emergency and one should get with the program.
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  2416. Bingo. Republicans are going straight for the "coup" solution to them losing elections. They're just like the Nazi party in that regard :(
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  2417. 45 has never inspired anyone to be better in any way. And even his most devoted followers wouldn't leave their teen daughters alone with him.
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  2418. Marge Traitor Green isn't even qualified to be the official dog catcher at a trailer park.
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  2419. Especially when their attempt to hijack the election results is, in a nod to Orwell, called "stop the steal". Joke's on them.
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  2420. Tell Ivan to send more. Ukraine scrap metal industry is booming!
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  2421. I'm hoping he goes through with that stupid idea to do a "fireside chat" about the call to Ukraine .. because it's going to make him look even worse. Every time he opens the hamberder hole, the share of impeach-and-remove rises by a few more points. Pretty soon his only option will be to resign.
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  2422. We have people like that in the USA too. Putin's little helpers basically :(
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  2423.  @JnEricsonx  Apparently they also care about being able to tell the sobbing 12yo pregnant girl, who's been raped repeatedly by her father, to carry to term because somehow the alternatives are even more evil. Hitler's goons got nothing on the GOP when it comes to cruelty for the sake of cruelty.
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  2424. So many heroes already. The Marines on Snake Island. The engineer who blew the bridge. Their president, who donned military gear and said he needs weapons, not a ride out. The White Ghost pilot. The farmers who steal Russian tanks and tow them away to be repurposed as farm equipment. They're all getting high schools named after them for the next 50 years.
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  2425. Both sides seem the same only when the viewer's moral compass is broken, spinning, or just plain missing. "The stage IV liver cancer was aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides. So both sides are the same." -- Trump
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  2426. Ukraine - good job on the OTH radars well behind the front lines. Russia - go home while you still can. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been summoned. He has an office and staff now.
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  2427. Bluri Lake sure is trying hard.
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  2428. This is awesome. As if the Trumpies put out a call asking where they can buy left-handed sandpaper.
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  2429. You don't need any respect for the useful idiots, the wannabe traitors, the simpletons, etc, who buy into Trump's many lies. If you're pleasantly cynical, just be grateful for the way those wannabe traitors continue to out themselves with the MAGAt hats and other traitor merch. Makes them easy to spot.
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  2430.  @nanmaco  LOL fool. Explain again please why you feel it's you "right" to infect other people? And if you think you do have that right, you're overdue for a lesson in consent.
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  2431. Wouldn't be surprised to learn that Hannity, Carlson, Putin, etc have all handled the nuclear contingency plans of not just the US but NATO and some of our allies. Trump would have bragged about that to every rich dentist that passed through Mar-a-Loser.
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  2432. Or this: A newbie navy guy says, "Hey, the sub is 500 feet underwater but my clothes are still dry. Does that mean we can open the hatch?"
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  2433.  @marygram5477  Putin must be happy. Actually all of America's adversaries must be happy that Trump is such a wrecking ball.
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  2434.  Freedom of Association  "Democrats couldn't have won without" << Trump never got above 41% popularity. It's mathematically impossible for him to win the popular vote with such low popularity ratings. So what you're saying is that you're a sore loser.
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  2435.  @gregsmith7809  And I'm saying to skip the commentary and go straight to the source: the company itself. And nowhere will you find any American company authorizing the sort of crap you claim they are.
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  2436. Reich-wing white southerners are STILL mad that their farm equipment got liberated.
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  2437. This couldn't happen to a bigger loser, but still, I am ready to drive people to the voting precincts if they need a ride, and for the first time in my life I'm voting completely blue across the board. Time to send those rat fcckers a message: YOU'RE FIRED!
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  2438.  @Adogslife54  Does YT let us say that we wish Mr Trump a harmonious repose, and sooner rather than later?
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  2439. Classic Donnie projection. Translation: "I can't wait to get my mitts all over that stuff"
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  2440.  @anthonywilson4181  You're mistakenly thinking that an aggressive liar is better than a soft-spoken truth-teller.
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  2441. So much blame. On anyone but them of course.
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  2442. "My generals" .. "I know more than any of them" .. "suckers and losers"
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  2443.  @StaggerLee68  Trump: The USPS has got to be eliminated, it's useless! also Trump: We use the USPS to send stimulus checks and census forms because it's the most cost-effective option.
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  2444.  @rebeccarebeccaa2515  As it turns out .. even when given access to all the ballots and the machines, they STILL couldn't prove their unfounded allegations about dead people voting. And in doing so, they not only affirmed Biden's win but widened the margin by which he won. As they say .. everything Trump touches dies.
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  2445.  @kimkeith1738  Bingo, playing "both sides are the same" with fascism is a losing proposition. Germany tried that back in the 1930s, didn't work so well.
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  2446. It's nice of them to brand themselves with his tacky made-in-Chyna merch. Back in the old days, they branded traitors with a "T" on the forehead.
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  2447. There has been a second child death as of 2 days ago. I miss the good old days in America, when we used to tell stupid people to sit down and shut up. Nowadays we put them in charge :(
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  2448. But to Trump, that's unacceptable, so he will hinder / delay / ignore the election results, and he will use every connection he's got in the senate, the DOJ, the FBI, the NSA, in congress, in his brownshirt irregulars, etc to illegally hang onto power. And way too many of them are willing to go along with it :(
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  2449. Just think, dimwit Donnie is the first president ever to be impeached during a first term. Usually it takes the public longer to wake up to presidential misdeeds, but in this instance it was like someone squatting down to take a high-volume dump in a crowded elevator. And if he gets a second term, well, he'll also be the first president to get impeached twice.
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  2450. If you ever want to see what a deregulated, libertarian paradise is actually like, look no further than Somalia - guns everywhere, religion everywhere, no standards in education, almost no taxes, almost no government, almost no regulations. It should be a paradise by Republican ideals, a regular Galt's Gulch of prosperity and good neighbors.
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  2451.  @MrWheelerjas  The statements of those people are pretty self-explanatory.
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  2452. When you confront Trumpanzees about how they don't have any proof of vote fraud (nor does Trump or any of his lawyers) and they insist otherwise, it's a lot like trying to explain to them that 2 + 2 = 4 when they are absolutely convinced that the sum of 2 and 2 is 5. All you can do is stand back and thank them for the free humor, basically.
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  2453. That is because the Republicans are A-OK with Trump trying to turn America into a one-party state, with him at the head. Note how McConnell floated the concept that when one party controls the senate, it's their total right to not even hear the nominees of another party .. or the way Trump floated the idea of discarding all the ballots so there's no transfer of power. These people are just fine with their attempted coup. They should move to North Korea to get a taste of one-party rule.
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  2454. What's nice is that doing so will split up the (R)etrograde party vote.
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  2455. I get the feeling that we're all living in one giant apartment building, and a small minority of the residents have decided to set fire to the building all because their favorite guy didn't get elected to the condo board.
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  2456. To be honest, I keep waiting for him to do this to governor Cuomo. Trump has a long history of agreeing to [whatever] in private, then waiting for the other person to make it public, then saying the exact opposite to try to make that person look bad. So I hope governor Cuomo had a film crew recording the whole convo with Trump.
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  2457. No doubt he momentarily forgot all the racist things he's said and done, his father being in the klan, the way he called for the execution of the central park 5 long after they'd been exonerated, the way he cheers those who hurt the people who protest police violence against Blacks, and so on. Or he was just lying, like he lies every day to everyone.
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  2458. Stupid people learn only one way, so let's stand back, stand by, and let Saint Darwin do his thing.
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  2459. This is painful to have to say, but Putin is making the USSR look like a more reasonable state by comparison :(
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  2460. They are trying to prove (apparently to the Taliban and/or to Putin) just how "hard right" they are.
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  2461. It's worse than that. He wanted to be a ruler, not a leader. And like his animatronic ex pornstar housemate, he never understood that there were some responsibilities that accompanied the privilege of living in that posh residence for free.
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  2462. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a full on police state here with them in charge of everything.
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  2463.  @sherribrawn3757  Apparently Dump was excited to watch the violence on TV .. even his own staff were a little shocked by that.
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  2464. We're just waiting for our ballots. Gonna be 5 votes out of this household. Full blue slate.
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  2465. The road to fascism is lined with people telling you you're over-reacting :(
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  2466.  @robinholland1136  And all King Charles needs to do is point and say, "Bring me that fool's head on a platter" and it would happen within 30 seconds.
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  2467. Like the saying goes - an insurrection that goes unpunished was just a training exercise.
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  2468.  @LD86  Specifically, he wanted to be a ruler (someone who simply tells everyone what to do) rather than a leader (one who leads).
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  2469.  @panthera50  Classic Pastor Niemoller material, and as true now as it was then.
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  2470. Every time there's a market drop, it shakes out the little players and is to the benefit of the bigger players. The market has always been that way. It's designed to fleece the closet quants who think they know better.
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  2471. A third-world resource nation with pretensions to grandeur and a colorful (albeit bleak and violent) culture. A place with only 7% of its land that's arable. A place where some regions are so economically unproductive that they cannot even afford to build roads there. A place that's barely a few generations removed from serfdom. Too bad. They could be so much more.
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  2472. The federal government didn't do the first shutdown anyway - the individual states did. And some states that reopened in a careless manner are now considering a second lockdown.
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  2473. You know how you train puppies not to poop indoors? You need to do the same basic thing to Trumptards, who suffer from TDS. Rub their faces in his lies. Keep repeating the lesson as often as you can.
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  2474. Interesting that Trump could pronounce "Mein Kampf" correctly but not "Yosemite".
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  2475.  @Buffykc62  Same! Usually I vote a mix (each candidate on their own merits, regardless of party) but this time it seems necessary to send the GOP a message.
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  2476.  @1funkyflyguy  His followers got dropped on their heads a lot as children / licked the lead paint chips / who knows.
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  2477. He's not speaking to the average American .. he's speaking only to his shrinking, deluded fan base.
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  2478. Has anyone else been noting a certain GOP test balloon that's been lofted now & then? With their newfound power to make decisions in the complete absence of evidence to the contrary, what are the chances that the GOP senate and/or supreme corp would invalidate election results that don't go their way?
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  2479. Well, if you look around and note that the US has no German/French/NATO/Belgian/Norwegian/whoever military bases all over the US, you'll begin to realize just how lopsided certain aspects of the alliance are. Your view sounds remarkably unaffected by any facts.
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  2480. Face it, Trump is like Jim Jones or Charles Manson to ~42% of Americans. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  2481. Trump's followers won't be much different when it's their turn.
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  2482. Now's about time for ol Mitchie to start feeling some regret about when he said that the Senate was in complete lockstep with the Trump administration back when Ukraine malfeasance was obvious for all to see. All this means is that Trump has no more use for McConnell.
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  2483. As we knew, Crimea did not belong to Russia anyway. They have finally confirmed that they know it too. However, the Russian Black Sea silent submarine fleet still needs some additional vessels! ;)
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  2484. In a sane country, they would be. Just as honesty without curbs can sometimes be cruelty, free speech without curbs can also be disinformation.
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  2485. To be sure, our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments. Their coup began after the first time Obama won the popular vote, with Moscow Mitch openly stating he'd oppose anything and everything that Obama did. That paved the way for the SCOTUS seats and many judicial slots being illegally held empty for Trump's picks.
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  2486. The GOP has been OK so far with Tяump totally lying to the American people and to the world. The GOP has been instrumental in defending Tяump's lies. And now Mike Lee knows how it feels to be on the receiving end of Tяump's batshit lies. Is that what it takes to make him aware of the problem of Tяump's constant lying?
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  2487. His trade deals have made it easier for big farms to gobble up small family farms, which I think was part of the administration's plan anyway.
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  2488. @The Wraith Considering that they were on the street and not in a legislative session or in an interview somewhere, if I were him I would have wondered who the F the random crazy lady is on the street who's telling me she has a gun.
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  2489.  @jmb3608  Why do you call HelloSnow "his"? We can't even tell what pronouns they use. For all we could know, it could be that crazy lady who told Kraken she was an internally-decapitated time-traveling ghost. Same crazy, different day.
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  2490. You will of course notice how social media much amplifies the formation of this sort of nonsense. Makes me long for the good old days when hearing about new stuff meant going to the reference librarians and starting there.
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  2491. Forbidden knowledge and private libraries, here we come :(
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  2492.  @betterdonotanswer  Can someone please ask Putin why he's holding Stephen Segal in reserve for something truly awful?
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  2493. As far back as July 2019, Trump knew he would lose a fair election against Biden, which is why he withheld aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. And by sometime in March 2020 he began hunting for someone to sabotage the USPS from within, when he realized that lying about the coronavirus hadn't made it go away, and tens of millions of people would be voting by mail in the fall. By their actions, the Republicans are showing that they occupy a position that doesn't belong on the political spectrum in any country: being willing to break any law to deny other parties any shot at power. That's how Communist Russia, Communist China, and Nazi Germany all do or did business.
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  2494. That's not all they'd nullify, if they had the chance to. We may safely assume that they'd nullify the citizenship of anyone who doesn't "support" their fash takeover.
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  2495. He tried to run the country the same way. It was a fking horror show.
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  2496. Trump: Everybody go back to work, you don't need to be tested, it's safe outside. also Trump: Nobody can work in the white house unless they get tested every day. That virus is dangerous! All those infected people need contact tracing!
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  2497. His miserable performance trying to cosplay as president has pretty much ruled out him looking successful in any way.
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  2498. Correct. It includes funds for the wall, funds for horse racing, and jail time for people who livestream events as they're happening. The Republicans insisted on all of that, as well as amnesty for corrupt executives who deliberately let their workers get infected.
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  2499. Obviously, Kevin is willing to ignore the "one vote to trigger a recall" provision that he's offering. He already demonstrated his disdain for the congress by ignoring congressional subpoena from the J6 committee over his role in the insurrection. Obviously he's comfortable ignoring any rules he doesn't like.
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  2500. Hopefully that bad girl with a gun will run across a good girl with a gun and nature will just take its course, as the NRA likes to say.
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  2501. Dances with Karens - can I borrow that? In return I offer Half-Baked Alaska.
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  2502. Umm, probably not a good time to be on vacation in Russia. Especially may not be safe if you are western in general or American in particular.
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  2503.  @tiga8600  Correct, America is designed to be a low-wage maquiladora, a paradise for corporations. Not a place that cares for the individual. For that you'd want to live in western Europe, Japan, or one of the former Commonwealth nations.
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  2504. Bad news, the damage Trump did to America will last decades longer than his presidency. We are quickly heading towards a future when no foreign students will want to study here - when other nations won't make treaties with us because we renege on them even before the ink is dry - when we are known worldwide as the covid capitol - when no one will want to buy our possibly-tainted food products - when Americans are not welcome anywhere as visitors - when other countries move away from using the US dollar. All our former allies and former trading partners know that bad US presidents come and go, and that Trump's time will end someday. What the rest of the world has learned, to their disappointment and chagrin, is that our safety mechanisms and our separation-of-powers aren't worth the paper they're written on. At no point in this mess did any of the so-called adults in the room pull the plug on it, install the VP, and schedule a new election. Instead, we collectively shrugged and told the world (essentially) "Sorry, but our antiquated electoral college picked him. Sorry, we can't do anything. Sorry, we need to wait for the next election." In the rest of the world, they can have a leader hanging from a lamppost the very next day for less than what Trump did. We have been revealed to the world as completely milquetoast.
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  2505. Would this mean the end of the internet side of FOXed Noise, OANN, the Blaze, Epoch Times, and other sources of online disinformation?
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  2506. "Looting hordes from Atlanta"? Maybe the good people of Atlanta should use small arms to keep those idiot backwater Billybobs from clogging up their hospitals. Oh wait. What's that? You say the shoe is different when it's on the other foot?
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  2507. This is one of but many things that Trump feels are different for him. For instance, despite his recent screeching about presidential immunity (which is a dead argument), he spent time in 2017 berating his people to find something to charge former president Obama with criminally.
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  2508.  @nicholerusnak2905  The underground railroad better step up. And it would appear that those deep-red crazy states are no good place to have a home or family.
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  2509. I don't drive a Tesla, but wow, the Tesla rage some people get is just bizarre. They are sleek-looking, elegant, fast electric cars - what's not to like about that?
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  2510. How ironic, the same people who say Americans don't need testing before returning to work won't let anyone work around them unless they get tested daily.
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  2511. "Reversing the election" is one of the many lies the conservatives have been telling themselves (and each other) while the rest of the world laughs at them. Impeachment was never about reversing an election, not when it happened to Clinton, not when it was about to happen to Nixon, and not when it happened to Jackson. Sadly, conservatives lost their little minds when a black man got elected TWICE to be president, and won BOTH the popular vote and the EC each time.
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  2512. The Peoples Republic of Trumpistan.
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  2513. Birds of a feather flock together. I'm not sure you can be around Trump for long without being a horrible human being yourself. Those are the only kind he seeks out and hires.
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  2514. You can't add anything to a tiny shot glass that's already full of vodka. Go home, Ivan, while you still can.
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  2515. Roger Stone's pumpkin needs to go through some things.
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  2516. Trump is only too happy to plunge the nation into chaos because, to him, that's more palatable than losing the election.
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  2517.  @tonyalamillo6899  It certainly wasn't the first iteration of "I take no responsibility for this." All of his business failures and leadership failures were the same thing. Add the rally failures to this. Same thing happened 4 years ago, but it was during the wintertime in the midwest. Some people had to be hospitalized.
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  2518. Putler will need some help understanding this important point. Let's not keep him waiting. It needs to come to him personally. I believe we can arrange that.
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  2519. I'm sorry for that business owner that he doesn't understand the risks he poses to the community by having people indoors, in an enclosed space, breathing heavily while in proximity to each other. He's probably a great business owner, but he's a lousy epidemiologist, since those are ideal conditions for the virus to spread among people. Indoors setting, heavy breathing = high output of droplets and aerosolized virus. Even with distancing that's very risky and produces a high rate of spread.
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  2520. Making life harder on other people is perhaps the only thing he's ever tried to get better at doing. His intent in this was not to get out $2K to people, but to sabotage the process by which the house and senate had achieved bipartisan consensus. To our little prince Narcissus, anything that doesn't have him at the center of it is a very bad thing indeed.
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  2521. Trump's only two tones are whining and bullying.
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  2522. Whenever his scraping, whining, lying voice comes on, I mute it quickly, forward ahead, change channels, whatever. He's so obviously a liar and he loves to spread hate.
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  2523.  Evan Zuppardo  Throughout the rest of the world, including China, many hundreds of millions of people's lives and fortunes have been affected by Trump's willy-nilly trade war nonsense. And now he's doing the same thing, but with weapons systems and lives. If we don't give the rest of the world some assurances that we won't let a total moron into power again, we're not going to be worth much to the rest of the world. They don't have to use the US dollar for trade, they don't have to be politically aligned with us, they don't have to let us put bases on their land .. they can turn us into the world's biggest leper colony, and so help me after Trump we might be deserving of it :(
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  2524. Ukraine may someday be a regional superpower like Germany, and a fine ally & NATO member.
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  2525.  @thomasolson8417  You beat me to it. ;)
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  2526.  Jesse O  Correct. Serious crimes deserve serious punishment. It would be the world's biggest ever pay-per-view.
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  2527. The dude's going to be in serious hot water. Oregon has castle doctrine only and self defense against lethal force only. As the gun owner in this altercation, the responsibility was on him to de-escalate. Instead, he pulled over to get out and yell at people he disagreed with, and then, instead of driving away, he went to his vehicle to retrieve a weapon. If he doesn't have a valid Oregon CHL, he's in trouble for carrying that pistol in the cab of his truck, and if he does have a CHL he's going to lose it for making these bad choices.
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  2528. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a one-party state with them in charge of everything.
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  2529. The RNC is getting an object lesson in that old market dictum about how everything dies from the touch of the Trumps.
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  2530. 45 is already doing enough complaining. Where will he find the time to whine about a new thing?
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  2531.  @aggressiveattitudeera887  Re "Why is this so hard for these people to understand?!" << Basically because the rabbit hole is a place where things are made small enough (and turned into lies in the process) that their mouse brains can understand it. When they start shrieking about "corporate leftists" (blithely ignoring the way corporations invest in Trump's way more than Biden's) or "chicoms" (another thing from their lexicon of nuttiness) just walk away.
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  2532. Watching him skewer Republicans with facts is pure gold.
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  2533. We always had the cranky stupid paranoid people among us, but thanks to social media they can now get in touch with each other :(
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  2534. Yah. If you read the nuttery they're posting right now, it's all about how "incoherent" they imagine he was.
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  2535. Even now, Trump STILL does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him.
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  2536. He would have found trees for them.
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  2537. Stopped using the name awhile ago. '45' or 'Felon45' is a more appropriate tag for that one.
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  2538.  @Zach-ju5vi  Got one even better than that: Imagine being so stupid that you've been induced to believe something that's not even real. You're like one of those dolts telling the fat naked emperor how wonderful his robe is. Good job identifying yourself as "easy to propagandize".
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  2539. I'm waiting to see if we remain a nation of laws. At the moment, the signals are mixed.
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  2540.  @chocol8milk  One expects that the investigation will be long running and far reaching, all the way up to the bigger fish who incited the insurrection, who shuffled things around at the Pentagon weeks ahead of the planned event, who paid for all those otherwise near-broke dummies to wear nice tacticool gear for the operation. Sheldon Adelson sure picked an interesting time to clock out.
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  2541.  @crimescene25  Again, you make a load of assumptions. Doing it a second time implies that you are probably pretty f**king stupid, which is a shame for your kids, since being raised by a freaking idiot will scar them forever. Oh and I forgot to add that rent and mortgages and utilities are on hold everywhere too. So by not taking advantage of these things, you are just attempting to show what a rugged 'Murikan you are? It has the opposite effect, trust me.
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  2542. "There was great anger in the country - and, believe me, I had nothing to do with it."
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  2543. Anyplace that welcomes him has to do it in full, referring to him as the convicted felon. He needs to hear that to his face.
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  2544.  Peter B  He does love selling vaporware .. just like his amazing health plan he's been mentioning for years but no one's ever seen.
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  2545. Thank you for your hard work!
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  2546. Liquor stores will sell out. There will be spontaneous block parties coast to coast.
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  2547. Long-range guided artillery is on the way to them already! So good of Ivan to line up the targets nicely.
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  2548. Looks like Barr won't get a pardon now.
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  2549.  @vollkerball1  Re "So you elect people you don´t trust" << Faker words were never put in someone else's mouth.
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  2550. It took "only" 144,000 dead Americans to get him to do what he should have done 7 months ago when the experts explained what to do. Sheesh :(
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  2551. Your vote does count. If Dump does get on the R ticket again, let's make his popular vote loss go into 8 digits.
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  2552. He seems to have been speaking of "provoking" such as the kind done to Nazi Germany in the 1930s by Poland and by Czechoslovakia when they declined to be subsumed by the Reich.
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  2553. Trump's wannabe-brownshirt goons are approaching the level of nuttery, carried out by King George III's flying monkeys, that caused patriots here to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to defeat.
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  2554. Think of Trump as a wind that comes through and shakes all the garbage loose, letting the rest of us know what needs to be thrown out.
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  2555. This time in history is making me look a lot more kindly upon reverend Jim Jones and that nutball Heavens Gate cult. At least they had the grace to off themselves, not destroy a whole country to please their angry cult leader.
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  2556. Liz Cheney. I hardly agree with any of her political views, but she is at least honorable and a patriot.
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  2557. The difference now is that the Republicans/conservatives are happy to help Trump damage the nation, whereas most Nazis didn't go along with the idea of wrecking Germany out of spite.
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  2558. Mr Khalil is a legal green card holder. This is another of Trump's test balloons, a two-fer since Mr Khalil is both a legal immigrant and a student. First they came for the legal immigrants, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't an immigrant .. we know where that goes.
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  2559. Thank you for the book recommendation.
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  2560. Let's recycle an old joke. Q: What's the difference between Trump and the Hindenburg? A: One's a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other is a dirigible.
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  2561. That's "Matt PizzaGaetz", so named for storming into something he doesn't understand, with guns blazing, based on a wingnut conspiracy theory.
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  2562. Bad news, people, the damage Trump did to America will last decades longer than his presidency. We are quickly heading towards a future when no foreign students will want to study here - when other nations won't make treaties with us because we renege on them even before the ink is dry - when we are known worldwide as the covid capitol - when no one will want to buy our possibly-tainted food products - when Americans are not welcome anywhere as visitors - when other countries move away from using the US dollar. All our former allies and former trading partners know that bad US presidents come and go, and that Trump's time will end someday. What the rest of the world has learned, to their disappointment and chagrin, is that our safety mechanisms and our separation-of-powers aren't worth the paper they're written on. At no point in this mess did any of the so-called adults in the room pull the plug on it, install the VP, and schedule a new election. Instead, we collectively shrugged and told the world (essentially) "Sorry, but our antiquated electoral college picked him. Sorry, we can't do anything. Sorry, we need to wait for the next election." In the rest of the world, they can have a leader hanging from a lamppost the very next day for less than what Trump did. We have been revealed to the world as paper-mache eagles.
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  2563. Donny Two Dolls said he didn't want Canadian metals, he just wants Canada to buy US manufactured things for which all the components were made in the US.
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  2564. Knocked it out of the park! Great job LP! :)
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  2565. And what is with that weird, exaggerated singsong way in which he does his serial-huckster schtik?
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  2566. That's like a serial arsonist saying it's "vital" to his "free speech" that he has unimpeded access to gasoline, matches, and empty buildings.
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  2567. Right now, Wall Street is like one of those burning underground coal mines .. and Trump is the one who's dumped $3 trillion dollars down the hole. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  2568. Watching her shred the FOXed Noise bozos is entertaining.
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  2569. .. and if you manage to escape from quarantine you're probably a carrier.
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  2570. Even his trolls are of a lower grade this week. Maybe boss Putin doesn't like throwing money down a Florida sinkhole.
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  2571. I expect them to whip up their rabid whacktard base even further.
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  2572. Funny that the Republicans didn't feel impeachment was outmoded, back when they spent a whole month on the trial phase of president Bill Clinton's impeachment, with no limits on witnesses or evidence, or during the 13 or so times when they tried to bring up impeachment charges against president Barack Obama.
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  2573. Yah :( Every time I see a "no mandates" sign being waved around by some nutter, I picture them in 1942 waving a sign that reads, "So what if Japan may have had an unscheduled tourist visit to Pearl Harbor? The federal government has NO RIGHT to tell us what to do! This is just some bogus excuse to seize power! Waaaah!"
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  2574. “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz, May 3 2016.
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  2575. The one he's been saying for longer was, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  2576. The pardons protect criminals like Stone, Manafort, etc only from the federal government prosecutors. The pardons don't protect them from the people. For that, they're going to need deeper holes to hide in.
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  2577.  @dennisyoung4631  Re "Yes, this is extreme Social Darwinism. It’s part of being a Sold-out Drumpfist." << We have a winner. Betcha there weren't too many masks being worn at the rally.
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  2578. The only truthful thing Trump says at his rallies is the line, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  2579. That's what happens when a populist "leader" appeals only to the worst in his followers, not the best.
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  2580. Let's keep it as a surprise until then. Amusingly, they assume that non-whackjobs never do any target practice or learn tactical/combat skills.
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  2581. Just think, if he were in office now, he would be telling Maryland in general (as well as Baltimore in specific) that since they didn't vote for him, there will be no federal help with the recent bridge disaster.
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  2582.  @AUmarcus  They better bring in Tucker Carlson again to show us how full the shops are. Or was he a single-use device?
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  2583. So now we know why for months, his rally-goers have been told to sign away their rights to sue him if they catch covid at a rally. How long has he and his team been spreading the disease wherever he goes? Has it been going on since Oklahoma, after which Herman Cain caught it and died?
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  2584. How long before FOXed refers to Bolton as a deepstate liberal plant, a never-Trumper, a leftover who was appointed by Obama?
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  2585. Translation: "Taking the matches and gasoline from a serial arsonist just proves you're afraid of feeling warm."
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  2586. I live in a state (Oregon) where masks are required in public spaces. Yet this morning at a supermarket, I kept running into the same woman who wasn't wearing a mask, and who ignored all the evil eyes she was getting. Finally I looked at her pointedly and tapped the mask. She shouted out that some people are exempt (they're not) and that some people are smart. Huh. "Smart" like Herman Cain, she obviously meant. I moved away from her quickly after that. At least she didn't shoot me. 'Murika!
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  2587. Dimwit Don ought to stick to Klan rallies if he wants a higher ration of cheers to jeers. But even those pointy-headed inbreds can see for themselves that DJT is corrupt AF and totally guilty, so maybe they're in the market for a new Grand Wizard now.
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  2588. This was probably the purpose behind surging federal troops to various cities. Note how the chosen cities were also the ones least likely to give Trump any votes. They certainly weren't chosen on the basis of how violent they are.
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  2589. Kirk Lazarus to Boris Johnson: You went full Trump. You never go full Trump! (from "Tropic Thunder")
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  2590.  Cecil Gordon  All they're missing is the brown uniforms. Change the enemy-du-jour from BLM to Jews, flip the calendar back to 1936, and it's the same propagandized trigger-happy morons.
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  2591. Pretty sure his base knows that he's a hateful ethnonationalist who can't wait to complete his takeover of government so that he can put his opponents into concentration camps - or worse. This is a feature, not a bug.
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  2592.  @methos1999  Let's take a moment to appreciate the shame of an automaker openly embracing fascism.
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  2593. 50% of all super PAC spending in the US comes from just 40 individuals .. the best political feudalism money can buy :(
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  2594. Presumably a bunch of staffers tried to explain that to him and got fired as a result.
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  2595. They're worse than just traitors .. they're delusional and they absolutely mean harm to our nation.
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  2596. Someplace that can be reached only by a long trip down the rabbit hole.
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  2597. Who would have ever thought that aligning the party with a psycho pedo criminal, whose negligent covid policies have killed more than 148,000 Americans, would be a bad thing?
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  2598. FOXed Noise has a piece accusing the Biden people of saying that Trump's rallies will cause people to die. Guess they forgot about Herman Cain already.
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  2599. For a guy who spent years saying that Obama was abusing his authority, this is a strange turn.
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  2600. We don't negotiate with terrorists, Timmyboy, so if you'll kindly post your contact info we'll pass it along to law enforcement.
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  2601. There's still time. He hasn't yet flown away to Russia.
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  2602.  @islandprincess9666  I voted for Kamala too. I wore out 5 keyboards trying to tell everyone what a monster Trump is.
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  2603.  John Ron Walter  For numbnuts like that, I like to present them with the fact that Portland got a whole lot worse during Trump's time in office. They usually don't know what to say.
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  2604. The speaker of the house has no authority in that. Look it up, sheeple.
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  2605.  @SassyPumpkins1313  Totally good now, and thanks, though I had to put them in the rear view mirror to get over it. Plenty of good people in the world ❤⭐
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  2606.  @eddyimplementredux  Wonder who he's passing the briefings to? Betcha they wind up in a courier bag heading back to Moscow.
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  2607. If ever you wondered how the heinous Hitler and his Nazis got a following in Germany back in the 1930s, wonder no more. Of course, he had some help. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Tяump.
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  2608.  @expatannie6958 Besides, there's a constant stream of self-incriminating evidence coming out of his privately-owned money-losing US version of Pravda (the Russian word for "truth") .. I say let him yap.
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  2609. Republicans at the roadside: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Republicans in court later: "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement."
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  2610. Well, at the time, it SEEMED perfectly reasonable to think that because people got bored with staycationing, the virus must have magically gone away or something.
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  2611. Let's just say they needn't worry about being in line for any Pulitzers.
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  2612. Also to free up money sitting in lots of retirement accounts. Also future pension obligations.
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  2613. I hope the irony is not lost on the GOP that they're going to be forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term.
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  2614. I pray that America is not due for the sort of painful lesson that Germany received back in the 1930s/1940s. Sadly, we seem to be sleepwalking into it :(
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  2615. The class similarities among billionaires are far stronger than whatever political or social views they may share with folks not of the billionaire class. Right now the rich own a vastly disproportionate share of our nation's political leverage. They will never willingly relinquish their hold on America's political power. Look for Gates to support someone like Biden maybe.
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  2616. Did anyone else catch "the Honorbale DeJoy"? Hats off to whoever slipped that one in there.
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  2617.  @robertalker652  One of my favorite Trumpyisms was the Greenland thing. Ahead of a planned meeting with the PM of Denmark, Trump privately offered to buy Greenland. She went public with the refusal to sell it to him. He publicly denied ever having made the purchase offer, insulted her in public, and canceled the planned meeting. Only weeks later did he admit to the purchase offer. One of the funnier parts was watching Trump's out-of-the-loop toadies scurry back and forth on which line to take while Trump's lies changed on a daily basis.
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  2618. I hate to belabor the obvious, but .. given that the Republicans are hell-bent on exonerating Trump despite the preponderance of evidence showing his guilt (evidence they are busy hiding), it seems that everyone in the world had better be prepared to see Trump go on a months-long bender of aggrandizing behavior, using his bully pulpit to maximum effect, talking violence, talking trash, threatening friends and allies alike, encouraging his followers to act their absolute worst, and so on. He will feel totally above the law even more so than we've already seen. Hate crime rates against all visible minorities are going to go through the roof, and not just in the USA either. We're going to see a completely unrestrained version of Trump, and that's a very bad thing :(
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  2619. OP - you're not the only one. Sorry. If it's any consolation, they maintain an extensive "Russki mir" operation (usually through books and movies) to make it look like a faraway beautiful exotic (OK definitely northern) place filled with interesting people. The youtube channel StarMediaEN has a lot of that kind of material.
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  2620. Yeah. He can't open his mouth without lying somehow. Let's all remember what a Republican said about him a few years back: “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  2621. No one has ever accused Trump of being intelligent.
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  2622. Would love to see someone get a number on how much Trump's refusal to adult up, admit he lost the 2020 election, etc would add up to in total. All of the court time for him and for the J6 defendants and for all those who he's inspired to commit crimes. All of the damages caused by J6. The time and expense of the J6 Committee. And so on.
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  2623. I'd have more respect for her if she whapped him over the head with a binder and yelled at him to stop lying.
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  2624. LOVE the way the J6 committee revealed that "encrypted" chats are known to them. All of those usernames will have addresses on them. Those people are toast. Treason.
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  2625. I couldn't watch it. If it came on the radio I changed channels. While it is sometimes amusing to listen to him ramble about toilets, windmills, and how unfair the world is to his attempts at criminal governance, it's disgusting to listen to his lies and bullying and threats (while his spineless, dictator-friendly flying monkeys cheer him on - people who were raised in the bosom of America and who are now trying to destroy that very same America) and really, Republicans, this is the best you've got to offer?
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  2626. Come 1947, it was hard to find a German who'd admit to ever having supported the funny mustache guy. Let's see if the passage of time frees some of Trump's culties from the goo.
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  2627.  @willtellall638  Existential threat? It's really this simple: if Russia were not such a sh*tty neighbor, nobody around that area would feel like joining NATO or being aligned with Europe. Russia is a kludgy top-down wasteful bureaucracy the same way its military is still a WW1 style organization. What Russia refers to as "NATO expansion" is really a bunch of smaller nations making their own choices about who to be aligned with - the dictatorship that cares nothing for them, on one hand, and on the other hand alliance with nations which will benefit their own nation in many ways. Integration with the West offers Ukraine a lot more benefits than does integration with Russia. Until Russia changes its billyclub-and-borscht approach to something more like sunshine and roses, its neighbors will continue to look in other directions.
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  2628. Charles Manson didn't care what happened to his cult followers either.
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  2629. We can always enlarge Guantanamo to make room for more terrorists/traitors.
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  2630. Bingo. Every time he flaps has fat pie hole, more people decide to vote all blue. So put his hateful word salad on every screen.
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  2631. Your instincts were spot on.
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  2632. Obviously Trump wants to snap a few cellphone pics for Vlad. Vlad needs hypersonic missile technology ASAP. Also Vlad would like to know how to disarm HIMARS missiles in flight.
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  2633.  @timothyball3144  It would be great to see him refer to the Military Times as "fake news".
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  2634. But he knows better than everyone! 😅 Trump suffers from the same affliction.
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  2635. Been wondering how we-as-a-nation are going to recover the Trump cultists. They represent the intersectionality of two distinct groups: a) very badly damaged people, who can easily pivot from saying "fetuses are precious life!" to "let those immigrant children die in the desert!", and b) the subset of our population that is especially vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool any 10yo European kid.
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  2636. Anyone who's yearning for a civil war is plainly nuts. Just talk with anyone who lived through the siege of Sarajevo.
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  2637. Aside from the goodwill of your neighbors, there's nothing to stop the tweakers from doing that to anyone's house while folks are away on vacation :(
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  2638. And for someone who overstayed her visa illegally to then go on to hate on immigrants (she used chain migration to bring over her commie relatives) is just proof that DOTUS has infected her with his thinking.
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  2639. That sucks that the virus is still spreading and that hospitals are slowly filling up. Too bad some Oregonians consider it "freedumb" to not follow the health measures necessary to curb the spread of the virus. They're the same people who pee in the public pool, basically :(
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  2640. Such choices. Be absolutely sure before leaving quarantine, or fly home anyway and spread infection all over the place as you travel. Choices, choices.
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  2641. They DON'T value democracy and freedom. That is why they watch Tucker Carlson. His ratings went up when he traveled to Hungary to document how the fascist Viktor Orban has "improved" (gag) that country.
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  2642. From mid-summer through late fall, all over the rural parts of Oregon & Washington, you could still see places where people believed covid was just a librul hoax and where no one bothered with the mask rules. Sometimes the wait staff at restaurants were coughing, not wearing their masks all the way. Sometimes the store employees and the customers weren't bothering with masks. Sometimes the store owners told customers not to wear masks if they didn't want to. Now all of that is coming home to roost :(
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  2643. When the NE 33rd drive camps get cleared, the residents all move to Springwater/82nd. When Springwater/82nd gets cleared, the residents all move to the woods near NE Airport Way/138th. When the woods near NE Airport Way/138th get cleared, the residents all move to Rocky Butte. When Rocky Butte gets cleared, the residents all move to Marine Drive. When Marine Drive gets cleared, the residents all move to NE 33rd. This shell game costs a lot of money, lets the city say something is happening, and doesn't accomplish anything.
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  2644. But but but Exxon-Mobil has a profit model that works so well for them, and has for a long time now, so why say anything?
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  2645. Stop with the false equivalences. Reporting on Trump's errors is by no means the same thing as helping exacerbate the effects of those errors. In fact, reporting on what a domestic enemy (Trump) is doing is a high act of patriotism.
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  2646.  @andersbjrnsen7203  The implication seemed to be that the Orsk mayor (as the guy in charge) has X-ray vision and can automagically assume all the professional abilities of all of the engineering specialists hired/employed/contracted by Orsk.
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  2647. Trump is reverend Jim Jones to those people.
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  2648. Right. And a bigger slice of people now are completely opposed to election results that they don't like.
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  2649.  Titanium Is Real  “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. All things being equal, your first instincts are usually the most correct ones.
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  2650. We have a lot of damaged and easily-misinformed people among us. AH used the same tactics in 1930s Germany.
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  2651. Someday people will come to realize the folly of electing someone who uses the "14 characteristics of fascism" meme as a to-do list.
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  2652. Rumor has it that he's been on T-blockers for over a decade. Look at all the money he's saving on razors.
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  2653. Leaving the country in ruins, leaving the rest of the world no longer trusting America, leaving a pandemic infecting tens of millions of Americans and killing hundreds of thousands - all of those things are a high price to pay so Trump can pretend to be King Donald the Mad, but it's a price he'll gladly pay many times over.
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  2654. These are the same people who said Iraq had yellowcake and WMDs. They lie like wall to wall carpet.
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  2655.  @Erieshredder  You might want to look up the 14 characteristics of fascism .. and if the jackboot fits, better slip it on and start goose stepping.
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  2656. Thank you for your good work :)
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  2657. Unfortunately, they've already amply shown through their actions that they have zero regard for the rule of law. Like Sophie Scholl said - don't wait until it's too late. Vote because your life depends on it.
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  2658. I totally disagree with a lot of what conservatives say and do, but I would welcome the return of true conservatives such as the kind who would absolutely pillory any of their own members who cheer Putin and want to align with Russia. This is what the late great senator John McCain saw about Trump and Trumpism: that cult cares little for America.
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  2659.  @franklaferriere5754  Then again, maybe he should wear tan suits for a week or two and make a point of asking the FOXed Noise reporters what they think of the color. F them and F the dog they rode to town on.
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  2660.  @chrissorensen9511  You're asking the wrong question. It's more like, would you plead guilty to [whatever] if there was ample evidence of it? It is similar to the way 45 lost all of his court cases challenging the 2020 election results, rather than just concede the election like an honorable person. Ironically that would have left him in a far better position to run again in 2024, but he couldn't refrain from lying to the gullible ones, could he.
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  2661.  @jenniferjean One of my sisters did that to cover the signs of her years of drug abuse and sunbathing, and now she looks 20 years older than her calendar age.
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  2662. While I'm sorry for the families involved .. congresscritter-elect Letlow was in favor of doing away with the masks and distancing requirements. Guess the thank-you note to him from Covid-19 reached him a tad too early.
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  2663. All along, I was afraid Trump would become more like Putin. Instead, the opposite thing happened: Putin has acquired Trump's famous Reverse Midas Touch.
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  2664. Republicans were barking at the moon when Obama wore a tan suit, yet they'll be silent about this.
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  2665. At least 3 of them are recent hires whose main job is to bend or break every rule in the service of Cult Leader.
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  2666. I see now that Russia wasn't the bear all along. That would be Ukraine. Putin just swatted something that bit his hand off.
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  2667.  @OS_Fullmetal  Not everyone.
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  2668. Bingo. So Republicans wanna go full apartheid on this one? Me and 10 million others will be there offering water, refreshments, placeholding, wifi, bathrooms, whatever else is needed so you can vote. Republicans need to get skullf*cked hard this time.
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  2669. People indoors breathing heavily in as confined space, pumping out high volumes of droplets, sweat dripping onto equipment, different people handling the same things - all during the worst pandemic in a century. What could possibly go wrong? Sigh. Some people give freedom a bad name :(
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  2670. I want the traitors to live in constant fear of the FBI swooping down on them to bring them to justice. They don't deserve a single night of good sleep.
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  2671.  @kathleenhammett7528  Those high-speed sorting machines that DeJoy had them place out in parking lots, to be exposed to the elements? Each of those was a machine costing 6 figures or more, full of customized robotic controls, operated by networks of PLC's. The cost to fix/replace that is going to be up in the range of $50 million or a lot more.
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  2672. Hahaha that's rich. Republicans took to Dump like ducks to the sticky tar sands of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  2673. Oh, they were busy telling themselves lies to get whipped into a froth so they could go do some shooting and burning, all to aid Hair Fuhrer.
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  2674. Shades of "Jews for Hitler" :( AKA "We knew he was going to go after those other people, but not us!"
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  2675. Republicans showed their truest colors back in 2019. Who else remembers this? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  2676.  @dark14life  Indeed, they're no longer "far right", it's more like far reich.
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  2677. Just like Phil Valentine, Newsmax won't be there when loved ones are being hooked to ventilators or being put in the ground. Here in America, it is completely legal to lie to people about life-and-death matters like this. This thing has killed more Americans than WW2 ever did, and back then the struggle was so serious that the Newsmax-type outlets of the day simply were not allowed to publish editorials saying that Germany and Japan are our friends - that the Pearl Harbor attack was "fake news" - that the "phony war" is just the Rothschilds family scheme to make money off global domination - that you don't have to participate in the war if you don't want to. Everyone says it's a slippery slope to ban outright lies that get people killed, but it's not - we've been there before and we should be there again now.
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  2678.  @moisesvelez9859  Could you please bother to follow the news before posting? Moscow Mitch has been holding up relief bills all year, so that corporations get legal amnesty for deliberately letting their workers get infected. Mitch never met a corporation he didn't love, or an ordinary working person he didn't hate.
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  2679.  @johncrazyhorse2707  Just because I don't want to stand with your fascist demigod doesn't make me a liar. It makes me a patriot. If your relatives who fought the Nazis in WW2 could see you now, they'd slap you clear into next Friday.
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  2680.  @johncrazyhorse2707  Here's what you're defending: Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  2681. I expect there will be an investigation of the role of the Trump-Hannity relationship in manufacturing consent by Trump using FOXed as a mouthpiece and then quoting what they said (at his direction) as "news". All because they hitched their stars to the Flim Flam Man.
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  2682.  @hussey4826  I left if a year and a half ago. Even our group of local home-crafters got totally taken over by political meme war nonsense. I call it Wastebook or Fakebook .. someday it will merge with Twitter and become Twitbook.
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  2683. Bingo.
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  2684. Trump just LOVES the idea of using ICE/CBP as a racial police force .. just as his southern border wall idea is basically an anti-Hispanic fence. Western states, please escort the goons to the state border and ask them to stay out.
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  2685. Ahh, who else remembers this one? "Who ever knew that healthcare was complicated?"
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  2686.  @Slo-ryde  The Russians always did view Trump as a human wrecking ball, one that would gladly do their bidding here.
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  2687. There's an old joke along those lines. There's a union meeting, so they order 50 pizzas. The CEO swoops in and takes 45 of them, and on the way out he tells the guys to watch out for that immigrant.
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  2688.  @angelatester2471  Not my job. But spotting snake oil, and calling it out as such, is the duty of any citizen. How'd that hydroxychloroquine work out for you? Or zinc? What was the one before that? These things play on false hopes, and when clinical trials are done, the results almost always end up being at best inconclusive. Randomized double-blind trials are the only thing that prove it one way or the other, and so far the various flavors of snake oil are not doing well.
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  2689. Voting blue would send the best possible message to Republicans: leave.
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  2690. Failure is the one thing he's actually good at.
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  2691. Trump has decided that if the jackboot fits, he's going to pull it on and start goose-stepping. Seen that movie before, don't like it.
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  2692. Saint Darwin is striding the land, cleaning the crud out of the gene pool. Thoughts & prayers.
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  2693. If every reporter, all along the way, had just done their job, we wouldn't be in this bad place. The words "No, Mr Trump, that's a lie" need to be said more often.
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  2694. Those new Russian submarines (converted by Ukraine, which doesn't even have a navy yet) are the quietest ever, and can remain underwater for far longer than western models. In fact, they are so quiet that they are never heard from again.
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  2695. And what fans they are! Even though they have access to the same top-level news as everyone else (AP, Reuters, Bloomburg), they cling to his election fraud lies like glue. They choose his nonsense of their own volition.
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  2696. Stephen Miller, the ghoul, will be most wanted at the Hague to explain his role in crafting policies that broke a number of international laws.
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  2697. I guess DeSantis missed the "good old days" when thousands of people die of covid within a single day. Not much other way to explain his behavior. Maybe he bought into high-capacity crematoria.
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  2698. Good luck trying to explain basic science to the ignorant ones like Horus who just commented. Australia is mostly a wide open virgin field for the virus.
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  2699.  @ruthwhall3020  I know the type well :( Both parents, some of my bosses, at least one of my ex's :(
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  2700. And who could graduate from any grade school in America without knowing of the famous Yo Semite park? Perhaps he spent the class time golfing.
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  2701. Yeah. I've asked that same question, and haven't gotten any useful responses. Usually I ask the assclown-in-question to point me to which part of [whoever]'s political platform calls for the workers seizing the means of production, which is the quintessential feature of communism, and they can't answer that one either.
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  2702. And don't forget, he takes the ex-KGB guy's word more than that of the entire US intelligence establishment. But then, he doesn't owe the CIA $400 million.
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  2703. Most everyone I know watches FOXed Noise only for its entertainment content. They're like the Baghdad Bob Network.
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  2704. It's not what he has on them, but what he offers them, or so they think. Nearly every culture on earth has some cautionary fable about a smooth-talking stranger who takes you to a high place and spins fabulous yarns about what could be, then offers you a little piece of it, if only you will do him a favor that usually happens to be illegal or immoral or both. In their shortsighted greed, they have forgotten this important lesson about how to tell if you're dealing with the devil.
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  2705. Well, that didn't take long, now that Sondland threw the entire administration under the bus, then backed up and parked the bus right on top of them.
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  2706. It's going to get much worse. Trump just gagged the CDC (and other agencies) by requiring them to first clear any public statements with Mike "let's pray the gay away" Pence. So forget about getting any useful information from the government now. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html
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  2707. Milley must have read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" .. because the book is full of little incidents in which Hitler very slowly stretched the envelope of what was acceptable for the leader to do. Like a true psychopath, he was able to shrewdly gauge just how much to push it, one step at a time.
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  2708. Correct. Putler wants all "his" SSR's back.
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  2709. Kind of fits with our worse-than-feudal distribution of wealth and power in the USA. Maybe they go together. What's coming could be more like the Dark Ages 2.
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  2710. One of my friends is in recovery. He's 10 years younger, a bodybuilder, was in great shape, etc. For almost 3 months he's been fighting it and relapsing. He's apparently got permanent lung and kidney damage. He never got tested either! (USA)
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  2711.  @Hunterwasabadbrother  Blind people are lucky to see anything.
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  2712. Don't know, but that's precisely the same subset of the sheeple herd that covid is presently purging.
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  2713. It will be amusing, and pathetic, to watch all the same Republicans who've gone along with every harmful, democracy-wrecking, stupid whim of Trump's to suddenly flip-flop and claim they don't know him, never heard of him, might have been in a few pictures with him but they're in lots of pictures with lots of people.
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  2714. Looking for restaurants and restaurant chains that require proof-of-vaccination from all prospective customers. Surely someone sees the potential upsell effect.
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  2715.  @davidweyant9356  Yes. And it's odd to see their serf class going along with the program :(
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  2716. Correct. Unless you have a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots, with all of it notarized as authentic, there simply wasn't a problem with dead people voting. I keep asking the Trump nutters for proof on their claims, but the best they've got is grainy video of some jackhole waving papers around. Understand something about proof. When you go into a bank to set up a new account, and they ask for ID, are you allowed to simply show them a video of you holding up a piece of plastic and claiming it's your drivers license or passport? No. They need to see the real thing, and verify that it's authentic, before opening the account. The same is true for other forms of proof, such as with the claims of election fraud, and, so far, the people claiming fraud there haven't been able to produce a shred of proof.
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  2717. "Anything but the truth" is the mark of the cultist. Charles Manson's followers did the same - any explanation other than the fact that he was plain crazy and incited them to commit crimes.
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  2718. Coming from the party of "let's keep government from interfering with business" this is hilarious. All because Mr Tang is still seething over the prank that TikTok users pulled on his Tulsa superspreading event.
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  2719. Didn't their orange lord mention something about getting disinfectants inside the body?
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  2720. No, our COUNTRY has not come to this. The Republican party has come to this.
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  2721. Trump's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16 year old girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color and treats it as the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything.
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  2722.  game over man 69  No, I mean he's sadistic to them and they take it like a bunch of Stockholm Syndrome incel pussies.
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  2723. I was thinking that it's more like something under 25%. US population is ~330 million, and there were ~74 million who voted for Traitor Trump. Of those, there are probably something like 20K of them who could be misled/induced into committing very serious crimes such as we saw in DC.
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  2724. Pretty soon that tune of his will change to, "I take no responsibility for this."
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  2725.  @mile_high_topher  But .. but .. but .. they REALLY want their orange Jeebus back. No matter what he may have done. They don't care, he just mashes their feelgoodhate buttons like no one else.
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  2726. Everything Dump touches, dies. His famous reverse midas touch prevails.
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  2727.  @zaphod22  Russian vessels do indeed suffer a disproportionally high level of explosions & sinkings attributed to sailors carelessly smoking around flammable/explosive substances.
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  2728. Are they deadbeats on the mortgage for the 2nd home too?
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  2729. That word salad goes best with .. dare I say? .. Russian dressing.
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  2730. Seems safe to assume that the high-to-low spread of numbers will be # of lies > # of actual crimes > # of indictments > # of convictions.
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  2731.  @skis_injeans  Bingo. Everyone's grandparents, who worked and fought throughout WW2, would probably slap us clear into next Sunday to hear us whining about masks and distancing and staying home. They went through a lot worse in the name of defending their societies. The pattern is clear across the US: way too many people are ignoring the rules. So it's definitely going to get really mental sometime next month :(
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  2732. Horse face makes above $15 million per year lying to America.
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  2733. It's entirely possible that there may be no cure for their idiocy. And they can't be left free to endanger the future of all Americans.
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  2734.  @gd7681  Agreed, all the anti-maskers need to drop their BS/propaganda right now. If EVERYONE EVERYWHERE even did so much as wear a bandana style improvised mask and either wore gloves and/or washed their hands all the time, virus transmission would be cut by 80%+. That's an incredible negative force multiplier to use against the virus.
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  2735. Hitler did the same thing by keeping wages artifically low so the oligarchs could further strip-mine the economy. It's rich people pissing down on you and saying to enjoy the fresh rain.
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  2736. Correct. We should have never had that conversation at all. Trump LOST and by a lot.
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  2737. Who knows, maybe Kari will make that her political career? What other elections might she lose and then claim victory over?
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  2738. Extremely creepy rich people who meant to actively harm our country. But then I have always seen Trump as that kind.
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  2739. "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear." Where there's smoke there's fire. What's he hiding?
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  2740. On the plus side, you're alive to start another business, which you probably will.
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  2741. You can tell that by the way the MyPillow asshole just helped bail out Kyle Rittenhouse. Who's he going to pay the fees for next, Amy Cooper?
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  2742. Yah, that breed has been so silent since the fall of 2016 that folks might think they're extinct.
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  2743.    Correct. They've made a fetish of having one set of rules for them, and another set of rules for everyone else. Remember when 8 months before an election was much too soon to schedule SCOTUS hearings?
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  2744.  @czgator9000  Another truth he sometimes tells at rallies is the punch line to a fable. He's talking about himself, and relishing how the audience members don't realize his true meaning. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  2745.  @Factsnotfox  Trump Jr, Jan 6: "This isn’t their Republican party any more. This is Donald Trump’s party"
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  2746. 2020: the year when Republican post-election butthurt tried to eclipse the coronavirus pandemic.
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  2747. Republicans salivate for political violence the way crackheads wish they could find a $100 bill on the sidewalk. They're profoundly damaged.
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  2748. Notice how his boss just got his walking papers too (Putin) .. wondering who they reported to, and how much they spent trying to maintain the sham.
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  2749.  @K.G.K.G.  Yup, and stuff like what he says has been said by many an incel killer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#Mass_murders_and_violence
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  2750. Perhaps someone should tell Mr. Putin that the hammer is not the right tool to use when the end goal is Ukrainians welcoming Russian troops and tanks. But perhaps the hammer is the only tool Mr. Putin has in his toolbox.
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  2751. Drones should have no troubles getting into tunnels and going kaboom.
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  2752. Florida: Random people in crowds whooping up the SuperBowl while not wearing masks. : Coronavirus has entered the chat.
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  2753. Remember when those same Republicans screeched that the ACA meant "government death panels"?
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  2754. He's been through only two popular election cycles and he lost them both.
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  2755. American here. I'm hating on all of those who either voted Trump or voted a third-party candidate because Harris wasn't perfect enough for them. You had one job, and you blew it.
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  2756. Dear governor: news flash - this thing is a virus. Whenever and wherever people gather indoors unsafely, it will spread among people. When you let people congregate indoors, they're going to get sick. What parts of this do you not understand?
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  2757.  @Sk0lzky  Correct. Even before the current conflict, they were a profoundly aged nation, sort of like Japan. This war isn't helping.
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  2758. Put it this way: Trump could spend a week tweeting how he's a Russian sockpuppet out to destroy America from within, and Republicans would still stand behind him and claim he can't be impeached. That's the level of nuttery on their side of the aisle.
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  2759. Chump45 definitely beat Jim Jones on the kill score. But not Hitler.
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  2760.  @ecurewitz  Correct. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was one of the "hateful eight" Republicans who celebrated July 4th 2018 in Moscow. From the actions of the players, it would appear that Putin's people have some tape of these Republicans asking earnestly such questions as - How can you help us to secure a win in every election? What would you like us to do for you? Etc. The others were Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Kennedy (R-LA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Thune (R-SD), and Kay Granger (TX).
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  2761. Where I live, trying to be a drop box vigilante would be somewhere between difficult and unthinkable.
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  2762. Sorry. You guys are like the nice people living on the 2nd floor over a biker bar with a meth problem :(
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  2763.  @unclebob7937  We're all going to have an infinite wait on the evidence, because there isn't any. The myth of the yellowcake & WMDs was practically a test run for this nonsense :(
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  2764.  @sizzlestick1  I for one would like to see a NFT card of Stephen Miller for his work in violating several international treaties on the treatment of refugees.
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  2765. It's not actually an acquittal when it was done by people who promised even before the event to render him innocent, and who also refused to see any of the witnesses & evidence that would have proved his guilt. Moscow Mitch turned it into a party line popularity vote.
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  2766. Rafael Eduardo Cruz is another perfect example. As the Canadian-born son of a Cuban refugee, he's come a long ways to reinvent himself as a southern white immigrant-bashing conservative.
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  2767. That's one of the only good things about allowing him to speak publicly .. he can't go a day without incriminating himself somehow.
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  2768.  @mooreandless  Turns out Sinclair Lewis wasn't too far off. Because when fascism slouched into America, humping a flag and brandishing a bible upside down, conservatives tripped over each other trying to help him end the rule of law in America.
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  2769. This is like Al Capone saying he totally would have paid those taxes.
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  2770. Jared Diamond wrote a book about this sort of thing - the subtitle fits perfectly: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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  2771. As an American, I approve.
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  2772. Well, if you look up the characteristics of what makes an ideal fascist citizen, unfortunately it shares a lot with the requirements of working at DHS. Comfortable with top-down hierarchies .. comfortable with the notion of using force to prop up said hierarchy .. having someone lower than them to abuse .. feeling helpless against (yet somehow aligned with) big power from above.
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  2773.  @sawluke  Fascists would be upset about civilians not respecting the authority of McConnell and McCarthy. Fascists like their hierarchies respected. Real Americans, however, don't shake hands with traitors.
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  2774. Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  2775. .. and from the party of "law and order" and "family values" and the "compassionate conservatives".
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  2776. Trump timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault." "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stock market!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose re-election.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT! Another hoax!" "Ignore those corpses, they're just crisis actors! Maybe the same ones used for cheating in elections!"
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  2777. As they say, the fish starts to rot from the head. Can't wait until this behavior trickles down to the rest of government and private organizations and businesses. Who would have thought, all you have to do is withhold all the evidence to avoid any consequences for your crimes?
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  2778.  @sr2291  Well, if you listen to the nutters, they make a couple of really bad assumptions about how things would happen. They somehow imagine that none of it would affect them personally .. they somehow imagine being able to operate without interference from the government .. and they somehow imagine that ordinary citizens won't be opposed to their christofascism.
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  2779. Unfortunately the Kool Aid is 3 parts LSD to 1 part rat poison.
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  2780. If it's so safe to go back to work, then why hasn't Trump scheduled his rallies to start again? He canceled them in March (due to the virus) but has not scheduled any new ones. It's as if he's afraid of some potentially deadly virus. Hair Fuhrer needs to put his money where his mouth is.
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  2781.  @blitzroehre1807  It is necessary to strongly resist the beginnings. If you wait too long, you're just Sophie Scholl and her friends getting rounded up :(
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  2782.  @garycoates4987  The investigation is reaching as far as even the people who may have directly or indirectly funded the operation. Sheldon Adelson sure picked an interesting time to clock out.
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  2783.  @donyoung7874  Empty G is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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  2784. He heard one of his eyes was "left".
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  2785. Go into every first-world shopping place. Nowhere do you see machinery or electronics or manufactured stuff from Russia. There's a reason for it. You see caviar and yak jerky. Even the Urinal motorcycles are not very good.
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  2786.  @144wychwood  Maybe MTG is that decapitated time-traveling ghost who also wrote to Sidney Powell? That would explain a lot.
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  2787. We barely escaped it. The fact remains that near half of our voters chose the guy who checks off every single box on the characteristics-of-fascism list. We have a lot of work to do here.
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  2788. Face it, even long before the Central Park Five Trump has been itching to find a way to kill Black people.
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  2789. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  2790. Actually we were warned about it in 2016, when Trump said he would accept the election results only if he won. Who else was paying attention? Crickets.
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  2791. When Trump referred to himself as a "war president", I just assumed he meant a war POWERS president. As in, who needs that pesky election that he's going to lose anyway? Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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  2792. This is a good time to go watch that video again about the Republicans yapping about the free market and gay wedding cakes. How quickly they forget. It's as if irony is not only a closed book to them, but a burned and buried book as well. (h/t Douglas Adams)
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  2793. I can actually respect conservatives who stand up to Wussolini, but so few of them have the sense to. They'd rather give him a free pass on destroying America just to avoid being on the receiving end of a nasty tweet.
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  2794.  @GeraldHarris-cf2zh  As with the US wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea, etc, there was and has never been any danger of those distant places making war on America in any big sense, such as sending aircraft carriers to soften us up, then landing troops on the beach in California. But few Americans realize this.
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  2795. Deleting FB apps off your devices is not enough .. reset them to factory and do not install any of their apps. Uggh - Wastebook :(
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  2796. The electoral college, as we know it now, is a way for rural places to magnify their political power. America is where it is today because the people in those places are, for the most part, a bunch of propagandized citizens slurping from the trough that Rupert Murdoch set up to mainline disinformation straight to them.
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  2797. @The Wraith Perhaps the laws are different where you are (if they have any laws on these things) but in most places, it's very bad form to let anyone know or even tell somehow that you have a gun.
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  2798. I prefer "Oaf Tweakers" but we both gave them the Gravy Seals / Meal Team Six connotations.
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  2799. President-elect Biden is correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance.
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  2800. @Bardenbella120 Yes, he actually said that. It's on video. Appears in (not sure) the first or second of the impeachment hearing evidence.
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  2801. There is quite a lot of that. Not only did Russia violate the Minsk 2 agreement, but it violated a number of other agreements when it attacked Ukraine. There's the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which Russia agreed to not to use economic or military force against Ukraine, in exchange for the return of the Soviet nuclear arsenal remaining there. There's the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, in which Russia agreed that the now-independent nations of the former USSR were free to choose their own path, east, west, whatever. Russia also violated the Minsk Agreement of 1991, in which it agreed to respect the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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  2802. Creating the conditions for other branches of government to lessen their own authority (this is a form of undermining their authority) always was one of Team Trump's goals. What they have in mind is a strong executive and everyone else running scared, like in Russia.
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  2803.  @rlanguillat  It's too late to ask that same question to the ones who got blown up in that massive ammo dump hit at night. Maybe they've reconsidered their position.
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  2804. Au contraire - the very fact that Trump is a self-centered narcissist is precisely what makes him the hyper-Republican they imagine him to be. Same for any real or perceived racism, classism, propensity towards violence, disregard for the rule of law, and so on. Those [negative] qualities make him irresistible to them. DeSantis and Cawthorn know this well :(
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  2805. Agree. This virus will be bouncing around the US for awhile due to our lack of controls on internal movement. And that idea of letting some counties open back up is just insane when all it takes is one passing traveler to infect the whole town, as happened with that funeral outside Albany, GA or that choir practice in Mount Vernon, WA.
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  2806. America used to be a presence, but then Trump decided he didn't need a state department and could do it all on his own. Trump is America's self-inflicted wound.
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  2807.  @vksasdgaming9472  Typically those systems get shut down for a whole month during the summer for maintenance. And it would appear that the maintenance has been much neglected. Oops.
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  2808. No one ever heard of such a thing! Who ever heard of that? 😅
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  2809. It's possible that Delta is finally running out of willing fools. But just to make sure, we should encourage our Mango Mussolini to start holding indoor rallies again.
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  2810. Trump is the patron saint of "do as I say, not as I do" thinking.
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  2811. We will not hear a peep from the right wing militias like the 3%ers, the oath keepers, and others. All those folks who, during Obama's time, spent 8 long years acting out the meme "Obama's violating the constitution, I can't point out how or where, but he's black and I'm mad as hell!" also won't have a problem with Trump, the senate, the DOJ, and the Supreme Corp plainly violating the constitution. Patriots, you know who you are.
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  2812.  @JohnC3POlerud  I hope Jeremy Raskin will someday be president.
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  2813. I'm sorry to say that the US will probably need to import more refrigerator trucks soon .. even in states where masks are now required by law, people continue to congregate indoors without masks whenever they feel they can get away with it. I've gone on a rampage on unmasked people I see in stores. Don't care if they're offended.
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  2814. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  2815. Hope you can restart those plans .. in a year or two it will be time to rebuild there.
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  2816.  @idres6862  Considering that tens of millions tuned in to watch the hearings live .. how are you today, Donald?
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  2817.  @colonelingus6871  House speaker Pelosi, I think you meant.
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  2818.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Correct. Things there are going to get worse (probably much worse) before they get any better.
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  2819. He's served his purpose. They're waiting for the next one to come along to help implement their regressive program :(
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  2820.  @kattiya2255  Trump doesn't see people as people. To him they are just objects in his field of vision. Compassion isn't just a closed book to him, but a burned and buried book as well.
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  2821. OK, I confess I came here to see how many of Washington's room-temperature-IQ fools have somehow misconstrued this week's news as, "Oh my god! Inslee wants to take my business away and force me to wear a mask so he can gloat 'Bwahahaha!' in the state command office while suffering way-lower tax revenues!", instead of the state government taking sensible steps to limit the spread of the disease, without which it would get even more out of control.
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  2822. Bingo. The history will explain how a con man, lawbreaker, charlatan, spray tanned Mr Fascist Magoo came along, and how conservatives tripped over each other trying to normalize violence and lawbreaking in his name. They need a couple decades in the woodshed of history to try to get that stain off. They don't get to just walk away from what they did any more than Leslie Van Houten did.
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  2823.  @marie-floreddy667  You don't think it was SICK that terrorists broke into the capitol and tried to execute the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in line of presidential succession after being whipped into a froth by the guy who just lost the election? It's you who are sick. Take your frigging meds.
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  2824. Oh the irony .. looks like Republicans are being forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Talk about just desserts for ending Roe v Wade.
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  2825. Who knows, perhaps the "Christmas gift" from Kim Jong Un is in the form of intercepted audio conversations between Trump and various state actors. One can only hope ;)
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  2826. It's as if America's wannabe Brownshirts are finally reaching into the closet, pulling out the shiny jackboots they've always wanted to wear, and practicing in front of the mirror.
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  2827.  @Ddrhl  A lot of things have been tried to wake them up from their delirium. Forcibly sterilizing refugees at the border, in complete violation of international laws? Tried that. Forcibly separating refugee families at the border, in complete violation of treaties we signed? Tried that. Trashing our longstanding allies? Tried that. Lying to the American people about a deadly disease, then killing hundreds of thousands through those lies and inaction? Tried that. Destroyed the export economy through "trade wars" that he thought were easy to win? Tried that. Rapidly increasing homelessness all over the country? Tried that. A whammy as bad as the 1918 Pandemic and the Great Depression all at once? Tried that.
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  2828. Looks like the Lincoln Project will be kept busy! ;)
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  2829. This fall was probably the closest we've seen to that scenario coming true. A desperate president, who lost the election, turning to Russia and N. Korea for some military help in the swing states, getting them to re-do the election under supervision. We don't know yet that he didn't call them. I expect a lot of stuff is going to come out in the wash later.
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  2830. Also probably means that their legal teams have advised them that Dominion and Smartmatic are moving ahead with their lawsuits. Anyone who repeated Trump's baseless lies is on thin ice now and the heat is on.
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  2831. Traditionally the USA has been jointly run by both major parties, with one or the other having the upper hand periodically, like the pilot and copilot trading seats during a long 747 flight. Over the long haul it works out to roughly 50/50. Within the last few years, the Republicans seem to have decided that they'd rather crash the plane into a hillside than endure the mock horror of not being in full exclusive control of everything all the time.
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  2832.  @boholde2757  Like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders :(
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  2833. Nah. Capitol police aren't going to let this happen again ever.
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  2834.  @george6252  The West learned some horrible lessons from reneging on their commitments to help Poland and Finland fight if attacked. That's not happening this time around, thankfully.
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  2835. Once upon a time in another country, millions voted for the funny little mustache guy who'd lose his marbles at the mere mention of 'Jews'.
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  2836. At that rate of loss, Russia only needs a few trillion soldiers in order to take Ukraine.
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  2837. Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  2838. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  2839.  Howard Bueker  Aww, so sore. Rub some copium on that butthurt. You can whine all you want, and make up all the dumb patently-false nonsense you want (just like the "stolen" election that covid was supposed to disappear after), but the truth is that Joe is doing good things for Americans. Including even you.
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  2840. To be fair, Trump did say he'd bring so much winning that we'd be tired of it. He was at least halfway right: the whole world is very tired of what he's been doing.
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  2841. .. and who is a friend of Vladimir Putin.
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  2842. Can someone please send a gpx file of the pipeline route? Asking for my cousins in Ukraine.
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  2843.  @750dollarman2  Re "piecing back together another Warsaw Pact?" << File that one with schemes like putting the toothpaste back into the tube.
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  2844. It's a fleet of buses, and they're going to come back to finish the job. Got popcorn?
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  2845. Give him a day or two and he'll be back to calling the shooter a "very fine person", talking about the immigrant "invasion", and probably re-tweeting the guy's manifesto :(
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  2846. Check this out. One person, perhaps a little too overzealous to return home, instead got off the Westerdam and was out in the wild infecting other people before testing positive somewhere further down the line. Sigh. Does anyone remember the Mr & Mrs Campion characters from "The Stand"? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-china-live-updates/2020/02/15/34b53ffe-4f6a-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html
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  2847.  @im_afraid_of_americans3918  After four years of letting Trump appoint "acting" people willy-nilly to skip the confirmation process, Moscow Mitch will suddenly change his mind and insist on the law being followed. Should a supreme court vacancy open, Mitch will explain that even 36 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Thank god people in Georgia are voting!
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  2848. That's not what Putin is saying. What he's really saying is, "Stop blowing up all our expensive stuff we can't replace easily". So just ignore him and keep taking our refineries, infrastructure, meat assaults, military stuff, everything.
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  2849.  Steve Whitford  I'm just glad that the modern equivalent of the loyalists, defending the interests of their mad, bloated king, continue to wear their red hats and fly their traitor flags. Makes them easier to spot. Ditto for those militia decals on their trucks. One of these days they may get a taste of how little Americans like traitors.
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  2850.  @blt4life112  Exactly. They should market a special paint color for those ginormous pickup trucks and call it "alpha victim".
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  2851. Trump makes me miss the sort of old-fashioned Republicans who didn't support insurrectionists and would shove someone into a shredder for even suggesting loving on Putin.
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  2852. After losing her job and the dog she was choking in that video, Amy Cooper now tries to say she's not a racist? Oh puh-leaze. Pull the other one, Karen.
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  2853. That golf course photo of Trump, with his giant ass and that frozen suet waterfall hanging over his belt, is probably his most flattering look. The guy's not even a 2.
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  2854. Here's another one: Trump tweeted for Michigan to "liberate" on April 17: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/trump-tweets-liberate-michigan-other-states-democratic-governors/5152037002/ The whacktard alt-reichers began looking for Governor Whitmer's home address on April 19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#Initial_investigations
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  2855.  @FretnesButke  This has been a painful experience, but I too now know how many people around me would have made gleeful Nazis or Quislings if the right malevolent authoritarian came along. I knew we had badly-wired people living among us, just did not realize how many of them there are, or how easily they're sucked into the cult.
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  2856. More importantly, Trump got the whole Republican party to go along with voiding those agreements, and for that they need to go to the woodshed of history.
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  2857. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  2858. It's coming. Our tiny-handed thin-skinned Mango Mussolini is proof of that old maxim about how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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  2859. If the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims, DeathSantis would be trying to ban seatbelts and airbags :(
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  2860. Looks like a lot of those red states got the government they voted for.
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  2861.  @JFHeroux  This is on point, as it's going to take a lot of work to rebuilt what those invaders smashed. All hands on deck type effort for a couple years.
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  2862. Presumably the reason behind this whole sham was to cast doubt on elections.
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  2863. It will be totally unsurprising to learn later that Agent Orange did this just because Erdogan agreed to loan him some $$$ for building condos in Turkey.
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  2864.  @anastasiaisabella7354  She outdid Clint Eastwood talking to the empty chair, for sure.
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  2865.  @projectedone  And yet, for such an allegedly mighty fighting force, the Lebensraum Conquest-o-Meter is stubbornly stuck at 19%, not far from where it was in 2020. Do you have some good explanation for that? Low morale? Drunkenness?
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  2866. It would appear that someone has set a new high score record for turret-tossing. Any word yet on what their chosen tool was?
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  2867.  @soriac2357  Corollary: those same Trump-y Republicans would rather burn America to the bedrock than admit Hair Fuhrer won't be in the white house.
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  2868. @S EE My grandfather and his buddies kept score by how many dead Nazis they could pile up. Fighting fascists is a traditional American activity anyway, whether they be Hitler's foot soldiers, General Franco's, or Trump's.
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  2869.  @janusgahrstre1998  That's not a false narrative, fool, all of what I wrote was widely covered in the news at the time. You are a very sucky propagandist/troll is this is the best of what you have to offer. Try again, Fruit Loops, only this time please attempt to say something that's more based in reality than your lame, fact-free denials of what actually took place.
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  2870. Count the guns, the crosses, the nazi flags, the confederate flags, the swastikas, and you'd assume that Donald Trump is the love child of David Duke and David Koresh, with Alex Jones as the midwife.
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  2871. NPR had a piece this morning about how most media outlets will be blocking him from claiming any such nonsense before the votes are all counted, and that may take awhile.
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  2872. Glad you see it too. WW3 has already began. Our choices are to fight Putin now before he's completely destroyed Ukraine, or fight him later after he's made a mess there and killed more people. Yes it's a sucky choice. Yes no sane person wants war. But it has already begun.
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  2873.  @nias2631  Laughably and predictably, Dump's supporters today are whining stuff like this: “He says it’s going to be wild and when it gets wild he calls it a heinous attack and middle-fingers to his supporters he told to be there.” People like that need to look up the definition of USEFUL IDIOT .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
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  2874. When the founders wrote "free speech" into the law, unfortunately they weren't thinking of what a glaring loophole that would leave for a narcissistic wannabe fascist authoritarian who lies with nearly every breath. Damn careless of them. On the plus side, this has shown which people and institutions among us are the most gullible to that kind of nonsense.
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  2875. Being in cells and cuffs, orange jumpsuits, being taken in front of the judge under the bright lights and asked some pointy questions .. eventually it will sink in with some of them that this is real and not just a bad dream. Others may be lifetime mental cases - heck, there are still Manson Family cult members who haven't gotten over it.
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  2876.  @mooseantler  Sure, sure, but only if you want America to be as violent as Haiti, which is about what happens when a coup is not punished.
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  2877. More like 5+ weeks ago. This thing is stealthy and has a long incubation period before mortal symptoms emerge.
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  2878. Yeah. This "peace plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Remember that one? Code name "Lebensraum"
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  2879. Considering how Barr didn't lift a finger when Trump's people used guns to force their way into state legislatures back in April/May .. yeah :(
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  2880. The difference is, smart people usually know that they can't (and never will) know everything. Stupid people, on the other hand, are convinced they know everything.
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  2881. Given that you'd have to be as high as a kite to break your supposed oath to the constitution (and overturn the election results that you just didn't agree with because they hurt your tender feefees) we should be calling them Oaf Tweakers instead.
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  2882. Also the way he changed interpreters halfway through, and both times destroyed their notes before they left the room.
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  2883. The numbers for extra-judicial killings are crazy here in the US already. With this "surge" one can expect the police to disproportionally target protesters, non-Christians, nonwhites, poor people, homeless people, LGBTQIA people :(
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  2884. "If I can get better, anyone can get better". << says the guy whose inaction has led to 234,425 US coronavirus deaths and counting. He got the gold-plated taxpayer-provided coverage that everyone else doesn't get.
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  2885. Putin definitely hired a proper wrecking crew :(
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  2886. Rostov historically belonged to Ukraine. It should be part of the reparations package.
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  2887.  @jeffarnold3800  Yeah, good luck with that, this isn't Obama's era anymore. But then, you Republicans are always trying to wind the calendar back.
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  2888. Two days late, Donald Judas Trump's birthday gift to a gaslighting-weary America will be the grim milestone of 3 million covid-19 cases. USA #1!
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  2889. Hopefully this is the last time the US has a leader who uses the 14 characteristics of fascism as a to-do list :(
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  2890. The scale of the pandemic in the US is ramping up far faster than the capacity to do testing. The wait times will grow so long that the tests will be useless. Instead we'll only know the extent of this through the numbers for covid deaths and covid hospitalizations .. when the sirens run all day long .. when refrigerated trailers full of bodies are spotted parked around the city. All of this because Trump felt that 6 months of lies was preferable to dealing with the crisis back in January when he was first warned about it.
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  2891. No one's ever accused Clump of knowing what he was doing, unless it was some kind of grifting operation, and even those he did pretty ham-handedly. He did everything so clumsily and ineptly that without being made king-emperor-president for life, there was no way he could avoid prosecution.
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  2892. Turns out that separating Trump supporters from their common sense was like separating two islands that are on opposite sides of the globe.
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  2893. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%.
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  2894. Those "children" aren't going to school either. Tsk tsk.
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  2895.  @tubruton  To be fair to the Republicans, it's difficult for them to wage a coup if their Brownshirts keep getting arrested for every little crime they commit.
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  2896. Only instead of a Manchurian Candidate, they're cheering on the Muscovite Incumbent.
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  2897. Thanks to these new missiles, turret tossing is now an olympic sport. How high can you make the turret fly?
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  2898.  @tjohnsonz  It's funny hearing you claim "bias fruit" when you quote stuff made up by the bored staff at FOXed Noise. Time for your cereal and your meds, grandpa.
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  2899.  @lessoufi  Here's what Republicans did in 2019 when Trump committed a crime: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  2900. This is so awful. I am going to vote for Republican party candidates next. NOT!!
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  2901. Every day in the USA it's like this: Fauci: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested more than a million people in the USA!" Trump: "Keep telling me how great I am, I need more of that just now." Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 320 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing?"
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  2902. Adelson provided a stark example of why dirty money shouldn't be allowed in politics. He picked an interesting time to check out. Apparently the DC insurrectionists were well-funded. Where did the money come from? Did his dark money indirectly go into buying weapons and body armor for the attempted coup?
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  2903. Monitoring Trump's covid-19 status is a waste of public funds. He already went on camera saying it was a hoax.
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  2904.  @0098Elaine  They could do any city - or any state for that matter.
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  2905.  @andrewtrip8617  Regarding "it is not a threat to the vast" << On that point you are 180 degrees wrong. Last year's kinder gentler original covid was like that, but the newer variants are not. Young, old, healthy, sick, it does not care who you are, it can kill you with ease of there is not hospital care available for you when you need it. And that has always been the danger of this disease, overwhelming the local hospital systems. When that happens, the death rate goes up from around 2% to around 20%.
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  2906. WHY were the governors not brought into the loop (back in January) when the infectious diseases team were discussing these things? Unlike Trump, the governors don't spend all their time bragging, bloviating, shifting blame, etc.
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  2907. He's completely amoral. That's what he's saying.
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  2908. The GQP is WAY past that point. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%. That's where the GQP is these days.
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  2909. Whether Trump wins or loses the election, we can count on him doing more of the same. He will propagandize and inflame his followers into committing more and worse atrocities. He will work to destroy America. He will try to dynamite any path back to normalcy from here.
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  2910. To be fair to Republicans - if you took from their platform all the parts that work against the best interests of the American people, or that work against people who don't vote for them, why, they wouldn't have a platform at all.
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  2911. Who's his partner, Karen Alcohol or Jill Weed?
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  2912. After watching Republicans switch from purely-partisan blocking of Obama's nominees to letting Trump do any "acting" appointments he wanted to; after seeing Republicans switch from saying that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge to helping Trump ram one through in under 8 weeks; after watching Republicans howl at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit to helping Trump undermine the results of the most secure election in US history; my trust of Republicans is thinner than cellophane. I'd say they're acting like Hitler's Nazi party did during its attempts to seize power, except it's not an act, sadly.
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  2913. Thank you for your service.
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  2914.  @audreycopses4356  Like all of Trump's other used doormats, she thought she was "the one".
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  2915. Faux Noise showed the way: factual news reporting might earn you the Pulitzers, but angertainment is what pays the bills.
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  2916. I love the way no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up.
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  2917. I do hope that something can be done to bring back these people, mostly boomers, all of whom were raised in the same protective coccoon of American prosperity that Trump is presently trying to tear down. Clearly, he's got them lusting for an America in which he has dictatorial powers; in which minorities are silent and invisible; in which Christianity is the law of the land; in which America has all the broadly-based prosperity of the 1950s but without the high marginal tax rates that enabled that same broader-based prosperity; in which America is simpler to them like back when they were children. These people don't just need to move forward 60+ years from wherever the Rat Whisperer has led them, they need to grow up too.
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  2918. Russians are used to fireworks shows on May 9th. Things that go boom. Big spectacular explosions. Ukraine, you know what to do and we are with you 9000% 👍
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  2919. I have no sympathy for any of them for throwing their lives away for the biggest con artist in history. We tried to tell you 6 years ago he was unfit and completely deranged, but he affirmed your prejudices and sold you all magic beans. You bought it, you own it.
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  2920. His stupidity, venality, and corruption were on full display for decades before he got the Republican nomination. Even conservatives cannot later claim that they didn't know how toxic Trump was, that they didn't know what kind of a person he was. Here's what some conservatives had to say about Trump, in their own words: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  2921. Republicans know damn well that if they ever told their crazies the truth (that covid is real, that Dolt45 lied/minimized to make his election attempt look better, that he later lied about the election integrity/results) the mob would rip them apart. So instead, they'll happily shove our nation into chaos/division/bloodshed (which they caused) rather than do the right thing and fess up to their lies.
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  2922. Trump craves exposure like plants crave electrolytes - and with similar effect. With any luck he'll let slip better evidence than what the 1/6 committee is seeing.
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  2923. Sorry to say this, but his Dad just passed the Republican party purity test! :(
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  2924. For perspective, 22,022 Texans died in WW2.
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  2925. Perhaps Trump's India visit did not go completely to waste .. perhaps some food preparer managed to cough on the food, and thus did the world a favor.
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  2926. Fascists just wanna fash :(
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  2927.  @DCell1961  Some of these same Republicans have been calling for political violence. Wonder if it's opened their eyes to see threats of the same against their own families?
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  2928. Gosh, you have to wonder how aggrieved those folks feel when the law tells them they can drive on only one side of the road, or they have to wear shoes and shirt and pants to go into a store.
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  2929. NOT sorry for Eastman. But there's lots more besides him that need to go.
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  2930. Bingo. What he accuses others of doing is what he plans to do himself.
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  2931. You are touching on why Putin and Kim Jong Un and Balsonaro and Duterte all liked each other. Folks who rule instead of lead, who normalize political violence - but only when it's them doing it. They are all profoundly damaged people, like Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini too. Like Orban.
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  2932.  J Carver  Please, everyone, for love of all that is holy, do not whip out the label "socialist" until you hear someone talking about the workers and the state seizing the means of production. By comparison to what's in Europe, even Bernie Sanders is a centrist.
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  2933. Delta and Omicron are thinning the fifth column even as we speak. Maybe we won't need to build new prisons after all.
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  2934.  @charlesasmith7836  Oh hell they would probably assault the prison to "liberate" him.
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  2935. Looks like she's never handled a gun before in her life.
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  2936. The consumer pays. That's how tariffs work. That's why the world largely abandoned tariffs as detrimental to international business. But the notion of friendly cooperation among peers is as foreign to Big Orangey as it is to Putin.
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  2937. Obviously we know now that he's a DINO and that he'd be happy if Trump seized power. Uggh :(
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  2938. Well, apparently all those "secure" "private" "encrypted" chat apps are wholly transparent to the FBI, so there's all kinds of message traffic that the perps imagined was safe.
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  2939. Also no official medical report from the incident. Most curious.
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  2940. To merely say that the GQP is exploding makes it sound like something bad that just happened to them. No, they are like the people who broke into a storage facility for used porta-potties, smeared themselves with feces that have been stewing for a week or two under the hot sun, and now they're whining about the smell. They brought this completely upon themselves of their own knowing volition.
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  2941. Perhaps he'll find a way to blame it on .. Obama?
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  2942. This is a failure at the state and local government level. Ignore the Karens, require EVERYONE to wear masks in public settings, no exceptions. $1000 first offense, $5000 second offense. NY state has very successfully crushed their pandemic by enforcing mask wearing. It's the simplest and cheapest way to curb the spread.
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  2943. Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  2944. "We have plenty of theories, your honor, we just don't have any evidence." -- Rudy Giuliani
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  2945.  @joesmith6776  I used to mock my Obama-hating relatives by saying "Thanks, Obama!" after stubbing my toes on doorways and stuff like that. Sadly, it went right over their heads.
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  2946. Fresh after saying "Free speech is back", he talked about trying to prosecute students for exercising their free-speech rights. One assumes that's why he's been busy subverting the DoJ.
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  2947. One sect of Trump's Brownshirt Irregulars. There are several.
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  2948. They say we should reach out to the former Trumpanzees and work with them. All I can say is this. Invasive therapy / remedial civics education / mental hospitals / jail / exile are the appropriate routes for people who were somehow OK with the following things: Driving vehicles into crowds of protestors, or trying to run a campaign bus off the road. Separating refugee/immigrant children from their parents, then disappearing the parents. Stopping the vote counting in places where the trend is against Trump, but continuing it in places where the trend is going Trump's way. Telling Obama that 8 months before an election is too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, then ramming Trump's pick through in less than 8 weeks. Saying that no evidence/witnesses would be seen at Trump's impeachment trial. Militias showing up at the southern border to shoot at refugees. Saying that a 6/3 makeup of the Supreme Court is 50/50 or "fair and balanced". Trashing every staunch ally that has stood with America for decades, while cozying up to the worst dictators and adversaries of America. Trump's lies about the virus and about how the pandemic got so out of control here. All the hateful rhetoric against minorities, ethnicities, different religions, people who vote differently, immigrants, etc. Showing up armed at ballot counting locations. If they don't do any soul-searching after this time, I want nothing to do with them. For the safety of the rest of us, some of them need to be marched to the borders and told to stay out.
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  2949. Trump: The virus makes prison too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone, it's an indoor group setting. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them or you.
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  2950. So. Which of the event organizers decided to allow heavily-indicted 45 to speak there? Someone's gotta answer for that.
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  2951. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%. That's where the GQP is these days.
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  2952. Translation: "I fell for Trump's dumb lies about the integrity and results of the election, and all I've got to show for it is customers voting with their feet."
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  2953. That would have been nicer 4 years ago when it mattered more.
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  2954. Well, the CEO of Oceangate is on board, so presumably he's getting a triple ration of sh*t from everyone else if that's them stuck on the bottom. Given the way all comms & telemetry ended at the same time, however, chances are it was a catastrophic & quick end for all aboard.
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  2955. Like in all things, the Republicans will say nothing. Mind you, these are the same Republicans who howled at the moon when Obama did "horrible things" like using mustard or wearing a tan suit. They are so evil :(
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  2956. Like a giant litmus test washing over our society, Trump has cleverly identified those who would vote for an obvious fascist autocrat and who'll believe the dumbest propaganda available.
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  2957. That bar needs a better name for what it's trying to accomplish just now. How about "Super Spreader"?
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  2958. For that matter, anyone who fancies themself to be an "abortion bounty hunter" is in dire need of some "golden rule therapy" so that they can understand what they're doing to others. It is probably the only way they will learn.
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  2959. Uncle Pooty just wants some Lebensraum. He just thinks he's getting rid of the "squatters" on "his" Ukraine :(
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  2960. Trump's been like this all along (paraphrased) - "If the economy goes up, I did it, but if it goes down, Obama & Biden were responsible" LOL
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  2961.  @sharonwells9593  Trump scratched some itch of theirs that wasn't previously known to themselves or the rest of us. You can tell who Trump really is by what types of people like him .. small-minded people .. people who cackle with glee over the thought of violence .. people easily motivated by fear, rage, and misinformation .. people with no moral compass.
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  2962. Poor Chomsky has gone full Neville Chamberlain, trying to keep the alligator's hunger pangs to a minimum at all costs.
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  2963. Actually he does more than that. Apparently his Reverse Midas Touch is contagious and can be passed on. Putin apparently caught it from him.
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  2964. Gah, he talks about going down a very dangerous road (simply overriding voting results that you don't like) then proceeds to do just that in public.
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  2965. Pepper-spraying the anti-mask fools is almost too nice, considering how much danger they can cause. But it's a start.
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  2966. Susan Collins said she thought Trump had learned his lesson and that she hoped that he will change. Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  2967. Sorry for you and your family. Hoping you have a speedy recovery to normal health. I have two friends who both suffered the 10-week version of covid, and it nearly killed them. So when I hear fools who stupidly insist this is nothing to worry about, I want to bring them to a covid ward or get them talking with others who've actually suffered it. This is nothing to laugh at.
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  2968. The MAGAts have already started their 2CW, though it is still at a very cool state. By this I mean the doubling or tripling of violence against visible minorities since the 2016 election. Every act of political violence in the US in 2018 was related to right wing extremism. Sometimes the perps even used Trump's own verbiage.
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  2969. Trump has never wanted to be a leader. He wants to be a ruler.
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  2970. Notice how Trump was busy firing Pentagon people just as the Russian computer hack was going on. Putin must be pleased with his apprentice :(
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  2971.  @fredhuot9279 Funny how no one ever found that yellowcake or those mobile WMD labs. Who else remembers "freedom fries"? Shameful :(
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  2972. This is inevitably what happens when crazies drift from the asylum into politics.
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  2973. All of a sudden, come Jan 21st, Republicans will switch to obstructing Biden while pretending they had NOTHING to do with Trump.
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  2974.  @TKUltra971  Not only did she overstay her visa illegally and work here illegally, she brought her card-carrying-commie parents over via the same chain migration that Trump professes to hate (he helped with that).
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  2975.    Glad you recovered. I had a friend who endured 14 weeks of symptoms. She has permanent lung damage now.
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  2976. It's much worse than that - he's openly been inciting friction between his whacktard base and everyone else.
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  2977. In the words of the man himself - "unpresidented".
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  2978.  @geoffwilliams4478  Hope not. We should probably be studying the ways of Ukraine, of they who have been fighting aggressive fascism for 850+ days so far. Heroes.
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  2979.  @ndrklerz2178  Notice how we haven't heard from Dr Fauci lately? You nailed it.
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  2980. Cult members will be cult members. You try to tell them that Charles Manson is a manipulative killer, and they smile and tell you how great he is.
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  2981. In modern Germany, no, but in the USA it's a whole nother story :(
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  2982. Loved the way when the audience laughed out loud when Beavis tried saying that no aid was withheld, and that the Ukranians didn't know the aid was being withheld. Has this clan of incompetents not yet realized that they jumped the shark months ago? When a US president gets booed loudly in public and hears "lock him up!", we're much closer to pitchforks than polite removal from power.
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  2983. Count me as officially concerned.
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  2984. Funny how the rural Oregon hospitals are full of unvaccinated covid patients. Like Ben Franklin always said - "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." Smart people learn from the mistakes of others, stupid people learn only by getting their faces mashed into the dog poo. On the plus side, we can buy their stuff cheap at estate auctions.
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  2985. Or not dealing with the southern border, after spending more than a year yowling that nothing was being done about it.
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  2986. Unfortunately, people like that will try to salvage a win from that by infecting other people - even lots of other people.
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  2987. That "deal" he made with the Taliban (the one that left the Afghani people & government out in the cold) .. exactly what did he, 45, personally get from it? We already know he requires some personal compensation for such things.
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  2988. When the guy working with Russia and issuing threats to patriotic Americans is the guy the Secret Service is protecting, maybe those guys should just disappear for a week or two and let nature take its course. There's only one meaningful punishment for traitors.
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  2989. Even though many conservatives are patently evil, and would gleefully plunge our nation into chaos, bloodshed, christian Sharia law, etc, this is much worse punishment than I would have wished on them. All I wanted them to do was wake up from their fog. How many families have lost their loved ones and providers over this? How many children have lost one or more parents?
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  2990. No one's accusing the Russians of learning. They still think the sovereign nation of Ukraine is "theirs". Uncle Pooty must really miss that KGB vacation place along the Black Sea shore.
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  2991.  @mikeorfe1188  You seem late to realizing how much damage Trump has done to America in the short term and the long term. With his willy-nilly "because Obama signed it" withdrawal from treaties that the US had signed in good faith, the rest of the world now thinks of us as an unreliable partner in anything, since we have no laws on the books preventing some fool from winning the EC vote and then walking away from things the United States had promised to do. Much of what we used to think of as our pre-2016 "prosperity" depended on the rest of the world seeing us as a guarantor of peace, a reliable ally, the stewards of a global trading currency, the standard-bearer of democracy, and so on. Trump trashed all that. Within 5 years you're going to see the impacts of that. Remember how the UK went downhill when they stopped being an empire and reverted to being just another ordinary nation? We're due for that now, all thanks to the fool that fools like you supported.
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  2992.  @vickilssrb4405  Wish he'd rolled with the Dark Brandon thing and started talking about tan suits and Dijon mustard.
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  2993. Exactly. Look at how the governor of North Dakota, months too late, finally enacted a mask mandate just yesterday. Of course he waited until his state had become the worst-infected state in the whole country (8.2% of their population infected as of today, up from 7.9% just yesterday) all out of a desire to hang close to Sweet Potato Hitler's coattails. Condolences to the people of North Dakota :(
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  2994. By then, Caligula will have circulated some dumb lies about how someone else is responsible for those troubles.
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  2995. And yet .. he's got followers. And they want to drag the rest of the country down whatever demented rabbit hole they live in :(
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  2996. Look on the plus side, this "gotta reopen now!!" nonsense is like a magnet for the dumbest folks who can't understand exponentially-spreading things. Their localities will be a little smarter due to their departure. It took only a month for the USA to go from 400 cases to 400,000 cases - and it would have been even faster had most states not locked down halfway through that month.
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  2997. Someday I hope there is a t-shirt showing her face with the line underneath, "I moved on him like a bitch".
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  2998. MAGA Mike can't look even three steps ahead. What a dolt.
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  2999.  @balung  @Apple is surely referring to the way Putin sent armed soldiers to collect ballots in the recent referenda about joining Russia.
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  3000. Someone give Trump a medal. In the nearly-3 months time that this virus has been circulating, the US has tested three-tenths of a percent of the country. Jeez :(
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  3001. Somehow, when America's founders wrote "free speech" into the law, I doubt they imagined that someday it would be legal for politicians and so-called "news" agencies to spread the lie that a deadly pandemic is just a "hoax", or that incumbent president has a right to toss the ballots he doesn't like.
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  3002.  @jimilee4660  The metal detectors are a good idea, but, frankly, that place should have them built into any aperture big enough for a package to go through. All centrally logged and recorded to remote hard drives like the video network. The investigation into the coup is maybe moving a little slower than we'd want, but it's got vast amounts of archived signals intelligence feeding it. For example, anyone following Boebert's tweet stream (in which she detailed the House speaker's whereabouts, presumably for the benefit of the insurrectionsts) will be matched against those participating in the event and their detailed movements within the capitol complex. I like the way they're not making heads roll. They're going to make examples out of these folks instead. Much better.
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  3003. "If we don’t have enough resources for the severely ill then the mortality rate is going to be" - bingo. As the good doctor has communicated, a large portion of the patients ill enough to go to hospital will need oxygen support and/or ventilators. Even in the more affluent countries, there's nowhere near enough hospital beds and oxygen/breathing support equipment to go around. Someone in another thread pointed out that in all of New Mexico there are 3,600 hospital beds, and on any given day 90% of them are already in use.
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  3004. Unfortunately, 45 can gaslight those same people into thinking he's just being screwed by the system, when in reality he's just a peculiar sort of criminal. The only honest thing he says at his rallies is, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  3005.  @nathalie_desrosiers  Oh yes, thank you. I remember how suddenly they got sucked into the dumbest propaganda-induced nutball cases. They were proud to tell everyone that they belonged to groups that shot abortion doctors and bombed clinics. All of their friends stopped talking with them, stopped visiting. Even the other relatives didn't want to have anything to do with them. I don't know if anybody tried to intervene. They're still paranoid and delusional and controlling and narcissistic - pretty much just like Trump. Haven't spoken with them in decades, don't want to. So when Trump came along I could see his type clearly :(
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  3006. Turns out we have way too many people who fantasize that the way to get ahead in life is to be their very worst selves, and they're thrilled when one of their own kind manages to do it :(
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  3007. Also just a coincidence that Trump tried to change the votes only in the specific places where he lost.
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  3008. Trump's followers aren't much better. They try to claim that fewer than 10K Americans have died of covid, and besides, they were sick or old people who would have died anyway. The orange kool-aid is strong with the cult :(
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  3009.  @bobbykirl7894  The current Republican idea of "fair and balanced" means them in charge of everything. And that should scare us all. One-party states are not good places to be.
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  3010. Taylor who?
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  3011. Yeah. Like a more clever, more centrist version of Trump :(
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  3012. Uhh, guys, look at his pre-covid19 videos, he was doing this for awhile beforehand. He'll definitely be more famous afterwards.
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  3013. I deal with his sh*thead followers every day. They're basically barking mad. They insist that all the official numbers are wrong and that the death rate is really 0.00032% and that this is some attempt to force them into communism. So of course I ask them for evidence that the workers are seizing the means of production and then they stop responding.
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  3014. They have only limited use for people who betray their own countries the way Carlson is doing to the USA. He'd be on a short leash there.
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  3015. Well, we can stop it the easy way now, or wait for it to grow stronger, and have a harder time stopping it later. No doubt Sophie Scholl and her friends had some choice thoughts on that subject.
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  3016. Calling it "Freedumb Day" is so Orwellian. More like let's-infect-everyone day. This is like turning on all the street lights during the London Blitz. What the?
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  3017.  @geraldstephens6612  Bingo. Since he has no respect for the law, there's no telling what he could do. There are many more like him, some of whom keep getting arrested in DC for showing up with weapons. Lock them all up.
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  3018. Remember, folks, for Trumpanzees it's less frustrating to spout Glenn-Beck's-blackboard-type whackamole twisted conspiracy theories than to admit that they got conned by a known liar and racist who appealed to their basest tribal/ethnonationalistic/hopey-changey/nostalgic instincts. I hope someday there's a serious effort to deprogram these loons.
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  3019.  @ejnichols05  Just having those people around at all (voting, breeding, choosing not to wear masks) is going to f*ck up America pretty bad. All because Murdoch / Hannity / Limbaugh found they could make a penny off inflaming ignorant people basically :( Is this what happened in Rome? Sometimes I wonder.
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  3020.  @GreenBeanGreenBean  Yah :( It's depressing to see someone taking Orwell's works as how-to manuals instead of cautionary tales :(
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  3021. Republicans are only into kangaroo-style courts. It's part of their fascination with wanting to turn America into a banana republic ruled by some inept racist dictator.
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  3022. Totally stupid & totally desperate. Regardless of what Hunter Biden was or wasn't doing, or what he was earning, that has nothing to do with the way Trump violated the law to punish & manipulate Ukraine and to deprive Ukraine of the means for self-defense.
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  3023. It is good that Ukraine is taking Russian refineries offline, but hopefully they can expand to other forms of infrastructure so as to render industrial Russia much less workable.
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  3024. You'd think they'd have plenty of reward money to offer, what with them charging customers for future services needed and then failing to deliver more than 30% of the time. That's called business fraud.
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  3025. Given the level of whining from China, they seem unhappy about something. If the thing was being remotely operated, well, we approached it with a stealth aircraft and possibly got around any remote destruct capability. Now the ball's in our court .. forensics and reconstruction will tell us a lot about what they wanted to accomplish and how.
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  3026. Funny how no one's hearing from Sydney Powell or Johnny Eastman now.
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  3027. Benjamin Franklin had some words about that kind of thing - "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  3028. Somewhere in the world, there is a language in which that all rhymes. But yes - he and his enablers have got to go. Now.
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  3029. Might be extreme substance abuse too.
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  3030. Of those 7 senators who voted against this (haven't found their names yet) were any of them in the same group who spent July 4th, 2018 in Moscow? Just curious.
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  3031. So far it has been found to be as long as 26 days in some cases, and as short as 2 days.
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  3032. That's basically how we did it in the USA for the first few months - you could only get a test if you had the classic COVID symptoms. By glossing over the asymptomatic people (who were deemed not worth expending a test on) the authorities inadvertently caused a vast spread of the disease. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  3033. Just wait until the May numbers get included in the next ad. By around the middle of the month the USA will probably be at or close to 100,000 covid related deaths.
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  3034. I don't mind if they die off, I just hope they don't do any killing.
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  3035. They're not even remotely clever. People like that fall into the Dunning-Kruger bin - folks too dim to realize the limits of their ability to understand things. Just avoid them. By the time they figure out it's real, they or someone in their family will have been hooked to a ventilator (or worse).
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  3036. The Republican party tent is so big, it can take anyone - but not those who are not white and rich and xtian and racist all together.
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  3037. There was one (1) attempted shoe bombing back in December 2001, and Americans are STILL taking off footwear at the airport? Embarrassing :( Sad :(
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  3038. Imagine having that Charles Manson / reverend Jim Jones ability to get people to drink the Kool Aid and commit criminal acts.
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  3039. Watching Trump fondle the joystick of domestic terror is disturbing .. he so wants to be like Putin :(
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  3040. Well, with 70 million people voting to make the pandemic even worse, this is probably going to be a rough winter despite the bigger number of people trying to make things better. It's a good thing we didn't have that many traitors during WW2.
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  3041.  @mitsidstevgttab2677  45 reels in the dummies quite well, he just needs to comport himself like a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is like, a poor person's idea of what a rich person is like, an emotionally unbalanced person's idea of what a together person is like, an immature person's idea of what an adult is like, and so on.
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  3042. Like Hitler, he will try to destroy the nation once he knows he can't be in charge anymore.
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  3043.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Re "et's round up BLM" << Are you STILL all butthurt that a little broken glass and spray paint wasn't anywhere near as grievous an offense as the treason committed on January 6th? Just because you're mad over it doesn't mean it was an equal offense. Grow up poser.
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  3044. Looks like someone forgot to put up the chain link fence. Whoops.
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  3045. Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? (Greenland is part of Denmark) First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. They're a cult :( and the cult includes senators, congresspeople, ambassadors, judges.
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  3046. Mr Ghouliani is already under investigation. His turn is coming.
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  3047.  @tsurdyk  Debating Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon will just knock over the pieces, crap all over the board, and fly away making a lot of noise.
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  3048.  @OceanFrontVilla3  As I said, randomized double-blind trials are the only kind that show the truth. I don't believe anything less than that, nor should you or anyone else.
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  3049. Pinochet too had his fawning admirers. That's the level of shit they're willing to drag our nation into rather than face the fact that their former guy lost the 2020 election fairly.
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  3050. His followers aren't much better either :(
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  3051.  George Dunn  There's something seriously wrong with people who find obvious psychopaths charming :(
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  3052. Not being able to bully is probably too unappealing for him.
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  3053. There's a Swedish proverb - The trees kept voting for the axe, thinking that because its handle was made of wood it must be one of them.
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  3054. Here are some examples of lies about coronavirus. See if this jogs your memory any. March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  3055. Wrong thread?
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  3056. Looks like the white house press pool has moved over the the president-elect's press room. The other one was so full of lies anyway that even FOX shut it off. Poor little spinner Kayleigh was doing her very best Baghdad Bob impressions.
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  3057. .. and it's only a matter of time before Hair Fuhrer throws her under the bus too.
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  3058.  @zankou5611  It's almost certainly been purged from the history books in Russia. For sure it isn't taught to people, as part of their basic education there, that the US sent Russia even more stuff than it sent to the UK during the war.
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  3059. Correction, they want to go clear back to the 1850s.
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  3060. I wouldn't give up on any of these states. What we need to do is keep ratcheting up the pressure on places that are hell-bent on vote suppression.
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  3061.  @sdgakatbk  Indeed, one of the notable characteristics of psycho narcissists is that they're unable to take being mocked in public .. though they're happy to trash anyone else.
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  3062. Yes - but a great start at what? Uniting Iran; uniting both Iraq and Iran against the USA; making sure that our former allies won't do anything with us.
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  3063.  @Nolan-v6w  Indeed, lazy fairy (SP) capitalism as we know it now in the US depends on having whole classes of underpaid, no-benefits workers.
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  3064. Are you a Wall Street bank? Do you go to Swamp-A-Lago? There's your answer. How great that Wall Street can go have a big expensive circle jerk while the rest of us get our cars repo'd because we're out of work :(
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  3065. That's because Trump and his willing Republican supporters would rather leave America in chaos than not be in charge of it.
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  3066. With all these foreigners going in an out of Mar-a-Lardo, and it being so close to the waterways .. it's not inconceivable that small-quantity radioactive compounds could find their way in.
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  3067. Why would a wannabe-dictator let a good crisis go to waste? :(
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  3068. Bingo. And (surprise!) the cases-per-million rate is going up at an exponential rate, just not as quickly as in other places.
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  3069. I almost spewed coffee at the "let's set up our own government" line. These people shouldn't even be trusted with glow sticks.
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  3070. Mmmm sounds like the ghost of Stormin' Norman is pulling on a UA uniform and drawing up plans to do his thing. ;)
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  3071.  @oldmanfromoc7684  Justice delayed is justice denied.
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  3072.  @firstlady...  You are correct. What are the chances that Trump would refuse Russian military aid if it helped him stay in power? He already did that with election interference.
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  3073.  @cbufffly  Bingo. We are talking about the same Kevin McCarthy who ignored congressional subpoena from the J6 committee. He won't follow any rule that he doesn't want to.
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  3074. Yes, and the Republicans are enthusiastically going along with it. The French and Norwegians (from their experience with the Vichy and Quisling regimes, respectively) have a word for that sort of people: collaborators.
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  3075. The arsonist complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  3076. For starters, no one wants their land. Except in the European parts and a few other places, it is large, poor, and bereft of strong local economies that could pay for roads. Only 7% of its land is arable. Many areas are so economically unproductive, not only can they not afford to build roads, but people there still have outhouses and homes without running water. They do have flatscreens, however, for delivering the latest propaganda.
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  3077. Get ready for years more of "I take no responsibility for this".
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  3078. In Minnesota (supposedly under lockdown) the case rate has been going up exponentially for weeks now. Just a week ago they went through the curve in the hockey stick. And now they want to reopen? This means the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is going to be like another NYC, with bodies stacked in reefer trucks because the morgues have run out of space.
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  3079. No doubt the Grand Old Pedo party has quite a lot to hide. Got popcorn?
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  3080. How good of Russia to set up these artificial reefs for benefit of marine life. May they sent many more.
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  3081. You can tell this by the way they ignore subpoenas, by the way they held back some 80+ appointments of Obama's just so our Mango Mussolini could stack them, by the way they let Sweet Potato Hitler install, without confirmation, so many "acting" persons who likely could not pass confirmation hearings. They've made themselves a bed of nails .. and now they're not going to get much sleep.
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  3082. It's going to be a lot more than that before this thing is over. In NY, a richer state of similar size population, getting even 10K new cases per day was enough to overwhelm the healthcare system, thus resulting in many lives lost. For a couple weeks, the emergency services were finding more than 200 people per day dead in their own homes. Within maybe 4 weeks, Floridians will be dying by the thousands per day :(
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  3083. The "air accordion" is one of his tells.
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  3084. The Ural sidecar motorcycle. Not much changed since Russia copied an old air-cooled pushrod BWM twin boxer back in the late 1930s.
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  3085.  @PeterDynamic7  To be a "genius" to Trump, all you need to do is figure out how to change the ringtone on his phone. He's never been able to figure that one out himself.
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  3086. My big complaint now is that back in January when disease authorities in the US realized what was happening, none of that was communicated to the governors, who at least would have done something. Unlike Trump, they don't spend 100% of their time lying, deflecting, shifting blame, bragging about their ratings, firing their critics, lashing out at everyone, etc.
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  3087. If this were wartime (as it may soon be) Tucker Carlson's name would be more descriptive, like Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw-Haw.
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  3088. Since when has Trump ever been gracious? Are they planning on doing a brain transplant on him or something?
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  3089. Coronavirus likes this. Fresh meat! :(
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  3090. What someone needs to tell Putin now is that if the Russian invaders want to deploy tactical nuclear weapons into forward offense areas, the west will have no choice but to equip Ukraine with tactical nuclear weapons too. It's that simple. Probably the DMZ will need to be 100km deep into Russian territory around Ukraine, considering how useless the word of the Russians is on any kind of written treaty.
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  3091.  @Sturmtruppler-up4ib  Bingo. The worst of the bad endings would have been sinking to the bottom then suffocating in the cold, huddled together. They lost comms and telemetry together; I too believe it was something catastrophic and quick.
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  3092. Remember, kids, it's a curse when you wish someone to experience "interesting" times.
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  3093. Oh yeah. As usual, Putin's word is worth less than a festering bowl of dog snot.
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  3094. Let's see if the whacktard conservatives notice that the 2nd amendment was designed specifically to prevent what Wussolini did at that park in DC: use military force against US citizens exercising their free speech rights. No, they're too busy howling for BLM & Antifa to be carpet-bombed.
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  3095. I'm sure the evidence is on the video surveillance system - and if she did give tours to the future insurrectionists, she won't just be removed, she'll be arrested and charged. The investigation will be going on for awhile to come.
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  3096. "Misinformation doesn't kill people. People kill people. I can't help it some nut picks up one of my conspiracy theories and uses it to hurt someone else. They would have just heard it from someone else, or maybe even use a hammer or something. Oh wait -" Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson
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  3097. The Republican coup stopped being funny back when Moscow Mitch was refusing to hear all kinds of Obama appointments, which, as we saw, was merely to hold them open so Trump could later stuff them with the party hacks.
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  3098. I applaud the restaurant that's remaining take-out only for the time being. Until the virus is gone, it's risky for people of different households to be indoors together for more than 10-15 minutes and then only when everyone keeps their masks on.
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  3099. America is, or has got, its own special brand of stupidity. Nearly all states are reopening, and shedding any mask/distancing requirements, exactly as Delta is spreading exponentially and just as the vaccination rates have dropped sharply.
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  3100. Never underestimate that guy's ability to make his own case so much worse whenever you put him in front of a camera.
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  3101. What are these 20?
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  3102.  @TheHopetown  About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  3103. Apologies - coming from an American of German heritage. This is not a good time to visit. Our own high chancellor is attempting to take our country in some very strange direction :(
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  3104. Being deprived of a chance to do his favorite and only thing (being a bully) this just won't appeal to Trump or to his followers, who LIKE the class bully.
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  3105. Correct. I assume the whole place has a video system, with cameras all over the place, and everything saved to hard drives.
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  3106. Better save up so he can have a deluxe prison jumpsuit.
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  3107. Wait until they tell him that schools routinely require students to be vaccinated. The horror! /s
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  3108.  @celebrityrog  They can come to my door because we're a good liberal household and don't have any guns. We do have a 90 lb Rhodesian Ridgeback with attitude problems, however.
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  3109.  @dobsr1184  Re " If thats the case why did Trump" << Go read comrade Trumpski's 2019 comments on Russia's seizure of the Crimean peninsula. The main difference between his appeasement of Putin and Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler was that Chamberlain wasn't an employee of Hitler's.
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  3110. Soon turning to "America doesn't want Leon"
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  3111. The Kremlin is like a bunch of spiders in a jar. That little one is looking not too well these days.
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  3112. It is so telling that, to the Republicans of America, he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's why they must be voted out, in this election and the coming ones, until they are extinct.
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  3113.  @lancekincaid5610  He could always try sending a letter from "the office of the 45th president" << that's how he's been referring to himself. The name president-reject is more accurate.
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  3114.  Denise Eugene  Seems perfectly fair. The only way to know the will of the people will be to redo their various races .. and some of them will now be about as popular as covid corpses.
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  3115. The difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the golf pro doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it.
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  3116.  @jankwartel1860  The Supremes are what one might refer to as "a hire court". Just ask Harlan Crow. (thanks to who pointed out the typo)
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  3117. Bingo. So when do we invade Afghanistan or Pakistan or some other country in retaliation? (anything but Saudi Arabia, of course) Will we get a coalition of western nations together again?
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  3118. You'll know it's safe to go back to work when Trump starts holding rallies again and wading into the crowd to shake hands. Right now he won't let anyone near him unless they get tested first and put on a mask, so on some level he knows there's a potentially lethal virus out there. He just doesn't care if it kills ordinary Americans.
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  3119. Ahh. As I was hoping, someone must have caught video of Trump pointing at the TV and gloating how he'd be able to remain in power.
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  3120. @@Aelwyd10 I usually go through and flag it all as spam. The verbiage is so numb, it seems like chatgpt output.
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  3121. Think of it as a pass/fail IQ test. Society is improved if the lesser ones off themselves.
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  3122. Russian military is essentially people with 1800s thinking using 1960s-70s military tech in a 2020s struggle.
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  3123.  @HH-mw4sq  The other useful thing Trump does with a podium / microphone / public address / etc is incriminate himself.
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  3124. Of course, it is great fun to ask Trump supporters what they think should happen if Biden or Harris should do what they said it was OK for Trump or Pence to do. The cognitive dissonance is most fun to watch.
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  3125. This "plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland. Remember operation "Lebensraum"?
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  3126. To Trump, however, everything is about him. His followers, the Republican party, go along with it.
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  3127. It should have been called a "piece plan" - like the one that Germany & Russia made for Poland (without the input of the Poles of course) in 1939. Operation Lebensraum. One side gets all the good stuff, and the other side gets herded into ghettoes. Sound familiar? :(
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  3128. Welcome to NATO! We got your 6 :)
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  3129. Come for the delusional lies, stay for the covid Delta.
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  3130. This story is getting more coverage than United ever provided. They have a 31% claim rejection rate. If you ran a business, just imagine how rich you could get by stiffing your customers 31% of the time after taking their payments.
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  3131. Tell me again how Democrats were supposedly too elitist.
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  3132. To be fair, he's never been to Portland. Some of his Proud Little Boys people had their first visit just recently.
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  3133. All we need is real time fact checking and a big red lit box around the offender, whenever they tell a lie.
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  3134. After we get over our time of mourning for the passing of democracy .. bad things are coming. Now that you-know-who has just gotten the message that it's OK to withhold aid to whoever (foreign governments, agencies, corporations, you name it) in exchange for election interference, we can expect him to go on a spree of doing just that. 2019-nCoV is bearing down on us. Witness the way the world's most modern, most thorough police state (with many drastic means for controlling the movement of people) is totally unable to keep the disease from spreading .. and surely we will not enact measures here as extreme as what China does internally. Add that to the fact that we've got Republicans in office who surely won't let a good crisis go to waste. Ask yourself this: What might a corrupt governance do under the guise of fighting an epidemic? Quarantine unwanted persons (translation: put them in camps surrounded by barbed wire). Detain anyone on any excuse. Claim that refugees could be carrying disease, and have them shot if they try to cross the border. Using the Patriot Acts, suspend congress because of an emergency.
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  3135.  @beebuzz959  The good thing for America, though, is that Trump's people can win primaries easily enough but can be counted on to lose in the generals. In effect, Trump's failure to slink away from the scene is only contributing to the GOP continuing to lose. And that's good for America.
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  3136. The thing about the Clarence Thomas NFT had me laughing out loud.
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  3137. It's different in America. What other country has got angry people bringing assault rifles to protest necessary health measures during a global pandemic, while the president openly encourages protest in states where the governor is from the opposite party? That's beyond insane.
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  3138. The fact that Biden got 81.284 million votes never seems to get mentioned on FOXed Noise either. Huh.
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  3139. He'll probably still be hiding in the White House during the swearing-in ceremony anyway. No matter. The history books will make clear what a loser he was and how the Republican party went along with his nonsense. In fact, by their present actions, this administration and the Republican party are influencing the two Georgia runoff elections (for senate seats) towards the blue end of the spectrum.
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  3140.  @ggjr61  "I think it’s perfectly obvious that a lot of Americans are either hesitant or outright hostile to getting vaccinated." Unfortunately true. Given that America (like every other nation) is at war with this virus (which has been the third largest mass casualty event in our nation's history) it's astonishing that so many want to help it spread and potentially breed new variants - as if they think their choice to abstain from masks/distancing/vaccine affects only them. What's happening now in India is a picture of what happens when lots of people take that approach.
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  3141. Yup, they're legit crazy. Look at how they were fine with MyPillow and Goya Foods getting involved in politics - and bakeries getting to choose whether or not to bake gay wedding cakes. Edit: their brains are mush.
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  3142. They got acrimoniously divorced from reality awhile back. They lost whatever minds they had back when black man got elected twice as president, winning both the popular vote and the EC vote. They spent 8 long years frothing at the mouth. Even yesterday, poor deluded Barry Loudermilk tried to imply that Jesus would have never been a martyr if he'd been criminal enough to resist Roman subpoenas and refuse to turn over incriminating evidence to the Romans.
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  3143. You can see it on Trump's face when he gets to the punch line of the snake fable .. where he says, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!"
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  3144. What's Abbott going to do next? Outlaw the use of residential air conditioning? Wtf?
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  3145. Yeah, well, there seems to be some 20%~30% here in the USA who seem perfectly happy about that. How we got those people, or how they got to be that way, is a mystery to me, since they seem hell-bent on destroying the nation and its future prospects.
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  3146. It's like watching chickens squawk about how great Colonel Sanders was for them 😅😅
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  3147. Your former prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, figured out quickly enough what sort of nitwit was on the other end of the line, when they first spoke: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/full-transcript-of-trumps-phone-call-with-australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull
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  3148. And what does it say about his traitorous, delusional base that they still love him precisely BECAUSE of stuff like that?
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  3149. Trump's wish list for Iran is patently insane. In his mind, for Iran to make things right they would need to welcome the US as a liberating force, kill all their existing leaders overnight, let the US take all its oil, let the US occupy every nook and cranny of Iran, and have the Iranian people overnight become a bunch of jeans-wearing Coke-drinking good little wannabe Americans. That's not going to happen.
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  3150. Trump has no bottom to his bad or strange behaviors.
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  3151. The only "win" Wussolini is going to get would come from taking his magic sharpie to the election results.
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  3152. Not only is he happy to lead the country into a civil war, so are his followers and the Republican party. And that tells you where they're at :(
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  3153. Saint Darwin surely had something to say on this very subject .. something about how those incapable of adapting to new things are less able to pass on their defective genes.
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  3154. Hopefully the DNC can send him some thank-you notes when he's in jail .. thank you for turning Arizona blue for only the second time since 1952 .. thank you for flipping Georgia's senate seats blue .. thank you for showing Pennsylvania what a bad idea it was to vote for you in 2016, with your failed trade wars that killed off so many jobs. This is about the only winning he's ever done.
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  3155.  @hizzlemobizzle  Bingo. Those red states are like half the public pool being designated as a peeing section :( This is the time to hunker down and go into isolation while waiting for a chance to get vaccinated.
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  3156. In the same way that I prefer presidents who haven't been impeached, I also prefer relatives who aren't dumb enough to fall for the stupidest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. Guess there are others who feel the same way.
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  3157.  @lesleyedgley8371  Thanks and same to you. Much love for our friends and allies across the pond. You need anything, call us.
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  3158. She's actually trying to teach them something about the world of factual facts. They're just not listening.
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  3159. Considering that cops are the ones killing unarmed black people again and again, sheriff Villanueva ought to explain to us all how the police union is going to be paying out reparations to the families of all the people killed by police.
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  3160. Apparently it hurts some broligarch's feelings when you say these things.
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  3161. The Taliban run Af'stan. The MAGAban run Texas. Wondering how long before Texas requires all women to carry "rape insurance", and implements a hotline (with website and bounties paid out) for reporting suspected LGBT people?
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  3162. Trump's enablers and defenders are repeat offenders too. Look at how Moscow Mitch went from doing everything possible to prevent Obama's SC picks vs sprinting to approve any old rapist that Trump wants to appoint to the bench .. or how the same people who spent 8 long years screeching about imaginary scandals (Benghazi, birtherism, Jade Helm, incipient Sharia law in the US, etc) are now fully blind when their same-race Führer breaks the law in plain view. Shame on us as a nation for not treating those people back then the way Germans do when you try doing a Nazi salute. (they get beaten)
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  3163.  @othervideos4002  She was being far too kind. They are more like 'despicables'.
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  3164.  @sandragruhle6288  This is only the second time I've seen a reporter call Trump on his lies and to his face. The first time was that Axios piece where Jonathon Swan called him out on his pandemic lies. Need lots more of this.
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  3165.  @haveagoodone5830  Well, if you're so knowledgeable, could you explain why the Conquest-o-Meter is stuck at around 19% after Russia has been doing this for 806 days? Either they're very drunk, very inept, very badly led, very badly equipped, or some combination of these factors. What say you?
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  3166. As a child afflicted with polio, Mitch survived only because of free government-provided healthcare for polio victims. No doubt this game him the idea of screwing over everyone else :(
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  3167.  @FrankCostanzasLawyr  Re "Dude, Ukraine is over Russia and clearly into the West" << Bingo. Putin is acting like the abusive ex-boyfriend who seems not to understand that threatening to beat her up again is not the way to win someone's heart.
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  3168. Unfortunately here in America we've got some real diehard nutballs. The same Republicans who would support Trump overturning the election results are aghast at the idea of Democrats, four years down the road, having the right to overturn valid election results that would otherwise put a Republican in the white house. They're cult members. Finding common ground with nutty people is a waste of time.
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  3169.  @Swnsasy  It all went to prove that saying - "When you put a clown in the palace, he doesn't become king .. instead, the palace turns into a circus." Only that one was more like a dark theatre of the absurd :(
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  3170.  @elizabethsmith8568  When the rules are enforced (no interruptions, no audience, no shouting nonsense over the other person, limits on time and brevity of speaking) 45 will show how he is so much less than 46.
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  3171. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  3172. It will be another insurrection attempt, but no more than that. And his demented followers should hope that it's the professionals who deal with them, not us extremely-pissed-off amateurs who don't much like the notion of them trying to overturn a democratic election in order to install their guy who checked off every single box on the characteristics of fascism list. Us amateurs would be more .. sloppy. Unrestrained. Perhaps overzealous.
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  3173.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  Courts going after guilty people is hardly 'politically motivated'. It would be more third-worldly if courts refused to go after the guilty ones because of how rich or connected they may be.
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  3174. Everyone with a camera, catch any attempted voter intimidation, their faces, their gear, their vehicles, who they associate with, everything. The local DA will be most interested in following up. Let them have their time in court and then in jail or in a mental institution. Time for their sick fascist fun to come to an end.
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  3175.  @robertlee4172  Correct, they want government small enough to be Karen Silkwood'd in the middle of the night.
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  3176. Lord of the Lies.
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  3177. Ironically, all those conservatives clutching their guns and reminiscing about how they were ready to stand up to that "dictator" Obama, are the same people who shrug now and say it's perfectly OK if the president says he's above the law.
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  3178.  @bcshelby4926  Trump's popular vote loss widened from 3million votes in 2016 to 8million votes in 2020. If the progression was flat, he can expect to lose by 13 million in 2024. If the progression was exponential, then it turns out he's increasing voter dissatisfaction by 27% per year, which seems kind of low considering how inept he is. The real number may be higher.
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  3179. She doesn't need her law license anyway. In fact, she obviously doesn't need to ever hold a job again. At least not the kind that has responsibilities beyond scrubbing the toilets at the bus station.
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  3180. He doesn't know what it takes to run anything outside of a scam, and even those fail quickly.
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  3181. Twitter used to be worth $44Bn. Now it's worth about $20Bn. Clearly the Muskrat is displeased with the rate at which this function is headed towards zero.
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  3182. Back when he took out that full-page editorial calling for the execution of the Central Park Five (later exonerated) is when I first saw how crazy & racist he is. If you know how to spot a narcissist, you can see him from a long ways off.
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  3183. If you think we should let the Republicans overturn an 8 million vote difference in the election just this once to assuage their butthurt .. just remember what Winston Churchill said: "Appeasement is feeding a hungry crocodile, hoping it eats you last."
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  3184.  @pakeshde7518  Don't forget Special Sauces.
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  3185. I assume he did a lot of botox injections just before the event to dull his facial expressions.
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  3186.  @Rexbuttholes777  The GoFundMe request practically writes itself! 😅
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  3187. Hopefully you can move to Germany. One of my cousins met a German guy, moved over there, got married, and she's aghast at what's been happening here.
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  3188. The look on his face when she pushed his reset button. She's fantastic :)
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  3189. She's the kind who would feel happy in a nice brown Nazi uniform, working in the SS to "reform" political prisoners.
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  3190. That is the one thing he is good at: unifying Americans: against him.
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  3191. Rest assured, Trump and his base will certainly continue to resist the Democratic process even after the vote counts are finalized.
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  3192.  @jmb3608  Good morning and thanks :) Got the handle from a mistranslated line in one of those Hitler rant parodies. There was spewed coffee. Good day to you too.
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  3193.  Haywood Jablowme  Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  3194. The sharks are circling and he knows it. Blood in the water.
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  3195.  @kurisu7885  "Get rid of the ballots and" is all we needed to hear a president say, especially one who had already sworn the oaths of office, to defend America against all enemies, foreign or domestic.
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  3196. Witness this time in history, people, because it's not often that a major political party gets hijacked in the service of the frail ego of one nutty person. And if Clump is the hill-of-lard they choose to Rapture on, it's entirely on them.
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  3197. We need to vote like hell or we won't have a country left.
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  3198.  @larryc1616  Right. And Muskrat seems to forget that people are free to leave his platform if they don't like it.
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  3199. Trump: So what if I robbed the bank? The money belonged to ME anyway. Police: We took the money back. Trump: No no no no no. Some buddy of mine needs to go through all the loot just in case some of MY money got mixed in with it. Maybe it was all mine after all!
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  3200. 45 will try to fund-raise on it of course.
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  3201. No candidate in history, on either side, has ever taken the popular vote in the first 3 states. Weirdly enough, the trolls are claiming that in no country is the leader selected by popular vote. False. In more than half (65) of the world’s 125 democracies, the head of state (nearly always called a president) is directly elected by voters. Thirty other democracies are classified as constitutional monarchies, and in the remaining 30, including the USA, the head of state is indirectly elected. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/
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  3202. It's a bit dated now, but the film "A Day Without A Mexican" addressed that.
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  3203.  @aryalogo6624  Any American who hasn't trashed our allies and sucked up to foreign dictators is leagues ahead of the mango Mussolini.
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  3204. Correction. Let's hope they keep destroying the means for Putin to take out his anger on Ukraine. Russians go home.
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  3205. In their eyes, he's not just a Republican, he's a super-Republican. Craziness and all.
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  3206. He's from eastern Europe and has been to Russia a bunch of times.
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  3207. The wave we're in now had its inflection point back in early March - when Oregon switched from decreasing cases to increasing cases. The longer you let it build past that inflection point, the worse the problem gets. This move should have been done a month ago. Here's the chart: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/oregon/#graph-cases-daily
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  3208. So much for Melanoma's campaign against bullying, which is about as real as her bully husband's hair and orange skin :(
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  3209. If there's anyone in America who hadn't yet figured out that no minority is safe from Trump and his MAGA brownshirts, they just haven't been paying attention or they're suffering from wishful thinking. Trump has been systematically probing to see what our republic will tolerate. Having established the precedent of removing one minority from the military, he can follow with others - nonwhites, Jews, gay or bi people, non-xtians, whatever. Having established the precedent of vilifying and then putting into the camps one ethnonationalist minority (Hispanics from south of the border), he can follow with others - perhaps nonwhite Americans who didn't vote for him? The directed violence that follows Trump's followers ought to have been a severe wake-up call to America years ago. Must we learn the hard way the lesson that Germany already learned - that the one thing you cannot tolerate in a free and open society is intolerance?
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  3210. He goes with whatever the last person he spoke with mentioned. So we need to surround him with salesmen for cleaning supplies, then listen to him talk about how great certain mops are.
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  3211.  @hypsyzygy506  Well, to be fair, people did travel to DC to visit the Capitol. They came from all over. So it's tourism. It was also tourism when hundreds of thousands of young men landed on beaches in the D-Day operation. At least that's what we told Hitler 😅 Lotta Russian 'tourists' in Ukraine these days :(
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  3212.  @bradynlotterman8164  A chicken isn't an egg, either, and no one cries when you make omelets in the morning. A seed isn't a plant either. This isn't rocket science.
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  3213. Remember when senator Murakowski said Trump had learned his lesson after getting a slap on the wrist over the Ukraine quid-pro-quo thing? The only lesson he learned was that Republicans won't do a thing to stop him from breaking the law again.
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  3214. "Reversing the election" is one of the many lies the conservatives have been telling themselves (and each other) while the rest of the world laughs at them. Impeachment was never about reversing an election, not when it happened to Clinton, not when it was about to happen to Nixon, and not when it happened to Jackson. Sadly, conservatives lost their little minds when a black man got elected TWICE to be president, and won BOTH the popular vote and the EC each time.
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  3215.  @rodeo4786  Putin and Zelenskyy have switched roles. Now one of them is a comedian while the other is a national leader.
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  3216. The US had more new coronavirus cases in just one day (yesterday) than the following countries have experienced over the entire 10 months of the pandemic so far: Samoa 1 Vanuatu 1 Wallis and Futuna 2 Anguilla 3 Marshall Islands 4 Western Sahara 10 Montserrat 13 Falkland Islands 16 Saint Pierre Miquelon 16 Solomon Islands 16 Greenland 18 Saint Kitts and Nevis 19 Laos 25 Vatican City 27 New Caledonia 30 Timor-Leste 30 Fiji 35 Grenada 36 Macao 46 Dominica 68 British Virgin Islands 71 St. Vincent Grenadines 84 St. Barth 127 Antigua and Barbuda 139 Brunei 148 Caribbean Netherlands 158 Seychelles 163 Saint Lucia 203 Bermuda 226 Barbados 253 Cayman Islands 259 Cambodia 304 Isle of Man 366 Bhutan 378 Mauritius 494 Faeroe Islands 498 Tanzania 509 Eritrea 527 Mongolia 557 Monaco 573 Comoros 592 Papua New Guinea 604 Taiwan 611 Burundi 641 Saint Martin 690 Turks and Caicos 726 Gibraltar 943 Sint Maarten 973 Sao Tome and Principe 974 Channel Islands 1079 Liechtenstein 1094 Vietnam 1305 Niger 1335 San Marino 1395 Liberia 1539 Curaçao 1561 Chad 1620 New Zealand 2013 Lesotho 2066 Yemen 2090 Sierra Leone 2397 Guinea-Bissau 2421 Burkina Faso 2686 Togo 2771 Benin 2916 South Sudan 3016 Gambia 3706 Thailand 3892 Mali 4093 Uruguay 4377 Somalia 4382 Aruba 4693 Martinique 4732 CAR 4907 Guyana 4976 Belize 5018 Mayotte 5036 Equatorial Guinea 5121 Iceland 5251 Suriname 5284 Hong Kong 5518 Rwanda 5572 Congo 5632 Djibouti 5660 Nicaragua 5725 Malawi 6002 Andorra 6066 Eswatini 6156 Trinidad and Tobago 6233 Syria 6991 Réunion 7298 Bahamas 7348 Cuba 7763 Cyprus 7979 Mauritania 8034 Guadeloupe 8225 Malta 8681 Zimbabwe 9046 Estonia 9076 Gabon 9116 Haiti 9208 Botswana 9594 Cabo Verde 10082 Jamaica 10151 French Guiana 10950 Tajikistan 11815 DRC 12008 Latvia 12102 Maldives 12452 Guinea 12743 French Polynesia 12816 Namibia 13662 Angola 14134 Mozambique 14723 Sudan 15299 Senegal 15848 Uganda 17148 Madagascar 17310 Zambia 17373 Sri Lanka 19061 Finland 20747 Ivory Coast 21083 Cameroon 23528 Australia 27790 Luxembourg 29243 Montenegro 29577 S. Korea 30017 Albania 30623 Norway 31722 El Salvador 37250 Lithuania 42757 Afghanistan 44443 Ghana 50631 North Macedonia 51213 Malaysia 52638 Singapore 58143 Slovenia 62580 Nigeria 65839 Denmark 68362 Kyrgyzstan 68702 Palestine 68768 Ireland 69473 Uzbekistan 71208 Algeria 71652 Paraguay 74495 Kenya 75193 Myanmar 76414 Libya 76808 Bosnia and Herzegovina 77994 Tunisia 84995 Greece 85261 Bahrain 85317 China 86398 Azerbaijan 87163 Slovakia 93396 Moldova 93961 Croatia 96837 Georgia 96860 Venezuela 98665 Honduras 103488 Ethiopia 104427 Serbia 110351 Egypt 111955 Lebanon 113655 Bulgaria 114435 Guatemala 117757 Belarus 120847 Oman 121360 Japan 122966 Armenia 123646 Kazakhstan 123888 Costa Rica 128231 Dominican Republic 136784 Qatar 136888 Kuwait 139308 Bolivia 143756 Panama 151089 UAE 156523 Hungary 165901
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  3217.  @Velvetx4cove  Oh, no! The dog is naturally shedding hair. << Bingo, time for Marjorie to write up the articles of impeachment.
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  3218. For $5 I'll take, "What 'ask' did Lavrov just deliver to Trump?"
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  3219. When Trump used the phrase "based on what I heard", he was quoting Sidney Powell, who (as it turns out) was quoting an anonymous woman who claimed she's internally decapitated and time-travels in her dreams. And might be a ghost. Hands down that was some of the best trolling ever 😅
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  3220. Not true. There is one (1) place in the USA where the federal government does the test-trace-isolate thing that Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Vietnam etc all do successfully. That would be the white house. So we all need to work there.
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  3221. Re "for what they think they want" << Weirdly enough, the ones screeching for civil war seem not to realize that said war would touch them and theirs most harshly. They imagine it won't affect them, their loved ones, their grandchildren, their community.
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  3222. After we get over our time of mourning for the passing of democracy .. bad things are coming. Now that you-know-who has just gotten the message that it's OK to withhold aid to whoever (foreign governments, agencies, corporations, you name it) in exchange for election interference, we can expect him to go on a spree of doing just that. 2019-nCoV is bearing down on us. Witness the way the world's most modern, most thorough police state (with many drastic means for controlling the movement of people) is totally unable to keep the disease from spreading .. and surely we will not enact measures here as extreme as what China does internally. Add that to the fact that we've got Republicans in office who surely won't let a good crisis go to waste. Ask yourself this: What might a corrupt governance do under the guise of fighting an epidemic? Quarantine unwanted persons (translation: put them in camps surrounded by barbed wire). Detain anyone on any excuse. Claim that refugees could be carrying disease, and have them shot if they try to cross the border. Using the Patriot Acts, suspend congress because of an emergency.
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  3223. What a coincidence that the two countries with arrogant douche anti-science "leaders" are also the countries with the most virus cases. Both refuse to wear masks too. Maybe they're the original super spreaders.
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  3224. Then again, they also state without proof that Democrats eat babies and that gays/immigrants are destroying America. They got divorced from factual reality quite a while ago :(
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  3225. "We cant release the video unredacted because our people will get arrested" is what MAGA Mikey said.
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  3226. Too bad some cheeky reporter didn't ask this to the president of Finland: "With all the raking you do there, did you find any dirt on Trump's political opponents?"
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  3227. As embarrassing as it must be, they still can't let go of the third rail which is Trump's dumpster fire administration. Sucks to be stupid, eh.
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  3228. Watching the Million Bubba Militia end up in prison camps over it is well worth it. Part of the healing that America needs.
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  3229. I love the way no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up.
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  3230. Compare the number of 45 signs/stickers you see now vs 4 or 8 years ago. I haven't seen a single one yet and I'm in a rural area presently. Seems enough people did in fact watch the televised J6 hearings and/or read Liz Cheney's excellent book, "Oath and Honor".
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  3231. You don't get to stab America in the back and then just go home to brag about it on Fakebook. Time for some harsh consequences.
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  3232. There's nothing to understand about them. They are the mouthpieces of their cult leader.
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  3233. They will be "remembered" the same way Quisling and his minions are remembered in Norway.
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  3234. Places like NZ/AUS etc will have to ban travelers from the USA, lest we infect the populations they have kept healthy through test-trace-isolate. And Mexico will build the wall for free just to keep Americans out. Canada isn't planning to open the border anytime soon. Truly, Trump is running the USA like one of his own businesses :( and we're all shareholders :(
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  3235. Like the saying goes - an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise for the next attempt. And these are the same people who practiced by attacking the Michigan State House and other capitols.
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  3236.  @kevinm449  Him telling everyone else to pay their bills, or he'll feed them to the big bad wolf .. pure irony, and obviously lost on his culties.
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  3237. Bingo. Q was correct about pedos high up in politics .. all they got wrong was which party was doing it.
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  3238. That's my read too. As we know from the history of WW2, the US is equipped to fight two hot wars at the same time as well as support our allies. All the western allies together make it even more lopsided.
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  3239. The Republicans are presently in a trap of their own making. To come clean with the American public, they would need to admit in front of every camera that they were complicit in keeping Trump in power and helping spread his many lies about the integrity and the results of the election. And they cannot do that because it's political suicide.
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  3240. Al Capone at least had the class not to whine to the general public that his crimes should go unpunished because the investigations hurt his tender feelings.
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  3241. The Turks must have learned this the hard way, as we are learning it presently.
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  3242. Obviously there's a political party that's changed a lot from "Tear down that wall, Mr Gorbachev!" and welcoming people fleeing for their lives from behind the iron curtain. The rest of America, not changed so much.
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  3243.  @odojang  They can sputter all they want. Joe is getting stuff done for the American people. Including them.
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  3244.  @ProctorsGamble  Been wondering - if they would do that (pretty despicable stunt, not even legal) what else might they do? Suppose some enemy soldiers attack Houston or Miami. Would these nutso Republican governors put some of those enemy soldiers on a bus and ship them to Massachusetts to cause harm? It's starting to look like they would. (BTW love your handle)
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  3245.  @larindanomikos  He promised he would respect the election results, IF he won. From the way he's been kicking and screaming, seems pretty clear he knows he did not win.
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  3246. Smart. I wish I'd gotten out earlier on the excuse to visit friends & relatives. They'd put me up while we wait for things to resolve.
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  3247. 6:48 Oregon?? The last time any of Wussolini's henchmen tried showing his face here (it was that little Nazi keebler elf Sessions) no one wanted to stand anywhere near him, and he basically got chased out of town by protesters. Good riddance too.
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  3248.  @queensamara5898  Whether they go to prison, to a mental care facility, or to a cemetery, I'm not caring much. These little benedict arnold's aren't getting any of my sympathy.
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  3249. MAGA = many are getting arrested.
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  3250. I've talked with her and read her books .. this is cool. She's a smart lady.
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  3251. Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
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  3252. Extreme landscapes, unpredictable weather .. it is no Disneyland in the Pacific northwest.
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  3253. The truest thing Trump has ever said (and you can tell this by the grin with which he delivers the line) is at the end of that serpent fable he sometimes tells at his rallies. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  3254. Like him, she seems completely unaware that there were some responsibilities attached to having that big residence for 4 years.
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  3255.  @danialhillmann5374  The "freedumb" you're speaking of is that of the anti-mask anti-vax people to continue to infect everyone around them. Why don't you just walk around leaking sarin gas if you feel like causing such harm to random people?
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  3256. Taliban in Afghanistan .. and MAGAban in America :(
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  3257.  @andreacalkins5189  Remember the videos from the garage at Surfside, from a year or two before the collapse? Tenants there voted against expensive assessments for building care, then they bought corrugated plastic sheeting to mount on the ceiling to keep that rusty water (rusty from the rebar weakening!) off their expensive cars. Madness. Probably it's not a good idea to live in a falling-apart building near the ocean, no matter how pretty it can look.
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  3258. Ron DeFascist has about as much warm appeal as Stephen Miller doing a rant about putting all nonwhites into concentration camps.
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  3259. Their brokenness has been around a long time. They are attracted to hate, spite, bullying.
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  3260.  @JoceyyJ  Here in the USA, it costs a person $3500 to get the coronavirus test. In most every other country (including China, S Korea, Italy, etc) this test is FREE. But then, those countries don't let a predatory monopoly set prices for things. In some places, you can even set up a drive-through test for free. Failure to do widespread community testing for free is going to really hurt :(
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  3261.  @reflexionesdelabiblia6711  Judging by how things went in northern Italy, we have perhaps 4-6 weeks before the authorities in the Portland metro area finally order closed any venues where the disease would easily spread - movie theatres, restaurants, public events, bars & clubs, etc. But by then the damage will have already occurred.
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  3262. Stay tuned for: 1)the imbecile shouting over his helicopter, openly soliciting international oligarchs to participate in money laundering (to prove that it’s actually no big deal). 2) Dragging as many political allies into the mess as possible and implicating them as well. 3)Attacking the committees/witnesses/whistleblowers/leakers/journalists/janitors/candlestick makers that are actually following the law, and labeling them as “very conflicted” or “wacky” or "treasonous" (even if he’s appointed them HIMSELF!) 4) Telling his extraordinarily ignorant supporters that it’s all “fake news” and they should go back to their Kraft dinners. 5) 50+ rage and constipation induced, entirely misleading or untrue, misspelled, poorly worded, inflammatory tweets. 6) Golf. 7) Guliani making his rounds on tv and admitting to all 1 through 6 8) Trumptard cultists making their rounds on tv denying 1 through 6 ever happened 9) Trumptard cultists making their rounds on tv admitting 1 through 6 happened but then saying it's not a crime and bringing up fringe conspiracy theories about Hillary's emails and Biden.
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  3263. That service oath has no expiration date. Throw the book at the losers, then throw away the key. They don't deserve to be walking around free.
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  3264.  @Ron898  Like many others, I would sleep better if the process was moving a little more quickly.
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  3265. This is awesome! :) They couldn't find a better 16-ton weight to sink themselves with.
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  3266. I just assumed that was Sasha Baron Cohen's latest and best disguise, that's how over-the-top she is.
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  3267. Why, that's almost precisely what the Adolph Hitler SS brigade was always looking for! Loyal, strong, unthinking.
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  3268. Does anyone actually still use Fakebook / Wastebook? Gah. Quit that sh*t years ago and haven't missed it one bit. A pit of nonsense and angry people.
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  3269. Trump didn't get or stay in the white house on his own. Just flip back to this 2019 series of events for reference: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  3270.  @prifti8767  Re "Trumpolini said he never said it. SMH" << Yes! And his nutso sheeple followers will claim he's right too! :(
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  3271. Consider it a voluntary tax, like smoking cigarettes.
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  3272.  @peacefuljourney4994  Is there some special context it fits into when people say Trump doesn't lie?
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  3273.  @AltairKennedy  The supercharger that's been running for a few years already is, of course, the massive release of methane in northern polar regions as a result of global warming. The system is in runaway-change mode presently.
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  3274.  @MarkGrijalva Looks like Trump gave him a job in the house and not in the field.
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  3275. His facial expressions said it all, bouncing from confused old man to angry petulant toddler.
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  3276. Nonetheless, I'm already offering rides to people so they can get to the voting precincts if they need transportation. #OperationBlueTsunami
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  3277. Of the 3 local friends I know who had covid, two of them had long covid (with strange aftereffects) and that was enough to keep me paranoid.
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  3278. And when it inevitably goes south .. "I take no responsibility for this"
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  3279. My only question about Costello is - how did he coast this far through life thinking he's actually intelligent? ;)
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  3280.  @ejackcity34  Baghdad Putin maybe?
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  3281. I just got back from an observation tour around some of the sparesly populated parts of the west. Mask usage is under 1% out there. Safeway store employees not wearing masks, restaurant employees not wearing masks, out-of-state travelers all along the interstates.
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  3282. He talks like a 5-time draft dodger who has other people do all his killing.
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  3283. Well, if your house ever burns down and you decide to thank your neighbors who help you rebuild, that would be your answer. Was your compassion surgically removed?
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  3284. The Republican response is the same now as it was 2017-2020 .. just shrug and say "Whatever he says".
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  3285. Funny how Trump doesn't want to start with the US state of South Dakota, which has never been locked down. As a result of that, South Dakota now has the fastest rate of case growth among US states, doubling every 4-5 days. At their rate of increase, the hospitals will be overwhelmed in 3-4 weeks and the whole state will be infected in 8-10 weeks. Funny how Trump doesn't mention the one state that took his advice to heart.
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  3286. Nothing says "We're the party of law and order" like trying to use guns to threaten legislators in the capitol. Maybe those terrorists would feel more at home in Afghanistan or Somalia.
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  3287. Dr Anthony Fauci is going to come out of this smelling like a rose. Trump, on the other hand .. the best you can say about his is the slogan, "71 million flies can't be wrong - dog shit tastes great!!"
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  3288. I keep waiting for some reporter to ask him why he has all of his trinkets made abroad instead of in the USA.
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  3289. Actually, the "optics problem" is not the possession of classified documents per se but the level of cooperation (or, in Trump's case, the lack of) with the National Archives and the FBI once the problem was revealed. Pence and Biden cooperated openly; Trump lied and obfuscated.
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  3290. Barely. Like all Republicans & pundits who've echoed Clump's baseless lies, he seems strangely reluctant to tell his people that he grievously, totally, and completely lied to them about the nature and origins of covid as well as the science of masks and vaccines. He has merely expressed regret that he signed certain legislation previously. He hasn't come public yet with how deeply he lied to them, or that he lied to them for the shallowest of reasons - to please Clump momentarily.
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  3291.  @kittycatmeowmeow963  Thankfully, they are a disorganized minority. They're welcome to spend time behind bars with the Q shaman and the other insurrectionists now enjoying the hospitality of Graybar Hotel.
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  3292. And yet, his obvious flaws make certain people like him .. he is a strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, even though he's nowhere near as deep or solid or strong as paper-mache.
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  3293. Unknown what designs the GOP of Project 2025 has on you.
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  3294. Putin can see her house too, and he said the curtains are awful.
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  3295. Messages from Trump have got to be all over that phone. Messages from his burner phones too. The numbers of the burner phones. Anyone else he may have talked with. J6 committee, do you thing! :)
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  3296. Mind you, Trump's most diehard supporters are the same people who spent 8 long years filling our feeds with nonsense about Obama stealing everyone's guns, stealing everyone's bibles, forcing Sharia law on America, yada yada yada - basically stuff that was never did happen and never was going to happen anyway. The last time they were in the same room as objective reality was for their loud, acrimonious divorce from it. If you see them doing anything, hide, document it, get pictures & video, and make sure they get their day - in court.
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  3297. With a simple change to branding, we could help the trash take itself out. After January 20th, just make sure that everyplace distributing the covid19 vaccine(s) refers to it as "the Biden vaccine". Then step back and let nature take its course. By the time the next election rolls around, some of the anti-science ever-Trumpers will have removed themselves from the pool. A win for all.
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  3298. The fact that Tucker Carlson is still on the air means the Russian financial sanctions aren't fully working.
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  3299. No doubt he let every passing retired orthodontist handle the stuff while getting squeezed for a 6 figure donation.
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  3300. As they say .. "The forest kept getting smaller, but the trees kept voting for the axe, because its handle was made of wood and so they thought it was one of them."
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  3301. They misspelled "Clackistan" in that quote.
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  3302. Sounds like Belarus has WMDs, oil, and a nondemocratic government. The US military knows how to handle that kind of regime change assignment.
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  3303.  @RuiLuz  Thanks to Lend-Lease, Ukraine may soon be getting 155mm artillery with guided munitions.
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  3304. You have to hand it to Trump, he really knows how to a) unify Iraq against the USA; b) make Iranians forget their squabbles, and line up outside recruitment centers like we did after Pearl Harbor; c) make our allies so aghast at these US actions that they'll never do military misadventurism with the USA again, at least not while Mango Mussolini is running it; d) push Iraq into the waiting arms of Russia and/or Iran; e) pour Miracle Gro all over ISIS and the Taliban. Heckuva job, Brownie :(
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  3305. And what better way to help Russia understand this than to enable Ukraine to cause continued losses to Russia? Just send Ukraine three shipping containers of Tomahawk cruise missiles, then make up some excuse how they got shipped by accident.
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  3306. He crawled on the carpet at Mar a Loser, then ignored subpoena from the same congress he now wants to lead??
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  3307. To be fair to Trump, he's been trying to make things worse here for a long time. He's like the town serial arsonist whining that there are fires all over the place.
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  3308. Consider it to be a voluntary tax on stupidity. If they survive being in the covid line, they'll be in the bread line afterwards.
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  3309. Hey, 'Logical', are you by chance the kind of person who would have stood on the deck of the sinking Titanic, shrieking at the people departing in the lifeboats, telling them to stop living their lives in fear, that icebergs aren't real, and that they need to do their own research? That they should ignore their own lying eyes?
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  3310. Stephen Miller (pronouns he/Himmler)
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  3311. Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  3312. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the most affordable to manufacture and requires no special handling such as super low temperatures. It's more like the Southwest Airlines of vaccines than the Concorde.
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  3313. Treasury dept: Hand over your books, Capone, we've crunched the numbers and we know that you've broken the law. Al Capone: You guys have been after me for 8 years. That just proves your bias. This is nothing but a witch hunt hoax. Crooked judge: OK, Treasury goons, you heard the man. You'll have to make your case without any evidence. Lady Justice: Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away??
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  3314. "A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims...but accomplices." - George Orwell
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  3315. Brexit is a sad joke .. the whole thing was just a forum for the retrograde sentiments of those who want to UK to turn the calendar back to the days of empire, when darker-skinned people were seldom seen & never heard, and when the UK was more of an economy.
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  3316. He knew this day was coming .. that was just his lame-ass way of countering it. Projection.
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  3317.  @jimsmith4611  And that is why people with NPD are especially fans of Trump. He's one of their kind.
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  3318.  @paulaw3399  The three west wall states are very blue and are a huge regional economy, one of the top 10 on the planet.
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  3319. To be fair, Trump started spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about US elections even before he lost the 2016 popular vote to Clinton.
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  3320.  Michael Brown  Let's see how long Tяump's thousand-year reich lasts. Insanity, tactical stupidity, and short-range charisma only goes so far.
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  3321. Propaganda works well on idiots. The rest of the people, not so much. And idiots have been known to flock to certain places to find their brethren :(
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  3322.  @s.z.6200  Re "Texans are dumb to keep voting for RepubliCONS" << As the saying goes .. the forest kept shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, thinking that because its handle was made of wood it must be one of them.
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  3323. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to slow or stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me!
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  3324. Donald Trump is America's Jim Jones to 42% of the population, and covid is the tainted Kool Aid that Donald passes around at the rallies.
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  3325.  @VinceG18  According to the votes it's a lot less than 55%. The distribution of Trumpanzees may be different where you live locally.
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  3326.  @cranshawmccaw  I prefer "Individual 1".
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  3327. The nothingburger comments here from Pooty's little sputniks are hilarious. Keep trying, boys, your comedic presentations are better than anything Baghdad Bob ever put out 😅😅
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  3328. The guy who said "It will just go away like a miracle" and "We've got it under control" and "It's only 15 cases, soon the be zero" shouldn't even be trusted with a glow stick.
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  3329. The Soviets were smarter .. they got out when they realized there was no effective endgame. Jumping-the-shark empires have been invading Afghanistan since long before the Romans, with the same inevitable results. Afghanistan is the elephants graveyard of imperial overreach. The USA, like Britain, is a very slow learner.
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  3330. He's been so much better than I thought he would be. Truly rising to the occasion.
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  3331. Nixon's AG served 19 months in prison for activity that was less criminal than that of Barr. He needs some time in Club Fed to reflect on the error of his ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
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  3332. I like presidents who don't withhold federal aid from states that didn't vote for him.
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  3333. Bingo. The case rate is accelerating where I live (Oregon) now that indoor air heating systems have been turned on, and aerosol spread is working its deadly magic. We're all going to have to be hermits this winter. Up until just a few weeks ago, everyone was able to leave the windows open and the heat off. As soon as that changed, the spread rate skyrocketed.
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  3334. Looks like Hannity just wants to keep things "fair and balanced", as long as it does not criticize he-who-must-not-be-questioned. LOL.
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  3335.  @forgenorman3025  Unplug the ventilator, wait 20 seconds, then reboot? I don't know. I've never heard of a society in history that allowed the crazies to normalize their behavior. I fear this is leading to something much worse than civil war, which would be horrific enough.
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  3336. Regarding "It’s disheartening to see everyone around you become untethered from reality quite easily". Wow. I remember a time, about 20 years ago, when everyone around me was running around like a headless chicken on speed, squawking that we had to attack Iraq (this was before the lie about yellowcake and WMDs had been widely realized as such) and what people were responding to (coming from nearly every channel) were the slick graphics of pro-war propaganda that wasn't even based in factual reality. I tried to wake some of the sheeple out of their zombie state, but no luck.
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  3337.  @lynnebarrett9912  Yes. He's like the serial arsonist who complains that there are fires all over town, and that's why he needs to be put in charge of everything.
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  3338. Omicron might be displacing Delta, but the bigger picture is that covid is displacing conservatives.
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  3339.  @kevink.7597  I can't improve on this quote - "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas
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  3340. Ukraine was the place where Hitler's forces were made to bleed hard and suffer for every inch of territory they took.
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  3341.  @katiehettinger7857  Correct. And if the unvaccinated people happen to make contact with the new Indian variants, then we may see the numbers going up. It's not as if they haven't had time to digest the news that there's a nasty virus going around and that vaccines are available.
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  3342.  @ghyslainabel  Perhaps he feels that's his just reward for spending 10+ years making up stuff about Obama.
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  3343. Who else remembers when, early in his term, Trump searched high and low for some legal reason to impeach Obama after leaving office, all because Obama had written a book about some of his life experiences and was receiving profit from it?
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  3344. Trump: Prison is a congregate setting, and the virus makes it too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them.
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  3345. Sales of bleach would skyrocket afterwards from all the people pouring the stuff on their eyeballs. Yeesh :(
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  3346. Less fuel for the Russian war machine, in other words.
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  3347.  @avanellehansen4525  Correct, it would have been vaporization from the intense heat provided by quick compression. They wouldn't have felt a thing.
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  3348. You have to hand it to Trump, he really knows how to a) unify Iraq against the USA; b) make Iranians forget their squabbles, and line up outside recruitment centers like we did after Pearl Harbor; c) make our allies so aghast at these US actions that they'll never do military misadventurism with the USA again, at least not while Mango Mussolini is running it; d) push Iraq into the waiting arms of Russia and/or Iran; e) pour Miracle Gro all over ISIS and the Taliban. Heckuva job, Brownie :(
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  3349. The nice thing for Biden (or any functioning adult who happens to run for president) is that Wussolini will only double down on whatever is causing him to tank with voters. Wussolini is as convinced of his own imaginary greatness as the Nazis were of their Enigma coding machines. It cost them the war.
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  3350. Wouldn't it be a shame if something were to happen to that pretty roof of the Kremlin?
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  3351.  @marylarson2830  If he died himself, he'd be whining [to whoever] about how unfair it was. But anything less than that isn't on his radar.
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  3352.  @oldschoolfunkster1  Every culture on the planet has a cautionary tale for the kids that goes something like this: a stranger shows up, promising all kinds of snake oil nonsense, he takes you up to a high place and spins yarns of what things might be like, then he asks you to do just this one little thing for him that happens to be illegal.
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  3353. If they assist a traitor, they are collaborators and need to be treated as such.
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  3354.  @clambroth1923  Trained fascist spotters can see that kind regardless of their grooming or vehicle stickers. They won't be getting away.
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  3355. In how many other states did 45 and his flying monkeys pull this stuff???
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  3356. Just curious, but have you ever heard any substantive argument (from a Republican) as to why the votes of people who live further apart should somehow count more than the votes of people whose houses are smaller or who live closer to their neighbors? That's ultimately what their angle comes down to. As if empty land votes.
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  3357. Same. My car is getting some new Goodyear rubber next week.
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  3358. Watching him rant about how intelligent he supposedly is was coffee-spewing humor. I got stuff smarter than him floating around in my cereal. He's the Dunning Kruger spokesperson of the week.
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  3359.  @mackinacisland3825  Some prison time will help him with that. It's plain on his face that he was already thinking of himself as the someday Emperor Trump of America :(
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  3360. Strange how the Trump administration dings China for making politically-motivated arrests of protesters. Trump sends federal troops into American cities to do the same.
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  3361.  @angie99656  And their sense of outrage is so selective. Like, "How dare you expect me to follow the law!"
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  3362. Even if Republicans did try to run with sensible policies (admittedly a large "if") FOXed Noise and the other shit-stirrers wouldn't let it go very far. They know very well that keeping the nutty folks enraged is their only income stream these days.
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  3363.  @derek9658  Is he upsetting them by speaking in whole English sentences, or by improving the economy, or by pushing down inflation, or by operating within the guidelines of the law? After 45's reign of error, normal presidential behavior could definitely upset some of 45's culties.
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  3364. In other words, he's still testing positive and isn't in the least bit hesitant to infect others, especially Biden, who's not playing that game.
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  3365. Who would have thought, not everyone else could get a whole floor and 12 doctors just for them, along with medications not available to the general public? Shocking.
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  3366. If a president had absolute immunity, why did Trump spent a bit of time back in 2017/2018 trying to find excuses to prosecute Obama?
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  3367. Makes it harder for you to vote by mail if you're homeless. Also helps if you sabotage the postal service. Team Trump is trying both :(
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  3368. I'm expecting the US to end up with above 7000 cases per 1 million population. Some states still aren't on lockdown (like Georgia, with over 1300 cases); some are holding in-person prayer meetings instead; and domestic air travel still continues, with fleeing NY'ers taking the virus wherever they go. What a clusterfck.
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  3369. Funny how Trump & Barr were so unruffled, nay, pleased, when armed white gunmen invaded state capitols after Trump told them to "Liberate!" That was just fine by them. But organized unarmed minority protesters are somehow a more dangerous threat in their eyes?
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  3370. It was not an "attack". It was merely a "special navigation exercise". They went off-course by mistake, strayed into Russian airspace, ran low on fuel, had to unload some weapons to save weight, etc. All good.
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  3371. The responsibility of office has not changed him from an irate, racist, ignorant private citizen to the leader of the USA.
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  3372.  @Invictus357  Re "The first thing my Minister taught me was, beware of false prophets" << You know of Trump's propensity for speaking in projection, right? At his rallies, when he tells the story of the serpent, he is actually telling his followers what he's doing to them. They just think it's a story about a big snake and that sounds cool to them.
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  3373.  @hankgutter8669  Re "he true mark of a deeply delusional and psychotic narcissist and psychopath" << The people who find a Trump-type figure to be irresistible are not much better :( The uglier and more vindictive he gets, the more they double down on their admiration of and loyalty to the cult leader.
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  3374. Cult members are cult members because of those big mental blinders they've got. Every once in awhile comes along a Jim Jones type to lead them off to the kool-aid stand.
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  3375.  @waynesbutler7834  From something I read last night, the US Navy had assets on the way that could do that. Deep diving ROVs with the capacity to attach cables, plus the equipment to pull up heavy things on said cables. The stuff was supposed to be on scene by late Tuesday night local. But, yeah, chances are they're hauling up a whole lot of expensive scrap with some bodies in it. Steel pressure hulls (like the Thresher) get shredded like confetti during an explosive decompression .. no idea what carbon fibre might do.
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  3376. @ Island Time Not just crazy, but dangerously crazy. What other kind of people, during a global pandemic, encourage actions that cause more deaths and illnesses?
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  3377. Lucid - correct. We can't even make a self-sustaining colony on Antarctica, which already has radiation shielding (the atmosphere and Van Allen belt); breathable atmosphere at correct content & pressure; abundant water ice/snow; much cheaper shipping FOB Cape Canaveral.
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  3378. To paraphrase that line from Avatar .. you can't add anything to a tiny shot glass that's already full of vodka.
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  3379. By now, there must be millions of Americans who have had a mild case of cv19 and have recovered and developed antibodies against it. Those people should be good to go back to work, or to fill in where needed in customer-facing positions. But without widespread testing for antibodies, we'll never find those people.
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  3380. There is no need to remove Trump from the ballot. Just require him to sign an oath stating that he will respect the election results (which he refuses to do) and he'll disqualify himself.
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  3381. We also need snap elections, votes of no confidence, ranked choice voting, and more.
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  3382. That poor white cop. Something got in the way of his attempted extrajudicial killing of nonwhites. He'll probably go on to be a FOX commentator :(
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  3383. Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the rise in voter ire towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  3384. Our Mango Mussolini lost the popular vote by 3 million, and ever since then he's been grabbing for power and the Republicans have gone along with it. What you're seeing is a cold civil war that has some chance of getting hotter and more open.
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  3385. .. which is why I won't complain too much when Mad King Tinyhands' loyal subjects gather for hours (without masks of course) and shout in each other's faces up close and personal. When people are giving off that kind of high-droplet output, 1 in 30 of them will be dead before they get a chance to vote again. It's like watching the trash take itself out.
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  3386. Sadly, all it takes is one person carrying those little viral hitchhikers :( What I'm most afraid of now would be a) vaccination rates slowing drastically because cases are going down for now, and b) poorly-vaccinated places becoming the pools in which new variants breed. Then every so often, a person from there will travel to the big city and light off a whole new cycle of disease :(
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  3387.  @kekcheburek7712  That's nice for you. BUT NOT EVERYONE ELSE IS SO LUCKY. Can you understand that? FFFS.
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  3388. As we know from the history of other nations and now from modern American history, every nation has within it a reprehensible minority that hates the nation, that hates the rule of law, and is itching for violence against whoever it's designated as the official enemy. Sinclair Lewis got it mostly right. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, conservatives flocked to it and pledged violence in the service of one butthurt cult leader.
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  3389. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of Nazi thugs.
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  3390. I'm fairly sure that the missing parents (of the immigrant/refugee children) are buried in the desert somewhere, or their ashes were mixed into the concrete of the border wall, or they're fish food. Among its other crimes against humanity, this administration forcibly sterilized the same people Trump referred to as "animals", "vermin", "scum", "filth", "criminals", "an invasion", etc. There will be cells waiting at the Hague for the architects of this administration's "final solution".
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  3391. Watching Moscow Mitch finally try to ram through a SCOTUS appointment in six weeks (right after he refused to hear Obama's appointment 9 months before the election) probably is waking up some of the sheeple. Everyone knows what one-party etho-nationalist courts are going to bring us :(
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  3392.  @bekindrewind9675  All I can say for sure is that he has the same pull on his followers that Charles Manson had on his own followers.
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  3393. I could handle the drunks (yuk) but now it's going to be off my bucket list. Won't be a good place to be an American traveler :(
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  3394. Weird to hear AG Garland complaining about these things, especially after he gave the insurrectionists his silent assent by not appointing a special prosecutor until 681 days after the insurrection.
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  3395. That's by design :( In 1930s Germany they called the policy "Nacht und Nebel" meaning 'night and fog' meaning to operate under the cover of darkness and keep everyone out of the loop even while doing very bad things.
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  3396. Mahmoud Khalil was in fact inside the US, and already at Columbia, before the conflict broke out. No way could he have known at the time if he would be protesting eventually.
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  3397. Thank you for admitting it and changing your ways. An American! :) I long for a return of the days when we can tell each other, honestly, "I may not agree with you but I'll support your right to speak your mind." Trump was fully corrosive to polite discourse :(
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  3398. Her non-apology apology only served to remind us that while beauty may be skin deep, ugliness like hers goes straight down to the core.
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  3399. Some trace it back to when Ford pardoned Nixon, but for me, it will always be that time around 2008 when the Tea Party went down the rabbit hole of whacked birtherism over their collective disbelief that an intelligent, articulate Black man might be president. They've been stuck to the ceiling every since.
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  3400. In Korea, they can test around 13,000 people per day. This is free to the citizens. They've even made drive-through testing available. But here in the puritanical hypocritical corporations-first US of A, only 500 have been done, and they want to charge you $3500 for the "privilege". What the everloving F. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484487-south-korea-to-test-more-than-200000-church-members-for-virus
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  3401.  @lisakaz35  Regarding Just a Kskid's ignorance .. s/he is just a troll, angry at those who present facts. Don't waste your time.
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  3402. Watching Republicans twist themselves into pretzels trying to defend the indefensible is very amusing. As Lindsey Graham said on 17 Feb 2016 .. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States."
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  3403. No. To him, the riches of the country are just like a big bag of money that someone found in the road. He's burning through it all in record time.
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  3404.  @HkJoK  What I've seen, on the west coast and the interior vacation spots (hot springs & such) is that people go from high-covid to low-covid places to engage in pre-covid behaviors that they miss. It's insane :(
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  3405. Guess America was different back when we out Leslie Van Houten away for participating in Manson cult murders. These days the law turns a blind eye to the excesses of Trump cult members.
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  3406. We know the capitol buildings have video surveillance. It'll be interesting seeing what comes out in the investigations.
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  3407.  @peterioannou9266  Covid is still killing people now. I'm talking about covid, not the common flu.
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  3408. Our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments. First it was FOXed Noise, then Moscow Mitch, then Trump. Each made the one after possible.
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  3409. Part of why I left FakeBook (or is it WasteBook?) was a) the platform's coddling of reich-wing nonsense and b) Zuck being so in bed with Trump. From what friends tell me, everything's gotten worse since them.
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  3410.  @quid-pro-quoj0e_224  Your deflection is a little too late and too little. Go watch the Axios interview if you want cringeworthy Trumpian nonsense.
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  3411. They wouldn't want to know the extent of the outbreak .. it would make them look very bad if the number of active cases in the US were well up into the 5-digit range.
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  3412. United has a 31% claim rejection rate. If you ran a business, just imagine how rich you could get by stiffing your customers 31% of the time after taking their payments. Rich enough to pay the cops yourself, probably.
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  3413. The KKKonservatives tried to impeach Obama over transgender bathroom access; prisoner swap; debt ceiling crisis; IRS allegedly targeting conservatives; claiming he was born outside the US; Benghazi; the Libya intervention; immigration; just to keep him from "pushing his agenda"; job offer to Joe Sestak; and more.
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  3414. This kind of explains why he's been trying to go around the constitution since the day they swore him into office.
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  3415. It's now less than a year until we can get enough people vaccinated to have effective herd immunity .. which means we can reopen the things (like restaurants) that bring strangers together where they can infect each other. Every time we try reopening dangerous things before the virus is gone, the case rates go up again and things get closed down again. An epidemic of stupidity :(
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  3416. Those people had hitherto not participated in the political process. Trump encouraged them to come out from under their rocks. They are almost completely unaware (like Gropebert) that the rest of us expect them to behave to certain civilized standards.
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  3417. What I find horrific is their willingness to cause illness and death in their own communities by doing things that are against the health measures - being unmasked in groups of other people from different households. Instead of protesting the virus, all they're doing is spreading the virus.
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  3418. Hypocrisy is lost on them, yes. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-10/trumps-adult-children-do-business-overseas-as-president-slams-biden
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  3419. As of Thursday 4/16, the number of cases in Sweden is doubling every 15.328 days, whereas in Germany it's doubling every 31.874 days and in Norway every 46.205 days. At this rate, there's going to be a whole lot more Norwegian accents in Sweden by this time next year.
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  3420.  @erichimes3062  You mean, housing with medical care and 3 meals.
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  3421. It's better than that - $44Bn and half of it was borrowed. So he still owes on the rented money and the interest on it. Way to go, genius boy 😅😅
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  3422. Even after three years of their reign of error, clearly the Trumps still imagine themselves to be outsiders looking in through the windows of government, still imagine there's some "deep state" somewhere that they're not the head of. News flash, losers, you're in the white supremacist house, you have access to everything, and you're running the government. You ARE the deep state at this point.
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  3423.  @bassysimpalah2892  I fear that the D's are still playing fair, by the rules, while the R's have demonstrated their willingness to burn the rules book if that's what it takes for them to win. Gotta fight fire with fire.
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  3424. Relax, folks, this has NOTHING to do with all the crowded restaurants you see when going about your business. /sarcasm
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  3425. Rural South Dakota, where there's no lockdown, is in the early stages of exponential virus spread, with the numbers doubling every 4 days or so. Open everything now, and the country as a whole would probably see doubling rates of every 3 days or less on average. Maybe Trump prays every night to Hitler and Stalin. They too sent their people into the wood chipper by the millions.
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  3426. It's not a workable concept, just ask one-eye Elmer's ex.
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  3427. Mike Johnson also probably sees himself as a Gilead commander. Quite the coincidence.
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  3428. .. and hopefully the very last confederate president EVER.
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  3429. Don't go there. It's not worth it. Trying to understand crazy is an act of futility.
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  3430. ** waves Jedi hand ** These aren't the documents you're looking for.
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  3431. So how many more boxes of documents does Dementia Donny still have, squirreled away where the agents didn't find them?
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  3432. OP - check out what Russia does to artists in the occupied territories. From attempting to stamp out the local language, to getting the artists in line (for they speak to people through their souls and senses), to deporting so many children to be Russified .. yes, they are at risk of losing their culture.
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  3433. Who could have thought that making abortions hard to get and guns pathetically easy to get could breed trouble?
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  3434. Seriously. Until this went down, I had no idea how rewarding it is to watch the FBI swoop down on traitors and insurrectionists. So they thought they could fly to DC, stab America in the back, and just go home and pretend like nothing happened? They'll all be rotting in jail while Trump is out golfing.
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  3435. We've got the strongest economy now, all thanks to me. Economists call me and say, sir, it's a miracle, you've produced the best economy in the history of money.
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  3436. I was 300 miles from home recently, out in the far boonies, and it was a mix of bad and good behaviors. In one diner, the waitress left her mask covering only her mouth (not the nose) and kept coughing; the people at another nearby store said not to bother with the masks; and in one store, neither the cashiers nor the customers bothered to wear masks. That's coming back to bite us :(
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  3437.  @BNSFGuy4723  About dicdtators not coming to power on their own .. interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Tяump.
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  3438.  @jillionairess  Republicans did that with Obama too. Simultaneously they held the position that he was both a) a weak and ineffectual leaders and b) a raging dictator who made all his enemies disappear.
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  3439. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now." << Individual 1
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  3440. Meanwhile, fools in the USA threaten their own legislators with military-style weapons, in order to force them into promulgating measures that will cause the further faster spread of disease.
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  3441. He's so rich, he can afford to have a replica white house built somewhere in Russia, where he can pretend to still be the president while fleeing actual prosecution in the US. Oh wait, he's only a thousandaire and deep in debt. Whoops.
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  3442. Well, when Iran does it, that's proof of how bad Iran is, yet when it happens in the US it's considered proof of how careless those people were to get sick in the first place. America has thoroughly assimilated the victim-blaming mentality :(
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  3443. That's the ironic thing. If Trump had conceded gracefully and cooperated with the incoming transition team, he could have left office (muttering all the while about his election loss) while retaining has brand and his influence. Instead, he gave in to his own worst instincts at every step, and now he's lost both. His brand and family are now worse than radioactive toxic waste, and McConnell is very obviously going to kick him to the curb the moment Biden is inaugurated.
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  3444.  @jenniferreyes4168  The map of how the states voted tells you where you don't want to be. Happy to be out in the Blue Wall states.
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  3445. Spreading disease during a public health emergency, all because you've got cabin fever. Hope the judge tosses the book at those fools.
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  3446.  @ptonpc  And Russian people were educated to believe that it was their valorous fighting that pushed back the Nazis, not any massive material aid from the Allies. The role of the Allies is not much mentioned in Russian history. (the book "Stalin's War" has some good detail on this)
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  3447. If you consider the many Republican efforts to limit voting (including, in many states, the closure of polling places / ballot drop boxes in urban places and places not likely to vote Republican) it seems clear they're envisioning a sort of Rhodesian future for America, where a white conservative minority (an alliance between conservative rural whites who marinate in FOXed Noise nonsense, and super-rich conservative urban whites) enforces a sort of political apartheid.
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  3448. So devastating that the entire nation might take a whole month off to celebrate. I mean, to mourn with a smile and lots of partying.
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  3449.  @cheshirecat7289  Russia already showed the world what you do when some enemy pulls a surprise Barbarossa-type operation on your county. Did Stalin tell the Russian people to lay down their arms and start learning German? Hell no. Did he try to leave? No, he got on the phone and told Roosevelt to send him more ammo. My how history repeats.
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  3450.  EL Plagua  Just make sure the inbreds know that Deep State operatives are lurking around the polling places, hovering overhead in silent black helicopters, waiting to seize them for having bought groceries without showing a picture ID. Or having said "Merry Christmas" to a non-christian.
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  3451. For what they did, Republicans need some kind of mark on them, the kind that doesn't wash off.
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  3452. Ah yes. Apparently the need to baby his comb-over in slightly-damp slightly-windy weather was more important than honoring the sacrifices made by hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
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  3453. As Karl Marx noted -- capitalism doesn't function without a large reserve army of unemployed/underemployed.
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  3454. General Electric makes some too.
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  3455.  @Rock-ht7vr  He's campaigning while being prosecuted for crimes he committed. Not the other way around. Cope harder.
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  3456. Let's all click on the 3-dots thing and select "don't recommend this channel".
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  3457. This is like when Hitler got ready to take the Sudetenland and said, "Hey, look, the Goodyear blimp!" PULL THE OTHER ONE PUTIN
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  3458. Back when he had more of a conscience - “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  3459. Trump is America's self-inflicted GSW.
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  3460.  @procellsearchlightpictures4328  Correct. Screwing a major party over is the only kind of "deal" they can make. Otherwise known as a "giveaway".
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  3461. He was way awful back when he took out that full-page rant against the Central Park Five. As near as anyone can tell, he has always been a truly awful human being, a person who brings only bile, angertainment, gaslighting etc to the table. He's like a cheap, repellent version of the Randall Flagg character from "the Stand", minus the ability to do any magic.
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  3462. Isn't it so odd how the Trump kids, Sean Hannity, and all the other Republicans didn't phone Antifa or BLM to get them to call off the raid? Instead, they all called Trump - whose flags the insurrectionists were beating police over the head with and using to break windows on the Capitol grounds.
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  3463. Zelenskyy and Trump have fully changed roles. The former is a national leader and the latter is a childrens comedian.
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  3464. The only use for that bridge now is for Russians to flee while they still can. And they had best get moving before it gets closed.
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  3465. Type faster, or you'll get sent to the front.
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  3466.  @scottkrater2131  To be fair to the Russkis, in WW2 they were being massively bankrolled by the US, so it didn't matter then how drunk and disorganized they were. Seems without that level of support they're not very good in the field. No surprises there.
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  3467. Beautiful. I see that and I raise you this: Trump at 15 cases: Within a couple of days, it'll be close to zero. 9,000 cases: It's a war. I'm a wartime president! 80,000 cases: We're safe. Let's reopen America! 250,000 cases: I'm not responsible! 644,000 cases: I believe the USA has passed the peak in infections. 925,000 cases: Can we look into injecting disinfectant to make it go away? 1 million cases: I take no responsibility for people injecting disinfectant! 1.3 million: All those corpses are fake! They're crisis actors! It's safe to go back to work, I tell you! 1.4 million: We have prevailed! 100,000 dead Americans: It would have been worse if I hadn't done my job so well!
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  3468. Oh look. People without masks, gathering close together in public in a group. Just what the coronavirus likes. Three weeks from now, when they're hacking their lungs out, will they remember this moment of negligent stupidity? Probably not. Oh, and BIG THANKS to these twats for potentially infecting others just to feed their vanity.
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  3469. The outbreak in LaGrande has two potential causes .. 1) It was brought in to the community by a passing stranger who was infected at the time, or 2) it was spreading all the while and Oregon didn't do enough surveillance testing to spot it. I'm voting for door #2.
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  3470. Remember when they stole those expensive new John Deere combines in the first year of the 3-day SMO, and laboriously hauled them ~700 miles to Chechnya, only to find out that Deere corporate had remotely disabled them?
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  3471. On days like this, FOX Noise usually plays stories of cats being rescued from trees.
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  3472. A roomful of people, not snickering or laughing aloud at Yo-Semite, is all it took to keep the Trumptanic afloat, but now even that is denied to him. At least he never tried to pronounce "Arkansas".
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  3473. OP - same where I live. Any attempt to harass, bully, intimidate, coerce etc at the ballot box (or drop location) would be most unwise for the perp.
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  3474. In just one week, Trump has un-managed to a) unite Iran from top to bottom as hasn't happened since the popular revolution of 1979; b) induce everyone to avoid participating in US military adventurism; c) give Iraq the political pretext it needs to expel the US & coalition forces; d) give the Islamic world a martyr figure; e) unite the peoples of the region against the US. Heck of a job, Brownie ..
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  3475. OP: I see that and I raise you this: "Trump - A strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon."
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  3476. Bingo. And in the fall they'll be saying they had nothing to do with Wussolini's 4-year-long reign of evil stupidity.
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  3477.  @RCon25  It would seem that spending time in jail, after committing crimes at Trump's behest, does indeed serve to help some of them notice their own stupidity. Most normal Americans (or so I like to believe) would probably notice it if we were storming the Capitol on behalf of an election loser whose court cases had all been tossed out for lack of evidence. Those things were a matter of public record at the time.
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  3478. Great :( I wonder how many he passed the disease to.
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  3479. To be a loyal Communist you had to do the same for Stalin .. and to be a lyoal Nazi you had to do the same for Hitler. Same deal here :(
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  3480. Huh, maybe Ukraine needs a volunteer legion of folks all over the world to 3D print drone parts for them.
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  3481. Been wondering how we-as-a-nation are going to recover the Trump cultists. They represent the intersectionality of two distinct groups: a) very badly damaged people, who can easily pivot from saying "fetuses are precious life!" to "let those immigrant children die in the desert!", and b) the subset of our population that is especially vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool any 10yo European kid.
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  3482. Historically, America's universities have been a boon to the nation. For quite a long time, the best and brightest from around the world have been coming here to get their doctorates, and some of them stay when they get good job offers, and they contribute their talent to the long running enterprise known as the USA. That's now gone. Those people are going to go to other countries now. Likewise, we can kiss international tourism goodbye.
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  3483. Rest assured, this is just our Mad Mango Mussolini testing the waters to see how much of this citizenship-revoking thing he can get away with. Expect a lot more of it to follow, along with the AG insisting that the protections of law apply only to citizens and not to others** who happen to be living here. **See pastor Niemoller's words for how that list of designated others is going to expand under Trump. Brown skin? Foreign name? Left leaning? LGBT? Not a landowner? And so on.
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  3484.  @jubaladin  "The fact that the gas was turned off is an indicator that Europe does not know how to do business honestly" << Your sentence does not translate. It is the SUPPLIER who cut it off. That's Russia. Maybe you butchered the meaning in original language too.
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  3485. Bingo. I can just hear Moscow Mitch telling us that even 36 months before an election is much, much too soon for Biden to seat a SCOTUS judge.
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  3486.  @buffycat4641  Cultists don't usually think when they're under the spell. Take for instance Leslie Van Houten, who did 53 years in prison all because she believed the wild visions that Charles Manson spun for her, and then committed crimes.
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  3487. Gee, who could have thought that failing to hold traitors to account could possibly have any negative consequences? :(
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  3488. Same. And now I see that he's looking even worse than before.
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  3489. That's a lesson that Susan Collins helped Trump learn .. that no matter how many laws he breaks, no matter how often or deeply he incites his base to issue threats or commit crimes, his fellow Republicans will provide cover or will at least remain silent.
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  3490. Trump did much worse than just failing to condemn white extremists. He attempted to equate the teaching of racial awareness (ie, training pale-skinned folks not to lynch Blacks & Hispanics on sight) with hating America.
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  3491.  @grandmak.  It's not what he has on them, but obviously what he offered them. He told them he would completely refashion America in the hateful, racist ways they desired. They're clearly itching to pull a Rhodesia 2.0 here, a techno-apartheid state in which the poor and minorities are systematically excluded from voting, healthcare, education, opportunity.
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  3492. Glad someone else noticed that. Here's his DN interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNVzfwXanLM
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  3493. Coming from the same guy who in THREE YEARS couldn't be bothered to inspect the national health supplies reserve, this is comical. And after Wussolini fled to the bunker, the white house exterior lights were shut off, just like when someone's too cheap to put candy out at Halloween.
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  3494. The difference between Trump and God is that God doesn't think he's Trump.
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  3495. I figured out the baseload thing about 20 years ago. By rough back-of-envelope calculations, it looked like we would need to quadruple our level of electrical generation to make it workable. The US has something around 100+ million vehicles that get driven on an almost daily basis. Even worse, when a hypothetical EV fleet is that large, the amount of energy lost to simple battery decay (for vehicles that are not left trickle charging all the time) gets pretty large. Seemed clear that it just wasn't going to happen.
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  3496. It's more like signal intelligence of Republicans asking Putin, in the strongest and most sincere terms, how they can make America more like Putin's Russia - guaranteed election results - repression of journalists, minorities, dissidents - strong state control with just one party, one man in charge of everything. That is why Republicans have been working with Putin.
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  3497. Uggh, I got "lucky" .. thanks to both parents and several past bosses, I recognized Trump's type decades ago :(
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  3498. He meant you and your kids, silly, not him and his kids. Baron Trump isn't attending school, and Daddy Dotard insists on having everyone around him tested daily on the taxpayer's dime.
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  3499. Please encourage her to stay safe. By now anyone with half a brain (or more) has gotten vaccinated. The remainder aren't worth getting infected over.
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  3500. You'd think an innocent man would welcome the chance to clear his name in court, but this guy is trying to avoid the music like vampires avoiding sunlight.
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  3501.  @wardgalanis796  Former president 45, AKA Assholini, appears to have studied videos of Mussolini, who did the same arm movements.
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  3502.  @Mondfischli  Are you referring to the "Nazis: a warning from history" series? Excellent stuff.
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  3503.  @ronfriedman8740  What is it you're looking for? That the virus is basically prevalent everywhere can be ascertained by how no cruise ship has been able to resume operations without generating new outbreaks, and how schools everywhere across the USA are reporting new clusters within days of having the students crowd into the hallways and classrooms without wearing masks. It's improbable that those obese, aged Hardly Ableson riders aren't already infecting each other. Given the long incubation period, early infectivity span, and prevalence of asymptomatic carriers produced, you won't find any links until later what a disaster this was.
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  3504. When willfully-unvaccinated people end up costing the insurance companies too much .. mm, yeah, that will change.
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  3505. I don't get it. Usually cancer takes good people. Why the sudden change of policy?
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  3506. His mission is nowhere near finished. Thankfully he's so damn slow to realize anything.
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  3507. Those troops are chaos agents.
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  3508. The citizens alone could handle that one .. and the bears will come sniffing for fresh meat. Bad idea.
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  3509.  @ВежливаяМатрёшка  Go home, Ivan, while you still can. A10s are hungry at this time of year.
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  3510. No doubt because Trump is still contagious. Otherwise those Republican "fine people" would have put them at the back of the bus.
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  3511. Let's see what nonsense Joey Gibson, out of stater, is planning to do in Portland during the run-up to the inauguration. His little rooster boyz have been scoping out the capitols and governors mansions in Oregon and Washington. Possibly they'll try vehicle bombs this time, who knows, they really are that delusional.
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  3512. .. or releasing his taxes LOL.
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  3513. Zelinskyy is welcomed everywhere as a hero. Putin is like a bad smell.
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  3514. Upon entering military service, they took a lifetime oath to the constitution. They all need to be reinstate to face military justice. Maximum penalty. They took up arms against the same county they swore an oath to protect.
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  3515. Hitler and Jim Jones had a similar ability to make people do batshit stuff and drive them crazy in the process.
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  3516. No doubt those "humanitarian corridors" into Russia are more like chutes into an abattoir :(
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  3517. The little Nazi Binder Barbie is the modern-day Tokyo Rose or Lady Haw-Haw or Axis Sally, broadcasting lies and enemy propaganda to Americans.
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  3518. That's very close to the classic title that needs to be written about him, "Lord of the Lies".
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  3519. The span of the road bridge that's still standing will allow Russians to flee Crimea while they still can. Seems rather deliberate that the eastbound route was left open.
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  3520. You're right, the media doesn't pick the president, the people do. The popular vote is 78,753,377 Biden to 73,119,421 Trump and the EC is 306 Biden to 232 Trump. Do you remember in 2016 when the Republicans called 306 EC votes "a landslide" and "a mandate"? Those kinds of votes still are landslides and mandates, and the mandate of the people is to get rid of Trump. Sorry these facts hurt your feelings.
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  3521. I care less about the questionable sanity of Trump supporters, and care more about the fact that Republicans are trying to do away with our democracy. You don't worry about someone's mental state while they're setting your house on fire - you stop them and deal with the flames.
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  3522.  @andredunbar3773  Yes, the laws excluding Jews were modeled on the US laws excluding Blacks.
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  3523. What could possibly go wrong, right?
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  3524.  @dennisconrad6124  Most likely thing that would follow here (considering that guns outnumber people by a lot) would be rapid splintering, then Balkanization, then a period of local warlords ruling the land while fiefs consolidate. So your relatives might end up dodging sniper fire all the time, being lucky to siphon gas from abandoned vehicles, and possibly trading their teenage daughter to the local warlord in exchange for a cart of canned food. Because that's exactly the sort of future Republicans are trying like hell to make happen here :(
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  3525. Correction. Trump was the fifth time. The prior ones were Adams in 1824, Hayes in 1876, Harrison in 1888, and Bush in 2000.
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  3526. Someday people will come to realize the folly of electing someone who uses the "14 characteristics of fascism" meme as a to-do list.
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  3527.  @mawlinzebra  Tell that to the people of New Zealand, you Most Holy Dumbass. How effing ignorant can you be?
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  3528. Please note that the weather in Ecuador just now is comparable to US summertime temperatures - so this virus is not slowed down by hot weather.
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  3529. Yes. She is a lot like Frau Goebbels, who sacrificed her own children for the Reich.
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  3530. What an amazing guest! She had fantastic insights into things in Russia. Please have her back again sometime?
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  3531. All so Tweety could have a very large, very public temper tantrum.
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  3532. One of my friends had symptoms for 14 weeks and almost died. This is someone who went to the gym all the time and was super-healthy. Now they've got lifetime lung damage and more :(
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  3533.  @WoodysAR  What Trump really meant (when he said people want RvW ended) was that his major donors felt that way.
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  3534.  @Utoobeedoo  Bingo. They still imagine themselves to be "plucky underdogs" when instead they're backing the most powerful political position in America. It's like watching the stormtroopers imagine they're the resistance, and therefore, the good guys.
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  3535. They're going to need a lot of ventilators and funeral services on Trump's crazy train. Folks can't vote when they're dead or in a coma.
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  3536.  @todddunn945  I remember well the stagflation of the 70s :(
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  3537.  @raider523-s9d  Re "that we were going to let our cyber agencies of the leash" << Bingo. Or make every Russian copy of Windows suddenly go berserk later the same day. (edit: remember, Biden and his people have had FULL access to the white house visitor logs of the past 4 years, as well as that secret codeword server on which were stored audio and transcripts of Trump's known calls with foreign nationals .. so he probably knows a lot more about Putin's game than Putin is happy with.)
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  3538.  @EvilGrin  You also have to pay a substantial tax on your wealth and future retirement benefits if you go that route.
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  3539. He was watching the Jan 6th violence from his office, on TV .. his aides were discomfited by how much he seemed to enjoy it.
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  3540.  @robertpalmer3705  Wrong, fool, there was no proof. That's why it got tossed out of every court. To prove that dead people voted, you need a matching stack of notarized death certificates and notarized signed ballots, and guess what, no one has that kind of evidence. Trump never got above 40% popularity in national polling. It would have been mathematically impossible for him to win a popular election. In fact he lost twice at that.
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  3541.  @robertpalmer3705  Yawn. I'll probably snooze through what the Q-tards tell me will be Trump's March 4th inauguration too. Seriously, go try that thing with the cellphone video as I suggested. I'm hoping the results make something clear to you about what constitutes actual proof. You seem to be unaware of how the real world functions when it comes to proof.
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  3542. What kind of abject organizational stupidity allowed this to happen? Irate boomers said no more confinement, we don't care if we infect half the planet just getting home?
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  3543.  @gregsmith7809  In fact, the specific sort of commentary which you are mistaking for factual information is what Alex Jones' lawyer called "rhetorical hyperbole".
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  3544. "We cant release the video unredacted because our people will get arrested" is quite the admission.
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  3545. Lately most of those people have had darker skin so, no, Trump does not want them here. As any good Third Reich spokesperson could tell you (if they were here, that is; since they are not here, Stephen Miller will do) the ethnic cleansing of one's own nation is a most sacred duty under any form of fascism.
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  3546. All because Trump's base are the kind of people best suited for straitjackets and thorazine treatments.
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  3547. All to support extravagant lifestyles in District 1 :(
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  3548. They have short memories, if any at all.
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  3549. A reunion with their KGB handlers.
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  3550. Sorry to hear about your experience. This goes to show what I've been preaching: that even with vaccinating as many people as possible, as well as continuing with masks, distancing, capacity limits, hand washing, etc, we will be lucky to make it through the winter without mass graves everywhere. I live in the best-vaccinated county in my state, and our hospitals just started adding emergency overflow morgues, that's how many deaders we've got. And fall is not even here yet.
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  3551. As far back as July 2019, Trump knew he would lose a fair election against Biden, which is why he withheld aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. And by sometime in March 2020 he began hunting for someone to sabotage the USPS from within, when he realized that lying about the coronavirus hadn't made it go away, and tens of millions of people would be voting by mail in the fall.
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  3552.  @havable  Lots more. With love from America ;)
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  3553. Not sure how many, but if you wait a week or two, Trump and his GOP doormats will invent a few new ones.
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  3554.  @PatR2243  Same. Watched it just once, saw right away what it was all about.
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  3555. I take it to mean that they know what they are doing is wrong and they know they need to be punished for it. Why keep them waiting?
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  3556. In America we have some Nazi and traitor-merch flags that need burning too. So nice that the people who wave them tend to plaster it all over social media. Good to know exactly who they are.
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  3557.  El Nubian  A majority of Americans (above 75%) wanted evidence & witnesses in the senate; a majority of Americans (above 95%) opposed the wall street bank bailout in 2008. Yet look what spaghetti stuck to the wall :(
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  3558. Republicans are addicted to appeasing the loudest craziest 20% of their base. Saint Darwin is doing the rest.
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  3559. Daily reminder, he said it was a democrat hoax that would go away with the warm weather "like a miracle". And I pay more in taxes than he does.
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  3560. Columnist must be getting paid in rubles if s/he is advising to ignore the cancer and just let it take what it wants.
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  3561. More Iranians turned out for the funeral of the general (this out of a country of 80 million) than turned up for Trump's inauguration (this out of a nation of 327 million). What Trump did will cause people to line up at recruitment centers in both Iraq and Iran.
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  3562. There's nothing like seeing a 5-time draft-dodger backstab an ally just because they allegedly (according to something fabricated for RWNJ media) didn't help the US in WW2. No member of his family seems to have ever served.
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  3563. Speaking of which - I wonder with the ignorant conspiracy nutters thought of WW2 at the time? Was it really just a plan of the Rothschilds to enslave a generation by putting them into uniform? Was Pearl Harbor faked like the sinking of the Titanic was faked?
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  3564.  @julescote1439  That's assuming we're having another election in 2 years. Guess who's going to do everything possible to defund or delay it.
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  3565. Who else remembers Trump's first SOTU address? Trump looked out over Lyin' Ted, Cryin' Chuck, Jeff Flakey, Broken Old Crow, Crazy Nancy, Little Marco, Crazy Bernie, Shifty Shift, Pocahontas, Wacky Jacky .. and all he wanted was a little respect from people, respect that he thought he deserved.
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  3566.  @manuellubian5709  Tell me about it. So many are whining, "Oh, the debate was so cringe" as if that somehow makes 45's crime spree forgettable and forgiveable. I suspect they are the same ones who would rather trade a little freedom for the streets being cleaner and the trains running on time ..
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  3567. @Veronica Varela, America will not bring democracy to its poor people unless they're sitting atop a lot of oil .. and then you know what happens after :(
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  3568. Works fine even in places where vote-by-mail is the norm. Those are fairly high-security elections no matter what the twice-impeached former resident says .. and by the way he votes by mail too.
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  3569. Allowing the governor to whimsically edit the school curriculum sets a horrible precedent. What else might Ron DeFascist try? Ban all mention of contraception from health classes? Ban items from history class that don't paint slavery and the Confederacy in a positive light?
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  3570. How long before Hair Fuhrer starts putting his enemies into barbed-wire camps up in rural north Alaska?
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  3571.  @JackFlaps  Bingo. Smart people learn from watching the mistakes of other folks. Regular folks learn from making mistakes. Stupid people never learn. Trump is of the last category.
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  3572. She's welcome to come over to the Blue Wall states, where her rights will be protected, and where we vote by mail like sensible folks.
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  3573. I've been telling his remaining followers that Trump had a dream that all the true patriots should follow him to Florida and live nearby, camped out along the roads leading to Swamp-a-Lago, that he wants his loyal people there for protection now that the Deep State has cut him loose.
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  3574. His turd is circling the bowl as we speak. I hear a big gurgling sound in the distance.
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  3575. This is like rearranging the living room furniture while the house is on fire. Right wing anti government conservative nutters are the current fire.
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  3576. Well, at each of his last three truly-unvetted-public appearances, he was loudly booed with chants of "lock him up". In reverse order, these were when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was lying in state; at a Madison Square event last year; at a World Series game last year. Even before the pandemic he was getting booed.
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  3577.  @AdamBladeTaylor  They're owning the libs alright, one corpse and one Republican vote at a time.
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  3578.  @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot  Nope, 14.3 does not mention the civil war, nor does it impose the burden of a conviction anywhere in its text: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
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  3579. He needs to be more scared. We sent the Rosenburgs to the electric chair for way less than what Trump has done. Old Sparky needs to be dusted off.
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  3580. Do you wear seat belts? They're only approx 45%-50% at preventing death in case of auto accident. The mRNA covid vaccines are more like 90% effective at preventing death in case you should get covid.
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  3581. Count down the weeks until, suddenly, child labor is legal and the schools are closed. Dickensian times is what our oligarchs have in mind.
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  3582. Similarly hysterical is the way Trump's people were foaming at the mouth over Obama spending 1/50th of his time golfing, but when it comes to Trump spending 1/4 of his time golfing they're all smiles and saying it's "executive time". Those people need psychiatric help :(
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  3583.  @thewayofnoway  The weed might be laced with something. Not good.
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  3584. .. and you know who wants to play the banana republic dictator, wearing a bemedaled uniform, getting military parades, putting his adult-age children into positions of power, staying in power indefinitely, etc.
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  3585. Bingo. It's as bizarre as if we let people in WW2 go around publishing editorials saying we should all just surrender to the Nazis.
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  3586. Russian roulette style.
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  3587. Mr Raffensperger should have asked Trump (for the benefit of the tape) for a little quid-pro-quo.
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  3588.  @maudeboggins9834  More like Tacapino finally asked to get paid for all his work to date. And we know what Trump says to that.
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  3589.  @bjorndebar8361  He always has been. His "genius vision" is little more than restoring the Russian empire .. the concept of peaceful cooperation among co-equal nations is completely foreign to him .. top-down Dr-Evil type rule-by-force empires are the only government structure in his playbook.
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  3590. You get the impression that the R's gaze longingly at the chaos and political dysfunction in Somalia and Haiti and a few other places, and they think, dayum, we need that here.
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  3591. Yesterday I went into a convenience store outside the city. As usual I had on mask & gloves. The man behind the counter did not. I asked him why. He said he didn't know of any edict (his word) to force people to wear masks. I asked him if he knew there was a dangerous disease going around and he just shrugged. Faceplant :( Edit: this was outside Portland, OR.
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  3592.  Dale hauk  He lost his right to ever have guns again too. Seems like a good time to share the definition of "useful idiot". Wikipedia: In political jargon, a useful idiot is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders.
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  3593. Poor Keith, it seems you are recycling that old joke, "There's no such thing as global warming because it's snowing where I am just now." And if you stood in the middle of an Iowa corn field in April 1942, it would appear (from what you could see right there) that WW2 didn't exist either. SMH.
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  3594. Knocked it clean out of the park! Well done! :)
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  3595. Oh, I think he will still continue to rally even after. Remember, he's going to unroll a huge by-county map of popular votes, which will show a sea of red (flyover type places) and some small blue areas. He's going to rant and rave about how the election was supposedly stolen from him - "Just look at all that red! They cheated!!" - and he's going to keep stirring up shit because he enjoys the adulation and he enjoys hurting people. Until he's in a jail room or a padded cell, we're in trouble if we tolerate him among us.
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  3596.  @desmondjefferson2127  Not sure what's more expensive to operate, prisons or mental hospitals. Maybe the facilities should be a little of both.
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  3597. President Balsonaro, is that you?
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  3598.  @ukraine-gonna-beat-ruzzia  Oh definitely. I have traveled much all over the country and lived in 5 different states, rural and urban places, and that's something we always have going. When the neighbor is away for the summer, you mow their lawn, even if maybe you and them didn't see eye to eye on everything. The disagreements about politics are not that important.
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  3599.  @dianehooper3589  Most cultures have a cautionary fable about selling your soul to the devil. We get to watch it on TV. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his supporters & enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had. And when he's done with them, he fires them on Twitter. But not until he's made them use up their credibility.
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  3600. The choice for the world is fast becoming this: do you want to fight Putin now or later, after he's taken Ukraine and has his sights trained on the next place? Didn't the world already get a harsh lesson on why you don't appease Putin's type?
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  3601. The crazy old lady forgot to mention despots. People like Kim Jong Un, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Donald Trump, Pol Pot, and Rodrigo Duterte all hate wearing masks and are never or almost never photographed wearing them. And now that he's been violating the ICC's Rome Statue by ordering forced sterilization of refugees, we can finally include Hair Fuhrer in that club.
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  3602. What is Trump worried about anyway? Who else remembers his 2018 claim that he has the right to pardon himself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  3603. Or the newbie navy recruit saying, "Hey, the sub is 500 feet down and my clothes are still dry - so that means we can open the hatch, right?"
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  3604. The GOP seems to have fully embraced American Fash as a way of life. People, you know what to do.
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  3605.  Chris Pacheco  Yes, it's batsh!t crazy. This will not end well. Pretending that there's no virus is the best way to spread the virus :(
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  3606. There is no bottom to the Republican barrel ..
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  3607. Bingo. This is just his test case for getting his other partners-in-crime off the hook. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and the rest of those criminals.
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  3608.  @cjmcmurray7604  We all know Biden won, but thanks for reminding us :)
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  3609. He also said the coronavirus would go away the day after the election. Instead, the US went into 6 digits new cases every day, possibly thanks to his covidchella superspreader rallies where few if any wore masks.
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  3610. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  3611. Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  3612. The USA is currently experiencing active case count growth rates above 17,000 cases per day. NO FRICKING WAY do you reopen the economy until you can ensure that going to work isn't a death sentence. And sending our senior citizens into almost certain death just to prop up a few Wall Street stocks is a disgusting, reprehensible idea.
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  3613. Doesn't stop them. They got divorced from factual reality awhile back.
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  3614. This is one of those "who you want to date vs who you want to marry" type comparisons. "Freedom" (aka life in a plutocratic capitalistic state like the USA) is like a shiny thing one can lust for, but having a steady job and guaranteed healthcare / education / retirement / vacation / maternity leave is the unexciting stuff that makes life a lot easier. So 140 people died crossing the Berlin Wall in the 30 years of its existence? In the USA, upwards of 20K people per year die from not having health coverage. But "mah mah mah freedumbs!" :(
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  3615. @Otap7 It's not known yet if Trumpanzees can ever calm down and be normal citizens again after this. By their actions (like trying to run the Biden-Harris campaign bus off the road) some of them have demonstrated that they've moved beyond needing remedial civics classes to becoming something like an American Taliban. Just think, they're willing to take up arms against regular American citizens.
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  3616. Where I live, they're talking about reopening restaurants now that there's a temporarily lull in the number of new cases per week. Anyone who's imagining that the virus suddenly got bored and decided to go away and vacation in Mexico is seriously delusional.
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  3617. Republicans must have switched their projectors over to industrial LED lights. Otherwise with this level of lies and projection they'd be blowing bulbs constantly.
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  3618. Perhaps the 45 could just fade into the past where he belongs. And if he plans to run in 2024, then advertising his good & bad points alike is all fair. Except he hasn't got any of the former.
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  3619. Without election lies, Trump wouldn't have anything left. And, sadly, his cult members veer towards misinformation the same way crackheads veer towards a $20 bill blowing across the roadway.
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  3620.  @oeokosko  That's something people don't appreciate: by the time 1947 rolled around, it was obvious to every surviving German that their outcomes were similar regardless of whether they'd voted for the funny mustache guy or not. Fascism is like that. It would affect everyone in the country.
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  3621. I checked Chump's calendar, and he's golfing tomorrow. So it will have to be another day.
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  3622.  @camwyn256  Correct. Climate change hasn't gone away. Electrical grid still very vulnerable.
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  3623. I'm starting to like this virus.
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  3624. I kind of like the thought of the GOP being forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Let's see if they can spot the irony ;)
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  3625. After that crook Nixon was impeached, every single Republican who'd helped try to cover up his crimes lost their seats in the next election. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  3626. It seems painful to even have to explain this to anyone .. but .. even though I wasn't there to witness it, and I've never spoken with anyone who witnessed it, but I am pretty sure that back in April 1912 the Titanic sank somewhere in the north Atlantic.
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  3627.  @anamour4747  SDNY is still pursuing a raft of cases against him. He'll be in jail by the time the 2024 election rolls around anyway. President Sing Sing.
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  3628. DItto on the comments regarding soft power. The concept of friendly co-operation among separate equals (or rivals) is completely foreign to them. This is how & why they think of NATO as another Soviet-style top-down empire instead of an alliance among relative equals (if not equivalents). They think "NATO is taking territory" when in fact those countries choose on their own to join NATO, then apply, then go through a process that can take years, then must get the approval of all existing members before being allowed in. If this "west vs east" thing was like a high school class officers election, Russia would be accusing the other team of stealing "their" votes when instead they should be working on their appeal to the voters. In much of Russia, there is a solid wall of high fences facing the street, interrupted only by doors that allow entrance to private property. Otherwise everything is boarded up. Tells you a lot about their psychology.
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  3629.  @ablincoln2354  Hope it's not one of his kids, because Daddy-o is already well on the way to being a Monty Python character and/or one of those stock characters performed everywhere by cruise ship comedians. Plus there's all the dirt that's going to emerge later. I'm willing to bet that somewhere, there is a copy of a Stephen Miller memo saying to mix the ashes of the disappeared refugee parents into the concrete of the border wall.
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  3630. I'm sorry you have to go through this nonsense. The outbreak will be so much worse once new case acceleration resumes due to relaxing standards. This thing gets around almost as easily as measles does.
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  3631. Only in America could a con-man president get away with cheating on his taxes while railing about "moochers" who don't pay their "fair share" while getting cheered on by his imbecile fan base who simultaneously think that a) it's wrong to cheat on taxes and b) cheating on taxes is what makes him a patriotic genius.
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  3632. This is a case of wanting all of the rights of being in the EU, but none of the responsibilities of being in the EU. Sigh.
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  3633. America's adversaries must be pleased.
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  3634.  @slimgud0478  Jeremy is a malignant dickhead. Like all the other Dump cultists, the next three weeks will be a time of rude awakening for him. Prolonged cult thinking is as bad as prolonged heroin use.
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  3635. Re "She doesn't have that excuse" << We don't know that for sure. She could be drunk all the time. Heck, my boss is out of town for the long term so I suppose I could drink on the job all the time too.
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  3636. In his case, it's called playing the air accordion. One of his many tells.
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  3637.  @jilliancopeland6825  Regarding "Barr is of the mindset that the president has absolute power" << Watch how quickly that changes once it's not a Republican in the office of the president.
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  3638. Yah. We're going to be a future Somalia. People will be telling legends, in hushed whispers, about how it was so great for shareholders that we destroyed the environment :(
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  3639. Perhaps someone in NATO will "loan" Ukraine a squadron of A-10 ground attack aircraft. Nothing says "I love U" to Putin like a whole lot of perforated Russian armor sitting in a swamp somewhere.
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  3640. @notfiveo The administration didn't do the finding, the Archives did.
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  3641. Here's a daily reminder of why idiots shouldn't be in charge of anything important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" November 13: 11,118,081 American covid infections & 250,383 American covid deaths.
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  3642. This happened back during Nixon's time too. Commitment to the rule of law will keep you in office, but commitment to the boss will take you out like last week's trash. Sigh.
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  3643. Meanwhile in DC, the attitude is "Oh, just let Caligula be Caligula. We just have to put up with this for four long years."
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  3644.  @Runawayslave2023  Why do you quote false stuff as facts? The only reason the official case fatality rate in the US is so low (5%-6%) is that more new cases keep coming in faster all the time, skewing the numbers of infected vs dead. When you look at the closed cases, the math is a little clearer - 11% of the time, the case is closed by death, and recovery happens the other 89% of the time. I know you don't like to hear this, but nonetheless that's what the facts are. Edit: scroll down to the "closed cases" box to see what I mean. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  3645.  @damionalbarr7961  Dominoes don't usually leave such big craters or smoking ruins behind them.
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  3646. Usually the fire department goes home once the building isn't burning anymore and not about to flame up again. And the covid fire is by no means over :(
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  3647.  @theasianviper6365  "You have freedoms but they end at the moment it involves .." If only you had been there to tell that to the 1/6 insurrectionists. Some of them brought equipment to execute politicians. Maybe you should be sharing your message with the violent Trumpanzees, and not those who wish to defend our democracy against a group of thugs.
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  3648. If Trump stays true to pattern, a) he'll soon deny any funding to NPR, and b) he'll tweet/retweet videos of him assaulting NPR - like the videos of him assaulting CNN.
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  3649. To be fair, the rules of the impeachment inquiry probably didn't specify that the folks doing the hard questioning couldn't secretly be among the participants in the crimes being investigated. This begs the question, how many other Republicans were involved in this deflection? Ron Johnson, who got quite heated during the investigation, is one of the Republicans who celebrated July 4th in Moscow last year.
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  3650.  @relevantinformation6655  Figured it was because we think hosing down all the buildings is a lesser evil than depriving the town arsonist of matches and gasoline.
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  3651. Anyone into numbers, go check out Minnesota. They're clearly showing exponential virus spread even under their so-called lockdown. Doubling time is every 9.1 days as measured over the last 7 days. And apparently they want to lift the lockdown already.
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  3652. Best impeachment ever. Popcorn sales are through the roof. People are saving good champagne for when he resigns or is removed.
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  3653. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  3654. No, that just means that Russia needs to deploy some more of its inept S-400 systems around such installations. Ukraine has no nukes and is not threatening Russia in any nuclear way. Knowing more now about what resourceful fighters Ukrainians can be, I can see why Russia agreed back in 1994 not to attack Ukraine (Budapest Memorandum) in exchange for getting back the portion of the USSR nuclear arsenal (about a third of it) which remained in Ukraine.
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  3655. And let's be clear - being an out-in-the-open criminal is a huge part of why the nuttier Americans love him so much :(
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  3656. Whoever knew that the dumbest people in Oregon could get upset that governor Brown doesn't want Oregon to turn into another covid hotspot like North Dakota or New York City.
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  3657. Bingo. When it comes to vaccines and masks, they whine about "the heavy hand of government" - the same hand that they want to put on every woman's uterus.
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  3658.  @brianstanton2721  Thank you. There are two excellent articles out there that really bring it together. In lieu of links, let me put the full text of the title of each so as to find the right pages: They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president's name I study liars. I've never seen one like president Trump. For some reason, idolizing an obvious liar & bully is something that has an appeal to certain people.
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  3659.  @Janpre2001  I prefer to say that he is not the sharpest egg in the carton. Almost everyone standing around him is some kind of inept, delusional fool, devoid of positive qualities.
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  3660.  @tiga8600  I too am susceptible to certain kinds of viral lung infections, which is why I've had to stay careful all along throughout the pandemic, and why I got vaccinated as soon as I legitimately could be. This disease is a nightmare. A regular modern-day Captain Tripps, for all the upheaval it's causing the world. The countries that aren't rich and haven't got lots of medical resources? It will decimate them, and there will be much long-term illness among the survivors. The economies of some of those places won't recover for awhile. Please do what you can to stay safe as long as you can. In the distance I smell large class-action lawsuits coming down the pipe. Former Guy, his supporters, FOXed Noise, and other "news" outlets, have all neglected to scrub the internet of the A/V recordings of them lying about the disease, lying about the vaccines, downplaying the dangers of the disease, telling them it's just a cold, etc. The damage from this thing is so deep and so widespread. None of those idiots, at the time, remembered to have a big disclaimer flashing on the screen, words to the effect that "This is just commentary, not news. For actual medical advice, talk with your doctor." That's going to come back to haunt them in the worst possible way, all because of the economic fallout of the spread of the disease itself. Estimates say that there are more than 1.5 million covid orphans worldwide (actual number is probably a lot higher) meaning kids who've lost a parent or grandparent or provider to this disease. Many high medical bills that the major insurers will not go broke trying to cover .. ie, if you willfully decide to avoid the vaccine, and you post nonsense on your FB page to that effect, and you end up with a $100K hospital bill from covid, the insurers will find some way to get out of it if they can .. no doubt their loss prevention team is already combing through all forms of social media to gather evidence.
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  3661. Kudos to the west coast governors for standing up to the dismemberment of the federal government and the abrogation of its responsibilities.
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  3662.  @tonysmith2045  I thought you guys already knew this stuff - forgive me for assuming that people pay attention. Anyway, if you chart the maximum attendance at Mardi Gras events (NOLA) and compare it to the resulting spike in virus cases, you'll see those two events were around 40 days apart. These days, now that we're looking for it specifically, we can see the early returns in about a week or so. For instance, Wisconsin flung open the bar doors Weds night May 13th, and already there have been significant upticks in daily new cases.
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  3663.  @markg.7865  Turns out that we have a large minority of people (still far too many) who eagerly suck up the hate, fear, and misinformation. We can count on FOXed Noise telling their sheeple that the debates are unnecessary because they're "rigged".
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  3664. Did you read the hilarious story of that Canadian couple who found Canada too "woke" for their taste, moved to Russia, had their funds confiscated, and found themselves in a strange land, unable to speak the local language? I feel sorry for their kids.
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  3665. @Emma Rose I suffer from the same disbelief. Through the news, the world had a front-row seat (from Dec-2019 through June-2020) in what measures China had to adopt to keep this thing from spreading. All you had to do was read the news. Here in the US, domestic travel was allowed to continue unabated, as if the disease wasn't even there, with the sorry results we see around us today.
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  3666.  @HMSkillBuilders  The name "hatriots" seems more appropriate for them.
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  3667. I love triggering some people with that request. They screech "show us your papers" which is kind of funny because they want to see the papers when it comes to trying to vote, but don't want to see the papers when it comes to buying an assault weapon.
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  3668. Here's another thing that Leningrad Lindsey said back then: “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
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  3669. Hate to say it but governments basically have an unlimited budget for that kind of thing and can afford to hire smart people. Even if you have no mobile phone and use only cash for transactions, your vehicle has many RFID components (as well as its own internal wi-fi) that make it easy to track. Bottom line - you are probably not important enough to be worth tracking, so don't worry much.
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  3670. Friedman should stick to reading cold war novels. Seriously, man, times have changed.
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  3671. Pay close attention, that sniffling demented fool is why his followers want to burn down American democracy by whatever means present themselves.
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  3672. Not all of them. But the ones who issue threats (or do worse) based on Trump's shallow lies? Absolutely.
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  3673. Considering the tone and language from this administration (calling them animals, scum, pests, rodents, illegal, etc) one would reasonably assume that the administration has been sterilizing them or trying some other kind of final solution. When regimes use that language, they're not fooling around.
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  3674. Man, did this guy step up to the plate or what? He'll be famous for "I won't want a ride out, I want ammo!"
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  3675. April, you got it right. The DNA sequence of the virus was released to the public on January 10. Smarter countries like Taiwan got with the program ASAP; the people began wearing masks universally, no questions asked, in service of the common good. Here in the USA, I'm still wearing out keyboards explaining to complete boneheaded morons who even now can't wrap their pin-sized brains around the concept of how everyone wearing masks all the time is far less inconvenient than, say, truckloads of bodies out in the streets, and much longer-lasting disruptions to normalcy.
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  3676.  @Oni64  Remember when people were bemoaning the potential economic impacts to airlines and cruise lines if travel were to be restricted? And how that was the excuse to continue to let them spread disease all over the world? Such a high price to pay for such small-minded pursuit of profit in the first months of 2020.
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  3677.  Esther Elferink  If I may add .. folks from Nazi Germany based their racial laws (the ones against Jewish people) on racial laws & customs in place here in the USA in the 1920s & 1930s (against Black people) especially in the deep south. That ghoul Stephen Miller may have read some George Orwell, if only to use it as a how-to manual and not the cautionary tale it was intended to be.
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  3678.  @francismarion6400  "I bet you are a Democrat." << Dumbest comment ever. This turd deserves to pay the same price the Rosenburgs did.
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  3679.  @francismarion6400  Looks like you failed to comprehend my answer. Par for the course, Trumpanzee.
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  3680. Some of them may want to pretend they didn't just spend 4 years supporting him, but we've got their voting records online and we can see who's been enabling him all along.
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  3681. As a former secretary who used to dress that way - I resemble that remark! :)
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  3682. It will be one of those "I never expected leopards to eat MY face!" moments :(
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  3683. Forget about a possible Manchurian Candidate. We've got a definite Muscovite Incumbent.
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  3684. Only some would - the ones that follow the law. Not the MAGA dominated places.
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  3685. Rode 2K miles this year to Sturgis and back. Saw only 3 signs mentioning his name, and the most prominent one was a beautiful homemade one along I-90 reading "Reject Trumpism, embrace democracy".
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  3686. Trump is like a bent flathead screwdriver who thinks he's a hammer and is trying to rebuild an outdated race engine by pounding nails into it. The sh*heads helping him look equally bad.
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  3687.  @jeb284  Roughly 140 House Republicans voted against certifying the 2020 election. Sounds like Trump has fewer flying monkeys in the House these days. That's good :) May he lose many more.
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  3688. It's not indiscriminate. The target area is defined as "wherever Palestinians happen to be".
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  3689.  @kathieann5936  There is that saying about how a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Here in the US, we seem to think that denying the town arsonist his matches and gasoline is worse of an evil than letting him burn down the town. I pray we don't learn the lesson the hard way, as another nation once did.
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  3690. Trump's made them a bed of nails to sleep on (with their full approval at every step along the way) and now they're whining about it.
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  3691. Meanwhile, across the border to the east, it will look as if nothing has been washed or repaired since Nikita's era.
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  3692.  @lillyrose3545  Agreed. Dr Campbell has gone far above and beyond mere duty to help us be informed throughout this.
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  3693. Attention Georgia conservatives: those Dominion voting machines are more hacked than Sidney Powell was allowed to say on TV. Venezuela threatened her with assassination if she told the truth, which is that your phone will be silently hacked if you even get near one, allowing China to see your texts and social media posts and where you live. And if you even touch one of those machines, they give off microdot chips (too small to be seen) that make you as trackable as the Bill Gates vaccine. Don't do it!
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  3694. Capitalism functions best when workers are expendable and desperate. No wonder corporate America recoils in horror at the way western Europe does business. Put your money where your feelings are, people, and refuse to do any business with Amazon.
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  3695. There are 53 Republicans currently in the US Senate - yet only 4 of them want witnesses to appear for the trial? In what kind of f*ing kangaroo court do the avowedly sympathetic jurors get to decide if there shall be witnesses?
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  3696. This is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  3697.  @jstreets1983  Good people have nothing to fear from "golden rule therapy". Those who want to do bad things to other people, well, they're probably not going to be happy to be on the receiving end of what they would do to others .. and that's the only way they'll ever learn. Kind of like how you have to shove a puppy's face into the stuff to teach it not to poop in the house. And puppies are a lot smarter than conservatives :(
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  3698. It's more than just sounding like. Here's one of Beau's informative videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mtXbwPNkc
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  3699.  @ghwk-phd2784  Oh please, just tell us where you buy all that tinfoil to use for your hats. FFS.
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  3700.  @ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub  Let's take a moment to thank Russia for contributing massively to the scrap metal industries of Ukraine.
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  3701.  @heavydutyreviews1303  Beautiful. Wish I could pin your post.
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  3702. @rose green It's very hard to talk any sense to those people. Three of my friends were sickened, two of them bad enough to have long lasting medical complications. Four of my out-of-town friends died from it. But they are like the people who walk out of their Antarctic base, scoop up a ball of snow, and proudly declare that there's no global warming because there's snow where they are right now. For fuck's sake :(
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  3703.  @joycejnn  You are wrong yet again, dimwit. If everyone wears masks it hinders and slows the spread of disease. It must suck to have a poisoned brain that's not working right, and to develop a taste for the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat, yet somehow you manage it. Why are you pushing information that will cause more suffering and death, and only prolong the pandemic? Why do you hate your fellow citizens so much that you would push misinformation like this?
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  3704.  @barbaracarpenter1260  Surely it must be some stress to him that, after an administration that was essentially one long crime spree, he can't avoid some of the accountability coming his way. Stuff that's going to leave a mark. A very big mark.
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  3705. Sounds like the Trump supporters have adopted one of the three defining characteristics of communism: trying to make all other political parties (besides theirs, that is) illegal.
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  3706.  @jean-michelvanpruyssen936  Still .. hoping everyone can get out to vote.
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  3707. The Army of Swifties will be on that very shortly. Better get popcorn. They usually do a class act.
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  3708. Did anyone catch her on camera previously, yapping out her anti-vax nonsense? Did anyone save her idiotic emails? Put that stuff up on the big screen, with her present, along with as many other people you can find, and ask her to explain why she said what she said.
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  3709. Here's a memorable December-2017 article in which Mnuchin, whose wife likes to pose with printed money, explains how the tax cut will pay for itself. Also other Repub prognostications that all turned out 100% wrong. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/the-7-myths-of-the-gop-tax-bill/547322/
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  3710. The Jews of 1930s Germany were less than 0.75% of the population at the time they were falsely accused of destroying the nation. Wonder what our reincarnated Dr Goebbels (appearing in the here and now as Stephen Miller) will do this time?
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  3711. It already WAS worse. If he were in office now, Trump would be telling the people of Maryland in general (and Baltimore in particular) that since they didn't vote for him, there will be no federal funds to help with the recent bridge disaster.
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  3712. Huh, a Trump political appointee took part in the DC insurrection. Who would have thought?
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  3713. Hopefully California can turn their part of PG&E into a state- or community-owned utility. Over the years, PG&E has sucked out billions of dollars in profit (that's what corporations do, duh) which is money that we now know should have gone into maintaining the lines & equipment, upgrading lines to resist high winds, keeping the undergrowth trimmed, hardening their infrastructure, etc. That model is failing.
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  3714. Been following Amy since GOP thugs roughed her up at the 2008 RNC. She's my hero :)
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  3715. So what makes you think the US president has a big slider control for retail prices for anything? Dear lord god the stupid is very strong with you.
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  3716. Playing nice to Republicans who play dirty is a losing strategy. That's how we lose our democratic republic.
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  3717.  @randycouch2769  When you wrote "Real Americans voted for Trump!", you neglected to mention that 74.2 million of them voted for Trump AKA the Mango Mussolini, while 81.3 million Americans voted for Biden, which is why Biden is going to be the next president. Fixed that for ya.
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  3718. AG Garland will almost certainly retire to some other country (probably in Europe) while whining to the other expats what a mess America is. He ought to know about it since he helped make things much worse :(
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  3719.  @katomiler843  Someday diehard Trumpanzees will get the opportunity to be the performing comics they've been all along. Trump impersonators denying everything will be a thing in about 5 years.
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  3720. The Cheeto regime certainly has that Orwellian speech thing down pat :(
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  3721.  @Oldbluesmith  Who else remembers - "I take no responsibility for this"
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  3722.  @jemelshahid1582  You misunderstand. Anti-abortion folks are free to pump out as many babies as they want, but it is very much against our freedoms to force everyone else to carry every pregnancy, even when rape is involved, or the health of the mother, or an unviable fetus. Remember that 10yo rape victim who had to travel out of Ohio to avoid a "criminal abortion"? Sick, sick, sick.
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  3723. To be fair, he missed his chance when so many more votes for Biden were received. And you can't accuse Trump of not trying to sabotage the post office (in mid-March he began his search for someone to do that) and not trying to shake down allies to extort them into making up BS on the Bidens (by the summer of 2019 he was already doing that).
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  3724.  @vjr5261  Just imagine if the Republicans had slapped him for his misdeeds as much as they did to Obama for the tyrannical, unconstitutional acts such as wearing a tan suit or using mustard or trying to seat a SCOTUS judge 8 months before the election.
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  3725. Historically, regimes that pump out such hateful rhetoric (remember how the El Paso shooter quoted Trump verbatim in his manifesto?) are usually doing something like this behind the scenes. This is just another kind of "final solution". Wonder what else will be revealed :(
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  3726. @2:29 - Republicans want to keep journalists out of their national convention - guessing this has to do with some Russian speakers who will be there to deliver orders.
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  3727. It was more like insider trading, something that is of interest to the SEC. Notice how Lockheed Martin stock went up by 2% just before the strike went down.
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  3728. Good luck with that. Alabama & Wisconsin seem intent on proving how foolish it is to open while ignoring the virus. Just 9 days after Alabama reopened, the hospitals and ICU beds in Montgomery were full to capacity, and they had to start shipping patients elsewhere.
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  3729. Correct. As soon as it gets cold outside, and more people go inside with the heat on, cases go back up. You could almost match the northern states onset of cold weather with the rapid spread of covid. Here in the US, we made the mistake of relaxing our guard during the summer (when case rates were going down) then it bit us hard when cool weather came.
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  3730. From the highs in the 70K range, US daily new cases are finally showing the decrease that the leader wants to see. All it took was cutting the CDC out of the loop on numbers from hospitals.
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  3731. Some whine about germs. For those ones, I ask them if they change their underwear every day and wash the dirty ones at the end of the week .. because it's the same thing with the masks.
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  3732. And for all the Republican know-nothings who whine that the vaccines aren't perfect .. even though seat belts are only 45% effective at preventing auto accident death (50% effective at preventing serious injury from auto accident), the laws of Nebraska require them for the driver and all children under 18.
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  3733. Has everyone seen this video? Classic German humor for America in these dire straits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY&ab_channel=ZDFMAGAZINROYALE
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  3734.  @PATMCKEON007  Healthcare plan and infrastructure plan.
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  3735. He's a slow learner, so hopefully there will be plenty more chances for patriots to let him know how they feel. Someone needs to infiltrate Swamp-A-Lago and spray paint "LOCK HIM UP" everywhere BTW.
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  3736.  @thechancellor3715 Also the resource base of the USSR (from which people and materials could be drawn) was quite a bit larger than what Russia is today. Plus a truly astounding amount of material aid they received from America during WW2.
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  3737. Relax everybody. Trump said this a hoax and it will probably just go away on its own. And keep going to the rallies!
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  3738. Yet, somehow, having complete disdain for the rule of law somehow makes him the darling of the "law and order party"?
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  3739.  @phildavenport4150  Unfortunately, it is all too likely that 45 would incite his followers to a final wave of violence before exiting the scene. He is very much the kind who would burn it all down if he cannot have it.
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  3740. I like to look at the sheep, and, in the tone used to say, "We are all Negan", instead say, "We are all Brandon".
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  3741. To this day, no one has found the yellowcake or the WMD's or the mobile WMD labs that were given as the putative reasons for attacking Iraq. These bozos are working off the same script that McNamara wrote :(
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  3742. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Mike Lindell has got a bad case of it.
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  3743. The crazy is strong in America :(
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  3744. It's a shame that no one stood up and told Trump he's a horrible human being and a terrible president.
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  3745. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  3746. Time for 6+ enterprising citizens to dogpile and detain one of these goons. Don't hurt them, but disarm them and maybe drop them off at the state line. Trump's goons are not welcome in Oregon.
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  3747.  @truthhurtshuh5443  She's a good example of why friends don't let friends go off their meds and then down the rabbit hole of alt-reich misinformation.
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  3748. The guillotine doesn't care about his littleboy feelings.
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  3749. "Pro-life" is at best an Orwellian term for those people. More like anti-woman if she's not rich. Otherwise Texas would have excellent support for mothers and children.
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  3750.  @farnorth13  Looks like the Q-Anonsense nutters just showed up, when that's what they say. Followers of Sweet Potato Hitler.
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  3751.  @caronstout354  Or when that wannabe crimelord is shuffling around wearing tiny handcuffs.
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  3752. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had.
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  3753.  @cathichristian4142  Unfortunately :( Delta is nothing like last year's covid. This one kills regardless of age. I'm just sorry for all the people who are part of the collateral damage as all the anti-mask anti-vax people get their turn to learn that covid really is real after all.
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  3754.  @NotShowingOff  When care is getting rationed out, and some folks are sent home to die, just remember all those fools who refused to mask, and who discouraged others from masking, distancing, staying safe. This is on them.
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  3755. He probably had a weapon stashed somewhere - in case he had to play a role in the execution of the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th in line of succession, or to help overcome their security details. That's what he was ready for. Not just being safer while the mob raged.
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  3756. That crazy old fat lady who was bitching about her roots? Someone needs to tell her not to worry - the undertaker will fix that with some spray paint.
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  3757. Even better, let's see how it works out for Russia to keep losing $2,000,000+ combat vehicles to $50,000 drones. So far they are very slow learners.
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  3758. To be fair, Trump never tried to lead. He only wanted to rule.
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  3759.  @tonipolkki4728  Ukraine made the Nazis bleed very hard. They know how to do this.
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  3760. For many years, the phrase "Napoleon complex" has been used to describe a short man who over-compensates by excessive and unnecessary aggression towards others. In the future, this may be renamed the Putin Complex.
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  3761. Give Putler credit, he finally realized that when former SSR's become democratic & pleasant places to live, it makes Russia's status as hellhole dictatorship all the more obvious to Russians. Must. Hide. That.
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  3762. I'm not looking forward to the months (and maybe years) of explaining to former Trumpanzees that when they try to run a campaign bus off the road (or kidnap the governor and execute her) they've gone way beyond needing to take all the civics classes again - they're more like religious jihadists. Y'all Qaida. It may prove necessary to export them, or put them through some intense therapy.
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  3763. You can tell what he is by his effect on his followers - he consistently brings out the worst in them.
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  3764. This is going to be even harsher than the Tim Hortons vs Dunkin Donuts wars from a couple years ago 😅
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  3765. This "plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Code name "Lebensraum"
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  3766. I can't wait for the t-shirt that has a picture of her with the caption underneath saying "I moved on him like a bitch" heh.
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  3767. January 6th shall be known as Insurrection Day, when a bunch of easily-propagandized idiots came to DC, stabbed America in the back, committed various crimes, posted a lot of it to social media, then went home as if they'd done nothing wrong. Watching the FBI swoop down on them has been more rewarding than I had expected.
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  3768.  @homomorphic  Preach it! My worst fear right now is that an apparently asymptomatic person, perhaps by trying to maintain a low profile or perhaps by smuggling or human trafficking, is going to travel to places like Hyderabad - places with a lot of poor people living together, people with little or no access to healthcare. The cost of not complying with quarantine is ultimately horrendous.
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  3769. Face it: Former Guy would only be too happy to plunge the nation into chaos, bloodshed, mass death, political ruination. He's the kind who would happily burn down someone else's home just to have a fire to roast marshmallows on. He cares about nothing other than his whim of the moment, and, to him, everyone and everything is just so much gasoline to throw on the bonfire of his vanity.
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  3770. That's "minority leader McConnell" .. has a nice ring to it.
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  3771.  @michaeljohnangel6359  Feels like living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Oh, and all the 45 culties fly the flag upside-down to show how they live in the Upside Down :(
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  3772. @Random User Re "Anti-science? Like what?" << Oh no, buddy, let's see YOU prove that covid is the myth you lamebrained parrots imagine it to be. I'm not against throwing you in the trunk of a car and driving it to the nearest viral hotspot just to rub your nose in it -- for all I can tell, that's the only way your kind learns anything at all. It's reminiscent of the way they train puppies not to poop in the house, and it's a fitting method for one whose mind is about is "mature" (if that word even applies here) as a puppy.
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  3773. Thankfully for the nation, they are very slow learners. Their fragmented party is a net plus to the future of America.
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  3774. Why yes - that gives him a Reischtag fire type pretext to do other things.
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  3775. @Atlas Commercial Bingo. Trump has absolutely gutted America's "soft power". Much of what we used to think of as our pre-2016 "prosperity" depended on the rest of the world seeing us as a guarantor of peace, a reliable ally, the stewards of a global trading currency, the standard-bearer of democracy, and so on. Trump trashed all that. The whole world now knows that we're never more than 1 election away from having a crooked senate leader working in tandem with a crooked president to gum up the workings of democracy.
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  3776. Anything but that! Sadly, most of the anti-vaxx misinformation in America comes from a relatively few people who are themselves vaccinated.
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  3777. Those who can be made to believe absurdities can also be made to commit atrocities.
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  3778.  @Meop79  What he said about the tests being available (and "beautiful") fits in with much of what he's said under duress: 1. ⁠He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Tяump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.” 2. ⁠He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect. 3. ⁠He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole. 4. ⁠He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized. 5. ⁠He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful,” including “insurance for everybody.” You bought it. But he didn’t repeal and he didn’t replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 24 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, he’s doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about 4 million Americans have lost health insurance in the last two years. 6. ⁠He told you he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You bought it. But now he’s planning such cuts in order to deal with the ballooning deficit created, in part, by the new tax law for corporations and the rich. 7. ⁠He promised to protect anyone with pre-existing conditions. You bought it. But in June, his Justice Department told a federal court it would no longer defend provisions of Obamacare that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the decision was made with Tяump’s approval. 8. ⁠He said he’d build a “wall” across the southern border.You believed him. But there’s no wall. 9. ⁠He told you he’d invest $1 trillion in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, there’s no money left for infrastructure. 10. ⁠He said he’d drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 11. ⁠He promised to re-institute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government.” You bought it. But the five-year ban he signed applies only to lobbying one’s former agency, not the government as a whole, and it doesn’t stop former officials from becoming lobbyists. 12. ⁠He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he has created the most dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, and has already fired and replaced so many assistants that people there barely know who’s in charge of what. 13. ⁠He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by negotiating “like crazy” with drug companies. You bought it. But he hasn’t. 14. ⁠He told you he’d “stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for American elections.” You bought it. But foreign lobbyists are still raising money for American elections. 15. ⁠He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.” You bought it. But the giant tax cut for corporations and the rich doesn’t leave any money for this. 16. ⁠He said he’d create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for younger and elderly dependents, and have the government match contributions low-income families put into their savings accounts. You bought it. He’s done neither. 17. ⁠He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. But then he declared China is not a currency manipulator. 18. ⁠He said he “won’t bomb Syria.” You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 19. ⁠After pulling out of the Paris accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment. You bought it. There have been no negotiations. 20. ⁠He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.” You bought it. He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out. 21. ⁠He said he would not be a president who took vacations, and criticized Barack Obama for taking too many vacations. You bought it. But since becoming President, he has spent a quarter of his days at one of his golf properties. 22. ⁠He vowed to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” You believed him. But he hasn’t. Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit college to defraud students. 23. ⁠He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad, especially government contractors. You believed him. Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas. There have been no consequences. 24. ⁠He promised to end DACA. Then in January 2018 promised that “DACA recipients should not to be concerned… We’re going to solve the problem,” then he reversed himself again and vowed to end the program by March, 2018. Currently, the federal courts have stayed any action on it. 25. ⁠He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. You bought it. But coal is still losing customers as utilities turn to natural gas and renewable power. 26. ⁠He promised to protect American steel jobs. You bought it. His tariffs on steel have protected some steel jobs. But industries that use steel – like automakers and construction – now have to pay more for the steel they use, with the result that their jobs are threatened. The Trade Partnership projects that 400,000 jobs will be lost among steel and aluminum users. 27. ⁠He said he’d make America safer. You believed him. But mass shootings keep rising, and Tяump has failed to pass effective gun control legislation. After 17 died in Parkland, Florida, Tяump promised “immediate action” on gun safety in schools, but has done nothing. 28. ⁠He promised to make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. You bought it. But Tяump’s most recent budget contains deep cuts in aid for low-income and first-generation college students, reduces Federal Work Study, and eliminates the 50-year-old Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, which goes to more than a million poor college kids each year. 29. ⁠He promised to eliminate the federal deficit and bring down the debt. You bought it. Yet due to his massive tax cut mostly for corporations and the rich, and his military spending, the deficit is set to rise to $1 trillion, and the debt has ballooned to more than $21 trillion. 30. ⁠He said he’d release his taxes. “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released,” he promised during the campaign. You bought it. He still hasn’t released his taxes.
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  3779. I'm glad he wants to resume his "briefings". Every time he opens his pie hole, out come the strangest things about windmills causing cancer, disinfectants being injected into people, Obama cutting off funding for covid testing, and more. Al Sharpton would win an election against Trump at this point.
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  3780.  @EvoraGT430 Correct. Information of such a nature that it will automatically shave 10%+ off the number of people who'd still vote for 45.
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  3781. I'm sorry, but who (if anyone) could watch half an hour of Trump's rally fodder material and NOT be convinced that his administration would end badly for everyone? You'd have to be blind.
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  3782. With the previous shooting, it was less than 24 hours before he was hawking assassination attempt sneakers. There's money to be made off them thar rubes.
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  3783. Not working out well for him in Portland .. we're putting 20x as many people on the streets as before now. The federal goons are hiding out in the courthouse. When they go home, I hope they take the time to reflect on their role as Trump's good little goose-steppers.
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  3784.  @jenkem4464  Bingo. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get. Speaking of that treatment .. notice how Trump extended it to Rudy but not to Herman Cain?
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  3785. Been doing it since Dr Campbell mentioned it months ago. Heck, I've been checking temperature and o2 every day since late January.
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  3786. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  3787. Unfortunately for America, public compliance with healthcare measures is too low (and this disease is too communicable) to continue doing masks/distancing/hygiene on the honor system. The wild spread of the pandemic is telling us how bad compliance has been :(
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  3788. It doesn't help that our Mango Mussolini has at least 3 personalities. One is the responsible one, seldom seen, when the staff forces him to read from the teleprompter and he's obviously sulking about being forced to sound responsible. Another is the nonsense he says on FOXed Noise. Yet another is the different nonsense he says on Twitter. Occasionally two of those personalities will agree with each other. So when you encounter people partying like it's 1999, and they screech that it's not even as bad as the regular flu, and they go on to screech that you're a libtard sheeple too, you know where it's coming from.
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  3789. (fantastic handle BTW) No, it is too early to ask that to Meadows. Ask him in 10 years. By then the full weight of what he did will have been pressing on him long enough to help him appreciate it.
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  3790. "Can identify everything airborne within 600 km"? F22 has entered the chat ;)
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  3791.  Stay Tuned for an important message  Or masks. Right when the new variant covid is spreading. Guessing St Darwin will be sending out more than a few awards.
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  3792. 45 isn't fit to be the dog catcher, let alone the president.
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  3793. It's not "hitting back". It's a just a "special navigation exercise". All good. We know from their actions that Russia is perfectly fine with military units crossing the Russia-Ukraine border.
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  3794. For a couple weeks, our lying moron president has been claiming that everyone could get tested, that we've got millions of tests, that they're "beautiful", that he knows more than all the doctors. He will long be remembered for his happy-talk lies and failure to take responsibility. Hope you are feeling better soon Brett!
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  3795. Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes!”
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  3796. Au contraire; it matters a great deal who gets the white house. Bunker Bitch is only getting crazier by the day. His own party is peeling away from him.
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  3797. Rest assured, the people who made that statement all earn much much more than the $231.94/week level that they say is the poverty line.
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  3798. Prediction: within less than a week, anti-Trump t-shirts & stickers featuring the upside down red triangle will be selling hotly on Amazon, eBay, and everywhere else.
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  3799. Knowing the way comrade Tяump operates in cahoots with Moscow Mitch, it sounds like they're gearing up to either delay the 2020 elections (which would turn into an indefinite delay) or to discount the results, all on the excuse that they're already testing now, namely, that the election results are supposedly biased because of the supposedly illegal impeachment effort.
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  3800. And, after hours of being away from cameras, he goes toward them on the way out of court (like a crackhead going for a $20 bill blowing across the sidewalk) and incriminates himself.
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  3801. Ironically, all the gun-waving "2A is the solution to government overreach" types who spent 8 years screeching about "dictator Obama", wearing camo, stocking up on ammo, etc won't have a single bad thing to say when someone from the same ethnographic segment as them genuinely seizes power and disregards the rule of law. By threatening violence if an obvious traitor is removed from power, that segment is proving worse than useless just now. If they try anything, make sure they have their day - in court.
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  3802. Coming from the guy who actually tried to rig the last one, that's kind of funny. Not in a good way :(
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  3803. When 8 GQP politicians celebrated July 4th 2018 in Moscow, that told you everything you need to know about them. Obviously they asked Putin for, or Putin offered, or both, hints on how to rule America from a minority position. Undermining elections, attacking journalists, making life rougher for minorities, rigging future elections, pursuing court cases against your political opposites, those are the things Putin recommended. And Russia probably has tape of the dialog.
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  3804.  @djsaoirse1981  Russians are being kicked out of Ukraine as we speak. How about we revisit this topic in six months?
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  3805. It's almost as good as accidentally dropping your prison-issued photo ID at the first crime you commit after release.
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  3806.  @richardduplessis1090  I'm sorry, but who appointed you Seer of the Future? Russia has no upside in going nuclear. In addition to their country being turned into a glassed, radioactive ashtray, they'd be the pariahs of the world for all time to come. To summarize the summary - you're being bluffed.
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  3807. Trump probably make's God's head hurt, I think that's what he meant to say.
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  3808.  @sndspderbytes  Also, the market needs to roll out "rape insurance" plans to cover Texas women or in fact any women who come to Texas. This insurance would need to cover court costs, hospitalization costs, plus the unexpected 6+ figure costs of raising a rape baby.
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  3809.  @cindycraddock3160  Thanks to Trump's shenanigans, more people vote Blue these days anyway. Go Georgia!! :)
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  3810. Another form of paradise they might feel is pushing up sunflowers in the afterlife.
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  3811. After a run-in last week with one of those anti-mask whackjobs (she insisted she was exempt, then went on to claim it's "smart" not to wear one) I'm shopping for another supermarket. One that will kick out folks who refuse to mask up.
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  3812. Those radical Trumpers who attend his rallies will never hear how Trump axed the programs they depend upon. Instead, Hannity will do a show explaining how Obama did that, and they will lap it up like the good little mushroom people they are.
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  3813.  @EdU-od5ec  To add to fuel to the fire - the USA still has not put any internal travel restrictions into place. So a family from Westchester County, NY, can pack their stuff into a car and drive to a low-covid19 state (like Maine) to ride it out. Chances are, some viral hitchhiker will come along with them. People can still from from New Orleans to wherever.
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  3814. He said it, then he did it: "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  3815.  @blackceasar2141  His "care" about anything is limited to how much money it costs his family or how it impacts his chances of being re-eloected. Beyond those two aspects, he cares nothing for people, the law, whatever. As the Mooch said, he doesn't see people as people, he sees them only as objects in hi9s field of vision. A true sociopath.
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  3816. Same nonsense as happened to Paul Ryan, and before him, John Boehner. As long as the soul of their party is owned by the nuttiest of the extremists, nothing is crazy enough to please them.
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  3817. Folks in charge: We can trust computers to do everything. Skynet: hold my beer
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  3818.  @elmersglue6259  She had secret service protection for her business trips abroad. too :(
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  3819.  @JamieGuzmam  You sound like you need to celebrate Trump's accomplishments: Added more to the national debt in four years than any president in history. Raised the debt ceiling 3x in just his first term. Gave the biggest tax cuts ever to the people who own multiple jets, yachts, and houses in different countries.
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  3820.  @susan9188  Correct. It is no more difficult for this virus to spread in dense apartment buildings than it was aboard the Diamond Princess, where people were locked into their cabins for almost a month and the virus still spread throughout the ship.
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  3821.  @antondovydaitis2261  Actually it's pretty good praise as these things go.
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  3822.  @pdoylemi  Thankfully, there is a lot of America that is not part of Cult45. More than enough to suppress the nutters, should they insist on getting out of hand. Given that they're trying to plunge the nation into some kind of unconstitutional tyranny, it's a good thing we have our 2A rights to prevent that exact thing.
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  3823. That ought to be funny, since the 14th amendment doesn't mention any such thing.
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  3824. My thoughts too. Even at the hotter parts of the Cold War, they weren't probing our defenses so much in such a short time. Ivan invades airspace often enough, but this appears to be something new. Let's hope there isn't any reconstituted Axis alliance (Russia, China, NK, Iran) doing this.
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  3825.  @stantory1822  Sure, sure, Ivan, everyone in the former SSR's really misses having the Russian boot pressed on their neck. Must be why they all want to join NATO, hmm?
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  3826. @Richard Pierpoint Watching Mr Neil wipe the floor with that idiot is great humor.
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  3827. Putin is grateful to Trump and Fox for their work to make it so.
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  3828. CyberDummies was not hired to find vote fraud. Obviously they can't find their own asses with both hands on a clear day. They were hired only to shed doubt on the election results .. and Clump would do the rest. So they need to keep their doubt operation running, even though it hasn't found anything and obviously never will.
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  3829. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol definitely took the hint. While still pregnant with her second out-of-wedlock rugrat, she was raking in 6-digit money making college speeches on the virtue of abstinence.
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  3830.  @alexmipego  Trump is so obviously guilty, and so afraid of evidence getting out, that this is sort of like letting OJ keep the bloody gloves in his safe while he gets at most a parking ticket for the murder gig. Sorry, that dumb fcker needs to face the music.
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  3831.  @Happycat8385  Wealthy donors have dollars - lots of them. Ordinary citizens have only their votes. Until we undo Citizen$ United, and get private money out of politics, don't look for that to change.
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  3832. They will make super fine allies and NATO partners someday. One hopes they may someday be a regional superpower like Germany. And, probably, the USA will be able to lease space for an air base there.
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  3833. It's not a very good act. I'd give it a 0 out of 10. Total loser.
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  3834. Crazy lady, don't worry about your roots .. the undertaker will fix that with some spray paint.
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  3835. Betcha his expenses look a lot like Clarence Thomas' ones .. someone else pays the bills.
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  3836. And for anyone old enough to remember it, Reagan established the "office of domestic diplomacy" .. think about that one.
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  3837. @Econ Lessons - have you ever read the book "Ecocide in the USSR"? The Soviets very much abused and polluted their own environment, to the extent where (by the time of the conflict in Afghanistan) they were having trouble fulfilling quotas of healthy young males for military recruitment. Also there is the matter of how they place their industrial facilities. Here in the west we [mostly] use zoning to separate residential and industrial areas, but in the USSR they would place everything together, so that, for example, there would be neighborhoods and schools right next to a factory belching green smoke into the sky at all hours. Living like that, the thought of drinking less vodka probably seemed like a waste of good self-control.
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  3838. Republicans are showing that it's difficult to follow the law when you're carrying out a lawless coup to seize power. Time to build some big beautiful new jails for all the conservatives that need to be indicted for sedition and treason.
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  3839. They haven't claimed to be that in awhile, not since Trump added $8 trillion to the debt.
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  3840. "Learning things too late" is a problem common to folks who've been rudely removed from the deep rabbit holes where they've been comfortably dwelling for years. Also common to useful idiots (like the low-IQ DC insurrectionists) and people who'd been wilfully deluding themselves (like Steve Daines and James Lankford) over the ultimate aims of the person they'd been carrying water for.
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  3841. Face it, the class similarities between Bloomberg & Trump are a lot stronger than their respective political differences.
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  3842. It's going to get worse before it gets better. The Texas commisars are vowing not to retreat a single step on the economy, even if it means killing off the workforce. It's a high price to pay for not offending Trump, sure, but the governor is willing to pay it.
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  3843. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  3844. Gonna be more tank losses in a month or two .. Leopards and Abrams are extremely hungry in the springtime.
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  3845. The Republicans want to flip the calendar back to 1950, of course, when Blacks were silent, women didn't get abortions, and no one ever heard of solar cells. Unfortunately for everyone, this is cargo-cult thinking. Just making it harder for renewable energy and easier for dirty energy doesn't reverse the progress of time. Heck, coal plants are still closing under Trump. It's as if he was dedicated to keeping the buggywhip industries in business.
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  3846. He's a billionaire only in terms of liabilities (such as debts) .. in terms of assets (such as money, holdings, savings) he's more like a thousandaire.
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  3847. Is OK for him to think he's the victim. When he's forced to come to the negotiating table to beg for peace.
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  3848. Are there no adults in San Diego to explain to these deluded whacktards that there's a very serious public health emergency these days? In lieu of that, I hope the authorities throw the book at them. Maximum possible penalty for public endangerment. If they deliberately spit at or cough on anyone, add bioterrorism to the charges. Sheesh.
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  3849. Take a good look at what Trump's fans in America are like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCceuioSfQ
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  3850. I still want to see all the SS chatter from the day of the insurrection. Did Trump have a team of them looking for VP Mike that day? I do believe Mike's fear for his life that day was not at all figurative but literal.
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  3851. @Jay Khan Those are the same ones who like to fall asleep smoking in bed, and get mad at you for pointing out the risk of dying in their own burning houses. You can't fix stupid, but you can attend its funeral.
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  3852. When Hitler knew the end of his time was approaching, he ordered everything destroyed in Germany - seed corn, food stores, buildings, all civic infrastructure, all crops, livestock, medicines, hospitals, etc. Trump obviously wants to leave Rome burning when he struts out.
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  3853. Haven't seen much of Sidney Powell lately. Like an imaginary kraken, she's somewhere out there.
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  3854.  @Riqrob  LOL at "look it up" coming from someone who probably watches nothing but FOXed Noise. The reason schools were closed was because children make excellent disease carriers and go on to infect their parents and grandparents etc. https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/more-young-people-are-dying-from-covid-19-in-florida/
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  3855. Dear god, that row of identical shacks just hammers home the point that the whole neighborhood is just a people farm :(
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  3856. About Republican voters .. as the saying goes, the forest kept getting smaller every year, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, convinced that it must be one of them because its handle was made of wood. They got behind a rich guy who does to them precisely what they complain about the elites doing to them - shipping jobs overseas, stiffing small businesses, and not paying his share of taxes.
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  3857. No matter how high the pile is of people who Trump has f*cked and chucked, he seems to have an unlimited supply of fools waiting to take their turn getting f*cked over for him. Wtf?
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  3858.  @TeeAnn  I've been wondering how we can placate them starting late January 2021. Obviously they have a lot of pent-up hostility & anger, and they respond well to stupid propaganda that's aimed at the double-digit-IQ set. I'm thinking outdoors conservation projects, living in barracks, working under the sun, and kept away from the propaganda. That might help some of them wake up.
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  3859. When Trump tells that fable about the serpent to his rally-goers .. he's talking about himself, as usual. His people just like the story because it reminds them of the movie "Anaconda".
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  3860. For Putin, maybe. For America and Americans, definitely not. For our soon to be former allies and former trading partners, also definitely not.
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  3861. Welcome to America, where we have no effective federal guidance to stop the spread of covid, but also where we have no effective relief for all the people affected by covid or by the economic effects of the pandemic, so we're going to see A) continued massive spread of the disease and B) Great Depression levels of economic malaise. Thanks Trump :(
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  3862. Honestly, US democracy is like a version 0.9.x type. It hasn't been structurally updated (much) since the days when couriers on horseback delivered ballots to the Capitol. We need modern upgrades such as snap elections .. votes of no confidence .. ranked choice voting .. making it an automatic right for citizens 18+, not something you have to jump through hoops to get .. separating the roles of president and prime minister .. 100% public funding of all election ads, no private money allowed .. and much more.
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  3863. The crazy bird flu will spread north, sorry.
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  3864. The difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the golf pro doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it.
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  3865. This happens when non-scientific politicians try to weigh in on stuff they know nothing about.
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  3866. Where do you live? (I'm jealous, if the people there are that sensible) Where I live, every unvaccinated knob/tool/fool in the phone book is out there without any mask, walking into stores through the exits (to show they're not "sheeple") and generally comporting themselves as the most uncaring assholes.
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  3867. Fever dreams, and doctored laptops from Ukraine, are virtually all that Team DOTUS has got left.
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  3868. It's coming. If the Republicans make sure impeachment is dead on arrival in the senate, things are going to get pretty ugly. Fast-rising public sentiment against the president's crimes (which will only increase as more evidence is brought to light) isn't something you can just switch off. This is like watching a reactor overheat :(
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  3869.  @jocelynstuff1947  Unfortunately covid19 is quite a bit more communicable than the common seasonal flu, which is why the ratio of cases between the two is running 10:1 or higher. And the matter of everyone wearing masks has cut down quite a bit on the spread of common colds and the common seasonal flu. We should do the masks thing every year.
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  3870. FOXed Noise too has got to keep white people afraid and cowering in their homes, venturing outside only to point guns as protesters walking by.
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  3871. Is mayor Wheeler only now understanding that the downtown area could suffer disinvestment due to these problems?
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  3872.  @bradencampbell464  That does make sense!
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  3873. This is like the clown car that runs into a dumpster fire 😅
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  3874. .. while ceasing their purchases of T-bills while slowly beginning to liquidate their holdings of the same. Now if only Canada and Japan can do the same thing in roughly the same time window ..
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  3875. And even if he is defeated soundly at the ballot box, his followers aren't going to suddenly stop criming on his behalf :(
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  3876. Trump's people satirize themselves far better than anyone else could 😅
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  3877. Zelinskyy may have an accent, but he speaks far better english than Trump does.
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  3878. The US has tested around 1 million of its 327 million people .. approx 0.3%. Meanwhile, Germany tests 600,000 per week. All of our models must be WAY off. That 0.3% is not a big enough sample to figure out what the actual infection rate is. Guessing low 7 digits :(
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  3879. Any current or former military or police who took part in this need to lose their rank, benefits, pension, honors, everything. A simpleton told them lies, which they swallowed hook line and sinker like Charles Manson's followers, and committed treason.
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  3880. That's a society that hasn't changed much in the last few hundred years. They were dragged, kicking and screaming, into industrialization, but the serf mentality is little changed from centuries ago.
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  3881. We don't know if those secret police are even Americans. Consider how they obviously didn't recognize the questions or service badges of that Navy combat veteran, before beating him. Quite possibly they're on loan from Putin or Eric Prince.
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  3882. Just wait until the whining a year from now. Won't be enough cheese for that one.
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  3883. It's the Republican way. Abuse America so that the Democrats have a harder time fixing things.
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  3884. The Republicans were a lot angrier at president Obama for wearing a tan suit and using mustard than they are now over Trump suggesting using military force to redo an election on American soil.
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  3885. Another few who can provide interesting windows into how real Russians live and think are Vasya in the Hay and 1420 by Daniil Orain.
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  3886. @Cassandra Help of a different kind is on the way. The senate just approved Lend-Lease. Gonna be a whole nother game when Ukraine gets F15s/F16s, long range guided artillery, etc.
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  3887. About Roseburg .. did anyone tell those fine people that there's an especially virulent virus going around right now, with a long incubation period and asymptomatic spreaders? That it spreads primarily through human contact, breathing the same air, etc? When they're turning blue and hacking up their lungs, will they remember that video? (probably not)
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  3888. Those who ignore public health warnings during a pandemic usually end up in a mass grave somewhere. Nature's way of weeding out the stupids, apparently.
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  3889. Remember how Tяump once altered a temporary weather forecast to "prove" that the hurricane was going some direction that it wasn't? And then threatened NOAA to go along with his lie? It is no surprise that there were no specific targets, no specific timelines, and no specific actionable intelligence. THEY LIED. This was a murder/assassination on international scale.
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  3890. Russia has a very poor track record when it comes to rebuilding. Look at the conditions that prevailed in eastern Europe in the early 90s when the Red tide receded. In many places, it still looked like WW2 finished only last year. They consistently impoverish their supply provinces, and their own rural areas aren't much better off either.
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  3891. The US is having problems right now with the whole concept of mask wearing. Heck, in some places where rural law enforcement doesn't like the political affiliation of the governor, they are selectively not enforcing the laws designed to curb the spread of covid. And some of the weaker-minded citizens consider it an affront to their "freedumbs" to be told to wear a mask -- basically the same people who whine about the seat belt laws that save their lives.
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  3892. Well, if it's any consolation, the crazy spell works only people with a certain sort of mental or emotional defect, or people who, at adult age, are somehow wholly unfamiliar with narcissistic sociopaths.
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  3893. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.” -- Mitt Romney, 1/6/21
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  3894. He will come to realize later what a mistake it was not to pardon his own family or the insurrectionists. SDNY prosecutors are off the leash now.
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  3895.  @IanMicheal  Yah. First time in my life I've ever voted a straight blue ticket. Usually they're too centrist for my taste, but this time we had a duty to get behind the candidate most likely to get the orange stain scrubbed from American life.
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  3896. Even worse, in their eyes Clinton had lied about an affair and that was impeachable conduct. Agent Orange already lied about the Stormy Daniels thing, and got caught at it, but Republicans are all fine with that somehow. Here's what Miss Lindsay Graham said about impeachment back in 1999: “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
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  3897.  @godfreydaniel6278  I live in Portland and have been shooting video there all summer. Aside from a few buildings and a few more homeless people and a few missing statues, it looks exactly like it did in the summer of 2019, maybe with a little more road work going on right now. Not a single building has been burnt to the ground for political protest.
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  3898. What is Trump worried about anyway? Who else remembers his 2018 claim that he has the right to pardon himself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  3899.  @thomasdeturk5142  And this is why friends don't let friends take Fox / OAN / Qanon seriously. At best it's rhetorical hyperbole.
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  3900. The orange due will someday share a cell with his peers - fellow criminals. But yes, he doesn't belong in the same room as the others.
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  3901.  Kelly Johnson  It's appalling how many Americans are divorced from reality in that sense. As I have had to remind many of them, the same American prosperity that has nurtured and protected them all these years (life here is better than in some other places I could name) is precisely what Trump has been demolishing, while the fools cheer him on. The net results of him trashing our allies, ignoring the treaties we've signed, toadying up to dictators, and withdrawing from world affairs will all be a uniform downgrade to the prosperity of all Americans. Who'll want to enter into treaties or trade negotiations with us, knowing full well that at any time we could select an even worse fool to trash the agreements we just signed? Who will want us in their trading blocs? Who will want to use the US dollar as a global currency for international trade? Who will want to lease us military bases? Over the next 30 years, Americans will get a harsh lesson in how far downhill Trump rolled things in a short time.
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  3902. Perhaps tomorrow, Lev Parnas will throw a little sauce on the party by releasing an even juicier recording of another Trump dinner meeting? Just in time for the decision on witnesses of course ;)
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  3903. Awesome. He's a keeper! :)
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  3904. Smiling on his ideological heir, Stephen Miller, too.
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  3905. NPR radio had an article about the beaches opening in Alabama, and how the parking lots are crowded with out-of-state tags, some from faraway hotspots like Michigan or New York or New Jersey. Oy :(
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  3906. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  3907. Let's not say it like it's a bad thing if conservatives decide to Rapture themselves with the Delta variant.
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  3908. That's just for this set of crimes. The sentences for his Espionage Act violations could be substantially longer.
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  3909. Chump is the one shrieking that he alone can pilot the Titanic, and that any talk of icebergs is fake news. Even as people are escaping in lifeboats, Chump's people stand on the sinking deck and yell things at the lifeboat escapees like "Stop living your lives in fear! DO YuOR ReSEARcH!! Sheeple!!"
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  3910. Back in 1945, patriotic Italians didn't want until the next election to show Mussolini how they felt about him .. just saying.
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  3911. Some white people are pretty strange .. despite being 60% of America's population, and holding 85% of America's wealth, and taking 95% of the nation's CEO seats, some still think of themselves as a poor, persecuted, much-repressed minority.
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  3912. He couldn't answer any questions. What a weak tool.
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  3913. Speaking of that dang bridge -- May 9th is coming up, and we know that's an important Soviet military holiday.
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  3914. The Republicans have had years to call out Trump on his racism and lies, but, like the people standing behind and around him, all they give him is their silent assent and their obedience. They will have much to answer for later, all of them.
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  3915. Those people were bad enough when it was "merely" FOXed Noise & Glenn Beck feeding nonsense to them. Now, with Trump (aka the Rat Whisperer) tailoring the nonsense to their predictable responses, you've got a 30% share of the country that's plain batsh*t crazy. What do we do with those people?
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  3916. Testing rates have been pushed down in an attempt to manipulate the narrative. As we know from other places around the world, covid doesn't simply go away because it got tired of spreading or needs a vacation. So here in the US we'll only know it by its trailing indicators, hospitalizations and deaths, while it spreads across our nation. Thanks, Trump :(
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  3917. Yeah. He's about as much a fact source as Diamond & Silk.
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  3918. Because that would mean saying something remotely good about that secret Muslim from Kenya with a tribal mentality and a socialist agenda, the one who had his birth certificate questioned constantly and who KKKonservatives repeatedly hung in effigy while calling his wife a gorilla in heels. Can't do that.
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  3919.  @trappedinamerica7740  He pushes the "feelgoodhate" buttons on certain kinds of people. Doesn't work on most of us.
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  3920. Portland 1, Trump goons 0. The Brownshirts haven't had good luck anywhere.
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  3921. Why yes. Those nutballs are also trying to spread a disease that's so far killed more Americans than WW2 did. Who knew we had this many Quislings among us.
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  3922. Best description I saw of them was someone comparing their appearance to Halloween party night at the asylum.
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  3923. FOXed Noise does for Trump what Goebbels' operation used to do for Hitler.
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  3924. No, it's you who are wrong. 99.95% of the covid deaths are the unvaccinated. But that doesn't line up with your propaganda, does it.
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  3925. Well, they would have had to, since no expert mathematician or election expert would repeat their nonsense.
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  3926. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose. That's why they ignore subpoenas and do a lot worse.
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  3927. It's good for his brain-dead sheeple to find out for themselves how little he cares for them.
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  3928. The only good Republicans are doing these days is making sure they go extinct over the next couple of elections. And that's a good thing.
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  3929. @Mainely He neglected the "when" as well as the "how" - guess that's why he's sending more US troops over there.
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  3930. His whole tacticool outfit was expensive stuff. As if the Mercers gave out Cabelas gift cards to the rubes likely to commit insurrection.
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  3931.  @sharonbarton1888  One can only hope. Even during Clump's time, coal-fired plants were closing, on their own, all because they are not competitive with alternatives. I hope that trend continues hard.
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  3932.  @fucker1714  That's most easily accomplished in prisons, of course ;)
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  3933. America is the place where the same scene has been happening for well over a century: At a meeting of all the workers, there are 20 pizzas on a big table on stage. The CEO walks in and takes 19 of the pizzas. On the way out, he tells the workers to watch out for that union rep who's trying to steal their pizza.
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  3934. They run a very brief disclaimer (one frame, very small print) at the end of most of their programs, explaining that it's entertainment and not news.
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  3935. He imagines he's under attack from those same dead people and teen girls. He's tapped into the persecution complex that many of his fans harbor.
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  3936. It's not "great risk", it's more like "certain death for many". Even with the incomplete pooch-screw level of testing done here in the United States, we're still showing above 10,000 new cases per day. Roughly 2 weeks from now we'll be looking at death rates above 500 people per day because of this.
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  3937. Been talking with a couple radical Trumpers who vow destruction of America if they don't get their minority way. They seem like the kind of meth-head roommates who would rather shoot the TV than let anyone else take their turn with the remote. Vote all blue in November. Make the GOP extinct.
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  3938. When is the runoff election? Look at all those idiots without masks. By January 5th, a lot of them will be on ventilators or pushing up daisies. I feel sorry for their kids. This is nature's way of letting the trash take itself out.
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  3939.  @ruthcox104  Yah :( and let's be clear, forcing a child rape victim to bear to term (which will harm her permanently, she's nowhere near adult yet) is doctor Mengele level abuse.
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  3940. @Hughe Sure, sure, pay no attention to the way Putin carved off Donbass and the Crimean Peninsula. How dare those victims defend themselves.
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  3941. You can tell the presence of a cult leader by his effect on the gullible ones.
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  3942. Trying to defend the indefensible will do that to anyone. Minus the eye shape thing.
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  3943. Those things hold a special place in his mind .. sort of like the way spiders think of the vacuum cleaner.
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  3944. Being a whacko liar has worked for him for many decades .. and suddenly it's not working.
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  3945. I've had to quit all of my former lines of work and find something safer. Sheesh. Never planned for a day when the mere act of going to work could in itself be deadly to me or family members.
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  3946. That would explain why that 20% radical Trumper segment adores him. You know, the ones who didn't want any evidence at the senate trial. The ones who say they want a dictator. The ones who would rather have a civil war than let go of the remote.
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  3947.  Timothy McCaskey  Pretty sure Trump brags in private about how he made them roll over and beg just like puppies.
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  3948. We got so lucky that Trump was so inept. The damage he did slowly is being reversed more quickly. Notice how the reich-wingers totally blew their chances to install (during the 2017-2018 session, when they held all three branches of government) the sort of voting restrictions that Georgia just put through. Had they done that we probably wouldn't be having this conversation :(
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  3949. Trusting a Trump-aligned conservative to respond to logic or to follow the law is a lot like trusting a corpse to respond to medicine or laws. Just shovel them into a hole and leave some thoughts & prayers.
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  3950.  @slightlyconfused876  Let me clarify (coffee is still kicking in) .. relatives are defined by blood. Family are defined by love and loyalty. Does that help? Sometimes your family are not the people you were born to.
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  3951. Not only that, but they'll be whining all along about how unfair the left is to them.
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  3952. He's never read the constitution either. Or even a map - remember "Yo Semite"?
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  3953. This goes back to June, when groups of TikTok users pranked him by reserving tickets for Trump's covid-spreading event in Tulsa OK and then not showing up. He's been seething about it all this time.
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  3954.  Ryback Smith  Go tell that to the people digging mass graves in NYC, or the people in Spain and Italy who ran out of space to store dead bodies.
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  3955. In other words, Clump45 has gone full Jim Jones. Only he charges for the tainted kool-aid, whereas reverend Jones gave it away for free.
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  3956. Because even if Florida people die from the spread of covid, denying the science/vaccines/masks has become a purity test for his death cult :(
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  3957. Good thing incoming AG Merrick Garland has experience handling high-profile domestic terrorism cases, such as the OK city bomber, the Unabomber, and the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
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  3958.  @BennilocoLoves  Unfortunately it is going to take a lot of scrubbing! One imagines that the #1 question we're hearing (from our international allies and friends) is along the lines of, what have we done to prevent yet another dimwit radical-reich-wing president from appearing on the stage? And I expect that they are not happy with the answers they get :( Likewise, the #1 question that Republicans are probably hearing from America's adversaries is along the lines of, how can they help the Republicans take down America?
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  3959. The truest thing he's ever said at a rally was, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!" followed closely by, "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you"
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  3960. Lauren Boebert's own constituents have asked the House to investigate her role in the insurrection (where she live-tweeted house speaker Pelosi's location for the benefit of the traitors), to make sure she gets no committee assignments, and to not even seat her in the House. https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2021/01/15/rep-lauren-boebert-should-investigated-colorado-officials-say/4175409001/
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  3961.  @travisstoudt8723  Some will know it because they get sick, and some of them will die.
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  3962.  camjamsdad  You mean like New Zealand, Australia, the Czech Republic, and other places "hid from it"? They're all going back to normal now. We're not, because we were dumb enough to keep the disease in circulation for the last 4 months.
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  3963. It's big news that the DOJ did the right thing despite Barr using the agency as Trump's personal law firm.
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  3964. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  3965. Uggh, both my parents turned that way by the time they turned 40. Not fun :(
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  3966. I think they should bring back that screeching harpie Kimberly Gilfoyle for another rant to rally the troops.
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  3967.  @Ahoooooooo  The perp had nothing to do with Hong Kong, and everything to do with Trump's lies. You might want to try following the news once in awhile.
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  3968. The word for people like that is Quislings, in honor of one Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborator in WW2 Norway.
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  3969. It's worse - would you like your children or grandchildren to say and do the things that 45 says and does? Guessing not.
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  3970. Russians appear not to have learned anything since 1945 when, drunk and disorganized, they pushed back a retreating enemy that had run out of fuel (and everything else) and was getting heavily attacked on the western front. This isn't that kind of scenario.
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  3971. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  3972. The complicity of the Republicans, conservatives, MAGAts, and "both sides are the same" types is duly noted. If the jackboot fits, they'd better slip it on and start goose stepping.
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  3973. It's strange. Most people would get the concept if you explained it as radiation after a nuclear bomb, and how you need to stay in your bomb shelter (getting bored, eating canned food, getting cabin fever, reading your favorite books all over again, whatever) while the radiation outside decays to a safe level. It took the US 1 month to go from 400 cases to 400K cases, and then just 2 weeks to go from 400K to 800K cases. In other words - it's still hot outside :(
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  3974. Mar-A-Lardo will be bankrupt long before it's underwater.
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  3975. Considering that herd immunity has never been achieved for anything from the family of coronaviruses (the four common colds, the seasonal flu, MERS, SARS, swine flu, etc) it looks like this strategy is Republican-speak for "hot damn, we finally found a way to get rid of all those useless moochers drawing pensions".
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  3976. Yes, and we already learned that the Sophie Scholl type approach is too nice. Don't be nice with fascists. Be more like the Red Army.
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  3977. This advanced system has an AI component minus the "A" part, too, and can constructively systematize its approach to given situations by information exchange with others.
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  3978.  @mastercommander4535  The problem in those countries is that people bizarrely believe that being told to wear a mask (for public health measures) is some kind of an assault on their "freedumbs". Gosh, just wait until they hear they can't drive drunk on the wrong side of the road without a seatbelt on.
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  3979. Bingo. They're not going to use scarce test kits or x-rays on people found dead at home or left outside for pickup.
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  3980.  @qjtvaddict  .. and if covid happens to be their chosen method of suicide, who am I to interfere with their lifestyle (or, in this case, deathstyle) choice?
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  3981.  @td4426  The Bill of Rights doesn't mention anything about repeatedly counting 2+2+2= to make the answer come out something different than 6. That's what the election-stealers are doing, over and over again, wearing the paint of the keys on the calculators. The Nov-2020 election was 308 days ago.
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  3982. Counting down the minutes until Hannity does an interview in which he "explains" how judge Easterbrook is a deepstate never-Trumper liberal plant put on the bench by Obama to interfere with Hair Fuhrer's glorious work.
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  3983. And Putin has the nerve to dictate "peace plans"?? Moscow could be nice and quiet once it's glassed. Perhaps that's what he wants?
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  3984. Oz is about as much a resident of PA as he is the queen of England.
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  3985.  niecers  "He was successful. What is the count up to now?" So far it's up to 36 cases and 3 hospitalizations. Like Trump's syphilis, it's the gift that keeps taking :(
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  3986. The only good thing about the UFO topic is that it's a lightning rod / magnet for all the conspiracy-minded folks who "want to believe". The ultimate honeypot trap for weaker minds.
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  3987. People who should be horrified to hear that the nation's truckers might stop coming to their state/city (and all the food/gas/everything shortages that would inevitably result) nonetheless cheer at the thought of it being done to someone else. Sick.
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  3988. Same problem in Oregon .. all summer long, people were fleeing the hot spots and coming here to enjoy bad behaviors that would spread the disease.
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  3989. In Trump-speak, this is a threat, since he already knows well that his very own "fine people" (MAGA hatters & Proud Boys) are the ones doing tiki torch marches and chanting "Jews will not replace us". What he's saying is that Jewish people have to vote for him or else.
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  3990. That is up to the people of Ukraine to decide in an election. But yes, he's doing an excellent job. He and Putin have switched roles, too, as one is now a national leader while the other is a comedian.
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  3991. It makes sense now how a mob of Germans followed Hitler into the ruination of Germany.
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  3992. Funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  3993. The western Allies can afford to send stingers, javelins, artillery, drones, vehicles, arms, etc to Georgia and Moldova as well. Uncle Pooty cannot match the arms manufacturing capacity of the west.
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  3994. Abrams and Leopards will be very hungry in the spring .. and they kill enemy stuff from 3km+ at night, beyond the Soviet ability to see or hear, and while moving. The record for a good Abrams fire team is two kills in less than 7 seconds - from the same tank!
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  3995. It's definitely going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. Good reading for the current times might be works like "Animal Farm" (George Orwell) and "It Can't Happen Here" (Sinclair Lewis).
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  3996. I suspect there has been quite a lot of illegal nonsense, the tip of which has only recently been uncovered. Hopefully enough stuff comes out before the election so Americans can make an informed judgement when they vote.
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  3997. Not only are those people obviously delusional, but a bunch of them are violent, and the folks at FOX / Newsmax / Swamp-A-Lago are only too happy to feed their delusions. At this rate, we're going to be at Zimbabwe levels of social chaos within 5 years.
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  3998. Didn't take Nunes long to change his tune from "America deserves to know who the whistleblower is!" to "I can't comment on that now without incriminating myself".
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  3999.  @ladyv5655  In retrospect, it looks like they were just asking for more juice to grease the skids for him.
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  4000. I'm sorry, but Trump's next acting AG will probably do something to prevent Trump from feeling any legal heat for things he's done. Whatever Trump's asking, it's so heinous that even Barr, evil as he is, won't do it. That says lots :(
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  4001. They've been spinning enough to drill holes down to the core of the earth.
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  4002. There's millions more of us, and we've grown weary of their nonsense. They're on thin ice.
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  4003. The Four Seasons Hotel wanted nothing to do with the Trump carpetbaggers, who couldn't afford the hotel venue anyway.
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  4004. My blood boiled when he said he's been learning all about covid. Where the F has he been the last 9 months? This is the first he's heard of its devastating health effects, up to and including death?
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  4005.  @not-so-smartaleck8987  Doesn't the Noah's Ark theme park have a big mural of Jesus riding a velociraptor and carrying an AR?
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  4006. Funny, Putin has gone missing too. Was there an Axis meeting scheduled?
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  4007. @Freetry 13 Nobody attacked Russia. Now go back to sleep. Offending Russia and attacking Russia are not the same thing.
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  4008.  @Cannon_Fodder_Russians  I love it when they whine about what an "existential threat" it is that Ukraine becomes more democratic, more prosperous, more aligned with Europe. It's a tortuous way of saying that it makes them look bad when Ivan can visit his cousins in Kyiv then come home to a place that looks like WW2 was fought only yesterday.
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  4009. Count the guns, the crosses, the nazi flags, the confederate flags, the swastikas, and you'd assume that Donald Trump is the love child of David Duke and David Koresh, with Alex Jones as the midwife.
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  4010. That damage is probably going to last at least a couple generations. To his followers, the president of the US gave him his unofficial personal permission to be their absolutely worst selves. Apparently some of them had been desiring that since they were toddlers.
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  4011. She's as much a party loyalist as Frau Goebbels was. Instead of killing her own children in the bunker, this one took them all into a superspreading event - and with a smile! :(
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  4012. Those boat owners tend to sink themselves with alacrity anyway.
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  4013. The US state department strongly discourages Americans from going there, and has for awhile told any Americans there to leave ASAP. Who wants to get the Britney Greiner treatment anyway?
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  4014. Russians are famously slow learners. But it seems Ukraine is a persistent teacher ;)
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  4015. Their insulin just got more expensive. They'll notice it soon enough.
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  4016.  @EconLessons  That is why the formerly burned-out and defeated WW2 losers (primarily Germany and Japan) later turned into economic powerhouses. Look at how much stuff in your house is of German or Japanese design. Their wealth is in the skills and drives of their people.
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  4017. I wonder if it's even possible to bring some of those crazies back to reality.
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  4018. Nope. He's never met an ally of the US who he wouldn't throw under the bus, or an enemy of the US who he wouldn't snuggle up to.
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  4019. It will be a bit longer than that. The virus is indubitably circulating widely there already. The ones who are asymptomatic (20% to 50%, depending on age groups) will take it back to their households and wherever else they go. The Vegas strippers may end up giving their customers the kiss of death later on, but oh well.
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  4020. Or an economic one. Instead of mobilizing the CDC, Trump harangues the federal reserve to cut interest rates. What a joke :(
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  4021. Bingo. The machines and the databases are the intended goal. The rest is political kabuki theatre.
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  4022. The sad thing is, cops will just go back to the locker room and whine about how the protests are making them look bad. When they purge themselves of the bad apples, that might be a sign of change, but in over a century they haven't shown any willingness to. Time for mommy to step in.
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  4023. Trump, kind of in the same vein as Germany's funny mustache guy from the 1930s, knows how to motivate irate white male rage and white male persecution complexes.
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  4024. I'm saving popcorn and good champagne for the day that appears in the news.
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  4025. Dump45's famous Reverse Midas Touch is about the only part of him that still works, other than his flapping pie hole and air accordion. Nice to see he's applying his losing touch to the GQP. They need to be flushed anyhow.
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  4026.  @lavonewhitmer7445  Completely civil. But apparently it was of no use to Mr Jones to simply deny doing what he'd so obviously done. Meadows needs that treatment.
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  4027. His followers aren't much better .. try telling them about the 229K US covid deaths, and they plug their fingers in their ears and screech "no no no no no" and then, when you take a breath, they bring up Hillary's emails. Anything they don't like is fake news.
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  4028. America must learn the hard way that first you corral & contain the virus, and only then do you restart the economy. Doing the second thing before the first just results in a raging outbreak that can't be contained. What did Winston Churchill famously say? "Americans can be counted on to do the right thing, but only after they've exhausted all other possibilities."
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  4029. Fun fact: before he became the #2 Nazi, Hermann Goering was none other than the president of the Reischtag (the German equivalent of the US senate) which is the same position Moscow Mitch McConnell now holds. Without Goering's help, Hitler could have never seized power.
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  4030. Unless there's hard evidence of 45 telling them what to say, when, and where, probably not.
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  4031. As the saying goes .. "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." (Benjamin Franklin)
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  4032. Deporting people is expensive AND requires the cooperation of the countries to which folks are being sent. Knowing Caligula's goons, they will probably opt for something faster and cheaper.
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  4033.  @elizabethlock6169  And yet the GOP tells us that only people like Stalin and Pol Pot try to rewrite history. Interesting.
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  4034. The only good thing is that Trump is the rope the Republicans want to hang themselves with.
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  4035. All of it. They don't understand stuff they can't see. Heck, most of them can't spell or think straight either. For example, they haven't noticed that their feckless leader, the Mango Mussolini, is freaking out that some of his staffers have the virus, and now he's making everyone get tested daily just to be in the same building as him. That level of freaking-out is just what you'd expect if (wait for it) there was a potentially lethal virus going around.
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  4036.  Glenn Kirste  You know what Russian roulette is? Similar thing with covid-45. The numbers say you have a 1-in-20 chance of dying from it after you test positive here in the USA .. that's the case fatality rate. Would you drive a car that has a 1-in-20 chance of randomly exploding and killing you? Only it doesn't affect just you, it affects your customers, their households, and everyone those people come across. Smooth move :(
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  4037.  @stevendeas  Re "both parties are crooks" << Yet only one party aided, abetted, and in some cases participated in the 1/6 insurrection. And now they don't want an investigation into their own crimes.
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  4038. Taking a shortcut through a new subdivision? Following something at night that google maps claimed was a road? Scary.
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  4039.  @grumpyoldlady_rants  Pretty sure "jack" is the kind that's happy sacrificing someone else's parents/family just to keep his/her 401K in the right zone.
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  4040. Wonder when the Trumpers will start issuing death threats against New Zealand? That's their usual MO for anything he doesn't like.
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  4041. Putin has even less use for foreign traitors than he does for domestic traitors. US conservatives wouldn't last long in Putin's Russia.
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  4042. Analysis showed that vaccination rates were significantly lower in counties that voted more for 45 .. and, likewise, covid death rates were significantly higher in counties that voted more for 45. NPR has an interesting pair of scatter charts somewhere.
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  4043.  CRAM MARC  However many there are, there's about 30x or more of the rest of us who are tired of their BS. They ought to go back under their rocks.
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  4044.  @letsRegulateSociopaths Ahh, who needs a bank account when Moscow keeps sending you money?
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  4045. So much winning - for Putin, Iran, Assad, that is. It's about the only kind of winning that Trump brags about.
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  4046. What did they do, spend the whole four years engaging in criminal activities?
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  4047. He's asking for something much more gruesome than just impeachment. Something pretty old-fashioned. Musk too. Anything still wearing a MAGA hat too for that matter.
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  4048. The entire purpose of DOGE was to steal government databases so that the billionaires could get detailed records on US citizens. The cost saving nonsense was the thin excuse for the data theft.
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  4049. Hawley is apparently saying the same whiny things about his untouchable manuscript that Hitler said when he was trying to get "Mein Kampf" published.
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  4050. To our friends in Ukraine - we got your back. The whole West stands with you. We will send more missiles and longer-range ones. From America with love 👍
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  4051.  @larryo6874  Remember the way Trump refused to attend the white house correspondents dinner every year? No way would he put his precious thin skin on stage to be heckled - at least not without a team of snipers up there with him to eliminate the offenders.
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  4052. Secret service is really good. I'm not worried.
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  4053. Restaurateur Andy Ricker is completely correct: unless testing is easy to get and unless customers are REQUIRED BY LAW to wear masks, it's unsafe to open. Not sure why the tinfoil-hat brigade gets their undies so knotted over such a simple, low-cost, low-tech solution that would let more businesses run more safely. The state of NY has very successfully dampened the spread of the virus by making masks mandatory, as have a bunch of countries in Asia.
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  4054. Of all the things that won't be in the meeting with them, mirrors will be most conspicuous by their absence 😅
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  4055.  @lucamarco4798  Oh I love hearing those words. Could you shed any light on why Russia (despite being so mighty) struggles to hold not quite 20% of Ukraine after almost 2 years? Why its combat vehicle loss rate is 13:1 compared to that of Ukraine? Why its troop loss rate is higher than that of Ukraine? According to the "Russia is mighty" party line, this would have long been over by now - yet it's not.
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  4056.  @corriecrazy  It is entirely possible that Trump wants civil war. His niece basically explained how he likes chaos because it gives him opportunities to take advantage of. So he'll do everything possible to prevent an orderly transition of power. It's conceivable that he could call on Papa Vlad to send in some troops to put down unrest in places that didn't vote for him, which would be the basic Red Dawn scenario. He's desperate and amoral, so who knows what could happen. Unless all 600+ adults in Washington DC politics duct-tape him into a chair so they can explain to him why he absolutely must behave and follow the rules, I don't see this being a peaceful next 6 months. Heck, even if he wins, he and his goons will be much worse than before. And if he loses, he and his goons will be pretty bad.
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  4057.  @gypsyaguilar6678  Having your mob send death threats to court workers is NOT how you defend yourself. Defending yourself in court is a matter of legal representation, evidence, facts, witnesses. Not inciting domestic terrorism.
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  4058.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  The work is still there in Florida. When crops rot for lack of pickers, well, someone somewhere will get a lesson in why they shouldn't have voted for DeFascist.
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  4059. Remember a couple years back, when every day at the White House was like this? Pence: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested almost 24 million people in the USA! You're a genius!" Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 296 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??" Trump: "I give myself a 10 out of 10 for handling this."
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  4060. You misspelled "GQP". I think their signage and websites need that little correction.
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  4061. Natural selection. Let the militantly unvaccinated make a deal with Delta one on one.
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  4062. Those who convince you of absurdities can make you campaign on absurdities 😅
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  4063.  @zen-Tii  I used to think it was the pee tapes, but no, I believe that all Putin needs as leverage is the translators notes from his meetings and conversations with Trump and with the hateful 8 Republicans who celebrated July 4th in Moscow a few years ago. Rather obviously, either they asked for, or Putin offered, or both, advice on how to remake America the way they wanted. Guaranteed election results in their favor. Minorities, dissidents, and journalists put in their place. A strong police state. Central government control over the media narrative.
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  4064. This is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  4065. @dlee t Italy had a really good medical system to begin with and locked the place down. We have a shitty medical system. Domestic air travel is still continuing. States like Georgia (with over 1300 cases) still aren't locked down. Fleeing NY'ers are taking the virus home to the hinterland. We're probably going to see more than 3 million cases :(
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  4066. First dudette? ;) Bro-in-law?
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  4067. Never watching either of them again.
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  4068. More Iranians turned out for the funeral of the general (this out of a country of 80 million) than turned up for the Mango Mussolini's inauguration (this out of a nation of 327 million). He's just a nasty terrorist, they said, no one will miss him. Uh huh. Just like they said Iraq had WMDs.
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  4069. Mind you, the people who try to deflect from Trump's brazen corruption (while in office) by saying that Trump is "just a good businessman" are the same ones who screeched about Obama getting a book deal after he was out of office and making money on the lecture circuit after he left office.
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  4070. It's also not like he told them he would be a dictator, or that they knew he was a snake when they let him in.
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  4071.  @mrHBarry  Do you recall how Mitch blocked 82 of Obama's appointments, when in all of previous US history a grand total of 84 had been thusly blocked?
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  4072. MAGA = many are getting arrested
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  4073. Actually it takes about 40 days to see the true dimensions of the new-cases-per-day peak following a given large-attendance public gathering. This was best seen in the way Mardi Gras ended on 2/25, but the peak of resulting infections was 3/28 through 4/12. Look on the bright side, some of those fools will leave behind jobs, houses etc for the rest of us to pick up on the cheap once this thing dies down.
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  4074. Can you imagine a Raskin/Warren ticket? Oh my.
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  4075. They could even give it the catchy name "Bluebird".
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  4076. To people like Mike Johnson, that Margaret Atwood book sounds like a good idea to implement here :(
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  4077. It was one of the ballot questions this year where I live. I'm hoping we give it a try. Who knows, maybe the rest of the state will take it up. (Oregon)
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  4078. This is one of the best. Sharing it.
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  4079.  @edwardfletcher7790  Everyone: There's no such thing as a cure for stupidity. Covid-19: Hold my beer.
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  4080. Bingo. That sort of thinking was on full display for 8 long years as the Republicans bleated endlessly about how Obama was simultaneously a) a weak, ineffectual leader and b) an overpowering dictator with the full force of government behind his every move. Do the Republicans all get their bottled water from the same company, and does it put hallucinogens in the water?
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  4081. This is a recycle of the old line, "There can't be any such thing as global warming because it's snowing where I am just now." SMH.
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  4082.  @randolfvenderbildt7254  The last time I checked, behaving badly towards a fascist is a matter of self-preservation, not a breach of manners. Get your shit together, fool.
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  4083.  @WhiskerBiscuit369  Nah, Fauci is a hero. In the same way that the rest of us use the red hats and the Trump signs to tell us which people are abject morons, foggy-brained inbreds, we also use those who hate on Dr Fauci is a sign.
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  4084.  @dwayneinnis516  Those are storm clouds to be followed my drenching rain, MAGA tears.
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  4085.  @johnblackbasel393  Only the finest accidental flammables for the Russian navy 😅
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  4086. It's beginning to look more as if the Proud Mama's Boys sent the emails, and some quack commission has blamed it on Iran. They had no evidence and allowed no questions.
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  4087. Someone, please bring the kool-aid to the cultists. It's past time for them to face the music. Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later that debt must be paid.
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  4088. "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” -- David Frum
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  4089. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me!
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  4090. Voted and delivered .. full blue slate 💙💙
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  4091. I don't think his Red Hatters have anything new to show us in that department. Statistics show they've spent the last couple years ramping up violence against visible minorities. It would be a whole nother level if they were to try to terrorize the US post office, or the local school system, or the police, or a polling place etc. They'll soon find out that no, Trump isn't paying their legal fees.
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  4092. Ranked choice voting might work.
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  4093. I have some words for president Biden: Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Adolph Putin is seeking Lebensraum.
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  4094. Treating the cranks as if they are a major political party is part of the problem. They are one, though in name only. Time to put them on the short buses and let the adults fix this mess.
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  4095. Can someone from Australia please help me understand something? I've been following someone's travel videos (from there) in real time, and it seems no one is wearing masks, random people are sitting together indoors at bars & restaurants to eat and drink, etc. Did Australia drop the mask mandates in public long ago? What about WA and NT specifically?
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  4096. Those qualities are why he lost the popular election the first time around. But then he made history by getting impeached in a first term then losing re-election.
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  4097. @Mainely One congressional state elector per state? No wonder Sinclair & Murdoch bought up rural stations to use as propaganda outlets. Given that Wyoming has 578K people and California has 39,512K people, that means a Wyoming vote is 68x the voting power of a Californian vote. Absolutely INSANE.
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  4098. Rest assured, Republicans will do NOTHING to remove Trump. They do, however, have lots of screeching rage on tap over whether or not covid19 is a hoax, or whether or not Dr Jill Biden earned an advanced degree.
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  4099.  @lindataylor6831  Now her stripper-grade makeup makes more sense to me. Those lashes? Sooooo overdone.
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  4100. Convicted felons running for office is not OK. Would you leave your teen daughters alone in a hotel room with him? Guessing not.
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  4101. Who else smells class action lawsuits in the distance?
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  4102. That's why for the first time in my life I voted a straight D ticket. In good faith I cannot vote for any R candidate since they do not all roundly denounce the lies that lead to violence.
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  4103. No doubt Rupert Murdoch and his people are trying to find ways around it already.
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  4104. I don't know how many of them can go back to normal, or even if they want to. Some have spent more than a decade being deranged by the nonsense, back since Obama won the party primaries. We might have to build a lot of, umm, "gated communities" for those people.
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  4105. Shush. Some things are best kept surprises.
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  4106. Is Ben Shapiro on T-blockers or something? Looks like a razor has never touched their face, and their voice hasn't dropped all the way.
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  4107. Yup. 178,000 Americans dead from covid (with lots more on the way), millions unemployed, and this is what he's doing. And golfing.
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  4108. It is because they have read George Orwell's works and used them as how-to manuals and not as cautionary tales. Hence referring to their election-stealing effort as "stop the steal", etc.
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  4109. Hundreds of thousands aren't waking up anymore ever again due to covid19. Some of them even talked about it before they clocked out. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/california-thomas-macias-coronavirus/index.html
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  4110.  @RudieObias  Bingo. If they can't win votes, Republicans won't reject their retrograde policies that cause them to lose elections .. they'll reject democracy instead. This is right up there with their idea of slates of "alternative electors" in case they want to go the Communist route of rejecting the votes that don't fit their Party line.
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  4111.  @justineharper3346  Same. And I see now the DNC's logic. We were all pretty pissed when, back in the summer of 2019, they abruptly switched the main candidate designation from Bernie to Joe, even though Bernie was way ahead in the party polling. Fast forward to now. Joe can get things done with less knee-jerk opposition than Bernie would have inspired, and Bernie chairs the powerful Senate budget committee. This is a better use of political capital than the reverse.
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  4112. The punch line Trump loves to deliver at his rallies is, "You knew I was a serpent when you took me in!" Of course he is talking about himself, but his sheeple imagine they're hearing a retelling of "Anaconda".
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  4113. No adults left in the situation room. Or the people remaining around him are too awed by the power of the position to realize that a complete dolt is sitting in the big chair. If we don't stop Trump, others will. Let's just hope that we don't suffer the fate of Germany in the 1940s due to our failure to curb the little orange goose-stepper.
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  4114. "Both parties"? One of them still sucks up to Putin. "Both parties" my ass.
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  4115. Pretending that the abuses committed by CBP agents / ICE agents have nothing to do with the Mango Mussolini's very public disdain for brown people (and for the law) is like pretending that Mein Kampf had nothing to do with the acts committed at Nazi concentration camps :(
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  4116. You can tell how well that works by looking at the states with the lowest mask compliance (North and South Dakota) and their raging outbreaks, nearing 5% of the population infected.
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  4117. Few conservatives will be later able to claim that they didn't know how toxic Trump was, that they didn't know what kind of a person he was. Here's what some conservatives had to say about Trump, in their own words: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016. For the love of country, do NOT let Republicans try to paper over the recent past when Trump is gone.
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  4118. Correct. Even decades before the election, it was clear that his #1 fantasy was to be in a position to hurt as many people as possible.
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  4119. Did you get to observe Jeffrey Clark? He was so desperate to be named acting AG that he was happy to do /anything/ that 45 wished for. Shudder.
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  4120. Remember, Trump's version of "testifying" is limited to taking the fifth hundreds of times.
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  4121. Check out the swastika tattoos on the Proud Idiot Toddlers if you have trouble understanding the "far right" part.
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  4122.  @marty9376  Everyone: there's no such thing as a cure for stupidity. Covid-19: Hold my beer.
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  4123. Coronavirus in the USA is spreading beyond our ability to measure it - test positivity rates everywhere are either constant or rising. Wear your mask and avoid people "like the plague".
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  4124.  @And-rc9yy  Best wishes to you as well, and may 2021 be a lot better year for you and yours. Another thing facing the covid deniers is that this is very much an outside context problem. Most people alive today never lived through a time when things had to be shut down, when people had to hunker in, and so on, merely to prevent the spread of a disease. Some older people may remember the 1952 polio outbreak, but otherwise, most westerners have lived their lives in a comfy bubble in which not too many Really Bad Things happened. This is far outside what those people have experienced. Some can parse it only through the lenses of denial, fear, disbelief, etc. Edit: I've been a long time history reader so this is all familiar stuff. I am jealous of the people of the 1940s, who, upon hearing that Pearl Harbor had been bombed, didn't fill their Twitter/Fakebook feeds with disinformation, calling it "fake news" and saying that people are under no obligation to participate in the hoaxes of signing up to serve, participating in rationing programs, or blacking out their windows at night.
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  4125. Let's look on the bright side if the town almost gets wiped out. The shallow end of the gene pool (where too much pee accumulates) gets cleaned out. There will be jobs and homes and stuff and opportunities for smarter people. In time the community will recover to better than what it was before when slack-witted dummies populated it.
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  4126. Love that. May I borrow it?
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  4127. The fact that Biden and his people aren't criminals is a factor in my voting preferences.
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  4128. I sent a letter to Powerball, demanding that they declare me the winner of the prize. They still haven't responded, bastards :(
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  4129. The same one who once said he would charge into a school shooting, yet when it was his turn to be a warrior he got 5 draft deferments. Loser.
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  4130.  @johnathanmartin1504  Someone made a cute political joke about that: HR manager: So let me get this straight. You got fired from a top executive job because you did a poor job. The company immediately hired a new top executive. You couldn't handle that. You were so angry, you refused to leave. You called all your friends to come and vandalize the workplace. When you did leave, on your way out of the office you took a lot of the company's confidential documents. And when you got caught, you refused to give many of them back. Now you're reapplying for the same job?
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  4131.  @tiredofliars  Perfect!! Or "I heard Joe Biden's secret COVID operatives are going door to door masquerading as Trump fans. Give them the 'warm welcome' they deserve wink wink"
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  4132.  @jsimmons9969  But they still have older or Soviet-era stuff. Not Apache helicopters or A10 ground assault aircraft or, god forbid, something like the AC-130 gunship. Or F15s for that matter. Nor have they spent years using these things in joint exercises with NATO nations.
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  4133. Why yes, we are. Usually Senator XYZ works out a deal to lease it to some fossil fuel company for pennies on the tens of thousands they're making off it, and in exchange s/he gets some nice lunches and a promise to watch over their idiot children/grandchildren in some way.
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  4134.  @fidgetyhuman  I've been wearing out keyboards bashing them (metaphorically of course) with a nice piece of hickory every day - a fact bat. It's become a form of daily therapy. It's better than seeing my country fall to fascist authoritarianism.
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  4135. My dot mil sources said it's a snuff tape with a Russian girl.
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  4136. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  4137. Might be a fatal dose :(
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  4138. That "eternal warfare" plan may have been workable for Russia as of 12 months ago, but the game has again changed: not only can Ukraine make its own long-range drone swarms for reaching deep into Russia to burn refineries and other things, but Ukraine now has access to longer-range precise western weapons that it's using to great effect in the near border regions. Under these circumstances, Russia will slowly become unworkable over time. Besides refineries, there are pipelines, dams, bridges, tunnels, power generation, manufacturing capacity of all kinds, river locks, military hospitals, and much more. This is the much slower, non-nuclear, non-carpet-bombing way to take a nation back to the stone age.
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  4139.  @IsaacHozz  Plus it's possible that people consume only news that doesn't tell them anything scary. But, yes, there's nothing keeping any random place from suddenly experiencing 12" of rain in 24 hours. Dallas, Las Vegas, Sidney, Seoul, rural Kentucky, St Louis, Pakistan -- all seeing the same sort of thing.
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  4140. Wandering in the desert is a pretty good metaphor for the strange place his people have put themselves in.
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  4141. All it took was a question about attending the Biden inauguration. Trump has come a long ways since (if anyone remembers this) he said he would charge into a school shooting unarmed. Pull the other one. He dodged the draft 5x. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-would-have-run-florida-school-n851266
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  4142. So is anyone who's ever been in the same room as a history book.
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  4143. They have this odd way of doing things. You can see it in some of the military shows and movies. Standard form is, you show up somewhere, report to the head honcho (saluting all the while) and say something like your name, your rank, your qualifications, that you are reporting for duty as ordered, and that you're "publishing" it (saying it in front of enough people to be noted) so as to cover your ass later.
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  4144. Yeah, we're having an "experiment" like that in the USA now too. It's not going very well. It's killed more people here than WW2 did (a lot more, in fact) so the stakes are high, and participation in the solution shouldn't be optional now any more than it was then. Failing to vaccinate now is like being a Briton choosing to leave all the house lights on and the curtains open at night during the London Blitz. #FreeDumb!
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  4145. No no no no noooooooo. I want them to clutch him tight, like they would a 10kg weight made of enriched plutonium, and let him wreak his reverse Midas touch on them.
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  4146. Before reading the sort of comments that appear here, I had no idea that certain people in Oregon actually WANT us to have a horrific hospital-filling people-killing outbreak of the kind that's happening in North Dakota and in other places. If we had it as bad as ND does, our current numbers would look like 435,300 infected and 5,000+ dead.
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  4147. That's the reality. Trump and his people keep lying nonetheless. Looks like the Republicans finally found a way to kill off everyone who's not rich like them :(
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  4148. That reminds me of some nonsense I heard awhile back, when our superspreader-in-chief repeatedly claimed that the virus would go away right after the election. I've seen rugs that don't lie as much as he does.
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  4149. I've lost my patience with people who believe the dumbest lies that a cat could see through. Do the world a favor and treat them like the idiots they are.
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  4150. There was this one too - same thing, different incident - https://www.jpost.com/health-science/bus-ventilation-systems-help-the-spread-of-coronavirus-research-630835
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  4151. Ironically, the big difference between Trump and God is that God doesn't imagine that he's Trump.
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  4152. I've been assuming all along that they were doing things like this. Historically speaking, when a crazy leader calls people filth, vermin, scum, animals, etc somewhere else in some other part of the country there is a final-solution type program running. I assume we'll learn more in the years ahead.
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  4153. They've made their bed of nails, and now they don't want to sleep in it? Color me surprised.
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  4154.  @corneliussqualls1544  We are on the same page. So far he's violated the following international laws: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  4155. Same. I am not seeing any of my beloved relatives or out-of-town friends this year. We're on the phone/email all the time anyway.
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  4156. Ukraine will make a fine addition to NATO someday. They are proving themselves to be tough fighters. Maybe in exchange for giving them lots of stuff, they'll let us set up an air base in western Ukraine.
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  4157. Mikey clearly isn't used to speaking outside of the RWNJ echo chamber.
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  4158. President-elect Biden is correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  4159. There's little he understands other than making up lies to appeal to folks even more shallow-minded than him. He's a carnival barker, basically.
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  4160. What kind of authoritarian wannabe gets to personally decide which of his henchies do or don't receive taxpayer-provided gold-plated medical care?
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  4161. America is the richest nation in the world .. we should be able to do a lot more of this in every city that needs it.
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  4162. Let's check with Poland to see how long the Russian "helpers" stayed after WW2 was over.
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  4163. Same for governor DeathSantis .. his own kids attend a private school that requires masks. "Rules for thee, not for me"
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  4164. This was planned .. and now we know why Trump went on a mysterious firing spree at the Pentagon a few weeks back.
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  4165.  @hellogoodbyeagain  Not even the sharpest egg in the carton.
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  4166.  Vox Populi  Well, to be sure, they think of the people there as folks squatting on oil that belongs to the West.
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  4167. Never realized how much I missed Baghdad Bob! This one is even funnier because he takes himself more seriously.
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  4168. Trump will continue to get much, much worse. By now everyone must have noticed his process of lobbying a lot of semi-contrarian test spaghetti at the wall ahead of any major thing, then later flipping to some other direction that was hidden in the tangle of pasta. Some of the themes he's crowd-tested (mostly on his base) include remaining in power indefinitely, charging members of the impeachment inquiry with treason, charging witnesses with treason, etc. Given enough time in office, he will be using Pastor Niemoller's words as a script to follow. No doubt he's noticed that locking up more than 100,000 Hispanic folks wasn't generated any significant domestic blowback .. and that too was a test. Next up are other minorities.
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  4169. Trump is easier to understand if you think of him as the Randall Flagg character from the Stand, by Stephen King.
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  4170. Hint from every school that's reopened: pretending that the virus is gone doesn't work very well.
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  4171.  @Rhythmicons  Weirdly enough, the NRA, the militias, the 3%ers, the Oathkeepers etc are all very happy with this unconstitutional crackdown on BLM and Americans of the other political party.
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  4172.  @Papa-gn2gp  Walker-Palin 2024! 😅
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  4173. Maybe Trump could expand White House staff hiring to include lots more Americans? That's the only workplace in America where a person can get tested every day, with contact tracing for positives.
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  4174. Does anyone remember that movie "Point of Origin"? Ray Liotta starred as a fire investigator who was secretly the same arsonist starting the fires he was investigating. As an investigator he tried to distract from clues that would point back to him .. kind of like the way Nunes was involved in the crime of trading US influence for making up dirt on Biden, yet later on the inquiry panel he sought to debunk his crimes. Why, Nunes, why?
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  4175. That was Abbott's version of "There are very fine people on both sides" :(
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  4176.  @MrSDFD18  Ah yes. Pastor Niemoller had some pithy words to say on that very same subject - and he was speaking from firsthand experience. First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller
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  4177. We don't negotiate with terrorists. There won't be a second warning.
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  4178. As the saying goes .. "The forest kept getting smaller, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, since its handle was made of wood and so they thought it was one of them."
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  4179.  @andrewollmann304  FOXed Noise has substantial operations in Florida. Kind of the way Apple has substantial biz in every state, yet is headquartered in Cali. Is this s a difficult concept for you? Anyway, FOXed Noise requires its people to disclose if they're vaccinated or not.
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  4180. Notice how no jets flew in their precious parade this time. Betcha there are some Stinger or Starstreak launchers around. That would be too tempting.
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  4181.  @dentonfender6492  And hugely rising rates of HIV too, sadly :( just another side of GQP disinvestment in the people. No billionaire left behind, of course.
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  4182.  @Flash9230  Bingo. Being told you can't shoot abortion doctors or burn gay people probably sounds pretty repressive to some people .. smh.
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  4183. Coming soon: Nice Christian bookshops shouldn't have to allow Jews in, right? Shortly after: Nice Alabama restaurants don't have to let Blacks in, do they?
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  4184. Or even the ones that don't quite make it to office. Look at Scari Lake in Arizona :(
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  4185. I live in a state (Oregon) where masks are required in public spaces. Yet this morning at a supermarket, I kept running into the same woman who wasn't wearing a mask, and who ignored all the evil eyes she was getting. Finally I looked at her pointedly and tapped the mask. She shouted out that some people are exempt (they're not) and that some people are smart. Huh. "Smart" like Herman Cain, she obviously meant. I moved away from her quickly after that. At least she didn't shoot me.
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  4186. Correct. There's probably a month-long shredding party happening in every agency controlled by the Trumpanzees. They especially need to cover up how/when they disappeared the parents of the refugee children. Knowing Stephen Miller, he probably wrote up the "final solution" memo to mix their ashes into the concrete of the border wall :(
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  4187. After watching Republicans switch from purely-partisan blocking of Obama's nominees to letting Trump do any "acting" appointments he wanted to; after seeing Republicans switch from saying that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge to helping Trump ram one through in under 8 weeks; after watching Republicans howl at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit to helping Trump undermine the results of the most secure election in US history; my trust of Republicans is thinner than cellophane. I'd say they're acting like Hitler's Nazi party did during its attempts to seize power, except it's not an act, sadly.
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  4188.  @dominicsteward5595  "I think what's happening now in India is happening because lots of people took an experimental vaccine" << Totally false. What's happening now is that their numbers were trending down during the winter, so that led foolish optimists to conclude that they had achieved herd immunity, so they reopened everything.
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  4189. Trump has all the charm of a Nicolae Ceausescu alright.
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  4190. Careless smoking around big vats of vodka. Tsk tsk.
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  4191. Funny how they're not letting him wade into the crowd. But then, some of them would be testing positive just days later, and Trump doesn't like his lies unraveling that quickly. Funny how the administration has no test results to publish - and if they had any such thing, you know they'd be showing it off.
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  4192. But .. but .. egg prices! (Just kidding. Eggs will be more expensive once bird flu is raging and poultry workers are deported.)
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  4193. Trump has destroyed the US solar-installation business too :(
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  4194. What someone in the white [supremacist] house has realized is that by the time unemployment rises above 30% and keeps going, their heads will be displayed on sticks and someone else will be running the government. That is how badly they f*cked up and they know it. The alternative is to stay in power and plunge the nation into chaos by letting the virus spread out of control. They seem to think that's better.
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  4195.  @grandy2875  Stuff that floats on top usually burns well. Just saying.
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  4196. Especially if they'd played the clip of his call to Raffensperger, right after he lied about never having asked Georgia to "find" votes for him.
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  4197.  @mikemccormick8115  So far, as of now anyway, an EV is like a vehicle with a smallish fuel tank that must be replaced after every 500-2K-whatever number of refills. And the replacement cost of that tank is often more than half the total cost of the vehicle. Should you get stranded, you can't just hike off with a fuel can and return with a gallon to get the vehicle moving again. Battery-electric devices make sense for portable hand power tools (drills, saws of different kinds, etc) because they're simpler and cheaper than tiny gas engines doing the same work. Less fuss & lower cost. The model begins to break down by the time these tools reach the size of a chainsaw. For someone who wants the most cutting for the least weight to pack into the woods and back, a gas chainsaw makes more sense. I don't worry about the "mandates" to replace ICE vehicles by 2030 or whatever .. because America would need to roughly triple the number of electric generation plants to come up with enough juice to recharge large numbers of EV's. And that just isn't happening. Unworkable laws don't last, despite certain folks shrieking about their persecution fantasies of the gub'mint coming to take away their F150 at gunpoint. Consider this: In the US state with the highest rate of EV adoption (California, with 3.9% as of 2022) the authorities must already tell people NOT to recharge their EV's during certain times when the power grid is especially stressed. Until we start building lots and lots of nuclear power plants, widespread EV adoption just can't happen.
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  4198.  Joes Phone No Name  Someone's got mad time machine skills. Impressive.
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  4199. Plenty of Americans would fight for Canada too. We realize that Lord Cheeto skated in on the thinnest of majorities of protest votes.
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  4200. Hope people can get it under control.
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  4201. This from the same guy who "believes" without proof that windmills cause cancer, and who "believes" without proof that he could live to be 200.
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  4202.  @ashtonstout7375  I too am very thankful for them. Wondering about the mental state of the pro-45 Republicans however. How do they think that the loss of democracy and the end of rule of law is not going to affect them in extremely negative ways? Do they not follow the news out of Haiti? Do they not recall following the news out of Bosnia, Syria, Rwanda during crazy times there?
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  4203. Being able to recover that balloon (shot down just past the east coast) will be a counterintelligence bonanza. The fact that China is so hopping mad about it tells you that we did the thing they feared most - we disabled it before they could slag the electronics by remote.
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  4204. You can guess who he owes the $400 million to by how much Trump values that person's casually-uttered verbal words over the entire US intelligence community.
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  4205. She's actually serving a purpose .. just not the one she imagines. Every day that she's out there flapping her insane pie hole, she's causing the GQP to lose votes in the upcoming election. She got taken off all her assignments. It's like leaving the GQP side with a placeholder member who's only doing things to sink their cause.
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  4206. Trump obviously read Sinclair Lewis's famous quote and used it as a how-to .. because when fascism slouched into the white house, humping a flag and brandishing a bible upside-down, conservatives tripped over each other trying to help him end the rule of law.
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  4207. That's like asking Moscow Mitch why he told one president that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, but then helped another president ram a judge through in less than 8 weeks. That's like asking the OathKeepers why they pointed guns at police during Obama's time, then got all buddy-buddy with the police during Trump's time. That's like asking Republicans why they blocked so many of one president's nominees, then let another president do "acting" appointments in order to skip the confirmation process. That's like asking the conservatives how they could flip-flop from hanging one president in effigy to shrieking about another president, saying he's not being respected enough. Some of them are whacked, and some of them are running a coup right before your eyes.
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  4208. Reich-wingers have one set of laws for themselves, another for everyone else. Remember how they got their silky panties in a twist over the thought of Obama even talking with North Korea, then they were totally cool when Kim Jong Un was teabagging Clump in public. "Rules for thee, not for me"
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  4209. After the Pearl Harbor attack, America's industries got repurposed to build war machines. We need to do the same now with ventilators and oxygen support equipment, or we could potentially lose up to around 40 million people to the effects of coronavirus. But no, the stable genius president told governors to scrounge on Amazon, eBay, Alibaba to get them for their own states. A complete abdication of responsibility. If we survive this, he'll try to take all the credit for it, but if anything goes wrong he says it's not his responsibility.
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  4210. After living through Trump's reign of error, and now witnessing the insanity of Trumpism colluding with America's enemies, I find it much easier to understand how Germany fell to the Nazis. The attention of stupid and hateful people occasionally gets focused by a cult leader who is also a political personality.
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  4211. Excellent! I was going to say, the wall made of cheapo easily-sawed foreign steel is like a wall made of Hillary Clinton's emails - he just can't get over it.
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  4212. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a one-party state with them in charge of everything.
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  4213. America has spent, what, 240+ years bragging to the rest of the world about how our democracy is supposedly foolproof due to that separation-of-powers thing. And now everyone can see that our system is no better than the people running it - like when a corrupt senate leader acts hand-in-hand with a corrupt president.
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  4214. AG Garland has apparently decided that maintaining the appearance of "both parties are the same" is more important than doing his job.
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  4215. Since when has he cared about the American people? Back in January when he was first warned of the pandemic, he went on a tear of lies, happytalk, misinformation. Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.” Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm – historically, that has been able to kill the virus” Feb 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away. They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb 26: “We’re going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26: “As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only FIVE people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time” WRONG! Feb 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” Feb 28: “They tried the impeachment hoax, that was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost, it’s all turning, think of it, think of it, and this is their new hoax’ ... We have lost nobody to the coronavirus ... The press is in hysteria mode.” Feb 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” Mar 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” Mar 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Mar 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” Mar 4: “Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and, based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.” Mar 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” Mar 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” Mar 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” Mar 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” Mar 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” Mar 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” Mar 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Coronavirus.” Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.” Mar 10: “Going up fast. We need the WALL more than ever.” Mar 13: “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location.” Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.” Mar 13: “I take no responsibility at all.” Mar 14: “Relax. We’re doing great. It will all pass. I would like there are a lot of people on Wall Street who are very happy.” Mar 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something we have tremendous control of.” Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. We were very early with respect to China, and we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn’t do that” Mar 17: “I’ve always known this is real – this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was a pandemic.” LIAR! Mar 19: “It’s not racist at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I want to be accurate” Mar 20: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter” Hmm..can’t answer a simple question about Americans being SCARED. Whoa. Mar 21: “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not too distant future"
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  4216. Counting down the seconds until the Trumptards start screeching about how his quotes were taken out of context, or how he really didn't say those things, or if he did, he was only being sarcastic, or if he really did mean those things then gosh Obama did worse! Those people need therapy & meds.
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  4217. Doctors and nurses and all healthcare workers wear masks - so they are cowards and fools?
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  4218.  @xaenon  One of my relatives still has a closet full of beanie babies in individual nitrogen-filled bags, waiting for them to return to value. And she fancies herself the smart one of the family ;)
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  4219. Afghanistan has a lot more experience at playing the "Get invaded by fools, then bleed them dry and make them leave" game than the US does at pacifying places like Afghanistan. The USA is a slow learner in this regard .. the USSR learned much faster.
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  4220. @don s Kremlin trolls are even more inept than their military forces, and that's saying a lot.
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  4221. If she knew too much, probably. Trump and his flying monkeys have already amply demonstrated their contempt for the law and for democracy in general.
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  4222.  @ezpic2  Sadly, what you just posted is right up there with bigfoot, flying saucers, chemtrails, the illuminati, and secret lizard people running the world. And you probably don't even realize that.
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  4223. Take away the hurt feefees and they've probably got no platform at all.
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  4224. Giving Trump a microphone is like giving matches and gasoline to a guy who's been trying to burn down the city, all because he's mad he lost the election to be mayor.
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  4225.  @carmend.1924  “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  4226. Just think, in a few short years, a Trump impersonator will be a standard cruise ship comedian act. Some cranky daft fool who whines nonsense about windmills and toilets while complaining how unfair everything is to him.
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  4227. Wondering if Ben Shapiro is on T-blockers .. their voice hasn't really dropped (at age 35!) and it looks like their face has never known a razor. What gives?
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  4228. Trump did promise that he would run the country like one of his own businesses. Between the stock market, the coronavirus, and rising unemployment rates, we may consider the promise to be only partway fulfilled :(
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  4229. What happened to Mr. Blake in Kenosha was less a police shooting, more an attempted extrajudicial murder. One of many.
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  4230. Pence still hasn't come forward to attest to the J6 committee (and he would surely have quite a lot to say) and he hasn't repudiated Trump's reign of error.
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  4231.  @Latte-girly90  We can safely refer to them as the US version of the Taliban :(
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  4232. It's slow and painful to read, but try the book "Secondhand Time: the Last of the Soviets" by Svetlana Alexievich. Interviews of many people on this very topic.
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  4233. Say it ain't so. For weeks now, in Portland, all you can find are restaurants crowded with maskless people indoors.
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  4234.  @pashakdescilly7517  Just go into any Best Buy. Not a single item there made or designed in Russia. Ditto for pretty much any such store anywhere in the west. In some ethnic stores, one can find canned fish from Russia, but that's about it. There is a penalty incurred to the truth when they tell themselves lies of grandeur, of first-world importance, and sooner or later that debt will be paid. Putin has turned it from "later" to "sooner".
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  4235. Maybe his better name would be governor Balsonaro? Who else remembers this? https://kfor.com/news/local/ok-governor-okc-mayor-face-backlash-after-posting-photos-in-crowded-restaurants-amid-coronavirus-concerns/
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  4236. The stuff AOC mentions is why I left FB awhile back and haven't once regretted it. He's even sleazier than the National Enquirer people :(
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  4237. Journalists are basically the only sector holding Mango Mussolini accountable. Our judicial branch has been basically neutered and is now blind to his transgressions of the law, and half of our legislative branch (the Senate) is in charge of one of his yes-men. This has got to change or we're going to be an example in the history books :(
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  4238. Her journalism is excellent. But I was also wondering, my god, how did she get her hair to have that kind of perfection you normally only see in a brand new expensive paint brush? Just wow.
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  4239.  @robertlee4172  Guessing Putin, Murdoch, and Prince have a paw in it too.
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  4240. "Sock" would be better.
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  4241. All this homeless-on-homeless crime .. is it their music? Video games? Their absent fathers? How come their leaders aren't speaking out on this problem?
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  4242. Considering that Wussolini has for years been telling the police to rough up suspects and bang their heads putting them into vehicles, his statements ring lamer than usual.
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  4243. I love the way she did a full circle around his attempted false dichotomy. Being a conservative, he's probably not used to dealing with actual functioning adults.
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  4244. Funny how no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up. He likes his lies to last at least a week or two.
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  4245.  @khshur2  OK Boris .. or is it Carlo?
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  4246.  @Vickytoriahirt1234  See his list of indictments as a starting point. There's almost certainly more we don't yet know about :(
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  4247. Right. He could step aside 3 days into the new administration, then guess who's president.
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  4248. I've often wondered how our nation will accomplish the cult-deprogramming that clearly must take place if our nation is to continue.
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  4249. And the Microsoft phone.
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  4250. Something tells me they're going to put a wheel clamp on AF1.
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  4251. Pay attention. Among first-world nations, the US is singular in being at the absolute bottom of the list for healthcare quality. In S Korea, they've done more than 100,000 tests. They do them for free. You can even schedule a drive-through test. But here in the US, they just talk about the high costs of tests and how difficult it is to test everyone. This will not end well :(
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  4252.  @darter9000  A lot of those people need help, as in, shelter in supervised settings. It is tragic to leave someone outside, in a cold damp tent filled with bags of their own poop. Multnomah County Poor Farm was a lot better than that.
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  4253. Well, it will be bad for the US and its people, but Putin will be very grateful to Trump for his efforts.
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  4254. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  4255. I've got friends in Australia (QLD, WA) and it's a struggle getting them to take this thing seriously enough to mask and get vaccinated and not socialize openly with strangers. I try telling them that covid has killed a lot more of our people than WW2 did, and they just shrug and tell me it's different there. Much of their country is wide open to stealth spread that would go like wildfire later. There are people dodging lockdowns, heading out to the bush, and socializing in big groups totally without masking or distancing - I know this from watching youtube channels where they post their travels in near real time.
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  4256. @Vincent Considering that Trump never understood that the US is a long-running entity and that his job was merely to take care of it for a little while, it must be puzzling to him to see Biden fleshing out the executive branch as he never bothered to do. A president must appoint around 4K positions, and about a quarter of those require Senate confirmation. Trump left many posts empty, or simply decided he could phone foreign leaders himself and skip the trouble of having diplomats. Ukraine was one of the consequences of that dumb idea. The simmering troubles between Japan and S Korea are another. The loss of America's soft diplomatic power is another, as is the expansion of China's reach through regional trade alliances.
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  4257.  @richardmarsden5610  NATO isn't taking part in combat operations in Ukraine, not yet anyway, although there are some Ruzzies out there who claim such in order to explain away the lack of success on the battlefield against 40yo western weapons.
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  4258. The inevitable result of Brexit was to make life rougher for most Britons. Hope that can be reversed sometime.
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  4259.  @todd-617  It's like she's the glue salesperson and the one who's sending those horses off to the glue factory. They are mesmerized.
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  4260.  @daisyelmir1289  That's why I haven't had kids. My family already spammed the environment too damn much. Parents, sibs, cousins, their kids, their kids kids, etc, everyone having families of 5-7 kids.
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  4261. Friends don't let friends get their "news" and "information" from the reich-wing echo chamber that they fall into online. Stupid people veer straight into information the same way flies go after steaming hot dog poop :(
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  4262. What does it say about those 72 million voters that they actually like what a truly awful human being Sweet Potato Hitler is? Those people need a lot more than just remedial civics classes.
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  4263. Putin is already looking for another US associate to continue where 45 left off.
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  4264. We have the ghost of general Sherman on speed dial, and yes, he can be summoned.
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  4265. Racists throughout the western world long for the days when brown people are seldom seen and never heard. Purging them would require an effort like that of de-Nazifying Germany after the war. When can we start?
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  4266. Funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to gold-plated taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  4267.  @nozhki-busha  We can best help Russia understand this by giving Ukraine a few shipping containers of cruise missiles to use as they see fit. Perhaps they will discover that it's unpleasant (to say the least) when missiles are being fired into their territories. They may just be extremely slow learners.
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  4268. We have the same problem in the USA too. Republicans have long wanted to purge society of people drawing pensions, and free up that money for other things, such as tax credits for the rich or waging another war. And now they've found their convenient crisis :(
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  4269.  n1tothrust  In the cases where there's been an outcome, in the USA so far the outcome has been death approx 4% of the time. Good luck with that ignorance thing though. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  4270. Being the devil's doormat is dirty work, but someone's got to do it.
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  4271. Dump is like a barrel that has no bottom. There's no such thing as an absolute moral floor below which he won't go.
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  4272. Guess his staffers didn't include all that rally footage where he was saying that the virus was a new hoax and that there was nothing to worry about.
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  4273.  JOYA MAHAN  Upon a second read of your comment, I see that you somehow missed getting basic life lessons in the nature of consent. I pray that when your time comes to be on the receiving end of that lesson, it doesn't leave you bitter or even physically crippled, all because someone chose to do something harmful to your life without your consent.
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  4274.  @bradynlotterman8164  There is no legit answer to the question you are asking, because the clump of cells in question is not yet a viable life form unto itself. Ask me the question again after it's breathing, and then I can give you an answer. I see you are are still unable to answer my question. You are simply another kind of Karen. It "hurts" you when some woman gets an abortion in the same way that it "hurts" some Islamic cleric every time a person eats pork. You're whining about a victimless act that's not even a crime, except to a certain religious sect, and here, in America, we have a wall between church and state.
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  4275. Trouble was, they sent the gardener down there only once, and all he did was burn the place then leave. The noxious weeds were the first to emerge, and they've been around ever since. At least Germany had the benefit of the victorious allies de-Nazifying the place afterwards. We totally failed to de-Confederatize the US after the Civil War. Big mistake.
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  4276.  @DougUnfunny  Agree. This could just be the pause between Trump's fascist cultism and DeSatan's fascist cultism.
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  4277. Trump is much worse than just loyal to no one .. put it this way: if he could somehow get his supporters in Congress to grant him absolute powers, the first or second thing he would do is dissolve Congress and put them all in camps or graves.
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  4278. Oh no. He had a lot of helpers. They may have taken the Trump signs off their lawns, and they may have scraped the III% decals off their rigs, but we still remember who they are: Quislings.
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  4279. Those people will win elections. He won't.
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  4280. Sondland threw the entire administration under the bus, then backed it up and parked the bus right on top of them. Beautiful. Trump just got out-Trumped and he does not like it one bit .. because Sondland won't be the one getting impeached then jailed. I'm actually starting to like Sondland! ;)
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  4281. Funny how right-wingers think it's a "coup" when Congress questions Trump's mental stability, yet think it's normal when Trump calls for his political opponents to be jailed. I'm starting to lose concern for whether Trump's fine people serve their time in prison, in mental homes, or in cemeteries.
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  4282.  @briardan9226  It's pretty official news that Herman Cain died of the coronavirus. But then, you Trumpanzees can't make an argument that depends on anything that's not "alternative fact".
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  4283.  @BoundariesMaintained  From the J6 insurrection to the appointment of special prosecutor Smith was 681 days. This is some form of institutional paralysis :(
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  4284.  @shredofmalarchi  Re "We need progessives. Abortion and voting rights are being gutted right now" << If you are implying that non-progressive Democrats aren't doing a damn thing about these things, please pull the other one. You don't have to go full Bernie Sanders to nonetheless work for positive change.
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  4285. The last I heard, more than 800,000 had signed up.
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  4286. No. The net Republican goal, by whatever means (even the pantomime disagreement between Trump and congresspeople), was to deny aid to the American people. They succeeded :(
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  4287.  @andylane3739  Perhaps it's more akin to a shared psychosis. Already we know that conservatives quite often suffer from overactive amygdala issues.
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  4288. Remember, kids, just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean we should turn the batcave over to the Joker out of spite. Albert isn't trying to burn down Gotham like the other guy has been for years now.
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  4289.  @brothermitchlove1  It wasn't much of a coup, it was the former leader being caught embezzling state funds.
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  4290. Good job!
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  4291. The US plan to Israeli peace is paved with dead/homeless Palestinians. And Kushner, the architect of it, is perfectly OK with that.
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  4292. That's one thing Trump never planned on, uniting Americans as never before - against him. No presidential candidate in history ever got as many votes as Biden did in 2020.
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  4293. All along I've been assuming that Trump's people are like the proverbial beaten wife, who delusionally imagines that he loves her because he says all the stupid racist hillbilly things that her dad and brothers all say.
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  4294.  @catalinul1461  Or for other things that might be flying in that territory.
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  4295. Tuck was born dumb and hasn't improved since.
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  4296.  @nancyross7935  Sure, but this isn't a "two sides opposing each other" kind of thing. It's more like a "one side dumb enough to swallow obvious lies that wouldn't fool a cat" kind of thing, which works on them only because their biases run clear down to the bedrock. And even then, the number of those willing to commit crimes in service of the big lie is but a fraction of their whole number. It will be a police mop-up operation like the 1/6 insurrection was, after which none of those people will be allowed to own guns, and many of them won't be able to vote again.
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  4297.  @melissaweyrick5311  It's like watching Charles Manson and his followers try to wreck everything because cult leader told them to. Whether they wake up from the spell is another story.
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  4298. THANK YOU PENNSYLVANIA!! You helped save our democracy. Kudos to you :)
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  4299.  @jonlee2217  UA must be doing something right, because the troll farm in St Petersburg has shifted up a couple gears almost overnight.
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  4300. Paramilitary activity is illegal in all 50 states. It would appear that for well over a decade there's been no enforcement.
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  4301. Mic gain was cranked too far up, and there seems to be no compression. This is an easy fix if he can find an audio tech.
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  4302. And if you have trouble with a word for something, point to it and ask "Chto eto?"
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  4303. And when Trump does take an oath, it's not work much more than a bowl of dog snot, as evidenced by his recent claim that the presidential oath of office said nothing about "supporting" the Constitution.
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  4304. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  4305.  @katersization  Thanks for your "postcard from a psych ward". I'm glad for you that you seem to have constructed a bizarre, alternative reality for yourself. Now take your meds.
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  4306.  Dr Foolchi  Re "wow you're a white supremacist" << You just burned out your projector bulb. Again.
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  4307. The idea of friendly cooperation with your neighbors is entirely foreign to them.
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  4308. And there's the rub - even Trump's staunchest supporters wouldn't leave their teen daughters alone with him.
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  4309.  @christopherweise438  In other words .. the GOP are forcing themselves to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Wonder if they can see the irony in the situation?
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  4310. Hitler had no need whatsoever for an independent bureaucracy that would follow set rules .. or an independent judiciary that would follow set rules .. or a police force that would follow set rules .. or a military that would follow set rules, so he worked to put those things under his personal control. Trump seems cut from the same cloth.
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  4311. I want the recording for the dinner party conversation with random people who helped Trump with policy advice on this one.
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  4312. It would probably have to be a whole new series. "Law & Order: Restoring Democracy"
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  4313.  @Saturndragonfly  Heck, the name "Brandon" is enough to trigger those looneytunes now if you surprise them with it.
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  4314.  @terryfuldsgaming7995  Borrow to your heart's content .. and happy holidays to you :) When the MAGAstanis have returned to living under their rocks, I shall be glad to get off social media again. The only reason I came back was to deal with the nonsense of Trump and those he inspired.
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  4315.  @noturningbackever493  Thanks for the laughs! You're a classic example of the deluded-by-FOXed-Noise segment. Back when you were screeching at the moon that Obama was stealing everyone's guns and forcing everyone into FEMA camps to live under Sharia law, the rest of us noticed that you were simply barking mad.
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  4316.  @Sunset553  Trump openly said at one point that if we tested less, there would be fewer covid cases. Ahh, I didn't really need that peek into the mind of a simpleton.
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  4317.  @fletch7311  Dammit, I should have escaped while I still could. Got friends up there who would put me up. What's coming next in the USA is not going to be pretty :(
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  4318. Pat, Chris, Aidan, Lynn, and others would make good names for Proud Little Mama's Boys.
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  4319.  @zarakikon6352  Bingo. Hitler used to have some elite bodyguard corps who had that classic Aryan look and were dumb AF. Did little Maddie get plastic surgery to look like one of those same pinheads?
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  4320. "Can you imagine being an American citizen and living in fear that the president and his supporters are going to kill you?" Sadly, most every visible minority has been feeling this way since the November 2016 election. Dimwit Donnie is only too happy to bring out the worst in his supporters :(
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  4321. Late in the tangerine Palpatine's first term, he couldn't go to any unvetted public venue without getting booed. It totally got under his thin skin.
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  4322. Keeping Russia tied down and bleeding in Ukraine was a smart choice for the west. Driving Putler's supportniks out of Ukraine entirely could have been done awhile ago. Thanks Putler for the opportunity to enlarge NATO. Now you'll have NATO forces closer than ever.
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  4323. I have friends like that too. Somehow, they are convinced that voting for Harris will unleash some great evil. Willful blindness.
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  4324. Well, we'll find out soon enough, because if they're allowed to get away with this scale of misinformation (stuff that causes lots of people to die from a pandemic, stuff that causes lots of people to commit insurrection) we won't have a society for much longer anyway.
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  4325. They're squatting all over Portland, when there's all this space on the dry side to build them a nice safe place with a fence around it.
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  4326. She likes being in office, yet she knows that every single Republican who tried to defend Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out in the very next election in 1974. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Yet at the same time she can't risk being on the receiving end of a nasty tweet from the Toddler-in-chief. Seems easier to throw the rule of law down the drain, right?
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  4327. Yeah. He seems to live in some strange world where a) he's the cleverest, b) the internet doesn't exist, c) recording devices don't exist, and d) no one can remember yesterday's lies today. SAD!
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  4328. AKA "I'm not a plumber, but I've been whacking the pipes with a hammer for awhile now, and I think there's something gone on here that needs to be looked at."
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  4329. Alrighty, Republicans, now's your time to gain some more seats. All y'all need to do is ditch those back-to-1950 or back-to-1850 retrograde bad ideas that repel voters.
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  4330. Someone's got a nice online countdown clock .. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?csz=1&iso=20210120T00&msg=Time+left+until+Trump+leaves+office&p0=263
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  4331. How did she imagine she was going to empower women while she was underpaying them in her nasty sweatshops? FFS.
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  4332.  @sononi4798  Re "forgive yourself for the totalitarian global state" < Haw haw haw. Can you name any instance in human history where the necessary motions of fighting a pandemic (enforcing quarantines, masks, vaccines) led to the formation of a durable totalitarian state? crickets What's that, you can't name any such? You were just waving baseless conspiracy theories? Who would have thought? /s
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  4333. Not only does she make Trump seem mildly narcissistic, but she makes Trump look as if he's in full rational control of his emotions.
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  4334. That was a big game of Simon Says. Without any proof offered by accusers (just the word of their cult daddy) Congress nonetheless acted on TT.
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  4335. In fact it is a "hire court". Just ask Harlan Crow.
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  4336.  @Scout-bt3mo  Again, he could have avoided the whole thing simply by not stopping over to engage in a verbal confrontation. That's what the judge is going to focus on.
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  4337. Well, the good news is that prosecutors seem to have full access to whatever "private" or "secure" messaging/radio systems the perps used for communications between themselves. Betcha those dolts never heard of the old Carnivore system heh ;)
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  4338. Also it seems right-wingers were all against "caravans" breaking the law at border crossings -- until suddenly they were OK with conservatives doing it at the northern border.
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  4339. Here's a perfect example of a Trumpist. This lady, who lived through the Cold War, and who undoubtedly was taught in grade school that dictatorships are evil governments that need to be bombed into submission, with the ringleaders hauled before the Hague and then hung, ought to know better. She knows full well that dictatorships are usually accompanied by concentration camps, piles of skulls, mass graves, political prisoners, ordinary people getting tortured and killed on the whim of the dictator. How does a person go that far nutty? I used to wonder why Germans went full nutty with Hitler, but after seeing what Trumpists do and say, I now know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLdHCyz8uXg
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  4340. Governance in the finest tradition of Orwell.
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  4341.  @joeblack007  You gotta hand it to the Russkis, they do Baghdad Bob even better than Bob did.
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  4342. Trump's loyalty is 100% to himself, and f*ck everyone else. That he has people lining up to be his next victims tells you how many stupidly gullible folks we've got here :(
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  4343. Don't expect any ranking Republicans to even notice this violation of federal law. Oh no. But if Obama were to wear a tan suit, wow, just wow, you would hear some genuine outrage from Republicans.
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  4344.  @annihilator45  Regarding "there were no cities burned down! That is one big lie!" .. lies are all the Republicans have got left to tell each other. The myth of their omnipotent orange chaos agent didn't work out like they planned.
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  4345. There's only 3 ways to get individual people back to work. 1) Everyone wears hazmat suits all the time. 2) Develop a vaccine that works, give it to everyone. 3) Roll out a widespread antibody test, test everyone, and those who have antibodies can go back to work. No country was designed for an idiot leader like Trump.
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  4346. DeSatan is leaving his mark on Florida the way Hitler left his on Europe :(
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  4347. Thankfully I've been able to miss it. The $20/day "compensation" does not cover my bills.
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  4348. Every day in America it's like this: Dr Fauci: "Donald, there are still hundreds of millions of Americans who haven't been tested." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??"
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  4349.  @earthcat  By then we'll be all vaxxed and it will be like a block party.
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  4350. He means people voting.
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  4351.  @rickbart1  Incorrect. On October 20, 2016 he said, "I will accept the election results -- if I win". He went on to lose the popular vote the first time.
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  4352. Who's this "we"? I was against that fascist even before he went after the Central Park Five.
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  4353. You got the magnetism? Lucky you. I could use that as a superpower. The gift I got was being able to install Windows on any computer just by touching it. Had great fun for awhile turning Linux boxes into bluescreened Win10 systems just to mess with some programmers.
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  4354. Thanks to Trump, we now know there are 3 basic types of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  4355. Chelyabinsk, where the tap water has a most interesting "mineral" content. Ignore that ticking geiger counter, comrades.
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  4356. You do know that the president doesn't have a big slider control in the white house basement for consumer prices, right?
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  4357. I for one don't miss the whackjob tweet storms. The way he issued edicts by Twitter was especially disturbing. We don't even know if they came from his phone .. they could have come from anyone he shared his Twitter password with. cough Putin cough
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  4358. Some refer to them as "Vichy Republicans".
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  4359. Most cultures have a cautionary fable for their children .. it goes something like this: the devil takes you up to some high place, shows you some pretty fabulous sights, and says it will all be yours if you can just do this one little thing for him that he needs. Trump is what they warn you about.
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  4360. Correct. Needs to be a public apology, repeated every hour on Newsmax for the next month or so, as well as a huge money settlement.
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  4361. Propaganda. 99.95% of the covid deaths are the unvaccinated. Is that math enough for you, princess propaganda?
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  4362. I keep hoping that there's a place for him in the Biden administration. The nation would benefit.
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  4363. Graham wasn't the only one. Who else remembers this one? (I left the original transcription errors standing) "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the stage have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. This election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation except an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  4364. Are the dimwits currently in charge of the US only just now realizing that Russia has geopolitical interests in those oilfields?
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  4365. A t-shirt is something that Trump's enablers could just take off. I'd prefer they have something on them that doesn't come off. So that future employers / neighbors etc know who they're dealing with. Perhaps some political criminals registry would work too.
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  4366. We tried that before. Compliant senators & congress folk (not to mention Murdoch's RNC propaganda outlets) just said "whatever he says". Apparently the Supreme Corp feels the same way.
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  4367. @TalorcMacAllan For sure, it's demoralizing when you can see video of an ATACMS launch (looks like an angry god kicked it out of the launcher) and what happens when the warheads land (some truly high explosive stuff), and there isn't a thing you can do to intercept it.
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  4368. Presumably because he was prepared to kill some of those people, or assist others in killing them and/or overwhelming their security details. No to protect himself from the same Clumpanzees he helped incite to violence.
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  4369.  @jeremyray6601  Alaska has the highest rate of gun sales per capita in the USA. Is Putin sure it's a good idea to invade the country with the largest stockpile of ammo on the planet, and more guns than people?
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  4370.  @mis4nthr0p3  No doubt, it was beginning to make Ruzzia look bad when folks would cross the border into Ukraine and find a more prosperous, democratic, European-aligned country right next door. And Pootin just could not abide it.
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  4371. He works internationally too, you know .. so far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  4372. Funny how the NRA, militias, and other so-called "patriots" are A-OK with this merely because it's Americans they don't care for getting the shaft. Their patriotism is about as shallow as Benedict Arnold's - or Trump's :(
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  4373. And yet, notice how Ivan kept his antiquated air weaponry out of the area when US president Biden was visiting. Very smart.
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  4374. Looks like we need to send more! How about that new Rhinemetall air defense system? Reaper drones?
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  4375. Trump: I want the churches packed on Easter!! Virus: You bring the body bags, I'll do the rest, just like in Italy ;)
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  4376.  @cantecleer  Simple is as simple does. And you, my friend, have got an excess of simplicity. Good luck with that.
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  4377.  @faithrada  When it comes to Stephen Miller - they have a special place at the Hague for people like that. He fits in with the Butcher of Bosnia :(
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  4378. I'd want to keep them occupied as long as possible to keep them from harassing others. Like a telemarketer you're trying to frustrate by keeping on the line needlessly.
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  4379. Wondering if/when Putin is going to start sending women into combat .. at least the ones who have been deemed unfit for child rearing.
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  4380.  @jammmy30  Hmm, from what I hear, all of the loss ratios run the other way around. Like 5GW meeting WW1-era field tactics.
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  4381. Wonder if anyone in this video has since been picked up by the FBI. Trump really brought out the worst in his followers.
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  4382. That he even remembered that 'fact', made him a genius in his own mind. And to his cheering throngs who could hardly know any better themselves.
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  4383. It's almost as fun as sneaking up on an NRA meeting, slapping Biden/Harris stickers onto a third of the vehicles, then retreating to a safe distance so they can work things out themselves. Pop pop pop.
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  4384. That's basically her inviting them into her KZ before she takes them down. The fools don't know not to go there.
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  4385. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the USA is a vast, complicated biz that was running long before he came along and will be running long after he's gone. He still does not understand that its powers are his to use whimsically, or to reward personal friends, or to punish personal enemies, or to hang onto power illegally just because he's mad at how the election went. It says a lot about Republicans that he reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to twist.
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  4386. Perhaps Putin pays him a bounty for dead US civilians?
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  4387.  @faithfulgrl  Face it - to 30-something percent of Americans, Trump is like their Reverend Jim Jones character, and ignorance is the tainted kool-aid they pass around.
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  4388. It didn't work for the good little Germans during the 1930s/1940s.
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  4389. Don't expect any Pence documents outrage from today's Republican leaders. Also don't expect AG Garland to quickly appoint a special prosecutor.
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  4390. Conservatives can't answer these things any better than Hitler's goons could say how or why Jews were supposedly destroying German heritage.
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  4391. And that is all what it's about. Putin would have had to go full Iron Curtain to keep the people of Russia from envying the democracy and the freedoms that their neighbors were enjoying in Ukraine. This isn't about countries wanting to join NATO.
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  4392. "In the saddlebags", you mean. Not the pockets. Gotta use metaphors, my friend.
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  4393. The hate rallies are getting smaller attendance all the time. The reasonable people have been exiting the cult for awhile now. J6 events caused the migration rate to increase.
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  4394. They should go to wherever Nicolai Ceausescu and his crazy wife went.
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  4395. And yet despite everyone saying that millions of times over, there always seems to be another new fool who thinks the poison won't rub off on them by association. Oh the humanity.
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  4396. The proper name of Two Doll Donny's site is Truthless Social.
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  4397. Let's do it like Norway, no private money in politics, election advertising is limited and 100% funded by public money.
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  4398. I'm not that worried about Ben Shapiro making anything useful of his life. The only time I've seen him put out any effort was when Andrew Neil (of the BBC), who speaks 8x slower than Ben, wiped the floor with him.
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  4399.  @auntiewewe972  He's basically the next George Zimmerman.
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  4400. Do you even live here? Sometimes it seems most of the commenters are checking in from a memory care home out in rural Clackistan.
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  4401. Trump's defenders (like Hannity) know very well that when push comes to shove, Trump will shove them down under the bus without the slightest hesitation. He would drown his own kids to keep himself afloat. Trump's defenders have got to be getting a little itchy, what with Moscow Mitch announcing that he hasn't got the votes to prevent witnesses from testifying.
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  4402. ChatGPT probably.
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  4403. No doubt he's still seething over how "his" military didn't go along with the plan to forcibly crack down on BLM protestors. This is his revenge.
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  4404.  @TwiPrime  Re "What if his Secret Service detail just do anything he tells them to?" Bingo. Like on 1/6 when they were part of the plan to remove Pence from the picture.
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  4405. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance.
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  4406. Steve must be pretty desperate if he's finally resorting to saying something that's factually true. That, or his standards have slipped a lot. Funny how he's not using this as an excuse to say we need a revolution.
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  4407. Ask me again why Antifa has been protesting against Trump and his Brownshirts.
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  4408. I curse silently every time some doofus American hints at the French being afraid. That kind of thing is said by people who've never been in the same room as a history book.
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  4409.  @briandbeaudin9166  That Vivek guy was off the rails, saying more people die from "bad policies". His BS is of little comfort to those who die from extreme weather events.
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  4410.  @koolaidgadfly5132  You can get a taste of what would happen if you read the 2018 Salon article entitled, "They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president's name"
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  4411. 55% want immediate removal? Those are rookie numbers, people! Additional FOIA claims are being worked even now. More will be revealed about the anatomy of the process by which Trump violated the Impoundment Act, then tried to cover it up, then tried to obstruct justice. All of that will help lift those numbers.
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  4412.  @Leadguitarman1  Hate to say it but you are probably closer to the truth with that. You may effectively gauge the seriousness of the epidemic by the ways in which the Chinese government is reacting to it. If all you saw were just their actions, you'd think this is along the lines of the 1918 pandemic or even worse.
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  4413. This is like Al Capone trying to claim that that IRS has a thing against Italians in general.
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  4414. The arsonist complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  4415. Sounds like you should remind her more often. Even if she is your sister, you still deserve better people in your life.
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  4416. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  4417. On January 30th he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment - five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”
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  4418. I remember some initial studies predicting that without the interventions and the quick development of vaccines, we would have been looking forward to 10 years of cycles of death and illness as this thing reverberated throughout the human world, mutating and killing people all the while. It would be like the see-saw that is Brazil now, but a lot worse.
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  4419. So there are people out there who refuse to vote for Biden because he's not Bernie or someone else? That's like saying, "Since I can't have the tasty cupcake I want, instead of bread with jam I'll just choose a muffin made of broken glass." Don't let better become the enemy of good.
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  4420.  @alan4sure  You forgot the "freedumb" to pass on the disease to lots of other people, the "freedumb" to prolong the pandemic and to delay the recovery.
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  4421. Josh gave that fist salute to the people who he knew were about to assault the capitol to prevent certifying the election results that clearly showed Trump losing. He's going to have to answer for that someday.
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  4422. Hope he enjoys singlehood.
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  4423.  @Comrade_Tokoloshe  The way I heard it, Biden left an old game boy lying around and Trump has been thinking it was the launch device.
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  4424. Trump tweeted for Michigan to "liberate" on April 17: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/trump-tweets-liberate-michigan-other-states-democratic-governors/5152037002/ The whacktard alt-reichers began looking for Governor Whitmer's home address on April 19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#Initial_investigations
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  4425. Those things are not defenseless .. they stand up quite well to civilian small arms .. they would have been excellent by WW2 standards.
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  4426.  @lyrical1999  This is an easy choice between the wannabe fascist and the responsible manager.
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  4427. Most Trump voters will probably never see this news appear anywhere on the reich-wing news channels they get their disinformation from. And those channels have a stranglehold over much of flyover country.
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  4428. Irony and introspection are not just closed books to conservatives, they are burned and buried books as well .. h/t Douglas Adams.
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  4429. Some of us do not forget. There was also the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, in which both the US and Russia agreed that the newly independent parts of the former USSR were free to choose their own paths, whether it be aligning one way or the other, or doing something else entirely.
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  4430. 2022 nominal GDP - World Bank set - USA $25,439,700 million - Russia $2,240,422 million. War is just the kinetic, violent version of economic struggle.
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  4431. Given that the means are so handy to members of the Bubbarati (heh) we should probably expect an uptick in vehicle attacks on government facilities.
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  4432. To Putin from America with love. He should be lucky we're not bringing Stormin Norman into the picture.
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  4433. They live in a microverse of alt-facts at Q-Anonsense. Gym Jordan's questions don't mean anything outside of the context of conspiracy theories. He is fulfilling my every expectation ;)
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  4434.  @macheldenostredame2255  With a half-gallon of book-of-Leviticus punishment thrown in.
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  4435. Exiting the EU will not magically flip the calendar back to when Britain was strong and independent, and nary a dark face was to be seen in public. But it will certainly make life in Britain more precarious. Why do people want to grab that electrified rail so badly? :(
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  4436. He has no self-control anyway. Betcha by Monday next week, the third defamation trial will be announced. He couldn't keep his mouth shut about something even if you fined him $83 million over it.
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  4437. Funny you should mention that. Trump just dusted off the Molotov-Ribentropp Agreement (by which Stalin and Hitler agreed to partition and plunder Poland) and made a few edits to it. Same BS, different day.
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  4438.  @WineScrounger  Sorry, but I have friends & relatives over there, and I don't for a moment accept your nonsense that lots of Russians support this. They don't. They're getting arrested by the tens of thousands for protesting it. Every wannabe Hitler has his little supportniks. And that's all that Russian media will show, of course.
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  4439.  @JohnKerr-bq3vo  Relax, friends, the justice machine has been re-geared for extra-fine grinding. It's running slower than usual but at very high torque.
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  4440.  @meghoward2610  Correct. All of his tacky merch is made outside the US. Shows exactly what he thinks about bringing back manufacturing jobs.
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  4441. The Hague keeps hot spare accommodations for those committing crimes against humanity.
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  4442. Well, if this upsets you too much, just go volunteer for Russia so that you can enjoy the effect of those expensive missiles you're complaining about.
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  4443. Every time Trump and the Republicans reach the bottom, they dig out a new sub-basement and move into it. They're miles down at this point.
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  4444. That's like when Bush sent then-VP Quayle to report firsthand on the LA freeway collapse during an earthquake. He famously said "It looks like the top part fell on the bottom part"
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  4445. The Republicans weren't doing so well when it was "one vote per person", so they switched things up to "one vote per dollar" (thanks to Moscow Mitch and Citizen$ United) and now half of all super PAC money in the USA comes from just 50 donors. Like they said in Animal Farm, some are more equal than others :(
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  4446. Everybody: There's no such thing as a cure for stupidity! Covid-19: Hold my beer.
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  4447. Trump must have an endless supply of bulbs for his projector. There's not much else behind those dead eyes.
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  4448. Right. 20 years previously, a whole bunch of international rescue crews would have been showing up, professionals and their crews of volunteers. But now? Feh.
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  4449. Even as the US reached 3 million cases and 133 thousand deaths (case fatality rate 4.5%) the US president continued to insist that 99% of the time the virus is totally harmless. As if he expects people to believe him instead of their own calculators!
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  4450.  @donvitocorleone3603  Don't forget Charles Manson. He would have definitely approved. Also the Heavens Gate crowd :(
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  4451. That aspect of Cheeto was clear long ago, decades before he even thought of being in politics. It's stunning that anyone couldn't see it.
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  4452. Speaking of games .. has anyone else noticed how seldom (more like never) Russians factor US material aid into their boasting about WW2 victory? I ask this because not too long ago I read the book, "Stalin's War" by Sean McMeekin. The amount of stuff we sent to the Soviets was absolutely stupendous. There are products still on the market today that we designed for the taste and battlefield nutritional needs of Soviet soldiers, such as Spam. We sent weapons, ammo, propellants, explosives, vehicles of many kinds, boats, ship, aircraft of many kinds, trucks by the thousands, oil, lubricants, fuels of different kinds. So while they may boast that it was their mass charging of enemy positions while screaming "Hurrah" that made all the difference, it remains a buried, unpatriotic, and unmentioned truth in the neo-USSR that American stuff (and sht tons of it) is what made their victory possible. Whole generations have been raised on the myth of the invincible red army. You see now how the war goes for them when limited amounts of western material aid are available to Ukraine - and what we give Ukraine presently is nothing like the amounts or variety we gave to the USSR back in the day.
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  4453. As an American, I hope the rest of the world stops all discretionary spending on American products and services. That's the message that Cheeto needs to feel.
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  4454. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  4455. Yup, been wearing out my c&p reminding them that the text of 14.3 imposes no burden of conviction or even of accusation. Their whining is similar to what Leslie Van Houten did in her first court appearances, when she was still deeply gaslit by cult leader Charles Manson. It wasn't until much later that she realized everything he'd told her was a complete lie and that she was in serious trouble for having participated in murder.
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  4456. No one has accused Vance of being very smart.
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  4457.  @july8xx  I recall some stats from last year's [under attended] Sturgis .. cellphone map data revealed that participants came from every county in the nation. Every single county. And all the way home, their little hitchhikers jumped off the bike and found new homes. This is what's called a clusterfuck.
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  4458. Hopefully for the good of the nation he's forgetting to take the remainder of the course of antibiotics. I say that only because Pence will be less harmful to the nation during the lame duck period .. why, he wouldn't even hurt a fly!
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  4459. Observers noted how Clump hated McCain, but then, that was because McCain saw Clump for what he is.
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  4460.  @mttsgrandfather2812  Beautifully put :)
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  4461. Also, stand back and stand by. They may be so distraught that they require the services of the police.
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  4462. Seriously. Dump couldn't even hire that drunk Melissa Carone, the crazy woman who got laughed out of court for baseless election fraud claims.
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  4463. Think of the coronavirus as a pass/fail test that a lot of people and institutions are failing :(
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  4464.  @larryhevia1177  America did change for the "coarse" in the form of the former vulgarian-in-chief. We're in the process of fixing that, but it may be a long road.
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  4465.  @FortitudineVincimus  Republicans in November: Trump who?
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  4466. I hate to point this out, but so far testing is proving to be of very limited use. It was revealed yesterday that the time of greatest communicability is in the first 3-5 days of incubation, which is well before any signs start to show. Those mushrooming positive-test numbers in S Korea are lagging perhaps 10 days or more behind the actual spread of the disease - that is, if you could freeze this moment in time and methodically test everyone in the country. Many are not showing symptoms yet but are in fact infected already, they just don't know it yet and would test negative for it at the current moment.
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  4467. He never did have much of a spine anyway.
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  4468. Why yes. In fact, they're so triggerable that just suggesting that other holidays exist will make them shriek that you're "waging a war on Christians"!
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  4469. Is that like saying there are fewer pregnancies when you don't test for them?
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  4470.  @TamalynRoberts  Sorry, haven't seen it. I've read the book cover to cover a number of times though :)
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  4471.  @BabbyCat3008  No, sorry, multiple journalists and users have already confirmed that the new "Pravda" platform (the Russian translation of its name) explicitly bans the criticism of both the platform and Trump. Remember, this is the guy whose skin is so thin that he blocked his critics on Twitter.
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  4472. Does anyone still listen to Smelly Steve? The guy's a fruitcake. They're going to have to add a whole new wing to the mental hospital for all the disgruntled ex-Trumpies who have no path back to reality.
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  4473. I'm snickering at Trump thinking he can throw the Ukrainians under the bus. They're not known for being very accepting of that kind of treatment. Got popcorn?
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  4474.  @ArtyFactual_Intelligence  He is a talented war crimes prosecutor from the Hague. He's got this 👍
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  4475. These "meanwhile in Russia" series videos are hilarious! Keep up the good work, guys :)
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  4476. You misspelled "Spokanistan". Cross the border into Idaho and it gets even worse :( Edit: Montana and the Dakotas aren't much different.
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  4477. South Dakota is impressive - with the same degree of urbanity/rural-ness as Montana, but no restrictions, their number of cases is doubling every 0.628 weeks. Montana (locked down) is doubling every 3.28 weeks.
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  4478. I like the way he's being a president for everyone, not just the ones who voted for him.
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  4479. Correct. Their "it's your body, it's your choice" thing miraculously goes away when the person is female.
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  4480. It may well be that the whole excuse for the sham was to give Cyber 'Ninjas' (can't type it without laughing, they're so inept) another contract. Even before the election started, Elder was going around saying the results were already tainted.
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  4481. I love that clip of Sidney Powell saying the most idiotic, baseless sh*t (basically whatever would most whip up their fool base) and saying it with all the recorders running. That's going to be part of the evidence against her. I wonder how many of them will try the Alex Jones defense - that it was merely "rhetorical hyperbole"? This stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZoI1tisIlQ
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  4482.  @mikeorfe1188  Re "MAGA will prevail" << How? They're an ultra-minority. Less than 3%. If they know what's good for them, they'll go back under their rocks and resume grumping about how minorities exist and why life is so unfair to them. Pathetic inbreds.
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  4483. If Republicans are so insistent that it's safe to go back to work, they need to prove it themselves. Maybe they should drive around, shake hands with lots of random people, then eat potato chips (or fries) without washing their hands first. Someone should offer them that challenge to see if they take it up. Betcha they won't.
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  4484. Hint: it's not the documentation he's complaining about, any more than it was Obama's tan suit the Republicans were incensed about.
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  4485. Things don't go well when the president of the senate is in cahoots with the president. That happened back in the 1930s in another country, when Hitler's illegal seizure of power was made possible only by the help of the president of the German senate (the Reischtag) who was Hermann Göring, who later went on to be the #2 Nazi. Moscow Mitch is Trump's little helper this time around :(
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  4486. It's like the trash is taking itself out .. goodbye to bad rubbish. Anyone with an IQ over 85 has already gotten vaccinated anyway.
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  4487.  @falkenlaser  "Trump got more votes than Obama" Hey, wingnut, they were never on the ballot at the same time. And Trump lost the popular vote twice by millions each time, once to Hillary, then to Biden.
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  4488.  @darrelljohnson5764  I see you couldn't name a single example of what you claim is happening. FYI China is not the same as the US government acting in the name of US workers councils. No doubt this distinction is as far over your head as the m-o-o-n.
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  4489. Looks like Trump missed his opportunity to pardon himself, his kids, and his insurrectionists. He's going to regret that.
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  4490. Been wondering what the total costs would be of Trump's refusal to accept his 2020 election loss. There was the physical damage on the capitol; the costs of the J6 committee; the court costs of processing more than a thousand of those who committed violence in DC; the cost of all of Trump's court cases; and so on. Must be huge.
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  4491. I got lost there once while taking a shortcut. Strange place :(
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  4492. Poor little proud boys don't look so proud in their mug shots. Sigh. What's that saying? "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  4493.  @billy2807  Excellent math. At the rate they are "taking over" Ukraine (roughly 1/5 territory seized so far) it will take them more than 10K days and will cost them approximately 2.5 million troop losses, 32K tanks lost, 60K armored combat vehicles lost, 2800 air defense systems lost, and so on.
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  4494. Hopefully he won't last long in Florida. His crimes in NY state will earn him extradition back to NY to face the music, that is unless he first runs to Russia or North Korea .. and with his usefulness to them ended, he'll probably take an extended vacation in the same basement that the Romanovs went to.
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  4495.  @ouimetco  I like the way they do it in Norway. Private money is forbidden in elections. Everything is publicly financed. Universal automatic suffrage at 18.
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  4496. Seems like you have never heard that saying about how an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. But we expect nothing less from ComBloc trolls, who lack English figures of speech.
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  4497. Well, if you really miss your freedumbs, just skip the vaccine, save the dose for someone smarter, and wait for the new variants of covid to catch up with you. The hospitals in Bend are already getting flooded with folks who are 98% unvaccinated. Hell of a way to "own the libs". Some of them will leave behind their stuff for smarter folks to pick up at auction later.
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  4498. Putin seemed to think that if Russia were to simply withdraw from all nuclear weapons treaties, it would be of enormous benefit to Russia but not to the other players, not even the ones who spend 20x more on their military development. As if the country that intelligent people flee constantly is even remotely on the same footing as the country that everyone tries to move to.
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  4499. Other concessions: paying all the legal fees for Adam Johnson (the J6 nutter who stole the House Speaker's podium) and promising him a job upon release.
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  4500. Ahh, you see what I mean when I say these Q nutballs are putting the Onion out of business :(
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  4501.  @GregtheGreek60  Bingo. From friends who travel, I hear how embarrassing it is when you go to any normal country where the bridges & roads aren't falling apart, where airport security isn't still looking for a repeat of the sneakerbomber, where fast cheap regional high speed rail takes you everywhere, where it's easier to afford higher education, and so on. The US is second-world in some ways and getting worse :(
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  4502.  Respect/Walk  US carbon emissions are 14.95 tons per person per year; China's are 6.57 tons per person per year. Your point?
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  4503. This is something that was learned very early on in the pandemic, first in places in Asia. Plain cloth masks would keep people from infecting each other via droplet transmission. The places that have made masks mandatory have greatly slowed the spread of disease.
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  4504. She looks like she could go a couple weeks without eating.
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  4505.  @kolsen6330  Guessing they had a quid pro quo agreement on those. He may have requested a $10K cut every time it happened.
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  4506. The only people who are butthurt about presidents not being kings seem to be all Trump's "fine people".
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  4507. They're putting the Onion out of business by way of reality out-weirding fiction :(
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  4508. Those Trumptard "liberate" rallies springing up everywhere are providing growth media for the virus. They've picked an odd way to "own the libs" - from the grave apparently.
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  4509.  @rb032682  You need to laugh, because otherwise there's too much worth crying about as our nation edges closer to fascism.
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  4510. Republicans are somehow convinced that people's voting power should count for more when their neighbors are further apart. This is why Wyoming has one senator per 289,380 people whereas California has one senator per 19,755,000 people. It's a sop to those why enjoy Trump's "Pravda" channel.
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  4511. His own admissions on camera are something he will never overcomb.
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  4512. Too many big words for him anyway. Long sentences too.
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  4513.  @hollyberry3561  Bingo. Paid to maintain the status quo.
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  4514. The single biggest thing he's done is not be Trump or like Trump. If you miss the days when allies were getting openly insulted and noxious tweets were emanating from the white house, you might be more at home in Russia or North Korea or Hungary.
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  4515. Would LOVE to see that. Because the crazies can best be called covid's fifth columnists, and little else.
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  4516. They have apps for that, but noooooooooo, she's as lazy as her husband.
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  4517. You never go full Portland 😅
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  4518. GOP voter: "those damn Boeing engineers can't make the 737MAX fly right. Let's hire Joe-the-plumber to fix the problem."
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  4519. Lots more disgruntled former underwear models where that one came from. Lordy knows that they do after failing at FOXed Noise - go to OANN? Sell used cars?
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  4520.  @geoffhennessy275  Also known as the Mango Mussolini.
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  4521.  @Disorder2312  Re "If you pretend to be on a good side, you shouldn't аttасk anyone." << Precisely. Now can someone hop in a time machine and go back to January 2022 to explain this to Putler?
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  4522.  @stephenvz7852  107K on a 1.6T 2015 and it's running fine. Do maintenance and don't modify.
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  4523. Well, their jaws are locked around a spoke and the car is still doing 60.
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  4524. Does he know what happened to the Ceausescu family of grifters, who also tried to hang onto power? No one's heard from them in awhile.
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  4525. He's already getting moved out of the loop, and that's a very good thing. Despite him saying he doesn't want that ship to dock in the USA (for fear of virus numbers affecting his re-election chances) other people are already making the necessary decisions on these things. His tweets will continue to supply us with some much needed Baghdad Bob type levity.
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  4526.  @ws2228  Go back to sleep in your mom's basement, loser.
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  4527.  @mariabarragan4950  Bingo, he's the younger and browner Trump.
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  4528. Trump finally has a "USA #1" thing to hang his hat on - America now has more coronavirus cases than any other nation in the world. Only 6 other nations had total case counts greater than the 17K+ increase we saw in just one day! So congrats, Trump, heck of a job Brownie, you finally made the USA #1 in something.
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  4529. Does anyone remember that movie "Point of Origin"? Ray Liotta starred as a fire investigator who was secretly the same arsonist starting the fires he was investigating. Why, Nunes, why?
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  4530.  @jswaggart01  You have forgotten one (admittedly from the past): how Erich Honecker ran East Germany. At the time of its demise, a whole quarter of the population was paid to spy on the rest. Kind of like how Abbott wants vigilantes to be abortion bounty hunters. Weird, though, there's no bounty and website/hotline for turning in suspected rapists. It's as if Texas doesn't care if they do their thing.
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  4531. Nope. His excuse for removing US troops from helping the Kurds against ISIS has already fallen apart. He even said at the time that it was to fulfill a campaign promise to bring troops home. No, it was purely a gift to Russia, to Syria, to Iran, to ISIS. Maybe ISIS will thank Trump for their rebirth by featuring has face on their Caliphate Dollars.
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  4532. Plenty of states bus their homeless to the west coast. Many of them land in Portland and Seattle.
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  4533. The Wussolini cult did this as a dress rehearsal for November, only then it's going to be happening in a lot more places than just Georgia.
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  4534. Sure, that's going to look great on your resume in 3 years. During a public health crisis, you just could not bring yourself to do the right thing.
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  4535.  @theresed2348  Yup. Waiting for the canned food to start having purchase limits next :(
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  4536. That "lock him up" chant really got his attention. And I don't mean in a good way. Probably boss Putin advised him on next steps to take.
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  4537. The way they break out more shovels when they find themselves in a deep hole .. it's just like when someone faces west in the evening and proudly declares it's morning in America. Their compasses are 180 degrees wrong every time.
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  4538.  @zumaanandrade3961  One wonders if Trump keeps tape of all those times (since he first won the Republican nomination) someone came crawling to him asking for some kind of favor. Knowing what we know about Trump being so petty and vindictive, it seems likely.
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  4539. Familiar phenom. Even after Germany was left a ruin, you could still find total bozos who still supported Hitler. Even though Hitler had just caused the nation to be utterly destroyed.
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  4540. Damn .. rest in peace, friend .. I build single track and ride it solo all the time.
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  4541.  @Tipperary757  Ding ding ding. We have a winner! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-obama.html
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  4542. Dump's cult took some of my relatives. But only the ones that didn't have much sense to begin with ;)
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  4543. And all the defenders of this fascist apartheid regime are crawling out of the woodwork. I like those red hats. Makes them easy to spot.
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  4544.  @BagOCheetos  "Gives you a pass"?? You mean, the right not to be assaulted? Did you grow up under a repressive regime somewhere far away?
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  4545. See Bluestar Airlines.
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  4546.  @Tycon  Yeah sorry, not changing candidates (especially one who's done a good job running the country) just over one late night debate. Keep your eyes on the ball: an angry fascist vs a responsible manager with a good track record.
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  4547. That's one of the things about the Phil Valentines of the world .. they are not there when families bury their loved ones because they took his anti-vax nonsense seriously. He didn't set up a foundation to help all the covid orphans who've lost one or more parents/grandparents/providers. The ones who misinformed others are nowhere to be found when the bill comes due.
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  4548. @Troy good luck getting a coherent answer from the folks who've normalized the fuel consumption rates of the past.
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  4549.  @seric4546 The same certainly cannot be said of his killer.
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  4550. That's a tiny little one compared to the camps in Portland - and some of them go on for miles.
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  4551. The only way in which Trump inspires anyone is to get lots and lots of Americans to sharpen their pitchforks. He'll be cowering in his bathroom, atop the golden throne, tweeting about how unfair it is.
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  4552. "An inadequate drunk neighbor with grenades" -- perfect! 😅
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  4553.  @chiwawachiwawa7783  Re "He'll probably don't even answer any questions" << To be sure, there's no upside in honestly telling the committee what he and the others did to carry out an insurrection. Especially when he can just refuse to talk, get a slap on the wrist, then get rich on the talk circuit afterwards.
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  4554. I keep hoping for better browser extensions to block his whiny, odious voice and video.
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  4555. Over 40,000 people came in from China after he banned Chinese nationals from traveling by that route. Obviously many of them brought back the virus.
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  4556. Dump hasn't said this specifically, but one gets the strong hint that he doesn't want to have to endure any more elections. The results often hurt his tender feelings.
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  4557. Making your kids drink poison is a crime too, but that didn't bother any of the parents at the Jim Jones cult in Guyana. Same thing now. Cultists gotta cult.
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  4558. I did some study on that .. the delay between the peak Mardi Gras attendance and the resulting peak in cases was around 40 days, but that was partly because no surveillance testing was happening in the weeks right after the event. At the worst of it, Louisiana was seeing above 2,000 new cases per day. I can mail you the infographic if you want. Other potential early super spreading events were not so clear in their resulting spikes.
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  4559. To salve whatever passes for its conscience, I'm afraid the DNC will again insist on fielding a candidate who can't defeat Trump, all to avoid the appearance of approving a candidate who hasn't got the seal of approval from the billionaire class.
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  4560. All they had to do was cross-reference the list of teens with guns (or access to guns) with the list of teens whose social media feeds are full of gun rage and/or incel propaganda. Most of them shout it out on their feeds, post pictures of them posing with the guns, post their manifestos, etc.
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  4561.  Cerberus  Trump is too dumb to notice that anyone smarter than a cat can see through his lies.
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  4562. More like a clown car, full of drunks, that just rammed a flaming dumpster. That's Republican rule for ya :(
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  4563. What's sick about the Trumpanzee politicians as that they are determined to protect the votes of their 71 million sheeple at the expense of trying to do away with the rights of the 75 million who voted for Biden/Harris - all in the name of democracy of course. That was a great question Pompeo got asked.
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  4564. Thanks to Trump, we now know there are 3 basic types of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian. Didn't know we had so many types B & C here. They are a cancer, and you don't cure cancer by looking away from it.
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  4565. You got to give the Republicans credit when it's due. If they can just force enough rape and incest victims to bear the children they never wanted, they're convinced it will make the world a better place.
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  4566. Just imagine the tariffs for imported food ..
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  4567. He can barely read anyway.
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  4568. All we need now is a big guy in a helmet, with a backpack so that Putin can ride on his shoulders.
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  4569. Wow. I had no idea that the disappearance of the Q-Anonsense content/channels from most social media outlets would produce so many lost souls, looking to verify or discuss things that have absolutely no grounding in any kind of factual reality.
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  4570. Chiming in from Oregon, USA. I would be happy if our authorities here had the stones to immediately mandate masks, everywhere in public, no questions and no exceptions, with heavy fines attached to noncompliance. Some places (like the state of New York) have done that to great success. Bring on the $5000 fines. I'm wearing out a keyboard explaining to fools that them going maskless isn't much different from them wandering around in public emitting sarin gas.
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  4571. Ok.. looked it up.. this separation of children at the border would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy DeVos’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  4572. This is how it needs to be everywhere. Masks & distancing lets us run businesses without exposing people to needless risk of catching the virus. Some types of businesses are not safe to run yet, but many are .. farming, logging, outdoors resource extraction .. retail and restaurants with curbside service .. office work from home .. and so on. Put on your ingenuity hats, people, we're Americans and we've pulled the rabbit out of the hat many times before.
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  4573. McConnell appears to have had a run-in with a member of his electorate. Of course, this is the same McConnell who once said that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, so if anything bad happens to him, well, he had it coming.
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  4574.  @peemic12  Hahaha, fool, anti-maskers are the ones spreading a disease that's already killed almost half a million Americans. Discouraging them from spreading disease is not the same as genocide. Not that your dim bulb of a brain would realize that :(
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  4575. Now that the people have absolutely, totally, unequivocally voted to secure the doom of our democracy and the end of the New Deal, all I can do is find a good vantage spot for watching the chaos unfold. I'm going to wear the print off "I told you so".
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  4576. Republican have long wanted to get rid of the Department of Labor regulations for breaks and lunches.
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  4577. This is left-wing humor. Deal with it. Right-wing humor is more like running protesters over with a big truck while trying to pepper-spray them.
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  4578. Dear Republicans, You all had 2+ years to call him out. To stand up for the people you represent. To separate yourselves from his reprehensible policies and beliefs. To restrain him from pillorying our closest allies and trading partners. To call out his insults. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To keep him from embarrassing the US by withdrawing from treaties willy-nilly. To keep him from trashing the word of the United States on a treaty. Most of what Trump has done hasn't even been grounded in Republican tradition. But you were weak, cowardly, and greedy. You were afraid of getting mocked on twitter. And now when you lose, you become the snowflake. Cry me a river. You will not have the house, the senate, or the presidency back for a generation or more.
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  4579. It was beautiful the way she blowtorched him with that "say it to my face" line.
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  4580. Like him, she seems completely unaware that there were some role responsibilities attached to living in the white house .. that America was running long before they came along, and will continue to run long after they've left .. that their job was only to be caretakers for a little while. But they're too tiny to see bigger things.
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  4581. Notice how sheep farmers never share the shearing schedule with their sheep? It's the same thing with FOXed Noise never sharing the truth with its sheeple. The truth would make them uncomfortable.
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  4582. America: fires aircraft carrier captain for blowing the lid about sailors getting sick. America: cuts funding to WHO for allegedly covering up pandemic.
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  4583. Hitler too surrounded himself with sordid figures.
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  4584. And yet, with all his faults and his distinct odor (both in and out of court) those failing somehow make him seem like a god to America's most gullible.
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  4585. "Haw-Haw" Carlson went to a nomenklatura store, which is always stocked. A real Potempkin visit.
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  4586. The one way out is a French solution. Madame LaFarge has already been summoned.
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  4587. Trump never wanted to be a leader, just a ruler.
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  4588. Stay safe! I lived many years in rural New England :)
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  4589. To be fair, the impeachment inquiry probably didn't have a specific rule to keep participants in the crime from sitting on the panel and debunking those very same crimes. Kind of like Al Capone getting a position at the IRS and trying to cancel the audit that would reveal he's been cheating on taxes :(
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  4590. Gone are the days when every international rescue team would be flying in quickly to help. All for a last hoo-raw playing at 1800s style colonialism with a neighboring nation :(
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  4591. DOTUS is still mad at how TikTok users pranked his Oklahoma superspreading event - the one that killed Herman Cain. That's all it's about.
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  4592. Kari Lake's actions most benefit (wait for it) Vladimir Putin, who would love nothing better than for Americans to destroy America.
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  4593. In this matter, Nunes is a lot like the lead character in the movie "Point of Origin", which was about an arson investigator who secretly went around lighting fires.
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  4594. My choice for garbage-of-the-week would be Mr Limbaugh, who once promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America - except that cancer isn't getting paid to do it.
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  4595. A grateful America thanks you! :)
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  4596.  @perhammarstrom4559  Can you get back to it later on a real computer? I was trying to figure out your email address.
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  4597. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to stop or slow testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me!
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  4598.  @stevenm732  Excellent numbers. Texas, with a population of 28,995,881 has 3,342 new cases today, giving them 115.3 new cases per million per day. Oregon, with a population of 4,217,737 has only 621 new cases today, giving them 147.2 new cases per million per day. Using the same methodology, today Connecticut was the bad place to be at 607.8 new cases per million per day (I'll just stick with that unit for the rest of this comment), Michigan at 354.5, Washington at 314.1, and at the other end of the scale are Kansas, Montana, Arkansas, all under 21 new cases per million per day. Numbers from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  4599.  @dianehooper3589  The damage that Trump did to the brand known as America will last decades. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get.
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  4600.  @jackburton6133  Err, no, I live in the world of data and facts - even when they are unwelcome facts. It's you and folks like you who desperately want to believe that things aren't bad. Maybe someday you will see why China and other countries had to react as harshly and thoroughly as they did.
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  4601. There should be a lot of comments flooding the hotline too about people seen wearing hoodies.
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  4602. Putting anti-science pray-the-gay-away Pence in charge of fighting coronavirus is like putting the Amish in charge of Microsoft. Jeez.
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  4603. I doubt the wall around the white house or the military forces in DC are going away anytime soon. The Berlin Wall was started on flimsier excuses and plainer beginnings. Wussolini is making the white house into a ground level bunker.
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  4604. And now Zucc is in on the ground floor of the US version of China's social credit system :( Hope y'all deleted your Wastebook accounts already.
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  4605. It's been there since 1934, and was there all through the Cold War. The current period is definitely hotter than the old cold war.
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  4606.  @lilwobblywade6324  Once again, the low-IQ squad conflates "being careful not to get the virus" with "Oh my god, you must spend all your time in the basement quivering in fear". Dolts. Hope you don't get a date with the ventilator.
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  4607. "Heartbreaking" is not the term I would use. An evil authoritarian figure came along, and they tripped over each other trying to help him break the law. Today's Republicans (most of them anyway) should be treated the same way you wish Germany had treated the Nazi party as of mid-1932.
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  4608. 45 reels in the dummies quite well, he just needs to comport himself like a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is like, a poor person's idea of what a rich person is like, an emotionally unbalanced person's idea of what a together person is like, an immature person's idea of what an adult is like, and so on.
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  4609. Unfortunately here in America we've got some real diehard nutballs. The same Republicans who would support Trump overturning the election results are aghast at the idea of Democrats, four years down the road, having the right to overturn certified election results that would otherwise put them out of power. They're cult members. Finding common ground with nutty people is a waste of time.
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  4610.  @ralph95  You seem to be laboring under some misinformation regarding Chicago. If you look at the per capita murder numbers the picture is different. https://www.thetrace.org/2016/10/chicago-gun-violence-per-capita-rate/
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  4611.  @I_like_dat  She needs to claim it as a dependent on her taxes too. The law has to be consistent. Texas can't have it both ways. Either fetuses are people or they are not. She ought to be getting additional insurance benefits and childcare benefits and a tax break too if she has a young dependent.
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  4612.  @realtimebiblicalinterpreta6972  Turn on the TV, it's live news on many channels.
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  4613. I'm thinking this is a net win for the American taxpayer, since it means less government money spent at Trump's own resorts on days like that. Maybe if we crank up the heat enough, he'll break into triple digit tweet counts. People, you know what to do.
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  4614. She has no integrity. If she did, she would have reminded Moscow Mitch that even 8 months before a decisive election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. But she wanted the seat, and the price will be paid to Trump later when he disputes the election results. He's turned the court into a joke :(
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  4615.  Box Car  I think she has someone else doing her floors, just like her role model, Phyllis Schlafly, who hired maids and nannies to keep her house pretty and raise her kids so she could go to her office to tell other women to stay home.
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  4616. Preach it! That new-variant disease, the effects of which we now see in London and Los Angeles, will be here very shortly if not already. Besides, what the government is asking us to do now (masks, distancing, closures) is way easier than what it asked us to do in WW2 - wear uniforms, close nonessential businesses, ration everything, work in arms production jobs that we weren't allowed to quit, send our kids overseas to fight and die, etc. Masking & distancing are a walk in the park by comparison.
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  4617. This is why I am secretly hoping that Trump is part of the Republican scene for awhile to come. He's going to do them a favor like when a giant anchor lands on top of a rowboat and sends it straight to the bottom of the bay. Which is fine because it's going to take awhile to clean up the mess he left behind.
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  4618. Bingo. His only way out is to talk gibberish (he's 75% of the way there already anyway) and be declared incompetent to stand trial.
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  4619. NY state has a case rate of 9,233 per million - more than 3x higher than Italy's case rate of 2,518 per million. We are going to have a lot more deaths following this curve.
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  4620. As we know now, Trumpanzees represent the intersectionality of two distinct groups, a) those who are mentally/emotionally damaged and can thus hold strong amoral conflicting views (such as "All fetus lives are precious!" and "Those refugee children should die in the desert after we shoot their parents!") and b) those who are especially vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda. The ICE employees appear to have been drawn from the same well where Hitler got his Gestapo goons.
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  4621. Watching the senate Republicans trying to hammer the big square peg of reality into a tiny round hole, just to fit their made-up conspiracy theory, was probably a preview of what the senate will do when it comes time to deal with Trump's impeachment. That is, they'll spend the time yabbering about baseless conspiracy theories, they'll try to put Hunter Biden on trial, and they'll sentence the whistleblower in absentia to two consecutive lifetimes in prison for treason.
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  4622. Looks like they weren't wearing masks. Translation - in a month or so you can swipe the pickup from their driveway because they'll be dead inside their own homes. Can't fix stupid.
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  4623. You can see some of Russia's rationales when you look at what the USSR used to be vs what Russia is now. Russia has perhaps 7% arable land, a negative birth-replacement rate, and many areas so unproductive (due to climate) that local economics don't even support paved roads. They are a third-world resource supply nation with delusions to grandeur. Sadly, they will never again be as effectively organized (and even then it was shitty) as they were under the Soviets, who at least kept people mostly employed and mostly housed.
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  4624. Facebook: the #1 place where those anti-vaccine nutters get their misinformation. That same misinformation cost Washington State more than a million dollars fighting the measles outbreak earlier this year. Someone ought to claw back that $$$$$ from Facebook. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-02-21/measles-outbreak-has-cost-washington-more-than-1-million-report
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  4625. Like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose. So vote them all out! #OperationBlueTsunami
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  4626.  @makinapacal  But did Frederick Douglas write about how wonderful slavery was? How safe he felt with armed guards around, to keep anyone from sneaking in (or out)? How grateful he was for the free housing and food in exchange for backbreaking lifelong labor? How much he sympathized with the rights of the owners to euthanize those who could no longer work? Pretty big omissions on his part, hmm.
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  4627.  @blondhairblackstrat  We may be there already, with certain red states pre-rigging the vote because they don't like the opinion that the people of the United States of America express through their votes.
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  4628. Same. I don't miss Wastebook one bit.
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  4629. The look on 45's face right then was perfect - for Harris.
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  4630. I call it Fakebook or Wastebook. It's an open sewer of disinformation, seemingly designed for anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, and right-wing ethnonationalists.
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  4631. When the defeat of Germany became inevitable, he told his generals to destroy the country, the seed crops, the livestock, the buildings, everything .. and thankfully they ignored that order.
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  4632. The last time Russia got invaded, the West lend-leased them an incredible amount of arms, combat vehicles, supplies, weapons, fuel, uniforms, etc. That enormous supply is what made it possible for Russia to turn around the invasion. It would seem they're not in line for any such blessing this time.
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  4633. He was a ruler, not a leader. He never wanted to be a leader. That's a much harder job, and one that president-elect Biden wants to do.
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  4634. It was a stupid idea to have 45 in any debate. I'm sorry people can't learn it. Debating 45 is like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird struts around the board, knocks over the pieces, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, then flies away squawking that it won.
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  4635. Correct. Admitting that he isn't the 46th president is the extent of him conceding the election to Biden.
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  4636. If people really want to work, there are lots of openings just now. Maybe some of them are just too good to work at grocery stores, hospitals, Amazon, security jobs, the post office, etc.
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  4637. What's so disturbing about Trump is how Republicans took to him like ducks to the sticky tar sands of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate, something that thrives on a diet of lies. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  4638.  @basedbear1605  Thank you for reminding me how much I like conservatives. BTW as usual you are completely wrong on that score. There's nothing wrong with your opinion that being hooked to a ventilator won't fix. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/23/fauci-warns-of-more-and-more-coronavirus-complications-in-young-people.html
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  4639. Portland is kinda horrible on tires anyway. After losing a number of them to potholes, I switched to smaller rims and taller-profile tires.
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  4640.  @Wanderlust07-30  Re "Nazi Germany spread propaganda through flyers, word-of-mouth, newspaper, and radio 📻 broadcast." << There's a lot of money to be made by reducing something to its components (just ask Gordon Gekko) but, more to the point, a hateful/despotic/fascistic regime needs a little help to metastasize its cancer in America's body politic.
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  4641. We're already on track to go way over the 1918 pandemic .. and here's a reminder of who was most responsible for that: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  4642. Thomas Hovgaard, no one in Greenland should be subject to what passes for "American affiliation" these days. Consider what would happen if some horrific natural disaster were to befall Greenland -- the next day, Trump would be tweeting about what losers he thinks they are and how they shouldn't be getting any free money to fix up "their own problems". Just as he did with Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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  4643. Notice how Fox never mentions how he's traveling around in the old Epstein Island plane?
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  4644. For their own safety. In fact, most of those Trumpers might want to hide in that kind of gated community for awhile.
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  4645. Giving Trump a platform to spread his lies is pretty irresponsible.
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  4646. Please stop asking questions that are based on untruths. Covid deaths are still around 99.95% unvaccinated. Kind of like asking "Why did California polling places close 2 days before the recall election?" when in fact they did not close 2 days before the election. As a propaganda technique, that's pretty lame.
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  4647. I remember when he said on the 15th that the USA has passed the peak. FOXed Bidness still has the video up. Since then we've gone from 644K to 961K cases and from 28K deaths to 54K deaths.
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  4648. I would have still voted for Biden if he was in a coma, or even just a rock painted blue, but now I'll vote blue more gladly :)
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  4649. Did Trump perhaps tell FOXed Noise to deliver this line? After all, Hannity is part of the channel between Trump and FOXed. Trump has been using them as a letter drop (so to speak) to present opinions as news.
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  4650. Red House Occupation Zone .. can someone please get a camera in there? Or will it be North Mississippi Occupation Zone?
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  4651.  @Three_Random_Words  Mr "no snack left behind"? Err OK
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  4652. Matt PizzaGaetz just wants to play Alfred Naujocks to Hair Fuhrer.
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  4653. About the CDC - everything that Trump touches dies. Whatever agency he was allowed to appoint people to, their reputation is useless now because he used them like a cheap, disposable toilet seat cover to bolster his ego or whim at the moment. Whatever longstanding ally he was allowed to interact with, they now think a lot less of the USA now that they know our country is never more than one electoral-college whimsical decision away from appointing an even greater fool to the high office of president. The damage will last a generation or more, and everyone will long remember how the Republicans actively helped him all along the way.
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  4654. Those big camps you may have heard of .. they have other uses.
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  4655. Foamers 😅
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  4656. So Lord Tinyhands has left the USA? Good. It's always nice when the trash takes itself out.
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  4657. In other words, it's how stupid people try to "make sense" of unrelated things.
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  4658.  @lawschoolpro  Re "Just want to get back to normal." << Oh I can remember "normal" quite clearly. Back then, the only "community" the nutters had was through that godawful World Daily News (available at checkout stands everywhere) that featured full-cover front photos with screaming captions like, "New Jersey Housemom Gives Birth to Two-Headed Alien Baby - And It's Already Pregnant!!" And they ginned up their own godawful newsletters and sent them to each other's PO boxes. These days, of course, those same nutters way-more-easily find each other through social media, and construct closed communities (more like echo chambers) where they reinforce the group delusions until some get so fed up that they go out and commit actual crimes. That is where we are now.
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  4659.  @naptownrandb  Most don't even know they're looking like idiots. I've seen some refer to masks as "slave muzzles" imposed by the "new world order", so of course in the name of "freedom" they refuse to wear them - and the virus continues spreading.
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  4660. "The facts don't care about your feelings, you bloated, ignorant fool" would have been the right response.
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  4661. Oh no. 45 will be around, squawking, for awhile to come.
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  4662. This next year we need to make a push to get all the new voters registered - everyone who will be turning 18 by the time of the 2024 election. They are critical to determining the future of our nation.
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  4663. Give it time. The wheels of justice are moving slowly now only because they've been reset for extra-fine grinding. Got popcorn?
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  4664. I love the way 45's followers are pauperizing themselves. And Alina Habba wants nicer handbags.
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  4665. Most of them are overweight slobs who couldn't guard donuts. Meal Team Six. The kind who get a blank look when you ask them to demonstrate function check on an AR.
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  4666. Remember those thousands of immigrant/refugee children whose parents can't be found? Obviously Stephen Miller took a page from "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (their own documentation did them in at Nuremburg later) .. this is why those parents are still missing. Probably their ashes are buried out in the desert somewhere.
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  4667. I've been assuming through this sh*t show of an administration that any numbers put out by any agency within Trump's reach are pure fiction. In the same way that federal agencies were banned from using certain words and phrases (climate change, among many others) I would expect any official numbers to be pure horses$1t. We can all see for ourselves how many more people are homeless and/or underemployed than there were as of January 2017.
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  4668. Christie is a Republican, after all, and their party is what carried Drumpf to term in 2016. He just doesn't like how their party is saddled with a nonviable candidate just now.
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  4669.  @davidpnewton  No, you did NOT answer the question of what the cost is that's on par with the results of sickness and death. All you have hinted at is that it's a mere inconvenience to you.
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  4670. @Ian Campbell What's this "fear" you speak of? I bought my masks and gloves and thermometer and o2 meter back in January after seeing the news out of China. So I just follow protocols and go about my business. No "fear" needed to follow protocols, any more than it's "fear" to use a seatbelt when driving a car.
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  4671. You can know Trump for what he is by his effects on people - and there are no documented instances of anyone becoming a better person through his effect on them. On the contrary, he inspired a lot of people to take up criminal activities, and now there are more than a thousand of them doing time for it.
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  4672. Trump has lost both popular elections. In 2016 the loss was 3 million votes; by 2020 it had widened to 8 million votes. If the rise in voter dissatisfaction is as exponential as it looks (doubling time 4 years) then his potential 2024 loss could be approx 21 million votes. Which is why I hope he runs ;)
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  4673.  @debbiedoodiedandi  Ah, yes. They deride cancel culture, but then they're the first to throw their nice Keurig machines in the dumpster over Keurig pulling its ads from Hannity's propaganda show.
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  4674. Hey, Brian, tell us about the time that Biden let a dangerous virus into the US, then spent months downplaying it while thousands of Americans died. Go on, we'll all wait. Tell us how much worse things get than that.
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  4675. Like it said in that book "Ecocide in the USSR" (Murray Fessbach, 1993) the idea of drinking less vodka seems like a waste of self-control when the city puts homes and schools right next to a giant industrial plant belching green smoke into the air constantly.
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  4676.  @edgarpryor3233  "new law provide a legal way to distribute water" << Let me introduce you to a concept you seem unfamiliar with. What the Republicans in Georgia just did is called "fixing things that aren't broken". Their real problem was that they didn't like the outcome of the vote. Their "solution" is to make it harder for certain people to vote. Does this help spell it out to you, or do you require shorter sentences and smaller words?
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  4677.  @kellyhunt5888  Sadly, when you see some Canadian/American dummy waving the Nazi flag, chances are good that his ancestors participated in the effort to liberate Europe from the Nazis.
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  4678.  @riparianlife97701  Word from fleeing Russians is that it's rapidly becoming like NK 2.0 over there.
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  4679. Pretty sure the record will later show that his "businesses" were mediocre at best, and made profit only when the power of the state was used to support them, such as telling the military to stay at his hotel in the UK, making his whole entourage stay at his own hotels, etc.
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  4680. Heard that "both parties are the same" tune before. The ones who want you to hum it are Trump and Putin, to keep you from participating. Look up the last few party line votes on election security, equal pay, and other progressive issues. The parties are NOT the same. Aware or not, you're shilling for Putin when you say otherwise.
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  4681. I was going to pee on it since he likes that so much.
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  4682. My batch of blood relatives are similarly afflicted. Despite the fine education (MIT, Caltech, etc) they are schlubs, and they don't know it.
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  4683. The worst is still some weeks away. This is just the runup to worse things. Sorry :( This did not have to happen.
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  4684. And they cheered! SMH
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  4685.  @Graymenn  You're looking at this from the POV of a human. Try looking at it from the point-of-view of the virus. This has nothing to do with politics. For each normal pre-pandemic human activity, you can derive a "how easily could the virus spread from person to person" factor that's dependent on the following variables: - Is it indoors? - Are there people from different households there? - How good is the air circulation? - How close do people get to each other? - How long are random people in the close presence of each other? Supermarkets, and other large stores that can afford to upgrade their air circulation, are doing mostly OK in terms of not spreading the virus from customer to customer. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the workers in those places, or for stores where they can't afford to implement these measures. The authorities have had to make some hard decisions. Unless we're prepared to deliver food to everyone's homes (as China did during the worst of their lockdown back in Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr) we must keep those stores open. But everything else should probably stay closed. The alternative is going to look like 3000, then 5000 or more deaths per day.
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  4686.  @buangkano  Re "Soon the idiots who scream that they won't get a vaccine will be dying" << I'm starting to get suspicious that a bunch of their survivors will later be claiming that no one told them how serious covid was.
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  4687.  @somerandomdude8399  Probably #3.
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  4688.  @EWLadyK  Right? Because nothing says you're a patriotic American like trying to beat a policeman with a US flag in support of the guy trying to steal the election he lost.
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  4689.  @desertmonsoon1  No, no, the Moskva has just switched to submarine mode. It's now operating from the sea floor. Part of Putin's 5-D chess <wink>
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  4690. Hate to say this, but we've barely seen anything yet. May I suggest the book "It Can't Happen Here" (1935) by Sinclair Lewis? Good reading on what a creature like Trump might do.
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  4691. And to think, there are all those folks who're armed to the teeth, allegedly to prevent dictatorship, and yet here they are, cheering on Trump for wanting to do just that. Obviously not the sharpest eggs in the carton.
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  4692. He's been working on that Emperor Palpatine tone of voice.
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  4693.  @bobheck7303  "Betty" isn't the only ex-Trumper who's going to be suddenly switching to the "Biden isn't doing enough" nonsense.
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  4694.  @whatever3773  "Buried" is such a harsh word. I prefer "inhumed", which is the opposite of "exhumed". But yes, they have to go.
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  4695. To be fair, that probably was the first time anyone said no to him.
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  4696.  @johncrazyhorse2707  The popular vote is 78,753,377 Biden to 73,119,421 Trump and the EC is 306 Biden to 232 Trump. The people have spoken. Those "mean" facts have hurt your tender little feefees.
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  4697.  @johncrazyhorse2707  There ya go again, making up nonsense that you believe as fact. Good luck supporting your fascist loser Trump who lost the election by millions. Maybe there's some other country where you can try that "laws don't matter" approach, but then, they probably wouldn't let you in if that's how you feel about laws.
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  4698. Grump is going to be very desperate now. Let's see if he starts a war in the final 2 weeks just to try to prevent the inevitable transfer of power.
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  4699. Somehow, when America's founders wrote "free speech" into the law, I doubt they imagined that someday it would be legal for politicians and so-called "news" agencies to spread the lie that the guy who lost the election gets to toss out the votes he doesn't like.
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  4700. The joke's on them, no new movies are being released now anyway. Maybe they can get tattoos like "Coronavirus is a hoax! Trump 2020" instead?
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  4701. For starters .. the details of his conversations with various heads of state, stored on that secret server.
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  4702. That's code for "one of the Mar-a-Lago regulars is a good friend of mine who owns a cruise ship line", so he will keep pumping out the happy talk to keep the money rolling in, even if it means condemning thousands to die from being aboard those floating petri dishes.
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  4703. Or Lavrov will go on another "whine your way around the world" tour.
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  4704. I'm thinking it's more like an Upside Down sort of place they want. Where election results are overturned if the losing minority doesn't like them. Where offending/trashing our longstanding allies is the norm, and sucking up to hostile foreign dictatorships is the new face of American diplomacy.
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  4705. Yes. Being able to get tested anytime is in fact Trump's basis for claiming that everyone can get tested whenever they want. He's like a dumb prince Humperdink, living safe in a castle, telling the commoners that they have no need of walls or fortifications.
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  4706. Saw that. Oh, Ohio :(
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  4707.  @daroob  Or Newt Gingrich, who poisoned the well quite awhile back.
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  4708. This in insane. Any any other countries, the a-holes inciting this nonsense (Trumpty Dumpty, those super PACs that fund it, FOXed Noise, Alex Jones) would be locked up as terrorists for this. Or worse.
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  4709. Trump doesn't care if he just destroyed the reputation of the court, just as he destroyed the reputation of the CDC. All he needs it to do is what he tells them, when he tells them. Any lasting damage is just icing on the cake. He's basically doing to America what was done to Lebanon.
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  4710. If you could explain the process by which POTUS is supposed to do that, it would help make your question more clear.
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  4711. The white house is going to need serious fumigation after the orange stench is removed. So many things to be fixed. America, are you ready for it? We have a lot of work to do to restore America.
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  4712. How about if the governors and ex-presidents do the same? :)
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  4713. For Germany, Hitler was the lesson by which they learned that not all propaganda should be given airtime .. that not all speech should be protected free speech .. that not all political views should be treated as normal political views. Trump & FOXed Noise appear to be the American version of that.
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  4714. Condolences. Here in Oregon, we've kept the covid numbers very low, but all it's done is induce some of the nutters to complain that the restrictions have been too onerous. Basically they are people who value their own livelihoods more than the lives of other people.
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  4715. Only the house of representatives can do that, and they won't.
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  4716.  @JohnMoran  Things that happened years ago under (sometimes) different people are no excuse to ignore the coup that's openly brewing right in front of us. Please tell me that's not what you're advocating.
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  4717. And yet, amazingly, there's no shortage of fools lining up to take their turn at being f*cked and chucked by El Trumpo.
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  4718. Mind you, these are the same people who would happily serve Putin than vote Democrat. The same people who would burn the country down and let a deadly disease run wild just to "own the libs". They're not just insane and traitors, they already actively hate America.
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  4719. Just open everything to people who can prove they're vaccinated. The laggards can stay outside and keep their masks on.
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  4720. @JMUDoc I like your thinking. We can see his loss in higher resolution. Plus it will be funny watching his fans flip-flop from saying in 2016 that Trump's 306-EC-vote result was a landslide to saying in 2020 that Biden's 306-EC-vote result was a razor-thin victory.
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  4721. @The Real American Patriot! Re "Me to, I wonder if FOX will report this?" << Not a chance. FOXed, OAN, Sinclair stations will not cover this.They have a stranglehold over much of flyover country.
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  4722. Hope it works as well for him as it did for Alex Jones 😅😅😅
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  4723. Thankfully, someone put a spellcheck blocker on MTG's computer, so she can't get anything done until it's spelled correctly and has correct grammar and is in the right format. She can't do any of those things.
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  4724. Bingo. Just yesterday they sent out the notice that our workplace will be closed for 5 weeks, with no pay and no benefits. It's tax season. Am I supposed to let my car get repossessed? Feh.
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  4725. Best of all, the more the Republicans dig in and pretend this is a nothingburger, the harder they're going to lose. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of traitors. Make sure everyone sees the material from the impeachment inquiry then goes to vote. We can do this, people :)
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  4726. Remember, Republicans (and their fans) howled in outrage when president Obama committed the horrible, dastardly, unconstitutional crimes of using mustard, wearing a tan suit, and trying to seat a SCOTUS judge a whole 8 months before an election - which, Moscow Mitch assured us, was much too close to the election. They're either in need of remedial civics classes or heavy therapy.
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  4727. Once you understand that the right wing (AKA the "reich wing") is an apocalyptic death cult, their actions are easier to understand. They really need to go into construction. It would be the only useful, productive thing they could do.
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  4728.  @paulschulte1064  -10 for asking questions then filling in what you imagine to be my answers. (hint: you answered wrong) -100 for being unaware that Musk likes to censor negative language about himself or his company.
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  4729. @de caesaris Russia was also a signatory to the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act, which states that the former Eastern Bloc nations are free to choose their own political destinies. In hindsight, it would seem the Russian negotiators assumed that the former Soviet satellites would come running back to them shortly. Umm, no.
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  4730. Sadly, there is nothing the US won't do to keep things humming along in District 1.
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  4731. So was the whole Allied military during the 1940s when fascism reared its ugly heads.
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  4732. I'm sure the American Taliban wannabe's will try again in the near future :(
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  4733. It's all out in the open now how he treats his oath of office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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  4734. May I offer this list of Dump's "accomplishments"? 1. ⁠He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Tяump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.” 2. ⁠He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect. 3. ⁠He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole. 4. ⁠He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized. 5. ⁠He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful,” including “insurance for everybody.” You bought it. But he didn’t repeal and he didn’t replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 24 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, he’s doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about 4 million Americans have lost health insurance in the last two years. 6. ⁠He told you he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You bought it. But now he’s planning such cuts in order to deal with the ballooning deficit created, in part, by the new tax law for corporations and the rich. 7. ⁠He promised to protect anyone with pre-existing conditions. You bought it. But in June, his Justice Department told a federal court it would no longer defend provisions of Obamacare that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the decision was made with Tяump’s approval. 8. ⁠He said he’d build a “wall” across the southern border.You believed him. But there’s no wall. 9. ⁠He told you he’d invest $1 trillion in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, there’s no money left for infrastructure. 10. ⁠He said he’d drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 11. ⁠He promised to re-institute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government.” You bought it. But the five-year ban he signed applies only to lobbying one’s former agency, not the government as a whole, and it doesn’t stop former officials from becoming lobbyists. 12. ⁠He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he has created the most dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, and has already fired and replaced so many assistants that people there barely know who’s in charge of what. 13. ⁠He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by negotiating “like crazy” with drug companies. You bought it. But he hasn’t. 14. ⁠He told you he’d “stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for American elections.” You bought it. But foreign lobbyists are still raising money for American elections. 15. ⁠He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.” You bought it. But the giant tax cut for corporations and the rich doesn’t leave any money for this. 16. ⁠He said he’d create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for younger and elderly dependents, and have the government match contributions low-income families put into their savings accounts. You bought it. He’s done neither. 17. ⁠He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. But then he declared China is not a currency manipulator. 18. ⁠He said he “won’t bomb Syria.” You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 19. ⁠After pulling out of the Paris accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment. You bought it. There have been no negotiations. 20. ⁠He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.” You bought it. He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out. 21. ⁠He said he would not be a president who took vacations, and criticized Barack Obama for taking too many vacations. You bought it. But since becoming President, he has spent a quarter of his days at one of his golf properties. 22. ⁠He vowed to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” You believed him. But he hasn’t. Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit college to defraud students. 23. ⁠He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad, especially government contractors. You believed him. Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas. There have been no consequences. 24. ⁠He promised to end DACA. Then in January 2018 promised that “DACA recipients should not to be concerned… We’re going to solve the problem,” then he reversed himself again and vowed to end the program by March, 2018. Currently, the federal courts have stayed any action on it. 25. ⁠He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. You bought it. But coal is still losing customers as utilities turn to natural gas and renewable power. 26. ⁠He promised to protect American steel jobs. You bought it. His tariffs on steel have protected some steel jobs. But industries that use steel – like automakers and construction – now have to pay more for the steel they use, with the result that their jobs are threatened. The Trade Partnership projects that 400,000 jobs will be lost among steel and aluminum users. 27. ⁠He said he’d make America safer. You believed him. But mass shootings keep rising, and Tяump has failed to pass effective gun control legislation. After 17 died in Parkland, Florida, Tяump promised “immediate action” on gun safety in schools, but has done nothing. 28. ⁠He promised to make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. You bought it. But Tяump’s most recent budget contains deep cuts in aid for low-income and first-generation college students, reduces Federal Work Study, and eliminates the 50-year-old Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, which goes to more than a million poor college kids each year. 29. ⁠He promised to eliminate the federal deficit and bring down the debt. You bought it. Yet due to his massive tax cut mostly for corporations and the rich, and his military spending, the deficit is set to rise to $1 trillion, and the debt has ballooned to more than $21 trillion. 30. ⁠He said he’d release his taxes. “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released,” he promised during the campaign. You bought it. He still hasn’t released his taxes.
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  4735. .. And less than 48 hours later he disavowed the same violence he stoked and enabled.
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  4736.  @carbonconsciousness6312  Show the proof that the governor is fascist - and I ask that because you cannot.
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  4737.  @carbonconsciousness6312  There's child abuse on this thread? Or you made up an accusation because you cannot in fact prove that [whoever] is a fascist?
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  4738. Luigi made that awakening.
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  4739. Clump lost the 2016 popular election by 3 million votes and the 2020 popular election by 8 million votes. If this was flat progression, his 2024 loss will be by 13 million votes or thereabouts. If it's exponential progression, it works out to 27% growth per year in voter dissatisfaction, so his 2024 loss could be by 20 million votes. Losing is the one thing he's a winner at.
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  4740.  @Vanadisphoto  May I add a few? Trump: The USPS has got to be eliminated, it's useless! also Trump: We use the USPS to send stimulus checks and census forms because it's the most cost-effective option. also Trump: Mail-in voting should be illegal because it's fraudulent, and yes I mailed my own vote because it's safer and convenient.
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  4741.  @Vanadisphoto  Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. 93 Americans died from it. Sad! also Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it! also Trump: I give myself a 10/10 score for handling this so well.
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  4742.  @Vanadisphoto  Every day in the USA it's like this: Pence: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested almost 24 million people in the USA! You're a genius!" Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 296 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??" Trump: "I give myself a 10 out of 10 for handling this."
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  4743. Konstantin - no one blames the Russian people. Should you guys throw off the wannabe tsar and begin holding free & fair elections again, we will welcome you back. Just found your fantastic channel and have been bingeing it. Much respect 👍
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  4744. Russian army is well-known around the world for its treatment of women.
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  4745. Right. Watch the rough location of the front lines (there are plenty of good sources online) and the count of square km taken over by the enemy. The so-called mighty red army is unable to move the line much or quickly or for long.
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  4746. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  4747. Protesters: "People are dying from the lockdown! I just can't prove it and I don't have any examples of it."
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  4748. That whole "vaccine is optional" thing shouldn't have lasted this long. At least in 1941, after the Pearl Harbor attack, the whole country turned out to register to serve. This time, when the virus attacked America, certain political segments spent all their time pooh-poohing it. Hundreds of thousands of us died as a result. F'ing traitors helped do this :(
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  4749.  @grumpyoldlady_rants  This is a weird virus. As best as I can tell (been following the story since late December) it does not act like a traditional disease (like the measles, or a flu) that simply spreads from person to person. This one is all about the concentration of the exposure people receive. Crowds of people indoors for any reason is very dangerous. Here's a good basic article on the spread capabilities and limitations of the virus: https://medium.com/the-atlantic/social-distancing-is-not-enough-5c56e9301304
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  4750.  Carpe Diem  Correct. Given that this virus can go through a single generation of spread in 4-5 days but that its time-to-symptoms is measured in weeks, and given that the church people were congregating indoors throughout April and May, chances are high that Union Co and the adjacent counties (Baker, Grant, Umatilla, Wallowa) are already well seeded. Remember how the people there were only recently saying (essentially) "But it's different here"? https://www.eastoregonian.com/coronavirus/eastern-oregon-county-representatives-fed-up-with-governors-covid-19-reopening-plan/article_d9425a60-ada8-11ea-af6f-77503f0b871e.html
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  4751.  @ambiarock590  You're walking around this thing at night with an armload of groceries. Imagine the scrapes and bruises from those sharp corners. Wtf, this thing is designed to hurt people :(
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  4752. Wonder if there is room for that between Trump's own words about how things happen when "a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated".
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  4753. Doesn't help that Rush Limbaugh spent decades pouring gasoline all over simmering hate, then Trump came along to sprinkle napalm all over everything.
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  4754. I was hoping governor Brown wouldn't fall for his lies and his intransigence. He's reneged on things he's signed with China, even before the ink is dry. He does it just to make other people look bad.
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  4755. Did she say, "We will Nazi any diseases here"? Or was that "not see"? Split the difference, aim for the swastika.
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  4756. Surely we have some spare Tomahawks, Apaches, A-10s to lend them? With much love from America.
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  4757.  @someguy-k2h  And if you follow the news .. M1 Abrams has entered the chat.
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  4758.  @vegyesz89  Russia is also not respecting the NATO Russia founding act of 1997. In their defense, it's hard to grab some Lebensraum without breaking a few laws and agreements.
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  4759. Ironically, all the gun-waving "2A is the solution to government overreach" types who spent 8 years screeching about "dictator Obama", wearing camo, stocking up on ammo, etc won't have a single bad thing to say when someone from the same ethnographic segment as them genuinely seizes power and disregards the rule of law. By threatening violence if an obvious traitor is removed from power, that segment is proving worse than useless just now.
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  4760. Presumably someone kept good backup copies that can be reinstalled later.
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  4761. Seconding the OP. I go have what adventure I can, which means 2-3 months a year on a motorcycle, camping all over, and I only come back to town to make money so I can hit the road again. I'm at home more in the winter and less in the summer. You can tell exactly what money is by the way longstanding friends treat it when they're doing stuff - when you're way past that stage of keeping score - it's just some disposable commodity you can go get more of when you need it. The experiences you have, the memories you save away, the good times you have .. all of that is priceless.
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  4762. More likely the cartels are going to tell Ivan to get out of their lake.
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  4763. I have been wondering if the USA will correct itself (hopefully) or if the world will correct the USA - which is what happened to Germany after WW2. After the invasion, Germany was divided into separate territories. Everyone got interviewed as to the stories of what they'd done before and during the war. Everyone's stories got compared. Prosecutors figured out who the Nazi party hardliners were or had been. Then they had the Nuremburg trials.
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  4764.  @sarahkeith9392  Well said. My worst fear is that the rest of the world now realizes there's nothing keeping the US from [s]electing an even greater and more cunning fool a few years or decades later, who then goes on to withdraw from all treaties we've signed, trash our allies and alliances, consort with our enemies, and wreak havoc in the diplomatic world -- and that, as such, they should form their own trading blocs, move away from the use of the US dollar for international trading, take up for themselves the mantle of the leaders of the free world, and so on. All of those things (which Trump has engendered through his coarse, unthinking actions) will result in a precipitous decline of living standards for most Americans. Our only way out of this now is to make structural changes here so that another Trump type wannabe-authoritarian, who has negated our system of checks and balances through the help of Moscow Mitch and other traitors, cannot reach any position of power again. Otherwise I fear we're about to find out what it's like to be an untrusted pariah state.
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  4765.  @vivianwiseJUSTUS  I'm sorry, but you sound like a complete nutball - your brain isn't working right. Those who would force a woman to carry a fetus to term, against her own will, may be in need of some golden rule therapy so that they can understand the nature and meaning of consent. And by golden rule therapy I mean someone doing to you, without your consent, what you would advocate being done to others.
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  4766. McConnell is the architect of scorched earth. Remember when 8 months before an election was much, much too soon to seat a judge, but then it was no problem to rush one through in less than 8 weeks?
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  4767. To be sure, Trump's predecessor Jefferson Davis (first president of the confederacy) would have taken the news badly too.
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  4768. Can you imagine Russia trying to find gas customers in the future? Any major new customer will insist on guarantees that the gas doesn't get shut off over temporary diplomatic spats. It's insanity.
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  4769. Speaking of territory - Rostov used to belong to Ukraine, before Russia stole it by force. It should be part of the reparations. Returning it to Ukraine will make it harder for the Muskovites to invade again when their next government reputiates / forgets the treaties it signed. And history shows this happens more often than not.
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  4770.  @Blair338RUM  This is like the Manson Family cult on a large scale.
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  4771.  @thatboy3  Bingo. Now that their failed insurrection attempt is over, and they will be arrested by the hundreds or thousands for their capital crimes, they suddenly want a "let's meet in the middle" Kumbaya moment with the rest of us? Yeah, sure, maybe in 10-20 years after you've served your time in Club Fed.
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  4772.  @ruebensfilms  I hope that's how it's going to turn out. That would be the kinder outcome for America. The other outcome is more like what Germany went through :(
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  4773. Check out the history of the Lincoln Brigades. Even if the law doesn't approve of it, there are ways of going to fight the fash abroad.
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  4774. His abortion of a "presidency" was also so bad that FOXed Noise had to edit the coverage.
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  4775. Perhaps he "makes money" the same way Clarence Thomas does, with his buddy Harlan Crowe writing checks.
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  4776. "very fine people" debunked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs
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  4777.  @Freaysclaw56 I have questions about "both parties". Last I heard, only 1 party tried to pull a coup on J6. And the other side wants to, what, make sure everyone has healthcare? That's not extreme.
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  4778.  Jon Dough  Correct. Trump took a machete to America's image abroad, and history will note that not only did Republicans cheer it on, they openly helped him. So now the world knows that there's nothing keeping an even greater fool from withdrawing willy-nilly from whatever treaties the US signed previously, or insulting longstanding allies. Remember his tiff with the PM of Denmark last year? First he made a secret offer to buy Greenland. Then the PM of Denmark (of which Greenland is a protectorate, sort of like PR is to the US) went public with her repudiation of the idea, calling it "absurd". Then Trump denied having made the offer, and called her "nasty", his usual term for women who stand up to his bullying. Then Trump canceled a planned visit with her, but denied it had anything to do with the Greenland thing. Then only weeks later did he admit he canceled the meeting because she refused his offer to buy Greenland. And all throughout that, the Republicans were silent, standing there with their hands in their pockets, even though just recently they had been howling at the moon when Obama committed the offense of wearing a tan suit.
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  4779. Fixing things that are actually not problems is the hallmark of the nutty conservative.
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  4780. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  4781. He's actively caused lots of panic about BLM, Antifa, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, Hispanics, Blacks, Democrats, and more. Remember all that shrieking about the "caravans"?
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  4782. Trumpanzees are so strange in that regard! When their own house catches fire in the dead of winter and they run to their neighbor's house to take shelter, they probably wouldn't like the neighbor shooting at them and locking them outdoors .. yet that's precisely what they advocate doing to others. The bunch of them need some heavy Golden Rule type punishment in that regard.
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  4783. Exactly :( and our healthcare system will be a shambles after that much abuse. The excess deaths numbers for those years will be over a million people per year.
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  4784.  @jefschobert9765  Actually the problem is a little worse than that. Almost 40% of the nation is not yet fully vaccinated .. and out of the US population of 331 million that leaves approx 132 million who are either not covered by vaccines or only incompletely covered (vaccination series not yet complete). That gives us the potential to half half a million new cases per day for more than half a year straight. And that would destroy our healthcare system.
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  4785. When Russia is making diplomatic demands to the US, it implies that they feel the US is in charge of whether Ukraine wants to join NATO or not. Perhaps someone should explain to Putin that Ukraine is very capable of telling when they've got some hostile, aggressive neighbor who wants to gobble up their country and who keeps carving off pieces of territory.
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  4786. Trump's supporters are collaborators .. in Norway they would be called Quislings and treated as such.
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  4787. Surely you joke. What he did was more like say that since getting shot with a gun is a crime, Texas will aggressively prosecute anyone seeking treatment for gunshot wounds, and will prosecute doctors who offer that treatment. All while mouthing some nonsense about how he's going to eliminate all shootings.
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  4788.  @l.l.-kz7mn  Right. Often he was thought of with some kind of sick amusement. Stuff like this: Pence: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested almost 24 million people in the USA! You're a genius!" Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 296 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??"
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  4789.  @Tate-Trump-Fan  What happened to your previous handle? Lose the password?
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  4790.  @andrewowens4421  Just imagine the Republican party undergoing a 3-way split .. Moscow Mitch can stay where he is, the sensible ones (where McCain used to be) can become the sane Republicans, and the ultra nutters will become the next American nazi party.
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  4791. Bingo. Republicans would remove the motor from the fire trucks, light the town on fire, then blame Biden for not doing enough. Destroying America is to them more palatable than working with Joe to make America better.
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  4792.  @EricA-cv6kn  You may wish to go watch the Barr interview from the other day, where he perjured himself before congressional committee over the Roger Stone incident.
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  4793. BREXIT merely serves to hasten the day when England is a small, insignificant island off the coast of Europe. This was a pyrrhic victory by which those nostalgic for the distant past botched a perfectly good (and different) present & future just to entertain their nostalgia for bygone times. Hint: this won't make those bygone days return.
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  4794. It's easier to understand when you realize that Republicans have embraced the idea of one-party rule (as long as it's theirs) and they don't care what they have to do to achieve it. For example, Trump's "fine people" in Cali have been setting out fake ballot boxes - https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/california-ballot-drop-boxes/index.html
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  4795. Bingo. When he has no means left to seize power, he will want to take all the toys and burn down the playground.
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  4796.  kl wies  Preach it! My former work was high in F2F human interaction, and I don't think it will return until everyone has been vaccinated - and that's minimum 2 years off - ignore the happytalk here. I'm about to take the car off the road (payments are on hold, but insurance is not) just to cancel the insurance and use a bicycle for groceries & getting around. Sadly, this shit show is just barely getting started :(
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  4797. Also Vlad Vexler, 1420 Daniil's street interviews (if he's still doing those), Vasya in the Hay.
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  4798. They're in the middle of plotting a coup, so they can't answer these questions.
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  4799. The very last paragraph of the video reminded me of this - who else remembers this study someone did of Trump's style of lying? It's a couple years old now. About a quarter of his lies are the mean-spirited kind designed to hurt specific people. Most normal people lie but not like that. Here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-study-liars-ive-never-seen-one-like-president-trump/2017/12/07/4e529efe-da3f-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
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  4800.  @michelleredmond4450  Condolences. Same here. I have learned to stay away from certain topics.
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  4801. Donald Trump is like America's Charles Manson / Jim Jones to 42% of the population.
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  4802. "As a person from Africa, whose parents .." Unlike Trump fans, their parents didn't want to be ignorant.
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  4803. Oh look, visitors from Q-Anonsense. It's like postcards from down in the rabbit hole.
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  4804. The arsonist complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  4805. She's the Arizona version of Sarah Palin, only less classy, if that can be believed. She didn't win any election, she was appointed to fill a seat.
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  4806. Our neighbor with the biggest TV invites people over for that kind of entertainment. Drinks and popcorn are on the house.
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  4807. I had it out with a Trumper yesterday on that subject. He insisted it was no problem since children don't die much from covid. I asked him how often it is that the childrens' parents are under 18 and thus won't die much. No response.
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  4808. So he's supported the communist party of China more than he's supported the US. Not surprising, he was a traitor before he became president.
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  4809.  @herakets3259  Over in Indonesia they figured out a great way to cure the people who deny covid .. they put them to work digging graves and putting covid corpses into the ground. By the end of two weeks, 100% of the doubters are cured. For some of them, of course, the "cure" comes in the form of a nasty cough that gets them hooked to a ventilator a few weeks later. Some don't recover. But, hey, it's a small price to pay for letting the trash take itself out. Minus the suffering of the healthcare workers and the waste of money & resources, of course, it's nature's way of culling the dumbest from the herd.
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  4810. The protests everywhere give me hope -- so Americans DO still care when one of their own is murdered inside her own home and the officers get only a slap on the wrist.
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  4811. Sorry, guy/gal, I prefer presidents who don't lie about viruses they know to be deadly, and then let hundreds of thousands of Americans die while the economy nosedives into Great Depression 2, only because he was too lazy to take China at its word when they told him in January that it was lethal and airborne and already in circulation.
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  4812. It was so perfect, today at the press briefing he'll be saying that people have been calling him and asking, "Sir, how do you do such perfect phone calls?"
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  4813. Trump says quite clearly who he is at nearly every rally. It's the punch line of a fable he likes to tell: "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  4814.  @ricklawrence2515  ^^ Perfect.
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  4815. The Biden/Harris team will surely benefit from Trump winning the Republican nomination or, alternately, splitting off his own party if he doesn't win the nomination.
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  4816.  @patmanchester8045  We went through this once before. If he withholds federal benefits, we withhold federal taxes. His goons are not welcome here.
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  4817. Melania's robotic, tone-deaf speech didn't have the intended effect .. just like someone who grew up under communism and toes the party line, she basically tried to tell us that 1+1=3.
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  4818. Put it this way - those radical Trumpers are so stupid that Trump could blow up the social security administration right in front of them, with lots of dynamite and theatrics and a big plunger detonator, then tell them that Obama did it, and they'd believe him.
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  4819. You know, I was having a nice day until you reminded me of that blisteringly stupid orange-faced clown who's keeping president Obama's chair warm while we wait for an adult president.
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  4820. Earlier on in the outbreak, didn't the governor of Texas issue some order forbidding communities from requiring masks? If only that had been done months ago, the disaster in Texas might have been averted. Instead they've got bodies piling up in trucks. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/texas-county-stores-bodies-in-trucks-as-state-sets-one-day-record-for-covid-19-deaths-idUSKCN24N2F2
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  4821. Do you know what's sad, pathetic, and scary all together? It's the prospect that the thing that MUST happen almost surely will not happen. Enraged by violent rhetoric and by false claims of election malfeasance, a mob committed acts of terror and insurrection in the nation's capitol. This has placed the Republicans in a very tough decision place that's entirely of their own making. What they MUST do is get in front of all the cameras on all the stations, and explain to the public their role in spreading, amplifying, going along with Trump's lies about the integrity and the results of the election. But they won't, because they're craven, and because it would destroy them as a political party. Unfortunately there is no other way of releasing all the inflamed passions and anger that they just ginned up. Nations tear themselves apart for lesser lies than the ones that Trump has told and that the Republicans have gone along with. What the GOP will probably do next is go along with the election results (since they can no longer avoid that) while still pretending that they have not participated in the gross lies about the election. Their 74 million falsely aggrieved morons are the base that the GOP cannot afford to lose. So I doubt they will put more than the bare minimum amount of lip service into disavowing current and future pro-Trump terrorists. So that's what America is facing next: a domestic insurgent class of enraged Trumpanzees who might not be behaving very well at all. With a little help, they seem to have reached a critical mass of self-sustaining idiocy. There's absolutely nothing in our laws that will keep the Alex Joneses and the Rush Limbaughs and the Josh Hawleys from spinning bogus yarns about how the DC insurrectionists were just Antifa in disguise running a false-flag operation; how the librul deep state has secretly and successfully forced all but a few brave conservatives (Trump, Cruz, Hawley) to tell a complete lie about the integrity and the results of the election .. and so on. They've already started with the new lies.
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  4822. Sounds like Shady and 45 are cut from the same cloth - dodgers.
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  4823. Maybe we ARE idiots, if some obvious fool can lose the popular vote by millions, then still get into office and trash every ally and norm we've got.
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  4824.  @peterwainwright5994  She's been here how long, and never bothered to learn how to speak American english? She and Donald need to go wherever the Ceausescu's went to.
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  4825.  @gotohellqultist7770  Exactly. The OP is the kind who stubs his own toe and blames Brandon.
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  4826.  @sayjay26  Trump isn't qualified to even sweep the public library or catch stray dogs. Let alone command the highest office in the land. Who else remembers "I take no responsibility for this"?
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  4827.  @roxannaonuwa187  I haven't lived through another president trying to incite insurrection in order to dodge an unfavorable election outcome.
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  4828. The really scary thing is - what other non-existent "problems" might Republicans be hell-bent on "fixing"? Considering how far out in reich field they are these days, it's not hard to imagine them getting behind, say, a measure to round up all LGBT people and put them in camps for some bogus excuse that has no grounding in reality.
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  4829. He's already gone. Look at that flat, dead look in his eyes.
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  4830. Like all Republicans, he refuses to say how much he and others were complicit in the lies about the vaccines and the disease, all to please the momentary whim of Clump.
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  4831. That was a good video from Beau. This mission now has a name, which we don't know but which is probably Ukrainian Shield. Russia should pray that it doesn't become Operation Ukrainian Storm ;)
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  4832.  @clw4430  There are Trump supporters aplenty in New England .. it was not that hard to put together a roomful of them who would cheer for anything Trump said, even if he said he'd drop them into a meat grinder.
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  4833. He's not the only one spreading it. There are the many MAGA members of Team Crazy. There's the whole RWNJ media spectrum.
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  4834. The official numbers are a joke. Here in Oregon, you can't get tested unless both a) you're already in hospital for respiratory distress and b) you've already tested negative for the flu. No doubt someone somewhere is very happy for how they're keeping that number low.
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  4835. .. Just like a corrupt feudal lord doling our special favors to his buddies.
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  4836. He'll be the first former president in history to have both new crimes and new mental disorders named after him 😅
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  4837.  @redpyramid9697  I'd gladly buy him lunch at the Corral if that's what it takes. I just don't want to sit near him. Eeew.
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  4838.  @Sturmtruppler-up4ib  Everything in the sub would have instantly compressed to 1/400th its previous volume .. and that would have caused great heat. So if it was a catastrophic pressure hull breach, then it was over very very quickly. No time to feel anything.
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  4839. Right out of the park!! Biden/Harris 2020
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  4840. Some Republicans are still good people, so I hope they do.
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  4841.  @Max_Doubt  I've stocked up on popcorn too .. been wondering how far Trump can push his political Brownshirts before they realize that he no longer needs them, and that they need to change course before it's too late. He wants to be the next Lukashenko, but still needs their help for a little while longer.
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  4842. Do you recall, a few weeks back, how Trump went on a mysterious firing spree at the Pentagon? I think we now know why. https://www.newsweek.com/40-top-pentagon-positions-empty-after-donald-trumps-firing-mark-esper-1549175 He planned this.
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  4843. Nothing got misled that didn't want to be misled. Same thing with Charles Manson and his nutball followers.
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  4844.  @michaelgregory8971  I call it "Q-Anonsense" .. a sort of rabbit hole that sucks down the easily-misled, shallow-of-thinking people.
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  4845. Covid deniers/minimizers and vaccine deniers are like the 2020 versions of Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw.
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  4846.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Re << who are just as programmed to HATE the “other side” >> I see your both-sides-are-the-same nonsense and I raise you this: "The stage 4 liver cancer was very aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So you could say there was aggression on both sides."
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  4847. It's sad but amusing to watch red states throw themselves on the sword just to please King Donald the Mad. Why, it took only 9 days for Alabama to go from reopening to having hospital & ICU beds all full in Montgomery, so they had to start shipping patients elsewhere. Talk about rose colored glasses. They looked outside and thought it was morning in America when it was really mourning in America.
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  4848. He is dead right about how the Republicans will be much, much worse if they win any elections. So ignore the rosy polls, and get out and vote!
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  4849. At this point, getting vaccinated and continuing to wear your mask is basic civic duty, like rationing and serving in the military (or war manufacturing) were during WW2.
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  4850. It's already multiplying the number of protesters. The federal goons better leave Portland while they still can, because we're going to increase the numbers 10x, 20x, 50x what was seen before. Given that the goons are committing felonies, they are subject to citizens arrest.
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  4851. Watching the antics of Trump, it becomes clear that the only major mistake made by Julius & Ethyl Rosenburg is that they failed to assemble a coterie of brainwashed cult members to believe in them and to support them in their treason.
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  4852.  Tim Kozlowski  We don't even know that these "tours" even happened yet. I'm waiting for evidence - as you would be too if you didn't have such a tiny, minuscule brain.
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  4853. No, but surely "disappointment" and "let's get the F out of here" can translate to Russian language.
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  4854. Don't think our longstanding allies aren't noticing our inability to a) punish insurrectionists and b) punish those who broke the law most conspicuously. This makes them wonder how long it will be before another, even worse type of Trump comes along.
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  4855. As we are learning, there's a difference between air superiority, air dominance, and airspace interdiction capability. Giving Ukraine lots of MANPADS delivered (mostly) the last of those things to Ukraine fairly quickly.
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  4856.  @RVG9  A dictator would have no need for any kind of supreme court - or for any other branches of government, except maybe the military and police functions.
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  4857. If Newburg is this bad .. you shudder to think of what's happening in Philomath :(
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  4858. @Masters Of Moore Where do you Trumptards keep getting your misinformation from? You're really stretching now to find a way to blame Obama or states or anyone except your master Baal. So - following your twisted logic - if some great wrong was done in 2015/2016, why didn't Trumpty fix it in the 3 years since?
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  4859. Nothing says "I love law and order" like spraying mace at the police.
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  4860. Too late. The GOP is gonna have to dance with the one that brung them.
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  4861. At the peak of the worst in NYC, they were finding about 200 bodies per day in people's homes. Florida's ICU's have been at 100% capacity for awhile now. That's basically what's coming to Florida next, complete with the morgues overwhelmed and trucks full of bodies parked out on the street.
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  4862. We know how that game works. McConnell blocked 82 of Obama's appointments, when no president before had ever averaged more than 1-2 each if any at all. And then 8 months before an election was much too soon to seat a judge. What whopper is Moscow Mitch pulling next time - will he say that 40 months before an election is much too soon to seat a supreme court judge? Needs to be impeached for gross dereliction of duty.
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  4863. Exactly. Disregard the news, go vote! Leave no voice unheard.
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  4864. I'm going to summon the ghost of Lt. Aldo Raines. Enough of this nonsense.
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  4865.  @jdm1039  And a patriot :)
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  4866. Bingo Dan! Good work :)
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  4867. Sssh. DeSatan is so dumb, he hasn't figured that out yet.
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  4868. Rupert Murdoch is what happened to them, basically. Turned huge swaths of the party into folks not unlike the Comet Pizza shooter: absolutely convinced that some lie is true.
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  4869. @Josh Roberts More than any other network (except maybe OANN) FOXed Noise has been responsible for echoing the lies and happytalk emanating from the lying fool keeping the president's chair warm while we wait to elect a functioning adult. Their relationship with truth is like that of snails to table salt.
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  4870.  @busblu1475  No. Sorry to tell you this repetitively, but you don't get to force 10yo rape victims to bear to term. That's Dr Mengele level cruelty. Ditto for mothers with dead fetuses. That's just crazy on so many levels.
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  4871. It's almost as if Putin generously funded Russia's CDC while he arranged for the US CDC to be maligned and cut off from funding.
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  4872. Speaking of Bobo - does anyone know if she had any role, however small, in inciting or delivering threats to the supreme court justices of Colorado? Pretty sure Colorado can remove her from the congressional delegation for having engaged in that, if she did.
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  4873. And yet - if our little Marmalade Mussolini wants to figure out why he's not going to win, all he needs to do is find the nearest mirror.
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  4874. Republicans got off the reality bus a long ways back :(
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  4875. It's not even much of a vacation destination, let alone worth the effort to seize. Some parts of it are still so poor it's not economical to build roads there.
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  4876. Restoring the fairness-in-broadcasting doctrine would put them out of business. Who else is up for this? Without FOXed Noise repeating and amplifying Trump's lies, would armed wannabe-jihadists even be showing up at vote counting locations?
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  4877. Throw the book at them .. in fact, throw ALL the books at them.
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  4878.  @shawncorbin6777  "Your shill glow" << Aww poor little baby. Did your feelings get hurt by facts again?
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  4879. Getting people to imagine they're doing good, when in fact they are in total service of the most evil causes, is the work of the propagandist. Goebbels and Hitler and others were very successful at getting Germans to believe total hogwash while pulling triggers, stringing people up, shoving people into gas chambers, etc.
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  4880. Folks in his age group have different outcomes based on whether or not they have other health conditions. And our Mango Mussolini is a shuffling basket case of comorbidities - heart disease, obesity, onset dementia, lack of exercise, etc.
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  4881. Putin has done a fine job demonstrating to everyone exactly why they should join NATO.
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  4882. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  4883.  @charlesasmith7836  It's not an act.
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  4884. Translation: all these pro-Russia trolls are trying to deflect from Putin re-enacting the way Hitler kept carving off one nation after another while the West dithered and appeased.
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  4885. "If conservatives become convinced that MAGA cannot win democratically, they will not abandon Trump. They will reject democracy.” -- David Frum (slightly edited)
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  4886. Honestly, you barely need just one person (perhaps someone with a grudge against authority in general) to cause an incredible amount of trouble. I'd avoid protests like the plague in anyplace, not just Portland.
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  4887. The Republicans are projecting so hard, they're going to burn out the bulbs at a rapid rate. Guess the Trump-FOXed pipeline is still open.
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  4888. Russia had every opportunity to learn how to be part of the modern world. Instead, all they do is reminisce about the days of heavy-handed thuggery over the SSR's.
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  4889.  @dessyred5785  That is part of what they were seeing in the NYC area back in March/April/May. For awhile they were finding 250+ people per day dead in their own homes. Folks decided not to go to the overwhelmed hospitals. Citation - https://www.businessinsider.com/teams-retrieving-coronavirus-bodies-from-nyc-homes-2020-4
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  4890. Even worse, some of those same senators stood by Trump and didn't interfere with Trump's lies and happytalk about how the virus is a Democrat hoax, and how it will just go away on its own. But privately they acted to enrich themselves.
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  4891. No, they will in fact set the precedent that the president is above the law. They are just kicking the can down the road in the meantime, probably until after the 2020 election or thereabouts.
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  4892. From the point of view of Moscow Mitch, witnesses and evidence all had to be withheld because there is no exculpatory evidence available. It all points to Trump's guilt. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  4893.  @laurendaryani4893  Don't know if any reporter ever asked him that question.
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  4894. Yeah :( I'm guessing that we'll be seeing a new, less-restrained version of the same old Trump. No doubt his brownshirt irregulars will be out there celebrating it the only way they know how - by violence against visible minorities and by right wing terror.
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  4895. When you work in a Trump environment, you must choose between traitor Trump or America. You can't serve both. That's probably why the state department quit en masse soon after inauguration.
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  4896. When the Trump crazy train came to the Republican party, all they said was, please, sir, may I have another?
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  4897. @Tom Japan will hep correct that.
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  4898. He's lost it. And now I think we know how he would behave if Russia seized Florida :(
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  4899. Huh. I hear there's no cure and no vaccine for it. Shame. Heh ;)
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  4900.  @lockman004  Hope you can make a good recovery - hang in there 💥👍 Fall and winter have not come to us yet, and the effects of school reopenings have barely begun to show. The only way we'll get through the winter without mass graves is for everyone to vaccinate, for everyone to keep wearing masks, for jurisdictions to bring back capacity limits, hand washing, perhaps closing certain kinds of venues. Leaving those things to the honor system during a raging pandemic isn't working out too well.
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  4901. The virus has tried to get him at least twice. First Matt PizzaGaetz, now the Brazilian guy. They say that karma works in mysterious ways, but I was not expecting this.
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  4902. There will need to be quite the deprogramming effort (if it ever happens) to reel them back from la-la land.
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  4903. I take comfort in knowing that Nuremburg rallies are inevitably followed by Nuremburg trials, or trials at the Hague.
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  4904. To be fair, Russia needs them here, doing their little fifth-column things.
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  4905.  @synthetic1  Bingo. People will be telling each other, soon enough, things like, "It's a shame that journalists have been arrested and congress dismissed, but my 401K is doing OK this year."
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  4906.  @thomasjohn6041  Keep rubbing cope on that TDS, son.
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  4907.  @matthewoliva2347  In all fairness to Donnie, he does understand that terminating the rule of law is what it would take for him to be in office again. Not hearing enough condemnation coming from leading Republicans on this issue, which merely means (no surprise) that he said out loud what they were all thinking.
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  4908. Well, you have to admit, it does line up with certain Republican goals .. such as killing off a lot of people on pensions / retirement / social security / chronic healthcare. They've been calling people like that "leeches" for a couple decades now.
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  4909. Reminds me of that time in history when millions of good little Germans bought copies of Mein Kampf and believed that nonsense.
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  4910. Notice how Trump never extended that super-special covid treatment to Herman Cain, who outlived his usefulness to Trump as soon as he developed a cough after standing next to Trump with no mask on at the Tulsa superspreader rally.
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  4911.  @patriciamillin-j3s  The forces trying to shear America apart are for now a lot stronger than the forces trying to hold it together - and that's what worries me most. We could become another failed nation within just a few years. American politics has traditionally been like all of us living in the same very large 1,000-unit apartment building. From time to time the representation on the condo board would change. What we have now is a small subset of the owners who are setting their units on fire (endangering all of us) rather than accept that their favorite guy lost his seat on the condo board.
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  4912. Even better, Gym thinks he's actually intelligent, which means he's easy pickings for a lawyer.
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  4913.  @fionamackie3357  No, but we can imprison them when they break the law. And it was a lengthy stay at the graybar hotel that helped Leslie Van Houten understand that she'd done some bad things as a cultist.
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  4914. Thanks for the mention. Had to go read. Uggh. His use of racial hysteria bullhorns is pretty much the same as Trump's :(
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  4915. Having been deprived of the powers to hurt the nation from his perch in the white house, he's now busy inflicting harm on the organizations most within his reach: the Republican party, and his own businesses. Let's with him success at harming those two things most spectacularly.
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  4916. Why yes .. when he tells that fable at his rallies, he's talking about himself in third person. Most in attendance don't realize it.
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  4917. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. They had best remember this.
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  4918. It goes right over their heads. Classic.
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  4919. I used to want Merrick Garland sitting on the bench (no thanks to Moscow Mitch) but in hindsight I see he's about as strong as wet noodles :(
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  4920.  @timmytruth3509  Re "soooo sick and tired of the fascist" << yup. So much so that I'm taking note of who wears, or has worn, a MAGA hat. Those are America's traitors, hoping to install Hair Fuhrer as their fascist dictator. You guys didn't prevail in WW2 and you're not going to prevail here now. Go back under your rock.
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  4921. As long as they're addicted to crazy and stupid, this will continue :(
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  4922. I remember the swift collapse of the Berlin Wall and the DDR. That was a little slower than this. In the space of less than 48 hours, the Trump brand went from wannabe future GOP kingmaker to untouchable radioactive waste. The hilarious thing? He could have done all the correct, normal things such as deliver a gracious concession speech, assist the Biden transition team in every way possible, depart on AF1, while muttering all the while about how it was unfair to him. Then he'd still have some measure of success. Instead, his own worst instincts got the best of him at every step down. Now his brand is next to worthless, his family is welcome nowhere, and they're all facing multiple investigations.
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  4923. The last few nights have been the best sleep I've had in years. Even if Trump refuses to go along with the transition process, that won't stop the president-elect from getting briefed and from getting his teams together and meeting with all the right people so his administration can hit the ground running.
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  4924. Part of this stems from the disparity in the way the fall of the USSR affected Russia vs how it affected the formerly independent nations who got taken over by Russian empire operating under the guise of the CCCP. Russia treated those places like its colonial fiefdom, sucking out money, resources, people, the smart ones, the pretty ones, and whole businesses alike whenever it wanted. Russia lived high on what it took from those places. After the USSR fell, those people got out from under the Soviet yoke and largely went on to return to being independent places. Russia however still misses the glory days of easy access to the resources of other nations. It wants all that back. Those places, however, seem to have little/no interest in living under the Russian bootheel again.
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  4925. He's never come to my city, thankfully, and wouldn't be any more welcome here than his little jackboot boys are.
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  4926. I'm expecting him to wring a little more mileage out of the Supreme Corp and try to invalidate the election results - or start a war then use it as justification for canceling the election.
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  4927. It's about time we had that mask requirement. NY has very successfully crushed the curve by making masks mandatory. They did that more than 2 months ago.
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  4928. Governments spend billions (and still make mistakes) learning about the 1,001 deadly things that can go wrong with submarines. This little company was not part of that learning curve.
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  4929. Trump needs to be joined behind bars by all of those who issue threats on his behalf .. his Brownshirt irregulars. They need a coming-to-reality experience of the kind that's impossible for them to ignore.
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  4930. I assume the mass protest thing (for the coup it looks like Trump is going to run, with Moscow Mitch and Barr helping) is why he fired Esper. He wants someone less squeamish about using active US military to put down civilians legitimately protesting a coup.
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  4931. Russian tanks would be in Berlin by now.
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  4932. Irony is not just a lost book to Moscow Mitch, but probably a burned and buried book as well. Ditto for most Republicans.
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  4933.  @DanA-nl5uo  Fun fact about Republicans in the 1974 election -every single one of them who'd defended the obviously-guilty Nixon lost his/her seat. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
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  4934.  @cloudstreets1396  To add - no system is better than the people running it, and a lot of the Republicans in office now are crooks.
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  4935. You have to remember, Trump isn't happy about something, ANYTHING, getting more news than him. And for once the news story that's upstaging him can't be bullied, doesn't respond to nasty tweets, and can go right through any border.
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  4936. This is like saying that reverend Jim Jones suffered a kool-aid takeover.
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  4937. No one wants people to die. Inf act, most of us are actively trying to keep some psychotic politicians from sacrificing hardworking people to the virus.
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  4938. Hitler at least didn't try to kill his own staff, but then, he was obviously made of better stuff than DOTUS.
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  4939. Ah, the same old "it was just rhetorical hyperbole, your honor" that Alex Jones unsuccessfully used, when asked in court to explain the connection between him painting the Sandy Hook massacre as staged and his adherents threatening the lives of the parents of the dead children. So when Tuck claims that BLM is coming to your house to burn it down, he's saying he has nothing to do with Kyle Rittenhouse taking it too seriously.
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  4940. Put it this way: Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, in which case the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  4941. I'm at 55 days without income, and probably going to lose the car. But that's OK, it's just a hunk of metal and they're easily replaced. Got a bicycle for getting groceries. I've been broke before and I'll survive this. You can't recover from being dead from the virus however. Looks like some of those protesting fools have still got their fancy pickup trucks and other expensive toys that they're afraid to let go of just to save their lives and put food on the table for their kids.
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  4942. Thanks for sharing. Saved for future use. Considering that a sizeable minority of people in the US support Agent Orange specifically because of his hate, his racism, his lies, etc, what the US needs to correct this is probably similar to what the victorious Allied powers did to de-nazify Germany after the war. Tolerating those people among us as they are now is tantamount to losing our democratic republic. No civil society can tolerate intolerance for long.
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  4943. When Trump sends his people to these meetings, he's not sending the best 😅
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  4944. Strangely enough, those deep-red places that outlawed abortion are just fine with pregnancies resulting from rapes. There's been quite a lot of that.
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  4945. Would never happen here. The same Republicans who shrieked outrage over Obama wearing a tan suit are completely silent when Dump tries to steal an election, extort foreign allies, or incites violence.
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  4946. From the way they go on, you'd think they have tender feefees that are very easily triggered.
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  4947. Deaths in the US, sadly, are only increasing. In California, in just the last five days alone, an average of about 250 COVID-19 deaths a day have been reported in L.A. County. That’s higher than the average number of daily deaths from all other causes combined, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, car crashes, suicides and homicides, which is about 170. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-09/with-hospital-morgues-overwhelmed-by-bodies-coroner-begins-storing-bodies-as-covid-deaths-surge
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  4948. Wait. Didn't the reich wingers just spend all summer telling us how only bad people do damage to the courthouses and the government buildings?
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  4949. @tradde11 He's got no appeal for the non-faithful. He's obviously what he seems to be: a more educated student of Trumpism, but with all the same aspirations to power at all costs.
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  4950.  @aliamjon2550  Don't know what you are, but you might do well to get acquainted with the facts before opening the air scoop on your supercharged mouse brain. No Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote since GWB in 2004. It is only by the fuckery of the electoral college that we keep getting R presidents when the popular vote goes blue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
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  4951. There never was any defense for the Republicans. Look at how quickly they edited the official record of the call (to remove mentions of the Bidens & Burisma) then stored that record on a hidden server. They're fcked.
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  4952.  @christopherbell7948  I don't trust the polls, so make sure everyone gets out and votes. For the first time in my life, I just voted a straight Democrat ticket, all the way up and down. It's not enough to just send the Republicans a message. We must also send them packing! It's going to take a few more elections to flush out all those turds, but we can do it! Who else is in?
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  4953. As of April 1, the CFR was 2.37% for the USA going by worldometers data. As of last night it was up to 5.54% (same source). ALso as of last night, it ranged from Michigan at 8.19% down to 0.46% for South Dakota - and that will change once the large number of new cases spend more time in hospital.
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  4954.  @meauxgendron3682  Err, forgive me, I didn't realize quite how far down the rabbit hole you are. Most of what you say about Democrats is rhetorical hyperbole and not fact. Not that you would know the difference.
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  4955. Very interesting. Konstantin Samalov (channel INSIDE RUSSIA) has a fresh video out about how far eastern Russia is suddenly becoming China-friendly. Apparently those two nations are in some early stage of coming to a different understanding about the far east. (Japan is not going to appreciate being left out of the deal)
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  4956. Even if we ignore 45's age, word-slurring, mental decline, and dictatorial intentions, etc .. this is still a choice between the prosecutor and the adjudicated insurrectionist. Tough choice, right?
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  4957.  @jamesdana1273  Think of it as financial Darwinism for Trump's cult followers.
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  4958. Probably the same one where they claim Alaska still belongs to them, LOL ;)
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  4959. There's this Onion-headline style meme going around about how the NRA accidentally forgot to do anything to fight an emerging tyrant on US soil, which they claimed all along was their whole reason for existing and for having guns.
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  4960. Even now, Trump still doesn't realize that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before him and will continue running long after he's gone .. that his job was only to take care of it for a short time. He still doesn't understand that its power is not for him to use or abuse for personal purposes. He probably thinks Obama was "stupid" for not jailing him after he won the Republican primary.
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  4961. Another good one (Australian movie) is "Tomorrow When the War Began".
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  4962. Why isn't every local, state, and federal AG saying the same thing? Heck, president Biden should be saying something to that effect. He's the commander in chief.
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  4963.  @mnguardianfan7128  Those same followers are people who had never really participated in politics before. Uncouth, ignorant, violent, feeling constantly victimized, unwashed, and proud of it. They were never a part of any political party. Without them, Trump wouldn't have much base.
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  4964. Not to worry - the Trump grifter klan will still have their tacky merch manufactured in China. Even those tacky MAGA hats are made in China.
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  4965.  @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND  The minions should feel lucky that we're not being old-fashioned these days in how traitors get treated.
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  4966. And flip those closed R primary votes to Nikki Haley.
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  4967.  @i-love-space390  Right. Because Ukraine (which is known to possess no nukes) is using other means to reach deep inside Russia. No ICBM's were harmed in the strikes on Russian refineries. The game has changed.
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  4968.  @VintageTreasures-y6e  The kind of locals who've been there all along, or the ones who moved into abandoned homes after Russia illegally took over Crimea?
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  4969. You're welcome to stop reproducing if you don't want to add more consumers/breeders to tide of human spam.
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  4970. She knows what Trump is bringing her through at last minute to do later. If Amy Handmaid's Tale had any integrity at all, she would step down -- since, as Moscow Mitch McConnell enunciated in 2016, even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, and the will of the people must be heard first.
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  4971. Oregon ranks #49 nationally among the states in terms of resting. Only Idaho tests less per capita. That lack of surveillance testing is how Oregonians are going to keep being surprised by outbreaks that no one knew were brewing.
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  4972. There are only two countries in the world where pharmaceutical companies are allowed to advertise to the public - Australia and the USA.
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  4973. Nice of the people from Idaho to chime in on faraway stuff.
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  4974. There's fash everywhere, sadly.
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  4975. The weird part is, those trying to usher in the dictatorship still don't seem to realize what would have followed. They imagine there's some happy ending when the rule of law is ended, and there most certainly is not. You may look to Haiti for an example of what they were trying (are still trying) to bring to our nation.
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  4976. Perhaps she's finding another lovely rose garden to tear down. That woman is very very strange :(
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  4977. Which is why I call it Fakebook or Wastebook and don't use it.
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  4978. Oh wait. I see the problem now. They did 350,000 tests just to catch 9,976 cases (latest numbers as of now). Not very efficient of them. Here in the US we did 1 million tests (0.309% of the population) to catch 240,660 cases.
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  4979.  @SandraNelson063  People in the US will definitely go to work sick if the alternative is to lose their house to foreclosure, to get kicked out for not paying rent, to have their vehicle repossessed, to listening to their kids go hungry. And you known darn well the government would do everything possible to protect the interests of the banks, even if it means putting tens of millions of people out on the streets. That's basically what happened in the Great Depression.
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  4980. Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming? Yeah.
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  4981.  @lhurst9550  Remember all the folks who said the internet was just a flash in the pan? I'm still laughing over that one.
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  4982. @M Magnificat +1 for humor contribution 😅 Trump's 2016 popular election loss was 3 million, then his 2020 popular election loss was 8 million. That represents annualized growth in voter dissatisfaction to the tune of around 27% per year. So his 2024 loss could be above 20 million.
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  4983. Oregon here .. please adopt the 3 west coast states. We're more like you than the other states.
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  4984.  @DianneMarian  Trump was far nicer with hostile dictators than with longstanding allies. Still makes me boiling mad to see Republicans say nothing to him over that.
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  4985. Trump may have harsh words for the FBI over this, since he's been trying to get the FBI to ignore both right-wing extremism and white-power extremism. Those two segments have committed more than 100 vehicle attacks on protesters since George Floyd's killing.
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  4986. Republicans have been putting party before country for more than a decade now. Some are questioning why they're acting seditious now. They're professionals at it. That's like asking Moscow Mitch why he told one president that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, but then helped another president ram a judge through in less than 8 weeks. That's like asking the OathKeepers why they pointed guns at police during Obama's time, then got all buddy-buddy with the police during Trump's time. That's like asking Republicans why they blocked so many of one president's nominees, then let another president do "acting" appointments in order to skip the confirmation process. That's like asking the conservatives how they could flip-flop from hanging one president in effigy to shrieking about another president, saying he's not being respected enough. That's like asking Republicans why one of them jumped up and yelled, "You lie!" at a president who told the truth, yet when the next president told nonstop lies they all cheered and got wood. Some of them are whacked, some of them are running a coup right before our eyes, and some are both.
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  4987. Madame DeFarge is on the way .. I paged her awhile back just in case Dimwit Don wanted to play it this way.
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  4988. That was a temporary thing he did only to push a high speed rail project out of the picture.
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  4989. Once Republicans realized that they'll never win the presidency except by cheating or by twisting the EC, it was an easy step off into the abyss.
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  4990. Love the way Johnson had to backpedal from saying "the Repubs in the room were denied the information being discussed out loud in front of them" to "they haven't gotten the transcripts yet" to admitting that maybe the transcripts aren't yet available. What a joke.
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  4991. Or as GW Bush would have said .. you gotta dance with the one that brung you.
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  4992. Has it never occurred to you that, at least sometimes, calling a spade a spade is not an act of character assassination but a statement of fact?
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  4993. My [racist whackjob] parents were early adopters .. they were elbow-deep in that nutty goo by the early 70s :(
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  4994.  @fittekowner  Murdoch owns the NY comPost.
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  4995. Look at the way their planned damage to on-time mail delivery is now bearing the evil fruit they wanted. They knew way in advance that the people would vote in record numbers to remove the cancer from the white house.
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  4996. Yeah, it's called crime and punishment. "Be there, will be wild"
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  4997. No, they don't like it when others play the same game they do. As for Alaska - come and get it ;)
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  4998. @DogBoy While you're thinking such things, also ask yourself what's the cost of inaction when a danger is approaching? For example, the costs to America of WW2, Lend-Lease, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift etc were enormous. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just do nothing and let the fascist forces take over the world?
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  4999. Go out to any store now and you'll see hordes of unmasked people, which is about why the covid numbers are as bad as they are and getting worse. There are more than enough unvaccinated folks (about half of our nation of 330+ million people) to fill the ER's and then the reefer trucks :(
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  5000. It's clear that Agent Orange has jumped the shark, and wow,what a splash that's going to be. When we look back on this time later, I predict that the exact moment of Peak Trump was right around when Trump bootlicker Ken Cuccinelli offered up his tasteless-party-hack rewrite of the poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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  5001. Has anyone told Team Red that they'd win more seats if their policies weren't so back-to-1950 or back-to-1850? (let's keep it a secret)
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  5002. You should ask that question to Herman Cain and to Diamond and Silk too. You don't have to be white to be a Trump doormat.
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  5003. The solution in Indonesia was quite efficient: those who deny the reality of the virus get to help dig graves for all the virus victims. I hear it takes less than 2 weeks for that type of therapy to help people recover their senses.
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  5004. That getaway car? I torched it. It was mine anyway, right? So I could do what I want with it.
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  5005. Oh it's much worse than that. Obviously they're itching to set up the prison camps. That's just one step past rigging the elections, which is what they're working on now.
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  5006. Bingo. Anyone with an IQ over 85 has gotten the vaccine if they're eligible. This is just Saint Darwin cleaning out the shallow end of the gene pool. And as a bonus, there will be fewer conservative voters for the next election cycle.
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  5007.  @dianehooper3589  Hey again :) BTW is it my imagination or has Stephen Miller not been seen in awhile?
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  5008. Trump thinks their heroes, not for defending America's interests but for killing brown people and getting paid for it. He'd pardon Amber Guyger if he could.
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  5009.  @coreyholliday1650  Because these cases would have taken years to percolate up to the SC, and the guilty party knows it. Meanwhile, he's taking a wrecking ball to the reputation of the USA :( do the math: You are being mugged. You can call the cops and wait minutes for them to show up (when seconds count) or you can use what you got on hand.
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  5010.  @linuxrobotgeek  When you realize that right wingers are the same ones undermining any attempt to focus on healthcare and a better system for all, let me know.
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  5011.  @BiggerFatterBlog  When you wrote "The upside is, COVID-19 is taking its toll on the anti-masker and the MAGA mob", I just wanted to add that what you're seeing is nature's famous efficacy in letting the trash take itself out. Every time a covid denier perishes of covid, the collective IQ of the nation improves a little.
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  5012. Elon Musk at his most hilarious "I alone can fix this" moments.
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  5013.  Forked Tongue  Re "I don't see the Democrat President running down there" << You're pretty slow. Google the news on Biden's emergency declaration for Kentucky - and the news is 19 hours old at this point.
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  5014.  @morganrowell1373  45 is also doing a good job showing us just which Americans are affected by Partisan Derangement Syndrome. For example, when a reporter once cornered John Eastman and asked him if it would be legal for, say, VP Harris to pick the winner of the 2024 election, Eastman snapped out, "Of course not!"
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  5015. It is incredibly frustrating. I have been warning my friends about this thing since the 3rd week of January, with only one of them listening all that time, and now another one finally woke up today to what I've been talking about. The level of disruption coming our way is similar to that of the nation suffering an overwhelming military attack, or an EMP, or a wide-area natural disaster. I've been panic-buying supplies for more than a month already. In a nutshell - everything you see happening in other countries is going to be happening here, sooner or later. Obviously we've already got asymptomatic carriers roaming around the USA :(
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  5016.  @scorpionbraid  Love it. Tali-kkklan?
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  5017. As Trump's crazies will tell you, those dead people are just crisis actors. Probably the same ones Soros paid to meddle in the 2016 election. /sarc
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  5018. Who else noticed that the US states currently leading the way in high virus growth rates are the same ones who refused to implement stay-at-home orders?
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  5019. Hunter never got a white house position and certainly was never given security clearance over the objections of our entire security apparatus. Didn't do any deals on the behest of the white house. Trump's kids are a whole nother story.
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  5020. It's not everyone's fault. Most sensible people followed the precautions and got vaccinated as soon as they could. What's left is the crud in the shallow end of the gene pool, and Saint Darwin is here to help clean that out.
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  5021. At some point, Putler (or his betters) will decide that things are getting too hot for Russia, and back off. This is part of the "cranking up the heat" process. So's having 101st Airborne parked in Poland. With love from America.
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  5022. In other words .. when Hulk gets scared, Hulk hits the road.
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  5023. The inevitable result, I think, is that fewer people will choose to live in those deep-red crazy places that not only forbid life-saving medical care for mothers but then (to add insult to injury) would use the powers of the state to make life harsh for the children who turn out to be LGBTQIA or who have special needs.
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  5024.  @genghiskhan9269  Everyone knows Genghis Khan died August 18, 1227, that's probably why :) No, seriously, if you want to read something scary, check out "Berlin Diary" and "End of a Berlin Diary", both by William Shirer. His observations about the onset of fascism were spot on. Too many parallels with the current time.
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  5025. Yeah. Apparently they (the alt-reich nutters) are already planning more violence in the days leading up to Biden's inauguration. I'll bet they have no clue that the FBI can read everything they type or say to each other.
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  5026. She's as bad as he is. The both of them need to go to wherever Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu went to.
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  5027.  @AlbertaGeek  And it's sometimes hard to tell which is which.
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  5028.  @CCWeazle  Just for kicks, did any of the main propagandists at FOXed Noise (Hannity, Ingraham, Tucker) mention how Biden gained more votes in the Arizona audit? Baier is like the back pages. Putting a story in small print in the back pages is a way to claim that you covered something without bringing it to the attention of 95%+ of your viewers.
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  5029. Looks like nature is functioning properly .. the most adaptable are the ones who survive.
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  5030. Put it this way: Trump could spend a week tweeting how he's a Russian sockpuppet out to destroy America from within, and Republicans would still stand behind him and claim he can't be impeached. That's the level of nuttery on their side of the aisle.
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  5031.  @vaughndolland  Speaking of his party .. no wonder Trump hated the late senator John McCain, who saw rather clearly what a monster Trump is and wasn't afraid to say so.
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  5032. The sooner they let lots of people on board, the sooner lots of people will quit after realizing what a POS it really is. At PRAVDA Social they're just trying to delay the inevitable.
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  5033.  @MEETMagazine  If you really feel that way about the covid vaccine, just send your insurance company a politely-worded letter saying why you refuse to take any of the available free vaccines. Then, when they get the bill for your hospitalization costs and/or funeral costs, they have a good excuse to deny payment. You wouldn't want to be one of those freeloaders, would you?
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  5034. Funny how United wouldn't even offer a year of heathcare to whoever turned him in.
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  5035.  glockumollie  If it's so low-power, can I watch you try to stop a round with your bare hands? Or maybe you think your vehicle is enough protection from that one? Let's go to the range sometime and find out.
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  5036. To be sure, Trump will toss them under the bus at some future time. He'll blame everything on them, badmouth them, whatever, because no one means anything to him. Like one of his associates said .. "Trump doesn't see people as people, he sees them only as objects in his field of view."
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  5037. Regimes that use such hateful rhetoric (the meter is pinned when people are described as "vermin" or "animals" or "filth") almost always are doing some kind of genocide behind the scenes. Thus we learn of that little Dr Mengele character sterilizing Hispanic women. What has the doctor been doing to children and others? Is there a buried pile of ash somewhere out in the desert?
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  5038. Not sure. But it's probably one of Dump's fanboys who does that godfawfully dumb spamming here.
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  5039. As someone pointed out upthread .. if history serves as any guide, this means we're closer to removal than it may look. It wasn't that long between when Nicolai Ceausescu started getting boo'd in public to when he and his wife took a one-way trip to the basement. I hope everyone everywhere boos him and chants "LOCK HIM UP" .. it's fitting.
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  5040. To be sure, never before in American history had we needed any laws requiring the following things of a president: That he gets his information from daily intelligence briefings and not from Putin or a group of right-wing fringe bloggers who made stuff up. That he doesn't trash our allies and trading partners. That he doesn't get to completely disregard the experts on infectious diseases. That he doesn't deliver edicts via twitter. And so on. Trump just bashed a giant hole into what we thought of as normal behavior for a president, and I'm afraid that even worse things will come in and enlarge that hole. See "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.
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  5041.  @heathersinclair1590  As Rafael Eduardo Cruz might say, if he were honest (and he's not) .. "My daddy didn't flee all the way from Cuba to Canada, then send me down to the States, just so we could see the country overrun by folks from other places."
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  5042. Seems like it was an attempt on Mulvaney's part to escape from President Pennywhistle's merry-go-round. "We do that all the time." sheesh
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  5043.  @cherrylleallan2825  I like to ask those Trumpanzees who in America is advocating for workers to seize the means of production, which is the signature feature of communism. Or point out that it was Republicans, under Nixon, who established the EPA after it was found that having the rivers catch fire was bad for business. The whole spectrum in the US has shifted far to the right, and, like goldfish, they can't see the water they're in :(
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  5044. Trump just gave them a valuable lesson about not doing business with schmucks who've got long histories of not paying their bills.
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  5045. Not to worry! The president's "mind" is like a weathervane or a fidget spinner - anyone and any random breeze can spin it in a whole nother direction. At least 3x a week he'll be saying that this is all under control, nothing to worry about, just keep shopping. And every time he does that, the market tanks.
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  5046. Only in America during a public health emergency will you find people exacerbating the same health emergency by refusing to wear masks and by congregating in groups. All they're accomplishing is to spread the disease further & faster, and delay the reopening of the economy. And it takes approx 40 days to see the peak in related covid cases following a large social event. Some of those whacktards just made their appointment with the coroner :(
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  5047. Hell, the one that got voted out 355 days ago still isn't letting go. I see no reason to think that 2022 or 2024 will be any better :(
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  5048. This is hilarious. Like the princess squirming atop a stack of mattresses and finding small imperfections on the floor, Trump's ability to perceive and remember imaginary slights is something he can't let go of.
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  5049.  Lancemus Blanco  I'm very sorry for you that you could mistake a genuine public health emergency with the instantiation of a police state. Sounds like you're the one who's brainwashed. You drew a false equivalency and then tried to use it as the basis for making a point. But that's typical for Trumptards. I'm all for letting the whacktard conservatives start up their own Slab City type dwelling far out in the desert, where they can pretend the virus doesn't exist. Without medical care, the mortality rate would be around 15%-20%. Smart people learn from other folks' mistakes - ordinary people learn from their own mistakes - and stupid people never learn.
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  5050. "Quislings" is a lot shorter and more concise.
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  5051. The rest are MUCH worse than just cowards .. they are the people who would willingly end democracy, and plunge our nation into chaos, all to sooth the tender hurt feefees of their angry cult leader. They need to be treated as the poison they really are.
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  5052.  @martijnijsendoorn6911  Good distinction. An actual country would be thinking of its people, its diplomatic reputation, its long-term future in a multipolar world of interests that can be cooperative or not. Putin, on the other hand, is pursuing a project of ethnic cleansing, and this is obvious in the choices of attacks: residences, maternity hospitals, theatres, child day care centres. Also the way they simply shoot all remaining people when their troops move in, and their fondness for torture and child abduction. If Russia meant this to be an actual war, they would be attacking targets of only military value.
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  5053.  @hushy79  Re "With all the footage of Jan 6 available out there, they’re still denying" << Correct. All they can do is tell you to ignore your own lying eyes.
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  5054. Pol Pot and Jim Jones must practically be cardinal saints to present-day conservatives.
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  5055. Just imagine if that fool had been president when Pearl Harbor happened. He'd be tweeting about how the Emporer of Japan is a really fine guy, and how the attack was all Obama's fault. He lacks the ability to comprehend objective reality.
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  5056. What an insult to horses too :(
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  5057. Donald Rump just got a lesson in that. He's busy freaking out that some of his staffers are infected. Now he's requiring everyone to get tested daily just to be in the same building. Nobody would be doing that if this thing were just a hoax, or no worse than a cold/flu. And now the white house is the only place in America where you can work and get tested every day, with contract tracing for positives, just like in Germany or South Korea. In the rest of America, you're on your own losers.
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  5058.  @cyberprime9355  You can't say they're not working hard to become the most-loathed group in American politics. In other countries they'd be swinging from lampposts the day after.
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  5059. Then, when you catch them in their lies, they'll eventually be forced to admit that what they said was "rhetorical hyperbole". And when you point out that some people take their lies seriously, they'll tell you that it's the people's own fault if they don't know how to tell truth from fiction .. because free speech!
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  5060. Sorry, but I blame the disarray on there being so many deeply-gullible ones among us. People who would attack their own post office if the election loser told them to. FFS.
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  5061. It would seem that he didn't appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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  5062. Here in the US, you can change the name to "pandumbic", as Floriduh has just passed laws eliminating all covid-related restrictions on business. Guess governor DeSantis believed right-wing kook Rand Paul more than infectious diseases specialist Dr Fauci. Paul claims that herd immunity has already been achieved. What happens next should be instructive. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/25/916969969/floridas-governor-lifts-all-covid-19-restrictions-on-businesses-statewide
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  5063. OP: beautiful! May I borrow that turn of phrase?
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  5064. This guess by no means matches an experimental result, but it should be somewhere around 15% * 15% (or 0.15 * 0.15) or 2.25% overall.
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  5065.  @brbroose  Another bit of research I would love to see is the "distancing magnification" factor of everyone wearing masks. Let's say that (for example) there is a 20% transmission risk when you are standing 10 meters from someone (when you are both unmasked) but when you are both wearing masks, 20% transmission risk happens only when you get closer than 50cm (or whatever).
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  5066.  @bilbobaggins4710  Apparently it's fear-mongering to report on a dangerous virus circulating. Meh.
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  5067. What they need and aren't getting? Strong medication. Stuff being explained to them.
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  5068. Why are you sad? The relief bill will be signed into law soon. American families really need that.
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  5069. Thankfully, every time the Q-tips promise the second coming of Trump and it keeps not happening, they shed more voters and followers. And when all of the DC insurrectionists get their televised trials, there will be even more defections. Got popcorn?
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  5070. Who else remembers back in December-2017 when the Trump administration banned federal agencies from using certain words and phrases? If the head of [whatever agency] was appointed by Trump, I wouldn't trust the numbers coming out of that agency any further than I can throw them.
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  5071.  @sallydaniel1023  Probably that's because Putin sends him a 10% cut of the business to a personal account.
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  5072. Old Russian folk saying - "The tallest blade of grass is the first to get cut." And don't even get me into the childrens games, like Blind Cat, that are designed to inculcate the thinking patterns of learned helplessness.
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  5073. Apparently the disappearance of the Q-Anonsense content/channels from most social media outlets has produced a flood of many lost souls showing up on other channels, looking to verify or discuss things that have absolutely no grounding in any kind of factual reality. These people represent the intersectionality of a) folks who are especially vulnerable to shallow, simple propaganda and b) people who are mentally & emotionally damaged.
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  5074. Block party!!
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  5075.  @michellejohnson3349  As usual, you have no evidence behind what you're saying. Try that again with some top tier news links behind what you say. Crickets.
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  5076. Actually the winter has been unusually warm, fighting has continued, NATO has agreed to send even more stuff, and Putin's desire to freeze out Europe isn't working out at all. Ukrainian soldiers get the very best high-tech wintertime kit available to the west.
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  5077.  @life_with_dogs_2025  Were you looking in the mirror when you wrote that? If not, you probably should have been. Super strong irony there. Hope you took a break from whining about inflation long enough to buy your Trump NFTs heh.
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  5078. Has he ever? No.
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  5079.  @andrewtrip8617  Regarding "You have the opportunity to find a strategy that works" << since I'm not in government, that sentiment is wasted on me. Take it up with them. But yes, any strategy other than vaccinating as many as possible ASAP is going to fail. California, USA is one of the better vaccinated states .. yet Delta is still causing new-case rates to rise even there. The reality may be that we need above 80% fully-vaccinated to stop this thing. And, to be honest, I don't care if we have to make vaccination mandatory. This disease is more of a threat to us than WW2 was, and letting folks exercise their freedumbs to stay unvaccinated now is like letting people leave all their lights on during the London Blitz. When the stakes are this high, participation is not optional.
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  5080. He will try to take as many of his culties as possible with him. And in jail he's going to [ghost]write and publish a book about his struggle.
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  5081. Nah, she's just doing her job. Now she can add "cockroach exterminator" to her long resume.
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  5082. So he's still got classified documents there? Good people at the FBI, you know what you need to do.
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  5083. Ratcheting up the hate is how Fox makes its money. Been that way awhile.
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  5084.  @DanA-nl5uo  For sure. There's a bigass reckoning coming for those who are used to living like royalty of olden days.
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  5085. Yah. No one at Nuremburg got off with the "poor judgement" excuse. It would be like Hitler claiming, "I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews"
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  5086. We can thank house speaker chair-warmer Mike Johnson for slowing delivery of Patriot missiles for that one :(
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  5087. Much respect from the USA. We will send you more missiles. We got your six 👍
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  5088. This is so freaky for me .. years ago my parents went down the rabbit hole of rabid anti-abortionism .. they lost all their friends .. their lives got taken over with plastering posters and chanting stuff angrily at total strangers. They haven't come back from that dark place.
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  5089. You can just hear the denials coming from Greater Trumpistan .. "He didn't say that" .. then "If he said that, he didn't mean it" .. then "He was just kidding" .. then "But but but but Obama was way worse!!!!"
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  5090. Culties are usually much, much slower to get to the stage of regret. Possibly it wouldn't happen until an elected tyrant dissolves their court and sends them off to the gallows. As we all know, an actual dictator has no need of the judicial or legislative branches of government.
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  5091.  @wientz  I have been assuming all along that the nature of Putin's dirt on Trump (and Republicans) consists of recordings of them asking him for advice on how to remake the country in a way that would have been more favorable to them .. journalists and dissidents repressed .. state control of the media .. guaranteed election results.
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  5092. Those covid sufferers in Bismark ND who were turned away at the hospital? Too bad they weren't the president, they could have gotten whisked away to gold-plated personal medical care all on the taxpayers dime. Instead, they get sent home with some aspirin.
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  5093. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to care about the letter or the intent of the law when you're busy engineering a slow-moving coup to produce a one-party state. Their idea of "fair and balanced" is a one-party state, with them in charge.
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  5094. But how much shooting did they do before realizing it was just rhetorical hyperbole? You can safely call these people the Comet Pizza brigade. Tell 'em a lie and point them to some distant location.
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  5095. And he talked about "golden showers" and prostitutes while visiting a high school? He's a sexual offender.
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  5096. 4th best after the volunteer drone battalion. And who was it that won the turret-tossing competition this week? Damn thing went 250 feet up. A new record! Slava Ukraine!
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  5097. We are. Conservatives are not.
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  5098.  @Right_Wing_Guy  Oh yeah. The last one was so peaceful. Tell me how it works if you left leg decides it doesn't want to be a part of you 😅
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  5099. What a despicable little Nazi binder barbie she made. Hope she enjoys her life as a pariah.
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  5100. Let 'em whine and rat out each other. Because nothing says "I'm a patriot and I love my country" like beating a policeman with an American flag after you invaded the capitol.
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  5101. Apparently someone inside the building cooperated with the terrorists in getting in and knowing how to reach speaker Pelosi's office. Who wants to take bets that Hawley tasked one of his interns with the dirty deed?
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  5102. Also - Trump timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault." "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stock market!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose re-election.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT! Another hoax!" "Ignore those corpses, they're just crisis actors! Maybe the same ones used for cheating in elections!"
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  5103.  @pc4mlc451  Wrong. Grandpa Joe (AKA Dark Brandon sometimes) doesn't have those horrible personal characteristics.
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  5104. Thus do we fund the American Taliban :(
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  5105. Hope the GQP is saving some panic for the day they need to scramble onto planes and flee to Russia. For their own safety.
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  5106. This is left-wing humor. Deal with it. Right-wing humor is more like running protesters over with a big truck while trying to pepper-spray them.
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  5107.  @DaveGIS123  Not a good one either.
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  5108. "Seeing normal appliances for the first time in a foreign country" -- truly, Russia is the Idaho of Asia.
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  5109.  JOYA MAHAN  If you feel so strongly, I hope you are volunteering to be the bio-host for those tiny clumps of cells that get scraped out of a rape/incest victim. Supposedly even men can carry babies to term that way (not sure what gender you are) so, if you're spouting this nonsense but not walking the walk, kindly crawl back under your rock and let the adults discuss this one.
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  5110.  JOYA MAHAN  No no no. Don't dodge the question. Where does it hurt YOU (or any taxpaying citizen, or even anyone old enough to be enrolled in school) when a woman has an abortion. There is a point I am trying to make. Answer the question.
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  5111.  @bradynlotterman8164  Perhaps you can answer the question that the other fool seemingly cannot. Where on the doll does it hurt you, or anyone listed in the phone book, or even anyone old enough to attend school, etc, when a woman has an abortion?
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  5112.  @bradynlotterman8164  Show me its birth certificate, its IQ score, whether it's left or right handed, its social security number, and then it's easy to answer that question. Instead, the fetus you're yapping about doesn't have any of that. So if you're complaining about things that don't affect you personally, and are not against the law, what you're saying is that you are simply another Karen.
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  5113. Every state should have this as part of their requirements.
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  5114.  @Zarkxac493  Truly, Trump was an inspiration to the Joe Arpaio type guys everywhere :(
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  5115. Justice was coughing up blood more than a decade ago. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn; when we were told that 8 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge; when senators decided to hear no evidence at Trump's impeachment acquittal ceremony; when Republicans decided to just ignore congressional subpoena. Republicans are not going to suddenly become moral and law-abiding. Pretty soon now they'll be telling Biden that 40 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a judge.
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  5116. Like Al Capone praising the IRS agents who won't investigate him or hinder his operations. But only those ones.
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  5117. It will be the most hilarious ever. Hope everyone has popcorn.
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  5118. At times like this, I find it helpful to remember that for awhile north America was a penal colony, a dumping ground for Europe's less-than-fine people.
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  5119. She will fix the problem - with MORE plastic surgery! Carrot Top could use a partner.
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  5120. You know what I am most afraid of? It is that when we finally remove Agent Orange from office, we are going to hear some harsh medicine from the rest of the world. We will be much less of a nation if the world chooses to have little to do with us. Here is what they might say to us: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  5121. Seems pretty obvious that Trump and his henchies aren't going to wait until the election.
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  5122. It takes talent to devalue something expensive that you just bought with borrowed money. Frankly, I hope all reasonable news outlets abandon Twatter over this.
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  5123. Re "It's a failure if they are moderates like Joe" << That's like saying, if you can't have the tasty cupcake you want, you'll take a muffin made of broken glass just to spite your throat. Moderates displacing conservatives is still better than more conservatives.
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  5124.  @DancingInTheRuins  Being Satan's willing doormat is dirty business. She had to take her turn at it apparently.
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  5125. Cheeto has that effect on people. Kind of tells you exactly what he is.
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  5126. Some people are obviously in need of an organization like the former Edgefield Poor Farm (now a McMenamins) that would keep them from the worst of their own bad instincts.
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  5127. Perhaps someone could use 45's likeness in an illustrated young-adults version of Timothy Snyder's book "On Tyranny"?
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  5128. I for one am not going to complain if traitor Trump's collaborators go missing. His 15 minutes of fame was up long ago.
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  5129. Word has it, the Poles are eager to join the turret tossing competition - something done with Russian tanks. Everyone's trying to beat that new 250-foot record from a few days ago. Quite a feat.
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  5130.  Matthew Allen  Re "Too bad the FBI couldn’t have made that effort" << Too bad for you and the other bird-brains beating that dead horse, what was done during racial injustice protests never rose to the level of high treason, which is what happened January 6th. What happened during the racial injustice protests was in fact dwarfed by violence perpetrated by uptighty whitey racists back during the 1960s.
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  5131. @bavery6957 Because real women are just too damn imperfect for you, right? 😂😂
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  5132. Most cultures have a cautionary myth about selling your soul to the devil. She is suffering from the same thing all Trump apologists do. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had. And when he's done with them, he fires them on Twitter. But not until he's made them use up their credibility.
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  5133. They will be a major new player in NATO someday too. A strong place like Germany or Poland.
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  5134. No need to protest the Trumpanzees, just watch them from a safe distance while they wail and moan and while they try to process something that makes them mouth the word "inconceivable" repeatedly. Eventually some of them will have to go back to work, or report to their parole officers, or start taking their meds again. No need to do anything with them at all.
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  5135. Republicans were hell-bent on destroying our country years ago. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  5136. He looks painfully stupid. I suppose that comforts some people. /shudder/
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  5137. @Jesse Torres Love it, can I borrow that?
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  5138. After watching Republicans switch from purely-partisan blocking of Obama's nominees to letting Trump do any "acting" appointments he wanted to; after seeing Republicans switch from saying that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge to helping Trump ram one through in under 8 weeks; after watching Republicans howl at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit to helping Trump undermine the results of the most secure election in US history; my trust of Republicans is thinner than cellophane. I'd say they're acting like Hitler's Nazi party did during its attempts to seize power, except it's not an act, sadly.
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  5139. Those people were correct to refer to it as North Korea 2.0 :(
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  5140. Many of us knew he was evil back in 1989 when he took out that full-page ad publicly calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, a group of young men who had been framed by the cops.
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  5141. Are these the same Proud Boys he claims he doesn't know, yet who heard him speak to them so clearly that within hours they changed their logo to reflect what he had told them (at the first debate) to do?
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  5142. The only Russian stuff you can find in the US are things like small quantities of canned fish .. old propaganda books from Progress Publishers of Moscow .. the occasional pre-2007 Ural motorcycles which used to be made in Russia (now only the frame and fenders are). Their consumer goods are generally too shoddy for the western markets.
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  5143. Moscow Mitch: "This impeachment was wrong because the trial was too late, but then I'm the one who delayed it, also, Trump is guilty as f*ck but I won't vote to convict him. Please keep voting for me."
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  5144. Bingo. And he keeps trying to rewrite the past to support his batshit narrative.
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  5145. No clue as to how many of them can realize how wrong they were without totally losing it in the process. Gonna be a lot of human wreckage that needs picking up.
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  5146. In retrospect, we should perhaps thank Trump for moving through society like a big litmus test and illuminating which so-called Americans are most easily turned into willing fifth columnists. And if we run out of jail space for them, build some camps. But they don't belong in general circulation.
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  5147. Well, if you can think of a way to be fair to the interests of those smaller and/or more rural places while still not letting them pull off this dictatorship-of-the-minority thing, please pass it on to whoever's in charge.
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  5148. It's so odd, the only people who say that anyone can get tested anytime are the ones who have their own testing machine and insist that everyone around them gets tested constantly. Huh. Quite the coincidence.
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  5149.  Joseph Jr McNamara  They're subject to the UCMJ, which will not look kindly upon those who swore a solemn lifetime oath to defend the constitution, then stabbed America in the back. No nice cushy Club Fed for those ones.
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  5150. Trump has been using them as his racial police force .. his Brownshirts.
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  5151. Does Russian language have a word for "quagmire"? Asking for a friend ;)
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  5152.  @OnTheSnap1  Some of the lies take less than 15 minutes to sort out. Most of them are, sadly, too lazy to check if what they're hearing is true or not.
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  5153. Funny how all the wingnuts who claim that the statistics are forged can't prove it. Even funnier, none of them volunteer to work as front-line workers anywhere, which is ironic since they whine about job losses and they claim this thing is a hoax. They sound like unprofessional astroturfers who live in mom's basement.
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  5154.  @lexyswope  Ever catch a glimpse of that rack of medals he keeps on that credenza behind his desk? Clearly someone's missing their pet peacock.
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  5155.  @Crippycooke  Hmm .. is there any recording of Trump bragging that he has more rape allegations against him than anyone else?
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  5156. Correct. Las Vegas, Seoul, Sidney, Kentucky, Yellowstone, St Louis, the list goes on. 9" or more of rain within 24 hours. This is the new normal :( Edit: hope you live on a hill somewhere
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  5157. Wonder if Kavanaugh is going to announce that he wrote that paper (the president and the independent counsel) back in his hippie days, before he realized all the "eeeevil librul conspiracies" against "innocent Trump".
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  5158.  @vernonsheldon-witter1225  😂 exactly
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  5159.  @katersization  Re "Goodness! When did the left get so visceral?" << Clutch those pearls any tighter and the strings will break. It became more serious when those same mentally ill people tried to pull a coup.
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  5160. When they said it was more than 8 miles long .. yeesh. You'd have to do a ground survey first to map all the places with weak or substandard soils, where subsidence will occur under the load of the levee .. a lot of clay and riprap on the water side of the levee .. all the right soils and regular inspection to make sure it's good. $40M wouldn't even cover the detailed soil survey costs. Was the levee built to the specifications used by the construction company? What engineer signed off on the specs?
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  5161. He would probably do more than that. Uncle Donald's wish list probably includes charging the Bidens with treason, having House Democrats charged with treason, nullifying the 2020 election results because they were "unfairly" tainted by his "illegal" impeachment, and giving him 2 more presidential terms as compensation. And don't think for a moment that Moscow Mitch wouldn't try to deliver these things :(
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  5162.  Bill Voss  With the failure of the US to adequately test, that will be the unfortunate result all across the country, even in places where the medical systems are not overwhelmed.
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  5163. Putin will still be saying that even when the roof of the Kremlin is on fire.
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  5164. For once, the enemy isn't someone he can sue, someone he can buy out, someone he can belittle, someone he can just issue nasty tweets at. The virus doesn't care about his hurt littleboy feelings. He's probably already been exposed to it, thanks to the virus infiltrating CPAC and AIPAC, and probably more places.
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  5165. Employers are going to have a field day with kids not knowing safety rules, the value of their labor, or the laws that protect them as workers.
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  5166. You should check out the movie "the Reliant", where he hit true new lows.
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  5167. You have to remember, Trump-type people are mostly served by Sinclair media and FOXed Noise, so they hear this 24/7/365: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  5168. It's just as well that Trump didn't show. He would have just been a stink and a hindrance anyway during a time when the nation needs to pull together.
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  5169. About governor Abbott .. who else remembers back in April when he passed laws that prevented localities from requiring and enforcing mask usage? He owns this mess. https://www.statesman.com/news/20200427/abbottrsquos-coronavirus-order-nixes-austinrsquos-enforcement-of-face-mask-mandate
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  5170.  @larryross1819  Thank you for showing us what it's like to be deeply gaslit. You have a right to be angry, little Buckaroo, over how inflation is going down, the stock market is hitting record highs, wage growth is up, gas prices are going down, yada yada yada. You have a right to stand there under the noonday sun and whine how it's dark out and the streetlights are broken. But it does make some of us smirk! ;)
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  5171. Rostov too historically belonged to Ukraine. That should be part of the reparations too.
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  5172. Few of his followers will even bother to wear masks .. they basically stopped listening after he first called it a hoax.
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  5173. The dissolution of the USSR was an immediate improvement for the peoples of the republics but was the opposite for the Russians. Unfortunately for them, the Russians got used to taking quite a lot from the republics (especially money, young men for military service, any factory they wanted to relocate, as well as the brightest and prettiest) and had become long accustomed to living that way. Downsizing from the USSR to just Russia caused Russian lifespans to drop precipitously - but it had the exact opposite effect in the republics. Long oppressed, they improved quickly with the removal of the Russian boot from their necks. This is the future that Ukraine is heading into :)
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  5174.  @kirinrn  I did specify the good people. Every wannabe Fuhrer has his little supportniks :(
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  5175. The ones who are white, cis, hetero, gainfully employed, housed etc will be fine aside from huge chaos and economic turmoil. The rest, you should worry about.
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  5176.  @t1n4444  Sydney Powell already appears to have been in such care for awhile now. Remember her last video? Looked like the inside of some kind of mental rehab facility. Soft everything.
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  5177. We all saw how the numbers of new cases started dropping dramatically in the UK (good job!) and some were thinking that the same would happen here, but then, you don't have a governor DeathSantis (or is it DeSatan?) in Scotland banning the measures needed to stop the spread of disease. All the red states here are incubators for crazy new variants :(
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  5178. Don't you miss the days when you could go to sleep, not needing to wonder what dumb / hateful / illegal / immoral thing that fool did and then obtained the Republican approval for?
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  5179. Wouldn't shortsighted Trump supporters be able to masquerade more easily as serious people if they didn't have a reflexive need to run up the "both parties are the same" flag every time some Republican gets caught acting criminally? (rhetorical question)
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  5180. I assume Trump is going to pressure the governor of Wisconsin to issue a full pardon to Kyle Rittenhouse, then ask him to lead the militia into the cities to "monitor" polling places. In predominantly Black areas of course.
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  5181. "Conspiracy theories don't kill people. People kill people. It's not my fault some nut picks up a lie I told, and uses it to hurt someone. If they didn't get it from me, they'd just get it from someone else. Or they'd just use a hammer or whatever." -- Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson, the day after
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  5182. I will forever think of the Republicans as the people who spent 8 long years shrieking over the dijon mustard, the tan suit, and a bargeload of things FOX made up to keep them incensed - Jade Helm, Agenda 21, chemtrails, Obama stealing Christmas, etc. After their orange turd got into office, these people got worse, not better. I suggest America fixes this by doing something similar to what happened in Germany in the later 1940s when the victorious Allied powers basically de-nazified the country.
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  5183. @JJ Wolf Mask wearing is practiced by only certain types of Americans. 1) Those who can read news and comprehend events. 2) Those who personally know someone killed or affected by covid. 3) Those who live in communities/regions that have been hit hard. For instance in NYC there is no one left who thinks the coronavirus is a hoax or fake news. In Texas and Arizona, there are a lot of people who still think it's a hoax, or no worse than a cold. They will learn, if they survive.
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  5184. Pretty sure that's what she was hired for :(
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  5185. Like a broken vacuum cleaner (or a stripper's boyfriend) he doesn't work, but if he did, he would still suck.
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  5186. "Here we are with half the public terrified and confused and our president appears to be dedicated to upholding the honor of the Office of the President rather than acknowledging that the people who will be taking over that office are going to burn the entire institution to the ground." -- Politics Girl
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  5187. Psyched that Poland is now getting Abrams tanks. That's a f-u type of 73 ton death machine for the enemies.
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  5188. Hate to point this out, but there is lots that small groups of reich-wingers (like the Proud Mama's Boys, the Michigan militias, and other assorted violent right wing extremists) will be doing with Trump playing the bullhorn. And Trump will incite them to violence regardless of how the election goes. That's the thing. There is no "win" with him. He won't be happy until the country is a flaming wreck.
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  5189.  @theflyingwelshman5338  Lot's more, sadly, because the authorities still seem to be disturbingly unaware of the intransigent nuttiness of those among us who want to see blood and fire.
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  5190.  @tomtheeagle1  Bingo .. I was snorting coffee at the "deep state" label. Guess who the single most powerful person in the government is? That's like Bill Gates complaining that the 'deep corporation' at Microsoft is trying to make him look bad.
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  5191.  @robbylock1741  What helped them fall for it was the toxic and unfounded notion that equality is a zero-sum game .. that when Black people get the right to vote, the existing majorities lose something .. that when gay people get the right to marry, somehow straight families are being deprived of something .. that when other religions get to exist without the Klan burning down their churches, somehow something is being "stolen" from Klan-friendly churches.
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  5192. Windoze is full of backdoors .. that is part of why it actually requires antivirus.
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  5193. Who knows, maybe McConnell is not yet finished with his service towards the Kremlin?
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  5194. Dump is all too familiar with how to work around the safeguards that normally prevent someone from doing what he does.
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  5195. Sure, sure. People indoors breathing heavily in as confined space, pumping out high volumes of droplets, sweat dripping onto equipment, different people handling the same things - all during the worst pandemic in a century. What could possibly go wrong?
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  5196.  @jeanneganrude8549  Who else remembers that time he lied about offering to buy Greenland, then publicly insulted the PM of Denmark (a very good ally of many decades), then continued lying about it for weeks in different forms? He's as slimy as he was back when he called for the execution of the Central Park Five - who were later found not guilty.
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  5197. The only person she'll be now is someone who no one wants to stand next to.
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  5198. Funny how he won't let the people around him achieve "herd immunity" .. he keeps testing everyone constantly, as if he thinks there's some deadly disease going around.
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  5199.  @wasatchm  That's the thing. When you talk when demented whackjobs whose only "news" is lowbrow propaganda, they're convinced somehow that Trump is true and right and glorious, and that his opponents are the opposite. It is the nature of very stupid people to be unable to recognize propaganda.
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  5200.  @joycejnn  Listen, you rotting piece of ignorance, all you need to do is tune to any database that shows the USA has had more than 600K covid deaths. To make that simple enough for your pea brain to digest - that's very very bad.
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  5201.  @anniegoulaheee8025  The weekend is young. Possibly by this time tomorrow morning, he will have been unable to resist naming E Jean Carroll by name in some social media post, thus launching defamation trial #3 which will be for far larger damages.
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  5202. Well, so far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  5203. "A failed coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise."
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  5204. A question for the president of Finland: "Sir, with all the time that your people spend raking the forests to prevent fires, did you find any dirt on the Bidens?"
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  5205. The anti-science conspiracy-minded people need something to do during lockdown. It's funny to watch them be so wrong .. hopefully they can square that circle by following their science denialism to its logical conclusion, which would be to perish before passing on any genetic material.
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  5206. The way I heard it, the Pentagon made that decision on their own. Huh, how did a 5-time draft dodger ever think that military people would want to kiss his fat ass? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9156861/Pentagon-denies-Donald-Trumps-request-military-style-farewell-parade.html
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  5207.  @marvinmartion1178  Put them last in line for medical care. There's got to be a price paid for deliberately causing harm to your own country.
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  5208. Trump must not-so-secretly want the highest possible body count. When he claimed on April 15th that the US had passed the peak, we had 644K cases and 28K deaths. Now it's 1.04 million cases and 60K deaths. Everything is getting worse, not better.
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  5209. They probably both voted for Tяump .. oops :(
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  5210.  t1tacal  Good for you. Err, you DO realize from the news that not everyplace has had the same good fortune as your place? And you DO realize that only lockdowns kept the virus spread from getting explosive, right?
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  5211.  @SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite  Maybe in SOME locations that was true but not in ALL. Heck, NYC was so overstressed that people from all over the country went there to pitch in during the worst of it. So at best, you are protesting the same lockdowns that kept your place from becoming another NYC. Smooth move.
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  5212. Our little budding Lord Haw-Haw was probably delivering another packet of documents, among his other tasks.
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  5213.  @rohns2952  He's also saying that the will of the people, as recorded by our votes, really really hurt his tiny feelings - so much that he feels the need to punish us by plunging the country into some ugly dictatorship.
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  5214. These aren't wonder weapons. They're the 40yo US rocket artillery system that's in the process of being replaced by something better. Still, the launch looks like an angry god kicking them skyward.
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  5215. Melania's robotic, tone-deaf speech didn't have the intended effect .. just like someone who grew up under communism and toes the party line, she basically tried to tell us that 1+1=3.
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  5216.  @eelkeaptroot1393  Despite years of living here, she's never bothered to learn how to talk right.
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  5217. Like Josh Hawley, who gave a Nazi fist salute to the insurrectionists, then later fled the same violence he'd just encouraged.
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  5218. The last time anyone heard these billybobs bitching about the constitution, it was because they were trying to find some way to gripe about that "dictator" Obama (hint: they were actually complaining about his skin color). And now that there's an obviously criminal president trying to destroy the separation of powers in order to consolidate his power, these Meal Team Six bozos are threatening revolt. Gah. What are they going to do, shoot at the mailman?
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  5219. There's this saying in Europe .. when you have a Nazi sitting down to eat with 11 other people, what you've got is a dozen Nazis at a table.
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  5220. Well, to be sure, the Republicans went full Orwell when it came to labeling their election-stealing effort "Stop the Steal". And that alone shows you how stupid they really are. Anyone with half a brain knows to take Orwell's works to be cautionary tales and not how-to manuals.
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  5221. That''s a trick that abusers like to play on their victims.
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  5222. Qday and Usay would order almost all of the books anyway just to pump up the sales numbers temporarily.
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  5223. Listening to the Mango Mussolini whine about Biden's son .. does he really think that we all forgot the ZTE scandal? That is, when he used the powers of office to give ZTE an exemption from sanctions (a set of sanctions he levied, BTW) in exchange for China making loans to a Trump-brokered Indonesian theme park? And that's not corruption? https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-zte-order-after-china-gave-millions-to-trump-organization-tied-project-2018-5
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  5224.  @maxvosper9420  You got to keep up with the reich-wing orthodoxy in the USA. As per the new Florida school textbooks, slaves were a happy lot, grateful that they were plucked out of that nasty jungle, thankful to be taught job skills so they could better themselves. (gah!)
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  5225. Thank you for your service! And my I add, there is no expiration date on that oath.
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  5226. So those people "did their own research" .. all the way to an early grave apparently.
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  5227. "Undocumented" is administration code-speak for Hispanic with accents from south of the border. White European undocumented folks don't get put in camps. In fact Trump is married to someone who overstayed her visa illegally, then brought her family over by the same chain migration he publicly bemoans.
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  5228.  @tinablok4213 I still remember that Der Spiegel cover art from 2016 that depicted a Trump-like meteor hurtling towards earth to destroy it. The only element left out of the picture was Putin setting it on course :(
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  5229. Correct. Those who make peaceful unionization impossible ..
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  5230. Bingo. This is right up there with, "Ignore your own lying eyes!"
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  5231. Bear in mind, conservatives are essentially complaining that Trump's misinformation is being labeled as such. The current crop of conservatives would have made good little apparatchiks in Soviet Russia, always running around doing Stalin's bidding because the big guy said so. Trump's brownshirt sputniks.
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  5232. Trump's nuttiness was on full display well back into the 1990s. Don't know how anyone could have missed that.
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  5233. Well .. I find it helpful to remember that the Republican vision for America is something like a bloody civil war, with a fascist authoritarian regime in charge that alters the vote results to suit its thirst to remain in power at all costs. And of course all the ugly crimes-against-humanity stuff that would land them in the Hague later. Because THAT is what they're getting in line behind.
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  5234. Some of his more diehard supporters, perhaps trying to "own the libs", staged a coronavirus party to show how much it was just a hoax. Some of them are now testing positive. Are normal people that batsh!t nutty in other countries or is this a USA thing?
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  5235. Gym Jordan is fulfilling my every expectation with his flailing about; with his inability to dispute the basic facts revealed by this investigation; with the way he tries to flesh out conspiracy theories that don't make sense outside the microverse of crap leaking from Q-Anonsense, FOXed, OANN, 8chan; with the way he's making the Republicans look entirely inept.
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  5236. We are now learning that Trump's sole reason for removing the decorated ambassador Yovanovich was that she was good at fighting corruption, and Ghoulini (working with Parnas & Fruman) was trying to get some backchannel American money in charge of Ukraine's fossil fuel assets. That's corruption. Trump is not a good liar. His excuses are transparent.
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  5237. Unfortunately, false claims are about the only kind of claims this so-called president has. Remember when he said that covid was only 15 cases and that the April weather would make it go away "like a miracle"?
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  5238. I've been mad at Dr Birx ever since then. There was a wave of poisonings following Trump's remarks. Instead, she sat there and tried to pretend she was anyplace else but on camera with the dumbest fool to ever set foot in DC. Very irresponsible of her to remain silent :(
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  5239. Things were working fine until one party decided that power at all costs was better than the power sharing arrangement that's lasted a long time here.
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  5240. @W Bush Coming from someone who's been sucking on the tailpipe of Trumpist propaganda, your comment is all too predictable. If you're such a good little Trump-bot, do you have pipe bombs in your closet too?
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  5241. Russia whining that NATO is "encroaching" is like a serial arsonist whining that more people are buying automatic sprinkler systems 😅
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  5242. Bingo. Trump is a very stupid person's idea of what a smart person is.
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  5243. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  5244. Fakebook has been the next Q-Anonsense for awhile now.
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  5245.  @badass-d4k  Re "If it was about "health", they would require their "protected class", illegal immigrants, to get the shot at the border before they arrive" << Are you saying it is OK for the government to mandate that people get shots? Why, that's exactly what conservatives have been whining that we must not do. If you are in favor of forcibly vaccinating immigrants, then put your money where your mouth is, and agree with me that the federal government has the right to require Americans to get vaccinated too. People are people regardless of immigration status.
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  5246. News flash - the world's biggest, most modern, most thorough police state (China) is unable to keep this disease from spreading at a geometric rate. Does the CDC here in the US think that white people are somehow immune to it or something?
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  5247.  @Mark-db8id  Funny you should mention CNN. They are a news organization. Trump is a politician and cult leader. Trump several times pushed memes of him physically assaulting CNN. CNN never did the same thing. Trump's cult members, like Cesar Sayoc (remember him?) are obsessed with carrying out the political violence that he eggs them into doing. The same cannot be said of CNN. Is that enough comparisons for you, ding dong?
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  5248. With emphasis on the "vicious" and "insane" parts. They're just frigging nuts :(
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  5249. Bingo. It's a short hop from "anything a president does to secure [re]election is legal" to Trump saying "I can stay in office as long as I want. No more elections needed because I'd win them anyway."
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  5250. That lying moron Trump claimed yesterday to have nothing to do with the slow US response (even though he was actively pushing happy-talk lies about how it would just go away on its own) and claimed he didn't know anything about the global pandemic response team he ordered Bolton to fire in 2018. Somebody please give Humpty Dumpty a good shove, he's earned it in spades.
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  5251. Nice of him to PC the phrase that he actually uses in private, which is closer to "my n-r" :(
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  5252. He talks openly and often about being the "retribution" president. Can you see what he'd be doing this week in power? "That Maryland, that sht-hole place, they didn't vote for Trump, so they can fix that little bridge problem themselves."
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  5253. RNC is never going to see that money again! ;)
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  5254.  @angrysaxman2246  Lost my boyfriend over it .. he got taken for a weird ride down the rabbit hole and still doesn't realize it.
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  5255. Another unwelcome thing we must face (besides P2025) is acknowledging that the forces that made it possible will not die with Trump himself. The backers of P2025 will always be looking for a younger, smoother, more charismatic version of Trump. These forces will not go away unless perhaps some group makes an extreme effort to send them to the dustbin of history.
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  5256. His supporters aren't much different. They look at his anger, his narcissism, his constant lying, and they think, "Hmm, he's our guy."
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  5257. He doesn't stand a chance, but that doesn't mean the lemmings don't love him. Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes. There's no path for him to win aside from purely extralegal means.
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  5258. If this news makes you want to go back a few weeks in time and vote for Trump instead .. please have your head examined.
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  5259. That MyPillow freak is another wannabe Nazi :( wonder if he's going to pay Amy Cooper's legal fees next?
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  5260.  @nathanadler8316  Fascist Binder Barbie.
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  5261.  @PaddyMacDaddy101  That's called "letting perfect be the enemy of not-completely-disastrous".
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  5262. Company towns, here we come :(
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  5263. Cult leader says, flying monkey does. That's one of the few games Dump likes to play.
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  5264. Guessing worse. In China at least they educate a lot of people in the sciences. In Russia, technical education hasn't even returned to USSR standards, such as they were.
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  5265.  @alexandraluca3933  Still, it amuses me to swing a hickory fact-bat at those demented losers most mornings. Aggro therapy with a free, unlimited supply of willing, idiotic morons.
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  5266.  @Justice4all2023  The delay was in order to give Jack Smith as little time as possible to do anything.
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  5267.  @andreb.8266  Bingo. The military forces are not leaving DC anytime soon. The new wall around the white house is only going to grow. Bunker Boy sees only one way out of the predicament that he caused, and it's to set the nation on fire basically.
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  5268. Guessing DUmp45 was spilling the beans from nearly the moment he had access to them.
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  5269. How is Steve Bannon not getting a visit from the FBI for this? What kind of upside-down time are we living through that this stuff is not a crime??
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  5270.  @illiadmcswain3956  Thanks to Trump, we now know there are 3 basic types of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  5271.  @raymondszeto4277  I'm with you. We all remember how AG Garland took months getting around to appointing a special prosecutor for Trump's classified documents case. But for Biden's? Four days.
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  5272. Some of them, apparently, were the same Iraqui militia leaders who Trump had previously praised for coming to the rescue of the US embassy in Baghdad recently. Heard it on NPR radio this morning.
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  5273. Trump is right at that flashpoint where a dirigible has become a flaming Nazi gasbag. So there is a god after all :)
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  5274. All this time, we were afraid Putin would teach Trump how to authoritate, but instead Trump taught Putin how to lose. A fitting end to their bromance.
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  5275. Like Gordon Gekko said, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
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  5276. Only in America could a con-man president get away with cheating on his taxes while railing about "moochers" who don't pay their "fair share" while getting cheered on by his imbecile fan base who simultaneously think that a) it's wrong to cheat on taxes and b) cheating on taxes is what makes him a patriotic genius.
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  5277. Once you understand that Trump Republicanism is a death cult, DeSatan's behavior makes a lot more sense.
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  5278.  @procellsearchlightpictures4328  The MAGAban are a lot like the Taliban.
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  5279. Because his lies & distortions are not too far out of line with their lies & distortions.
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  5280. It worked in the only way it was designed to work .. that is, to enrich Raytheon. Any other functions are secondary at best.
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  5281.  @tdoljuu  Re "The US and NATO have already done that with" << Like all the people on the wrong side of the iron curtain, you seem to have missed the point that it was more a matter of Estonia, or Latvia, or Lithuania, or Ukraine wanting to join NATO than a matter of NATO expanding. Putin should be instead asking, what can he do to these places to be such a good neighbor that they wouldn't want to associate with Europe? People do remember the communistic times, you know, and no one looks forward to being raped and pillaged a second time.
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  5282.  @tdoljuu  Born way before you, most likely. Russia grabs places with military force, whereas nations ask NATO to be admitted to NATO. The two are not the opposite sides of the same coin.
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  5283.  @craigs1266  Good one - also the French already proved conclusively that politicians cannot regrow their heads after separation.
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  5284.  @beeemm5707  Reverse Midas touch. The real Midas touch turns stuff to gold. Trump's version turns stuff to sh*t.
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  5285. Psychotic behavior. She saw them only as obstacles to her sorry day, not as people who she had just killed through her own bad choices.
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  5286. "A failed coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise."
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  5287. It was always going to end this way .. Dr Anthony Fauci, public servant extraordinaire, was always going to come out smelling like a rose while Trump would go back to smelling like a room full of dog poop.
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  5288. No, please don't have any intervention. When you let him talk to the media, he keeps incriminating himself and Donald.
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  5289.  Eidelmania  The surveillance video from the Capitol surveillance system ought to be able to shed some light on the pre-insurrection familiarization tours with the layout of the building. FBI's got all that. Heads are going to roll.
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  5290.  @redhotmoon1656  Seriously, who was getting so antsy for a fresh tattoo, or to catch a respiratory disease in a movie theatre, that they couldn't wait a little while? RIP Georgia.
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  5291. Hate to point this out, but you could see very early on in Cheetolini's administration what was coming. Here's a May 2017 article in which the Republicans made painfully clear their disdain for democracy. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-us-constitution-archaic-really-bad-fox-news-100-days-trump-popularity-ratings-barack-obama-a7710781.html
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  5292.  @TakeMeToTheRiver123  From his actions, you wouldn't think so. But then this is the same guy who floated the idea of impeaching Obama post-office, while insisting personally that he himself couldn't be impeached after leaving office. No mental gymnastics are being performed in 45's head. No mental processes at all apparently. Just me me me me me fuck everyone else.
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  5293. I call them Q-Anonsense. Material that fools only the dumbest of the dumb, the people whose brains are miswired to glom onto the most fringe nonsense.
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  5294. FOX Noise producer: Help help, I'm a paid liar working at an organization of paid liars, and someone lied to me - I'm shocked! :(
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  5295. Holy sh** .. hope you have a successful full recovery. Hang in there. My best friend had 14 weeks of symptoms.
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  5296. Thankfully, the Trump nazis have left behind a mile-wide trail of social media posts, appearances on TV, voting records at all levels of government, etc, which helps make them easy to find. America needs to purge them the same way America purged post-war German of Nazis. In our America, there is no room for their hate.
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  5297.  @alainarchambault2331  There is no "why" when it comes to cultists and their behavior.
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  5298.  @julieannmyers8714  How interesting he morphed from perpetually-failing businessman to aspiring autocrat, happy to keep his little army of Cesar Sayoc types on simmer. Then again, Heinrich Himmler was an unsuccessful chicken farmer before he too morphed into some functionary who had others do his killing.
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  5299.  @pmac1951  Oh no. That kind are easy to understand, if you have known a few of them. In the same way that delusions of persecution haunt many a paranoid person, people like Trump have this seething rage at the world for not treating them as wonderfully as they feel to themselves that they are wonderful.
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  5300. Joe Digenova - living proof that sucking on the tailpipe of toxic emissions at Q-Anonsense, 8chan, FOXed Noise, OANN etc doesn't do anything good for your ability to appear sane in public.
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  5301.  @Mark_Brooks  People who only watch FOXed Noise sure do hear only an odd version of the Ashli Babbit story :(
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  5302. Garland does seem like a "both sides are the same" kind of guy, unfortunately :(
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  5303. Leaving the country in ruins, leaving the rest of the world no longer trusting America, leaving a pandemic infecting tens of millions of Americans and killing hundreds of thousands - all of those things are a high price to pay so Trump can pretend to be King Donald the Mad, but it's a price he'd gladly pay many times over.
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  5304. Unless counties are prepared to close all transit to other counties, this reopening thing is not going to work. Not including today, Washington has been averaging 413 cases per day over the last 5 days. Remember how all it took was one (1) out-of-town visitor to a funeral in Georgia to set off the worst hotspot in the whole state? This thing doesn't go away just because people get tired of staycationing with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies.
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  5305.  @russellzauner  Sounds good. I'll be out in the woods as soon as I can get a day off from work. Been building a hiking trail lately. Best therapy I can find.
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  5306.  Gerri Wright Ingerson  It was hilarious when Barr wanted to talk with the "manager" of Antifa.
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  5307.  @tonydarcy1606  Re "Bannon is an anarchist". Disagree. Bannon is an authoritarian. He wanted to rip down democracy only to establish a Trump dictatorship. He's the Gatekeeper, Trump is the Keymaster.
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  5308.  @Asher_Tye  A child lemonade's stand that gets continually rescued from bad decisions by huge injections of Other People's Money, you mean.
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  5309. It's enough to make a person wonder if Putin pays Trump some kind of bounty for killing Americans via covid.
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  5310. I worked awhile at a cheap-shit place like that. Any sick days came out of your vacation -- if you had any. Meanwhile the ownership would take any sick days off they wanted to. But for you, it's your own damn fault if you get sick, apparently.
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  5311. Can't wait to see the "fair and balanced" counter-education telling kids to drive on the left side of the road.
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  5312. On days like this, they play a long reel of firemen rescuing cats from trees. 😅 Kinda like the way the old USSR just played music on all channels when big things were happening.
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  5313. Yeah :( he's what passes for intelligent there? In my state, they don't let people that dumb even mop the floors.
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  5314. About governor Abbott .. who else remembers back in April when he passed laws that prevented localities from requiring and enforcing mask usage? He owns this mess. https://www.statesman.com/news/20200427/abbottrsquos-coronavirus-order-nixes-austinrsquos-enforcement-of-face-mask-mandate
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  5315. I see you know how the bureaucracy works over there.
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  5316. There should be fireworks to celebrate Ukraine independence .. stuff in Russia should go boom.
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  5317. Bingo. When the "too big to fail" banksters got bailed out in 2008, public sentiment was running 80:1 against it.
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  5318. The right wing sure does have a fetish for vehicle attacks.
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  5319.  @pedronunez3456  It's self-defense, if that same driver just plowed into a bunch of people deliberately because s/he didn't like their politics. F'ing Karens :(
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  5320. And I'll be there to remind them when they lose their medicare and social security.
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  5321. What kind of tin-pot dictatorship is it when the ruler personally decides which of his followers get access to the same treatment he got, which is still unavailable to the rest of us?
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  5322. Herman Cain would make a good one too.
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  5323. Getting what's coming to them would involve things we probably shouldn't mention here, except to say perhaps that it should get very, very hot for them.
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  5324. Beautiful. h/t for the Tropic Thunder ref.
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  5325. Yes. David nailed it. Trump keeps trying to pretend this is just April, and all the mistakes and lies since then never happened. Even during the Axios interview, that's what he was referring to when he said the US was doing better than the whole world on covid.
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  5326.  @christopherhendricks4369  It's actually a giant billboard that says - "I've got more money than sense". Like a voluntary tax.
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  5327. Allowing them to spread their anti-science BS during a global pandemic is like allowing the residents of London to leave all their lights on at night (and to encourage others to do the same) during the Blitz. What the?
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  5328.  @ppen8359  That's very much like what I tell Americans when they criticize the spending on Ukraine's defense. This is the cheapest possible way we could have of reducing the military capacity of Russia, and we don't have any US soldiers coming home in body bags. Simply supplying weaponry & components & support is a whole lot cheaper than actual combat operations.
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  5329. This is what happens when a none-too-bright person is convinced that there are easy solutions to complex problems everywhere and that only he can say what they are. He couldn't run a lemonade stand without bankrupting it.
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  5330. Xi, Putin, Kim Jong Un, who else will be ordering a lot of these "expensive" watches from 45?
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  5331. DuPont and the others lobbied for it fair and square. /sarc
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  5332. I've been laughing over how the Russians imagine anything of theirs would be a "show of force" when it happens in the backyard of the US 4th fleet. Russia already has trouble defending its ships against a much smaller country that has no navy. How do they think this is going to work out for them?
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  5333. Cheeto has NEVER acted like a normal human being. It is not as if he keeps it secret that he's a horrible person and a know-nothing.
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  5334. Yeah. This "peace plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Remember that one? Code name "Lebensraum"
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  5335. These spineless little GOPniks have been trained to disbelieve their own lying eyes :(
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  5336. Did Javanka mention by chance, just as an aside, that Daddy bought out the Supreme Corp so that all his personal legal matters can be settled there once and for all? That's if Barr doesn't get the DOJ there first.
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  5337.  @rodpanhard  Regarding "ave you seen how effective" << Why yes, I have. Have you? Seems like you have not. Here's some help for you. Of all the people who died of covid in Maryland, USA during the month of June, 100% of them were unvaccinated, and none of them were vaccinated. https://www.businessinsider.com/maryland-reports-only-unvaccinated-people-died-covid-19-june-2021-7
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  5338. There's quite the effort afoot to paint CEO Brian Thompson's "adjustment" as somehow much much worse than the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, every year, from being denied the coverage that they paid for weekly/monthly.
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  5339. Although it was written long before his time, Trump is nonetheless the main character in that story about the princess and the pea.
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  5340. Most capitols are pretty well guarded. The US was just slow to catch up with what's normal in most of the rest of the world. Took us only 200-something years to bust that homegrown-insurrection cherry. The fencing and the troops may be there for awhile.
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  5341. And yet .. governor Kate Brown of Oregon (who has kept our covid rate low) is the one earning all the recall efforts.
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  5342. Jedi hand wave We don't need any soft power overseas, right? Try saying that 10x when the cost of motor fuel has tripled and you begin to dimly comprehend that withdrawing from the world only means that others will take it over, others who don't have our best interests in mind.
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  5343. Correct. The "big one" would be more contagious (unlike this one, which is more contagious than common colds/flus but less contagious than measles), would have a much higher kill rate (South Korea has figured the covid death rate to be around 2.3%), and would have a nice long slow incubation period (in which people spread the disease unknowingly) before the deadly symptoms emerge. MERS had a 34.4% death rate but didn't spread as easily; Ebola has a 50% death rate (and no treatments or vaccines) but kills its victims so quickly that they don't have time to spread it very far; rabies has a near-100% kill rate, but people can't spread it from one to another by casual activity.
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  5344. It's OK. If you're that much against saving lives and stopping diseases that kill Americans, we probably don't want you working in those fields anyway.
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  5345. His supporters aren't much better.
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  5346. That's not the worst case scenario .. according to the state data from worldometers, the US will be at 100% infection rates in about 25 weeks or less. That's assuming that a) current observable trends continue and b) the people testing positive today need hospitalization at the same rate as the people tested last week, last month etc.
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  5347. Most of the writing at FOXed Noise is done by people who've got an affinity for hate, pointy white hats, racism, and/or swastikas. Might take awhile, but they should all be similarly unmasked. Hate speech masquerading as free speech is precisely how Germany in the 1930s fell to the Nazis and their well-lubed propaganda machine.
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  5348. Same reason some of those insurrectionists and wannabe traitors are still above ground. Patience, grasshopper.
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  5349. Herman Cain doesn't have to worry about wearing a mask anymore. Which of those fools is next?
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  5350. As well as Bobo, who went on to live-tweet the House speaker's location to the terrorists.
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  5351.  @michaelgrider8135  Stock market just hit a record high yesterday. A good day to listen to TDS gaslighters whining about how "bad" the economy supposedly is ;)
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  5352. Would love to know what role that fool Boebert had in inciting threats against judges in her own state. Did she even issue some threats herself?
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  5353. Happy Independence Day! You make the rest of us very proud :)
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  5354. Perhaps it would help the nation heal if we could take people like these and put them on a reservation so they can hang with their like-minded friends. A place big enough for them to enjoy their "freedumbs" in, but secure enough to keep the results of their idiocy from harming the rest of society.
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  5355. His eyes always did look flat, blank, lifeless, devoid of thought, like bland buttons sewn onto an orange doll.
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  5356. As they say .. "Appeasement is feeding a hungry crocodile, hoping it eats you last.” Churchill
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  5357. FYI the name of the second one is now "Matt PizzaGaetz", because of his tendency to read whackjob conspiracy theories and charge in, completely misled, with guns blazing.
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  5358. Wonder if history will refer to it as the Three Day War out of total facetiousness?
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  5359.  @michaelray2981  You're an abject moron. Masks have crushed the curve in every state and country where made mandatory. You are clueless. Probably you like Trump. Those things go hand in hand.
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  5360. I've got American friends who are easily sucked into Russki Mir .. bringing them out of it is sometimes a bit of work.
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  5361. Trump has the best fools ever.
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  5362. The DNC did that last time and look what happened :(
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  5363.  @mathunit1  There will come a time for the yellow vest type activity here, sadly :(
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  5364. Reposting something I saw awhile back: Dear Republicans, You all had 2+ years to call him out. To stand up for the people you represent. To separate yourselves from his policies and beliefs. To restrain him from pillorying our closest allies and trading partners. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To keep him from embarrassing the US by withdrawing from treaties willy-nilly. Most of what Trump has done wasn't even grounded in Republican tradition. But you were weak, cowardly, and greedy. And now when you lose, you become the snowflake. Cry me a river. You will not have the house, the senate, or the presidency back for a generation or more.
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  5365.  Swift Justice  Correct. We must get everyone registered to vote, particularly all the young people who have turned, or will have turned, 18 since the last election and before the next election. We must make sure everyone has the necessary ID's for voting (show us your papers!) wherever they happen to live. We must make sure everyone knows where the polling places and ballot drop boxes are, and that they've got transportation to those places. We must make sure everyone has the comforts needed for a potentially long wait in line - wifi, bathrooms, food, water, shade, shelter, whatever. We can do this. When more people vote, the results are inevitably more blue. We can do this!
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  5366. @Pura Vida dew It is OUR job to fight the fascists. By whatever means are necessary.
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  5367. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular election was GWB in 2004.
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  5368. The passengers signed waivers, apparently, stating that they knew it was an experimental, unlicensed, uncertified craft. If the sub pilot had really good aim, the wreck of the Titan now sits with the Titanic. Like the larger wreck, the Titan too will come to be an example of why safety standards must be mandatory for that type of craft.
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  5369. That's actually the kind of war that's happening. And the people of MAGAstan are dying at a faster pace than the people of America. What did John Wayne say about that? Oh yeah: "Life is rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid."
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  5370. Agree. And I'm American too. Our body politic needs a fever to get rid of a nasty virus.
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  5371.  @mylesandeli  The portrait wasn't orange enough, apparently.
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  5372. Checking in from Oregon, USA .. I started wearing a mask in public back in mid-March, when almost no one else was doing it, and I got a lot of weird looks. But now almost everyone wears a mask, except for the easy-to-spot conspiracy-minded ones (translation: total barking mad idiots) who scowl at it.
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  5373. Apparently threatening crimes against humanity is against Twitter user rules, except somehow they never apply those rules to the most egregious offender, the ugliest American, the angry elderly frat boy.
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  5374. Can't help thinking that WW2 wouldn't have gone so well for America if some voices here had been encouraging everyone to defy the blackout orders, refuse to recycle metal, ignore the "totalitarian" rationing system, and help the enemy by weakening public health in America. That's about the level of stupidity those protesters are showing. Some of them just made an appointment with the coroner :(
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  5375. He's just another Comet Pizza type. Maybe someday companies should start screening their people to see if they follow OANN / Info Wars / Q-Anonsense / FOXed Noise / etc.
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  5376.  @kishanchali8752  Actually it is the other way around. Russia has lost near 37K~40K soldiers and significant numbers of combat vehicles. Russia has had to widen its recruitment window just to make quote of bio-targets to send to Ukraine. You might want to stop sucking the tailpipe of TASS/Pravda nonsense. It's making you hallucinate. This ends only one way: Russia goes home wounded. Stay longer and it will be badly wounded instead.
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  5377. Sorry, but he makes Archie Bunker look sensitive and erudite by comparison.
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  5378. Every other country offers FREE drive-through testing to anyone who wants it. But dumbass Trumpy doesn't want the virus numbers to make him look bad, so instead people will die at home by the tens of millions to feed his ego.
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  5379. Somewhat ironically, he pledged to do away with the measures designed to keep covid from spreading out of control. Seems he got his karmic-reward thank-you note from Covid a little too early.
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  5380. In this case it's government taking steps to protect your health. They do that all the time. Protecting you from your own worst instincts.
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  5381. Poor trolls gotta make a living somehow! :(
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  5382. The current Republican schtik was visible way back during Obama's time, and has only gotten worse since. Basically put - they have no interest in playing by any rules in America if those rules do not leave them in either absolute control or with absolute veto power over how things go in the country. Usually American politics is like the two parties flying a 747 together, sometimes with the D person being the pilot and the other one being the co-pilot, and sometimes with the R person being the copilot and the D person being the copilot. Since back during Obama's time, the R's have made it clear that they'd rather smash the aircraft into a mountainside than endure not being the pilot.
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  5383. The relationship of the polling to the voting is sort of like who you'd like to date vs who you'd like to marry.
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  5384. They're not just lost .. they were dropped on their heads a lot as children .. someone's slipping LSD into their drinking water .. they're wired to blindly accept the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. So if they want to enjoy some face time with the Delta variant, it's like the trash taking itself out.
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  5385. If you think that's fast - go try a Silky Sugoi 360. It puts the best Fiskars/whatever to shame.
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  5386.  @LLL-zt3fz  And yet, just as with his articulated desire to be a dictator, this makes his delirious lemmings screech with joy.
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  5387. Republicans just don't want you to grow accustomed to dangling at the end of a rope, with your life in peril, lest you become dependent on it. /sarcasm
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  5388.  @johntao6822  He doesn't know it, but he's about as popular as Nicolae Ceausescu was right before that trip to the basement.
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  5389. They would be happy to set the country on fire and let disease run rampant just to "own the libs".
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  5390.  @TheKayzieMichelle  In just one week, Trump accomplished these things: a) united Iran from top to bottom in ways that have not been seen since the popular revolution of 1979; b) united the people of Iran and Iraq against the presence of westerners and of the Americans particlarly; c) caused guys all over the middle east to flood into recruitment centers; d) guaranteed that Iraq must expel the US; e) poured Miracle Gro all over the Taliban and ISIS; f) encouraged everyone there to buy their own S-400 air defense systems, which make short work of drones and anything else that flies; and g) made it very difficult for any regional partners of the US to stand with us on issues.
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  5391. For months, people in conservative & rural places have been complaining about health restrictions that they say were designed for urban places and thus not applicable to rural places. Umm, no. This virus doesn't care what your political beliefs you are, how urban or rural your town is. If people gather indoors, the virus will spread.
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  5392. Notice how Trump won't let his own kid go to school.
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  5393.  @dubinatub1  Lost most of my relatives to the cult, as well as the ex. It was a sobering lesson in how Trump's BS finds willing listeners in some kinds of people. The ones who aren't very smart. The ones who know better, but some aspect of his social program (usually racism) lines up with their feelings. And the kind who desire to burn everything down.
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  5394. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  5395.  @bethmoore7722  In other words, those same mean-ass white men look at the Taliban with envy and wonder how to use the force of law to institute similar repressive measures here in America :(
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  5396. Pretty sure the whole reason the impeachment inquiry is now going public with the evidence/testimony is that the committees have uncovered some juicy information related to the cover-up of the phone call, the omission of key details from the record of the phone call, and the we're-guilty-as-sin effort to hide the records of the phone call. Public support for impeachment is already high; those revelations will raise it quite a bit. By the time the actual impeachment vote comes along, siding with the criminal president will be political suicide.
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  5397. There's an online countdown that has it in days, hours, minutes, seconds: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?csz=1&iso=20210120T00&msg=Time+left+until+Trump+leaves+office&p0=263
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  5398. I'm suspicious., Saying things that are factually true is not Bannon's usual MO.
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  5399.  @ToolFist598  In response to your "which facts" question .. let's start with all the people who've lost loved ones, yet had to endure hearing the following twaddle: March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: “The United States .. has, as of now, only 129 cases .. and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down .. a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful .. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: “It’s going to go away .. The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point .. when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  5400.  @ToolFist598  You are wrong there. Trump stopped only Chinese people from traveling here. He did nothing to stop returning Americans (which numbered some 40K by May) from bringing the virus here. We know that by how many TSA agents got infected, then the subsequent huge outbreak here.
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  5401.  @hodaka1000  She looks ready to shoot black people for voting just because she thinks that's "saving America". So brainwashed.
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  5402. This is like watching the Ceausescu family fight amongst themselves .. while completely unaware that they're about to get hustled down the the cellar for what they did.
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  5403. Remember the characters Mr & Mrs Campion from "the Stand"? That's them. "I want to get away, and I don't care if I infect the world in the process".
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  5404. He's been dividing America, trashing our allies & trading partners, making the word of the USA nearly worthless on any treaty. It took 230 years to build up that much political & diplomatic capital (which was the property of us and future generations) and in less than 4 years he's chopped that tree nearly down to a stump.
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  5405.  @kellydalstok8900  The icky horror story I'm watching these days is NZ+Aus. They burned a year of waiting time not getting their vaccination program moving, so now they're stuck with a hyper-contagious new variant that blows right through their strict measures. And, mind you, they need to keep up with those measures or risk a worse outcome, which is uncontrolled spread and the things that follow it: hospitals being overwhelmed, then mass graves.
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  5406.  @_alienblood  It's hard to when your "defensive system" is a bunch of drunk sailors pointing automatic weapons out into the night, not being able to see much. FFS Russian military doesn't even use pallets.
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  5407. Guess no one told Newsmax that people can't watch TV or vote when they're on ventilators? Whoopsie.
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  5408. Canada is like the 2nd floor of nice apartment dwellers living over a biker bar that keeps getting busted for drug violations and health code violations.
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  5409. Pretty soon now, all kinds of Republicans (and ordinary people who've been supporting every nutty measure of theirs over the last 4 years) will be claiming that they had NOTHING to do with Trump's malfeasance. Don't let them get away with this lie. They've left behind the record of their votes and a swath of social media postings to show they were 900% behind Trump all the way. Remember their names and faces. They are traitors among us.
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  5410. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  5411. Thanks to things like this, Canada will eventually build a wall, and they will pay for it. They're like the nice people living over a biker bar.
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  5412. Note how many of the GOPerati refuse to acknowledge that Biden won the election. They and their orange golem are going to have a lot of commiserating to do in the woodshed of history.
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  5413.  @wesker911  .. yes. But he may somewhat punish his pet by reducing the diet and using a shorter leash. One must show off their pets now and then.
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  5414. Just like, oh, the way he forgot to do his job during the 4 years of his shit-show administration. And to Trump, being a "computer genius" means being able to change the ringtone, something he's never been able to figure out.
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  5415. People have to be pretty warped to willfully kill their own children over politics - but it does sometimes happen, like when Frau Goebbels killed her own six children so they wouldn't have to "endure" Germany without Hitler in charge.
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  5416. Who the F ever said it was Agent Orange's decision as to where the summit gets held? Hope they hold a G-6 somewhere else.
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  5417.  @Prushinthespirit  The proof that Ukraine isn't losing (as you say) lies in how Russia has still been unable to take over a much smaller nation. If you have videos proving that 30% or more of Ukrainian territory has been taken, by all means show it. And I would ask you how Russia keeps losing pieces of its Black Sea fleet to a much smaller nation that doesn't even have a navy of its own.
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  5418.  @genedavis9530  That's probably the true meaning of TDS - people who are deranged and thus follow whatever Trump says to do. Like these people who are packing churches in Louisiana. Soon they'll be packing the ICU. Some will go on to pack the cemetery. The stupid, it burns. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/490118-florida-louisiana-churches-draw-hundreds-to-sunday-services
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  5419.  @pedronunez3456  Not to worry. FOXed will be telling them it's all Obama's fault, and they'll believe it, even if they see Trump himself cutting their benefits.
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  5420. He added that much to the national debt. A combination of lowering taxes on the richest folks, and spending a whole lot of taxpayer money. Typical Republican.
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  5421. Georgia already counted the votes three times and certified the results. Trump lost Georgia by 11,779 votes .. and here he is, almost 2 months later, asking for enough fake votes to put him 1 over the Biden count.
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  5422.  @picholoup  Even now, Trump still does not understand that America is a vast, complicated enterprise that was running long before he came along and will be running long after he leaves .. that his job was to take care of it only for a little while .. that its powers were not to be used whimsically or to reward personal friends or punish personal enemies, like when he withheld disaster relief money from states that didn't vote for him. Trump instead treated America just like a free suitcase full of $100 bills :(
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  5423. Nothing to worry about. “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
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  5424. Oh look, America just got its long-overdue "aha" moment about why most nations have military-grade security at their capitols.
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  5425. He has people who will 'splain it better.
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  5426.  @TheAvalon81  Bingo. In field combat, the Russians spilled the most Nazi blood.
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  5427. Well, Trump is in fact the "leader" to the vile, damaged, violence-prone segment that hangs on his every word. There just aren't enough of them to win him any kind of presidential election, not that it matters to them.
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  5428. We all know that any Republicans who survive this election will be pleading that they didn't know what Trump was doing, that they were secretly against him destroying the institutions of democracy here in America, etc. Let's not let them get away with that obvious BS. They fully supported him in order to gain power and money. They were in all the way up to the hilt. Let's send them a message by voting them all out at every level.
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  5429. States: We don't want our people to die. People are dropping like flies and we don't have enough ventilators. Trump: I need the economy numbers looking good, you need federal medical supplies, so you need to be nice to me.
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  5430. Horse Face says, "Work with me please?"
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  5431. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating.
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  5432. Seeing this made me want to go hunt for some Obama-era video interview in which she complains about executive overreach ..
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  5433. The forest kept shrinking, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, thinking that because its handle was made of wood it must be one of them.
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  5434. Gotta hand it to them, the Anteefa people did some great work with years and sometimes even decades of deep cover as far-right activists. They even kept total radio silence, so there's no record of any communications between them and the manager of Anteefa. /s
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  5435. The numbers he provided at 0:38 paint a frightening picture. Out of 100,330 cases 3,804 are dead and 55,693 are recovered. That leaves 40,833 still being treated. In other words, out of that 100K total, 40.8% are out of the workforce for an undetermined time and 3.8% are out of the workforce permanently. What economy can take that kind of hit? And that is why in China and South Korea they are taking drastic measures. Yet other nations are slow to realize they're next.
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  5436. Uggh, that describes the boss-from-Hell I had awhile back. Glad to have escaped that place.
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  5437. ** As long as it's not a black/democrat president, that is, in which case we will spend that time screeching about mustard and tan suits and how oh no we're not racists, we just don't like his policies. While our rate of nominee-blocking goes up 4000% relative to the norm of course.
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  5438. June 9, 2024 at a rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And they cheered :(
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  5439. The mark of the devil is that he can get people to debase themselves for him.
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  5440. You could say that Russia has a superiority complex based on an inferiority complex.
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  5441. They've been trying that in Portland. The only noticeable result has been MORE homeless moving to the city.
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  5442. Republicans know they can't win fair elections anymore. Their policies have been exposed as inimical to the welfare and future of most Americans. Rather than change their policies, they've decided to go full apartheid.
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  5443.  @WookieX666  As the saying goes - he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client.
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  5444. Trump: Make sure there's no cheating here. Election staffers: You're not on the books, you can't vote here.
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  5445.  @mikeorfe1188  Re "80 million strong" << You wannabe-fascists couldn't even find 75 million to vote for your shuffling, inept angry guy who wants to tear down our democracy. BTW you might want to think on the repercussions of that, since you live in the same country he's trying to tear apart. And, every time they do an audit, we keep finding that the actual number of Trump votes was small due to fraud, committed by (surprise) irate Trumpanzees who somehow imagined they were above the law. Trump even told his sheeple to vote multiple times, and some did (haha) and they're in trouble for it now. If you want that badly to live under fascism, go move to Hungary. Don't take the rest of us along in your back-to-1938-Germany nonsense. You don't want your kids growing up in that kind of place.
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  5446. The OP has it right. Our little Caligula is flailing about for an easy victory to brag about. Trouble is, everyone remembers what an easily-misled dunce he is, and there isn't any low-hanging fruit available to him in that department.
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  5447. Well, almost anyone who has a kid in school will want Twitler's head on a stick for insisting that the kids all go to school during the height of a raging pandemic.
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  5448.  @Icculu5  Actually he's constantly incriminating himself. And that's fine by me. Don't like it? Don't watch it.
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  5449. Cheeto's followers will be going through some things, of course. At some point in the future, it will be impossible to find anyone who'd fess up to ever having voted for him, but first our nation must go through some things. Take heart, by the winter of 1947-1948 it was hard to find anyone in Germany who admitted to ever having supported the funny mustache guy, such was the ruination he brought upon them all.
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  5450. Sorry, chum, those 20 got voted into office. You don't get to undo that later.
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  5451. This is going to be one of those "What the F were they thinking?" things in about 30 days or less. People in droves are flocking north from Chicago just so they can mingle in bars with other people. After 8 weeks of staycationing with Netflix, munchies, and legal weed, some folks are simply dying to bring the virus back to their households and communities. The coronavirus LOVES that :(
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  5452. No doubt he took his "super tivo" along and is watching every screen .. and noticing that no one is mentioning him. I'm glad he wasn't there. He would have just been a hindrance anyway, especially when the nation needs to pull together.
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  5453. Someone else not being tried for crimes they haven't been charged with, or crimes that are wholly imaginary, also doesn't make him innocent.
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  5454. The part that makes me laugh is that even though most of them seem to be Trump fans, they haven't noticed him freaking out that some of his staffers are infected. He won't let them work at the white house unless they get tested every day. So if this thing is a hoax, or no worse than a cold or flu, why is it that he's freaking out and requiring everyone around him to get tested daily? Maybe there's a potentially lethal virus going around or something?
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  5455.  GreenIdLady 1  Those people are living proof of something Voltaire said - “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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  5456. To be fair, Trump DID say he'd run the USA like one of his own businesses. This will be his 7th bankruptcy. He has a long history of skipping out with some goodies just before the final crash-and-burn. Then he's off to fleece another bunch of suckers.
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  5457.  @accha4701  Great comment. Here are the books I have found most helpful for understanding this time in America: William Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer - Berlin Diary William Shirer - End of a Berlin Diary Harry Flannery - Assignment to Berlin Howard Smith - Last Train from Berlin
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  5458. The more I see of Trump and his fans, I'm convinced the country will need some kind of massive interventional therapy program to try to bring them out of whatever rabbit hole Trump has led them down. Or should we just deport them all? Remember how they were like during Obama's time?
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  5459.  @smcdonald9991  Oh I love that! Only PBS/NPR in prison? That's so perfect. How can we put Democracy Now onto the menu too?
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  5460. I wonder if the Trumpanzees will choose country over party. Some of them are pretty far gone.
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  5461.  @darrelljohnson5764  Like all the other drooling reich-wingies, you seem not to realize that "communism" is defined by the state seizing all enterprises in the name of workers committees; the state banning large-scale private property; the state removing all other choices from the ballot. We don't have any of that here in America. Heck, we barely have labor unions.
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  5462.  @darrelljohnson5764  Re "hat exactly is what is being done" << What batshit crack are you smoking? There is no such thing happening. Name a single company that the US government has recently seized in the name of the US working class.
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  5463.  @darrelljohnson5764  You still can't provide a single example. Very telling of how you have nothing valid to say. You know, you could have just kept your pie hole shut and let people think you were an idiot, but nooo, you had to open it and remove all doubt.
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  5464.  @darrelljohnson5764  LOL you're still way out in the field and don't know it. Obviously you see communism behind every bush, mailbox, and whatever else startled you that day - even though it's not actually there. I take comfort in knowing that someone somewhere is profiting off your all-too-predictable dimwittedness.
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  5465. To quote a theme that comes up at Dump's rallies - they knew he was a snake when they took him in.
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  5466. Or as I like to say it .. if Trump is the hill [of lard] that they choose to die on, that's on them. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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  5467. Correct. It's a crime against humanity as spelled out in the ICC's Rome Statute. This must be part of why Trump's administration is so against the ICC. Betcha they have been doing a lot worse than that, though :(
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  5468.  @9000Dogs  In more such clever military ingenuity, Russia just proved that their S-400 AA system and its accompanying radar are fully capable of intercepting ATACMS ballistic missiles without any human intervention and without launching anything. Those clever Ivans! ;)
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  5469. DeSatan is trying to redeem himself (in Clump's eyes) by .. helping make it likely that covid will kill more residents of Florida? Even for him that's a pretty sick form of homage :(
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  5470. This is ANOTHER attempt. Some of the 1/6 insurrectionists had done the same thing in state capitols during the spring and summer of 2020. As the saying goes .. an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise.
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  5471.  @themightyflog  By all means, don't let anyone stop you from developing therapeutics. Does it seem as if anyone here is infringing on your abilities to do so? If so, I hear Rudy Giuliani is available.
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  5472.  @kwbradysanch  Helps if you think of it as wilder extremes of all kinds. Phoenix AZ had a record number of days over 100F this summer. Large parts of Oregon have been in a drought for years now. All part of the same thing. Call it "climate weirding" if that helps.
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  5473. Jim Jordan did precisely what I was hoping/expecting him to do: make the Republicans look bad. Watching them turn themselves into pretzels trying to defend the indefensible is priceless. Wish they could see themselves in the mirror, but they'd probably sneer and call it "fake news".
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  5474. If he does, hope he goes into construction.
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  5475. Coming from the guy who can get a test at any moment just by asking, his comments are rather odd. He's already complained that expanding testing would just mean finding more positives, which makes the numbers go up, which makes him look bad. This probably explains why the USA still cannot get above an average of 150K tests per day.
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  5476. It was always going to end this way. In all his life, Trump has absolutely zero history of losing graciously.
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  5477. THANK YOU for saying this, Mike Breen! It's what I've been preaching. The ones muttering about civil war have no clue what kind of awfulness they would be visiting upon our nation. And all because of what? Because their psychotic, narcissistic cult leader can't accept that he lost the popular vote? For THAT, they would destroy a democratic nation?
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  5478. Speaking of hate .. with Trump in office, a whole new phenom arose: people committing bias crimes while naming the president as the reason behind their crimes. That's never been seen before in US history. This article is dated but you get the point: https://theintercept.com/2018/10/27/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last/
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  5479. If you look back through his older tweets, a lot of it was future projection for things he was going to do later.
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  5480.  @SagebrushRambles  Considering that more than half of Oregon's covid cases & deaths come from rural places like the ones now insisting that they get to ignore steps to reduce the spread of the disease .. yeah, these people are nuts. They'd wear masks if Trump told them to, but noooooo, if it comes from Salem they feel they gotta protest it.
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  5481. Gaslight - Obstruct - Project. That's what the initials stand for.
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  5482. He's old but he's not grown. In the far east, kids learn to swallow their pride before they learn how to swallow solid foods. 45 was never taught that important character-building lesson, along with a great many others :(
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  5483. Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania got dragged down to the basement and shot for less than what Moscow Mitch McConnell & Trump are doing now.
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  5484. When you encounter those same KKKonservatives online, they seem like badly-scripted AI chat bots that exist only on some server in Russia. Ink on paper is deeper than their thought processes :(
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  5485. There were 3 other candidates on the ballot during Russia's most recent presidential election. I'd have more respect for these former Soviet people if they'd registered more of a protest vote.
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  5486. OK, I confess I came here to see how many of Oregon's room-temperature-IQ fools have somehow misconstrued this week's news as, "Oh my god! Commie Kate wants to take my business away and force me to wear a mask so she can gloat 'Bwahahaha!' in the state command office while suffering way-lower tax revenues!" instead of our state government taking sensible steps to limit the spread of the disease, without which it would get even more out of control.
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  5487.  @zinaj9437  Bingo. Harris CO, TX and wherever Trump thought that by disenfranchising large urban counties he could "win" a state.
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  5488.  @sinndymorr6358  And for those who really do need the comforting reassurance that rich white people are good, that everyone else is bad (but especially folks with darker skin), that protesters are all demon gangsters, that science is worthless, and that Trump really is their lord and savior, FOXed Noise is the choice of mushroom-farm-people all over the US. Kept in the dark and fed only BS, they turn into ripe mushrooms alright.
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  5489. Susan Collins said she hoped that Trump will change. Huh?? Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  5490.  @theheretic3764  Your ignorance is immense, though not priceless. Trump lost the election. That's what you can't wrap your head around. Fraud? No proof of such has been found before any court in the land, including the ones full of Trump appointees. Keep barking at the moon. I could use the amusement. Oh, and the plural of intellectual is not "intellectual's". Not that you would know, since, despite being the smartest person in your double-wide, that's just not very smart in the bigger scheme of things.
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  5491.  zen master  Watch this turn into another Whitefish Energy "deal".
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  5492. I join you in this anger/disgust. It is as if all of the US lives in a giant high-rise in Dubai, and the richest residents (who have their own private elevators and helicopter pads) have convinced the dumbest 20% to cut the cables on the public elevators.
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  5493. Glad to hear the sheriff didn't succeed in putting PMR out of business. I love climbing, and that's exactly why I don't go to Mt Hood. There's plenty of stuff under 3000ft that's dangerous enough.
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  5494. All during Clump's abortion of an administration, I kept waiting for the adults to wade in and say "Enough is enough. This ends NOW." but it didn't happen. Over in Europe, they have people like Clump gone by the end of the day, and their replacement is in office the next morning. Over here? We blithely go about our daily routines, shrugging, telling ourselves we'll fix the problem at the ballot box, the traditional American way. Meanwhile the damage just kept happening for four long years. One big item on that list of damage is the covid crisis. We are fools :(
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  5495. Not only was it xenophobic (fixed your spelling) but it did nothing to address the fact that hundreds of thousands of returning Americans brought the virus back with them.
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  5496. The difference, though, is that Hitler didn't succeed in beating the Soviets away from Berlin. The same cannot be said of president Zelinskyy and beating the Soviets back on many fronts, beginning with denying them conquest of Kyiv.
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  5497.  @kryzzan7039  UA president Zelinskyy is not even trying to take Russian territory. UA did not attack Russia.
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  5498. It's as if she's just now realizing that Trump values all of his people just like you would value a dog-pee-soaked doormat that's 20 years old.
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  5499. They want Americans to see what they can do to them - really bad cooking? Wtf? And 1951 called, they want that haircut back 😅
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  5500.  @Rhythmicons  Trump knows how to make good things bad and bad things much worse. That is all he does.
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  5501. Every time I see those clips of Trump crowing about being exonerated, I think of Nixon making his "I'm not a crook!" speech.
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  5502. Kari still has important work to do: making it clear to everyone why red should turn purple and purple should turn blue. She is good at making that happen.
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  5503. After watching Republicans switch from purely-partisan blocking of Obama's nominees to letting Trump do any "acting" appointments he wanted to; after seeing Republicans switch from saying that 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge to helping Trump ram one through in under 8 weeks; after watching Republicans howl at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit to helping Trump undermine the results of the most secure election in US history; my trust of Republicans is thinner than cellophane. I'd say they're acting like Hitler's Nazi party did during its attempts to seize power, except it's not an act, sadly.
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  5504. In NY & Massachusetts, the fines for violating the public mask measures are necessarily draconian. And the people who bitch about it are essentially the same losers who bitch about seatbelt laws.
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  5505.  khotan  I was using those as examples of the stupid, nutty, patently-illogical things that the Q-Anonsense people like to believe in.
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  5506.  @DownUndaDigga  Bingo. Reason and knowledge are weak tea compared to the "blood, fire, retribution" themes TFG bathes them in.
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  5507. At times like this, it's helpful to remember that America has a lot of gullible, stupid people prone to wishful thinking. Every once in awhile comes along a reverend Jim Jones type figure to lead them off to the kool-aid stand. The only silver in that evil-ass cloud is that dead Republicans don't vote.
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  5508.  @duffal0  Very glad to hear that. I would be there touristing if not for the US state department telling us to stay away.
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  5509. I did the good thing today and spoke with my elderly neighbors (80s, respiratory issues) and said I can do their grocery shopping if they want to stay in. Hours later, we were all sent home from work and told the place will be closed for at least 5 weeks.
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  5510.  @jrasicmark1  FOXed Noise is remembering what happened to Alex Jones. He said inflammatory things to the effect that Sandy Hook was staged, which caused some nutjob viewers to issue death threats to people who's lost their children, so when it all went to court, Alex tried saying it was just "rhetorical hyperbole" which the court didn't side with. So this is CYA attempts.
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  5511. Nice to see that Karma makes housecalls. Watching covid swat those insects is the best news I've seen this year so far.
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  5512. The best part is, they got heckled by conservatives, who are FINALLY beginning to realize that the Swamp Creature and his grifter hangers-on aren't really conservatives at all.
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  5513. Using the numbers ending 7/10 .. deaths for the last rolling week were 22, and deaths for the last rolling week before that were 9, meaning that deaths are on an upswing now. But that doesn't fit your BS narrative does it.
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  5514. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  5515. Trump: Look at this mess around us. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My coronavirus response has been perfect - just like the phone call to Ukraine.
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  5516.  @RussCR5187  This is like someone telling me I "failed to read the award-winning Epoch times" article. Dear good god. How long ago did you get divorced from factual reality?
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  5517. That approach works just as well with legislators as it does with judges - which is to say not at all.
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  5518.  @alanmalcheski8882  Hey, I hope you keep this up. You're fast becoming my favorite idiot troll. I got the souls of a couple thousand just like you stored in an ecto containment system. Anyway, listen, fuck stick: doing death threats on your own elected representatives is terrorism. Does that clear it up? Anyone who does that probably shouldn't be allowed to own weapons.
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  5519.  @thisorthat7626  Given the R0 and short time between being exposed and becoming contagious, as well as the way we've had community spread on the west coast since the first half of January, the number of actual cases in the USA at the moment (if you could freeze time and test everyone) is probably up in the low to mid 4 digits. Things will be much much worse a month from now :(
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  5520. Russia will properly understand their war of aggression against Ukraine only when the blowback from it touches Russia within its territories. Learning things the hard way is their default setting :(
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  5521. I assume they're used to bringing third parties in on their discussions. Maybe they are coordinating the treats being called in to judges who offend Orangina?
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  5522. Like many others, I am waiting to see if this division-of-power concept survives the unplanned test of having a corrupt president working claw-in-claw with a corrupt senate leader who years earlier began laying the groundwork for a GOP takeover of the judicial branch, particularly SCOTUS.
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  5523. From the Finnish border, it is a transshipment for them to go to St Petersburg on the way to the front in Ukraine.
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  5524.  @nancycarol8828  Bingo. For a guy who says how evil people moved manufacturing abroad, he sure has nothing to say about why nothing he sells is made in the USA.
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  5525.  @Trump2PrisonOn34Counts  It is a standard facet of a certain kind of coup that one of the first things the new supreme leader must do is ensure that those who put him in power are rendered toothless. They feel the need to eliminate potential challenges to their rule, much as Putin imprisons his political rivals. (Dump just gave a Univision interview where he said he could do that).
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  5526. To be fair to Nunes, there probably wasn't anything in the rules to prohibit a participant in the crimes from sitting on the panel and debunking those same crimes.
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  5527. How ironic that this happens at a demonstration against police brutality. But then, Trump called in the brute squad just for that reason.
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  5528. Thank you for your votes. You helped save our democracy. And doing it at the ballot box is much less messy than other means.
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  5529. You gotta admire the way Marge Traitor G makes red states vote purple and purple states vote blue. Almost as if her sole "talent" in life is to be a negative example.
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  5530. In case it is not obvious to anyone - the reason for cutting IRS staffing is that the IRS follows rules. It is not that King Cheeto doesn't want the IRS to collect money - he surely does - but that he want to be able to direct it to collect from some people and not from other people.
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  5531. You left out the Illuminati, Bigfoot, neo-pagans, Satanists, and the UFOs. And those are only some of the bigger players in the story in your head.
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  5532. Leaving it standing for now makes it a bargaining chip later. Remember, Putin opened the bridge himself by driving across it. It's good to have some bargaining chips. And it is only a matter of time (perhaps less than two years) before Ukraine can make its own distance rocket weapons similar to longer range ATACMS and thereby be in a position to take out dams, power plants, and other infrastructure deep within Russia.
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  5533. The usual spambot appears every day, armed with numb-sounding chatgpt messaging.
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  5534.  @tigercatjones9948  The crazies in America are basically ecstatic that one of their own (insecure, delusional, defiant, narcissistic, none-too-bright, easily misled) got into power. That is why they love him. Not because he is the things they say he is, but because he pushes their magical sugar unicorn candy button.
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  5535.  @alexandriamiasimmons-dance9262  In fresh news, they had another Trump boat parade in Texas, and this time FOUR boats sunk. There goes the Q navy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/Texas-boat-parade-trump.html
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  5536.  @Abmotsad  Bingo. Looked up the synonyms of "insurrection": rebellion, revolt, revolution, mutiny, insurgence, uprising, rising, riot, sedition, coup .. and the list goes on.
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  5537. "I broke the law because my cult-leader election-loser twice impeached favorite president lost the election" isn't going to fly well in court. LOCK THEM UP!
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  5538. Dr. Fauci's only problem is that jackass holding press conferences. Fauci: “Donald, 3000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  5539. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose. So go vote and make sure it's a blue tsumani! Republicans need to spend a generation or two in the woodshed of history to understand how contrary to the will of the people they are.
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  5540.  @conniecrawford5231  For a guy who wants to pretend it's OK to go back to normal, why did he just use the defense authorization act, and why is his personal lawyer Barr trying to suspend the constitution?
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  5541. Just like during covid, it will be more of "I take no responsibility for this".
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  5542.  @greghauser742  Proof? Crickets. Y'all qaida really do like telling yourself the nuttiest stuff.
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  5543.  @GlobalAdventurer  Rest assured, there are self-serving people in high places who will not let a good crisis go to waste :(
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  5544. I take comfort knowing that the more Russia plays the Ukraine game, the more it loses. Their only way to 'win' is not to play.
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  5545. In the USA some 70+ million people travelled for the Thanksgiving holidays. It's going to be more of a tsunami than a "surge" :(
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  5546. This was an acquittal in name only. A joke. Huge majorities of Americans recognize that it was a farce, without witnesses & evidence.
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  5547.  @philipdavidson645  When fascism came to America, here's what the Republicans did in 2019: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  5548. Think of this as a problem that has the potential to fix itself.
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  5549. Any documentation behind that conspiracy theory nonsense? Oh, wait, you never required evidence to believe nutty stuff anyway.
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  5550.  @Nine-Signs  Re "Ukraine must never be allowed to enter NATO unless" << These are the words of the abusive ex-boyfriend who just doesn't know when to walk away.
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  5551. Notice how Trump hasn't taken the necessary step to defuse some tensions? For that he would have to explain to his MAGA-turd followers that he lied to them about the integrity and results of the election .. that the whole alt-reich media world ran with his lies .. that his followers have been committing sedition on a large scale based solely on his lies.
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  5552.  @ingridgilbert4917  Bingo. And most of them seem to have goldfish memory :(
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  5553.  @charlesbartlett2569  Or FOXed Noise :(
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  5554. When he said "It will go away like a miracle" it's clear now that he was talking about his failed confederate presidency.
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  5555.  Jesus Servant for life333.  When you wrote "if you put your trust in any flesh" << were you trying to opine whether the restaurant in question is vegan or not? You should check their menu online to get that answer.
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  5556. Erdogan has already demonstrated his moral flexibility .. wouldn't be surprised if he goes final solution on the Kurds, yet keeps the ISIS prisoners on ice to save for future leverage - in the same way he's threatening to release millions of refugees into the EU if people don't stop bitching about the way he's killing Kurds. Wow did he find an enabling friend in Trump :(
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  5557. SARS-NCOV-19 (the virus that leads to the disease covid-19) is part of a family of coronaviruses that includes the common cold, the seasonal flu, SARS, MERS, etc. Humanity has never developed herd immunity to any of them.
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  5558. Kind of surprising they had not been doing this all along, since Soviet times.
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  5559. St Darwin will rent out all the box seating.
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  5560. Sorry, this policy was designed by someone who eschews science. Georgia posted 608 new cases today, 781 the day before, and 936 the day before that. The biggest single day new cases in Georgia was 1,842 back on 4/7. You'll find out in 3 weeks.
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  5561. I believe the members of the White House Correspondents' Association know how to handle this kind of clown show.
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  5562. Just by chance, he's eligible for recall in 2020, just like his buddy Moscow Mitch.
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  5563. Considering that the money goes into printing, advertising, meals, and probably a few lapdances too, that money is the only Republican money that actually goes to help the working people.
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  5564. So many Republicans are itching to plunge America into violence and bloodshed. Putin's little bots :(
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  5565. They should be called the Insurrection Boys for their role in DC on 1/6. Right up with the Oaf Tweakers.
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  5566. It's about frigging time. What other snake-oil "cures" are being offered for covid? Do each of them have to be separately whacked down like this?
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  5567.  @elmersglue6259  They know damn well who puts the dog food in their bowl.
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  5568.  @suehinze1566  Considering he didn't run as a Democratic president candidate, and that he didn't try to win the Democratic party, and that he's spent his time in office pillorying the Democratic party, and that he spent more than the last decade on Twitter whining about Democrats .. you might want to flip your calendar forward to the present time and take a look at more recent events. Just saying.
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  5569.  Magic 21  Got any proof? That's the thing. You got no proof of ANY of these whacktard conspiracy theories. Hate to break the news to you, but when you claim that there's something big and omnipresent that involves a lot of people and for which not a shred of proof can be found anywhere -- it's just not there. So make yourself some strong coffee, sit down, and work on getting re-connected with factual reality.
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  5570. She couldn't even enumerate what freedoms the 1st amendment protects. WTF. That's first year law school stuff.
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  5571.  @janknuckey  I'm considering the US to be one of those second world nations, with its shitty healthcare system and so many superstitious and/or disbelieving people. Air traffic out of the hotspots has continued unabated all along, with some of those fleeing people bringing virus with them.
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  5572. @Random hero Early returns suggest that the outcome depends on both a) what level of hidden virus penetration there is locally and b) the degree of foolishness displayed by the locals who think the virus has somehow magically gone away. In Alabama it took only 9 days from the reopening to when all hospital & ICU beds were full up in Montgomery (and they had to start sending patients elsewhere) .. yet in Georgia, it's clear from spending & mobility data that people are still hunkering down despite the reopening on paper. The ones I'm watching are Florida (which seems to have been fudging numbers), Alabama, Minnesota (runaway virus spread for weeks now), Wisconsin. The last is pretty "special" because people all over (even from other states) flooded into the bars & restaurants after the state supreme corp struck down the stay-at-home measures. People have been flocking there from places where the case rate is much higher (Illinois, Minnesota) so during the first week of June we should be seeing a preview of what happens.
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  5573. @J Washburn But you don't get to take those odds for other people. Suppose you get it and don't know it .. then when you're at the supermarket you pass it to someone else who works at a senior care center. It would be more fair if all the people who don't care if they get it are shipped one-way to an island from which there's no return, that way they can't infect the rest of us who don't care to play covid roulette.
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  5574. Was it snowing in one of those videos? Those cultists should gather somewhere indoors, someplace nice and warm and stuff, and hang out there all day holding a Trump rally.
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  5575. Mayor Wheeler, please feel free to arrest anyone who smashes and burns stuff in our city. What they're doing to business and tourism is not acceptable.
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  5576. Hopefully sometime in the next 4-5 months, you can just walk into the local Walgreens and get the vaccine shot there.
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  5577. More like, she brought thermonuclear weapons to a rubber knife fight.
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  5578.  @HughMorris69  Usually I ask people if they have any active Nazis in their town. They say no. I say that's why you don't see Antifa there.
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  5579. Not only is the CEO:worker pay ratio in the USA completely f*cked up, but the shareholder:worker pay ratio is skewed too. It helps if you remember that Republican policies, if carried to their fulfillment, would turn the USA into someplace like Somalia - which should be a paradise by conservative standards. Guns everywhere, religion everywhere, hardly any taxes / regulations / government. A regular Galt's Gulch of prosperity and good neighbors.
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  5580. Excellent use of the word "quislings". Trump's quisling senators are on record now for that popularity contest they held for him in the senate. That's all it was. A trial would have witnesses & evidence, but all you can do without those things is vote whether you like him or not. Results were about as expected under the circumstances. They'll occupy an unflattering spot in the history books someday :(
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  5581.  @jameswest4819  Would love to see them show off that vaporware tech down at the south pole, where shipping costs are a lot lower.
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  5582. During a raging pandemic, he insists on holding large in-person events such as a traditional Republican party convention as well as the West Point graduation? All this will do is turn those things into super-spreading events :( Does he want to see the whole country on fire by the time November 3rd rolls around? (probably yes)
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  5583. I like the way he inspires the dumbest trolls in the land to go online. It's not as if they were doing anything productive with their time anyway.
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  5584. Does anyone else feel like trying ranked choice voting in Multnomah County?
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  5585. Indeed, Congress would be remiss in its duties if it did not impeach, convict, and remove Trump.
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  5586. Correct. Trump's famous reverse Midas touch comes only direct from the source - Trump himself.
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  5587. This is why Trump, Hannity, Carlson, and the others will be remembered by the history books as America's Quislings.
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  5588. It's going to keep getting worse .. eventually Trump will be more directly telling his culties to go out and cause mayhem. It will be the only lever he has left by then.
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  5589. The DNC would rather lose another term to Trump than see Bernie win, all to keep the support of their billionaire donors. For all purposes the US is politically Balkanized :(
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  5590. Germany did more tests today than the USA did. And the USA has 5x more population.
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  5591. There is no bottom limit to it as far as I can see. But that's how you can you tell which Republicans are floating in the air down in President Pennywhistle's sewer.
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  5592. Let's see. Conservative majority on the supreme court and in the House. Liberal majority in the Senate and liberal president. The record is pretty clear of how Republicans have blocked attempts to increase minimum wages and to make things easier for student loan borrowers. Can't blame the Democrats for not trying; they've been trying hard.
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  5593. Trump's all-too-predictable response has been to push for increased militarization of the police, and to authorize use of lethal force at the southern border. Thin-skinned wannabe authoritarians always react this way :(
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  5594. Please yes, let's end this seasonal clock-changing nonsense. One way or the other, I honestly don't care (kinda prefer standard), let's just do it.
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  5595.  Bill C-Kole  Aww, if I'd known this would offend the crazies, I would have started doing it weeks ago.
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  5596.  @issahumps  Re "Sounded like he was trying to" << The way I heard it, the unmasked fool kept approaching after being repeatedly told not to. But seruously, pepper spray is too kind. Putting them in the same fenced enclosure, so they don't mindlessly infect other random people, would be the more appropriate way to keep them from doing harm. In Indonesia they've fixed that by having the mask-refusing and covid-denying people dig holes and bury covid corpses. Within 2 weeks, 100% of them are cured of their mental numbness. Of course for some the "cure" comes in the form of a cough that lands them on a ventilator. You can't fix stupid, but you can help it find its way to a coffin.
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  5597. At this rate, they won't have any leadership. Or members.
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  5598. Stop calling it a "tragedy". If anything, this is Saint Darwin cleaning the crud out of the shallow end of the gene pool. Let him do his work.
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  5599.  @BrandonHanson  Sometimes wonder if we shouldn't have let outgoing VP Biden (at the end of Obama's second term) pick the election winner as Republicans tried to force outgoing VP Pence do at the end of Trump's reign of error. It would have saved the nation a lot of trouble.
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  5600. We have a lot of truly mind-numbingly stupid people here in the US, people vulnerable to the dumbest no-evidence-given propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. And that's the nicer interpretation of their actions. At worst, they're just the Quislings of the people who mean harm to our nation.
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  5601. I approve of getting their hopes up in this manner ;)
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  5602. The German magazine Der Spiegel has this nailed as of November-2016 .. link: https://www.inverse.com/article/23644-der-spiegel-donald-trump-meteor-cover
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  5603. Same bots, they're just spouting different lies this week.
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  5604. "the instinct is to assume" << FOXed Noise and the Blaze have taught you well.
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  5605. Trump is as old now as Biden was when Trump started saying Biden was too old for the job. As usual, the mango Mussolini lacks the capacity for reflection.
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  5606. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  5607. The only nice thing is that he's illuminated the need for stricter controls on how a president does things and where he gets his guiding information from. Three years of bad decisions based on alt-facts from Sean Hannity, Dr Oz, Alex Jones, Q-Anonsense etc has made quite a mess.
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  5608.  @rosapark3957  Let me add this here - a video explaining how the far right thinks of itself and their chances in a civil war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJh7Ye1Qvc8
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  5609.  @earlessroboticcat7102  Re "I wouldn’t say unnecessary if Putin wants Ukraine back" << Putin is like the abusive ex that Ukraine has already moved away from.
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  5610.  @alexandraclement1456  To put it in perspective how far to the reich the Republican party has moved .. Nixon was the one that signed the EPA into law. Nixon, a f*cking Republican. Because everyone got tired of their rivers catching fire back then.
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  5611. They're not ordinary people and it's not even sure they could be decent citizens. People who try to run a campaign bus off the road are way beyond just needing remedial civics classes .. they're more than halfway to being a sort of American Taliban. Maybe they don't have a place here.
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  5612. Those clips of the Axios interview are perfect. Who can ever forget him claiming that the US is "better than the whole world" when in fact we have more covid deaths than any other country? That dumb look on his face when presented with facts that he didn't like?
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  5613. The only system of government they like, want, or will protect is one that leaves them in power permanently and allows them to have one set of rules for themselves and another for everyone else. Watch how fast they make it take a long time to appoint judges as soon as Trump isn't the one making the appointments :(
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  5614. They didn't just touch it, they grabbed it hard with both hands. Now they need to feel 1200V.
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  5615.  @johnhajj2320  She cares so much about kids, there are pictures of her naked with another woman apparently trying to have a baby together - wasn't sure how they were going to make it work, but whatever.
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  5616. Rest assured, this administration has already prototyped the process by splitting up refugee families at the border. Homeless families will be split apart too. Journalists will not be allowed in - or any politicians who aren't Trump cronies. LGBTQIA+ folks will suffer a startlingly high death rate in the camps. There will be allegations of sexual abuse of homeless women & children by the staff. The people running these camps will later be found to have been participating in private FB groups where they demean homeless people and fantasize about brutalizing them. Every possible barrier will be placed between these concentration camp dwellers and their access to healthcare, education, voting rights, etc.
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  5617.  @MegaJustGeorge  Those are good interpretations, but to me he's always had that look of dumb surprise, as if his best friend just whacked him in the face with a shovel, and he's still trying to understand what just happened.
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  5618.  @DownUndaDigga  Thankfully, Trump's appeal is fairly narrow. He's got some very specific demographics. One is the sub-92IQ crowd, to whom his 3rd grade talking level seems genius. Another is the crowd prone to strongman-worship. Yet another is the "I want to burn it all down" crowd. Funny how the combined Venn for those crowds seems to hold a lot of conservatives.
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  5619. The F15 is old but still very much a F-U kind of aircraft.
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  5620. Lying to his sheeple base comes naturally to him. Lying in the court has penalties attached to it.
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  5621.  @rickallen1908  Bingo. He wrote a childrens book in which Trump was called a "king". Seems he forgot that America has presidents and not kings.
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  5622.  @margaretnicol3423  Interesting how Trump went on to fulfill the pattern that the economy fares worse under Republicans. It was already heading down even before covid came along.
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  5623. They got nothing. When they claim that dead people vote, the judge asks for a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots. They got nothing, hence, the case gets tossed.
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  5624. I've already witnessed mask-wearing being completely disregarded in Portland area bars. At some point, the inevitable outcome of stupid behavior like that will cause us to be kicked back to full lockdown aka stage zero. All because Drunk Debbie and her dudebro friends didn't want to wear masks.
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  5625. There is all kinds of proof if you know where to look. Two big examples: He knew by the summer of 2019 that he could not win a fair election against Biden (the 2018 midterms told everyone that), and we know this because that's when he began going through the white house rolodex and shaking down allies to make up some dirt on the Bidens. He was all the way down into the U's before we heard about the call to Ukraine. Then by mid-March or so he knew that tens of millions would be voting by mail and that most of those votes would be for Democrat candidates, and we know that because he began searching for someone to wreck the USPS from within.
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  5626.  @mikeb3167  Who's the "them" you're talking about dividing us? A gang of criminals tried to pull off an insurrection, and they failed. Now what we do is investigate, then prosecute the guilty ones, and move on. There is no division.
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  5627. You know how some "towns" are just unincorporated urban areas? The same can happen to countries when they are dark at night. Once Ukraine stabilizes its production of domestically-produced cruise missiles, Russia will become de-carbonized.
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  5628.  @janefreeman4121  eBay is the connector that lets you deal with independent sellers all over the place. I use it almost exclusively in lieu of Amazon.
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  5629. How many hundreds, perhaps thousands, were reached by this guy's bad advice? He won't be at their funerals. He won't be there to help their families when loved ones are gone and children are missing their parents. All he cared about was getting audience share, even if it meant peddling bad advice that gets people killed. There will need to be some kind of reckoning over this.
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  5630. I'm still waiting to see how many of his followers are going to get uppity. Stand back and stand by.
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  5631.  @DurrHunt  There are a lot of people who seem to be stuck in the rut of thinking it can't happen here in the USA. The president may be one of them. Many people wouldn't notice domestic calamity until Netflix goes dark or Whole Foods starts to have bare shelves. Meanwhile, the virus is spreading. Now that it's appearing in retirement homes we'll soon be seeing it in prisons, hospitals, schools. The pattern of spread in other countries is frighteningly clear.
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  5632. What's wrong with these people? They're enthralled by, and salivating for, political violence. Not that any of them have ever lived in a country where that kind of thing has been unleashed.
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  5633. Look how quickly he switches to, "We're from the government and we're here to help you."
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  5634. Leningrad Lindsey's seat is up for grabs in 2020 as well.
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  5635. Uncle Pooty can always ask NATO for a no-fly zone over Ukraine. For his own protection of course ;)
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  5636. She has the facial expression set of one.
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  5637. Heat stroke is awful and scary. I almost got caught in it. Where I live, outside temperatures got up to 47 celsius. Gah :(
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  5638. President-elect Biden is correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  5639. It's cringey to see weapons like that being deployed in an urban area. Who's going to answer for it when one of those guards takes a shot, misses, and the bullet flies a block and penetrates a bedroom wall, killing a sleeping child? Those weapons are too high-powered for the urban environment.
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  5640. Ain't it odd how North Korea's missile programs advanced by leaps and bounds once Trump had access to classified info .. just saying.
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  5641. With one exception (Mitt Romney) the entire Republican establishment has given their occasionally-silent, mostly-loud-endorsement to this ruination of America. Good thing their social media feeds are full of evidence of them praising / enabling / defending Trump at every step towards darkness. It will all be used in their trials for gross dereliction of duty and violating their oaths of office.
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  5642. And here in the USA, propagandized dolts (the folks so dumb they couldn't find snow in the winter in Siberia) say they don't trust that Bill Gates tracker vaccine that they can get for free.
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  5643.  @nappel6496  I think you're somehow missing the point that by failing to vaccinate, Employee XYZ represents a danger to the workplace .. a covid-outbreak kind of danger, specifically. The same covid that's killed a lot of Americans. I would have offered to let the anti-vax people keep their jobs, provided they buy spacesuits that can be certified as airtight so as not to be sharing their germs with the people around them.
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  5644. Well, to be fair, there will be a whole bunch of math-challenged folks waving a county map showing all the barely-populated places that voted red. As if land votes 😅😅
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  5645. Turtles sometimes get run over by campaign buses, like the big blue ones that have been all over Georgia the last few weeks.
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  5646.  @JJeessiee  Right on. I assume that Great Depression 2.0 will be on us very shortly, so I've been acquiring tools and materials so I can build makeshift housing and greenhouses.
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  5647. The hell of it is, if any of his underlings have the sense to communicate to him that his image as a senile, angry, low-IQ racist fool, who seeks to blame everyone else for the problems he created himself, etc could be improved if he changes his ways, he immediately has them fired and then doubles down on the same things that make everyone in the room hold their nose and look away.
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  5648. Every now and then I thank them for their efforts to make America great. Their only contribution will be to depart, and leave behind a more civil society with a higher collective IQ.
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  5649. No. Louis XIV was not known for his crimes against humanity, whereas Trump will become infamous for it - and as synonymous for it as some well-known German leader from the 30s and 40s.
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  5650.  @kevinfelton689  Disposing of your army of specialists? Truly stupid.
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  5651. Huckabeast!
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  5652.  @debspring5162  I blame all the ignorant ones whose third-party protest votes handed it to Cheeto.
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  5653. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  5654.  @lord_guan  Re "Her net worth is" 1) there's money to be made doing the right things. 2) Mitch McConnell made so much more money by doing the wrong things, but strangely your ire is directed elsewhere. Huh. Partisan much?
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  5655. "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." -- Benjamin Franklin
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  5656. Ukraine already said what they need to say: Give me ammo, not a ride out.
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  5657. But there was fame and money to be made on his book. Priorities.
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  5658.  @joshuaburris6805  Bingo. Looks like the trash just took itself out! ;)
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  5659. The little Nazi Binder Barbie.
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  5660.  @DaveGIS123  Thankfully we live in a time when most everyone has some kind of camera that records video. After the 2020 elections, when the R's lose in a landslide (unless that foreign hacking can come through for them), the MAGAT's will be out for blood. So if you see them behaving badly, get video, talk with the other witnesses, and make sure those fools get their day in court then their time in the big house.
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  5661. Or Ken Starr. Or Newt Gingrich. Of course they are all silent now.
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  5662. It's that way all over the US. The official numbers are a joke. Here in Oregon, you can't get tested unless both a) you're already in hospital for respiratory distress and b) you've already tested negative for the flu. No doubt someone somewhere is very happy for how they're keeping that number low. Jeez :(
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  5663. You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its least able.
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  5664. Hope Meadows has the same "luck" with that approach as Alex Jones did.
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  5665. Pay close attention to the video .. he's more out of breath than usual and trying to cover it up. No wonder he's trying to start the rapture on Easter :(
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  5666. 45 is a red dwarf, heading for a black hole. It's physics, it's inevitable.
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  5667.  @jeffnovack1321  Bingo. Right on TV he asked Ukraine, then China to go manufacture some dirt on the Bidens. That alone is impeachable. Obstructing congressional inquiry is impeachable. Lying to congress is impeachable. Emoluments violations are impeachable.
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  5668.  @benjamindover4033  Correct. This is the kind of military you can get only if you spend a whole lot of money on it.
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  5669. OK Boris. Splain me again why the conquest-o-meter is still stuck at some low number?
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  5670.  @kpkowfoot  I call it Q-Anonsense.
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  5671. Remember this classic stuff designed to lure in the anti-Obama types and keep them down the rabbit holes of misinformation? The good old days. http://harddawn.com/are-militant-atheists-using-chemtrails-to-poison-the-angels-in-heaven/
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  5672. Here's the Wiki definition of "useful idiot": a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders.
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  5673.  @urinetrouble4999  That would be kind of cool actually. Edit: inasmuch as youtube hasn't got this "friends" thing that allows social media to splinter into closed groups, like that open sewer of misinformation better known as Fakebook or Wastebook.
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  5674. Ukraine will hopefully be getting some 155mm guns with copperhead shells. From America with love.
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  5675. Want something else crazy? Here in the US, domestic flights have been allowed to continue, so people have been fleeing the hotspots and decamping to other parts of the country .. and some of them brought a viral payload with them that's starting up new clusters wherever they go. This is straight out of chapter 8 of "the Stand" by Stephen King :(
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  5676. Yesterday the US recorded 204,179 new cases in a single day, which is more cases than each and every one of the following 181 countries have recorded over the entire 10 months of the pandemic so far: Samoa, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Anguilla, Marshall Islands, Western Sahara, Montserrat, Falkland Islands, Saint Pierre Miquelon, Solomon Islands, Greenland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Laos, Vatican City, Timor-Leste, New Caledonia, Fiji, Grenada, Macao, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent Grenadines, St. Barth, Antigua and Barbuda, Brunei , Caribbean Netherlands, Seychelles, Saint Lucia, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cambodia, Isle of Man, Bhutan, Mauritius, Faeroe Islands, Tanzania, Eritrea, Monaco, Mongolia, Comoros, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Burundi, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sint Maarten, Channel Islands, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Niger, San Marino, Liberia, Curaçao, Chad, New Zealand, Lesotho, Yemen, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, South Sudan, Gambia, Thailand, Mali, Somalia, Uruguay, Aruba, Martinique, CAR, Guyana, Mayotte, Belize, Equatorial Guinea, Iceland, Suriname, Hong Kong, Rwanda, Congo, Djibouti, Nicaragua, Malawi, Andorra, Eswatini, Trinidad and Tobago, Syria, Bahamas, Réunion, Cuba, Mauritania, Cyprus, Guadeloupe, Malta, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Haiti, Estonia, Botswana, Jamaica, Cabo Verde, French Guiana, Tajikistan, DRC, Maldives, Latvia, Guinea, French Polynesia, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, Madagascar, Zambia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Finland, Cameroon, Australia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, S. Korea, Albania, Norway, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Ghana, North Macedonia, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Denmark, Ireland, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Paraguay, Kenya, Libya, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Tunisia, China, Azerbaijan, Greece, Slovakia, Moldova, Venezuela, Croatia, Georgia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Egypt, Lebanon, Serbia, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Oman, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Japan, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Qatar, Kuwait, Bolivia, Panama, UAE, Hungary, Jordan, and Ecuador.
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  5677. Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  5678. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. Senate Republicans: We see no evidence of wrongdoing. We're voting for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal.
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  5679.  @prxbkl  Just out of curiosity. Without alluding to conspiracy theories or calling the official Johns Hopkins numbers "fake news" .. on what do you base this conclusion?
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  5680.  @xaenon  Willful ignorance is what kept people from seeing this. The outcome is as inevitable as letting Hannibal Lecter be the warden of a remote prison.
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  5681. Only in America is not not considered "terrorism" to launch a coordinated attack on the grid, simply because no political demands were aired.
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  5682. Dimwit Don wants the CDC to change guidelines to make it look like it's OK for everyone to go back to school and to work. Result will be massive, out of control outbreak.
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  5683. I would prefer Trump to follow the path of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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  5684. Nope. This is Weimar America or something even worse :(
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  5685. Not only that, but Taylor Swift is living rent free in the top 3 floors of his mind.
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  5686.  @DK-ev9dg Ok Baghdad Boris.
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  5687. Getting covid religion has a lot to do with the local prevalence of the disease. In NYC, there's no one left who thinks covid is a hoax, now that 1 in 7 people in NYC have tested positive and 1 in 71 have died from it. By the time this is over, the people of Arizona, Florida, Texas etc won't be in such disbelief.
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  5688. If the Republican party had its way, their "solution" to the changing demographics would look like Rhodesia Version 2.0 - a new and "improved" apartheid state.
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  5689.  @52wisewoman  Examples of corporate socialism: tax money going into private sports stadiums; small-business covid relief funds being funneled into large corporations with a nod and a wink from their swampy Republican politician; the 2008 bank bailouts. Funny how you never hear Boxcar/Trainwreck (whoever s/he is) whining about those things. But then, they're a HO scale mind in a 1:1 world.
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  5690. Have you noticed the precipitous decline in the rate of tests being performed in the USA? It's been trending down since July 29. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart Guess Trump is getting his wish about less testing. This is going to work out as well as ending teen pregnancy by doing fewer pregnancy tests :(
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  5691. It's easiest to think of their party as a voluntary mental illness :(
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  5692. Some of the speakers have got Russian accents. Don't worry, FOXed Noise and OANN conveniently won't mention that to their mushroom farm viewers.
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  5693. Why is the word "unexpectedly" used so often with this type of news? America has by far the worst covid outbreak on the planet. Pretending it's not real (such as Trump is exhorting everyone to do through their actions) isn't making anything better, it's making everything worse. China has already recovered their economy to be something like 10%-20% bigger than from a whole year ago. Unemployment (and subsequent homelessness) will be a problem until the US government (hopefully soon to be under new management) flexes its muscles.
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  5694. Here in the US (and probably everywhere else) the level of effort needed to pull this off is much underestimated. Even if you had free walk-in vaccination clinics at every pharmacy, every supermarket, every library, every town hall, and they were open 18 hours every day, it would still take quite awhile to vaccinate everyone.
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  5695. People can be emitting virus for weeks before testing positive, so who knows, perhaps the payload has already been delivered to the ugliest American ever.
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  5696. How many of those aides are left? Word on the street is that the anchor chain is pretty crowded just now, with rats queued up for days.
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  5697.  @zachr5054  Aww, you chose the lite version of "both parties are the same" by saying something about them that you could just as easily say about your boss at work or Elon Musk. Try again. Only one party helped the 1/6 insurrection and that was the Republicans.
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  5698. Huh. That would be some good trolling. Signs that read "Vote for president Gilligan" but have Dump's picture ;)
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  5699. And even if the Million Bubba Militia puts a few of their members on the street .. hope they're not blocking traffic. Cars have the right of way now in some of those Bubba-heavy states ;)
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  5700.  @davidpnewton  Sounds like you completely missed the point of what I asked. ONCE AGAIN - what is the "cost" to you (of wearing a mask outside the home) that is on par with the obvious damages caused by not enough people wearing masks?
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  5701.  @KingPaimon666  Nope, they're going to impose retaliatory tariffs. They have to. Next fallacy, please.
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  5702. The one perhaps-nice thing about this Trump aberration is that the world of tomorrow will be much less US-centric than it used to be. And I think that's actually a good thing. Right now the rest of the world is getting a healthy dose of US intransigence. Rest assured, politicians in the US will most assuredly NOT make the necessary structural changes to our 1700s style political organization in order to prevent another useless fool from occupying the president's residence for four long years while he trashes US alliances, reputations, treaties, political goodwill, etc while breaking laws both domestic and international. The world needs to know they can't count on the US to keep another, even worse Trump from coming along in some future election.
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  5703. They represent the Harlan Crow types a lot more than the 350M people :(
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  5704. Correct. Trump is everything they would want to be. Even down to the way he'd burn the constitution if he needed a fire for roasting marshmallows.
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  5705. Is Doll-hands Donnie's spray-on teflon finally wearing thin? It's about time.
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  5706. It's so magnanimous of Trump to tell the governors what they had already said they'd do on their own. What a frigging blowhard.
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  5707. Take note, people, because the current GOP would rather burn our democracy to the ground, and construct a dictatorship in its place, rather than admit that their former guy lost the election.
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  5708. The only possible usefulness I see in Trump's continued ability to issue lies is that a) he tends to incriminate himself constantly, and b) his remaining violence-inclined brownshirts will be flushed out when they fulfill his desire to have threats issued in his name. He doesn't care how many of them end up in prison over this. And I like those people behind bars too. But this is at the expense of the rest of us and particularly the court workers and their families.
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  5709.  @Born2Btrouble  Thank you :) I am convinced that Trump is merely doing what Putin wished (whether Trump realizes it or not) and trying to leave the US much more fractured and divisive than before he entered politics. Leaving America politically Balkanized must be one of Putin's fondest wishes -- and it would be a prerequisite for he and his cabal resurrecting the Russian empire. Together we stand .. and Trump is trying very hard to keep us apart.
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  5710. Having a debate with 45 is a lot like losing a game of chess to a pigeon: the pigeon struts all over the board, knocks over all the pieces, craps all over everything, makes a lot of noise, and flies away.
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  5711.  @slimpaco3561  Sweet! Just stop wearing a mask. Let nature take its course ;)
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  5712. Poor Trump. Who ever knew that unplugging him from his famously-alternative-reality rallies and from golfing would make him so grumpy, so eager-and-ready to lash out at anyone in the most childish ways, so swift to blame others for whatever goes wrong? He won't behave like an adult because he's totally incapable of it. If he had a WWF name it would be "The Incredible Sulk".
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  5713. The difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the golf pro doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it.
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  5714. So you think righteously defending your home from assault is the moral equivalent of attacking someone else in their home? Go get therapy.
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  5715. Her annual salary is $158K. Guess once you've gotten a taste of that sweet OPM, nothing else will do. (other people's money)
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  5716. The video of those 82nd airborne folks shuffling off to do the feckless leader's bidding looks like nothing so much as those grinning German troops heading to the Russian border in early 1941. Hint: "I was just following orders" was not a valid excuse at Nuremburg.
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  5717. Carlson: Jumping off the garage roof while wrapped in hand grenades may have gotten us here .. but it's the only thing that will fix things again!
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  5718.  @edgarpryor3233  It's not "stupid" it's "humane". Your moral compass seems to be either broken or missing.
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  5719.  @edgarpryor3233  You seem to be operating under the mis-assumption that the mere act of giving water to someone means you're attempting to influence their vote.
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  5720. Head of the class.
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  5721.  @randybostic1273  Governments are being of limited help this time around. This is why I'm probably switching to teaching yoga outdoors with people widely separated. The risk seems to be most acute when people from different households gather together indoors for any length of time.
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  5722.  @kenrickkahn  Bingo. The Republicans haven't just lost their way - they've lost their marbles entirely.
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  5723.  @kevlivinginabox  I read just fine, sh*t bird. And if you're somehow OK with the various illegal Republican efforts to screw Americans out of their votes, just leave. You'll be happier in Somalia.
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  5724. Watching the FBI swoop down on traitors is way more rewarding than I would have believed. Throw the book at them! Then throw away the key. If they can be induced to do things like that just because a flim-flam man told them a lie, they shouldn't be wandering around in public.
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  5725. Preach it, Mr. Cohen! The nation appreciates your honesty from one who knows Trump so well.
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  5726. Trump has NEVER been interested in bringing Americans together (which is the primary job of the president), especially since keeping Americans apart is his only means of staying in power.
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  5727.  @phantommensa  Remember how that worked when they told him not to talk to Woodward? heh ;) He's so dumb, he's his own worst enemy.
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  5728. Just last night Trump called the WHO number "fake news", and implied that people can keep going to work and that it's just a cold.
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  5729. It doesn't sound wrong to today's batsh*t crazy Republicans. They gave up on democracy awhile back anyway.
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  5730.  @stevenbean9706  Well, you can certainly attempt to barge your way into the white house, claiming it's your property, but the secret service will have you in handcuffs shortly if the dogs don't get you first. Next moron, please.
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  5731. They tried to get Herman Cain to claim that masks were worse than slavery, but he didn't survive the Oklahoma superspreading event.
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  5732.  @artziegler2715  Beau of the Fifth Column has some good videos on this very subject. Basically it is for the best that Ukraine does the dirty deed itself with material support from its allies. And they are doing that quite well. Eventually Putin will have to come to the table or lose the eastern provinces too. That's next.
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  5733. Self-owning is what conservatives do best. Their brains are simply broken, or function only as reactionary mush. When confronted with peak oil and climate change, their responses to those things are simply to ban abortion.
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  5734. The difference between Putin and God is that God doesn't think he's Putin.
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  5735.  @marionopisso212  The damage done by the gullible is that they bought into lies by being incautious about what they chose to believe.
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  5736. Trump couldn't do this much damage all by himself. He's got the full cooperation of the same Republicans who howled at the moon when Obama wore a tan suit or dared to appoint a SCOTUS judge. Republicans have decided that they'd rather have America in chaos than not be in charge.
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  5737. Amendment 14, section 3, places no burden of conviction or even accusation. Here is the whole text of it, unabridged: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  5738. Gosh, who'd ever think that working for a hateful Sweet Potato Hitler type figure would make you less hirable later on.
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  5739. Now we know why he's blinking and sniffing all the time.
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  5740. Every time congress votes themselves a percentage pay raise, the same must be applied to minimum wages all across the country.
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  5741.  @mikekelley2877  Only if strong evidence exists that can be used in court. The kind of terror I'm especially worried about is the Anthony Quinn Warner type .. but we can be sure that NYPD is going to be all over things.
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  5742. Like in most of the south, it's not the heat that kills you but the stupidity.
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  5743. The single best thing anyone ever said to Jeffrey Clark was, "You're an environmental lawyer. Why don't you go back to your office, and we'll call you if there's an oil spill."
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  5744.  @Tony7534  I was using that line as an allusion to the retarded character in Stephen King's "The Stand".
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  5745.  @jmb3608  The photographer captured it perfectly in this article .. remember when Trump dangled a position in front of Romney to get his endorsement, then took it away as soon as the endorsement was uttered? Talk about making a deal with the devil. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/mitt-romney-donald-trump-dinner-secretary-of-state
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  5746. This is sad as hell .. but .. when Saint Darwin helps clean out the shallow end of the gene pool, he's basically doing humanity a favor.
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  5747. We're already seeing that .. he's denying California federal aid for all the damage caused by wildfires.
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  5748.  @ateoforever7434  The phrase "branded a traitor" used to be a lot more than just a figure of speech. Future employers, neighbors, partners etc have a right to know if so-and-so was actively wanting America to turn into a civil war zone with mass casualties.
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  5749. I heard 300K of them applied for a chance to get infected at Wussolini's next rally. Hopefully there will be some big guys striding around indoors saying that masks are for wimps. Those people are a problem and the virus is the cure.
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  5750. Correct. It was an operating system designed to be used by honorable people who all together had the same goal of a stable nation. Trump and the Republicans have been more about burning it down than keeping it running. I do not know that our nation will survive when a large minority embraced the lie that the election was stolen.
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  5751. Obviously it must have been a hell of a good lunch they took the regulators out to.
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  5752. If you like that one, go watch the series "Slow Horses" .. the lead Gary Oldman has some fantastic zingers.
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  5753.  @mrkeogh Since when has Trump ever paid back anyone? 😅
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  5754. Funny how right-wingers think it's a "coup" when Congress questions Trump's mental stability, yet think it's normal when Trump calls for his political opponents to be jailed. I'm starting to lose concern for whether Trump's fine people serve their time in prison, in mental homes, or in cemeteries.
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  5755. F'ing Trump, that mango Mussolini, would instead be calling Putin a "genius" and ceding him everything east of Berlin. While the Republicans cheered him on.
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  5756.  @fdjt4132  Mango Mussolini. Crimson Caligula. Hair Fuhrer.
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  5757.  @Mithrandir69  Re "Putin didn't and wouldn't have invaded Ukraine when Trump was president." << Dude. Trump would have given him everything east of Berlin by now.
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  5758.  @JohnnyMotel99  I believe the quarantined cruise ships will provide graphic examples of how CV can spread in a confined environment. Like Hyderabad or anyplace else that's crowded and not perfectly clean.
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  5759.  @BeulahLand_1711  Actually no one would be safe from 45's vengeance. One of the many things those people don't understand. Dial the calendar back to 1947 Germany and note how life was shtty for all Germans regardless of whether they'd voted for the funny mustache guy back in 1932 or not.
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  5760.  @camb6245  You underestimate how deeply the R's are in thrall to Big Orangey.
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  5761. Stockholm Syndrome - like a battered girlfriend, they think he loves them. He says all the right racist, ignorant things to make them feel he's one of them.
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  5762. Russia claims to have already shot down hundreds of F-16s. You never go full Baghdad Bob! ;)
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  5763. And if any of the SS were complicit in his coup-related crimes, they can join him there later.
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  5764. Funny, but BLM never bashed in a policeman's head with a fire extinguisher, or came in with rifles, pistols, chemical weapons, pipe bombs, flex cuffs, and a "kill list" of certain politicians. That would be Trump's fine people, the alt-reich conservatives, who did those things. I hope all the state capitols armor up like this just in case Trump's whackjobs try something else.
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  5765. And this is why Russia does not feel free to use all of its force against Ukraine. There are plenty of other former SSR's taking notes on the Ukraine playbook for getting territory back that the Russians seized.
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  5766. Awesome interview. Hearing the useful idiots described so clearly brought to mind one I hadn't thought of in awhile, the not-so-good-fiction author and cranky blogger James Howard Kunstler, whose blog is Clusterf*ck Nation. At some point in the past (not sure when) he fell in line with what Putin would like to have said here in America. Sad.
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  5767. This is nothing compared to what Big Orangey voters will be feeling when the country is in ruins and we're all broke.
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  5768. @Rowdy422 Maybe now's a good time for you to tiptoe away from them. For sure they're going to bring the virus back from Wussolini's rally. This is a good time to disappear for an extended wilderness camping trip.
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  5769. Anything that can hasten the process is fine by me. You don't get to stab America in the back and just walk away as if nothing happened.
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  5770. Any of those mouth-breathers who threatened those two needs to do time as well.
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  5771. We're just a few days away from the stage of "I take no responsibility for this" and "Who could have known that international trade was such a complicated thing? No one ever heard of such a thing."
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  5772. Someday people will come to realize the folly of electing someone who uses the "14 characteristics of fascism" meme as a to-do list.
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  5773.  @tmnt10000  Sounds like you're getting all butthurt that the Trump administration is being blamed for exactly what it did. Do we need to call you a waaaaaaahmbulance?
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  5774. It is actually a lot worse than just that. Of the 40 states that have lockdowns, some still permit church services. Local and interstate passenger traffic (all forms) still continues. The CFR gets decoupled from the penetration rates when hospital resources become overwhelmed, which is what will happen everywhere in the US soon. NYC is actually a best-case scenario for the US due to its relatively high quality of healthcare. Louisiana, Florida, Michigan will show what it's going to be like in most parts of the USA :(
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  5775. Can we get a "slowly, painfully, publicly"? There's no better way to help people learn.
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  5776. @Vince Trav You wrote: "losing their jobs and bank accounts for speaking up against the communist left" .. I sleep soundly at night knowing that Democrats have nothing to do with actual communism, which you can recognize by these things: 1. State seizure of the means of production 2. Abolition of large-scale personal property 3. Making all other political parties illegal Without those things, you don't have communism, and the Biden-Harris team is waaaay too centrist for those kinds of commie ideas.
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  5777.  @dinahnicest6525  Doesn't seem to be working for him now, but he did make it last 3 years or so. Bravo.
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  5778. Republicans want to keep punching "2 + 2 =" into the calculator so they can "prove" the answer is 5. They've worn out a couple calculators already and they're still trying. Insanity :(
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  5779. Sessions would have everyone forget his role as Trump's little Nazi Keebler elf. In Feb 2016 he was the first major GOP lawmaker to put his support behind Trump. Then on January 10, 2017 he said he was unaware of any contact between the Trump campaign and the Russians. He continued in this supporting role until, in the face of Trump's corruption with foreign powers, he had to recuse himself from the Mueller probe. Don't let him live down his time supporting our Mango Mussolini.
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  5780. Nope. Trump has lost both popular elections, the second time by a much wider margin. If you work out the increase rate in his margin of loss, it's above 20% per year growth in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump.
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  5781. Nice Beau reference 👍👍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mtXbwPNkc
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  5782.  @governmentofficial_23  Aww, sorry your tender little feefees got hurt. Are you even a business owner? Or are you just another soon to be unemployed russian trollbot?
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  5783. We can safely refer to the Supremes as a "hire court". Just ask 45 or Harlan Crow.
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  5784. Everyone took their turns warning Ukraine about that. It was in the news at the time. I also recall seeing news, from the late fall before the invasion, of ordinary citizens getting training to repel invaders.
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  5785. Sorry for the multiple replies. Looking for that citation. NPR, 1/19/22, Eleanor Beardsley, "Thousands of Ukrainians are training to protect their cities in case Russia invades"
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  5786. So now it's merely a question of when Traitor Donald becomes Flight Risk Donald.
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  5787. Sssssh. It's better if they're removed AFTER the new congressional term begins.
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  5788.  @jamesdouthat3999  Before you make that whopper of a claim, you ought to read the 275 single-spaced pages of death threats received, and take note of how often Trump's same phrases were repeated therein.
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  5789. Several people are keeping detailed "to undo" lists just for that purpose.
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  5790. @Krytha the suntamer To be fair to our slack-jawed, easily-misled, inbred rural fellow Oregonians, the saturation rate of Sinclair Media propaganda and Fakebook misinformation is very high in those places with fewer people per square mile. The effect is basically the same as putting LSD into their well water. They will believe the dumbest sh*t that wouldn't fool any 10yo. It's both sad and funny to watch them run around in circles, like sheep, bleating that Anteefa must be lighting all those fires. Single-digit humidity and no rain for months couldn't have anything to do with it, oh no. Instead they turn to that paid liar, Tucker Carlson, who raises their blood pressure by telling them that BLM makes house calls.
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  5791. A fine example of "exponential" can be seen in the record of virus cases in North Dakota. Between yesterday and today, they went from 7.95% to 8.25% of their population testing positive. Only yesterday did the governor there finally mandate masks - months too late. Like trying to lock the barn door after the animals have escaped and the barn is fully engulfed in flame. The stupid, it burns.
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  5792. At this point, the "L" is practically branded into their foreheads, but they seem unaware of it. As if they imagine the whole world and the whole country isn't already aware that they're simply perpetuating a fraud to please an audience of one.
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  5793. Love that eloquent way he has of delivering the message :)
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  5794. Well, considering that Trump's brownshirt irregulars will be stepping up their persecution of visible minorities, here's to hoping those perps get a taste of the people's justice. Redcoats, red rebel flags, the red Nazi banners, and the red hats all are highly visible.
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  5795. Within the last few years, California was telling people not to charge their EV's at certain hours in order to avoid overstressing the grid.
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  5796. You're not going to get sick, but they will, and the emergency will last longer thanks to their choices :(
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  5797. Saw the same thing all over rural Oregon. Stores where neither the customers nor the employees bothered to wear masks. A few places where the store owner/manager even said not to bother with the masks. Lordy :( Edit: even within the last month there are still restaurants in Oregon where you can see servers and customers walking in and out of restaurants without masks on - totally against the law of course.
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  5798.  @LestWeForget-LestWeForget  Doubt this is one you can blame just on a political party. NY state has had the same problem everyplace else in the US has with people who deny/minimize/ignore covid risks.
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  5799.  @michaelpatrick1236  Funny how none of the events you named rose to the level of TREASON. Funny how none of those riots tried to keep Congress from certifying the election results. Funny how none of those riots tried to kill the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in line of presidential succession. Funny how none of those riots inflicted more damage on the DC capitol than did the British troops during the war of 1812. You're awful selective about what offends you. Take off the blinders.
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  5800. My state is so blue, Trump would never show his face here, which is fine because his traveling freak show is obviously a covid-spreading operation.
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  5801. They're probably screeching already for articles of impeachment to be drawn up. We'd better get used to them and their teapot tempests for the next 4 or 8 years - or maybe 16, if Joe does both his terms and Kamala takes the next two.
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  5802. Watching this guy wipe the floor with Ben Shapiro was well worth it. Mr Neil didn't even break a sweat.
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  5803. What a shame DOGE eliminated some federal firefighting programs. And no one's seen any "savings" checks from DOGE either.
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  5804. Hey, Don, I've heard that "both parties are the same" tune before. Trump & Putin are the ones who want you to hum it. It's to keep you from participating in the process. So if you really think both parties are the same, go look up the last few party-line votes on election security, equal pay for women, and other causes.
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  5805. Listening to Ken Starr say ".. those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment .." almost made me spew coffee. He's describing it as a spectator when in fact he was a central figure. It's like seeing Hitler show up at the Nuremburg trials in drag, and opine about what an awful time the Holocaust was. Give me a break you fat drama queen.
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  5806. It's going to get much worse. The Republicans are fast headed towards being a real minority party. When it gets to the point that even their frenetic gerrymandering & vote suppression won't stop them from losing elections (and thus losing power) they'll start with other things.
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  5807. Good luck getting any actual examples from them. They seem allergic to the notion of deriving conclusions from factual proof.
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  5808. The Senate can do that if they choose to.
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  5809. Let's let them fight it out on fair terms. Supply Ukraine with enough cruise missiles, artillery, and vehicles to achieve parity. Let's see who wins that one ;)
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  5810. Sad to see people using Orwell's "1984" as a how-to manual and not a cautionary tale :(
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  5811. Anger is the big button that 45 keeps pushing for his followers.
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  5812.  @Vanadisphoto  Trump timeline: "The pandemic is a hoax." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's Obama's fault." "Maybe the pandemic is real, but it's the Chinese government's fault." "I always knew it was a pandemic, even before they were calling it a pandemic." (Stock market tanks. Repeatedly.) "I'm dumping money into the stock market!" (Economy still tanks and Donnie realizes he might lose re-election.) "I'm gonna give you cash money!" (Doesn't, but the cult cheers wildly.) (Trump kids point out that their hotels and golf courses are losing $$$) "Pandemic is over. Everyone back to work!" (Millions of Americans die, as the virus spreads like wildfire.) "Pandemic? What pandemic? There never was a pandemic. All those corpses were killed by Obama. And Hillary's emails. And caravans." "The claim that there are any corpses is fake news." "WITCH HUNT! Another hoax!" "Ignore those corpses, they're just crisis actors! Maybe the same ones used for cheating in elections!"
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  5813.  @Vanadisphoto  The US ranks #29 globally in terms of tests per capita as of the moment. Thank you again for sharing your post. Hope you don't mind but I added it to the collection :) Oh, and when he said "It will go away like a miracle" it's clear now that he was talking about his failed confederate presidency.
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  5814. The influence of the tangerine Palpatine will spread much further than the Cali fires, sadly.
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  5815. Americans, we have our work cut out. Almost half of the voting people in America willingly vote for a guy who checks off every single box on the list of "characteristics of fascism".
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  5816. Huh. Wonder if Swamp-a-Lago has its own rapid testing system like the white house does.
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  5817. Remember his tiff with the PM of Denmark last year? First he made a secret offer to buy Greenland. Then the PM of Denmark (of which Greenland is a protectorate, sort of like PR is to the US) went public with her repudiation of the idea, calling it "absurd". Then Trump denied having made the offer, and called her "nasty", his usual term for women who stand up to his bullying. Then Trump canceled a planned visit with her, but denied it had anything to do with the Greenland thing. Then only weeks later did he admit he canceled the meeting because she refused his offer to buy Greenland. That's presidential? LOL, that kind of behavior would disqualify anyone for any post, even that of town dog catcher. Edit: And at every step along the way, his pincushions rushed this way and that, to and fro, to make up whatever justification was required to support whatever he'd just said, no matter how much in contradicted what he'd just said an hour before that.
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  5818. Just a modest proposal - but - maybe we need a caged-in stadium area so that the public can safely view these clashes and so that the city environment doesn't get further damaged. Some of the bigger sports arenas ought to be able to host these events.
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  5819. Everyone: There's no such thing as a cure for stupidity! Covid-19: Hold my beer.
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  5820. That is because Dr John's position, like that of anyone halfway intelligent, gets modified periodically in response to new information that supersedes previous information. People who don't understand this are often satirized by stuff like this - "Last year Biden said he's 87. This year he says he's 88. STOP LYING, BIDEN, AND TELL US THE TRUTH!!"
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  5821. In retrospect, Trump's clown show lasted this long only because we were lucky that a disaster didn't come along before this.
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  5822. Once again the recall effort fell short of the 6.6% of Oregonians needed to qualify. For reference, anyone who can't get even that little percentage of votes needs to look in the mirror and face the fact that they're fringe cranks. Weird Al could get a bigger vote share than that.
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  5823.  @harrywhite7639  Great. We just need to change the laws so work days are limited to 2 hours to make that work out in the real world. /sarc
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  5824. Love it when he goes Dark Brandon and stops being so nice to his predecessor.
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  5825. Perhaps the kind who need stinger missiles and funding?
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  5826. Nah, I prefer to blame my idiot fellow citizens who go into stores without wearing masks, while the other 98% of us are giving them massive stink eye. Or they'll go out without masks and flood into the bars, standing shoulder to shoulder, as if some court ruling means that the virus has magically gone away or they've become magically immune. The history of the 1918 pandemic shows similar nonsense.
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  5827. .. which is precisely where NewsMax, FOXed Noise, OANN, Sinclair dominate local media coverage. They lie to their sheeple about so much :(
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  5828.  @tannejb1 Wikipedia has a pretty long list of Trump's false and/or misleading statements. Too many for me to type in a year.
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  5829.  @emtaylor597  But, still, causing higher death rates among your own followers is perfectly normal behavior for narcissistic personality-cult leaders. It's one of the defining characteristics in fact.
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  5830. Look what it did to the cars - even if someone had been inside a vehicle, the crushing forces were still too much. Vehicles were nearly flattened :( heavy appliances did nothing to stop concrete slabs from pancaking atop each other :(
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  5831.  @nikolanikola8543  Some of the 911 callers apparently thought there was an earthquake.
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  5832. The folks in the Kremlin will do Baghdad Bob proud 😅
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  5833.  @RyanLS  Why, is it Washington that can't make any progress in Ukraine? 😅
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  5834. Great citations on that score in the book "Stalin's War" by Sean McMeekin. There are US products still on the market today that were designed for the needs and tastes of Russian soldiers in the field.
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  5835. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  5836.  @geenal360  What else can you call the only supposedly-advanced country where they bill you for the cv19 test and/or for your isolation afterwards? In every other country they do the test for free. What's your answer to that?
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  5837. And it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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  5838. Why are they looking for bamboo fibers? Didn't Marjorie Greene explain that the Italians were doing it by laser beams from satellites? If these clowns could get their straight ..
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  5839. Lincoln brigades vs speznaz, here we come.
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  5840. Thanks to Trump, we now know there are 3 basic types of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  5841. President Biden has got a very tough row to hoe. He's certainly kinder than I am to those who revel in misinformation the way crackheads do with a stolen wallet.
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  5842. As one fellow put it eloquently - “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." Mitt Romney January 6 2021
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  5843. So strange. The GQP insist that it was BLM/Antifa who invaded the capitol. You'd think they'd want that prosecuted if that was indeed the case, but nooooo, they're trying to even deny that it happened.
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  5844. @ James Tierney - a minor rewrite? The enemy of my country's enemy is my friend. And let's be completely clear on that score: Trump was, and still is, an enemy to America, her future, her people, and her reputation.
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  5845. .. and it's an open question how much of your top-secret information he shared with Xi.
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  5846. America could show off its diversity by having the same person be both President and First Lady! Mr George Santos & Miss Kitara Ravache (that's the drag name he used) will make an awesome first couple! 😅 Miss Ravache is also the attorney who will be representing Mr Santos in court.
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  5847.  @grmpEqweer  Regarding "Our owning class has mostly succeeded" .. Wealth distribution now is even worse than it was under feudalism, and, obviously, obscene wealth still buys obscene class power, as evinced by the way any measure to fairly tax the ultra-rich gets shot down.
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  5848. Republicans: We need to eliminate the Department of Education. Republicans: There aren't enough skilled American engineers, we need to import them.
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  5849.  @JonROlsen  I have long wondered how we can keep them happy post-election. They seem to have a taste for cruelty directed towards others - and that was apparent even as of the early Tea Party days.
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  5850. I'm glad my state is so blue, Trump's traveling freak show (which is really just a covid superspreading operation) would never come here.
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  5851.  @johns783  Bingo. Playing "all opinions matter equally" doesn't work when one of them is pure fascism.
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  5852. Sidney Powell fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. That's all you need to know about her.
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  5853. Perhaps boss Putin insisted on a few changes to his messaging. Maybe the Russian colors will be appearing the background soon?
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  5854. Correct, Auntie Pha. The J6 committee has just demonstrated that it's got access to the built-in-surveillance, and in enough detail to show faces and tie online/physical identities together. Notice how some faces were blurred out? Hoo boy. This ought to shake some of the rats off the anchor chain.
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  5855. Yah. This year has made me rediscover the wonders of instant ramen for the first time since the 80s.
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  5856.  @hobobobobo2065  Re "biden gave his blessing" << Oh look, postcards from the reich-wing echo chamber, where only the most outrageous nonsense gets the most airtime.
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  5857. It's batsh*t hilarious that Putin seems to imagine that the US is in charge of whether Ukraine wants to join NATO or not. As if Ukraine on its own fails to notice when some hostile, aggressive, authoritarian neighbor keeps invading sections of Ukraine and carving them off.
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  5858. Like they say in Europe .. if you see a Nazi sitting down at a table with 11 people, what you've got there is a dozen Nazis.
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  5859. Don't give anyone credit for partially solving "problems" when he created those problems himself, both by withdrawing from the TPP (which would have given us much leverage for lodging complains against Chinese practices) and by his ill-advised tariff wars. We're worse off now than we were when Obama left office :(
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  5860. They just chased out the most powerful and best-armed mafia (the police) so perhaps they're not as clueless as you think.
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  5861.  @VagaBond-tv5ck  It is absolutely maddening to watch how this plays out in anyplace where propaganda is allowed to masquerade as news. It is almost like watching Murdoch's station Sky News tell people that it's their "freedumb" to turn on all the house lights bright during the London Blitz - even though it will cause Nazi bombers to drop high explosives on their neighborhood. It is the same thing when these people assemble in groups, with hardly anyone wearing a mask, people from different households mingling together.
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  5862. Just remember, Ron DeathSantis sends his own kids to a private school that requires masks. He just doesn't give a shit about YOUR kids.
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  5863. Now the same in every other place that messed with the vote. Texas, we're looking at you.
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  5864. I'm glad that Republicans have chosen Trump as the hill to die on. Their 2020 platform was nothing but "whatever he says".
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  5865. Countries bigger and smaller than the US will handle this crisis better; countries across every type of political system (even constitutional monarchies, social democracies, communist nations, whatever) will handle it better. Over here in the US, the people in charge are still whining about the previous administration. They need to go take a long walk off a short pier.
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  5866. The Republican response has been like defunding the fire department and hiding all the extinguishers and fire alarms right when your neighborhood is burning down.
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  5867.  @ogivecrush  Cue the Red Dawn scenario. After Trump loses the election, he calls on his pals in Russia and NK to provide troops for an invasion of the parts of the US that didn't vote for him. Knowing how amoral and devoid of honor he is, I wouldn't put anything past him.
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  5868. Well, Tony, here in the US we cling to outdated traditions designed for the technology of votes carried to the capitol by horseback, a ritualistic counting of the votes, and whole bunches of people behaving honorably. As we saw in the last two major US elections, Republicans have no interest in behaving honorably (or legally), and at this point, expecting them to is like expecting 1942's Nazis to be nice guys instead of burning your village down which is their usual MO.
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  5869.  @creed610  Funny you should claim that. Trump's tax plans? They benefit the richest. Trump himself? His fans, who claim they are working people left behind by globalism, got behind a rich guy who does to them what they complain about the elites doing to them - moving jobs overseas, stiffing mom-and-pop businesses, and not paying his share of taxes. Stockholm syndrome?
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  5870. The USA is still a democracy. However, one whole party has gone full nutball. You never go full nutball.
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  5871. More like, we need to get the Republicans, with their tendencies towards authoritarianism and cronyism, the hell away from America.
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  5872.  @cosmoloveswanda69  That 'debate' was like Biden playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon struts around the board, knocks over the pieces, makes a lot of noise, craps all over, then flies away squawking that it won the game.
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  5873.  @airbud3  No, we know how Ukraine is fighting off an invading army. Fixed your nonsense for you. Oh, and obviously you haven't considered what the US might want from Ukraine sometime in the future after the dust of the current conflict settles. By then they'll be in NATO, and wouldn't it be helpful if Ukraine could host a US air base and lease it to us for 50 years?
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  5874.  @zachryzimmerman4800  Re "Have fun with those civil liberties being stripped" << considering that it's the Republicans doing all the stripping-away of rights and liberties, voting them out is the sensible thing for most people to do.
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  5875. Even if they do wake up, it will only last until a more horrible human being comes along. That seems to be a big part of what attracts their support.
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  5876. 45 is catching up with Charles Manson.
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  5877. Oh it's much worse than them thinking he was reading a script. They imagine this was produced in a giant green room using actors and editing. Even when they take their pointy white hats off and scratch hard, they still can't understand how supposedly-sleepy Joe just said what we all saw him say. GQP Republicans are out of their frigging gourds.
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  5878.  @karenneill9109 Trump is now in the loop on presidential daily briefings again. Betcha Orban left with a packet full of them for Putin. Tucker took the previous deliver.
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  5879. No one should use the name. '45' suffices. Some may use '34' however ;)
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  5880.  @elmatador4759  Can Ye or Can't Ye? 😅
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  5881. Tяump failures: So much winning. He did say we'd get tired of it. Economies of PA, OH, MICH, WI in shambles $23 trillion record debt $1.4 trillion record deficit ‪Iran developing nukes and aligning with Russia and China ‪Creating a new generation of home-grown Nazis ‪NATO looking for leadership from other countries ‪Germany, 4th largest economy in the world looking to more stable partners ‪ISIS back and Syria under Russian control DPRK developing both weapons and delivery systems Japan and South Korea are at it again Vast Asian trading blocs are being created that exclude the USA Tяump's tax cut has made everything worse and has not paid for itself Tяump handed US bases in Syria to Russia then said to Putin, please sir may I have another?
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  5882. In poor places, where people live densely and where medical care is inexpensive and/or unavailable, the death rate for this is going to be just awful :(
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  5883.  @jenniferjean  If I may add to what you said? This will end when we run of out of unvaccinated people.
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  5884. "You can't file false statements with federal judges" .. kind of like how the Supreme Corp won't enforce the 14th amendment, section 3?
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  5885.  @jefschobert9765  Bingo. Billionaires no longer require consumers to sell stuff to and employ at low, low wages.
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  5886.  @adamlangton1967  Do you mean the "illegal voters" that no court has been able to find any evidence of? Clearly, the air accordion player reached into your shallow, unthinking soul and found something he could easily manipulate.
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  5887. Hillary warned too; some of us listened.
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  5888. Conservatives have a sort of relationship with the truth .. sort of the same way garden slugs have a relationship with table salt.
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  5889. Unfortunately the authorities in Australia are in a bind. They must keep up the current state of lockdowns merely to avoid overwhelming their hospitals. They made it this far with their "zero covid" policy, which, unfortunately, doesn't work with Delta. So now they must vaccinate ASAP, up to 70% or 80% before reopening somewhat, but they've apparently got just as many anti-science nutbags as the US does.
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  5890.  @cycleoflife565  Indeed, Trump has given rise to a phenom not previously seen here - people committing bias crimes and naming him while doing it. https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-spewed-hate-then-they-punctuated-it-with-the-presidents-name/
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  5891. It's like watching a horse loose in a hospital. The horse doesn't even understand the place or what it's for, and there's probably going to be a lot of damage before it gets out.
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  5892. Bingo. Trump treats his doormats better than he treats his employees, family, associates, fellow party members, and anyone else.
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  5893. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  5894. Bingo. FOXed Noise, Trump, GQP, and Putin all working off the same dumb script, and mad as f*ck that their little coup didn't work.
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  5895. If Felon45 got muted every time he lied, his whole segment would be silent.
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  5896. LendLease is going to leave a mark. Especially when Ukraine gets trained on using A-10 Thunderbolts.
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  5897.  @JamesBond-uz2dm  Done by Eric too? And thank you for the recommendation.
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  5898.  @dianeshelton9592  Bingo. The crazies seem to be immune to the fact that never before has a president tried the "absolute immunity" excuse. Or that Clinton, Nixon, etc all told their people to cooperate because (wait for it) that's the law.
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  5899. If you've been watching this channel all along you might have started panic buying back during January.
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  5900.  @Stefan-gh7xr  This has got to be the ultimate "paid crisis actor" acting gig, right? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-man-who-disparaged-lockdown-measures-facebook-dies-coronavirus-n1189861
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  5901. His fans think of him as a 'smart guy', if that tells you what part of Bellcurve Bridge they live under :(
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  5902.  AUTONOMEN LX  Have you ever been to that city? Because it's still standing and still here. Thanks to batshit propaganda being peddled to idiots, people all over the country are convinced that Portland has been burned to the ground. It hasn't. Fires don't get far in a city with really good fire departments.
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  5903.  @handsomepackage7004  Biden hasn't yet been president, so we have no idea yet how things would go under a future hypothetical Biden administration. As to what Trump would do, however, we have the events of the past almost-4 years as a guide, and it's been an unmitigated disaster. Time to flush the turds out. They're already swirling around the bowl anyway.
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  5904. Bingo - and justice Beer Bong will be there to help rule on it.
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  5905. Nice of the fascists to identify themselves so publicly.
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  5906. Because he's the presumptive front-runner candidate of his party.
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  5907. Trump probably make's God's head hurt, I think that's what he meant to say.
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  5908. If Republicans are going to adorn themselves with solo letters, perhaps 'T' would be a better choice.
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  5909. @Julie B Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  5910. Throwing something into the trash is not always the best way to get rid of it. Some of it is toxic and must be properly disposed of. Some of it has sensitive content and must be shredded before disposal. Some of it must simply be buried in a dark place and left to rot. Some of it needs to be hung high in an airy spot so that the wind and birds can work at it. So many choices.
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  5911. Who else remembers Republicans' true colors from this 2019 incident? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  5912. Fascists always forget that their story arc ends at the Nuremburg season ender. I don't want to give any spoilers, but it always leaves them hanging.
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  5913. Meanwhile, Ukraine learns 5GW and improvises the weapons systems of a dozen western nations. Ivan will continue to be befuddled.
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  5914. The G-6 (the G-7 minus the USA) might meet elsewhere. Why feed the crook?
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  5915. Huh, wonder if Iraq and every other country has its own version of the "Red Dawn" type movie?
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  5916. The only other journalist I've seen call Trump on his lies was Jonathon Swan of Axios.
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  5917. As we all remember, 8 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Fun fact: before he became the #2 Nazi, Hermann Goering used to occupy the same position that Moscow Mitch has now - leader of the Senate. Without his help, Hitler could have never seized power.
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  5918. Sounds like Abbott wants to be sure his rented swarm of Belorussian moms-basement trolls can still get access.
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  5919.  @bidentity69  Hans apparently came here to spread the right wing nonsense :(
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  5920. Good time to buy at Harbor Freight too before the crunch. It's coming.
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  5921. This is kind of what happens when your drunk, senile, perverted, watching FOXed Nooz all day uncle gets in front of a camera.
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  5922. Similar to the way AG Garland hasn't done anything about Big Orangey.
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  5923. Texas law cannot have it both ways. Either the fetus is a person or it is not.
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  5924. Exactly the sort of store that Tucker Carlson (the Lord Haw-Haw of the 2020s) visited in order to "prove" that Russian stores are well-stocked.
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  5925. Every accusation (from those Russian propagandists) is a confession.
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  5926. If you want a glimpse into that type of hate, go read that nauseating work of fiction called the Turner Diaries.
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  5927. Nice to know that even people who live in fridge boxes have internet. Now all they need is psychiatric help.
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  5928. Even more so - can you imagine a whole political party going in with his fuckery because they know their retrogressive racist schtik from 1850 doesn't sell so well these days?
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  5929.  @purplenights1  Other than breaking down the door to her apartment and unleashing a hail of gunfire, there was no excessive force in the killing of Breonna Taylor? Is that what you are attempting to claim?
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  5930. That was so dump45 to wheedle it down then use a shyster firm that couldn't pay. Getting someone else to not pay his bills after a lifetime of not paying his own bills, basically.
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  5931. Note the Republicans have nothing to say about his latest abuses. Their inaction is killing democracy, and they're somehow happy with that :( fcuking traitors
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  5932.  @Pattys1967  Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school, except mine. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  5933.  @tomricketts7821  Zactly. Great big guys - the biggest anyone's ever seen in the history of guys - probably a veteran - said to Trump, with tears in his eyes, "Sir, that is an extremely important mugshot, possibly the best anyone has ever seen. Can you autograph it for my kids?"
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  5934. Trump whines on every day that ends in 'y' basically.
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  5935. It's interesting that 45 himself would refer to his own activities as "election interference".
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  5936.  @irishhi8333  No, they won't accept it. They'll just screech without proof that everyone was in on the cheat.
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  5937.  @Apollonious11  He was like this last time. Seems some people forgot, or never even knew thanks to Fox.
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  5938. ".. and I know we want to be accurate around here" is her version of "welcome to my KZ".
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  5939.  @fifermcgee5971  I believe we-the-people can vote him out in overwhelming numbers. I believe he will then be removed from power one way or another. But I also find it all too likely that he will spend the time before 1/20/2021 making a complete mess of things, and stirring his base to do the most atrocious things. He'll tell them to go burn down post offices for their role in handling so many blue votes .. he'll tell his Kyle Rittenhouse types to go into cities and drive around shooting at Black people .. FOXed Noise will help him perpetuate the lie that the election was stolen .. and then things will get even worse. Every good thing that president Biden does to help heal the nation and defeat covid, those fools will try to undermine and obviate.
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  5940. For the first time in my life, I voted a completely blue ticket, straight up and down. The message needs to be sent, loud and clear, to all Republicans at every level: GET THE FCCK OUT OF TOWN YOU BUMS.
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  5941. .. because nothing screeches out your innocence in all caps like withholding evidence then retaliating against witnesses.
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  5942.  @daytonjobgen8639  Or from aircraft carriers when they're on a mission.
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  5943. She's been here well over 20 years and has never bothered to learn how to speak the language correctly. SAD!
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  5944.  Stormi’s Army  Even as of 2018, every single extremist murder in the US was linked to right-wing extremism. https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds And they have committed more than a hundred vehicle attacks just between George Floyd's murder and the folks attempting to run the Biden-Harris campaign bus off the road.
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  5945. Look, Ghouliani could present a 4K video+audio recording (verified to be undoctored) showing Trump asking MBS to get rid of Khashoggi because of something he wrote that was unflattering to Trump, yet all his loyal flying monkeys and Brownshirt irregulars would do is screech that he didn't do it and that even if he did do it, it wasn't a crime and the president can't be investigated. And this is coming from the same people who kept investigating Obama over and over again for Benghazi :(
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  5946. Think of this as yet another measure by the state of Alabama that will encourage anyone with a working brain to move elsewhere. Florida and Texas do stuff like this all the time.
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  5947. Trump? Feh. Not only can he not think his way out of whatever box he cornered himself into with his contradictory lies, but if you mentioned the box to him, he'd put out a big word salad about how big strong men, with tears in their eyes, possibly veterans, came up to him and told him, sir, that's the biggest and most beautiful box anyone has ever seen. The best ever. No one ever heard of such a thing in all history.
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  5948. Now that Moscow Mitch has done plenty of damage to our nation, our people, our future .. is he going to shuffle off and repeat the same in the afterlife? Hope not. A childhood polio sufferer, who benefited from public healthcare measures, he nonetheless spent his career trying to deny those same benefits to others.
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  5949. If Amy Handmaid's Tale had any integrity at all, she would step down -- since, as Moscow Mitch McConnell enunciated in 2016, even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, and the will of the people must be heard first.
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  5950. Obama should come out with a PSA saying to keep 4 meters distance from others. The Trumptards will do the opposite just to "own the libs" of course.
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  5951. I've gone into stores where the shop owners tell you not to bother with the mask if you don't like it. But that's rural America for you.
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  5952. Having already earned one impeachment inquiry by secretly asking Ukraine to find dirt on his political rivals, he then invites further such trouble by publicly asking a different country to do the same thing for him. That "very large brain" is acting up again :(
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  5953. Must be. This is unforgivable. The law must apply to all.
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  5954. When a fascist wannabe-authoritarian came along, here's what the Republicans did in 2019: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  5955.  @vinceabbott5438  After decades of this, no one has been able to provide even a tiny piece of some manufactured item from another world. (you can get coal from the wreck of the Titanic) No one has been able to provide an undoctored image of one of these vehicles in human settings. Lacking any evidence, this thing is probably just a long-running distraction meme. I'd love to be wrong, but ..
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  5956. I'd rather be broke & alive than employed & dead. Guess some people feel otherwise. Oh, and my work closed more than a month ago and I've not been able to get unemployment or any other relief. The generosity of friends is what's keeping me alive.
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  5957. Everyone he wants to be respected by (Putin, Erdogan, Duterte, KJU, MBS, whoever) can do whatever the F they want to journalists, the political system, the budget, etc. No doubt he feels it's such a travesty that he can't operate just like them :(
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  5958. That's all he needs, by our laws. :(
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  5959. When you're trying that hard to square a circle, you have to make up all the space in the corners. 😅
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  5960. Soldiers and factory workers smoking while next to the vodka depot .. tsk tsk tsk.
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  5961.  @BlackEpyon  Correct on the username attribution! It was a mistranslated line from one of those videos. Coffee on the keyboard that time.
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  5962.  @joeshithragman3264  Yes. I am still awaiting footage of the capitol complex from the weeks before J6. It has been alleged, several times, that MAGA folk gave private tours to the same people who later invaded the buildings. Pretty sure there's no statue of limitations for that type of crime.
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  5963. Betcha the club wasn't expecting any new members.
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  5964. And to think, it all started when Trump first claimed he didn't know Parnas. That was his moment of awakening.
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  5965.  @NoMad42  Funny how no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up. He likes his lies to last at least a week or two.
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  5966. Nixon at least had the sense to bail when he realized his goose was cooked. Trump keeps vacillating between "I didn't misuse my office to get my political opponents investigated" to "everyone does this, it's no big deal", both of which fly in the face of the law and established precedence. He's ratfcked himself, and deservedly so.
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  5967.  @commonsense433  Basically half the country lives under the left-hand side of Bellcurve Bridge. 45 reels them in quite well, he just needs to comport himself like a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is like, a poor person's idea of what a rich person is like, an emotionally unbalanced person's idea of what a together person is like, an immature person's idea of what an adult is like, and so on.
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  5968. Russia already admitted that their own stuff spontaneously catches fire. Ships, ammo factories, power plants, trains, aviation schools, pretty much anything.
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  5969. His "just got smacked in the face with a shovel" trademark look of stupid disbelief is somehow neither as charming or intelligent as he clearly imagines it to be.
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  5970. How is this supposed to work for all the bars in Oregon that have reopened?
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  5971. They understand it, they just don't like it. Hence they keep trying to "prove" that the correct sum of 2+2 is 5.
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  5972. Some would argue that it was lost when Russia failed to take the Kyiv airfield early.
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  5973. By this time 2 weeks from now, he'll be saying he never knew Ghouliani, has no idea who he is, never hired him as his attorney, etc.
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  5974. It's nice of those idiots to identify themselves with their words, their deeds, the signs on their lawns, their bumper stickers, the cheesy hats they wear. Benedict Arnold is going to have to move down to second place to make room for Trump.
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  5975. Yeah, as if returning Americans were somehow immune to covid, so we didn't have to worry about them bringing it home.
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  5976. Wanna bet Clump has redecorated his shack in Florida so that they can proceed with Insurrection v2.0 in familiar settings? They did say they were going to try something.
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  5977. For his Navy service, he took an oath to protect America against enemies foreign and domestic. That oath has no expiration date!
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  5978. Some of them are beginning to realize that he's like the heavy anchor on a sinking ship and that he'll gladly drag them under just to spite them. Like any other black hole of negativity, Trumpy has got an unlimited supply of spite. Now that it's more obvious that he can't fix the mess he made with China, that the tax plan didn't pay for itself, etc, they're starting to smell the coffee.
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  5979.  @miapdx503  No wonder he's feeling guilty about indirectly killing off his brother Robert .. the case of death is being so hushed-up that it's most likely covid. Trumpty Dumpty just got a karma slap on that score.
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  5980.  @miapdx503  And, strangely enough, those supposedly-all-American Republicans love him to death for it. Evangelicals too.
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  5981. When you confront Trumpanzees about how they don't have any proof of vote fraud (nor does Trump or any of his lawyers) and they insist otherwise, it's a lot like trying to explain to them that 2 + 2 = 4 when they are absolutely convinced that the sum of 2 and 2 is 5. All you can do is stand back and thank them for the free humor, basically.
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  5982.  @gingerharrison768  Bingo. To the loyal Trumptards, all the dead people are just crisis actors, and this thing is no worse than a cold. Someone needs to drive folks like get lost to NYC and stick them in a reefer truck full of bodies for them to get the hint. If s/he is as cranky as they seem, they might have to ride all the way to NYC in the trunk.
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  5983.  @kingofthecatnap5422  Dogpile them. DIsarm them. Drag them away to a vehicle. Let's see how they like being on the receiving end.
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  5984. It hasn't fallen apart, but there are people here working hard to destroy it, like Tucker "Axis Sally" Carlson for instance.
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  5985. Not sure if events will wait for Russia to return things voluntarily. The bear is dripping blood, and everything in the sea will be smelling it.
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  5986.  @danimotherofchickens479  You are mistaking democratic socialism (ex: Germany, France, etc) with communism (USSR) while overlooking the fascism (Nazi Germany, current USA) right in front of your nose. You may wish to crack open a history book now and then before opening the air scoop on that supercharged pea brain.
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  5987. When we hear the news about Sanders winning the vote count but Buttigieg winning the delegate count, most of us grimace because that's precisely how Trump "won" the 2016 election despite having a couple million fewer votes than Clinton. Didn't we all just get a harsh lesson in the importance of the actual vote counts?
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  5988. I feel much the same way. Iran & NK both correctly perceive that once they're firmly in the we-got-nukes club, the US will have to be a lot less bullying to them. EDIT: And it's become clear that the US doesn't make a very nice bully :(
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  5989. Pretty sure Drumpf wouldn't mind a little help from his "friends" in that department - Putin, Xi, KJU, MBS.
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  5990. Attention Georgia conservatives: those Dominion voting machines are more hacked than Sidney Powell was allowed to say on TV. Venezuela threatened her with assassination if she told the whole truth, which is that your phone will be silently hacked if you even get near one, allowing China to see your texts and social media posts and where you live. And if you even touch one of those machines, they give off microdot chips (too small to be seen) that make you as trackable as the Bill Gates vaccine. Don't do it!
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  5991.  @Mathew-8896  14th amendment, section 3, of the US Constitution. That is where the power comes from to kick someone off the ballot. Here's the text of it: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  5992. And meanwhile in the US, we get Muskrat dancing around on stage like some demented space monkey.
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  5993. All that careless smoking around vodka and lithium batteries .. tsk tsk tsk.
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  5994.  @dtdasap6221  The word is "collaborator". Like the Quislings in Norway. Or the French who worked for/with the invading Nazis.
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  5995.  @DoctorProph3t  As the amended saying goes - all that's required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing against it.
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  5996. That lying moron Trump will have cost millions of Americans their lives for delaying the response while he pushed out happy talk lies on FOXed and twitter, and cut the CDC budget, and fired the global pandemic response team. Why didn't we set up drive through testing back in early January? The WHO offered free tests which the US refused. WTF?
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  5997.  @dennisconrad6124  It's pretty axiomatic that these nutty people haven't connected the dots between the authoritarianism they want to install and the way life in the USA would turn nasty, brutish, and short (for everyone, including them and their families) if their treason were allowed to flourish.
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  5998.  @RiccardoTheBeAst  Back in 2016, Norway agreed to allow 330 US marines to base out of Vaernes. Frants Klintsevich, a deputy chairman of Russia's defense and security committee, said the deployment of US Marines at Værnes was part of a US build-up and made Norway fair game in the event of a nuclear confrontation. So, yes, Russia has threatened Norway.
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  5999.  @RiccardoTheBeAst  Hey, Vlad, nice of you to pepper these threads with your paranoia. So you're afraid of US marines being around? Are you committing war crimes or something? Illegally trying to take over another nation? Your guilt speaks volumes.
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  6000. My family is mostly immigrants. So if anyone gets racist on our Asian friends, we're going biblical on the offenders. Book of Leviticus type stuff.
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  6001.  @DanielSkinnerDETTPKS  Shout out to you, I had a friend in town years ago and visited him there. Enjoyed that fine local museum that took up several floors of that big brick building, as well as the railway museum and its working early-type streetcar.
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  6002. Definitely not stealth. You can see it with your own eyes, duh. /sarc
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  6003. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  6004. So Trump has forgotten about Herman Cain already.
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  6005.  @Real_MisterSir  Think of it as an especially kinetic maintenance procedure?
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  6006. Somebody please give Ukraine some cruise missiles. Let Russia feel a taste of what it's been dishing out. They need to see their own things going boom.
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  6007. There's a cautionary short film on youtube called "Slaughterbots", and no, the genie is not going to be put back into the bottle.
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  6008. During the 1930s depression, the government wasn't actively trying to make things so much worse by destroying the ability of the government to conduct its most basic responsibilities. This time it's much worse.
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  6009. Tucker Carlson has the sort of dumb look that probably requires plastic surgery to correct.
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  6010. Those trying to ban abortion in America are like the Christian sharia law squad :(
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  6011. Republicans have known since the 2018 election that they were going to lose the 2020 election. Leaving as big a mess as possible for incoming Democrats has been their #1 agenda, even if it means millions of Americans getting sick and dying.
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  6012. To be fair, I was honestly expecting to see lizard scales around the edges.
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  6013. John Stewart or Rachael Maddow should get a crack at Trump sometime. Jonathon Swan (Axios) did very well.
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  6014.  @Sethxz  Folks in Europe will have one or two painful winters, and then Russia will have lost the European export market forever. Joke's on them, not Germany.
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  6015.  @Ashlikes2read  AKA the "there's no such thing as global warming because it's snowing where I live right now" nonsense. Another one would be "The Titanic sinking was a myth. I didn't see it personally so it didn't happen."
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  6016. @ferox965 - Most of us want to see the country healed, but not the Trump culters. They'd rather do away with democracy entirely in order to have their one-party state. They are Quislings, all of them.
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  6017. This is just the beginning of the breakup. There's a lot of guilt to go around. That whole defense of "I was just following orders" didn't fly at Nuremburg and it's not going to fly now. Some folks are going to spend the rest of their lives rotting in jail for this.
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  6018.  @And-rc9yy  Glad to hear that you like wasting the time of trolls. I like using them for rhetorical fact-batting practice. They are uniformly the 22LR minds in a 44 magnum world.
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  6019.  @Frenchblue8  Very glad to see that. Next step, we need to hunt down the wannabe abortion bounty hunters. Give them a taste of what they would give to others - there's no other way they will learn.
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  6020. Is there any way we could possibly get Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden together to do a public service announcement? Just something basic asking people not to drive while drunk; to wear their seat belts; to drive on the right side of the road; to eat only healthy food; to make sure their guns are unloaded before cleaning them; to breathe only clean air, not tailpipe emissions. Let the trash take itself out.
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  6021. Did Customs and Border Patrol hire people specifically for their cruelty towards Hispanics? Or did they become that way later through right wing media, that secret Wastebook group where they self-radicalized? Clearly some of these folks are taking on the roles that SS guards took towards Jews in concentration camps. This is crimes-against-humanity level stuff.
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  6022.  @busblu1475  Not "futile" reasons - other people's reasons that you don't know specifically, but just don't approve of. Sounds like you are unclear on the meaning of consent. I pray you get over that failing before life delivers you an object lesson to clear this up. As I said before, your rights end where mine begin, and vice versa.
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  6023.  @Daniel15391  Keep your church to yourself, and I'll keep mine to myself.
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  6024. Inquisitive minds want to know if all Russian surface vessels are designed for underwater operations like the Moskva.
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  6025.  Lee Anderson  Someday there will be a huge monument with hundreds of thousands of names on it (similar to the Vietnam War memorial) and a bronze statue of Trump nearby with the inscription "I take no responsibility". We're at 187,192 dead Americans with lots more on the way.
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  6026. Judging from how many ways, in how many different places, the Republicans have tried to cancel the votes they didn't like during the last two elections, it would seem that Trump merely said out loud what many of them are thinking. Doing away with the rule of law in America is about the only way the Republicans could rule forever without worrying about those pesky elections that don't always go their way.
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  6027. I hope the white house press pool moves over to the president-elect's press room and stays there until around January 19th. That's where things are happening. The other one is so lying that even FOXed Noise cut them off. And to remind everyone .. the president-elect spent the weekend putting together a coronavirus task force while the president sulked and hid out on the golf course, glowering at everything like Barney Rubble on a bad hair day.
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  6028. Good luck with that. The virus spreads primarily between people from different households spending time together indoors.
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  6029. Moving the country forward is not the Republican way. Thanks to decades of Republican disinvestment in healthcare, education, the environment, technology science, infrastructure, transportation (and many other things) their policies only serve to make our grandchildren the sharecroppers of China's largest foreign supply province in just two generations.
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  6030. Cadet Bonespurs was like that too. Still is.
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  6031. That dividing line already exists. The other side of it is the places where propaganda & nonsense like FOXed Noise / OANN / Sinclair / NewsMax own all the local coverage.
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  6032. Complete with cell phones and automated means for essentially monitoring folks 'thoughts' by means of metadata analysis of message traffic. The best invisible slave collars ever marketed.
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  6033.  @druid139  Re " Is hate speech the same thing as free speech?" Is that anything like Germany's 1930s experiment of letting funny mustache guy rant and rave about how getting rid of all the Jews would supposedly make the country great again?
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  6034. There's going to be lots of plain brown wrapping paper this Christmas. Donny 2 Dolls did that.
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  6035.  @davidjohn4326  Thanks for posting that. Until then I hadn't realized how far down the rabbit hole of misinformation you are.
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  6036.  @allieelectra23  You can see the FOXed Noise effect in the way political violence in the USA is almost entirely the province of right-wingers. Or maybe we should call them reich-wingers? References: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/27/in-america-far-right-terrorist-plots-have-outnumbered-far-left-ones-in-2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020 https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds https://www.justsecurity.org/71431/vehicle-ramming-the-evolution-of-a-terrorist-tactic-inside-the-us/
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  6037. “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  6038. Yeah, yeah, tell us again when he caused more than 177,000 Americans to die because he downplayed the severity of a very real public health crisis. This is not the time to be humming that "both parties are the same" tune that Putin wants you to have on your mind.
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  6039. Someone should ask Elon how much it would "improve" Tesla if he arbitrarily lays off half of the company, every department, top to bottom.
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  6040. The math certainly indicates this. Trump went from a 3 million popular vote loss in 2016 to 8 million in 2020. If this is flat progression, the next step up in voter dissatisfaction will show as a loss of around 13 million votes. But if it's exponentially growing dissatisfaction with Trump, it works out to a rate of 27% increase per year in voter dissatisfaction. One way or the other, Trump will lose and keep on losing.
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  6041. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  6042. Who's this "we", kemosabe? I thought he'd be worthless & dangerous from the moment he decided to run.
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  6043. So .. not only did the US supply the ammunition used to kill those branch sect Mormons, but the US also supplies the same insatiable market demand for illegal narcotics that makes the cartels so powerful.
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  6044. If Trump has any kind of charisma at all, it would be only the kind that Charles Manson had. It would work only on a few kinds of people, and, to the rest of us, he would sound like a raving narcissistic fool, the sort of dolt who panders only to the worst in people. His followers are the sort of people whose worst comes out most easily.
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  6045. I have a few words for president Biden: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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  6046. Trump is more concerned about the upcoming election, for which he wants to keep the virus numbers low to make himself look better.
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  6047.  ShariaFreeUK  You wish. Trump's lies about coronavirus: 1). It's one BIG HOAX folks, it's the Democrat's latest HOAX 2). it's the same as the flu 3). it will go away on its own like magic 4). it will go away when the weather gets warmer 5). NO I DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT 6). leave those 2,500 people on the Cruise Ship from Hawaii about to dock in Oakland, CA to remain at sea, if I had it my way they would ALL remain on that ship because I don't want them coming here because it will mess up my numbers. (what he's saying is of those infected individuals on that ship, this would ADD to the total number of reported Corona Virus infected individuals in the U.S. and he doesn't want that to happen because he perceives it would further strain his chances of re-election by making him look bad). So with this, he very clearly doesn't CARE if all 2,500 people on that ship becomes infected and/or DIES!!! 7). this will all be over by April (three weeks from today) 8). everyone should continue going to work if they have symptoms, it won't be a problem 9). we have everything under control no need to worry (new reported cases in the U.S. continues to rise by the hundreds. (currently there are more than 1,000 reported cases in the U.S. and more than 100 Deaths, and the reporting of those cases now spans ALL 50 States) Trump: It's all a BIG HOAX FOLKS!!!...a Democratic HOAX!!! 10). we will have a vaccine soon in just a few days (in direct contradiction to: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. The Medical Director of The National Institutes of Health-NIH Allergy & Infectious Disease Division, very clearly stated REPEATEDLY ON NATIONAL TELEVISION that a Vaccine is at least 1 1/2 year away).
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  6048.  @annakariol  Sorry but you'll probably just have to ignore the comments you don't like. A lot of us won't forget that Trump's lies and inaction will cost a LOT of lives.
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  6049. This makes me want to run a copium den down by the river. Set up a giant tent, get a whole bunch of Trump flags to fly outside, set up a few benches, and start preaching about how Trump is planning a big comeback on November 3, 2021. (gotta keep the date way ahead so there's time to con them properly)
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  6050. This vetting of the ANG should have been happening all along - ditto for all military and police. White-supremacist extremists have been infiltrating for years :(
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  6051. Federally, but not on a state level. For instance, Big Orangey doesn't have the power to pardon the man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer. He may, however, refer to him as a "political prisoner", or give him a medal of presidential honor.
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  6052.  @MF-qf7bs  Another one - Remember how Trump's interior secretary Ryan Zinke appointed Whitefish Energy (a hitherto unknown 3-person company operating out of a PO box) the contract to rebuild the electrical grid on the island? They were wholly unable to do the job, but they were buddies of Zinke (from his hometown) and were happy to take the $300 million contract.
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  6053. Wonder if the history books will sarcastically refer to it as the Three Days War?
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  6054. Eventually we will see the detailed timeline of what happened in DC on Insurrection Day, a day that shall live in infamy. Was his raised-fist signal for the crowd to know when the electoral votes were being counted?
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  6055. Some of Trump's fine people probably don't understand what they're accomplishing by being close together for 30+ minutes, , without masks, shouting out loud. That's the recipe for maximum droplet dispersal. All they're accomplishing is picking up the virus, sharing the virus, bringing it home to their families and communities, and getting sick themselves. This problem might go away on its own when enough of them get sick from a virus they claimed was a hoax.
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  6056. That means rural second homes will be a lot cheaper by next summer.
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  6057. Ahh, that phony emoluments clause thingie again. How long has this been going on?
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  6058. Apparently the new MAGA is "many are getting arrested". Couldn't happen to a better bunch of delusional, misled terrorists. Trump's useful idiots.
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  6059. Correct. We never before needed laws specifically preventing a president from telling nonstop lies about a deadly disease that's killing Americans. We've shown that when a corrupt senate leader works with a corrupt president, the checks and balances don't work. We've proved to the world that nothing in our laws prevents a president from withdrawing willy-nilly from treaties that the US signed in good faith. And now we're about to learn why these are not good things :(
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  6060.  David Greenlight  We could probably have such a big army too if we weren't trying to maintain around 800 foreign military bases to project our power. But hey, make love not war.
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  6061. Extrajudicial killings like that are a big problem in the USA :(
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  6062. Watching the Republican party embrace the big lie is like watching the white apartheid regime in former Rhodesia decide that Blacks shouldn't vote because they (the reich-wingy reactionary types) don't like the results of democratic voting.
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  6063. Those red hats of theirs are most useful in that regard. The bumper stickers, the lack of mask wearing, all those things serve to tell you who's worth avoiding.
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  6064.  @SpoopySquid  Correct, they mean freedom for privileged white land-owning males specifically. Hence all the rapists-rights legislation, which is 99% of their argument against abortion.
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  6065. Part of the healing process will require Dolt45 explaining to his sheeple (the same ones taking livestock medicine now) how he lied to them.
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  6066. Only in America could a con-man president get away with cheating on his taxes while railing about "moochers" who don't pay their "fair share" while getting cheered on by his imbecile fan base who simultaneously think that a) it's wrong to cheat on taxes and b) cheating on taxes is what makes him a patriotic genius.
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  6067. Whoever knew that the dumbest people in Oregon could get upset that governor Brown doesn't want Oregon to turn into another covid hotspot like North Dakota or New York City.
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  6068. Ahh, Dump45. A strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon.
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  6069.  @JB-lp9xr  Given that Russia is unable to establish air superiority, even when invading the country with the 55th largest economy, I don't think anyone has much to worry about.
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  6070. Or he should read Project 2025, which would make huge swaths of Americans miserable.
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  6071. I just wish the covidiots would find a way to subtract themselves from the gene pool without causing so much collateral damage on the way out.
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  6072. He's been spending some time golfing too. And apparently he now admits he downplayed the virus danger months ago .. as if we couldn't tell that by the number of dead and infected. 1 in 1700 Americans has died so far, and 1 in 50 has tested positive.
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  6073.  @thepookie1899  You really want to try that puerile approach? In every country that successfully dealt with the coronavirus, they did it through a strong central government response. Not by letting individual states do it each their own way.
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  6074. Oklahoma is trying to sell its stockpile of hydroxychloroquine, now that it's no longer needed as a prop for political theatre.
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  6075.  @signs9587  Regarding "Have you tried nebulizing" - this is why I am recommending that when unvaccinated people show up with covid at the hospital, just give them three bottles of cough syrup and tell them to go home and call back in a week. The understakers do make house calls, you know.
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  6076. Oh it's much worse than that. Here's what Republicans themselves said about Trump. You can't say they didn't know what they were getting into. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  6077. It's like watching a 5yo being forced to eat a plate of peas and broccoli.
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  6078.  @tedsta  President Obama played golf 306 times in 8 years (38.25x/year). Doll hands Donnie has done 285 in 4 years (71.25x/year). References: https://trumpgolfcount.com
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  6079. Coronavirus likes this.
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  6080. Looks like the "Blacks for Trump" theatre group has another opening.
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  6081. My hopes were raised again after hearing that cough during the Hannity interview.
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  6082.  @Annie-zd6rn  Maybe he'll be wheezing away on a ventilator when he loses the election .. maybe he'll be gone by then. Lame duck Pence would be less damaging than Trump during that period. And Pence doesn't have the pull that Trump does with right wing domestic terrorists. Maybe that would help quiet things down?
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  6083. This is all about consent. Governor Kemp is offering up the people of Georgia as a sacrifice to the virus, all apparently so he can prove his fealty to Trump. Kemp did not ask Georgians if they want to go along with this madness. On April 1, Georgia was at 447 cases per million. As of April 23rd it was 2,125 per million (ranked 14th highest in the nation). Does he want Georgia to eventually become a hotspot like NYC with thousands of deaths per week?
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  6084.  @aidancampbell5644  Most likely, instead of using military members as teachers, the governor will set up a group to "find" the right groomer religious figures to step up as teachers. Or make homeschooling even more unregulated.
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  6085. Even though it's a slam-dunk impeach-and-remove case for a president to interfere with the integrity of free elections, Republicans won't stop it. Republicans are clearly in need of some harsh wake-up medicine, maybe like the kind that loyal Nazis got during the winter of 1945-1946, when it became clear that their fanatical loyalty to a lying, conniving, corrupt leader is what helped their Fuhrer visit such ruin upon Germany.
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  6086. Don't take it if you don't want to.
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  6087.  @duncanmcneill7088  No. Trump has kept quiet about it, wonder why?
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  6088.  @opossumlvr1023  Surely you joke .. all 45 did was issue a stream of lies so transparent that a cat could see through them, even if cultists cannot.
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  6089. Not getting vaccinated is like leaving all your lights on during the London Blitz, thus attracting enemy bombers who shower your city with high explosives.
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  6090. Must politely disagree. No matter how many cult zombie flying-monkey type "helpers" Trump uses and discards, there's always a seemingly unending supply of fresh doormats ready to take their turn being (essentially) toilet paper to Trump.
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  6091. I'll settle for him being unplugged from the means to incite America's most gullible morons into such acts as overthrowing the government, issuing death threats, running the opposition campaign bus off the road, etc.
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  6092.  @bigboy9693  Hate to break the news to you (you honestly seem not to realize this) but not only do the poll watchers not handle any votes, but their presence or absence doesn't affect the outcome either way.
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  6093. We're not better if conservatives have their way. Too bad they seem to be all-hands-aboard with letting him ruin the country. When they're stuck in the woodshed for 40 years, do you think they'll remember their complicity in Trump's nuttiness, or will they spend all that time fuming that the world was oh-so-unfair to them?
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  6094. Trump cost them the house in 2018. Let's hope he costs them the senate and the presidency in 2020 and beyond. They need a long spell in the woodshed to reflect on what they've done :(
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  6095. It's appalling how many Americans are divorced from reality in that sense. As I have had to remind many of them, the same American prosperity that has nurtured and protected them all these years (life here is better than in some other places I could name) is precisely what Trump has been demolishing, while the fools cheer him on. The net results of him trashing our allies, ignoring the treaties we've signed, toadying up to dictators, and withdrawing from world affairs will all be a uniform downgrade to the prosperity of all Americans. Who'll want to enter into treaties or trade negotiations with us, knowing full well that at any time we could select an even worse fool to trash the agreements we just signed? Who will want us in their trading blocs? Who will want to use the US dollar as a global currency for international trade? Who will want to lease us military bases? Over the next 30 years, Americans will get a harsh lesson in how far downhill Trump rolled things in a short time.
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  6096. I wonder how their so-called leader could have called himself a president. The only things he's ever presided over were the disasters he's caused.
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  6097. This is why the world looks at the USA the same way the USA looks at Floriduh :( Even as late as June 17th he said it was dying down.
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  6098. Crimson Caligula.
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  6099. Strange. A drag queen is finally being prosecuted (which should make Republicans happy) but they're unhappy that it's one of their own, and Miss Lindsey is wondering if the FBI knows what's in the bottom drawer of his dresser.
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  6100. Never knew how gratifying it is to see the FBI swooping down on traitors and insurrectionists. Very entertaining. Cushy Club Fed is much much too nice for those kind.
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  6101.  @bootsnake69420  Just think of this as a public IQ test. It's nice of some of our fellow citizens to out themselves as complete lunatics. You can't fix stupid, but the red hats sure make it easier to spot.
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  6102. I love pointing out to those dipshits (sorry) that with Trump's epic low popularity numbers (around 30%) it would have been mathematically impossible for him to win a national election anyway.
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  6103.  @CARBONHAWK1  So you're saying the Titanic sinking was faked? Big governments with lots of resources can do anything. And you're a sheeple if you believe what's in the history books. Is that what you tell yourself every morning?
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  6104.  @mattrogers6649  Correct. These are the same dolts who would have insisted on leaving all their lights on and the curtains open during the London Blitz, when Nazi bombers were targeting their city and the blackout wardens were telling everyone to douse the lights. But mah mah mah FREEDUMBS!!
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  6105.  @CARBONHAWK1  No wonder they say people like you (conspiracy theorists) are hard to reach. Not only have you decided already that all misinformation is equally incorrect, but you've reduced all the nuance and complexity of the real world down to the shallowest schoolyard social interactions from your earliest childhood memories - and usually the ones that deal with bullies. What a sad way to see the world. To people whose brains are wired wrong (conspiracy theorists) it actually makes more sense that instead of a disease we all tried to fight, there's a sinister cabal of pharma companies calling the shots. You missed your calling as an Onion writer.
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  6106. This is all hands on deck: make sure everyone is registered to vote, particularly those who have turned 18 since the last election or will have turned 18 before the next election. Make sure everyone has the ID's necessary for voting. Make sure everyone knows where the polling places or ballot drop boxes are located, and has transportation there and back. Make sure everyone has the things needed for a potentially long wait in line - masks, food, water, shelter, wifi, bathrooms, whatever. We can do this! If we turn out the vote, it will be more blue.
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  6107. Seems there are some adversaries out who need to be reminded not to get into a land war in north America.
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  6108. Just consider the donations scam to be like a sort of voluntary tax. Households that don't pay it will fare better than those that do. Economic Darwinism.
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  6109. You know damn well those two will try to bring a bunch of trucks with them.
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  6110.  @VladPutin-q1o  Yeah, we can tell when they steal flush toilets.
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  6111. Ukrainians will someday make fine allies and NATO partners. Very resourceful. They have essentially done with drones what previously you needed long range bomber aircraft or ICBMs for - and they both have major escalatory issues.
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  6112. The proper name of that particular cult is "Q-Anonsense". All of their rabbit tunnels lead to the same den, a reich-wing echo chamber where Trump's infallibility goes unchallenged.
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  6113. I get the impression that many people outside China think it can't happen to them because they're not Chinese themselves. Sigh. Magical thinking. People need to prepare for disruptions in the systems that bring food to the stores .. and businesses need to prepare for a time when large portions of their workforce are at home sick. Don't even get me started on folks being let off cruise ships to make their way home via public transit.
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  6114. Those are the same people who spent 8 years screeching that the sky was about to fall any second (Jade Helm, Agenda21, chemtrails, Benghazi, Sharia law, waaaaaah) and never once noticing that none of those things were real. They got divorced from reality quite awhile back. And now we know that around half of our population would vote for a guy who checks off every box on the list of "characteristics of fascism".
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  6115. Well, when you try hard to be the doormat for a traitor, you're going to have to go through some things, and that's the fate Kevin chose for himself. Everyone tried to warn him, but noooooo.
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  6116. Check out Governor Cuomo's morning briefing. He showed leadership, empathy. He inspired people. He praised people for their unsolicited cooperation. He didn't praise himself. He didn't blame his predecessor. He didn't belittle anyone. He didn't lie, deflect, or issue lying happytalk. A true leader.
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  6117.  @enriqueiii9209  Do you mean the two-term never-impeached former president Barack Obama? 👍😃
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  6118.  @cloudstreets1396  This holding-accountable thing would work better if he and the president of the senate weren't sucking each other's d*cks while stacking the judiciary with Brock Turner wannabes.
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  6119.  @paolazo-l4790  Reciprocal? (sorry if you are not a native English speaker)
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  6120.  @intuitivemedium3814  Thank you for the kind thoughts. Good luck with the red fam.
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  6121. Why is the word "unexpectedly" used so often with this type of news? America has by far the worst covid outbreak on the planet. Pretending it's not real (such as Trump is exhorting everyone to do through their actions) isn't making anything better, it's making everything worse. China has already recovered their economy to be something like 10%-20% bigger than from a whole year ago. Unemployment (and subsequent homelessness) will be a problem until the US government (hopefully soon to be under new management) flexes its muscles.
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  6122. I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  6123.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  Trumptard Nazis in Oregon somehow like to make everything rhyme with "governor Brown is at fault". No doubt she lives rent-free in their minds.
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  6124. The party of "let's force that 10yo rape victim into early parenthood" needs to go away. I don't care where.
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  6125.  @carolp8243  Oh yes. Remember how the rest of the UN (who, after a couple years, finally cottoned on to what kind of a wannabe Hitler they're dealing with) didn't go along on the notion of putting the full court press sanctions on Iran just because the US walked away from the deal? And how last year he assassinated someone who had helped us in regional power struggles? Thankfully now the rest of the world is more Churchill, less Chamberlain.
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  6126. Err .. maybe it's the lower edge of a force field that keeps long-range drones out? 😅
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  6127. Like crook father, like crook son.
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  6128. Also sickening: so-called adults cheer him. A mental health crisis of biblical proportions.
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  6129. Remember when we all laughed at his craziness? Seems like such an innocent time now. Pence: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested almost 24 million people in the USA! You're a genius!" Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 296 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??" Trump: "I give myself a 10 out of 10 for handling this."
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  6130. You can't say the Republicans don't dive in headfirst when someone shows them the way down the rabbit hole :(
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  6131.  Patriot Spring  I'd love be wrong about that, trust me, but history shows what shabby governances inevitably become. Hope you're not of draft age.
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  6132. Consistently, throughout this whole thing, Republicans have been wanting to rip off the bandaid and let the disease run its natural course. Apparently they thought it would pass just like the seasonal flu. 18 months and 629K American deaths later, they STILL don't get that there isn't any "herd immunity" that quickly follows letting everyone everyone infect everyone else. There's only more infections and more deaths.
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  6133. Pastor: This virus is a hoax! God will protect me. Coronavirus: Hold my beer.
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  6134. The wailing of Trump's "we had nothing to do with the Trump disaster" GOP enablers has already begun. Remember their names, those mayors and senators and governors and congresspeople (and propagandists and other fools along that Axis) who enabled, helped, bought into, or went along in any way with the destruction Trump has wrought upon America, her people, her fortune, and her future.
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  6135. As they say, sunset can look an awful lot like sunrise if you're facing the wrong way at the wrong time. Reagan once did that.
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  6136. What a shame this is all the US could pin on her. The ICC (international criminal court) might have something else to say about her for-profit scheme to adopt out the toddlers produced by Trump's family separation plan -- at an average cost of $28K each to the receiving families. While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  6137. It's an Orwellian term at this point, given that the EPA is effectively acting as the Polluters Protection Agency. But then, our Mango Mussolini's best people seem to think of Orwell's stories as how-to guides instead of cautionary tales.
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  6138.  @Testing725  , thank you for the fine example of whataboutism. So are you trying to say that the EPA under Obama was worse than the EPA is becoming under Trump? (rhetorical question)
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  6139.  @stinkertoy4310  To be fair, Antifa/BLM never killed a policeman by bashing his head in with a fire extinguisher after tazing him, nor did they invade the capitol with firearms, body armor, chemical weapons, pipe bombs, and flex cuffs while trying to force legislators into overturning the will of the people as expressed through voting. But do keep up the amusing false equivalences. That's probably all you've got left at this point.
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  6140. And if they are successful at getting the wages raised to $20/hour for that backbreaking outdoors work, the cost of food will go up hugely.
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  6141.  @MrDino1953  Re "The way those mailed votes swept in and overwhelmed the early results, like a tsunami." << Republicans in the US have been reeling since the 2018 midterm elections. They still haven't accepted how a majority of Americans reject Trumpism. Trump knew by the summer of 2019 that he wouldn't win a fair election against Biden - and we know that because that's when he started shaking down allies to get them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. We didn't hear about it until he was all the way down in the U's in the white house rolodex. Then by around the middle of March 2020 he realized that mailed-in ballots would go against him, so he began looking for someone to sabotage the USPS from within.
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  6142. Here on the west coast of the US, the governor of California has OK'd restaurants reopening to some degree, and in Oregon the governor has OK'd letting schools reopen for in-person learning on their own local cognizance. One of them tried that and shut down almost immediately because (wait for it) almost immediately the disease started spreading rapidly. Oh, and Oklahoma is trying to sell its stockpile of hydroxychloroquine, now that it's no longer needed as a prop for political theatre.
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  6143. Russia's new western border would be halfway across Germany by now if Trump were still in a position to grant it.
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  6144. Hate to break the bad news, but people from different households can't be in public indoor places (even if everyone keeps their masks on) safely for longer than maybe 10-15 minutes. The sit-down restaurant model is going to be in hibernation until a vaccine is out. Unless maybe every booth can be in its own shielded plexiglass partition with a big powered overhead vent sucking out the air. Sadly this is just going to spread the virus further :(
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  6145.  @BeeKee404  The trolls that Putin hires indirectly have gone way downhill in quality as of late. I think he got tired of throwing money down a Florida sinkhole. This is the best we get here? LOLz.
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  6146.  @christopherbell7948  Did you know, there are people out there who refuse to vote for Biden because he's not Bernie? That's like saying, "Since I can't have the tasty cupcake I want, instead of bread with jam I'll just choose a muffin made of broken glass." Don't let better become the enemy of good.
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  6147. The good people of Greenland just dodged a bullet - or a flaming orange meteor, take your pick. Can you imagine how they would fare under US stewardship? Funding for healthcare & education & public safety nets of all kinds would dry up almost immediately, thus increasing the misery index, which Trump seems to enjoy doing. And if some major natural disaster were to befall Greenland (as Hurricane Maria did to Puerto Rico) he'd be cutting disaster relief funds and tweeting about what losers they are.
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  6148. I think of it more as the latter early stages of a low-drama-levels slow-moving coup, with McConnell being key to obstructing everything that a duly-twice-elected president (popular vote + electoral college) tried to do (including many appointments and court picks) then suddenly greasing the skids for a less-well-elected stooge to do lots of dodgy appointments.
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  6149. Rat that he is, Meadows got a whiff of what's coming and he ran the other way. Too late. The documents he released, while as yet incomplete, are damning in themselves - and full of other leads to investigate.
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  6150. It's like watching a horse loose in a hospital. The horse has no clue where he is, or how to get out, and there's probably going to be a lot of damage before he finds an exit.
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  6151.  @paddleduck5328  It's hard to feel shame about it when it earns you $6 million per year. That's just the Tuck.
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  6152. Yah .. and they will someday make fantastic allies and NATO partners.
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  6153. Fascists just don't respect the will of the people when the people vote them out. Usually the people have to string up fascists on the lampposts to get rid of them for real.
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  6154. Speaking of himself in the third person - just wow :(
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  6155. To be sure, our Agent Orange (and his bad, awful, terrible, no-good behavior towards everyone and everything) has done things that have much helped China and Russia expand their influence in many places, China most especially. Everyone else is playing chess and he's not even understanding tic tac toe.
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  6156. Funny how 45 pronounced "Mein Kampf" correctly, yet could not pronounce the name of a famous national park that every American school child knows well, Yosemite.
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  6157. Watching the Muskrat devalue Twatter is epic entertainment. I hope every non-crazy news outlet stops posting anything there. Let the Muskrat find out for himself what comes from hanging out with the Proud Boys and Trump.
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  6158. You can spot them by how they use this thread to whine about inflation.
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  6159.  @orionsimerl6539  "Can't be proven" without the evidence, you mean .. the same evidence that at Davos he bragged about withholding. If only Al Capone had thought to do the same with his 2nd set of books .. history lost a great philanthropist :(
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  6160. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now." Donald Trump 9/26/2019
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  6161.  @balloonfarm5903  Correct. He's the sort of moron who would have watched people playing chess, then concluded it was simply guys moving stuff around on a table, then after getting a bunch of hands-on instruction he'd say something doltish like, "Nobody ever knew chess could be so complicated."
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  6162. God no. He's fairly centrist, like Obama.
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  6163. Well, if you look at the actual numbers, you'll see that the case fatality rate is 4.5% (that's the ratio of covid-19 deaths to covid-19 infections) and for closed cases the ratio is more like 9%. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  6164. Trump's been saying for weeks that anyone can get tested, that the tests are "beautiful", etc. You need to remember, he promised to run the nation like one of his own businesses. This appears to be the one promise he's keeping :(
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  6165.  @knavishknight  "Insulated"? I thought of their relation to reality as more like a violent divorce. But that will do :)
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  6166. Looks like the comrades at the power station were carelessly smoking right next to truly enormous reserves of vodka. Tch tch. Stay warm ;)
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  6167. @Grit hope you get your party back someday. Liz Cheney and some others will be around to help rebuild.
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  6168. Different spanks for different ranks.
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  6169. Considering that the US is now producing more than 20% of the world's new cases of coronavirus, it's high time the rest of the world imposes mandatory 14+ day quarantine on any travelers from America - or, safer, just ban them outright. Like the US did with China.
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  6170.  @grumpyoldlady_rants  Sure! Go to this page, scroll down to the list of states, then click on the column header to sort. The one you want is tests per 1 million population. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  6171.  @jackb8469  The percentage of asymptomatic cases varies between 20% and 80%, depending on variables we don't yet know. Start reading facts not whatever reich-wing propaganda you're smoking.
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  6172.  @Vyndora  And now we see further-ranging examples of the senate being a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump corporation .. this morning's news contains the tidbit that the senate budget committee will not hold a hearing on the new budget on the flimsy excuse that it will turn into a "diatribe against the president". And it seems the senate will now entertain witnesses - as long as it has to do with prosecuting the Bidens, that is.
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  6173.  @FunBunChuck  Re "We will be a dictatorship under Trump soon if nothing happens to hold the GOP Republicans to account regarding their actions on January 6th" << Correct. And if you think Trump is going to just let that stuff slide, think again. No one's got thinner skin or is more easily enraged. It's going to be a lot harder for America if we don't start fighting until after the coup is over :(
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  6174. And then, if you go online, you'll find abject fools who screech that the disease is just a giant hoax put out by whoever. Social media has been cancerous to certain kinds of people .. it's gotten them completely unhooked from objective reality.
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  6175. Because FOXed Noise tells them that Democrats eat babies, essentially :(
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  6176. Maybe this is too late to point it out, but clearly our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments.
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  6177. Also knowing that his crowd was armed, via Bannon liasing with the militias.
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  6178. So. Are you going to go tell South Korea how awful they are at containing this thing? Yeah, didn't think so.
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  6179. Sorry, but having some counties insist on their right to become covid hotspots (like North Dakota) is like some people choosing to have a peeing section in the public pool.
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  6180. Why yes. And then they will tell lies about /those/ lies.
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  6181. And if you died because the insurance you'd paid into for years denied your request, none of these fine officers would be trying to solve the case.
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  6182. In that regard, Balsonaro is as bad as Trump. When you ask "How much worse could he be?" he takes it as a challenge to dig himself into an even deeper hole.
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  6183. China would like to thank Trump for his non-participation in global politics while they increased their economic reach even as that of the USA diminished due to self-inflicted economic wounds. All thanks to the guy who just got voted out :(
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  6184. You don't see them trying to overthrow legit elections, however, like the Republicans are doing over here. So China is better in some ways.
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  6185.  @francomartini4328  Teslas, Rivians, Canoos etc have their place .. I like it when the people who have more money than sense wear a badge proclaiming it to the world.
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  6186. This is one of the best out of LP - outstanding! :)
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  6187. Canada closed their southern border months ago thanks to the out-of-control pandemic in the USA. Americans aren't even allowed there now except to transit to Alaska.
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  6188. Aaaaand this is why I got off Fakebook / Wastebook / whatever awhile back. They really do suck :(
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  6189. Considering that the Bidens had nothing to do with Trump's crimes (extorting a key ally, violating the Impoundment Control Act, trying to cover it up, obstructing congressional investigation) this is appropriate. US & Ukraine investigators have found no wrongdoing by the Bidens, and even if they did, those acts would by no means excuse Trump's several violations. Example: you're driving along the road, you see a homeless person pushing a cart, you assume (without proof) that they stole it, so you hit them with your car to punish them and keep them from doing it again. Umm, no. That's when you get charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter.
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  6190. Defeating the natives in Afghanistan is as foolish as wading into your backyard during a blizzard, armed with a couple blow dryers, and trying to defeat winter.
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  6191. On the plus side, it makes them easy targets. Gotta find the good in the bad.
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  6192. Remember, kids: just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean we should turn the batcave over to the Joker out of spite. Albert isn't trying to burn down Gotham like the other guy has been for years now.
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  6193. She's doing a perfect job imitating Trump, however.
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  6194. Task Force Butler.
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  6195.  @hday8845  " Hundreds of thousands pour over our border" << Ahh, those "caravans". Funny how they exist one moment and don't exist the next moment, like any good figment of propaganda. They live rent-free in your mind, but otherwise don't exist.
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  6196. It's nice that the banks and Wall Street can go have a big expensive circle jerk while 100+ million now-unemployed Americans are scrambling to pay their bills. Hint: you can't hose down a raging stock market fire with paper money.
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  6197. And if a second election made Trump's loss even deeper, your 'friend' would simply ask for additional elections. America has a real problem now. Most of those people are way beyond simply needing remedial civics and history classes, or being taken on a tour of the Auschwitz museum to see what fascism is really all about. The ones who think violence is OK are like ISIS members and probably need to be deported for the good of the nation.
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  6198. I like watching the Republicans go along with his attempts to cheat this election. Those who've enabled him all along, who work for him, who carry out the nonsense he orders, all of them will have to pay a price for what they've done. This is not the kind of stuff that you just get to walk away from.
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  6199. Someday Ukraine too will be part of NATO. With much love from the USA :)
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  6200. In Wisconsin they're already tracing new outbreaks back to the anti-lockdown protests. So much derp. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-wisconsin-protests-test-positive-department-of-health-services-a9509486.html
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  6201. @Carl Klinkenborg As someone once famously said - Americans will do the right thing, but not until all other possibilities have been exhausted. Like these fine people, who don't understand that the virus went away just because they got bored: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wisconsin-bars-supreme-court-stay-at-home-strikes-down/
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  6202. Just leave them. Wastebook makes $51 per person per quarter, and all because the time you waste there enables them to milk your data and sell it to marketers, governments, the Trump family, Putin, Monsanto, or anyone else who approaches them with a suitcase full of money.
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  6203. They will do it until they stop, then in a heartbeat they will flip-flop and try to claim they had nothing to do with Trump's abuse of state powers to try to stall a transition.
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  6204.  @theheard4740  Let the fun begin. Apparently that drunk lady Melissa Carone (who I thought was Sasha Baron Cohen in disguise, trolling the Trumpers) worked only one day at Dominion, doing menial chores. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/531858-dominion-sends-witness-who-appeared-with-giuliani-cease-and-desist
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  6205.  @victoriabaker4400  Ditto.
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  6206.  @kathleengiross  Why thanks! It was a mal-translated line from a Hitler rant parody .. and I had to replace the keyboard after that.
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  6207. Trump wants to remove the emergency brakes from a falling elevator so it plunges to the basement even faster. That's about the only way his covidchella superspreader rallies can be explained.
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  6208.  @richardwarner3705 Buddy it's called spamming when you repost the same thing 27x.
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  6209. We won a huge thing - senate minority leader Moscow Mitch for example.
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  6210. Didn't work when Hitler tried that on the British either. In fact, it had the opposite effect.
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  6211. Some people learn only the hard way. What's that saying? The forest kept getting smaller, but the trees kept voting for the axe, since the axe claimed he was one of them because his handle was made of wood.
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  6212. For the first time in my life I just voted a straight blue ticket. It's not good enough to just send the Republicans a message .. we must remove them from power at every level and in every place.
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  6213.  Jerry Cote  You got it completely bass-ackwards, mister. As a small but important example of what I mean, yesterday the US had above 80K new cases for a single day. And here are the words of the traitorous fool you support: March 2: -“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” March 2: -“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  6214.  Jerry Cote  For your reference, the word "traitor" is reserved for those who work to take America down, as Trump has been doing these past years while dimwits like you cheer him on. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  6215.  Jerry Cote  Keep up the all-caps yelling about stuff you know nothing of. That's the most honest portrait possible of a delusional sheeple Trump supporter. Maybe someone needs to separate your kids from you for you to understand what was done to others. It's entirely possible that you really are that stupid and unfeeling and uncaring. In other words, a psychopath, just like the guy you're voting for. You're a damaged human being.
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  6216. Trump's usual people (Joey Gibson, Tiny Toese) can't operate in Portland right now due to probation agreements and/or ongoing lawsuits. So he had to send the official goons.
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  6217. Has anyone else here read the book "It Can't Happen Here" (1935) by Sinclair Lewis? That's about the level of ugliness I'm expecting from the Marmalade Mussolini :(
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  6218. I've been voting with my feet and staying out of places where not enough people are wearing masks. Some stores around here require masks, which is better. I wish the governor would make it mandatory. New York and Massachusetts have both successfully slowed the spread that way.
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  6219.  @shannamac3974  Correct. When you see angry reich-wingers screeching that they want bloodshed and civil war, what they mean is that they want to do a Rwanda-style purge of anyone they don't like.
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  6220.  @dianehooper3589  There's nothing worth seeing or knowing there anyway. At its core are the racists and conspiracy theory cranks and other forms of irrational people. If they wind up in a shipping container at the bottom of the ocean, no one will miss them.
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  6221. As I thought, this was his biz model: 1. Start up something that's destined to fail through sheer ineptitude. 2. Borrow lots of Other People's Money to fund it, build it, get it going. 3. Eke out some of that OPM while mismanaging the business right into the ground. 4 Rinse & repeat for another batch of suckers.
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  6222. 82nd Airborne has been parked on the Poland-Belarus border for awhile. Those A-10s are hungry at this time of year.
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  6223. There's a huge gaslighting effort to the effect that Democrats allegedly do nothing but push trans into everything, and that Democrats allegedly have no other legislative activity than pushing trans into everything. Yet if you look through the verbiage of the campaign statements, platforms, as well as all bills introduced, you'll find that the percentage of activity devoted to trans issues is smaller than the percentage of trans people in general society. But people are lazy and don't do homework :(
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  6224. Then, after the losing election, just let the Lake Effect kick in 😅
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  6225. See Florida, where they don't mandate masks at all. If you want Oregon to have high numbers of covid illnesses and deaths (like Florida does) then maybe you should re-examine your priorities and ask yourself why you want more Americans to suffer.
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  6226.  @LD86  Bingo. And, frankly, I have zero f*cks to give for the shitbirds who applauded our Mango Mussolini in this and other things. At best they are Quislings.
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  6227. Or as they would say on TPB .. the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree.
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  6228.  Forked Tongue  Re "declaring something and physically going to that place, are 2 different things" << Shall I pull up a list of all the times you weren't offended when the Mango Mussolini himself, El Trompo, didn't show his face at an emergency scene? Your "outrage" is very selective, but then, no one expects otherwise from kkkult members like you.
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  6229.  @morganrowell1373  The Republican motto, in other words :(
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  6230.  @adhaskym.a9536  Considering you're speaking from the personal ignorance of your kind .. yeah good luck with that one.
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  6231. There you go with the "Russia is big and bad" angle. 650 days into combat against Ukraine, and they still don't have Kyiv. Got any evidence to back up your claim, or is it just wishful thinking, or longing for the Cold War?
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  6232. They could have just withdrawn, without any capitulation, but noooooooooo. The spider in the Kremlin doesn't want to get eaten by other spiders.
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  6233. It's like living through the hot parts of the cold war, never knowing if you'd be vaporized while asleep, except now the unpredictable madman is living in Washington DC.
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  6234. Harder. Faster. Longer.
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  6235.  @GodKitty677  Whenever the Z-bots brag about bagging Abrams tanks, they don't seem to have any answer when asked how many soldiers and machines they lost in the process. 😅
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  6236. Trump thinks gaming is a waste unless you can somehow get paid to golf at your own resort.
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  6237.  @Leo3ABPgamingTV  Look, the only way to stop this thing for sure would be to pop each individual into separate sterile confinement, so that bodily wastes and exhalations are incinerated before being released into the environment; with food hermetically delivered to each individual pod, and so on. But that is not going to happen. Heck, we don't even have the means to provide negative-pressure ICU for more than a handful of people. Personally, I am spending less time around people and more time alone in the woods in wild places (where there are no other people). Grocery shopping at off hours when the stores are empty. There's never been a better time to be a healthy introvert.
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  6238. One cranky old man, who misses the days he took bareback horse rides with Trump cheering him on.
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  6239.  @turkeysandwiche8552  Re "Russia is not wrong" << With the value of the ruble crashing, you're going to have to post 10x as much nonsense just to earn ramen money this week.
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  6240. No, he cannot. And he will continue to incriminate himself on tape. All good. As the saying goes, life is rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid, and I think Trump is going out of his way to demonstrate this.
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  6241. I like to point out that his supporters would have been truly awful. Here are some of the things they said and did right after the 2016 election. Not for the squeamish. https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
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  6242. Yup. The first time he ran for the presidency was in 2000, where he ran under the Reform Party.
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  6243. He and Kevin Sorbo need to get together to produce complete flops such as "The Reliant" and "Faith Under Fire".
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  6244.  @stgeorge28  I remember that crazy guy. Cesar Sayoc was his name. He let Trump into his heart knowing full well what a snake Trump is.
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  6245.  @SplendidFactor  That doesn't quite explain how 8 years of success under former president Obama led to the toilet party that was the Trump administration. But it does help explain the 2020 election results, because Americans obviously got tired of Trump trashing our allies and sucking up to our enemies.
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  6246. This administration has been waging a war on science for awhile now. I wouldn't put it past them to cook the numbers. Remember this news from 2017? https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/365204-trump-admin-bans-cdc-from-using-evidence-based-and-science-based
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  6247.  @sandman6849  They will probably scream that it's "new math" and "woke" ;)
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  6248.  @Tolpuddle581  The main thing for which they were charged (and sent away) was the death of around 6K Romanian people during the revolution in Timișoara. Given that Trump has presided over the highest ever rate of American deaths in the least time (while continuing to lie/deflect about it while also profiteering from it) perhaps he too, along with his latest carpetbagger mail-order-bride, will get a one-way trip to the basement.
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  6249. Apparently there are some fools out there who need to be told not to get into a war in north America.
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  6250. I'm actually kind of impressed that he escaped the Trump singularity before getting annihilated and spat out. Trump has got some kind of faulty, short-range charisma that works only on stupid people and opportunistic people and people very close to him. Usually his flying monkeys don't escape until he's thoroughly used them up.
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  6251. The lies conservatives tell themselves (Trump is great and fully legal, those eeeeeeeeeeeevil Democrats are breaking the law, pay no attention to the 8 years we spent howling about Obama's tan suits, mustard, blocking everything he did, etc) are beginning to sound quite a lot like all the lies the Nazis told themselves about how well things were going on the eastern front.
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  6252. On days like that, FOX ooze is suddenly carrying lots of stories about firemen rescuing kittens from trees.
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  6253.  @michaelhuppertz6738  According to 45, it is, and he's already trying to get his felony business fraud conviction in NY overturned.
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  6254.  @sergiosaunier  No, he's too busy playing very fair against people who have no intention of playing fair.
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  6255. So the hospitals in Bend, Oregon are suddenly filling up with covid patients - so much that they need to bring in personnel from all over the state to help. Of course, 98% of these covid patients aren't vaccinated. That's what they call "owning the libs" :(
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  6256. The Republicans are digging themselves further deeper into a hole. Somebody robbed a bank. A suspect has been named and the investigation is ongoing. The DA is asking for the CCTV camera recordings to prove or disprove that the suspect is indeed guilty. The defense attorney claims that he will easily win the trial, but he and the defendant frantically oppose the release of the CCTV recordings. He also wants to keep to witnesses and the bank teller from testifying. The judge and many of the jurors have said that they will act in total lockstep with the defense attorney.
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  6257. Most likely the only real hero those two perps ever met was the one who turned them in.
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  6258. When this is all over, I'm looking forward to sending Trump a well-earned thank-you card .. not only has he destroyed the Republican party and its future in the next decade or two of elections, he got virtually the whole party to go in headfirst along with his reverend-Jim-Jones type plunge into the Kool-Aid bowl.
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  6259. Correct. We should have never stopped the mask mandate in the first place. Stopping it a few months back is why we have a big surge now.
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  6260.  @oxymoron296  Correct. Faced with changing demographics, the Republican idea is to make America into a Rhodesia 2.0, a techno-apartheid state in which minorities (and anyone who votes against them) are systematically disenfranchised. As a consequence, we will have to spend every other year of our free time making sure that people register to vote, get to vote, and are not purged off their local rolls. We will have to make sure that the Republicans don't sabotage the post office and do things like having just one (1) ballot drop box for 4 million people whose skin color they disagree with.
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  6261.  @sallylunn8324  Ditto. The depths of this administration's incompetence remain to be measured .. suffice it to say that the readings are off-scale. Furthermore, the government in the USA hasn't got the manpower to enforce a quarantine-at-home program like the Chinese are doing. A great many Americans would probably resist living under police-state type measures. Won't be pretty :(
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  6262. The arsonist complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  6263. Russia should evacuate their side of the border to 20km deep. They're obviously not good neighbors at this time.
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  6264. Wake me up when this woman actually realizes how stupid she is. Something tells me she can't face that kind of truth.
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  6265. It goes to show you how many stupid and/or treasonous and/or easily-propagandized and hateful people we have here. That's gotta get fixed. And every election should be 85%+ participation, and that alone would put the Republicans out of business.
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  6266. Same. This remains to be some of the best thoughtful analysis I've found yet :)
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  6267. I watched it. I called my friends and told them to get in front of a TV asap.
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  6268. Unfortunately you can't get broad appeal without appealing to the plague-spreading nutters too :(
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  6269. She's the sort of idiot that Operation Varsity Blues was designed to fix - rich parents paying lots to get their brain dead spawn into school. No doubt they wanted to keep her off the pole.
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  6270. If you think we should let the Republicans overturn an 8 million vote difference in the election just this once to assuage their butthurt .. just remember what Winston Churchill said: "Appeasement is feeding a hungry crocodile, hoping it eats you last."
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  6271. To rephrase what you said - there's a vaccine to keep stupid people alive during the pandemic, but many of them are too clever to take it.
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  6272. Hopefully there is some security detail to watch after him and the others.
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  6273.  @6789uiop  He did say he would hire/bring/do the best. He just didn't say best at what .. best corruption .. best impeachment .. etc.
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  6274. Germany put out a helpful video on this subject a couple years back .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY
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  6275. Even when he lies, and they could check it in 5 seconds using Google, they love him for "saying it like it is". Even when it's all lies. Gah :(
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  6276. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  6277. Time for some Nuremburg-style trials.
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  6278. Betcha whatever he's talking about is just as mythical as his imagined busloads of illegals sent in to rig elections. However, what's very real is the US threatening sanctions against Turkey & India for their temerity to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems. Huh, when the vise started tightening, didn't the previous Reich's fuhrer yap a lot about unavailable superweapons? Just saying.
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  6279. Or the way the virus makes jail too dangerous for his criminal pal Roger Stone, but he wishes Ghiselaine Maxwell a happy stay at the graybar hotel?
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  6280. Wait until it's revealed that said agents are also Civil War Slave Catcher Re-Enactors. There are private WasteBook groups of that type.
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  6281. America is perhaps finally seeing why most national capitols are protected by active military defenses - the kind with belt-fed weapons. That surely would have expedited the process of dealing with traitors on 1/6.
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  6282. For the 3rd night in a row, there have been massive cash injections in the repo market (aka overnight interbank lending). Something is very off camber in the Fourth Reich.
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  6283. Exactly what I was thinking. The other benefit of giving Trump any kind of microphone or airtime is that he continues to incriminate himself. That he's pauperizing the RNC to cover his legal costs is rich irony considering how the party has assisted him, in so many ways, with his crime spree.
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  6284.  @WaterisjustWet  I join you in wishing that the West had been faster at aiding the brave fighters of Ukraine. If Russia is able to bring in foreign militaries to fight with them, so is Ukraine. The sooner this ends, the better for Ukraine.
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  6285. We know how this story goes. That group of scholars is the White Rose Society.
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  6286. Also looks like she knows what's in store for the fam after the failed coup. Kind of like when Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu took a trip down to the basement.
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  6287. No. That's a recipe for all kinds of trouble, not the least of which is some nasty mold that lives in cold indoor places.
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  6288.  @rogerstarkey5390  This is why I hope the AZ vaccine will someday be widely available in the US. It's being manufactured here already, but it's probably all slated for the export market.
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  6289.  @elisaclark1751  Love your attitude! If you have your health, your sense of humor, and good friends, how much else do you need?
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  6290. His proper name is Matt PizzaGaetz, so called for reading nutty conspiracy theories online then storming into someplace, shooting from the lip, totally not understanding anything.
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  6291. That must be the same "evidence" he refuses to show anyone.
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  6292. One thing is for sure: his final commands to his remaining culties will not be for any good or lawful purpose. Quite the opposite.
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  6293. Bingo. Bring home the nonsense to them personally. They need to feel what they're doing to others.
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  6294.  @onalos1271  Bingo. "So-and-so seems to be gaining weight - a friend of a friend told me she's pregnant and planning to get an abortion -" all of those Republican women in Tex Ass need to realize what they've done.
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  6295.  @sethjones9480  It's not strategic. It's just where people happen to have their homes. I wish you luck finding conspiracy theories on the underside of every leaf however.
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  6296. Checking in from urban NW Oregon. It's mostly quiet here. People are keeping wide distance from each other (mostly) and not congregating in obvious groups (mostly). There are still folks about who apparently don''t get how contagious this thing is.
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  6297.  @rachelk7555  Not everyone who uses English is from the Americas or the former Commonwealth. You get what they're saying, right?
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  6298. I want the 3 west coast US states to join with Canada or reorganize as Cascadia.
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  6299. OP - also what happens when one party decides to move from historical 50/50 power sharing with the other party, and instead wants 100% power for itself going forward.
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  6300. Well, to be fair, he did promise he'd run the USA like one of his own businesses. He seems to be on track to keep that promise.
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  6301.  @romazone101  Or Yo Semite?
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  6302. Mind if I put you on a plane to India so you can explain that personally to some people? PM Modi needs a few folks like you on his PR team.
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  6303. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him.
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  6304.  @quincycampbell9828  That they are freaks, and that they must pay for what they've done, are beyond any doubt. The French have a thing or two to say about how they treated enemy collaborators after the war - and that's what the MAGAt's essentially are.
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  6305. Agreed, nice presence.
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  6306. Download your info, then cancel the account. No point in giving free data to Wastebook/Fakebook or whatever you want to call it. I am finding youtube comment sections to be much better .. no private communities like the rabbit hole that so many reich wingers fell down .. no images in comments .. no blocking .. no more reactions than thumbs-up or thumbs-down. People are more polite here generally.
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  6307. As far back as July 2019, Trump knew he would lose a fair election against Biden, which is why he withheld aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. And by sometime in March 2020 he began hunting for someone to sabotage the USPS from within, when he realized that lying about the coronavirus hadn't made it go away, and tens of millions of people would be voting by mail in the fall.
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  6308. Now we know where to build the wall - with them on the other side of it. The other side can be like a free-range insane asylum. It'll be like Duck Dynasty on acid.
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  6309. There's a lot of experience in the Foreign Legion volunteers. They are teaching Ukrainians the best-of-the-best special forces knowledge from around the world. Russians go home while ye still can.
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  6310.  J. Muller  Glad you can find the sliver of fools gold in the mountain of sewage. Back in the real world of consequences .. no one wants to enter into new alliances with a nation that asked to buy Greenland, then said it was just a joke, then cancelled the meeting with Denmark over some cheesy reason, denied it had anything to do with Greenland, then only 2 weeks later said it was because the Greenland buy offer had been rejected. Who'd want to have anything to do with (take your pick) a lunatic nation or an idiot nation?
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  6311.  J. Muller  To rephrase what you said above about employment .. the real economy is so shitty now that everyone is working two, three jobs just to scrape by. Wages aren't anywhere near keeping up with actual living costs. That's why homeless camps are appearing everywhere too. Like Bonner & Wiggins said (paraphrasing) sunset can look a lot like sunrise if you're facing the wrong way at the wrong time.
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  6312. It must be some kind of "extreme tourism" when you go visit recently-stolen land right while the original owners are hotly contesting the theft, and from not very far away either.
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  6313. You need to read the fine print that extends their pro-lifey feelings only to rich white people.
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  6314. Just because a few yahoos from Pickup Truckistan felt like driving through Portland while pepper-spraying protesters and flying Trump flags, and just because Trump lost the election and these people are all butthurt over it, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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  6315. They just made their uselessness very public. Dark Brandon thanks them.
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  6316. They are fucking around and finding out that 40yo US weapons still whomp them hard.
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  6317. Russia uses such a strange definition of the word "liberate". Sort of like when Charle Manson's followers "liberated" Sharon Tate's household.
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  6318. Just like they did with GWB at the 2008 GOP convention, Republicans will suddenly later pretend that they had nothing to do with Trump. Don't let them get away with it .. make sure they hear again and again what they did: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  6319.  I Want to Write Porn  You should do some reading before opening the air scoop - or the propaganda scoop. In its thousands of years of experiencing diseases of the coronavirus family, NOT ONCE have we developed any kind of herd immunity to any of them. This includes SARS, MERS, the common cold, the common flu. Shit, we don't even have herd immunity to any other kinds of viruses, such as AIDS or cowpox or rubella or anything else.
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  6320.  EmtronVenger  Did I say I even get within 3 meters of those fools? Re-read my comment if you are in doubt.
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  6321. Guessing that the smear campaign against ambassador Yovanovich was part of the "deliverable" requested by Trump's boss in Moscow. Trump could have easily moved her elsewhere without smearing her.
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  6322. Was assuming that was one of the many paths being pursued to land on the "martial law" square by the end of the day. Had the rioters gotten Pence (especially with Trump egging them on via Twatter) it would have been just one excuse.
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  6323. I say we ignore what Putler says, and keep bringing in more advanced weaponry. Extended range GPS guided 155 rounds. More HIMARS. A container of Tomahawks would do the trick.
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  6324. They don't know it, but those people at Lake of the Ozarks are helping with an experiment to see how long we can keep the coronavirus in circulation by imagining that it goes away when we get tired of staycationing at home with the netflix and legal weed.
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  6325. Any of Trump's accomplices have 3 basic choices when testifying before Congress: 1) Tell the truth, and thereby implicate Trump and go to jail for being part of the drug deal. << this is what smart people do 2) Keep changing your lies to match Trump's excuses, and still go to jail for it. << this is what stupidly loyal crooks do 3) Make up a whole nother lie to protect yourself & Trump, and still go to jail for it. << this is what stupid people do The more witnesses come forward, the starker these choices will be.
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  6326. It wasn't a "believing" thing, it was presented more as a "feeling" thing with appeal to those suffering from racism.
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  6327. This is yet another example of how America desperately needs that important lesson in how the serious right of free speech is also accompanied by some rather serious responsibilities. Germany got a lesson in this back in the 1930s and 1940s. Pray America doesn't endure the same lesson.
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  6328. It's so transparent when the same guy who spent 8 years demeaning Obama, questioning his citizenship, who then went on to tell Cryin’ Chuck and Lyin’ Ted, Crazy Bernie and Pocahontas, Dicky Durbin and Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flakey and Liddle Bob Corker that it was his way or the highway, etc, then demands respect from everyone. Not happening. That ship sailed a long time ago.
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  6329. If it was good enough for the Rosenburgs, ol Sparky is good enough for insurrectionists. Dust it off. We might need to build a 5-seat model to handle the volume.
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  6330.  @MidwestDIY  They were given a taste of combined arms, US style. From America with love.
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  6331.  Monster Mash  Very funny at the "forced" label. Kind of the way you're "forced" to pay taxes for road maintenance, right? Dimwit, that is the cost of being in society - there is this thing called the common good, and it seems you've never heard of the concept. You'd be more at home in Somalia, where there is no common good. The ultimate Galt's Gulch.
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  6332. With the Republican president actively trying to suppress the vote in states that aren't thoroughly red, we won't hear a peep from the militias, from the so-called defenders of freedom, from the so-called defenders of the constitution. It turns out those groups came about only because America had a Democratic president whose skin color they didn't like. They're just the Republican Taliban under a different name. They have no more interest in freedom than Hitler or Stalin did.
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  6333. Yeah. Ghouliani could present a 4K video+audio recording (verified to be undoctored) showing Trump asking MBS to get rid of Khashoggi because of something he wrote that was unflattering to Trump, yet all his loyal flying monkeys and Brownshirt irregulars would do is screech that he didn't do it and that even if he did do it, it wasn't a crime and the president can't be investigated. And this is coming from the same people who kept investigating Obama over and over again for Benghazi :(
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  6334. Trump meets with Putin, sucks up to him shamelessly, says to Putin, please, sir, may I have another? Republicans cheer madly Biden meets with Putin, clearly rattles his cage while still staying cool? Republicans are upset. Please summon the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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  6335.  @lovely-mk4rt  You got any proof of what you say? Or are you just another sorry right-winger who has renounced the use of reason?
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  6336.  @idres6862  Looks like truth hurts your tender little feefees, judging from your several angry juvenile comments. You are going to be my free entertainment today.
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  6337.  @idres6862  If you truly feel that way, get a job like the rest of us. Jobs are available everywhere. It's your own fault if you're not making bank these days.
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  6338. Especially when Trump is known to flee into his bunker when protesters are outside the fence.
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  6339. They are armed and ready. Even better, DC is one big distributed sensing environment anyway. Even if some of the traitors are masked head to toe, keep their gloves on, and carry no electronics, they're leaving behind a wealth of biometric info just by being there.
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  6340. .. or that only the lawn signs along their dirt road (all for Trump, with the paint peeling by now) are representative of how the whole population votes.
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  6341. Knowing that the doubling time of this disease is around 7 days, we can work out a few things. Given that the school employee has been symptomatic since Feb 19th, we can assume they were initially exposed on Feb 12th and have possibly been spreading it since Feb 14th. So assuming other people were exposed as far back as Feb 12th, there has been time for 3-4+ generations of further community spread. 95% of the population of Oregon lives right along the I-5 and I-84 corridors. It's already here. Sugarcoating the reality is NOT helping anyone. If we are smart (and I doubt we are) plans are being drawn up to do what China and South Korea have done: quarantine everyone down to the town & neighborhood level, cancel any venue where people can mingle, test everyone all the time for free, deliver supplies to every household so people don't have to go out, etc.
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  6342. Barr just showed why the Portland protests are so right - the federal courts used to mean something before Trump & Barr came along. Now they're worthless.
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  6343. Every accusation is a confession. Narcissistic projection.
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  6344. Oh yes, their little fifth column here. Ask me sometime what it is I like about their use of red hats and other MAGA garb, vehicle stickers, apparel, lawn signs, etc. In the olden days it was jackboots and swastika armbands. Good to know exactly who they are.
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  6345. I'm recalling the same incident. Early May 2022. The UA unit was the 17th tank brigade, and its artillery battalion (using 122mm self-propelled howitzers) that apparently did the damage. The location was approx 30km east of Lyman. UA 80th separate assault brigade also took part.
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  6346. The only way to keep cruises covid-free at the current time is for the ships to be entirely unmanned. Gather random people together = sea of covid.
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  6347. Coming from someone who tried to rig the vote and steal the election, his comments about rigged elections are pretty farcical.
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  6348.  @trisha4797  Being Breitbart, thankfully, it's not even news, just "rhetorical hyperbole".
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  6349.  @trisha4797  Wouldn't know. I got tired of Fakebook (or is it WasteBook?) years ago for being the nation's leading source of disinformation on vaccines, gravity, history, politics, and everything else.
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  6350. Trump's behavior is easy to understand if you assume that Putin threatened to release the pee tapes if Trump doesn't let more Americans catch covid, or if you assume that Putin pays Trump a $1 bounty for every American who catches covid. Then his behavior makes sense.
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  6351. Considering that the virus is active in more than 180 countries around the world, and has got the most known cases & deaths in the United States alone, what you said is a paramount expression of narcissism.
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  6352.  Grumbleback  I call them Meal Team Six, that's how out of shape most of them are. They probably couldn't demonstrate proper weapon function if you asked them to. And they will pee themselves the first time they come up against actual soldiers.
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  6353. In the same way that Kushner's "Afghanistan peace plan" was to talk with only one side, the Taliban, and completely leave out the official Afghani government and the people .. in the same way that Kushner's fabled Israel/Palestine "peace plan" was to give the Israelis everything they want and completely leave out the Palestinians .. obviously he shouldn't be in charge of anything more challenging or consequential than a glow stick.
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  6354.  @toolshedjunky  C'mon, can't you even scare up the dreaded "socialism" boogeyman at least once this morning? I confess I came here to hear from the abject morons who, just because it hasn't happened to them yet personally, still refuse to believe there's a health emergency happening now.
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  6355. Looks like she's auditioning for the role of South Glade Mission Church pastor - the fictional church from the movie "Kingsman".
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  6356. So now they're convinced that Trump's "inauguration" will be on March 4th. Looks like he's determined to separate them from their hopes the same way he's separating his followers from their money.
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  6357. You've heard that saying, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds"? Well, it's a foolish consistency when we allow people to spread disinformation (of the kind that gets hundreds of thousands of people killed) during a time of severe national emergency. For sure we didn't allow news stations to run stories, circa 1942, of how the Pearl Harbor attack was "fake news" and how Germany and Japan were really our good friends, and how only the Rothschilds and other war profiteers were pushing for some "fake war". All that crap was shut down, hard, for the duration.
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  6358.  @JasonJones-wu6pw  I'm not convinced that hasn't been happening yet. Over the course of 3+ years, they've already detained people by the hundreds of thousands. For all that time, this administration has been making it clear that those people are unwanted, criminals, scum, illegal, animals, etc. History shows that mass graves usually accompany those attitudes :(
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  6359.  @mg2779  The joke's on you, Trumptard. Remember how this stuff helped the virus spread all over? March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: “The United States .. has, as of now, only 129 cases .. and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down .. a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful .. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: “It’s going to go away .. The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point .. when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  6360. Been wondering that for awhile. Every time he says some BS to imply that the US & China are getting closer to agreement, he sabotages it shortly thereafter by doing or tweeting something to throw a monkey wrench into the process. There's a lot of money to be made in the stock market if you know when he's going to be manipulating the inflection points in this manner.
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  6361. No doubt Trump was glued to his "super tivo" that day, and surely he noticed that his name wasn't mentioned even once.
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  6362.  @TH33QUALIZ3R  Being universally ignored, not mentioned, etc will burn him up. And then the SDNY prosecutors will be looking for him. He's going to wish he hadn't gotten into politics.
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  6363. @James Graham The number of detained migrants/refugees is now over 100,000. There has yet to be an independent audit of the origin, name, status, and whereabouts of each of them. History informs us that when a regime does mass political/racial imprisonment such as this, and when the same regime also depicts them as human filth, insects, invaders, etc, somewhere there is another kind of solution being implemented - perhaps a final solution, or sterilization of the prisoners, along with forced labor such as we already know about. The propaganda here has been ratcheted that high.
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  6364. Trump: The USPS has got to be eliminated, it's useless! also Trump: We use the USPS to send stimulus checks and census forms because it's the most cost-effective option.
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  6365. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  6366. Funny how Clinton's impeachment trial lasted a month, with no limits on witnesses and documents, all for a BJ and a stained dress. But when a president is violating the Impoundment Control Act, extorting another nation into interfering with our elections, covering it up, then obstructing the investigation, they want no witnesses/evidence and a speedy coverup. This isn't the America I was born in! :(
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  6367.  Matthew Allen  Re "So who did you support in the American Revolutionary War" << No one participating in this thread was old enough at the time. Why don't you explain to us where on the doll it hurts you when Black people protest the high rate at which they are killed by police? Does that somehow hurt your tender feefees and make you reach for that pointy white hat you keep in the closet?
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  6368. More like tens of millions.
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  6369.  @madelineschaffer1499  I am expecting him to throw the senate Republicans under the bus as soon as he no longer needs them. Do they not understand that Trump does that to ALL his flying monkeys eventually? Yet the fools still line up to be his doormat-du-jour. Maybe they've been licking lead paint or something.
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  6370. Right around 2:50 he's doing that.
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  6371. Stupid people and their money were lucky to get together in the first place - and easily parted.
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  6372. It's nothing the DC police can't stomp flat. They might need something to wipe their feet on afterwards, though.
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  6373. Bingo. What is it about carrying a nonviable candidate to term .. there's some kind of karmic message there for the R's.
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  6374. Dear Texas, we've had this conversation before. Last time was in the 1860s. No, you don't get to leave just because you've worked yourself into a lather over whatever lies they said on Fox Noise. Sincerely, America.
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  6375.  @seandowning5918  Right on. A better future wouldn't be full of these moronic spambot posts about dodgy crypto.
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  6376.  @rulerofthelight  Thanks for proving the point that any fool can claim anything without proof on the internet. Is your name Donald Trump by chance?
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  6377. It took 98 days for the US to reach the first million cases. Now we're adding that many in 4-5 days. Soon to be 1-2 days if we can do enough testing to keep up with it. #FreeDumb
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  6378. Bingo. Because we all know damn well that none of them ever bothered to do anything to help the families of those who've lost loved ones or providers due to following their batshit medical advice. The Republican party ought to be setting up a huge widows & orphans fund just now.
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  6379. Or .. "Officer, since you're of a different political party, this speeding ticket nonsense is just a partisan witch hunt and means nothing." Then drive away.
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  6380. Spontaneous block parties.
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  6381. It'll take a bit longer than that, but yeah, by the time voting ends a lot of them will have moved on.
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  6382. 45's abortion of a presidential term also ended up on the sour note of job losses in the millions, thanks in part to his complete failure to understand the blowback of tariff wars. Everyone else learned that stuff long ago. Not our homegrown dummy, however.
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  6383. That's why I don't get the shortsightedness of Republicans who are suddenly gung-ho about sacrificing the lives of so many Americans just to ensure that BestBuy has a good quarter. People cost a lot of time and money to raise. Societies survive or fail based on how well they harness the productivity of their people and how well they take care of them. I fear the history books will not be kind to the conservatives of 2016-2024 when the book is written on this chapter of history. Mind you, these are the same Republicans who screeched about "death panels" just a few short years ago.
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  6384. Raising the next generation of Ben Carson's 😅
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  6385.  james fisher  It'll be much worse than that. Traitors that extreme usually get some really horrific corporal punishment. The Rosenburgs were fried for less.
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  6386. Wasn't Michele Bachmann the original Karen Party candidate before it was even a thing?
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  6387. No doubt he wants to turn it into a right-wing channel to influence the young.
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  6388. And here I was, hoping the neighbors didn't notice that since late January I've been grocery shopping 2x~3x weekly. (USA)
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  6389. It's good news! Dayum, I'm almost willing to go work in the healthcare field just to be able to get the vaccine earlier than it would otherwise be available to the general public.
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  6390. Their suffering has more wrinkles than that. Strongman worship seems to be an enforced cultural norm .. not many years experience with participatory democracy .. not many generations removed from serfdom .. champagne national aspirations on not even a beer budget.
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  6391.  @beaudochs  Bingo. We have to be active making sure everyone is registered to vote, doesn't get mysteriously purged from the voter rolls, and has access to ballots or a drop box or mail votes. Only 5 states hold voting almost entirely by mail - Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington - and we need to expand that. When turnout is high, Republicans go extinct .. so we need to make sure the turnout is high.
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  6392. So. Someone robbed a bank. A suspect has been named. The suspect tells us to disregard the CCTV footage showing the crime, to disregard any witnesses & evidence, and instead focus on the way his mother's medical bills were fraudulent which is why he "had to" rob the bank. Umm no that's not how justice works. Your boy violated the Impoundment Act, then tried to cover it up, then tried to obstruct congress. All of those are impeachable offenses.
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  6393.  @lyndamedley4789  DeSatan is busy putting children on ventilators, and killing off his own people, and that's going to leave a mark come election time. The guy's dumber than a box of hammers, yet still loyal to Clump's original lies about the virus, and by doing so he's guaranteeing his loss in the next election, if not his removal sooner than that.
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  6394. No justice -- no peace.
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  6395. Republicans these days are like the clown car, full of gibbering drunks, that somehow ran into a dumpster fire.
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  6396. Did we lend-lease the Ukrainians a Seawolf-class submarine? Lotta Russian ships going under lately.
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  6397. Hello Derek Parent! Glad to know I'm not the only one running analysis on the numbers. Yesterday the US posted 111,697 tests performed, which was down quite a lot from the average of 149,863 tests/day going back to April 6, when the numbers were made public through worldometers. An astonishing 13 states (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, IA, ME, MI, MS, OH, RI, SC, WA) were missing their testing data for yesterday. Some states even showed a "sudden" new-cases-drop right at the same time they posted a huge drop in the number of tests performed, go figure.
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  6398.  @DatCatSteven  Of all the controls you could reach for, it's funny that you just turned your deflector shields to max.
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  6399.  @DatCatSteven  Do you remember the Greenland thing? First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said.
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  6400. Special warming operation. You know, to counter the winter cold.
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  6401. Most of the US doesn't look to bad now in that regard. Here's the CDC live data map: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
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  6402. The leopards will want to feast. Let them.
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  6403. Back then, the conservatives and militias were big into pointing guns at cops. Their embrace of "we support the cops" was only as temporary as Trump's reign of error.
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  6404.  @1967apple  So - you feel that people who knowingly commit acts that cause people to get killed shouldn't lose everything? Because that's what Lindell and Trump and Powell and the others did.
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  6405.  @1967apple  His lies about the election, which was part of why misled, propagandized, traitorous idiots stormed the capitol in January. People died as a result. What part of this is tricky for you to comprehend? Dude, I've got stuff smarter than you floating in my cereal most mornings. FFS.
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  6406.  @omaha2pt  Even worse than that - take a look at the numbers on the Johns Hopkins site. Total confirmed minus deaths minus recovered gives you 41,518 people (out of 102,472 confirmed) who are neither dead nor recovered. That's a huge hit to the economy. If you assume that only 80% of the US population will get it at all, and that only 20% of those 80% will be sick enough to require hospitalization, that leaves 52 million Americans who may be temporarily or permanently out of the work force.
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  6407.  @slappyabromowitz  There is some kind of Russia-China pipeline that's either in planning or construction phases .. the news on it has been a little unclear. A stationary thing that almost certainly can be seen from orbit. What a shame it would be if anything were to happen to it.
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  6408. Some of the corollaries of this junkie-like dependence on cheap, easy money include such things as a) cash savings rates being pushed down to near zero (thus removing some of the incentive to save in the first place); b) making it untenable to invest in things that have long and limited payoff dates, such as major infrastructure projects (which is part of why US infrastructure is in a state of decay) or industrial expansion.
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  6409. Lills Jul - Russia cannot even achieve air superiority in their invasion of the 55th largest GDP nation. So you are saying that Ukraine is much more mighty than all of NATO put together?
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  6410. If there is a growing power vacuum across the periphery of the former Soviet Union, Russia has only Putin to blame for it. Threats, intimidation, and aggression will only win you so many friends.
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  6411. Oaf Tweakers. They had to be out of their gourds to think that their plan would work.
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  6412. We see now that it takes merely a crooked president and a crooked senate leader, acting together, to stack the supreme corp with a bunch of Dominionist hack jobs. Let's see if that's enough to override the will of the people.
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  6413. Kudos to King5 for keeping the news coming. Good work on making the broadcast work together from so many different locations.
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  6414.  @nicholaslake5937  What's with assuming 100% chance of life being ruined by lockdown? You can recover from being broke, from losing your home cars business job etc. (not that anyone is losing their home or cars) But you can't recover from losing your life due to the virus.
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  6415.  @mikep4869  I'm afraid you misunderstood me. I'm probably going to take my car off the road and just use a bicycle .. already worked with the lender to put everything on hold until I can get income. Many people in the US can work from home and my friends are some of them. Did the same thing with other creditors. We will get through this. As I repeat, you can recover from being broke but you can't recover from being dead by the virus.
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  6416.  @Gryph01  Same to you. And I'm thinking that those hybrid socialist / free market models may well represent the more stable and enduring forms of government. Here is the northwest USA, we have Winco Foods, an ESOP supermarket that's been expanding steadily for quite some time. I've spoken with some of the people who work there .. they give the impression that they have some agency regarding what they do and how and when.
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  6417. It's so strange when Trump brings up the issue of drugs. If it were not for America's insatiable appetite for illegal narcotics, there wouldn't be any vast flows of illegal and dangerous drugs.
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  6418. "No soup for you!"
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  6419. George Clooney had this great line in "The Peacemaker" where he said the Russians couldn't find snow in winter. I'm beginning to think it wasn't entirely hyperbole.
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  6420.  @khv.repair4347  It's operating in submarine mode (new station: the sea floor) awaiting a team to rescue some special munitions. All good. This is Biden's 5D chess with Putin.
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  6421. What is with governor DeSatan shutting down the daily feed of covid case numbers? Florida would have made the news this week as the state with the most cases every day if he hadn't done that :(
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  6422. Relatives are defined by blood, but family is defined by love and loyalty. Sounds like some bad people did you the favor of subtracting themselves from your life.
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  6423.  Major Thought Ahead  Yup. Gym Jordan is going to continue spouting conspiracy theories that don't make sense to anyone living outside the crazy microverse of content on Q-Anonsense. I stocked up on popcorn when I heard they were bringing in the famous pederast from Ohio.
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  6424. Susan Collins said she hoped that Trump will change?? Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  6425. Aww, too bad it hurts your tender little antisocial feelings that the governor doesn't want California to turn into a flaming hotspot like North Dakota is now due to its antiscience ways. If CA were as infected as ND, you would have 4.24 million infected (instead of 1.29 million) and 51K dead. So what's wrong with you that you want MORE people to get sick and die?
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  6426. Why yes. It's even happened before. A large, well-equipped coalition of nations got tired of someone's military adventurism, their constant lies, and their crimes against humanity, then invaded them and rooted out the troublemakers. Just look at Germany now. Maybe the US has its turn next?
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  6427.  @CrusaderGoat  Biden lost the debate as surely as anyone would lose a game of chess to a pigeon. The bird will strut around the board, knocking over the pieces, making a lot of noise, crapping on everything, before flying away squawking that it won.
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  6428. It's nice to think they'll be chained together at the ankle when Trump goes overboard, clutching a cinderblock.
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  6429. Orion, are you referring to the stimulus that Biden promised, and that conservatives are doing everything possible to block? Good luck twisting that rubix cube around until it spells "Democrats are bad".
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  6430.  @NYx3  Apparently the leader of Poland spoke with Putin recently. Putin got rather blunt with him. So Poland told him that their country is big, plenty big enough to bury lots of invaders.
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  6431. I wouldn't pee on that loser even if he were on fire and offering 7 digits payment for it.
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  6432. Russia was in decline even before the war, but thanks to Putin, that decline is hastened. The Soviet pensioners who miss the good old days of the USSR (Putin's base) are taking the country in exactly the wrong direction. Sad.
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  6433. Fantastic interview. Thank you for sharing. This is the insight that more in the west, particularly our leaders, need to be hearing. Some of them lack any sense of realpolitik.
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  6434. All over Russia. Practicing for a very warm May Day celebration ;)
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  6435. "Societies that have not evolved in the past few hundred years" .. perfect. Cannot agree enough with the sentiment that Putin must be stopped in Ukraine (or Transnistria, or wherever his next attempted takeover will be) or else NATO will be facing a different kind of problem.
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  6436. All over the rural parts of America, a majority of people were openly flouting the mask rules. We know now that the virus spread widely and asymptomatically during that time, because now that people are breathing the same circulated heated air indoors, the spread rate is going ballistic. The governor of North Dakota just days ago finally enacted a mask mandate after sucking up to Trump all year long. His state is fully engulfed in covid already. It was like trying to lock the barn door after the horses have escaped and the barn is completely on fire. That's Trumpism for you :( smh
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  6437. His bone spurs are acting up again .. so he's safe in a bunker somewhere.
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  6438. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America - except cancer isn't getting paid to do it.
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  6439. .. for those who lack the discernment to realize that the F&F series of movies are just entertainment, and not exactly the mindful kind either.
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  6440.  @zonnacowell6227  I say this in total sad humor, but could you blame them? Every day, FOXed Noise whispers to them that the elite liberal media are lying to them, that this is just a hoax, that it's some evil mind control / UN takeover scheme, etc. And their very own party leader less them worse lies every day. They didn't get where they were by having open minds :(
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  6441.  @zonnacowell6227  Here's my Darwin award of the day. Sadly, there are many many more like him. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513431/Texas-man-30-dies-catching-coronavirus-COVID-party-thinking-virus-hoax.html
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  6442. He's going to be popular in jail. Not for the reasons he wants, either.
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  6443.  @Halli50  Yah. I fight because I know that the alternative will be waking up someday to a nation of concentration camps, one-party rule, and the fat ugly mug of Hair Fuhrer on every screen :(
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  6444. Ever since the World Series game in Washington DC, Trump has been hearing boos and chants of "lock him up" at every public appearance, including at the Veterans Day parade in NYC. When he tries to help Republican candidates, he's the kiss of death. His constant attempts to hide witnesses, evidence, testimony etc only serve to highlight his guilt. Now that Lev Parnas is cooperating and Rudy Giuliani is under investigation, things are finally coming home to him. Life's rough, sure, but it's rougher when you're stupid.
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  6445.  @TheUMIA  There you are again, telling me at high noon how dark it is outside. Honestly, you're fortunate that you weren't around when Charles Manson or Jim Jones were looking for recruits.
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  6446. It was like that in Cali too. He said he'd withhold federal money intended to help recovery after wildfires .. and people cheered. Bonkers :(
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  6447. Trump is like the FOXed noise uncle who can't figure out how to change his ringtone.
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  6448.  @Riqrob  Well, Mr Virus Carrier, mandatory masks are coming soon to the most populous 5 counties in Oregon. With your lack of grasp on reality, it's a wonder that you'd be able to vote, drive, reproduce, keep a job, or even do your own laundry.
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  6449.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Participation in objective reality is not optional, fool, and yes this is a dangerous disease. America is heading for above half a million dead thanks to birdbrains like you who just don't want to hear the facts.
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  6450.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  I sent you the link above if you're looking for "proof". And if you're so smart, how come humanity doesn't yet have herd immunity to tuberculosis, bronchitis, the flu, the common cold, measles, or chickenpox? Betcha you cannot answer that one. Trick question.
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  6451. Trump probably wants the schoolbooks to read something like, "Blacks in Africa were rescued from their primitive ignorance by white American philanthropists, who escorted them to America, gave them nice jobs, and showed them the wisdom of Christianity. They were perfectly happy until those evil commie Democrats came along and tried to make things look bad."
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  6452. What an amazing level of concern. If only we could put that kind of energy into making sure no one died from having their coverage denied. Fun fact: United's claim denial rate is 31%.
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  6453. Think of it as a litmus test of sorts.
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  6454.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  Are you referring to all the times Obama seized everyone's guns and melted them down into Korans? Or some other right wing nut job fiction that you can't stop echoing around the inside of your head? I suggest you do some reading and get clued in on what liberals have done for you over the long run.
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  6455.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  I'm off work now, so if you want to name the right wing lies (that you've somehow taken in) for me to debunk, it would be much appreciated.
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  6456. Hey Russia, We just found some old HIMARS and ATACMS missiles that were labeled "special batch for testing". Not sure exactly what they do or what the range is, but now they're on the way to our friends in Ukraine. Why don't you go home while you still can? Happy July 4th from the USA.
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  6457. That Delta variant tears through populations of even half-vaccinated people, as we can see from the curve of rising cases in the UK. So, whoever you are, hope you've got your vaccine-derived full immunities, or you're about to have a pretty bumpy ride. It's not pleasant when the hospitals are full and people are dying in taxis and in lines as their family members try to get care for them - and we saw that just recently in India. Stay safe, people.
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  6458.  @someguyontheinternet7  It's worse than that. A Republican-led senate could, next year, tell president Biden that even 36 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge - and that they're no longer allowing presidents to make "acting" appointments. Their hypocrisy has no bounds.
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  6459.  @julieannmyers8714  Hitler too had the support of the major industrialists and oligarchs of the time. One of the better descriptions of that can be found in "Last Train from Berlin" (1942, Howard K Smith) in chapter 8.
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  6460. It would be a long day. Probably a Pinochet type of day :(
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  6461. And when they have to skimp on grocery money, they'll be whining about Democrat inflation.
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  6462. Left FakeBook (or is it Wastebook?) years ago, don't miss it. What a joke.
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  6463. Nah, America will recover from this. Don't know about the Republican party, though. This is entirely on them. Wonder how Ted Cruz feels about fleeing the same nutballs he's been inciting and deluding for the last four years?
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  6464. I've had a front-row seat for too many years .. both my parents succumbed to the thrashing madness of right-wing nonsense decades ago :( .. they're still alive in a medical sense but they've been brain-dead for awhile.
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  6465.  @radkahunter2908  Those who can be made to believe absurdities can also be made to commit atrocities. That's Trump's "fine people" right there, driving vehicles into crowds.
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  6466.  @andrew_owens7680  Love it! May I borrow?
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  6467. All that means is that they already had a name picked out for USAv2 - probably "Republic of Gilead" - and he didn't want to share it.
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  6468. There's no guarantee that the Georgia recount will do anything to increase the number of Trump votes. It could very well widen the Biden lead.
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  6469. Trump usually motivates people by other means. Considering that Barr was Trump's loyal lapdog, and the investigation began awhile back, most likely that was part of Trump's insurance policy to secure Gaetz' participation in the coup attempt.
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  6470. This virus is sort of like a fire. Throwing more fuel on it (giving it more new people to infect) merely makes it burn for longer. Gotta snuff the fire out (deprive it of fuel) before you can restart things.
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  6471.  @eattherich9215  Correct. I assume now that a number of those people (egged on by Trump and those going along with his crazy train) will go on to commit acts of domestic terror that will earn them lengthy prison sentences.
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  6472. Attacking Poland is the same as attacking NATO anyway. Russia is however welcome to pout and hold military exercises within its own borders. Gonna need lots of cheese to go with that much whine anyway.
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  6473. The air accordion never lies! ;)
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  6474. The bible warned us about people who worship money. Anyone want to join me in driving this fool (and those like him) out of the building using bullwhips?
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  6475. The same Kyle, who, 15 days earlier, had said out loud and on FB that he wished he had his rifle so he could kill some of the people protesting racial injustice. A fact that the judge ordered kept from court.
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  6476.  @hasslefreerental7833  I keep waiting for that crooked KKK judge to trot out the Brock Turner (remember him?) defense about how he's a nice young man with a bright shining future in front of him, so why do anything to ruin that? (translation: he's a white boy so we're letting him off)
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  6477. The ICC will make some time for these "fine people" :(
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  6478.  @theflyingwelshman5338  SRA and JBGC are around.
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  6479. Let's go Bannon! Oh, and if you're dumb enough to think the sitting president has controls for consumer prices (hint: they don't. But big business does) then perhaps you want to ask why the stock market was so underperforming during party secretary Trumpski's time in DC. Or why gas prices reached above $4.70/gallon during his time mismanaging the USA.
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  6480. Clarence Thomas doesn't pay for his vacations. Maybe Mike Johnson has a "friend" who covers the bills.
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  6481. I'd visit, but I keep hearing about drop bears and mutant carnivorous kangaroos.
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  6482.  @davidjohnpaul333  I should have flagged that as sarcasm, sorry.
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  6483. When the Crypt Keeper herself appears in the title shot, you know it's going to be a good video 👍
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  6484.  @caroltopalian593  It's a shame the CDC allowed itself to become Donald Trump's doormat just so he could score a few political points. Notice how the testing rate in the US has been declining precipitously ever since he put out the word that fewer tests mean fewer cases. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  6485. .. and Republicans would be perfectly happy with it :(
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  6486. Where I live (Oregon) they have started adding emergency morgues in some places. That means (basically) that our surveillance testing has failed. Bars and restaurants are still open at 100% capacity, even while this is going on, which means that we are probably heading for a winter marked by mass deaths and mass graves :(
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  6487. That "Democrats love terrorists" is the sort of nonsense that conservatives have been accustomed to telling themselves and each other. They've become an alt-fact cult :( Don't know if they can ever be deprogrammed and turn into normal citizens again, but I hope so.
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  6488. You obviously need a better monitor.
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  6489. I've been assuming all along that Trump was OK with the Russian bounties to the Taliban, for dead US soldiers, only because Putin pays him a 10% cut of the business. Wonder how they figured the kickback for the recent cyber intrusion? Funny how Trump was firing all those Pentagon people just before that went down.
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  6490. No doubt she's aware that Biden got more votes. Must have slipped out. But then her performance was only intended for Trump anyway.
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  6491. Lay with the crazy dogs, get fleas. As was shown in another video, all he did was walk around the block and re-enter via the front door - after he had let some wannabe terrorists into the building. Good job OSP taking out the trash!
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  6492.  @Scout-bt3mo  Sure, sure, but the point (which I'll continue to make) is that he began the whole thing by pulling over to engage with them, even though he had a weapon in his vehicle. You don't get to instigate/enable a confrontation then use it as the pretext for drawing a weapon. That's kind of like going into a biker bar, then talking trash about motorcycles and their riders, then shooting the first guy who picks up a cue stick, thinking you can later claim "But I was just defending myself. Really!". This guy's bumper sticker collection makes it pretty clear where he's coming from.
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  6493. Huh. Your use of the word "fear" is inappropriate. No doubt when some people were fleeing the sinking Titanic, others stood on the deck and shouted out, "Why are you living your lives in fear? Water is perfectly natural!"
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  6494. Clinton's impeachment had three witnesses and lasted a month - for a stained dress and some oral shenanigans. But for extorting a foreign government, trying to cover it up, then obstructing the investigation, the GOP wants no witnesses and a speedy impeachment. That fish is definitely rotting from the head :(
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  6495. @Ashley - Remember the murder of Apache Rose Hightower? Not only was the perp indicted later, but his associates and some parents were involved in the cover-up too. A bunch of them now doing 20 to life.
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  6496. Unfortunately many of the people posting here are from the set that's still mad that O-live shut off their comments section. All 8 of them with the same last name living in Clackistan.
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  6497. Trump didn't even know the name "Yosemite", which any US schoolkid knows by 8yo. "Yo Semite"
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  6498. Not single handedly. He's enjoyed a whole lot of help from the Republican party, from top to bottom. They've had three years to be relevant. Three years to make their party a foil on an insane despot of a president. To hold him accountable when he ran off the rails, to shake their heads sagely when he tweeted some illogical falsehood on twitter. Instead, they embraced his madness for profits and votes, looked the other way when implied or overt racism emerged, and chuckled at efforts to thwart his agenda. This egg is on all of their faces and there is plenty to go around.
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  6499. Of course they do not teach that in Russia, and do not mention it anywhere in their movies etc. Possibly some academics know about it.
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  6500. I for one approve of the Muskrat devaluing the expensive thing he bought with borrowed money. Twitter will eventually be like a Beanie Baby stock.
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  6501. I'm afraid that someday we'll wake up and realize that back when Moscow Mitch McConnell held up president Obama's supreme court pick (and many others) citing an election 9 months ahead, he should have been dragged out and punished in the street. It was but one little step in their slow-moving coup, the goal of which is a one-party state with them in charge.
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  6502. Very thoughtful.
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  6503.  @virtual2152  The term "reservoirs" is acceptable English since it denotes a large size, as to be distinguished from the smaller ones underneath motor fuel stations etc.
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  6504.  @SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite  If you are trying to complain that too many resources were brought in, go right ahead, but it's clear from the record that they did not at the time know how big the emergency would ultimately be. At some point, the hospital ship DID get used (though not used to full capacity) so its move there was justified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_York_City
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  6505.  @chrisdaniels3929  Given that it can take 24+ days from the beginning of incubation to when someone start displaying symptoms, it is possible that the patient at the hotel has been infecting others for awhile now. Anyone who's left the hotel in the past 7 days; anyone he's been in contact with for maybe the last 14 days; anyone who works at the hotel - all of them are (or have been) potential vectors that will cause their own new clusters, the effects of which will be seen in a couple weeks. Sigh :(
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  6506. I've come to the conclusion that for certain weaker-minded segments of the population (and this is a global problem) the use of social media platforms to disseminate false/misleading information has roughly the same effect as pumping hallucinogens into the public water supply. Thus you get people burning down perfectly-harmless 5G towers that will bring them faster mobile broadband, people refusing the same vaccines that will prevent their own children from dying, and more.
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  6507. Watch them try. They're the same Republicans who had a cow over Obama wearing a tan suit and using Dijon mustard (thankfully not on the same day; who knows what they would have done) yet who just said "meh" when Trump arranged for an armed insurrection in DC .. the same Republicans who told Obama that 8 months before an election was much, much too soon to seat a SC judge, yet who then rammed one through for Trump just weeks before an election.
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  6508. There isn't a single state in the US that meets the federal guidelines of 14 consecutive days of declining cases. Instead, cases everywhere are going up. In some places they are going up quite sharply.
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  6509. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  6510. Cyber 'Ninjas' is going to be on that short list too.
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  6511.  @lindakluth5611  Still doesn't cover my bills. So I just carry a large print edition of "Das Kapital" every time I get called up.
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  6512. I don't know if I'd go far enough to call it propaganda, but yes, there's something of a de-emphasis on the fast/cheap/simple/low-tech things that could be done by making masks mandatory anyplace people from different households get together. If it's someplace indoors, they need to maintain distance AND get in and out within 15 minutes, or switch up to hospital grade PPE.
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  6513. Nazi party recruiters must be out in force. The only plus I can think of is that folks wishing to join the Lincoln Brigades don't need to leave America to fight fascism :(
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  6514.  @666marquis  In the good old days (pre talk radio, pre internet/BBS) the only way those people had to feed their nuttiness was those cheesy tabloids for sale at checkout stands - the kind with pictures of two-headed alien babies born to unsuspecting Ohio housewives. That's the only "community" those people had. Everywhere around them, objective reality was like an operating system that the whole world ran on.
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  6515. The Allies are being reconstituted in a hurry. So Putin wants to play Hitler this time? Not smart.
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  6516. Mary Trump did in fact warn us (awhile back) that this time was coming. Considering the way he is, it was probably inevitable after the 2016 election.
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  6517. It's incredibly telling that Trump never had a derogatory nickname for Putin the way he did with everyone else.
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  6518.  @manishjaiswal3523  They are the intersection of a) places where FOXed Noise / Sinclair Media have near-100% coverage and b) places where education has been systematically de-funded for decades, going back to the 1960s at least.
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  6519. This is a recipe for a thriving black market. Expect the Russians to attempt full employment if they're not already doing it. Things there will get .. interesting, one might say.
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  6520.  @butchfarmer9131  You wrote above "do you really think there are 154 mill voters in this country?" You seem to be suffering from a surfeit of ignorance, so let me help you with this "tricky" math. Using 2010 numbers (and the country has only gotten bigger since then) there were 112.2 million Americans aged 18 to 44 (mind you, citizens 18+ can vote), 61.9 million Americans aged 45 to 64, and 34.9 million Americans aged 65+. Thus, the potential pool of voters in 2010 was approx 209 million people. Are you just really inept at trolling, or are you genuinely as stupid as you sound?
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  6521.  @TheFutureLooksGrimm  I had a roommate like that a few years ago :( wasn't fun.
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  6522.  @SecularSpinach  In my 38 years of random roommates, she was the nuttiest person out of the whole lot. As a dumpy awkward fugly short woman with a bad temper and no social skills whatsoever, she felt very angry towards (basically) the whole rest of the world for not being so nice to her. She's sort of like the female version of an awkward smelly angry incel male. If you had the right experience you could decode the anger in the way she would stomp with every step and slam every door.
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  6523. Re "Do you think Sen. Johnson should be held accountable for spreading this misinformation? - Chris" << Considering that what senator Johnson claims is not backed up in any way by the CDC or any peer-reviewed science, and that taking his advice too literally might lead a person to make extremely bad choices - yes, he should be held accountable. What he's doing now (in terms of causing damage and loss of lives in America) is little different from telling people to drive drunk and stop wearing seat belts. Because they're government overreach.
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  6524. Were there some congratulatory calls from Putin?
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  6525. Yeah, yeah, tell us again when she caused more than 170,000 Americans to die because she downplayed the severity of a very real public health crisis.
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  6526. Inslee and Brown too. Should they seek re-election, it's a done thing.
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  6527. I believe there's a win-win scenario somewhere in there. Here's how to play: 1. Let all the GOP-minded managers return to work and run those establishments themselves. 2. Within a month, most or all of them will be in hospital or in shallow graves. 3. Disinfect the workplace. 4. Wait until widespread testing is available, then restart the workplace carefully. 5. The next election is missing a whole lot of GOP-minded voters.
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  6528. I've had it out this morning with a couple defenders of America's apartheid fascist regime. Maybe they would understand it if someone broke into their home at night, shot their spouse, and was merely given a ticket for discharging a firearm within city limits. Maybe then it would become real to them.
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  6529. Wonder if she learned her lesson by now?
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  6530. If the non-MAGA Republicans would stay and fight for the future of their party, it would be something, but no, they address the problem meaningfully only when they're on the way out the door. And with every one of them that leaves instead of staying and fighting it, the party only gets crazier and more radical.
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  6531. Your misspelling "marshall". Just kidding. Show us where on Bernie's plank he's promising to enact martial law.
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  6532. Poor Putin. How he must miss having his little Quisling keeping a chair warm in the white house.
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  6533. As always, Trump is irresponsible. A week from now, we'll have more cases than China ever did, with daily case increase counts above 15K new cases per day. Hopefully the governors will be more responsible. Most states are experiencing case count increases of around 20% per day.
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  6534. I like Indonesia's approach to the people who think it's a scam. Some folks are just plain dumb, and, like with training a puppy not to poop in the house, you have to rub their faces in it for them to get a frigging clue. https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/anti-maskers-in-indonesia-are-being-forced-to-dig-graves-for-covid-19-victims/
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  6535.  Tootsie Troll  We've got an ugly, stupid segment of our population here. They need to resume cramming themselves into public places for rallies, shaking hands with each other and the president, etc.
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  6536. Oh no, let them call themselves Republicans. After all, Trump has had their consent for violating the Hague convention on refugees, violence against minorities, corruption of politics, using office for personal gain, and lots more. They own this. The rest of us are not going to let them walk away from it.
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  6537. Railroad bridges into cope cages .. there's a witty remark in there somewhere.
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  6538. I'll be going around saying "happy impeachment day" to everyone.
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  6539. Yup, these are the same people who used to run around screeching "Plandemic!!!" Good thing Hitler didn't have such useful idiots here during WW2.
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  6540. Perfect!
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  6541.  i. rob  My thoughts exactly! Strenuous exercise -> heavy breathing -> maximum dispersal of droplet & viral particles in an enclosed indoors space. Lots of untested asymptomatic people wandering in and out. What could possibly go wrong?
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  6542. Orange Adolph's goons are already showing their faces in Portland, Oregon :(
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  6543. Not sure on that. From the reports of western news reporters who saw them often in the flesh, some of the Nazis of the 1930s and 1940s were pretty odious characters.
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  6544. On the plus side, the anti-vaxxers now have a fine way to subtract themselves from the gene pool while saving vaccine doses for people who need and want them. A win-win!
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  6545. Seriously, if FOXed Noise was around during the summer of 1944, they would have referred to D-Day as that infamous time when a bunch of Antifa out-of-towners violently interrupted a free-speech gathering of some nice young Aryan men.
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  6546. @timber_beast Funny you should ask that. Boebert just celebrated the taking away of metal detectors from the House. We can guess how Team Crazy is going to celebrate Insurrection Day.
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  6547. He was spouting standard Sovereign Citizen nonsense.
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  6548. Yah. If anyone gets closer than 20 feet, I want us both wearing masks, and if we exchange any objects, we both need to wear gloves.
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  6549. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it! Trump: I give myself a 10/10 score for handling this bigly.
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  6550. She's gross. Another crazy lady with a bumpit.
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  6551.  @crimescene25  Clearly you're suffering from more than just digital eyestrain. You somehow don't know (or probably don't want to know) that the USA is by far the richest country in the world, and that the cost of unemployment for all working people for a year is chump change compared to the tax relief that Republicans just rolled out to the wealthy over the last few years.
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  6552. He STILL cannot admit that he said what he openly said on TV last week. His only choice now is to apologize and resign, but he's not adult enough to do either, which is why he's banned from my screens and devices. A nobody, like the Christchurch shooter whose name isn't even mentioned.
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  6553.  @debm-g6300  It's almost as if the authorities haven't been paying any attention to current events. We know already that people start spreading the virus as soon as 2 days after being initially exposed, and that up to several weeks can pass between initial exposure and testing positive. So if that one student has tested positive, chances are high that it has already been passed on to the families and anyone they've been close to. Do any of those high schoolers work in restaurants? Extend that to everyone who's been to those restaurants and their families as well. That's how widespread it is by now.
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  6554.  @luke75853  Sadly, the average American household hasn't even got $500 USD stashed away for bad times. As someone pointed out on another thread, when workplaces are closed there will necessarily be a rash of crime, probably outside of banks and grocery stores, since our government is more focused on telling soothing lies than protecting the people.
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  6555. Well, you can't say he didn't do homage to Trump's tradition of violence, election result denial, and disdain for democracy.
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  6556.  @V0lk  Trump's rash actions had the benefit of showing cities, counties, and states all across the US that they can participate in the Paris Agreement without going through Trump. And the coal plants that Trump was trying to save have mostly been going out of business anyway. Soon most of the damage that Trump did internally to the US will be rolled back.
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  6557. Re "Republicans have gone so crazy that it's easy to sound crazy yourself when you call them out." << As the saying goes, the cancer was very aggressive, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too, so there was aggression on both sides.
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  6558. We could have said the same of reverend Jim Jones or Charles Manson, who were both quite-obviously batty. Trump too has found his flock of sheeple, and he's not letting go of them without a fight.
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  6559.  @Nilla187og  I'm sure they're trying. Not sure they're succeeding. If you recall from the news, Russia put its ballistic missile sub fleet out to sea about 4 weeks before attacking Ukraine.
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  6560. When Trump sends his people to threaten a school district, he doesn't send his best. Some of those people are troubled, some have drug problems, some just Want To Believe the dumbest agitprop that wouldn't fool a cat. And some, we hope, are good people.
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  6561. At the rate of one in four pregnancies, wow, there is going to be a huge wave of medical malpractice. People may end up voting with their feet and getting the F out of places like that.
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  6562. There are a lot more out there like Patrick W. Carlineo Jr. Radicalized by right-wing agitation propaganda, they all need to spend some time in the big house for being snookered by propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. Pathetic.
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  6563. That's an Eastern Bloc way of doing things. Common all over Russia. Typically those systems get shut down for 2+ weeks during the summer for maintenance, so the city is without hot tap water.
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  6564. Funny how the missile programs of America's enemies advanced by leaps and bounds while Dummy Don had access to classified materials. And his kids.
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  6565. Happy impeachment day, a celebration for Americans who've been disgusted with Trump's shit show of an administration.
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  6566.  @BillSias-op7xw  They will also tell you something like this: "What do you call a fascist sitting down with 10 people to eat dinner? 11 fascists."
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  6567. Funny you should mention that. By 1947 it was clear to Germans of all stripes that their outcomes were similar regardless of whether or not they'd voted for the funny mustache guy back in 1932. It would be similar here too. The ensuing mess would affect everyone, not just all the people who 45 deports, sterilizes, inhumes, imprisons, etc.
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  6568. @SalNova15 There's a reason they call them "lowest common denominator" instead of highest common denominator :(
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  6569. Can't say they weren't warned.
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  6570.  @WE_OF_THE_NOV  Great comment. I just hope that there exists the will to move forward from this bad time. The ideal of course would be for Putin to be deposed, democracy to be restored in Russia, and for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and begin making reparations. And under those circumstances, I would hope that the sanctions would disappear and that Russia could again be part of the normal world. Unfortunately Putin-the-autocrat is all too common a type of Russian political leader, and Russia never had the long cultural experience with democracy that most of the western nations do. Public sentiment in Russia (from what I can read here anyway) seems not to have caught up to the fact that Ukraine is not a possession of theirs to be subjugated by force. Until those things change, we risk getting just another Putin in charge.
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  6571. It's not symbolism to me .. he would simply make a truly awesome VP.
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  6572. His talking-like-a-demented-squirrel thing works on some highschoolers but not many others, and he still doesn't realize it.
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  6573. Methinks Trump and his ilk will not wait for the election - which some of them are already realizing they will lose anyway. Just in case, stand back and stand by for an August or October surprise.
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  6574. Pretty sure neither of them wants to be the fresh caviar on the cellblock.
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  6575.  @bozodeathgod  Stuart Rhodes should put out a gun-cleaning challenge to these people 😅
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  6576.  @starcrib  As they say in Europe - if you see a fascist sitting down at a table with 9 people, what you've got is ten fascists.
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  6577.  @kshred3043  To me it seemed like there was racism and western arrogance involved. People here in the USA seemed to be thinking that it was only through ineptness that things got out of control in China - surely our CDC would quickly and easily stomp it flat. The warning signs were all there, but few were listening. I first saw the story somewhere (maybe on Amy Goodman's program) in late December, and by mid-January I was stockpiling food, supplies, masks, sanitizer.
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  6578. Amazingly, he somehow made sure that (just like every other time in history) when conservatives hold all three branches of government, inevitably a great depression results.
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  6579. Not "randos", people who've passed background checks and security clearances. FFS
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  6580. The leopards are feasting on MAGA, and it's too early in the day for me to give them even the concepts of thoughts and prayers. Got a great vantage point from which to watch the coming sht show.
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  6581. That totally unsustainable "meat wave" effort by Russia has got to be their version of "shock and awful", designed to bring the other side to the table.
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  6582. The US will definitely break records on this. Even if most of the country is locked down, those people still socializing and gathering and traveling will spread the disease throughout the country. Folks still go to the beaches, go to spring break, domestic air travel still continues, cars trains buses boats etc are still carrying people all over this big, freedumb-loving nation. Facepalm :(
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  6583. That would be his easiest way out at this point. Of course all of the charges for tax evasion, lying under oath, emoluments clause violations, sexual assault, etc will keep on rolling. And his criminal associates will keep getting charged and convicted, like Roger Stone just was. Lie with dogs, get fleas.
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  6584. Wonder how many lies they've told that they DIDN'T get sued for?
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  6585.  @TheVuduYuDu  Just trying to point out the fallacy of letting perfection become the enemy of improvement. In every way, shape, and form, Biden's picks will be better than Trump's picks. And while I'm unhappy that Biden is more centrist than what I wanted, it's still a big improvement over the past four years.
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  6586.  @TheVuduYuDu  You are correct. This was a giant downward ratcheting motion.
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  6587. The bird watchers don't f*ck around either. Mess with them at your own peril.
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  6588. Bingo. It's like being on the Titanic and blaming the water for entering the ship illegally.
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  6589.  @NeoTuck25  The only circumstances in which Trump would participate are something like letting Jordan & Nunes run the circus, and the only agenda that of finding the Bidens guilty of trying to frame the Russians for 2016 election hacking. Kind of like Al Capone agreeing to meet the IRS only if his people get to run his tax hearing, and the direction of inquiry is solely about the unfair auditing process at the IRS. Umm, that's not how it works.
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  6590. The only presidency Wussolini cares for is his position as the second president of the confederacy.
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  6591. They can't say Caligula didn't warn them. Also "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  6592. Please do not bail out. Especially don't go to any far off isolated place. If and when anyone in your family gets sick, you want to be as close to medical resources as possible. As the good doctor has many times enunciated, your survival may depend on the quality of medical care available .. and when you're hacking up your lungs in a tent far out in the woods, there is no help available.
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  6593.  @anneseventeen5379  Those things are felonies in NY state. Learn to search the internet before opening the air scoop.
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  6594. They loot, we shoot.
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  6595. Seriously. I know 10yo kids who can see through Tucker's nonsense without even trying. Shows you the mental age/ability of those who like watching Tucker Carlson AKA Axis Sally.
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  6596.  @gardyloo3093  Those are the common symbols of those anti-virus protesters. You can find them at any rally of Trump's "fine people". If it's a nighttime event, add tiki torches to the list.
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  6597. Losing their minds is unfortunately the corner into which conservatives have painted themselves. Trump took them on a wild ride (which isn't over yet) and they went along willingly with his batshit reichwing nuttiness.
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  6598.  @andrew_owens7680  May I borrow that?
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  6599.  @frankmalinaro9700  If Amy Handmaid's Tale had any integrity at all, she would step down -- since, as Moscow Mitch McConnell enunciated in 2016, even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, and the will of the people must be heard first. But what she's going to do for Trump is something that requires no integrity.
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  6600. Reminds me of the time in late 1941 when president Roosevelt (D) declared war on Japan, and all those red-state governors decided to resist the war effort, even though the enemy had already killed tens of thousands of red-state citizens. To "own the libs" they would burn the city down. That's what kind of psychos they are :(
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  6601. I'm definitely sleeping better now.
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  6602. Boebert supposedly represents part of Colorado. Wonder what role she had in issuing death threats or encouraging others to. Against the judges of her own state. Maybe Colorado might have something to say about that.
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  6603. Q was obviously lies when it first emerged. Just to get in through the front door there, you'd have to accept stuff that any 12yo with a browser could debunk in under 10 seconds. It was a lie that served its purpose for a certain subset of useful idiots.
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  6604.  @dccrusin8290  Regarding "You want the fewest possible ring leaders left" << At a rally just last week, Trump called for the agent who shot Ashli Babbitt to be executed. And now, just days later, ambushes of federal agents and other officers are happening around the country. Trump is America's Hitler :(
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  6605. Dump45's famous reverse Midas touch will now increase the number of subscribers by quite a lot. (and we will have a bunch of new trolls here of course, sadly)
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  6606. The power grabs are getting more blatant. This one is getting more eyeball awareness than when, say, he blocked Obama's supreme court pick. Guessing the Repubs have got under 11 months to finish their game, and they will try to seat one more SCOTUS judge for whatever they have in mind. Because now they're more openly doing things that will cause them pain in the 2020 elections.
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  6607. Let's hope these are not the last days of Putin's life. He needs to be hauled to the Hague to answer for his crimes.
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  6608.  @plaidpanda  He likes words that sound like that. Who else remembers when his fanboys were staging armed invasions of state capitols (back during the pandemic) and he kept egging them on, telling them to "Liberate!"
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  6609. Before then, however, the Republicans are going to find out how they're about as popular as serial child molesters with a bad cough from the Wuhan coronavirus. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
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  6610. You might want to check out the swastika tattoos on the reich-wingers if you have trouble believing your own lying eyes.
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  6611. Where I live (Oregon) vaccination has slowed to a crawl in rural science-denying counties. From the way things look now, some of those places will not achieve sufficient vaccination levels by the time the big fall rise in cases that will follow the changing seasons. And long before then, tourists will have spread the new variants everywhere. I don't see any way out of the rural places suffering horribly (waves of illness, death, possible mutations) all so they can "own the libs".
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  6612. Whoops, looks like Hannity chose the wrong (for him anyway) moment to forget to say he couldn't recall.
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  6613. The Republicans are damned and determined to follow the Whigs into the woodshed of history. Let's not stand in their way.
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  6614.  @jmgirard7  Very sad. I know people who are well-educated engineers (science + technical backgrounds) who somehow have accepted the misshapen, delusional notion that out of nowhere all official data sources are lying to us, the general public, about matters as basic and consequential (and easily fact-checked) as the numbers of covid cases, illnesses, and deaths. They obviously trust the science education they received back before their minds got poisoned, but now - ? I was speaking with one such person last week after he said covid is far less dangerous than the flu, and so quickly got the numbers about how the closed-case death rate here in the US is around 2.2%, and that if we let it roll completely through the US population without let or hindrance we'd be looking at more than 7 million American deaths at that rate. He shot back, "How do you know that?" and I was taken aback. Wanted to explain that it's the same way I know we had large numbers of deaths and illnesses in the previous pandemic, or how hundreds of thousands of Americans died in the civil war, or how the Titanic sank, or how the Voyager I & II spacecraft took nice pictures on the way out of the neighborhood - by reading the results put together by people smarter and way more familiar with the stuff, and how those many different sources are all in substantial agreement on the basic facts. We all need to get good at deprogramming, otherwise we are headed straight for the Weimar situation, only with the starting conditions so much worse in terms of the % nazis and their level of commitment to undo democracy to serve their tribalistic political ends.
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  6615. Trump is following his idol, that guy with the funny mustache back in the 1930s :(
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  6616.  @kevincrady2831  In other words -- the GOP is being forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Wonder if any of them can note the irony.
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  6617. There's plenty more irony, for example the way rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  6618.  @davidhoran7116  You'll have to ask his boss (Vladimir Putin) to find out.
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  6619. She's tying to milk that innocent-little-girl act for all it's worth.
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  6620. By tomorrow afternoon the Republicans will have moved the goalposts someplace else .. like maybe "The judge and law professors did not personally witness the president doing these crimes, so therefore, they have no right to judge him!" Seriously SMH.
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  6621. Oh pul-leaze :( I have one of those o2 meters that clips on the end of a finger. It shows no variation for masked vs unmasked, even when I do heavy exercise with the mask on. But I guess the naysayers haven't tried this experiment or they'd know better. Sigh.
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  6622.  @sk8queen  It's strangely appropriate that the sheeple are taking livestock meds designed for barnyard animals.
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  6623. Remember, kids, just because Albert is a little old doesn't mean we should turn the batcave over to the Joker out of spite. Albert isn't trying to burn down Gotham like the other guy has been for years now.
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  6624.  @mm9374  If WW2 had gone badly, they're the same people who would have gleefully cooperated with the Axis powers :(
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  6625. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  6626. Isn't it funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources?
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  6627. No doubt the same cowards later posted on their whackjob media that they "owned the libs".
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  6628. Few Republicans will later be in a position to claim that they didn't know at the time what Trump was doing, or they didn't know what kind of a person he was. When you meet the flim flam man your first instinct is always the most correct one. Here's what Republicans had to say about Trump: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  6629.  @Frizzy678  Re "Joe Biden is not leading" << Wrong. He's leading. That means he shows us how to do things. Like wear a mask everywhere in public even if you're vaccinated, even if you think masks make you look funny. Or speaking intelligently and in whole sentences. Trump couldn't bring himself to do either of those. Got any more nutty nonsense you want to try? It's a slow day at the help desk.
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  6630.  @Frizzy678  Re "bruh, I can become president" << Stop your BS right there. You couldn't even become the town dog catcher if you tried. Your level of incompetence renders you unsuitable for any responsibility. Your impaired judgement similarly renders your opinions about as useful as a festering bowl of dog snot.
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  6631. The GQP would gladly do more than waste 300mil of taxpayer money just to push the big lie. Heck, they'd throw all the children of America into a meat shredder just to please the anti-vax anti-mask nutters. They're happy when the covid corpses are piling up.
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  6632. Look on the plus side: they've chosen not to live under the iron fist of regulated utilities (/sarc) which means that they're paying more and getting a lot less reliable service than most Americans have.
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  6633. Does Ukraine have plenty of Bradley's?
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  6634.  @amberyooper  Was. Is now part of a special marine operation to provide artificial reefs for the fishing industries.
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  6635. It's not as if Big Orangey will suddenly stop calling them "the enemies of the people" or stop doing rallies either.
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  6636. Lamest excuse ever for telling people to vote for the Klan next time 😅
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  6637. It's almost as if all the pipeline protesters (who said it would create oil spills) actually had a point. /sarc
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  6638. Trump kids: making gazillions off Daddy's connections. GOP: Let's investigate Biden's son for being overpaid!
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  6639. Let's not forget the paid russian bots/trolls.
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  6640.  @daisyelmir1289  This is on us, the people, to deal with the fash this year by voting it down loudly and roundly.
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  6641. Who's the Karen who torched Reo's Ribs?
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  6642. Amazingly, she survived. Scratched one officer getting out of the water, pushed another officer underwater. She was topless upon exiting the water. One of the people she hit at the end has been left hospitalized.
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  6643.  @MajorAnthonyNelson  If you're whining about gas prices, they were higher under Trump. Were you whining about it then? Probably not. Now go take your meds.
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  6644.  @highyadoin  That's a different thread. This one (if you can read the title) is about the families of the fallen capitol police officers.
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  6645.  @kipincharge2833  The worst one I ever had was at my first actual job. The owner gave christmas bonuses - then deducted them from the next paycheck.
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  6646. Still waiting to see the security footage from the week before the insurrection attempt.
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  6647. NATO ought to change the status of the US to "probationary, not quite trustworthy" pretty quickly.
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  6648.  @branevans3705  Same. The prominent critic would have been Jamal Khashoggi.
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  6649. No one likes the shallow end of the gene pool being kind of nasty, but then no one complains when Saint Darwin's Gene Pool Cleaning Service comes along to clean up the mess. Fewer people will be voting conservative in 2022.
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  6650. Eh, I've had to yell at a few customers this week (while I'm a customer too). Beats being hooked to a ventilator though.
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  6651. I miss the days when conservatives didn't try to put the Onion out of business. Seriously, this is weirder than most people could make up.
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  6652.  @pedronunez3456  Apparently, instead of taking a safe route to destination, they deliberately decided to run over the people they don't like. So if a mob eviscerated them after, well, they had it coming - just as someone else would if they deliberately ran over you and your family.
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  6653. Pride cometh before the fall.
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  6654. It's an easy bet that your tune will change when someone in your household dies of covid. 812 Oregonians have died of covid so far.
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  6655.  @saranobutt  I'm sorry for you that you feel it's OK to kill a person over a piece of property. By the way, the law doesn't allow you to shoot people for theft.
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  6656. I'm sure the 216,000+ Americans who died from covid so far didn't think of it as a blessing from god.
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  6657.  @ZetaMoolah  "Arsenal of democracy" takes a few Axis bridges again.
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  6658.  @kj3832  Correction: if it doesn't stick, they slink away from it and make up another one.
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  6659. Notice how Moscow Mitch didn't recognize Biden's win until /after/ Putin did .. and how Trump raged at Mitch but not at Putin.
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  6660.  Marcia Baxter  Wondering how they are going to try to walk away from this after it fails. Is there any normal to go back to after that? Probably Moscow Mitch will go back to holding gruelling confirmation hearings, after 4 years of just letting Trump do "acting" appointments in order to skip confirmation hearings. As during Obama's time (then 83 nominees were blocked, as opposed to an average of maybe 1-2 per president hitherto) the blocking of nominees may go up by 4000% relative to the historical norm. Probably Moscow Mitch will dust off his Obama-era language and, if a Supreme Court vacancy should open partway through Biden's time in office, Mitch will tell him that 32 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Some Republicans are just plain nuts, some are trying to carry out a coup, and some are both.
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  6661.  @Mark-db8id  If that's what makes you angry, then clearly you have too much free time on your hands.
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  6662. Yup, the same guy who dodged the draft FIVE TIMES, who claims he'd charge unarmed into a school shooting, and who rain for his own bunker when unarmed protesters were outside the fence. Trump's people satirize themselves, and they're not even aware of it.
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  6663.  @jaycorby  I will crawl on all fours through broken glass if that's what it takes to vote. It's that serious.
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  6664. The GQP is what you get when you try to make stupid from concentrate but forget to add the water 😅
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  6665. Suspending the constitution is also the only way for the Republicans to remain in power forever and not worry about those pesky elections anymore.
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  6666. Excellent interview! And I sincerely hope that Georgia can get moving before V. Putin decides to move his "empire building at gunpoint" operation to areas that are more difficult for the west to help.
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  6667. To paraphrase Erin Morgenstern .. Something about Trump's dark circus stirs their soul, and they ache for it when it is absent.
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  6668. Part of what we're seeing is the rural over-representation built into the system: Wyoming, with a population of 578K, has 3 electoral college votes, or 1 EC vote per 192,919 people. North Dakota, with a population of 762,062, has 3 EC votes, or 1 EC vote per 254,020 people. New York, with a population of 19,453,561, has 29 EC votes, or 1 EC vote per 670,812 people. California, with a population of 39,512,223, has 55 EC votes, or 1 EC vote per 718,404 people. The system is rigged in favor of rural people who watch FOXed Noise heavily :(
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  6669. And with a broom handle mauser! Keeping it classy LOL
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  6670. If you look at the fast-moving very fine print at the end of each of their programs, FOX specifically says it's entertainment and not news. Even without that disclaimer, though, the stuff is laughably easy to ID as low grade propaganda.
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  6671. Those remastered blu-ray X-Files episodes are really something, eh? 😅
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  6672. There's going to be a wave of that in those states :(
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  6673. I wonder where the Insurrection Act type response was back when white folks armed with military-style long guns invaded state capitols and threatened lawmakers? Back then, the conservatives (fed up with public health measures) were all screeching that government needs to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. Watching them whipsaw to "we gotta put down the people" tells you all about their faux patriotism that you need to know.
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  6674.  @lostnlove2309  We can safely assume that Trump genuinely thought all previous outgoing presidents were "suckers" and "chumps" for not using every possible available means of hanging onto power - including inciting insurrection and fomenting domestic terrorism against the government.
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  6675. Like most fuckups of that type, Trump's problems were entirely self-caused. He has no one to blame but the fat, ambulatory, shallow-minded pimple he sees in the mirror.
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  6676. Vance has been making memes of himself wearing a dress.
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  6677. This is about par for a society slipping into fascism. The people of the right wing are being gaslit just like the good little Germans of the 1930s were - making them think that it was the Jews, the non-Germans, the labor movement, etc responsible for things getting worse, when in fact it was the German government under Hitler making things worse. Trump & the Republicans are using the same playbook. Their deluded sheeple followers are in a tizzy now. Trump's been squirting Miracle Gro on right wing fear for over a decade now.
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  6678. The background picture is hilarious .. the skyline of the city that the Trumps are most definitely not welcome in.
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  6679. This is correct. In fact, the evidence suggests that monitoring the wastewater of a community is a cheaper and more effective way of seeing the spread of diseases than, say, individually testing the people in that community. References: https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/09/wastewater-testing-early-warning-covid-19-infection-communities/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00973-x
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  6680. Funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  6681. Cats are at least rational or mostly so .. handling Trump has got to be like herding escaped asylum patients.
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  6682.  @yupnope3171  It's nice of you to explain to "American Patriot" (who is apparently neither) how wrong s/he is. Trusting a Trump-aligned conservative to respond to logic or to follow the law is a lot like trusting a corpse to respond to medicine or laws. Just shovel them into a hole and leave some thoughts & prayers.
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  6683.  @jl8452  Seems no one ever told Cruz, Graham, Rubio, etc that when all things are equal, your first instincts are usually the most correct ones.
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  6684. Trump has helped China expand its influence far more than any US president. North Korea and Russia can thank Trump too for the same. ISIS and the Taliban too can thank Trump for their record growth this year. President Bumblefcck should have stuck to his failing TV show.
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  6685.  @Crazycatlady71  Let's say "or better". Because if covid is the hill those fools choose to die on, it's not like they haven't heard 18 months of news about it already.
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  6686. What a horrific price England will pay all so that some citizens wish they could turn the calendar back to simpler times, when the UK was a mighty & self-sufficient entity and brown people were seldom seen and never heard. They're England's version of the same people who voted in Trump in the US :(
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  6687.  @jayedwards6713  He closed the borders only to Chinese nationals. As if white Americans were magically incapable of bringing coronavirus back to the States. We know now what a flop that idea was :(
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  6688. Looks like Dump burned out another projector bulb: "Everyone can get tested" = only me and other really rich people can get tested all the time "Everyone can get the treatment I did" = it was available only to me and a handful of other people "It will be armageddon if Biden wins" = I'll be really upset if I can't be America's king forever "Democrats are stealing the election" = conservatives are the only ones getting arrested for voter fraud
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  6689. Trump fans tend to be messed-up people who want to have it both ways. They applaud Trump's racism, then say you're "divisive" when you call him out on it. They cheer him on when he says it's just a hoax that will go away soon, but they go hoard supplies that should be spread among many people. They love his lies about how he'll fix everything, then call you "partisan" when you point out that people still can't get those millions of "beautiful" tests, or that GM is in fact not making ventilators now. Trump fans are damaged goods.
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  6690. @Marlon - There's a certain subset of people in America who LIKE Trump specifically for those things. He realized that even before he began campaigning before the 2016 Republican campaign. These people are damaged. They LIKE the disdain for democracy and the rule of law- even though they have lived their whole lives being protected by such.
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  6691. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him.
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  6692. The interesting thing is that there's zero upside IRL in being anti-vax and anti-mask. The politicians who push that nonsense are of course all vaccinated themselves. Same for the bobbleheads at FOXed Noise and OANN and Newsmax. But for the individual people, it's a disaster. They're like the cavemen who smear themselves with raw meat and blood and wander outside blindfolded to screech about how bears and sabre tooth tigers are just "fake news" .. they're a genotype in the process of removing itself from the pool.
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  6693. The only reason the third klansman was there anyway was to catch video so they could all watch it on the big screen later and whoop it up. The racists need to go away and I'm past caring how.
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  6694. One of those two is a sharp businessman, and it's not Trump. Just saying.
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  6695. America has a lot more like Ashli. Deluded. Unhappy. Unmoored from reality. Blaming their troubles on others. Following the first cult leader that grabs their reins and pulls.
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  6696. Let's see if he tries the NRA defense when he's in trouble for the grenades. Something like this: "I'm a responsible bomb owner and would never actually use one to kill anyone. I use the explosives to protect my property and explode bombs in my back yard for fun. I can't help it if some nut gets their hands on a bomb. They would have just found another way to kill, say with a gun or something else. Bombs don't kill people. People kill people."
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  6697. Most people don't want Trump in office. The ones that do are f'ing batshit nuts, basically.
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  6698.  @Zorbakozak  45's value to Russia relies strictly on what he can do for them here. They have no use for him there.
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  6699. First he said that, then a little while later he said it was just sarcasm, then (as usual) he doubled down and said that he did say it for real. Another daily episode of "As the Trump Weathervane Turns".
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  6700. Where's Lavrov? Guessing he's been sedated a lot lately. His whining is almost the gold standard of pathetic complaints.
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  6701.  @makeracistsafraidagain  Trump let them out from under their rocks.
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  6702. It's great that covid cases are going down .. but .. I hope no one thinks it's mysteriously going away, like it wants to take a vacation in Mexico or it just got bored. It spreads by random people encountering random people - which is precisely what will happen when places reopen. Sigh.
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  6703. Trump is the town weathervane .. any passing breeze can point him in any given direction. I'd be surprised if the "great deal maker" didn't give away our 50 nuclear weapons during the meeting.
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  6704.  @Green_Moon77  Love working with camelias. They are picky about the sunlight, the soil, the moisture, etc, but well worth the effort.
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  6705.  @GOPexorcism-we4mp  He never wanted (or tried) to lead. He only wanted to rule. If he were in office this month, he'd be berating Maryland in general (and Baltimore in particular) for not voting for him, and use that as a reason to withhold federal aid for coping with the recent bridge disaster.
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  6706. Pretty sure their oath of service didn't include a disclaimer to engage in domestic terrorism as long as it lined up with FOXed Noise propaganda.
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  6707. Just last night, Trump assured everyone that it's safe to fly. Maybe he missed the news about that person who visited the hotspot in Kirkland then hopped on a standard passenger jet and flew to North Carolina, potentially exposing hundreds in the process. How many others visited the Life Care Center then traveled elsewhere?
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  6708. Correct. Tesla's are way slower. Can't even do mach 1. No armaments either.
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  6709. Clump: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor."
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  6710.  @UhtredOfBamburgh  Heck, LA metro area could take them.
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  6711. Republicans are more than game to dismantle the Constitution in order to overturn the will of the people. Madame Defarge is en route anyway.
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  6712.  @orchidorio  Good hunting ;)
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  6713. Working for Putin (and other chaos agents) is her [sometimes valuable] skill.
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  6714. Wussoline CANNOT call himself Mr Law-and-Order, not when he egged on armed gunmen who interrupted state capitols back in April and May.
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  6715.  @superyid2010  With stupendous amounts of US military aid, too. See "Stalin's War" by Sean McMeekin. Arms, ammunition, transport, supplies, food, boots, belts, etc.
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  6716. Yeah, they tried that in Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arizona. Being open means more human contact which means more spread.
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  6717. Keep dreaming. At least everything she's done was to save American lives - which this disease has taken a great many of. More than WW2 took. Those ninnies who didn't whine about their mumps/measles/rubella shots the way they're whining now? Mall cops are always hiring.
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  6718.  @Dodgers559  It's getting robo spammed. Three guesses who's behind it.
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  6719. It's about time. NY state has been crushing the curve via mandatory masks in public places.
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  6720. Unfortunately most every large US city has been seeing the same thing through 2020. And we're not out of this yet. https://www.npr.org/2021/01/03/952969760/2020-was-a-record-breaking-year-for-gun-related-deaths-in-the-u-s
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  6721.  @elmersglue6259  I fear the same. No doubt it would ease the worries of Team Crazy if there was some way to indefinitely postpone any possible attempt by the American public to vote them out of office in the future.
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  6722.  @Devildog0166  Sorry to hear that your case of Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced that you can't tolerate any criticism of Hair Fuhrer. Why don't you go take the MAGAtard challenge? Since this virus is just another liberal impeachment hoax anyway, why don't you go lick some car door handles in the WalMart parking lot so you can "own the libs"?
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  6723. Or like Trump referring to a supermodel as "fat" and "gross" when she gets just 5 lbs over her drop-dead weight. Like he should look in a mirror before using those terms.
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  6724. As sad as it is, they could have simply followed all the news about this thing to realize how serious it is. There's been at least 18 months of good news coverage on the pandemic. So, on the bright side, there will be more houses and jobs and stuff for the survivors.
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  6725. And here we are in year 4 of the Republicans being somehow magically OK with almost everything Trump does. Sweet Potato Hitler has a lot of help :(
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  6726. If I may add to what you wrote .. it was meant to be a continuing, improving experiment, but instead we largely froze the form of it long ago. Although our "Democracy 0.6" was innovative in the late 1700s, by the present era it's a dinosaur with very slow reflexes. More successful nations are running version 2.x. They would have removed a former guy overnight and had a replacement in by the following morning.
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  6727. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  6728. Any functioning adult 2020.
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  6729. Heck, those idiots do not even realize that when Clump tells the fable of the serpent at his cray-cray rallies, he's actually talking about himself in third person. They just think they're hearing a retelling of "Anaconda".
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  6730. Joe's feces have more class than Trump ever did, or can, or will.
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  6731. This is starting to look like 2016 all over again. Let's see if we should either A) Vote for the D candidate who may not be everything you want or like, or B) Vote for the other one. Mmmmm, tough choice.
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  6732. Well, he's still got Diamond & Silk, and if they use a ouija board they might be able to reach Herman Cain too.
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  6733. Mind you, this is the same party that bandied the phrase "legitimate rape" not too many years ago :(
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  6734. How would having guns help anyone "resist" coronavirus? It's too small to shoot.
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  6735.  Raven Rav  I am happy to drive you to a covid ward so you can see the people wheezing out their last on ventilators. In the USA, yesterday, someone died every 60 seconds as a result of this. If you're not blinded by your misconceptions, as it seems you are, you should open your eyes and do some research.
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  6736. Don't forget the part when on Friday, Nov 20 2020, Trump had two Michigan politicians flown to the White House so he could personally pressure them into changing the vote results. These were Michigan state senate majority leader Mike Shirkey (R) and Michigan state house speaker Lee Chatfield (R).
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  6737. Mooch (Scaramucci) said it best - Trump doesn't see people as people. He just sees them as objects in his field of vision. A total psychopath.
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  6738. The loonies in Oregon did the same thing repeatedly. Governor Kate Brown pursued policies that kept Oregon's covid case/death rates in the lowest 4-5 states consistently - yet the whackjobs are mad at that.
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  6739. Mr Scaramucci is an interesting study. He didn't last long down in the Upside Down, and he seems to have recovered somewhat from his experience there. Maybe there's a way to rescue some of the others who've been down there for longer?
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  6740. Count the guns, the crosses, the nazi flags, the confederate flags, the swastikas, and you'd assume that Donald Trump is the love child of David Duke and David Koresh, with Alex Jones as the midwife.
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  6741. If socialism is slavery of man by man, then capitalism must be the opposite. << sorry, recycling an old joke from Soviet Union days.
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  6742. No. Merrick Garland will let many months go by before he does anything. Different spanks.
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  6743. Unfortunately kids these days (some of them anyway) are getting a distorted view of adulthood: Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes!”
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  6744. Why yes. Here are some of the things he said at CPAC back in March 2023: “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice,” he said, speaking for just over 100 minutes from a bright blue and red stage in a cavernous ballroom at the closing speech of the CPAC event in Maryland. “Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution,” he said. “With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the war mongers... We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country … We will beat the Democrats. We will rout the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the Rinos [Republicans in name only]. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all,” he said. Trump threw red meat to the base: additional border wall construction and a massive increase in border patrols to stop the flow of illegal drugs, one day voting with paper ballots, a crackdown on trans rights and gender affirmation surgeries.
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  6745. They use icepicks for the Kremlin version of that game. Actually what he's really saying is to stop blowing up Russian stuff - which means we should send a whole lot more weapons. F him and F the goat he rode in on.
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  6746.  @thed3008  Dump is a champion at incriminating himself ;)
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  6747. Yes :( this is like turning on all your lights at night during the London Blitz because you've grown weary of blackout curtains. What the?
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  6748. During their intake process with 45, they walked past mountains of former flying monkeys who he had used then discarded, yet every new applicant was vain enough to think, "I'm special, he would never do that to ME even though he does it to everyone else".
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  6749. Dark Brandon probably wants a little time off, now and then, so perhaps he could bring back Obama for them to jointly rule while we wait for Trump to pass through the senescence and expiration phases.
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  6750. We have a few too many here like Esper. And I suspect that when it's their turn to be hauled before an international court, the excuse "I was just following orders" isn't going to count for much.
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  6751.  @rudai123  The first president to be impeached during a first term. "I'll have the best impeachment, nobody has a bigger or faster impeachment than me. People call me and say, sir, what a great impeachment." #WordSalad
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  6752. It's possible that he wanted even more of an opportunity than usual to claim he's the victim. He's beating that rug to death every day.
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  6753. Bingo. Trump is the arsonist who lights the town on fire, slices the tires on the fire trucks and blames it on Democrats, then declares that only he can fix the problem.
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  6754. @judith Just avoid those people for the time being. By way of accepting some total lies about the results of the election, they've put themselves into a pretty weird place. But please do keep an eye on them, lest they decide that the only sensible way out of their predicament is to go shoot up the local grade school or attack the post office. Because they got sucked into Trump's lies, everything is looking very strange now from their perspective. It's as if the rest of the country mysteriously somehow collectively agreed that there was no proof of election fraud, and that Biden will be the next president. If they rebel peacefully against the new reality, they'll be like that crazy lady who reads about chemtrails one day and then goes out spraying vinegar at the sky. Basically they're too proud to accept or admit that they got lied to, big time.
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  6755. When things are going good, Trump knows how to try to take credit for all of it, but when things are going bad, you know who he's going to blame.
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  6756.  SweetandSour  Listen, bozo, while I spell this out in terms simple enough for even you to understand: you sh*t birds are on the wrong side of history. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/domestic-terrorist-groups.html
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  6757.  @amiesparkle00  Most of them appear to be overweight boomers. Guess the user motorcycle market will be pretty good in 2 months, at least for people who like those oversized underpowered gas guzzlers.
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  6758. DILLIGAF?
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  6759. But - but - but - Hunter's laptop!
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  6760. And now HIMARS and ATACMS come for the transportation infrastructure of the invaders.
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  6761. Here's a daily reminder of why idiots shouldn't be in charge of anything important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  6762. Crying fraud every time is also going to cost them elections. And that's a very good thing.
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  6763.  laharl sama  Did you listen to the Lev Parnas dinner tape released lately? Listening to those idiots yabber about stuff they know nothing about, then make policy decisions from it, was nauseating. They are worse than the worst of communist party apparatchtiks.
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  6764. Too bad they didn't have the sense to commit suicide in a manner that would be less harmful to the interests and future of the USA :(
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  6765.  @ToolFist598  No, they did not. Check out the part about some states opting out of CDC notifications: https://apnews.com/article/355a58005d4f7c57978f6b7cba5dbd82
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  6766.  @ToolFist598  Nowhere did I say that Trump had to do those things personally. Here's the link for a history of his covid-related travel bans. At every step along the way, it said that US citizens were not subject to those restrictions. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/presidential-proclamation-coronavirus.html
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  6767. Nothing quite screams innocence like demanding to know the identity of the person who exposed your obvious corruption, all while you're hiding all the incriminating evidence and even bragging about it at Davos.
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  6768.  @lavatrip9344  "Bias" like fact-checking. Yeah like being told not to lie is just unbearable.
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  6769. No doubt. But if they're anything like this guy (gives off clues you couldn't possibly miss) then almost surely the FBI/ATF are already aware of them. Social media postings + text/email history + associations via physical location + purchase histories + media consumption profiles etc would define it clearly enough.
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  6770. Good morning Grandpa .. might want to check the news before you drag out the "sky is falling" trope. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/10/31/coronavirus-surge-hospitals-nurses-staff-bridge-care-gap/6081153002/
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  6771. Pretty sure we can rule out a balloon. Round things are perfect radar reflectors. The lift of a balloon is determined by its interior volume (to be filled with hydrogen) and a balloon the size of a small car would be lucky to carry a few hundred grams of net payload.
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  6772. When the reich-wing crazies talk about civil war, it's clear they're imagining operating in a vacuum of authority - or a complete absence of people who don't want their country set on fire just to appease the hurt feelings of the 2020 election loser.
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  6773. When Perry is in jail for his role in the bribery/extortion/corruption scheme in Ukraine, can someone please play back that segment for him? Helping people learn from their mistakes is a necessary part of that moving-on process.
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  6774. More like "gullible".
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  6775. When this sorry episode in our nation's history is over, I hope we look back and take stock of how many of our fellow Americans fell head-over-heels for an obvious criminal, a serial liar, a sociopath, a wannabe dictator etc who brought nothing but bile and angertainment.
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  6776. I wish Brad had baited Trump with a little quid-pro-quo just to get it on tape, with the bargain all spelled out.
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  6777. Thank God things are going back to normal. After four years of letting Trump do "acting" appointments in order to skip the confirmation hearing process, Republicans will return to normal by blocking lots of Biden appointments. After letting Trump ram through a SCOTUS judge in less than 8 weeks, Republicans will return to normal by telling Biden that even 24 months is much too short a time to appoint a SCOTUS judge. Couldn't possibly be scheduled any sooner. After four years of letting Trump trash every norm, rule, and law, Republicans will return to normal by insisting that Biden do things the way every other president before Trump did them.
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  6778. Mind you, it's not that Republicans are not OK with everything Trump has done to trash the USA, throw our diplomatic goodwill on the bonfire of his vanity, enable a virus to spread nearly unchecked, and raise the levels of divisive hate in the country. They are fine with all of that. But they don't like losing elections.
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  6779. Konstantin - about the cars - a friend of mine recently bought a Ural motorcycle with sidecar. The friend told me it's important to buy only model year 2007 or later, and that's because production of the bike was largely done in Taiwan with better labor and better components. Only the frame of the motorcycle and its fenders are made in Russia. The friend told me to avoid all earlier models since they're pure junk. I took it for a test spin. Late 1930s design, 4 speed air cooled boxer twin. My car gets better mileage than that thing.
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  6780.  Karen Byrd  There is a great deal of political hay to be made with the legend of the lost cause. Hitler again and again repeated the lie that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" at the end of WW1. I expect the Trumpanzees will do the same with the way they lost the 2020 election.
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  6781. It would have made more sense if it was spelled "freedumb" on the sign.
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  6782. They have a huge chip on their shoulder .. a huge, poor nation with a GDP that used to be the size of Italy's but is now contracting. The Russia of the future will be poorer, less populous, less healthy, and with a much smaller military.
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  6783. The circus exhibit should have included that "the vaccine made me magnetic" crazy woman.
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  6784. Just like the "peace deal" in Afghanistan totally excluded the Afghan people and government. Just like the "Palestinian peace deal" completely left Palestinians out of the negotiations.
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  6785. You're talking about the old-style vaccines. The covid vaccines are something new, messenger RNA type.
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  6786. Same thing in Oregon. People seem to be thinking that if it's not the lead story in the news, and Netflix is still running, and Whole Foods is still open, this is not a problem. Things far away often look tiny even when they're still coming right at you :(
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  6787. Let the leopards feast.
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  6788. You gotta wonder how those former Teabillies would have reacted if, during the many Benghazi investigations (attempted election turnovers, that is) that never found anything anyway, Obama had withheld evidence, forbade staffers from testimony, hidden all relevant documents and witnesses from investigation. Would they have screeched that a sitting president isn't above the law? Oh my. They've got the memory span of moths :(
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  6789. Trump's fanboys will just attack the prison anyway to "liberate" him.
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  6790. Fantastic interview. Hope you have him back regularly for followup. He and Konstantin are excellent.
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  6791. Indeed, tolerating intolerance is how societies take themselves down.
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  6792. Let me guess. Trump only wants to undo election results that shifted offices from R to D, but not the other way around.
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  6793. Some never see their cult for what it us until they're gasping their last after having some Jim Jones (tm) special Kool Aid.
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  6794. Yeah. I used to wonder how Hitler did the same in 1930s Germany. After witnessing the last 11 years in the US, I don't wonder anymore :(
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  6795. Cheerleaders are sexy and have moves. He's more like that ugly, miserable drunk uncle who shouts at the TV all the time and prefers crank conspiracy theories.
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  6796. Oh, I was assuming all along that the assassination happened because Trump asked MBS for it as a favor. Mr Khashoggi was critical of Trump's regime (with good cause), and was a type of person who Trump publicly loathed - someone from that part of the world coming to America, getting a green card, trying to become an American citizen. Presumably they arranged the hit over WhatsApp or some other backchannel.
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  6797. You are correct about the nation needing to heal, but in truth the current problems (exclusive of covid) were aflame years ago, before Trump poured high-test gasoline all over them. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  6798. Nothing? By mid-summer of 2021, US advisors were already in Ukraine teaching the locals how to run counterintelligence the CIA way .. how to train their people to be effective guerilla and/or stay-behind units .. and by then the US had ramped up to 3 shifts production of Javelins. All of this came in handy when Russia's crack airborne group, the VDV, were unable to take the Kyiv airport. It was just too hot for them.
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  6799.  @JDDC-tq7qm  Apparently Russia's war planners had been misled to believe that the invading troops would be welcomed. Oops. Someone flipped a sign somewhere.
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  6800. Sending other folks' kids to die is the highest aspiration of a draft-dodger who's wormed into a position of power. DC is full of that type.
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  6801. Apparently there is also a lot of smoking very close to some truly enormous reserves of vodka. Stay warm, comrades ;)
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  6802.  @abdullahcelik8060  War is just an economic struggle by more kinetic means. And the fact that the tanks are expensive and slow to make, then get defeated by drones or other munitions that are cheaper and much faster to make, means that Russia is much disadvantaged in the struggle. Things will get much worse in Russia before they are forced to give up their Ukraine misadventure and go home. It is only a matter of when the ruling class there injects Putin with something, sticks him in front of the camera, has him read a script telling the troops to all come home, etc, then he disappears to someplace else, never to be seen again. That time is coming.
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  6803. The same thing (targeted AI propaganda) is happening in a number of other countries. Not good. Personally I regard social media as a cancer, and haven't got a WasteBook account for that very reason.
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  6804. Whoops, looks like the Trump family & FOXed-and-friends pump-and-dump stock play has reached its natural conclusion. How much did they make off this false hope?
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  6805. Trump exists in a strange new political "goldilocks zone" that we never knew existed, dumb enough to incriminate himself constantly yet clever enough to gain the support of the dumbest and most treasonous people in America. Live and learn.
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  6806. So here in the USA, it costs a person $3500 to get the coronavirus test. In most every other country (including China, S Korea, Italy, etc) this test is FREE. In some places, you can even schedule a drive-through test for free. But then, those countries don't let a predatory monopoly set prices for things.
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  6807. To add: if the US were as flagrant at spending on public health as it is on vanity projects (our ginormous military presence; that stupid border wall; imprisoning Hispanics; maintaining the world's largest prison system; corporate welfare) then things wouldn't be quite so bad. But the USA is a place where it's OK to use government money to build walls but not OK to use government money to test people.
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  6808.  @BabbyCat3008  Considering that he was railing to execute the Central Park Five long before they'd been proven innocent (something only a Klan member would cry for) you'd have to say that Trump could have been a DINO and then only by the slenderest of margins. Even way back then he was courting the conservative nutterati.
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  6809. US passports will be good again someday, thanks to the actions of the Biden team, but MAGAstani terrorists will never be welcome anywhere.
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  6810. Like Fox Mulder for flying saucers, they desperately "want to believe" all the nonsense they hear from FOXed, OANN, Newsmax, Alex Jones, whatever, even though none of it is actually true.
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  6811.  @pdoylemi  Re "Yeah, but they have most of the guns" << No, they don't. They don't even has most of the ammo either. Or veterans. And there are a shit ton of veterans who are very pissed off about these attempts to overthrow the government - people who are well aware that their oath to the constitution has no expiration date on it.
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  6812. Meal Team Six and the Oaf Tweakers may have a bad day if they try anything. Got popcorn?
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  6813.  @2beanburritos  I know :( If it were up to me, I'd throw the book at them. Maximum possible penalties for public endangerment (called reckless endangerment in some places). And if they deliberately cough or spit or breathe heavy on anyone, add bioterrorism to the charges.
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  6814. Too bad Operation Varsity Blues didn't come along a few years earlier. She'd be on the pole instead of showing off her educated stupidity.
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  6815. He's a traitor, pure and simple. Through his words he caused many to get sickened, and many to die. He won't show up for the funerals of his listeners. He won't help the families who've lost their providers. All he wanted was media share, and he got it by putting his listeners in the way of harm.
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  6816. Her correct name is Kay Lie.
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  6817. To be fair, it wasn't a "failure" to Trump and his brownshirts because the highest death tolls were in blue states. However, thanks to his continued downplaying of the dangers of the pandemic, millions more will die, and lots of them in red states that are underserved by healthcare resources -- as well as the older demographic that's the biggest chunk of his nutball base.
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  6818. Already done. He cost them the House back in 2018, then the Senate and the presidency in 2020. His own popular vote loss went from 3 million in 2016 to 8 million in 2020. All he does is lose. But they're too busy sucking the tailpipe to notice where he's taking them.
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  6819.  @samdog8087  Excellent.
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  6820. Polls and election results are two different things. The relationship between them is sort of like who you want to date vs who you want to marry. And let's not forget, NO ONE in the country will be safe from or immune from the chaos and retribution he's promising, not even his most ardent followers. Notice how the people who voted for funny mustache guy in 1932 Germany suffered exactly the same fates as those who did not.
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  6821. Correct. Their responses to a blue tsunami of votes will be things like a) installing faithless electors in swing states who can be counted on to vote opposite the popular vote, b) having Amy Handmaid's Tale (that's her correct name) help rule in Sweet Potato Hitler's favor when he contests the election results all the way to the Supreme Corp, and maybe even c) having his Proud Mama's Boy / militia nutters commit acts of violence against people trying to vote. The conservatives are in it to have their little Nazi putsch. I don't put anything past them.
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  6822. Notice how Trump's mini-me Balsonaro was so childish as to skip out on the inauguration of the next president? Can't wait to see Trumpism go the way of last year's snow.
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  6823. Left it a long time ago. It's a cesspit of nonsense.
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  6824. I was kind of surprised he didn't segue into the low-flow toilets and the cancer-causing windmills and other word salad staples.
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  6825. We got some of that in the Americas too - another dumping ground for Commonwealth criminals back in the day.
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  6826. Am I the only one highly amused that some conservatives like to fondle their firearms and talk big about how the 2A exists to prevent tyranny, but then they completely ignore actual tyranny when Trump refuses to follow the law then subverts the judicial and the senate to protect himself? Guess those militias were just an excuse for the billybobs to get together and bitch about that "dictator" Obama :(
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  6827. It's because that's not what's happening. This emergency has brought out Putin's trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  6828. Hitler used to have this elite corps of bodyguards, all with that Aryan look. Did Maddie get plastic surgery to look like a pinhead Nazi?
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  6829. Re "had to waste resources and time on this fool" << Maybe insurance companies will be able to claw back some of that for the fools who willingly chose not to vaccinate, then racked up a fortune in healthcare costs.
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  6830. Correct. https://khn.org/news/thousands-of-minks-dead-as-covid-outbreak-escalates-on-utah-farms/
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  6831.  @EdwardTunilla-zn2ch  The wool is going to be on sale all next year as it keeps dropping off the eyes of total fools.
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  6832. I believe the Dems have already tried an impeachment. Remember last year? The Republican response was not to hear any witnesses.
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  6833. Thus begins another 4 years of the Cheeto saying, "I take no responsibility for this" even though he probably just canceled air traffic controller pay.
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  6834. Just throwing the book at them is much too kind. They also need to be beaten unconscious with it.
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  6835.  @pimphandduke8447  Perfect!
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  6836. That being said, it was good of him to flush out those among us who are susceptible to such influences. People who, unbeknown to the rest of us, would make fine blind cult members and who could be persuaded (through the flimsiest propaganda that wouldn't fool any 8yo with an internet connection) to harm their own nation. It is really good to know exactly who those people are.
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  6837. If this were WW2, they'd have names like Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, or Lord Haw-Haw.
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  6838.  @eileennovak1656  I hear you. But may I offer up an alternative vision? Just imagine a society of people who were actually rational, thinking people. Folks not prone to anti-science sentiments, folks who aren't easily misled, folks who would question it if you were to try telling them something nutty/improbable/impossible. Our nation could be just like that. We just have to let a lot of the stupid ones off themselves. I just wish they'd do it in some manner that doesn't clog up the hospitals.
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  6839.  @johnmcpherson9744  The Canadians say "elbows up" at times like this. What do Ozzies say that's like that? Just curious.
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  6840. I can't imagine how anyone would even remotely have trouble believing that Trump would do that. When it comes to seeking personal power at any cost (even if it destroys America) he's as transparent as fine optical glass.
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  6841.  @williamspell2192  Just curious, which state do you live in?
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  6842. That's kind of mean to make fun of the thought processes they clearly haven't got. Like when you ask them how deporting all the trans kids would fix inflation, and they look at you with this moon-faced expression ..
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  6843. Actually it takes more like 40 days for the true viral spread impact (of a given social event) to be seen. That was the time between the peak attendance of Mardi Gras and the peak in new cases related to the virus spread at Mardi Gras. A lot of those whacktard protesters just made their appointments with the coroner.
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  6844.  @mummys_boy_  I've been wondering about that too. My former work (which won't be returning within a year or more, probably) was high in face-to-face contact. I have no doubt that by getting exposed to every little cold that blew through town, my immune system became more robust. I grew up on a farm and we were not very picky about cleanliness. I spend a lot of time outdoors in the woods.
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  6845. @Mainely May I use that?
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  6846.  Erik Olsson  But you're talking about something that less than one tenth of a percent of the population engages in, regardless of political leaning. In the grand scheme of things, they're not even a bug stain on the windshield. Maybe they need to get it out of their systems.
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  6847. Trump's supporters got divorced from reality awhile back .. you won't see any sense from them. They'll be showing up in mental health facilities for years to come after this.
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  6848. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  6849. @Ian Campbell Why bother? It's like a giant science experiment. Let 'em have their fun. In 40 days we'll know what happened.
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  6850.  @CuZtuga  That is PERFECT! These anti-covid-vaxxers are the same people who would have insisted on leaving all their lights on at night, with the blinds open, during the London Blitz, while whining about their "freedumbs" as Nazi bombs rained down on them and their city. Or in Norway, they would have been the Quislings working to destroy their democracy. They all got hung after the war, and left swinging as an example.
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  6851. Oh yes. They are "saving" America the same way stage 4 cancer "saves" a person :(
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  6852. Next thing you know, you'll be on a crusade against cigarettes and lotto tickets.
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  6853.  @hypernorm4802  For a long time after WW2, American Nazis were afraid to speak up or be seen. They knew that people would storm them just like those beaches got stormed on D-Day, and no one would shed a tear over their swift and brutal demise. I don't recall the laws ever having been changed to say that Nazis are somehow protected.
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  6854. Turning most of America into a hell-hole has long been the goal of Republicans. Just not the gated enclaves where they live.
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  6855. I prefer presidents who aren't psychopaths, completely devoid of empathy or humility. Vote blue 2020!!
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  6856. Sadly, Trump and his cronies make GWB and his people look like intelligent, thoughtful, fact-based politicians.
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  6857.  @briankeebler4634  And these are the same people (former Tea Party nutters) who spent 8 long years shrieking that Obama was a dictator and violating the constitution, even if they couldn't explain exactly how.
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  6858. China would like to thank Trump for his non-participation in global politics while they increased their economic reach even as that of the USA diminished due to self-inflicted economic wounds. All thanks to the guy who just got voted out :(
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  6859. Kraken lady claimed that her informant was an anonymous gal who emailed her claiming to be an internally-decapitated time-traveling ghost. Huh. Wonder if that gal was just trolling Sidney 😅
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  6860. For a preview of how this process works, check out the Aral Sea disaster.
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  6861.  @nouseforaname.1364  Awww, sorry your feefees got hurt.
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  6862.  @WAEVOICE  Thanks for showing off your ignorance. Are you perhaps unable to read?
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  6863.  @MrDXRamirez  that same thing remains and unsolved problem here in the US. The forces that put Trump in the big chair are the same forces that spent 8 long years shrieking over tan suits, chemtrails, Benghazi. Until they shuffle offstage or get dragged back to common reality, there's the potential that things much worse than Trump could assume power here.
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  6864. The US has more than 15 military bases in Korea. At some point it will be necessary to impose mandatory quarantine on all US military personnel returning from there, whether they show signs or not.
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  6865. Perhaps everyone (entering the premises will need to sign a waiver in case some "legitimate gunfire" between legislators could affect them.
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  6866.  @discworldfan  (love the handle, BTW) "Bigger. Greener. More teeth."
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  6867. That new variant covid must be here already .. it's been in the country since mid-October. When folks choose not to wear masks, and they hang out with other people doing the same, just consider it to be nature's way of letting the dumbest cull themselves from the herd.
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  6868. June 9, 2024 at a rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And they cheered :(
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  6869. Was it not superabundantly clear prior to the 2020 elections that both these (sorry) twats were nothing but serial hucksters?
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  6870. I paged Madame Theresa Defarge awhile back. She should be along shortly. There's work to do here.
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  6871. @Jack Stefan Good thing I have time on my hands to explain basic things to the whackjobs of the right. If you're so convinced this thing is a hoax, then go to New York to work in a front line hospital. That should cure you of whatever mental illness keeps you from seeing things as they are. As of April 1, the US had 5,102 dead. 24 days later that number is 54,256 dead. Why are you so eager for more Americans to die from this thing?
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  6872. @Jack Stefan You're still wrong on all counts, including where I am and what my political affiliation is. Gosh, you're dense. Nebraska currently has the highest percentage case rate acceleration in the country .. and it's farmland. Actually most of the states that didn't lock down are now spiking in growth rates. It's almost as if (wait for it) there's a highly communicable disease going around.
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  6873. All this summer and fall, you could travel around rural places in the western US and see the same things. Whole towns where almost no one was wearing a mask .. instead they were hanging out big signs whining about "abuse" from the governor. At some stores and restaurants, no one was wearing masks, and sometimes the store owner said not to bother with the masks. Now it's all coming home to roost :(
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  6874. The only kind of people Trump likes are the kind who will set themselves on fire for him.
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  6875.  @jrraven3230  Regarding "see you in a few years when none of this BS worked and things are worse then they are now" - have you got any proof of this? The kind that would stand up to cross-examination in court by experts? Guessing not. But then, there are plenty of fools in America who trust some nobody, posting videos from their darkened basement, over the professionals with decades of experience solving epidemics. Hope you're not one of those same fools, or, if you are, that you recover from it in time to do something about it.
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  6876.  @jrraven3230  "the proof is in the future" << So you admit your so-called "proof" hasn't happened yet? Are you clinically insane or something?
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  6877.  @jrraven3230  Oh no, us adults like to rub in the burn sometimes too. You didn't have a single sensible thing to say anyway, like a true science-denying fool. Go ahead, be a covid corpse for all I care. The trash sometimes takes itself out.
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  6878. In retrospect, we should perhaps thank Trump for moving through society like a big litmus test and illuminating which so-called Americans are most easily turned into willing fifth columnists. And if we run out of jail space for them, build some camps. But they don't belong in general circulation. And we cannot let them pretend they had nothing to do with the last four years.
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  6879. That's like saying, "Since I can't have the tasty cupcake I want, instead of bread with jam I'll just choose a muffin made of broken glass." Don't let better become the enemy of good.
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  6880. Correct. What's coming next from the Republican party will be much, much worse. So now the rest of us are in that unwelcome zone where we must spend every other year of our free time organizing to register everyone to vote, and making sure that people have not been disenfranchised by the Republicans, all just to make sure a center-right Democrat party wins the elections.
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  6881.  @jeff_725  Sorry I changed my comment radically during that time .. thought of something better to say.
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  6882. After 3+ long years of failing to curb Trump's excesses and his attempts to reach for the powers that belong to Congress (not to mention the hints about canceling elections, and the blatant attempts to hijack the upcoming election) Republicans are somehow surprised that Trump is trying to act like a king? Cry me a river, build a bridge over it, and jump from the bridge, Republicans. You had your chance.
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  6883. @anny791 To add - there is a lag of about a month between when an event happens and when the peak of the related cases appear on the radar. Use Mardi Gras (New Orleans) as an example. The festival ended 2/25, but the peak zone of related cases didn't take place until 3/28 - 4/12, and at the peak there were above 2,000 new cases per day hitting the system. We need to move slowly and carefully on this.
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  6884.  @selfishcapitalist3523  You forgot the sarcasm tags. Also, have you had any luck encouraging society to go back to Dickensian style living? The modern form of it can be seen in Somalia.
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  6885.  @justanotheroldguy738  Perfect and thanks! Governments SHOULD be investing in worker cooperatives anyway. Strong unions (and the working conditions created by them) are the backbone of the middle classes.
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  6886. That's all I'm expecting. He is counting on there being no video of the court proceedings, so that he can tell a different version to his followers.
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  6887. Sounds like Texas is well on its way to being a failed state. They tried that no-regulations hardly-any-government thing in Somalia already anyway.
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  6888. The short answer is that they never were free speech warriors .. they were just political hacks, like the lowliest commie apparatchik to ever vehemently swear that comrade Stalin never had anyone killed and that the Soviet Union was the most perfect country ever.
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  6889.  @CherylSimser  Right. He was determined to destroy the people if he couldn't be leader. Trump seems to think similarly .. for awhile now he's been covid's best friend and useful idiot.
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  6890.  @jenniferwagner876  Trump's behavior makes sense if you assume Putin pays him a bounty for every hundred Americans who catch covid.
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  6891.  @livefreehurtno1  Behold the power of an obvious cult member over folks with smooth minds.
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  6892. It would seem that the voters of Arizona chose correctly. No one needs or wants a governor who'd go along with ending the rule of law, in complete contradiction to her oath of office.
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  6893. You're nice to put it that way. I say it's more like the trash taking itself out.
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  6894.  @richardlanahan8089  Re "and James Carville is" << is not under subpoena, and hasn't been a member of Trump's wannabe fascist takeover. But don't keep expecting me to tell you things that you should be able to figure out yourself in under a minute of reading.
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  6895. Talk about rising to the occasion. Instead of taking a ride out, he asked for weapons and ammo. He didn't go to school for how to be a leader during time of attack.
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  6896. That bridge is useful now only for Russians to retreat on. And they better get moving before the thing gets destroyed.
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  6897. About that "both parties are useless" nonsense. One party attempted to overthrow democracy and end the rule of law. They're not any more equally bad than cancer and chemotherapy are. As the cult leader hisself put it: "The stage 4 liver cancer was aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." 😅
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  6898. History remembers what happened to the last declared Aryan nation :(
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  6899.  @theheretic3764  As usual for your kind, you are COMPLETELY wrong. Here's some examples of Republican outrage over Obama wearing a tan suit or using mustard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/15-ridiculous-moments-fox-news-attacked-barack-obama.html/ Do you perhaps have the attention span of a gnat?
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  6900.  @theheretic3764  Nope, no president has ever forced a redo of the election he lost. Nor has a president ever used the force of martial law to try the same. Have you never been in the same room as a history book?
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  6901.  @theheretic3764  Thanks for the laughs. Seriously. A username like that is wasted on you. All you've presented so far is evidence of why people who're many fries short of a happy meal are the ones who like Trump, and vice versa. Among the ludicrous things you've shared here so far, the whopper was about why judges that Trump appointed himself keep tossing out the evidence-free junk lawsuits brought by Team Trump. In this regard you and the others are displaying perfect escalation of commitment (formerly referred to as the psychology of prior investment) .. at every step you must make up ever-more-implausible stories about why things didn't go the way you said they would. Got any evidence that the judges tossed Trump's supposedly-legit cases because they were "afraid of riots"? You're not really good at understanding much, are you? Thanks again for the laughs. Edit: Camaro - how tacky. Like the Firebird, it was the vehicle of choice (when available) for 30something incels who kept wanting to redo their HS years with girls not quite old enough to ride off in their ewwwww-mobiles.
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  6902.  @botnsol-0  Guessing Trump doormat Alex Azar is going to follow his predecessor Tom Price in that regard -- the same Tom Price who abused his expense accounts and who approved the Whitefish Energy scandal. As Laura Ingraham said back in 2017, “It’s hard to see how a cabinet secretary can drain the swamp from 42,000 feet in the plush interior of a taxpayer-funded Gulfstream 4.”
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  6903.  @botnsol-0  I was interpreting her/his post as a lame attempt at humming the "both parties are the same" tune now that Trump's momentary post-RNC ratings bump has disappeared.
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  6904.  @cuttingwitjason7195  She looks like she's been cowering in their aboveground bunker, conditioned by FOXed Noise to think of anyone darker than her golf pants as an enemy :(
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  6905. Boss Putin must be happy. This is more than he expected from his employee.
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  6906. If they're even Americans, the people still shilling for Trump (after all this incompetence) are collaborators and should be treated as such, just like the French did with their Vichy people, just like the Norwegians did with Quisling's people.
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  6907. Republicans give themselves a free pass on that.
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  6908. Poor Iraq. What a price they will pay (for decades) to entertain US delusions of grandeur and nation-building and democracy-bringing. To this date, the yellowcake, WMDs, and mobile WMD labs still have not been found - the putative excuses given at the time for invading Iraq.
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  6909. If you like Trump so much, you can go visit him in jail. SDNY has rights on that particular perp as soon as he's out of office.
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  6910. JJdogbutte, it's a good thing the adults were in charge back when Pearl Harbor got bombed. If America had the kind of Karens then that it has now, all kinds of people would be sitting out the war effort, and we may have ended up all speaking German due to the lack of participation. In like manner, having a lot of people abstaining from solving the pandemic more quickly just results in a prolonged pandemic.
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  6911. I have often wondered how many forms that Russian pressure takes, not just in economic ways but also cultural and social.
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  6912. The nice part is, the ones who depart soon will merely serve to raise the general IQ of the surviving population.
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  6913. Somehow FOXed Noise hasn't yet told their sheeple about it. I've messaged FOXed watching people who seem flabbergasted to look it up and find that he was impeached on Dec 18th.
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  6914. Could have also been SS agents "embedding" with the militias.
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  6915. Trump: "Let them eat fake!"
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  6916. Notice how the 2nd and 3rd in line of succession (Pence & Pelosi) were on the mob's kill list, but the 4th and 5th were not - Chuck Grassley and Mike Pompeo.
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  6917. Those who the gods destroy, first they make proud.
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  6918. The crazies haven't taken over anything that didn't already want to be taken over by crazies. After two generations of listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching FOXed Noise, then four years of Trump's wild lies, reality is the cold shower they don't want to take. They got off the bus a long ways back.
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  6919. Boomer rage is a real thing.
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  6920. Let's be clear: the whistleblower is just the delivery guy for information on the Ukraine call. A far more direct way of getting to the heart of the matter would be making public the actual transcript of the call. Good people of the free press - you know what to do.
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  6921. Jerry Rivers (his actual name) needs to dance with the one that brung him.
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  6922.  @fooman2108  And now we here the Italians were secretly manipulating it through satellites? Why not the Jewish space lasers? FFS these people are batshit looney.
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  6923. Watching the diehard Trumpanzees sabotage their fellow Republicans in Georgia (for the "crime" of not supporting Trump's attempt to overturn the election results) is like watching the trash take itself out.
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  6924.  @phildoodler2199  Thus speaks the fool who can't acknowledge the reality of things he doesn't like. Your approach to unwelcome facts is traight out of Trump's playbook - anything you don't like is "fake news". The solution in Indonesia was quite efficient: those who deny the reality of the virus get to help dig graves for all the virus victims. I hear it takes less than 2 weeks for that type of therapy to help people recover their senses.
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  6925. Wonder how the North Dakota economy is going now, with the worst state-scale outbreak in the whole country at 61,920 cases per million? The governor there is in lockstep with Sweet Potato Hitler and refuses to issue a mask mandate. There's gonna be a lot of used stuff there (trucks, houses, toys) coming on the market in the next year or so.
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  6926. He also said this - “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  6927. Glad to hear that the Oxford vaccine is getting through the approval process. If it's that cheap, we could roll it out to every Walgreens/CVS in the USA and just do walk-in appointments.
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  6928. Another good topic would be "How not to fall for the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat". Sadly, Americans take to misinformation like carp take to nasty river bottoms. Winston Churchill was being too kind when he said that Americans will do the right thing only after they've exhausted all other possibilities.
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  6929. Putin's forces are about to get kicked out of Ukraine's eastern provinces. Couldn't happen to a better bunch. Big thanks to Putin for making NATO membership more popular than ever, and for revealing Russia to be more a member of the G40 than the G8.
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  6930. "V for Vendetta" (2005) and then it was used by the Anonymous hacker collective. Hoping those people make public all of those "perfect" Trump phone call log hidden away on that secret server. Like Mulvaney said, "we do this all the time".
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  6931. Bingo. The US isn't threatening sanctions against every ally who buys the S-400 system (Turkey, India) just to hear the sound of its own voice.
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  6932. This topic is most interesting, given that the most visible example of what Republicans claim they want (low or no taxes; very little regulation; guns and religion everywhere; etc) is Somalia. And ironically Somalia is doing much better containing the virus than the USA is, even though it's a violent hellhole that most US corporations don't want to move to.
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  6933.  @JesFos  My family is all immigrants, so I support going full Negan on racist assholes caught doing that kind of bias crime. Don't even bother trying up law enforcement resources for something the community can take care of.
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  6934. Hopefully Mr Modi will not fall out of a window now because he told Putin the truth. Seems to be happening a lot in Russia these days.
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  6935. I see now that we must all work to turn out the vote in every election. If America had 85%+ turnout in every election, the Republican party would go away, just like a miracle, it will go away on its own.
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  6936. I go over there to troll them. It's like visiting a Y'all Qaida madrassas in rural Idaho :(
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  6937. Repiblicans don't consider unfactual things to be lies .. I believe they call such things "rhetorical hyperbole". Examples: Saying that Obama was a secret Muslim from Kenya with a tribal mentality, a socialist agenda, and a faked birth certificate. Saying that the real crimes in Ukraine were done by the Bidens. Saying that Trump is perfect. Etc.
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  6938. To be fair, Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw-Haw, and Axis Sally all had their runs on the air. And then they got their consequences. Steve is due for his. Got popcorn?
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  6939. My favorite place just opened for take-out only so I am there as often as possible and tipping the staff heavily.
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  6940. Usually it's a Darwin Award when you kill off yourself (by making stupid choices) before reproducing. Maybe they need a special new category for people who kill off their own children in order to toe the party line on covid and vaccines and masks.
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  6941. You can't fix stupid .. but you can make sure to send them "thoughts & prayers" when they're wheezing away on a ventilator.
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  6942. Works great for treating some mammals for parasitic worms and head lice.
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  6943.  @jimk8520  Bingo. This is America. You don't like a politician, vote them out in the next election. Not death threats. If people think that's normal, they should move to Somalia.
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  6944. Been trying to find that detail. They were led by Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots Action. Their news page reads like an alt-Onion page: https://www.teapartypatriotsaction.org/category/news/
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  6945. Actually you CAN do tourism during a time of virus. They just have to use thermal scanners to spot who's developing a fever and hustle them out of town before the rest of the symptoms emerge. It will just produce lots of covid cases going back to their home towns is all :(
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  6946.  @evawurttemberger4994  On the plus side, they're unvaxxed and passing Delta among themselves. In a dark room, somewhere in the hospital basement, there's a ventilator waiting for each of them - and after that, cremation.
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  6947.  @evawurttemberger4994  Can't agree too much with you about how it's dark. Fascism is a pretty dark spectre itself, and right now those same nutters are only too happy to set our nation on a path that will lead to its destruction - all to please the vanity of a manbaby whose feelings were hurt by election losses. Sure, covid is bad, but so's a nation of barbed-wire camps. Perhaps you know of Sophie Scholl? One of the things she and her friends wished for was that they had started fighting fascism sooner and a lot harder.
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  6948. Watching them walk, like zombies, through the rest of their lives (unhirable; no one will want to touch them with a 20 foot pole) might actually wake some of them up to the evil they enabled.
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  6949. Meanwhile, in some places there was a run on tinfoil after he uttered the words "new world order".
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  6950.  @ralphmelton4182  Trump DID have his flying monkeys at DOJ work to classify Antifa as terrorists .. although of course they took right-wing death squads off the terror list, go figure.
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  6951. Why .. it's just as if there really was a raging pandemic when they held Sturgis. Who could have known? /sarcasm
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  6952. Snake Island belongs to Ukraine! And if Ukraine should choose to let the US Navy put a base there, just let us know :) From America with love :)
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  6953. Is this anything like the way he stopped having coronavirus press briefings and the virus magically went away? (hint: it didn't) Wussolini fails the object permanence test. Usually babies get past that at ages ranging for 4 to 8 months.
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  6954. Cultists should not be anywhere in government. Would be safer for everyone if they were in special camps actually.
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  6955.  @TragoudistrosMPH  Which means the Republicans knew about his doings, but somehow thought that had no bearing on the inquiry.
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  6956.  @Damacles9  Looks like America isn't yet done with the job of cleaning up Nazis.
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  6957. Since this is capitalist America, you can count on the airlines gladly taking the corporate socialism money, laying off their workers anyway, and continue to ship virus all over the country.
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  6958.  @ws2228  That's the best you've got. Huh.
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  6959.  Badger Colony  I made a big batch of popcorn in anticipation.
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  6960. @Valerie from Oregon A hanky over your face (bandit style) will suffice to keep you from potentially spreading droplets to others. Are you maybe thinking of a full face gas mask when you say they're hard to breathe through? Here is how much the curve can be crushed through plain cloth masks such as hankies: https://imgur.com/aZawM9i
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  6961.  @webranger1962  Congratulations on your good luck so far - because that's all it is. This is an infectious disease. It spreads when people congregate. What part of that has somehow miraculously escaped your notice? Edit: you might want to check your info. https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Klamath-County-reports-first-death-linked-to-coronavirus-the-second-in-southern-Oregon-571586631.html
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  6962.  @beardedbill7047  They ended up being used in unarmed support roles. https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/what-is-the-role-the-national-guard-plays-in-portland/
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  6963. Try not paying your property taxes to see how far that "fees are tyranny" thing gets you.
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  6964. When news of the outbreak in China first reached everyone back in January, most Americans blithely assumed (don't know how) that the extraordinary measures needed to quell the outbreak there were necessary only because of some gross local incompetence. And then when it happened in NYC, a lot of people all over the country (especially those that vote differently from most NYC'ers) scoffed and made excuses about how it happened only because of the dense living & public transit there or because people were careless.
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  6965.  @EdgewiseSJ  Florida and NY have similarly-sized populations, but Florida just blew past NY in terms of maximum new cases per day. In 4-5 weeks that will be translating into another kind of rate :(
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  6966. To paraphrase a saying from Europe .. if you've got a traitor sitting down at a table with three collaborators, what you've got there is four traitors at a table. Time to start treating them as such.
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  6967.  @fkknight1  The first was ~3 million, the second was ~7million. If the growth rate (in voter dissatisfaction) is flat, 45's loss could be around 11million. If it's exponential, however, it could be around 20million.
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  6968. A fitting coda to Cheeto's earlier lies about draining the swamp. Instead, he made it into a deluxe reptile resort.
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  6969. It's nice that the banks and Wall Street can go have a big expensive circle jerk while 100+ million now-unemployed Americans are scrambling to pay their bills. Hint: you can't hose down a raging stock market fire with paper money. They've already shoveled, what, 3+ trillion dollars into that fire? Jeez. That would be $9000+ per adult/child/whatever.
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  6970. No surprise, Dump acted like America's drunk Fox News uncle on Thanksgiving, ranting, whining, insulting, threatening. Except it's not an act!
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  6971.  @queensrule4450  It's like this: Shooting people with a gun is a crime. Therefore, Texas is going to aggressively deny medical treatment for anyone shot with a gun and put bounties on doctors treating gunshot wounds. And as an afterthought, have the governor make an unaccountable and vague promise to remove all shooters from the streets without any specific plan on how that's going to happen.
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  6972. Everyone: Coronavirus is out there, we can't resume business-as-usual just yet. College: You delusional, Trump-hating fools, you're just trying to destroy the president's chances of re-election! Fake news!! Coronavirus; Fresh meat! ;) College: Whoops.
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  6973. Even though it's a slam-dunk impeach-and-remove case for a president to interfere with the integrity of free elections, Republicans won't stop it. Republicans are clearly in need of some harsh wake-up medicine, maybe like the kind that loyal Nazis got during the winter of 1945-1946, when it became clear that their fanatical loyalty to a lying, conniving, corrupt leader is what helped their Fuhrer visit such ruin upon Germany.
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  6974. Someday it'll be nice having a president who doesn't use the "14 point of fascism" meme as a to-do list.
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  6975.  @pmac1951  One wonders if some of the guilty ones (like Sidney Powell) suffered a Saramucci-esque wakeup call as to the nature of the black hole they'd been protecting. It may be slow arriving, but justice is coming for everyone who helped Trump attempt to steal the election. And many of them know damn well what's coming for them. They will never be able to practice law again, or work anywhere in government. Many will wind up behind bars. They will never again have normal lives. This is going to cling to them.
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  6976. Funny how right-wingers think it's a "coup" when Congress questions Trump's mental stability, yet think it's normal when Trump calls for his political opponents to be jailed. I'm starting to lose concern for whether Trump's fine people serve their time in prison, in mental homes, or in cemeteries.
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  6977. This "plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Code name "Lebensraum"
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  6978. When you see all those Trump flags, guns, and other conservative trappings -- yeah, must be Antifa. /sarc
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  6979. All this time we were afraid of a Manchurian Candidate, but instead we've got a Muscovite Incumbent :(
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  6980. Being already familiar with narcissistic psychopaths, I was honestly expecting worse.
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  6981.  @larryrobinson08  Condolences for the loss. I'm sympathizing because I had to do the same thing back when the Tea Party loons got off the reality bus. Obama's presidency triggered them so hard, it was as if a flashbulb went off showing which people were illogical closet racists and crazy to boot. A lady I work with gets text alerts from the Blaze or Epoch Times (ewww) and last week she was crowing about one that claimed the FBI had seized Nevada's voting machines as "proof" of fraud. Needless to say, no such thing ever happened, and somewhere out there is a whole thriving industry keeping people like that enmeshed in a cocoon of lies.
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  6982. Rest assured, Trump named that particular medicine only after he & McConnell & Hannity etc lined up a stock play for it. They don't talk just to hear the sound of their own voices, you know.
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  6983.  @crash8926  So, you think killing people is the right thing? Get your head examined. I'm hoping more Americans save their lives (and their future health) by getting vaccinated. In case you haven't been watching the news, this thing has killed more Americans already than the last major pandemic did, and it's still not over yet.
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  6984.  @crash8926  You said it wrong - let me correct you - "I’d be a new fool if I believed that everything on TV was equally true or equally false" I wasn't there to witness it, nor have I ever spoken with anyone who was, nor have you, but we can be pretty sure that the Titanic did in fact sink in the north Atlantic sometime back in April 1912. In the same fashion, we can know that there's a huge pandemic raging now and that it's taken more American lives than the 1918 pandemic did. If you want to be the nutter talking to other nutters, you'll have better luck on some other channel.
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  6985. Not shaking hands with traitors = good Americans.
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  6986. His counterpart in 1930s Germany was Hermann Goering, who used to be the leader of the German senate (the Reichtag) and without whose dirty work Hitler could have never taken over. Later he became the #2 Nazi. That's our turtle :(
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  6987.  @susan174  We can always build more/bigger prisons as necessary to deal with Trump's criminal Brownshirts.
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  6988.  @monumentaltravel3745  Ukraine will make a fine ally and NATO partner after this is over. Very resourceful fighters. And the west can help rebuild their nation to modern standards afterwards too.
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  6989. I got lucky, I've known some good smart lawyers & prosecutors. The best of them can go full flesh eating when they need to.
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  6990.  @pierrebibeau9861  Cannot take credit for that line. Borrowed it from the excellent Bonner/Wiggin book "Empire of Debt: the Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis"
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  6991. @78Terp Regarding "And all the unvaxxed can infect each other and get sick and die with some justice!" << I do not approve of this. These are weak minded people too vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda that doesn't fool an 8yo kid. They are Americans too. However many die from this, 20x more will be left with lifelong medical conditions, and it will keep some of them from participating in the workforce. Much suffering will result. But you can't say they haven't had 18 months to follow the news.
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  6992. @78Terp On that I agree with you. They should not expect the public to bear the costs of their funerals or hospitalization or medical problems after they insisted on refusing free, high-quality vaccines provided to them by America. It's like the trash is taking itself out.
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  6993. Actually the government has a mandate to protect your life - even if you are personally too dumb or impatient to realize the potential dangers of a disease.
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  6994.  @rijamor  Also at this time last year, we didn't have huge swaths of the US population that already had some form of naturally-acquired immunities. That being said, the latest Delta-family strands seem to be blowing right through those same immunities. Vaccine-derived responses handle it better.
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  6995. Are you talking about the same documents that he said the FBI planted? The same ones he said he no longer had?
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  6996. Don't know, don't care. I hope they lose their shirts.
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  6997. Err, let's not be so sure that the US government isn't in the business of disappearances. Usually when you've got a regime that uses lots of violent racist rhetoric against visible minorities, and lots of those minorities being held in concentration camps, elsewhere in the country there are usually mass graves or some other type of disposal operation. Maybe they're being clever about it and dumping the ashes at sea this time, who knows :(
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  6998. Don't smear clowns, who are [mostly] entertainers who want to make you smile. Not the Pennywhistle types. These are just garden variety fascists. Sensible societies put them against the wall and go have a drink to celebrate afterwards. That's the only rational response to those who would plunge the nation into chaos just to suit their angry cult leader.
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  6999. For the love of god, don't play his voice. It's like fingernails on a blackboard.
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  7000. This must be why he insists on testing everyone around him every day, just to make sure the virus can't get into the white house .. yet he tells the rest of us to go back to work and to send our kids back to school. He knows it's deadly, he just doesn't care if you and I (and our families) all die. And that's how we've gotten to the point where 1 in every 1,700 Americans has died from it already.
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  7001. Hopefully PM Modi won't fall out of a window because he told Mr Putin some unwelcome truth.
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  7002. Today's conservatives are the sort of people who, if the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims, would be trying to outlaw seatbelts and airbags.
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  7003. Heard an anecdotal story about a trans woman having her passport & other ID confiscated and not returned. She was trying to leave.
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  7004. They had all of four years to call him out on his problems - and all they did was grease the skids so he could really fcck up America. Republicans, you deserve a couple decades in the woodshed for this.
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  7005. The Republicans have tried a lot of things to get their nutjob base to vote them out: Forcibly sterilizing refugees at the border, in complete violation of international laws? Tried that. Forcibly separating refugee families at the border, in complete violation of treaties we signed? Tried that. Trashing our longstanding allies? Tried that. Lying to the American people about a deadly disease, then killing hundreds of thousands through those lies and inaction? Tried that. Destroyed the export economy through "trade wars" that he thought were easy to win? Tried that. Rapidly increasing homelessness all over the country? Tried that. A whammy as bad as the 1918 Pandemic and the Great Depression all at once? Tried that. But now Trump is waking people up to how bad he really is. His reverse Midas touch is still working. So go vote!
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  7006. We'll need to order copium in larger quantities .. or maybe folks just don't want the votes to matter anymore? If that's the case, let's bring back Obama for 3rd and 4th terms.
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  7007. Even just the Rand Pauls do their part for Putin :(
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  7008. Good idea. Maybe Kash Patel can do an illustrated childrens version? Lotta homeschool madrassas in Idaho would love that.
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  7009. You must speak for yourself on this "madness". Not for others.
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  7010.  @sarac.3259  Keep your head up! :) We will get through this 👍
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  7011. I've gone out hiking and dirt biking with friends - but we all stay 6+ meters apart just to be safe. You can still socialize from a safe distance.
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  7012. She's what the Tomi Lahren types grow up to be - an empty plastic bleach bottle, just older :(
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  7013.  @Mortthemoose  Condolences to you. Both my parents were like that. And they wondered why I left and stayed gone.
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  7014. And, yet, somehow that makes him a living, breathing god to the party of law and order, of family values. What??
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  7015. This is just the trash taking itself out. Saint Darwin cleaning out the shallow end of the gene pool. Anyone with an IQ over 85 already got vaccinated anyway.
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  7016. "We have lots of theories, we just don't have any evidence." -- Rudy Giuliani
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  7017.  @scottebear  Go ahead and prove this thing is a hoax by going back to your normal life. When you start developing a dry cough and persistent headache, just remember that you made the country a little smarter by removing yourself from the gene pool.
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  7018. One of the most telling things about Trump is how easily he convinces his followers to do un-American things that often turn out to be illegal. Wow are they easily misled.
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  7019. I assume everyone was paying attention as conservatives and their outlets showed their most true colors. A fascist authoritarian figure came along, and all they did was trip over each other trying to help him destroy America. If the jack boot fits, they may as well slip it on and start goose-stepping.
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  7020. Guys, please, Trump Social was never any different from Trump Airlines, Trump Casino, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump University, etc - just another scam to defraud the most gullible Americans who would buy into Trump's business ventures. He puts himself and family on the board of each of these companies, then they extract as much money as they can, then it fails, then they move on to the next scheme. None of Trump's businesses were ever designed to be successful enterprises. They were merely designed to lure in gullible investors - the kind who were lucky to get together with their money in the first place.
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  7021. Our friendly neighborhood bots haven't missed the opportunity to point out that they keep hearing bad things about Russia, yet Russia still fights. Huh. More like, it's been 2+ years of the water heating up, and now finally our little Kremlin frog is beginning to squeak that he's feeling some heat.
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  7022. Karma for some, Darwin award for some, but a whole lot more virus cases for sure :(
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  7023. Trump's version of "testifying" simply means taking the 5th.
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  7024. At the cost in lives to take just Bakhmut, Russia would need a couple trillion more expendable soldiers to take the rest of Ukraine. And then they would been more for their unwelcome occupation. Not going to happen. Putin's assault on Ukraine is going to work out about as well as Hitler's assault on Moscow did.
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  7025.  @dnocturn84  Here is the text of the bill which you say is not meant to help Ukraine. S.3522 - Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 This bill temporarily waives certain requirements related to the President's authority to lend or lease defense articles if the defense articles are intended for Ukraine's government and necessary to protect civilians in Ukraine from Russian military invasion. An agreement to lend or lease defense articles under this bill shall not be subject to certain requirements and provisions that typically apply to such lend-lease agreements, including (1) a requirement that prohibits a loan period from exceeding five years, (2) a requirement that the United States may recall the loaned defense article at any time, (3) a requirement that the receiving party has agreed to pay the United States all costs incurred in leasing the defense article, and (4) a provision that allows Congress to prohibit certain transfers of defense articles upon the enactment of a joint resolution. The waivers provided by this bill shall be in effect until (1) the conflict beginning with Russia's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 has ceased, and (2) Russia has reduced its military force on Ukraine's eastern border to the levels maintained prior to March 1, 2021. The President must establish expedited procedures to ensure the timely delivery of defense articles loaned or leased under this bill.
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  7026. Fresh sacrifices are always welcome at the altar of Saint Darwin .. and there are few things as satisfying as watching the trash take itself out. Good riddance too.
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  7027.  @johncarlaw8633  Sad. Sorry to hear. We have the same problems in the US. And of course, our covid spread is worse here because we've got provincial governors doing the most they can to spread the disease far and wide, like that nonsense you see out of Florida and Texas.
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  7028.  @BT.TexasDFW  I grew up in a tiny rural place, so no, I don't believe the "nothing is going on" meme. Any gathering of more than one person is a prime opportunity for this virus. If people still meet with anyone from outside their household, there's a chance for the disease to spread.
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  7029. Reapers are very hungry at this time of year .. just saying. Some may choose to nest in Ukraine soon.
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  7030. President Bleach Injection is waaaaay too easy to see through. He tests himself and his staff constantly (as if he's afraid of a dangerous virus) but tells the rest of us to go back to work without workplace testing. He tells us the USPS needs to go, but he uses it to send out stimulus letters because it's cost effective. He tells us chain migration is bad, then he uses chain migration to bring in his mail-order bride's parents. He votes by mail, then tells us that voting by mail leads to fraud. Could he be any more transparently dishonest?
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  7031. Unfortunately, it is still a huge ongoing concern that one of America's larger parties could have gotten behind Trump (or someone like him) despite his many obvious & glaring faults, all of which were on public display for decades beforehand. To name just two, his intransigence and disrespect for the law were well-known back in the 80s. And the Republicans still thought he could be entrusted with the most powerful office in the land?
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  7032. It will be known later as the Night of the Ice Picks basically.
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  7033.  @lcarn500  Stupid people will unfortunately make things harder for the rest of us. They're apparently itching to go out and feed the virus, so we'll have to care for them, bury them, care for their children, etc.
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  7034. Wesley Johnson: he's not the president anymore. You'd have better luck reaching out to president Biden's people.
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  7035. Seriously :( If this were 1939, a whole bunch of current US politicians would be members of the German-American Bund. They would be telling us to stay home and ignore Hitler. They would be saying to let Europe take care of itself. We see how well that turned out last time :(
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  7036. Let's try this concept out first, somewhere closer to home. Antarctica is perfect. Already has radiation shielding and abundant ice water, breathable atmosphere, roughly correct temperature range, and freight shipping to the site is a lot cheaper from Earth surface to Mars surface.
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  7037.  @tanyaroberson9629  Well, if push comes to shove, the parents can always get a free ride to Siberia for re-education and the kids can be adopted out. What's Putin's is Putin's, sure, but what's theirs is really Putin's too.
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  7038.  @EconLessons  And if they haven't yet lost everything, there's room for them to regret even more. Wonder how badly they burned the bridges behind them when "fleeing" "too woke" Canada?
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  7039. Yah. They burned out their projector bulbs already.
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  7040.  @bobjones2460  Glad to hear some people are still comforting themselves with that lie.
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  7041.  @Crazycatlady71  There is a lot of eyebrow-raising stuff in Liz Cheney's book, "Oath and Honor", stuff that did not make the J6 Committee hearings. Like this beaut: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in. Tomorrow is game day. So many people said, 'Man, if I was in the Revolution, I would be in Washington.' Well, this is your time in history." -- Steve Bannon, 1/5/21
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  7042.  @jackb8469  Dear lord, that testing thing has already been debunked amply. It's only the inbreds like you who can't wrap their heads around it. Note how the test positivity rate keeps going up. And if more tests = more cases, why is Trump testing everyone around him all the time? (doh)
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  7043. It's not just you. If it were, I'd have no problem with it. But instead, you're going to potentially pick up the virus at a gathering, take it home to your family and friends, and pass it along to whoever you get within 6 feet of. That's essentially bio-terrorism. Do you hate your family and your community?
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  7044.  @childofthelight9071  See? All you morons have got is false equivalences. My work will be gone for at least a year. So I do unpaid volunteer work outdoors 6 days a week. I'm not staying in, but I am practicing distancing and hygiene and wearing a mask.
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  7045.  @childofthelight9071  Here's where your stupid false equivalence failed. Read what I wrote. Nowhere did I say anything about staying inside. I suggest you go back and re-read those bits before trying to frame an argument around me saying something that I did not say. Or is your brain full of holes? Most conservatives seem to be suffering from BSE these days.
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  7046.  @childofthelight9071  Freedom DOES NOT MEAN that by your own choices, you get to go out to an unsafe rally then bring the virus home to your family, friends, workplace, community, healthcare providers, etc. That's called willful endangerment.
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  7047.  @childofthelight9071  Who's living in fear? Stop projecting. I go out for volunteer work almost every day.
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  7048.  @childofthelight9071  Who's hating? You're projecting again. I do volunteer work all the time now that my real work is gone for the next year or more. You should try it sometime. It's even more efficacious than huddling with the bible and praying.
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  7049.  @childofthelight9071  With great freedom comes great responsibility. Even a responsibility to avoid needlessly infecting your household and community, some might say.
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  7050.  @childofthelight9071  You are the troll. I will call you out on your BS for as long as my internet connection is still up. You are typical of the mindless fools droning away on AM talk radio.
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  7051. Extremely good move! You can almost count down the weeks until Congress authorizes funding for a newer, improved version of the F-22. Military funding will be absolutely no problem now.
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  7052. Very unhinged, but I'm hoping his negative talents will shine when it's debate time.
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  7053. Please understand, Trump is simultaneously upset at Obama for revenue from a book written after leaving office, and happy to make lots of money by having his own entourage pay to be at his own properties and use his office to get foreigners to stay at his own properties. Madness.
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  7054. The GOP needs to spend a couple decades in the woodshed reflecting on the error of their ways in backing that fool all the way to the moon.
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  7055.    You know what's weird? It was revealed that the situation room (during the recent operation) had no audio from the ground. So Trump made up all of that "sir, he's in the tunnel" and "he's whimpering" nonsense. Figures :(
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  7056. From the way they carry on, I would assume that Putin kept records of all the times that various US conservatives asked him how they could do here what he does there: guarantee election results in his favor - imprison or kill his political opponents - repress dissidents, journalists, minorities - keep the population living in fear - stay in power forever.
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  7057.  @miriagen  The bots are loose on these threads.
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  7058.  @stephaniesamra7960  Even vaccinated people can carry the virus nasally and pass it on. Which is why they recommend that vaxxed people continue to wear masks. I've been fully vaxxed for months, but I continue to mask in public to protect the same anti-science meatheads I encounter online (like you) who, even though they're ignorant as f*ck, even though they voted for the guy who tried to go full dictator, even though they should be in a psych ward, etc, are still people and still Americans.
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  7059. If you or I can't say for tax purposes that our property is worth only $10, then turn around and tell the bank it's worth $500K so that we can get a HELOC, neither should Dump.
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  7060.  @stevenmitchell1  Sounds translated from perhaps Chinese?
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  7061.  @stevenmitchell1  Sounds translated from perhaps Chinese?
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  7062.  @frankperino4215  She and him would make a fine recreation of the Ceaucescu family ending.
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  7063. Surely this veneer of regret on the turtle has nothing to do with how he helped Tr*mp seat 3 on the hire court, and how he helped Tr*ump escape justice after both impeachments.
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  7064. Shock and awe therapy is just what insurrectionists and wannabe traitors need.
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  7065.  @JenniferChase-x9h  Of the few who bothered to vote, more voted against Trump than for him. There were just too many never-Kamalas down here :(
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  7066. Considering that the American people un-selected Trump, he might say we "canceled" or "fired" him.
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  7067. Funny how, when given a chance to present it all to a judge, in court (and not to the public) they have NOTHING to show. It's like the administration put up a hotline to ask the general public where to find them some left-handed sandpaper. Of course everyone is going to call in .. duh!
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  7068. Remember how that happened last time? The monster got around it by appointing everyone in "acting" positions to put in spineless yes-men that he knew would not pass review in the Senate.
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  7069. This is deliberate. A move to get people to quit. Remember when Caligula's first administration moved the Department-of-Agriculture research agencies from DC to Kansas City? Subtle they're not.
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  7070.  @billberndtson  Nice letter. I don't know if Mr Garland and his DOJ associates realize this, but the way they're apparently giving a nod and a wink to high political crimes in no way guarantees that Trump's MAGA mob won't later hunt them down. Trump is a fairly common type of despot. First he would remove anyone who could remotely oppose him (he attended the Vladimir Putin University courses on "removing" political opponents) then anyone who could prove evidence of his coup, and, lastly, he would remove the initial brownshirts once he had professional replacements. Then things get REALLY ugly :(
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  7071. Yeah. Gross violation of their oaths to the constitution. In the old days they used to brand traitors.
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  7072.  @MG-im8ku  More cult45 behavior. There's quite the need for a nationwide deprogramming effort. They're like the Manson cult, but a lot bigger. Manson had only 50 .. Trump has 74 million.
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  7073. Wow, and Republicans complained that Obama made money off a book he published after leaving office. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/trump-obama-book-deal-air-conditioning
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  7074. Tim wants to be the next Herman Cain.
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  7075. The people who are all butthurt about the election sure make themselves easy to spot. Someone needs to tell them that it's not freedumb to die of the virus, and it's not slavery to undertake the measures that keep a disease from spreading. These people would have been the whiniest crybaby snowflakes during WW2, when people did a lot more than just wear masks.
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  7076. F-22s are trailed by the upgraded F-15s, carrying even more missiles now, fondly nicknamed the Spam-ram ;)
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  7077. I like to think of this time in our history as a painful but necessary object lesson (much as the one Germany received by making the mistake of tolerating Hitler and his people) in how hate speech is not free speech. Sometimes foolish people try doing Nazi salutes in public in Germany - and they get promptly beaten for it. If you want to keep a civil society, you need to have zero tolerance for intolerance. America desperately needs to learn this the hard way :(
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  7078. This is hardly the first episode of "I take no responsibility for this" from Trump. Remember that shtty "deal" with the Taliban, that screwed over everyone we'd been trying to help for 20 years? Remember the pandemic? Remember all those missing stolen documents? Remember the total dumpster fires of Trump airlines / spring water / steaks / casino / university / airlines / EFTs / bibles?
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  7079. Looks like Ohio learned a lesson when that 10yo rape victim had to travel out-of-state to avoid the "crime" of abortion. So much for that "rape victims hardly ever get pregnant" nonsense.
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  7080.  @jamesmcbeth4463  Re "They could know all about civics but prefer" << Not all politicians are equally evil. Thinking that they all the same are is a childish reaction to a complex situation.
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  7081. Well, wanting all the market privileges of being in the EU without any of the responsibilities of being in the EU was always going to be a problem. But for at least a couple years it's been a back-to-making-the-world-British fantasy for some older folks.
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  7082.  @SkyRiver1  That's "its own" not "it's own" - you might want to read a dictionary instead of just brandishing one.
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  7083. OSC, thank you! We all saw the video out of Wisconsin from Wednesday night .. their supreme corp struck down stay-at-home orders .. so naturally, fools all over Wisconsin flooded into the bars to stand shoulder to shoulder with no masks, hygiene, distancing. Just four days later Wisconsin saw its highest uptick in cases yet, with more than a thousand in one day. Understanding the constitution doesn’t make up for the lack of biological knowledge. Look at Hokkaido, Japan. They reopened too early, and are now going through an even worse outbreak and another lockdown because of it. https://time.com/5826918/hokkaido-coronavirus-lockdown/
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  7084. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence!
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  7085.  @steveallan5761  I have hope of what you say. Despite the way those Tea Party loons spent 8 years stuck against the ceiling in shrieking rage, America did well enough during those times, even with FOXed Noise doing its best to convince people that Obama was stealing down everyone's guns and melting them down into Korans. I expect the nutjob right wing to revert to that type of behavior, but at least it won't (or shouldn't) get in the way of restoring what we had before. Heck, the USA recovered from even a brutal internal war that pitted family members against each other.
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  7086. The number given for Thanksgiving travelers was pretty close to the number of people who voted for the guy who vastly minimized the dangers of covid19. Maybe this is just nature's way of letting the trash take itself out?
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  7087. Just in case you forgot what a normal, adult president sounds like, here is the letter that former president Obama left in the desk of his office at the white house in January 2017: Dear Mr. President - Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure. This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I don't know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful. Still, let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years. First, we've both been blessed, in different ways, with great good fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It's up to us to do everything we can (to) build more ladders of success for every child and family that's willing to work hard. Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It's up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international order that's expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and upon which our own wealth and safety depend. Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions -- like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties -- that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it's up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them. And finally, take time, in the rush of events and responsibilities, for friends and family. They'll get you through the inevitable rough patches. Michelle and I wish you and Melania the very best as you embark on this great adventure, and know that we stand ready to help in any ways which we can. Good luck and Godspeed, BO
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  7088. It is, thanks to the interventions of Azar .. the daily testing rate per thousand has been declining precipitously since July 29. This chart is on Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  7089. @ Luigi correct. A certain segment of America (let's call them the Venn area between Republicans and Klan members, if they're not identical) reacted in horror to wake up one morning and realize that a guy with skin darker than their golf pants had been elected president. They lost their flippping little minds. Some of them are still glued to the ceiling. Who can forget their Tea Party nuttery?
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  7090. You regret that they didn't do more? Why? Are you jealous of the bloodshed that other countries go through sometimes when democracies die?
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  7091. He's almost at the same spot on the dial where the Charles Manson Network would be.
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  7092.  S Anderson  A blue flood by change?
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  7093. If the committee is revealing this much (they tend to stay several steps ahead) then they probably have some staffer's cellphone video of Trump shouting "thank you!" at the bigscreen TV and gloating about how he can stay in power forever, like Putin.
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  7094. So many conservatard tears over this, I'll go wash my car today.
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  7095. Yes. After four years of letting Trump appoint "acting" people willy-nilly to skip the confirmation process, Moscow Mitch will suddenly change his mind and insist on the law being followed. Should a supreme court vacancy open, Mitch will explain that even 36 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Thank god things are going back to normal.
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  7096. To be fair to them, a whole lot of overweight, pallid, aging boomers trailered their precious pavement princesses to 5 miles away just so they could "ride" to Sturgis.
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  7097. In Wisconsin they're already tracing new outbreaks back to the anti-lockdown protests. This is precisely what all the adults in the room predicted would happen. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-wisconsin-protests-test-positive-department-of-health-services-a9509486.html
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  7098.  @panthera50  Re " Won't be long, until you are asked for a certificate of being Aryan." << I am so fishy pale white, there's no way I will ever get asked that question. All set.
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  7099. I thought conservatives were all for blocking traffic as a form of protest. Like when they did Operation Gridlock a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtlmXzKpAs Funny how they flip-flopped on this issue.
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  7100.  @TieranFreedman  @Tiernan The things you mentioned (stability and quality of life) are among the most-quoted reasons why people in western countries tend to join intentional communities (formerly called "communes").
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  7101.  @judycee9263  Yikes! I've spent some time in the Fort, did not think of it at all as a blue area. Scary.
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  7102.  @michaelcasiano9497  It seems to be more the conservatives than the liberals who are enjoying their persecution victimhood fantasies, just saying. In fact that's the main line that Trump tapped into.
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  7103.  @humourless682  Please don't use the word "only" in relation to deaths. That's like saying that only Jews had to worry about Hitler.
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  7104. Condolences that you must endure having the "Balsonaro of Britain" as your PM. Here in the colonies we fired the former idiot-in-chief over his failure to deal with this crisis.
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  7105. Cotton would make an even better fascist authoritarian than Trump does. Smarmier and more cunning. We got lucky this time that our Republican-enabled wannabe dictator is so inept and so automatically repulsive to so many people. A smoother-talking version would have fared far better :(
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  7106.  @OregunAdventure  If they're doing something that's going to result in more illnesses, more deaths, and more spread of the disease, they have almost surely been manipulated into NOT thinking for themselves. So just chill out .. by sometime late summer we should have enough vaccinated people to seriously dent the spread of the disease. We're talking about saving lives.
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  7107. I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  7108. Those of us who are not in the least surprised by Donnie's antics, raise your hands. His psychopathy was visible long ago and from far away.
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  7109.  @redneckhippiefreak  I see your "both sides" nonsense and I raise you this whopper, in case your moral compass is broken or missing: "The stage 4 advanced liver cancer was very aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression and violence on both sides. Can't they just meet in the middle?"
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  7110. Anyone who can be easily confused into both-sides-are-the-same thinking (and there are many; they're not bright and they're as common as ants) is fair game for Trump or the next cult leader.
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  7111.  @alldecentnamestaken  Also, the weapons that take out those artillery pieces are both cheaper than the artillery pieces themselves and can be produced faster and in larger quantities than the artillery pieces they take out. This is Russia's war to lose.
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  7112. Nice! No wonder my friends (Josh, Nat, Emmsy, Mick, Solid, Dave) love it there.
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  7113. When it leaves the barrel of an AR15, the bullet is going above 3000 ft/sec. According to the ballistic charts, it would have been going 2400 ft/sec at 150 yards, and wouldn't have slowed down to 1100 ft/sec until 800 yards out.
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  7114. Great. So the least law-abiding people are also the most heavily armed. Swell :( https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  7115. Sidney is suffering the downside of those crazy times. Did you see her last video? Look at the background. She's either in a mental institution or in a substance abuse recovery home.
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  7116. Did anyone catch the part where the hosts said the words, " .. this criminal offense should be made extraterritorial, at least for a short time .. " - ??
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  7117. Just a suggestion - could Musk please consider buying WasteBook as well?
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  7118. Looks like the DOJ & FBI are very hot on the heels of information revealed by the J6 committee. Lotta traitors to take down. People, you know what to do.
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  7119. The last time Russia was in a serious scrap, they were fighting a retreating enemy who had run out of fuel and equipment spares and who had just suffered an overwhelming attack on another front. Didn't matter then how drunk and disorderly they were then, or how many friendlies they raped. None of that applies in this situation.
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  7120. Ingraham & Hannity (in private to the president) Call off your whackjobs! FFS! Ingraham & Hannity (to the public) Antifa and BLM did it!!!
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  7121. Truly, Rudy was speaking from the very soul of today's Republican party when he said in court, "Your honor, we have plenty of theories, we just don't have any evidence."
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  7122. Since it's past the first trimester, Republicans are now forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. Hope they enjoy the irony ;)
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  7123. Indeed, many of the twice-impeached former resident's fanboys/girls LIKE the way he is so petty, so vindictive, so thuggish. In America, or any other good country, those things should automatically disqualify him from any serious consideration. He's not fit to be the assistant dog catcher in a podunk town.
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  7124.  @jfm14  I wonder what Anne Frank would have said. Seven of them, crammed into a 450 square foot attic for 2 years while they hid. Couldn't even make soup lest the smell would give them away. Then again, their rabbi wasn't rage-tweeting about the economy suffering, or telling them to go out and pull an arbeit-macht-frei stunt and die to secure his re-election.
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  7125.  @dannyspitzer1267  It means we need to take the warning labels off everything and let nature do its work.
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  7126. For a second, I thought they said it was the "new math". I remember well how upset people were about that at the time .. decades before social media.
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  7127. Jonathon Swan of Axios would totally do it. Remember that interview he did with Trump during the pandemic? He eviscerated Trump.
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  7128.  @ricklichau6044  Maybe the best fun we can have with Trumpanzees is to get them talking (like slywolf above) then just tiptoe away. Let them talk to themselves. No one's listening. They're making themselves more irrelevant every time they try to pretend Trump got more votes than Biden. Maybe someday there will be a medication for that condition, whatever it's called. Trumpitis.
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  7129. More than 750 had been arrested as of almost 2 months back (link below). So are they arresting them or bowing to them? Sounds like you've got your facts mixed up, friend. https://www.newsweek.com/more-750-protesters-arrested-portland-since-protests-began-100-days-ago-1529801
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  7130. Good on those families not shaking hands with the traitors who not only botched twice their duty to remove Trump from office, but who have nothing bad to say about Trump when he calls for ending the rule of law so he can get back in power again.
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  7131.  @DizzybyNature  In hindsight, the nuttiness the GOP presently exhibits in defending an obviously-corrupt Trump is the same nuttiness they showed back when McConnell was doing his partisan worst to block anything Obama tried to do. They need to go.
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  7132. Sure, sure. People indoors breathing heavily in as confined space, pumping out high volumes of droplets, sweat dripping onto equipment, different people handling the same things - all during the worst pandemic in a century. What could possibly go wrong? Sigh.
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  7133.    Lovely ignorance you're showing off. As it is, just 10 months of coronavirus deaths in the US has been more deaths than in a year of road accidents, strokes, and suicide all combined together. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/health/covid-19-deaths-us-250k-trnd/index.html
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  7134.  @wouldntyouliketoknow3811  The idiots are in the process of arranging dates with a ventilator. Nothing to do but wait. The sirens run at all hours now.
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  7135.  @wouldntyouliketoknow3811  "if it comes down to it I will take from you" Perhaps you need a safe space to go work out your darker fantasies. May I suggest GTA on one screen and "the Reliant", starring Kevin Sorbo, on the other screen?
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  7136. And may he never become a political prisoner.
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  7137.  @simonhibbs887  As Zeihan pointed out, the GDP produced per square km is so low in many parts of Russia that they cannot afford to build out the kind of road networks such as have in the West.
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  7138. Konstantin talked about that the other day. Putin approves of the return of the nomenklatura class. Foreign business assets being seized and handed out to the siloviki as rewards for service.
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  7139.  @mrwhatwhathuhlala2977  Re "Hungry is a Democracy where the majority" << Correction, Hungary is rated as a backsliding democracy in much the same way the US is.
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  7140. They're realizing this about 4 years too late. How many of them have yet to understand that at any random moment in the future, they could be whisked away by Interpol, to stand under some bright lights at the Hague, and answer questions about their involvement in various Trump policies that were in violation of international laws?
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  7141. Obama doesn't just live rent-free in Tяump's head .. he took over the top 3 floors and let Nancy Pelosi take half of one of those floors. The DNC has the other half. Put it this way: if Obama had cured cancer, Tяump would bring cancer back purely out of spite.
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  7142. Nazi Germany would have kept steamrolling along if those pesky Allied forces hadn't bombed the sht out of everything and sent in their armies. Fortress Amerikkka is in a different position.
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  7143. Sadly, the UK is correct to seek other partners. They saw well what happened when Trump offered to buy Greenland, then pretended it was just a joke, then cancelled a planned visit with the PM of Denmark, then made flimsy excuses for it, then only weeks later admitted that the meeting was cancelled because the Greenland buy offer had been rejected. With "friends" like that, who needs enemies?
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  7144.  @sg5720  Bingo. They like him precisely because he is so horrible. Ah, well, maybe this is a reminder of why we should revive all those mental institutions that Reagan closed. Clearly there are too many nutjobs out there, voting and driving, completely unmoored from objective reality.
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  7145. When is the runoff election? Look at all those idiots without masks. By January 5th, a lot of them will be on ventilators or pushing up daisies. I feel sorry for their kids. This is nature's way of letting the trash take itself out.
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  7146. A fish that an eagle is swooping at even as we speak. That eagle never did like the superspreader-in-chief anyway. Dogs don't like him either.
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  7147.  Hans Slane  It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  7148. Here's hoping that the people in poorly-vaccinated countries can lock down thoroughly enough to give them the time to get vaccinated. That is the only way out of this thing. Australia, I'm looking at you.
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  7149. We just learned today that Trump authorized the Soleimani killing 7 months ago. So much for "immanent threat". LIES LIES LIES is all they have. Who else has he authorized the killing of, and when? I wouldn't trust that moron with a glow stick on July 4th.
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  7150. About new daily cases (supposedly) going down in the USA .. the daily testing rate per thousand has been declining precipitously since July 29. This chart is on Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  7151. Counting down 3 .. 2 .. 1 until the secessionist whining begins.
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  7152.  @1959jskin  "And New Zealand have handed themselves over to China." Is there some kind of English translation for what you're attempting to say? Or do you have a signed deed that proves what you're saying?
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  7153. To be fair to Trump, it's hard for him to criticize Putin poisoning his opposition when a) he wishes he could do the same, and b) Putin gives him a 10% cut of the Russian bounties paid to Taliban fighters to kill US troops.
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  7154. That tunnel wouldn't be there if not for the insatiable US market demand for illegal narcotics from south of the border. Oh, and walls don't work, duh.
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  7155. Russia will leave Ukraine alone when Russia no longer has the capability to harm Ukraine. And that day is coming sooner than Uncle Pooty realizes.
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  7156. History will record that when fascism slouched into the white house, humping a flag and lying by tweet every day, brandishing a bible upside-down, trashing our allies, etc .. conservatives tripped over each other trying to end democracy in America.
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  7157. Seeing his body language & facial expressions together made it all snap into focus for me. He's a bully. He likes being a bully.
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  7158.  @B-Em  Your comment wasn't directed at me, but what you mentioned was a complete non-sequitur, since neither I nor David mentioned anything about the constitutionality of bias crimes.
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  7159.  @DavidJohnson-tv2nn  I've already [politely] yelled at a few other customers while out shopping & whatnot. But I've already seen stores ignore the enforcement just because their people want sales. So wrong :(
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  7160.  @1LORENZOUTUBE  Sheldon Adelson sure picked an interesting time to clock out. Maybe he was aware that anyone who offers material support to terrorists in the US (like whoever might have helped provide travel and gear for all those poor white working-class misled schlubs who committed capital crimes in DC) is just as guilty as they are. There was a lot of expensive gear being worn by the insurrectionists. Many of them claim to be poor, yet they had airfare and hotel costs covered. Avg hotel cost in DC is $181/night. Before the event, Alex Jones was saying how hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent on their putsch.
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  7161. Oh, so that's the way these morons want to play it? How frigging Soviet of them. This ain't Russia and they're not Stalin. Treat them accordingly.
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  7162. It's much worse than that. He can't conceive of anyone or anything being more important than he, himself -- and that includes the country, our constitution, the economy, the country's future, and anything else that gets between him and his lust for power.
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  7163. They're about to be scum all over again. Moscow Mitch once said that even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. What's it going to be next time, 48 months? He doesn't follow the law.
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  7164. The F-15 comes along as a fast capable missile truck .. nicknamed the Spam-ram.
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  7165. I think we know now why Trump likes Amy Handmaid's Tale (her true name) so much.
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  7166. Let's be generous and expect the Trumpanzees to behave as well as they wished the rest of America would do if Trump should fairly win the election. So if they rant and rave and break things and commit crimes, make sure you catch it on video. Their faces, their friends, their vehicles, their gear, what they do, where they go. The local district attorney will be most interested in the evidence later.
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  7167. Erich Honecker of the DDR definitely approved of citizens spying on each other.
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  7168. Trump heard that on FOXed Noise .. and Hannity inserted it into the propaganda feed after a discussion with Trump. That's how it works in this abortion of an administration.
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  7169. The lies about cv19 appear to have been going on for awhile. All you needed to do was watch the news out of China to see what was headed our way and soon. Anyway, the initial WA case was reportedly symptomatic by Jan 20th, meaning he was probably exposed on or around Jan 13th and had been shedding the virus since. So .. in the first 2-3 weeks of January, there was one or more "patient zero" cases roaming about and spreading the disease. In all likelihood, somewhere along the west coast there are dead homeless people still in their tents, kept refrigerated only by the weather. As a population that lives close together, doesn't live too cleanly, and often doesn't go to see a doctor, they are in danger. A large population of teenagers that share vape pens would make a great cv19 reservoir, since they could carry it without experiencing it as much more than a bad cold that soon passes. Do you watch Dr John Campbell's channel?
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  7170. Ken Paxton seems unplugged from the rest of the country in the same way that the Texas electrical grid is - and we see how well that works :(
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  7171. If I may add - rent in capitalist countries is driven by a combination of speculation plus what the market will bear (because people need places to live) whereas food and goods and services are cost-indexed more to the labor required to produce them. When your condo is very expensive, it is not because a large army of people must be paid wages to maintain it. Quite the contrary - they are usually few and not very well paid. But everyone needs a place to live.
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  7172. Guess who's third in line for presidency and usually wouldn't be caught in a room with either of the top clowns in this misadministration? (or is that maladministration?) She'd make a fine president for these times.
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  7173.  @numatruehome100  Wrong, Trumptard troll. Facts matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump#Acquittal
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  7174. They're America's homegrown Taliban, trying to enact batshit religious rule.
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  7175. Funny how he can't pronounce "Yosemite" correctly (something everyone knows by the time they're 8) but he pronounced "Mein Kampf" perfectly.
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  7176. A robust economic system is a lot like a robust, complex ecological system. Just-in-time turns all that into a monoculture crop, then people wonder why it's vulnerable to adverse influences.
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  7177. As in 1930s Germany, the act of putting folks into camps (and talk of putting more classes of people into camps) follows closely on the heels of divisive rhetoric. America, really, you need to do a better job reading history. Oh, and you may rest assured that every possible obstacle will be put between camp victims and polling places :(
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  7178. Has anyone else noticed the precipitous decline in the rate of tests being performed in the USA? It's been trending down since July 29. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  7179. Watching the Republicans try to polish this turd is like watching someone drive his new Navigator onto a sandbar at low tide, then get stuck, then frantically try to beat back the sea when the tide comes in. The evidence is overwhelming already and more of it is on the way.
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  7180. That binder is pathetic. Obviously printouts from Mike Pillow's blog, InfoWars, the Blaze, and lord knows what else. He probably has a page from the Turner Diaries tucked in there too.
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  7181. Well, yes. They leaped ahead to conclusions completely bereft of supporting facts. It's been their MO for awhile now. In a rare moment of honesty, Rudy Giuliani put it fairly succinctly -- "We have lots of theories, we just don't have any evidence"
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  7182. Your request might be more appropriate if motor vehicle accidents had a r0 factor like that of coronavirus .. just imagine being able to sneeze once in a hallway at work and cause everyone else at work that day to go home and infect their whole families so that they all have car accidents. And maybe one of the kids carried the car accident virus to work, gave it to the whole class, and then everyone else's families caught the car accident virus too.
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  7183. Cheap goods are the product of cheap labor. Who exactly in America is supposed to be working at the $3/hour wages needed to keep product costs low?
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  7184. Cesar Sayoc's van looked like a rolling billboard for Q / FOXed nuttery.
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  7185. Had to look that one up .. you are right. Let's see how Biden/Harris do.
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  7186.  @none-kq7ho  Steal away! The coffee made me say it ;)
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  7187.  @walkyourdog6584  Washington & Oregon coast. Eastern & central Oregon too. I've spent most of the last month out traveling (and keeping distance from folks) to see this, since it doesn't make the news. Edit: that being said, in Washington the messaging seems to be more thorough.
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  7188.  @peterioannou9266  Uh, sorry, fool, the info isn't coming from "big pharma" but from every available source, and they all agree substantially. Sorry it doesn't fit your narrow anti-science agenda. But you are free to prove me right by not getting vaccinated. 10-20% of covid survivors have some kind of long-term effect, even the asymptomatic ones, so maybe your job and your stuff will end up in the hands of someone who's more worthy by virtue of not being such a fool.
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  7189.  @mijour  The west coast too, if we can.
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  7190. This "peace plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Remember that one? Code name "Lebensraum"
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  7191. Trump and his little Rumsfeld-wannabe flying monkeys STILL have zero definite proof of any immanent threat to offer as rationale for the Trump-ordered assassination of major general Soleimani. They're now doubling down by saying that you're either with them or against them. Does any of that sound familiar, people?
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  7192. Don't put the cart in front of the horse. Ukraine is doing well BECAUSE the west is sending weapons, so it follows that Ukraine will do better if the west sends more. AKA: "The patient improved from critical to serious condition, so he's getting better anyway, so we sent him home from the hospital."
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  7193.  @kelperdude  Re "radical Democrats" << Since when was it "radical" to help make healthcare and education more affordable for working families? You never go full Nazi.
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  7194. Alex Jones the next day: "Your honor, it was just rhetorical hyperbole. I didn't actually mean those things I said. I can't be responsible if some whackadoo viewer of mine decides to endanger you or the court."
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  7195.  @dub2536  There ARE side effects. Every vaccine has those. Every vaccine also has a certain [limited] percentage of effectiveness, though with the mRNA vaccines, that number is far higher than what traditionally-developed vaccines were able to do. But they're still worth taking nonetheless .. your protection against suffering from serious effects of covid is approx 10,000x higher as a result of the vaccine. I'll happily take my chances with it, as the incipient runup in Delta cases (now starting in the USA) is going to be very grim in about 8-10 weeks.
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  7196. A couple of DOTUS golf trips, probably.
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  7197. So governor Walz served 24 years in the military, stayed on longer because of 9/11, and all the GOP can do is attack him? SHAME on them
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  7198. To be fair, coming out as the pro-rape guy on top of already being the pro-covid guy probably wasn't the best PR move. Sort of like being a child molester with the plague.
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  7199.  @dpear6773  Way to go, putting words in a dead person's mouth. This is a little like saying the fire department doesn't have the right to request everyone to have sprinklers, even when there's an epidemic of arson happening just then, and sprinklers save buildings.
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  7200.  @empressliving5308  I'm thinking the actual number of as-yet-unknown cases in the US is probably above 20K. By the time people show symptoms, or test positive, they have already passed it on to others who have passed it on to others. And people with symptoms are popping up all over the place now, meaning that the actual spread started probably 4-5 weeks ago and the early results of it are just now beginning to be seen.
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  7201. This is just like when he edited the weather forecast with a sharpie, or forbade agencies to use terms like "climate change", or looked into having Mueller fired, or gagged the national parks service during the shutdown, or told everyone not to cooperate with congressional investigators. I'm afraid that most people in the US, even after all they've seen so far, still are not politically cynical enough to recognize Trump for what he is. Perhaps they would be if they had read the book "Last Train from Berlin" by Howard K Smith.
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  7202. Err, we may be about to learn the lesson that Germany learned, when a large and well-equipped alliance of other nations got tired of their military adventurism and their crimes against humanity, invaded them, and de-Nazified them.
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  7203. I'd add "anti-democratic" to that list, as so many of them have made clear their desire to replace our democratic republic with a dictatorship headed by the guy who has never won a popular election.
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  7204. I hope that for the rest of Kellyanne's miserable life, every time she applies for a job, they rip up her resume and tell her it was an "alternative fact" that she applied to work there. You don't get to walk away from helping Sweet Potato Hitler turn the USA into his own private fortified compound.
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  7205.  @Skylord-Doctor-Of-Metaphysics  Just to refresh the memory, nowhere did I claim that president Biden is succeeding at removing Trumpism from the US body politic. That thing is unfortunately still very much around, as you can see from the vote suppression bills in some 47 states, where Republicans got all butthurt over the election results. Right now they're pushing for some kind of apartheid to make it harder for nonwhites to vote.
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  7206.  @Skylord-Doctor-Of-Metaphysics  No problem .. no conflict desired. Some of the most chilling books I've ever read were these. Some of them document well what happened in Germany prior to the run-up to the invasion of Poland: William Shirer - Berlin Diary William Shirer - End of a Berlin Diary Harry Flannery - Assignment to Berlin Howard Smith - Last Train from Berlin William Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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  7207. It should be an incredibly frightening wake-up call that the current Republican idea of "fair and balanced" is for them to be in charge of everything. Otherwise known as the one-party state. Moscow Mitch is moving their slow coup along.
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  7208. Perhaps we haven't seen the last of Sydney Powell's as-yet-unnamed "source", the one who referred to herself as an internally-decapitated, time-traveling ghost.
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  7209. Someone needs to tell Trump that he is God's gift to Biden becoming the next president and to the Democrats taking the Senate. If he'd been a well-meaning but inept president, things might have worked out for him, but clearly he's a spiteful narcissistic toddler at heart so he hasn't got that excuse working for him.
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  7210.  @slightlyconfused876  Disagree on being stuck with relatives. Move away, don't leave a forwarding address, let them drop off the edge of the flat earth they believe in.
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  7211. In the same way that the Lord helps those who help themselves, the Lord also plays tricks on those who are easily fooled.
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  7212.  @areswalker5647  The USA has done a little over a million so far. Meanwhile, Germany tests 600,000+ per week.
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  7213.  @areswalker5647  Bingo. We've tested less than 0.4% of the population, and of those, 20% have been infected. Not good.
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  7214.  @FreedomeIsAMyth-1948  No one's forcing you. It's just clearly obvious now that, for all the people who found Harris not to be good enough for them, now we all get much much worse. That's like voting for the fire over the frying pan.
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  7215. @Jack Vand You say it this affects "only urban counties"? Complete rubbish. Here are some rolling previous-week vs this-week numbers for new cases for the state and various counties: Oregon as a whole .. 388 up to 774 Lincoln .. 13 up to 147 Clackamas .. 29 up to 117 Multnomah .. 121 up to 183 Washington .. 40 up to 73 Hood River .. 15 up to 40 Umatilla .. 10 up to 28 Marion .. 80 up to 94 Yamhill .. 6 up to 17 Polk .. 2 up to 8 Benton .. 2 up to 6 Jackson .. 4 up to 7
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  7216. If that happens, then sadly Republicans will suddenly claim they never supported Trump, never had anything to do with his odious policies, etc. Umm nope. Trump cost them the house in 2018. Let's hope he costs them the senate and the presidency in 2020 and beyond. They need a long spell in the woodshed to reflect on what they've done :(
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  7217.  @caliindoor  The Republican politicians can mostly be described as you said. Craven. Spineless. When the Trump crazy train came to them, all they said was, please, sir, may I have another? The many current/former politicians, police, fire, and other public servants who they can induce into committing acts of terror are a whole nother thing. They're right out of "Animal Farm". No doubt you saw how some of them had zip cuffs in bundles and were hunting for Pence and Pelosi (second and third in our nation's line of presidential succession) with the stated intent to kidnap and execute them. Some of them smashed camera equipment (belonging to reporters) and used the cables to fashion a noose and crude gallows. While I'm grateful that the FBI/DHS are busy hunting them down just now, I wonder about all the other ones waiting in the wings. Actors such as the proud little rooster boyz, who've been conducting dry runs of breaking into various state capitol buildings, getting access to the governors mansions, and so on. Those people aren't tethered to any kind of factual reality, and some of them seem to have forgotten the oaths they took to honor and defend the constitution. Apparently all it takes to mislead them is the right Russian sockpuppet who knows how to talk to them. The moron whisperer.
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  7218.  @caliindoor  They probably did lose their one chance to run that particular script. Security at DC is now going to be very real. Probably the same will happen in most state capitols. They'll all be harder targets now thanks to this stunt. All I can encourage everyone to do is get pictures and video if you see anything going down. All of those people must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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  7219.  Devonte James  And that's the irony: had Trump simply conceded his loss, worked gracefully with the Biden transition team, and departed into the sunset on AF1 (all normal things at transition time) he could have kept grumbling about his loss and he could have retained some measure of influence in the Republican party. Instead, now his brand is toast. He and his kids are radioactive waste that no one wants to handle. The Republican party is in a box of their own making, and they must disavow him if they are to remain a party. Budding little Nazi-boy Hawley, he who pumped a raised fist at the insurrectionists before they stormed the capitol, has lost his shine. At every step along the way, his own worst instincts worked against him. Even though we all know that everything that Trump touches dies, there's always a new fool on the block who thinks they can associate with him and not get poison all over them. Heh. As the saying goes - Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin
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  7220.  Devonte James  I doubt it. On her own, Ivanka is a pretty-dumb second-rate handbag designer. And now she's politically toxic, like the rest of the grifter klan. None of them have been charged yet, which is why Trump can't pardon them. The charges will come once Trump is out of office. As usual, he's in a trap of his own making.
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  7221.  @MegaThepow  Places of different sizes can be compared if you look at them in rates - things per capita or per million etc. Heck, there's one county in NY that has a case rate of over 23,000 per million.
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  7222.  @orangetruckman  Tks for the love. Usually this space seems full of the 6 Clackistani people who used to comment on the Oregonian. Maybe people forget it now, but Oregon was a big part of what powered the US and the Allies out of the 1941/1942 mess. Right here in Portland, we produced more ships than the Axis powers could sink. It got to where we could put out a ship every day. I keep hoping that our better American instincts will kick in. All we have to do now is wear masks, wash hands, keep distance, and avoid socializing. That's a lot easier than what our ancestors went through in WW2.
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  7223. Or is he suggesting that viruses can be used to haul us to work, to the grocery store, etc? Do you need a license to drive a virus?
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  7224. "The cancer was aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." - Donald Trump
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  7225.  @JohnMoran  Want to show us where on the doll Pelosi hurt you?
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  7226. Down here in the land of the twisted pair, the electoral college, the president who hates solar and wind, etc, there's only one direction the calendar moves and it's not forward :(
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  7227.  @passiflora1014  Actually that makes me want to go run the data animation series for ND counties to see where the recent big upswing started. Guessing it was about 40 days after Sturgis, but I'd want to check to be sure.
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  7228. No Obama investigations. No Obama Special Counsel investigations. No Obama administration indictments. No drama... Obama. Hillary Clinton Benghazi "Investigation" 4 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Hillary Clinton Email "Investigation" 2 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  7229. The word "milquetoast" might have even been invented just for Americans :(
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  7230. Its genome was provided to the public back on January 10, 2020. That's when the clock started for developing vaccines. You might want to try reading the news regularly and fix those gaping holes in your memory.
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  7231. There's this hilarious meme of an MQ9 saying, "From your cold, dead hands, you say? Challenge accepted!"
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  7232. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. 93 Americans died from it. Sad! also Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it!
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  7233. If they hate democracy that much, they should just move to North Korea (or Russia) and not drag the rest of us into their dystopian nightmare.
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  7234.  @adamsowa5927  You misspelled ".. if his corrupt opponent hadn't done crimes that earned him a spot in the Graybar Hotel". Fixed that for you. It will be the same thing when Trump is jailed for crimes he committed. It's on Trump for committing the crimes.
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  7235. Obviously, all of those who voted to acquit on Dump45's two impeachments are themselves at best accomplices and at worst traitors.
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  7236. To me it looked as if he's already thinking of himself as the future Emperor Trump of America, someday, after daddy dies during his third or fourth term.
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  7237. The final, and lasting meaning of MAGA is "many are getting arrested". So if you were planning to violently overthrow the US at some point, just turn yourself in and rat out our buddies. Because it's going to be a lot nicer that way than if you wait for the agents to come to you.
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  7238.  @gilmanIII  Regarding "Funeral Homes are at capacity as well" << A bunch of places have been through this already. Mass graves, dug using earthmoving equipment. Or, like in India, mass pyres.
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  7239. Cascadia would gladly join up.
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  7240.  @maxmuetze9083  Did you notice the precipitous decline in the rate of tests being performed in the USA? It's been trending down since July 29. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  7241.  @maxmuetze9083  My post didn't mention that topic.
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  7242. About the only thing they haven't done yet is call themselves "the Axis" :(
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  7243. Amendment 14, section 3, places no burden of conviction or even accusation. Here is the whole text of it, unabridged: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  7244. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to carry out a coup without your Brownshirts breaking a whole lotta laws and being ignored.
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  7245. Go over to China and help cremate/bury covid corpses for a couple weeks in a row. Save the money and don't wear a mask .. let the good saint Darwin take his own.
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  7246. Poor Kari could have just done the legal & adult thing, conceded the election gracefully (she did, after all, clearly lose) then gone on to run a better campaign next time. But by exhibiting the worst kind of Trumpist antics, she has no future career in politics at all. She joins Sarah Palin in the no-way-ever category of unelectables.
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  7247. More careless Russian smoking around flammable stuff .. tsk tsk. No doubt with the rough living conditions there, it's probably a waste of good self-control to consider drinking less alcohol or not smoking around things that burn.
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  7248. Besides that and "the Lost Cause", there was another good one being bandied about, but I can't remember it.
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  7249. Oregon will stay strong. During WW2 we broke the backs of the Axis powers navies by producing cargo ships, tankers, landing craft, and aircraft carriers in quantities too big for them to sink. For awhile our shipyards were putting out a new ship every day. We will get through this. Wearing a mask and washing your hands are a lot less than what our ancestors did during the war.
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  7250.  @coffeeisthepathtovictory1290  The Grand Coolee Dam is still the single largest point source of electrical power in the US, generating something like 6GW.
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  7251.  @coffeeisthepathtovictory1290  Amazingly, the skids for the Vancouver part of the Kaiser shipyard are still there, mostly under the water. Someday I hope to visit the remaining unmodified Liberty ship, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, stationed in San Francisco as a museum piece. Historic stuff. One year, during the war, the US announced that we would build 25,000 planes that year. The world laughed. We built nearly a hundred thousand that year. So yes, we can mask up, and wash our hands, and stay safe, and practice distancing. That's a lot less than what the people of yesteryear had to do.
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  7252. He probably asked to do so. It'll all come out in the investigations later.
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  7253. The fact that Republicans are unintentionally increasing Taylor Swift's fanbase and political reach is probably lost on them.
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  7254.  James Rugg  Just as you wouldn't want to use cat-poo-flavored toothpaste, you don't want to consume false information. I have a truckload of blame for dummies that aren't discerning enough to recognize propaganda before swallowing it.
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  7255.  @paulurban2472  Go check out the graves at Normandy. - "something the USA would never do" ?
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  7256. Rob Reiner has a long history of crafting works of fiction in cinematic form. Don't be mad just because he's done another one.
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  7257. Obama doesn't just live rent-free in Tяump's head .. he took over the top 3 floors and let Nancy Pelosi take half of one of those floors. The DNC has the other half. Put it this way: if Obama had cured cancer, Tяump would bring cancer back purely out of spite.
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  7258.  @essstefunny  Sounds like your thousands of books have been from the likes of Remington Steele, Jude Deveroux, etc. You should try some actual history, like these books (titles below) which would show you quite clearly the parallels between 1930s fascist takeovers and what Trump has been doing lately: William Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer - Berlin Diary William Shirer - End of a Berlin Diary Harry Flannery - Assignment to Berlin Howard Smith - Last Train from Berlin
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  7259. All they gotta do is look up the indictment. Duh.
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  7260. It's part of the canon-of-lies that Republicans tell themselves nonstop in their echo chambers. Right up there with "democrats drink childrens blood", "the economy is tanking", "the borders are wide open", "illegal aliens vote all the time", etc.
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  7261. His cultists are like that too, and they are thrilled that one of their own kind got ahead, however briefly and badly.
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  7262. How did she go from being Gavin Newsom's GF to Junior's? Was there some kind of traumatic incident or a bad night with hallucinogens? She's like a perfect little Stepford Nazi cheerleader now. All she needs is a brown uniform like Ann Coulter's.
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  7263. Is it actually a crime when you burn Nazi artifacts?
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  7264. He actually used to be a taxi driver, after the Wall fell (probably his first honest living) and that began his simmering resentment to restore the USSR somehow.
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  7265. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  7266. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by * Republicans: Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! No real witnesses or evidence!
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  7267.  @angelchiriboga3904  Let's see if he pays their legal fees. Heh ;)
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  7268. To be sure, he's probably going through some times of stress realizing that anyone smarter than a cat can see through his happy-talk lies about how this thing will go away on its own, how it's just a cold, etc. And now every time he opens his fat mouth and lies, the stock market tanks and he gets nasty calls from the Swamp-a-Lago regulars.
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  7269. Stephen Miller (pronouns he/himmler) and yachtzee-barbie Kristi Noem, reportedly.
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  7270.  @claudechase1648  I'm thankful that you brought up the subject of theft. Consider that without any proof whatsoever, Trump used the powers of the government to force TikTok to sell its US assets to a buyer it chose. This is like Angela Merkel telling Google or Wastebook or Twitter to sell off its German assets to a German company. Do you realize what a Pandora's box Trump just opened? He just legitimated the very type of theft you're complaining about.
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  7271.  @claudechase1648  Perhaps I should have said "without substantive proof". That rules out stuff that people made up, 8chan nonsense, Wordpress blogs, and other sources that have zero authenticity and 100% editorial content. Does that help?
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  7272.  @claudechase1648  I'm calling you out on your misinformation, and you call that lying and trolling? Pull your head out of your ass, man. If you're supporting Trump now, after all he's said and done, you're essentially the same as those propagandized dudes in 1930s Germany, wearing brown uniforms and setting Jewish-owned shops on fire. He said the other day that he wants the ballots tossed so there's no transfer of power. In case you missed that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxl5tWP3Cpk
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  7273. Ukraine - we will help you rebuild. With much love from America ☀️
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  7274. Neville Chamberlain received some harsh lessons in the foolishness of trying to appease monsters. Many years later, we're doing all the same things :(
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  7275. They're not "running" it they're RUINING it. They have complete disdain for democracy and for the rule of law. Time to treat them like the traitors and Quislings they are. Leave them swinging for a month as a warning to others.
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  7276.  @panterathx  What's with your ageist comment? That person's competency is not in question, though his predecessor's certainly was. One speaks eloquently, the other was an open sewer of word salad.
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  7277. Gotta respect you fellas, that is some truly top-shelf failing going on.
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  7278. Friends, I am pretty sure that the MAGA freaks are not going to wait for the election to come about before they launch another kind of power grab. Stand back and stand by. We have lots of prison space for that kind.
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  7279.  @leilanilamourKawaiiCollector  I've been explaining this to people too! Consider it a group education effort.
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  7280. Also, Republicans would rather "own the libs" by dying on a ventilator and being unable to vote in the next election. Oh wait.
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  7281. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  7282. For that you can thank the incompetence at all levels of government here in the US. They watched the news in China from afar, shrugged, and said it must be bad there only because of their skin color or because they're totally incompetent or some other dumb excuse like that. Can't happen here. It's different here. We could have had 2 months to prepare for the eventuality of an outbreak here, and already have the means to do the same tests that the Chinese have developed, but noooooooo :(
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  7283.  @matt6077  Oh yeah sorry I forgot you FOXtards don't like facts any more than vampires like sunlight. Go back to sleep.
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  7284. This explains a lot about why dolt45 feels the world is biased against him .. clearly he has some deep-seated wish to get revenge on the world at large. Thankfully now the only things within his reach to ruin are his own finances and those of his party, formerly known as the Republican party. Now that America's most grifter family is running it, let's see how long that piggybank lasts.
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  7285. Senator McCarthy's people didn't see what was wrong with his actions at the time, either. It's a cult thing.
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  7286.  @faithford9143  So by not wearing a mask, and by wanting to encourage others not to wear masks, congressman-elect Letlow was more than a little like rocket man Mike Hughes, who went up in a homemade rocket to prove the earth was flat, only to end up pancaking himself in the desert. Usually karma takes a little longer to kick in.
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  7287.  @faithford9143  Who overturned the election in 2016? The popular vote went one way and the electoral college went the other way. In fact no Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote since 2004.
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  7288. I recall Trump telling people to vote more than once. Saint Darwin works in mysterious ways.
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  7289.  @thesoundsmith  Are you and I in charge of bringing manufacturing jobs back? Obviously not. You may as well ask if I can bicycle to the moon.
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  7290.  @Redbeardian  Let's not forget those who enabled all this loss of life, very specifically the senators who voted to see and hear no evidence at the impeachment trial and then to acquit. America was trying to barf up something nasty it had swallowed, and the Republicans kept the mouth shut.
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  7291. ".. the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like." << Handmaid's Tale
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  7292. Is he Uday or Qusay? I can never tell then apart.
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  7293. In most normal countries, it is the military who protect the national capitol, and they are armed to the teeth and ready to rumble. Next time there's a crowd rushing in to execute the 2nd and 3rd in line of command, just set up the 50s on tripods. Let God sort 'em out.
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  7294. We'll know something has happened when he suddenly makes no new appearances in public or before cameras or at his golf courses. The twitter-feed nonsense will continue, of course, just to keep up appearances.
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  7295. Apparently the Trumpster Fire hasn't lost his famous reverse Midas touch.
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  7296. Hopefully not for much longer. Mitch never saw a corporation he didn't love or an ordinary working person he didn't hate.
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  7297. Perfect! May I borrow that?
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  7298. Yah. Putin's little sputniks should all be over on that new platform, PRAVDA Social.
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  7299. The way he's trying to hide evidence and witnesses suggests that some splinter faction of the cacophony-of-wailing-squirrels in his head seems to be aware that there's a world of consequences somewhere out there.
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  7300. Give him a chance to put his money where his mouth is and fall on the sword of his own volition. He DID in fact say that the penalty for treason is death. Let's not keep that fool from learning a lesson.
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  7301. In Trump's version of America (it's worse than a Tim Burton version) telling the truth is a punishable offense.
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  7302. We have that problem in the US too, but hopefully that will return to normal after the next election.
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  7303. Who else remembers Trump doing this back in 2019? That's right, taking resources away from investigating far-right terror. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-05/trump-officials-have-redirected-resources-from-countering-far-right-racism-fueled-domestic-terrorism
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  7304. Even before this conflict, Russia was a profoundly aged nation, like Japan. Unlike Japan, no one is crossing borders illegally to get to Russia. The nation will be smaller and poorer in the coming years.
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  7305. Ordinary Americans might need to go volunteer guard duty on post offices and mailboxes and more .. by no means have we seen the end of Trump's attempts to blatantly interfere with the election. The Republicans won't say or do a damn thing to stop it. Traitors, all of them.
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  7306. They watch the news too .. and they know the yellowcake and WMDs and mobile WMD labs were never found. Heck, the US stopped looking for those fictional items as soon as that excuse was no longer needed.
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  7307.  @sharonharris9782  Bingo. If Trump were a nation, its only exports would be things like blame, hate, ignorance, etc.
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  7308.  @MrRedDon  Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. They're a cult :( and there are all kinds of US senators and judges and ambassadors in that cult.
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  7309. The reverse Midas touch that followed him throughout his entire business career is still with him now.
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  7310.  Enano Yo  "Both parties are the same" is the refuge of bitter partisans who can't face the fact that they're wrong. You may as well say that both sides in WW2 were the same because they opposed each other. Umm, no, one side ran an expansionist military campaign and killed people by the millions in concentration camps based on ethnonationalism.
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  7311.  @gnice8765  Requiring the use of Ukrainian language for official/public transactions is not the same as banning Russian. Is that the best you have? Oh, and Russia banned the Ukrainian language back in the 1930s. Using your logic, would that have been a cause for war?
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  7312.  @y_fam_goeglyd  https://www.timesleader.com/news/808825/boockvar-only-confirmed-case-of-voter-fraud-happened-in-luzerne-county
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  7313.  @nickl5658  Hate to break the surprising news to you, but there are these people called "pharmacists" who work in every community and who nearly all work outside the hospitals.
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  7314. Nah, bruh, we need to stand back but stand by for a little cleanup operation.
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  7315. They're realizing this about 4 years too late. How many of them have yet to understand that at any random moment in the future, they could be whisked away by Interpol, to stand under some bright lights at the Hague, and answer questions about their involvement in various Trump policies that were in violation of international laws?
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  7316.  @zippydodahquirk9039  Well, it certainly works when all they bleat out is the dumbest "conspiracy theories" that someone at FOXed obviously made up during a long bathroom break. Stuff so dumb it wouldn't fool a cat.
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  7317.  @faemike55  He never has had that. I still remember being horrified to read that editorial he took out calling for the execution of the Central Park Five (who were later found to be innocent) which, if acted upon, would have been a lynching such as happened to Emmett Till. He is disgusting in every way.
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  7318. On the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show, February 22 2022, Trump said it was "wonderful," "so smart," and even "genius" for Putin to "declare a big portion of the Ukraine ... as independent." He claimed Putin will now "go in" and "be a peacekeeper." While Putin has said he's sending troops to the breakaway regions as part of a "peacekeeping" mission. Trump also declared that Putin has "the strongest peace force I've ever seen," with "more army tanks than I've ever seen," and "we could use that on our southern border." Putin is "savvy," Trump continued.
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  7319. I watch this interview now and then purely for entertainment. Poor Ben was swimming in waters that were way over his head.
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  7320.  @roberttapley6425  Shapiro is good at talking to 20yo college students. Anywhere beyond that and he's out of his depth. That's probably why he's been on T-blockers for so long. He's 37 trying to stay 18.
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  7321. Covid-19 will continue to find fertile fields in places where the governors or mayors or states or counties foolishly reopen things when Trump says to. If they open their schools, the parents will get infected by the millions, and by early November a lot of them won't be in any position to vote. Bring on the bad jokes about reverend Jim Jones and his brainwashed kool-aid drinking followers :(
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  7322. Correct. Their little political kabuki theatre is for an audience of just one.
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  7323. You all know who's behind this, right? And how soon it follows the news that senator Sanders took the lead in Iowa polls? And who benefits the most from it? Comrade Tяump. EDIT: I don't care who the Democrat nominee turns out to be, because for sure even the least progressive choices won't be as deleterious to the USA as comrade Tяump has been and will be.
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  7324. It's like asking a dog to tell you what Norway is.
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  7325. This has been like the hot parts of the Cold War, except the crazy people are running the show here. It's draining.
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  7326. Actually it is better than that. The USA has more than twice the manufacturing GDP per capita than China does. Here are the numbers in USD: China manufacturing GDP: $4,975 billion .. China population 1,416 million .. works out to $351,385 manufacturing output per 100 citizens USA manufacturing GDP: $2,497 billion .. USA population 347 million .. works out to $719,635 manufacturing output per 100 citizens It was complete gaslighting to say that there aren't manufacturing jobs in the USA. There just aren't the kinds of manufacturing jobs where large numbers of low-skill no-experience people can make great money.
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  7327. Geez, where was your outrage when over $2 trillion in tax cuts went to the richest? Crickets.
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  7328.  @blackbelthistorian  In case you haven't been paying attention, the richest wear the Republican party like a cheap glove. And they don't even clean it once in awhile.
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  7329. It certainly won't be playing on Fox / OAN / Sinclair / etc. Heck, they still haven't covered how Dump45 lost every single one of his court cases challenging the election results .. or how thousands of J6 insurrectionists have been tried, sentenced, and are now serving their time .. or even that covid death rates were lower in places where more people were vaccinated.
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  7330. MAGA = many are getting arrested
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  7331. Bingo. Doesn't matter if you're popular. Doesn't matter if 10 million screaming cult members insist you're the Orange Jeebus. If you're disqualified, you're disqualified. End of story.
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  7332.  @SiliconCurtain  Guessing that Trump is revolted by the idea of playing by the rules when it costs you something that might advantage you.
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  7333. Sure, a bunch of people exhaling hard together in an indoors space during a pandemic. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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  7334. What you're saying is a bit like "There can't be any global warming because it's snowing where I am right now". https://www.wkbn.com/news/coronavirus/florida-icu-nurse-i-have-never-in-my-life-seen-so-many-deaths/
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  7335.  1Me  Well, if you're even remotely capable of math, you can figure out that one in 50 Americans has tested positive so far (lots moron the way) and one in 1700 Americans has died from covid so far (with many moron the way). "Only a fraction", you say. That's like when the Black Knight says it's merely a flesh wound.
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  7336. Huh. Didn't Trump and all his flying monkeys tell us it was Antifa/BLM causing all the trouble that day?
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  7337. Pretty sure it was the Russians who suggested that name to him. He missed the irony of how the Russian population has long regarded Pravda as birdcage-liner grade government propaganda.
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  7338. Too bad they couldn't just move to North Korea instead of trying to turn the USA into another North Korea.
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  7339. He is counting on there being no publicly available video of the court session. So he will tell his cultists that quite different things took place.
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  7340.  @southsider9638  Funny you should mention that. From the way the GOP Quislings in the senate "thought he'd learn", blocked evidence, and ignored his obvious guilt; and from how time after time the GOP does nothing to call him to heel on his latest transgressions, etc, it's pretty obvious that quite a lot of Americans from bottom to top support his insane rule. You may be one of them, searching for a way to say "ooops, didn't mean that" even though you're part of what's been enabling Trump for the three years of his reign of error.
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  7341. Since it's illegal for the state to promote any one religion over others, it must now be necessary to post the core tenets of EVERY belief in the classrooms. The Church of Satan people are probably already printing them, heh.
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  7342.  James Dean  To all those people who imply some kind of moral superiority by saying it's only people with comorbidities who die .. #1 is diabetes (9.4% of US citizens have diabetes) .. hypertension (33% of US adults have it) .. obesity (over 70 million US adults have it) .. see where this is going? But then maybe we have people among us who are strangely OK with lots and lots of Americans dying.
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  7343. @Big PP If you could think of a less callous way to say, "F*ck those old people, I want to be able to go golfing again", it'd be much appreciated. They are people too. Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles. Some of them fought in wars for America.
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  7344. @Big PP Again, waving your supposed moral health purity around like a spear isn't a very good look for you. Your callousness towards your fellow Americans is duly noted.
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  7345.  @davidpnewton  All you've done is place your discomfort on the same level as illness and death for you and others. Not bright are you.
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  7346. MAGA trolls may need to drop out of conversations these days. There's a bunch of leopards going around.
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  7347. Now that hospitals have been instructed NOT to report to the CDC, we can expect the official apparent numbers to show a false decrease that lines up with the rosy predictions of the con-man-in-chief.
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  7348.  @schatzip  There's no contradiction there .. there is only an apparent one. Protest is protected 1st amendment free speech of a political nature. Notice how the authorities were not able to shut down Trump's Tulsa rally, which, we know now, greatly fueled the spread of covid-19 in Oklahoma. The same does not apply to weddings, beach gatherings, open bars, and so on. Does this help? (oh, and for folks like you, I was wearing a mask even before the March lockdowns began .. didn't want to pass it on to anyone else in case I'm asymptomatic)
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  7349. Just like clockwork, that 5% death rate he mentions is what the US closed-case mortality rate has reached after months of this: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  7350. Putting Mike pray-the-gay-away Pence in charge of fighting coronavirus is like putting the Amish in charge of NASA.
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  7351. No need to expend good hope on that - many of the MAGAts just made their appointments with the coroner.
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  7352.  @reneelyndamartinez1362  As can be seen from Mardi Gras in New Orleans and other large events, there's a lag time of around 40 days between a large social gathering and the peak of new cases caused by the event. May as well start stocking up on popcorn - this is a slow movie with a "killer" ending.
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  7353.  @MoonlitMichie  That part bothers me too - they will spread it to their families (who probably think they're kooks anyway) and to whoever they interact with. And ultimately the nurses and doctors and other professionals will have to deal with their illness.
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  7354. Figured it wouldn't take the diehard Trumpies long to realize that Bolton really is just a deepstate liberal plant, a never-Trumper, a leftover who was appointed by Obama.
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  7355. I really hope he can go nowhere in public without hearing that chant. Actual public that is, won't happen at his vetted Klan rallies. Of course his immediate reaction will be to militarize the police and make protest illegal.
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  7356. Given that the new variants from India are already here, maybe this is a good thing, because the only danger to the anti-vaxxers is other anti-vaxxers. Assuming there's no vaccine ID in the works, this will get the bandaid ripped off sooner rather than later. Also, there may be some great prices on 2nd and 3rd homes out in rural places where they don't believe in vaccines.
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  7357. You know who's very happy to have US military leadership held up? America's enemies, particularly Vlad (who is steaming mad over our support of Ukraine) and Kim.
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  7358. For a guy who's never lived a day of his life under a fash dictatorship, he sure seems to have a big want for it. As do many of his followers. Wish they could try it out (like by living a year in NK or Russia) before wishing it on their fellow citizens.
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  7359. Looks like we should be sending more Excalibur extended-range precision 155mm shells to Ukraine. Heck, a container of cruise missiles would be good too. Send the Russians to the hot place.
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  7360.  @l.a.sr.2958  Excellent! Let's hope he sinks enough of the GOP ship that the decks are awash.
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  7361. He and his Vichy Republican followers are not going to be treated well by the historians of the future. And now we all got a firsthand look at how political cults manipulate the gullible ones - with promises of blood and fire.
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  7362. In court, he will refuse to testify, or, if compelled to, will take the fifth. In public, he will tell his mob that they wouldn't let him speak in court, and that his flying monkeys need to sharpen the pitchforks.
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  7363. The bad thing about the assumed prevalence of asymptomatic positives is that they could unknowingly pass it to a medically vulnerable person who hasn't got a chance against the disease.
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  7364. The rule of law was coughing up blood more than a decade ago. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn; when we were told that 8 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge; when senators decided to hear no evidence at Trump's impeachment acquittal ceremony; when Republicans decided to just ignore congressional subpoena. Republicans are not going to suddenly become moral and law-abiding. Pretty soon now they'll be telling Biden that 40 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a judge.
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  7365. Rejecting election results and embracing political violence is a surefire recipe for the fascist takeover the GQP is trying to engineer .. no doubt they're wondering why it hasn't gotten traction.
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  7366.  @duerereder1985  Where can I get that weed you're smoking? WOW
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  7367. Workers in America generally don't care about those lower prices putting other American workers out of work .. but they do care when it's their own job that gets outsourced. But that's because most American workers think of themselves as temporarily-poor rich people and not as working people.
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  7368. Mr Curry is going to have to ask that with the voters of the district he wants to represent.
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  7369.  @stacyliddell5038  To all the people who say, "Eww, that's not normal", this is about as normal as wearing a uniform during WW2. There's still a raging pandemic going on. Tracing, masks, distancing, vaccine proof, hand sanitation, etc, are all normal during a pandemic.
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  7370.  @libertarianireland3239  The behaviors you're describing sound like a perfect petri dish for Delta, unfortunately. Hang tight & stay safe!
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  7371. That 200K case/day rate is by no means constant. Since the disease is now spreading exponentially, the US may well go from 30K/day to 200K/day and beyond. These days North Dakota is showing the potential spread rate of the disease, with (as of yesterday evening) 9.387% of their population having been infected.
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  7372.  @jimdoe3288  Go look up Portland Oregon police budget by year. After a brief dip following the 2020 protests, funding went up to its highest level ever of $249 million per year. It is 47% higher than FY2012-2013 levels. But, sure, cling to the lie that PPB was "defunded". Is that how you square all those circles 😅😅
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  7373.  @jimdoe3288  So what you're telling us, sadly, is that you live at the bottom of a hole in the ground, and the only station the TV gets in your part of Idaho is the local FOXed Noise affiliate. All you're doing so far is parroting their lies, which are the dumbest agitprop any 8yo with a browser can debunk. The problem is, you LIKE the lies. Sad.
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  7374.  @chaunceywallace6447  Your argument could marginally make sense if it was not Russia who had initiated the hostilities against a third nation. Tell you what. If uncle Pooty wants to play in the big league, he can go toe-to-toe with the USAF. Otherwise picking on much smaller nations isn't very sporting.
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  7375. The second role was the only one he ever had. Trump Vodka? Trump Steaks? Trump University? Trump Casino? Truth Social? His transmission has only one gear and it's called "schlocky failure".
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  7376. Funny how Trump doesn't mention the US state of South Dakota, which has really never been locked down. As a result of that, South Dakota now has the fastest rate of case growth among US states, doubling every 4-5 days. At their rate of increase, the hospitals will be overwhelmed in 3-4 weeks and the whole state will be infected in 8-10 weeks.
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  7377. Re "We had a five year old as president for four years." << Over the course of Trump's administration, all the people who were 5 years old in 2016 grew to 10 years old by 2021. Not Trump. He stayed 5 years old. The ultimate in "held back".
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  7378. Cheetolini is laying the groundwork for later claiming that the elections were rigged and thus he's not obligated to accept the results. Justice Beer Bong will earn his paycheck that week.
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  7379. "American Carnage" is the blood and fire that he promised to his followers. It is a lot like when he tells the fable of the serpent at his rallies. The truest words he's ever spoken were, "You knew I was a serpent when you took me in!"
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  7380. I like what Ukraine is doing. They are not sending ICMBs into Russian territory, or nuclear bombs hidden in freight packages, or fleets of bomber aircraft. They are sending in drones of many different kinds, including some that can travel long distances to burn refineries and other things. It would be easy to expand that program and include other classes of targets. Pipelines. Industry. Bridges. Tunnels. Dams. Military hospitals. Thermoelectric generation capacity. This is the slow way to return Russia to its preindustrial roots.
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  7381. This is America. We'd rather hear happytalk about how king tides are 'fake news'. None of this unwelcome-truth stuff for us. /s
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  7382. You would think the authorities in the USA would note that the world's most sophisticated police state, with all kinds of technology to control the movements of its citizens, is unable to prevent geometric spread of 2019-nCoV. Instead, the CDC is like, "Nah, we talked to people who'd been back from China, they said they feel fine, we'll check on them once in awhile". Meantime, Japan and Germany today reported the first infections among people who themselves have not been to China.
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  7383. I have to keep telling those imbeciles that it's not "freedumb" to die of a preventable disease, or pass that same disease to your loved ones, and it's certainly not "slavery" to be asked to take small steps (masks, distancing) to keep from spreading a deadly disease.
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  7384. Trump represents to last gasp of dying Boomer political power - basically people who reminisce about the America of their childhood, a simpler place where minorities were seldom seen and never heard; where everyone polluted madly but the consequences hadn't yet appeared; where they enjoyed the benefits of good public infrastructure spending, public health, public education which were made possible by high marginal tax rates. Thankfully that crowd is shuffling off to the next place they're going to ruin, wherever it is.
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  7385. True Believers™ require no proof or evidence by their very nature.
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  7386.  @Bronte55  Correct. He was ratsht crazy back when he published that full-page spread calling for the execution of the Central Park 5, and it's not like he's improved since.
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  7387. Love the "xr680r" moniker. What a beast that must be!
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  7388. Funny how Trump didn't feel that way about law and order just a few weeks ago when armed WHITE militant thugs invaded the sate capitol of Michigan and threatened the legislators. Instead, he egged them on and kept tweeting for them to "Liberate!".
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  7389.  @toddcorrigan4874  Or drones in the sky, so far off that you can't see them, but they can read the serial numbers on that same AR.
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  7390. Headline should be, "Washington bars miss out on a chance to circulate the new-variant covid disease that's almost certainly here already". Fixed it for you.
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  7391. If so, then carbon emissions will go way down and stay that way until we overbreed the place again. Oh and lots of cheap real estate everywhere.
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  7392. He still doesn't know that everything is not all about him. Apparently he didn't learn this by age 3 like the rest of us.
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  7393. Love that quote. Another good one, said just before his death (loosely paraphrased): "Either that awful wallpaper goes, or I go!"
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  7394.  Jody Owen  Re " who has no role in his life" << Pillow advocating for martial law (see the news photos of his materials) and living under a Trump dictatorship (which Pillow tried to breathe life into) would have been unhealthy.
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  7395. Spot on. Just try explaining to any Trump fan that vaccines don't cause autism, that Jade Helm wasn't a massive exercise in suppressing valiant Texans, that the earth truly is round, that the Apollo landings really did happen, that Obama really is an American citizen, that Ilhan Omar doesn't spend her time in DC trying to make Sharia law apply to all white Americans, that environmentalism isn't a sick liberal plot to deprive them of their large pickup trucks, that legal abortion isn't some con to eliminate the white race and sell baby parts on eBay, and so on. They're not just exposed to propaganda; they're immersed in it, to the point where they're responsible for much of the domestic terror here in the USA.
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  7396.  @Kygranny  They live in the Fox alternative universe, basically.
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  7397. It is well and good to laugh at those people .. it is a form of therapy (albeit the rough kind) that they desperately need to be on the receiving end of. You know how you have to rub a puppy's face in it to teach them not to poop in the house? It is the same thing with idiot whackjob anti-science conservatives, except that puppies are smarter than they are.
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  7398. Refused the vaccine, then needed an expensive hospital stay for covid? No paid coverage for you.
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  7399.  @collegeman1988  Wait until they find out that their health problems preclude them from most kinds of jobs they could get, or from getting proper insurance coverage. They just made their own lives miserable merely to please an orange buffoon who cares nothing for them.
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  7400. Puerto Rico: this is just Trump's way of asking you for dirt on Hunter Biden. You know what to do!!
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  7401. This is your brain. This is your brain on Fox noise. Any questions?
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  7402. Trump: Look at this mess around us. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My coronavirus response has been perfect - just like the phone call to Ukraine.
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  7403. Am I the only one highly amused that some conservatives like to fondle their firearms and talk big about how the 2A exists to prevent tyranny, but then they completely ignore actual tyranny when Trump refuses to follow the law then subverts the judicial and the senate to protect himself? Guess those militias were just an excuse for the billybobs to get together and bitch about that "dictator" Obama :(
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  7404. Nah. They're going to have to learn this for themselves the hard way, just like all Hitler's fanboys & girls had a rude awakening 1945-1946 as they realized how much their beloved Furhrer had sacrificed them and the whole country to feed his towering toddler ego.
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  7405. It was months late, but finally Oregon has the mask mandate.
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  7406. There was once another group of military officers who didn't want their conversations archived .. who else remembers the Wannsee Conference of 1942 in which some officers discussed a "final solution"?
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  7407. By the time Pennsy is seeing 500+ new deaths per day, those imbeciles will be among the ones in coffins.
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  7408.  @elr.4780  Bingo, they'd just screech that the corpses are crisis actors :(
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  7409. You can tell which states Trump's covidchella superspreader rallies didn't go to .. they're the ones lowest on the list of cases per million.
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  7410. He could have been superspreading for awhile. RIP Herman Cain.
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  7411. Trump's fanbase is exactly the same people who spent 8 long years filling our feeds with the worst, patently-made-up-5-seconds-ago nonsense about Obama. Guessing they were trailed to be that way (listen to what nonsense FOXed Noise tells you, ignore everything else) even before Obama came along, but I'm not sure exactly when or how. Those people are absolutely convinced they survived Obama by the skin of their teeth, with him supposedly banning "merry christmas" and wanting to force everyone to live under sharia law.
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  7412. Trump's supporters (Republicans and their allied racist/nazi types) lost their precious little minds back when a black man got elected twice as president, winning both the popular vote and the EC vote. Twice. They spent 8 long years frothing at the mouth. Even yesterday, poor deluded Barry Loudermilk tried to imply that Jesus would have never been a martyr if he'd been criminal enough to resist Roman subpoenas and refuse to turn over incriminating evidence to the Romans. I don't know what we as a nation can do to bring those people back to reality .. and I don't know if we'll survive long as a nation of laws with those people on the scene. On that latter thing, probably not :(
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  7413.  @rustzz8  To be fair to Arizona, canceling or overriding any unwanted election results is hardly a novel thing. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union did it; China and North Korea still do it.
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  7414. Just imagine if Hitler, after the war, had fled to Argentina to post on Twitter hourly about how everything was so unfair to him. That is what Trump will do, basically.
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  7415.  @margaretbrown4638  Nearly every culture on Earth has some kind of cautionary fable about what to do when you meet the Devil and he offers you everything in exchange for doing his dirty work. The Republicans? All they did was dicker a little about the asking price. By July the next year they were celebrating Independence Day in Moscow.
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  7416. @Patriot Please, everyone, for love of all that is holy, do not whip out the label "socialist" until you hear someone talking about the workers and the state seizing the means of production. By comparison to what's in Europe, Bernie Sanders is a centrist.
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  7417. Regardless of his whining, Barr is about as "independent" of Trump as the flying monkeys were of the wicked witch of the west. Guess whose bidding Barr does.
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  7418. @Jana Prava If it gets out, this will decimate communities of poor people, whoever lives tightly together and cannot afford medical. Also the homeless and the elderly.
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  7419. Everything Trump touches dies. And the Republicans have had his hands up their skirt for awhile now :(
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  7420.  @sotthapana Where I live (a very pro-union anti-fash city) MAGA would not dare. They'd be in the back of a police vehicle faster than a stray $100 would get picked off the sidewalk. We got people "standing back and standing by" if they show up here.
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  7421.  @PifflePrattle  Trump added insult to injury by ignoring the warnings from the WHO and even turning down the test kits that they had already developed.
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  7422.  @ilect1690  Bingo. And another question we must ask is this: How much is Putin willing to hurt the people of Russia, the future of Russia, etc, to sooth his own tender feefees? Fallout is going to blow east.
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  7423.  @janeryan2709  It's as if they've been licking the lead paint chips again. Not sure how else to explain Republican thinking these days. They seemed OK (even encouraging) of whistleblowers when Obama was president - wonder what changed? ;)
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  7424. Like in narrow supermarket aisles and sidewalks, they need to be made one-way. That cuts down on the risk of infection.
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  7425. Check out the article "the brutal alternate world in which the US abandoned Ukraine" .. it shows in some detail what we could have expected from the modern Axis powers Russia-Iran-China.
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  7426. There's nothing to understand. Don't bother wasting your time trying. Those folks are simply stupid AF. If you can, just clip them out of your life the same way you would that crazy uncle who turns out to be a child molester. They're the same people who would have gleefully collaborated with the Nazis during WW2.
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  7427.  @ryanbouchard2907  You'll have to follow the cases currently in court for some of that. But in the meantime - Trump, Dec 19: "Be there, will be wild!" Bannon, Jan 5: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in. Tomorrow is game day. So many people said, 'Man, if I was in the Revolution, I would be in Washington.' Well, this is your time in history." Trump, Jan 6: "You've got to fight like hell!" Trump Jr, Jan 6: "This isn’t their Republican party any more. This is Donald Trump’s party"
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  7428. It's only 15 cases, he said. It'll go away like a miracle, he said. It's just like the flu, they said. The high price of denial :(
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  7429. On the brighter side - every time Trump opens his stupid pie hole, he helps Biden's campaign.
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  7430. Don't forget all those pro-rape types :( uggh :(
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  7431.  @h.l.aristosolies5292  We can at least be decent people and wish the former failed president and failed businessman some thoughts and prayers.
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  7432. The only "freedom" being infringed upon is the s-called freedom to spread a virulent, sometimes-lethal virus. Last time anyone checked, that wasn't in the constitution.
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  7433. Trump already left a "smocking" gun behind. After his speech, while he was back in the white house watching the insurrection live on TV, he sent out a tweet excoriating Pence, which only further spurred the insurrectionists he was watching live on TV.
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  7434. The death rate is around 3.6% as explained on all of the major data sources. One is linked below. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. So if it were to run wild throughout America (as looks likely now) projected death toll could be around 11.9 million. Your "concern" for the welfare of others is duly noted :( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  7435. The world's biggest market for illegal narcotics is the USA. The world's largest exporter of guns is also the USA.
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  7436.  @daniellarson3068  Back in the 90s I had a Russian office coworker. He didn't last long at the job in the information/records department of a major hospital. Not only could we not get him to show up on time and put in his hours, but he was forever putting vodka into his tea. I think he eventually reformed and became a lawyer later in life, but back then he was a train wreck. Life in the USSR did not condition him to be like what we would consider to be a decent worker.
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  7437. Shout out to the Central Park Five, we too know who's guilty and who's innocent! :)
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  7438. Moscow Mitch never met a corporation he didn't love, or an ordinary non-rich citizen he didn't hate. That's what guides his actions.
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  7439. Wouldn't be surprised if the oranges behind this latest spurious move was to avoid future tax entanglements such as Mango Mussolini faces in NY state court. Or maybe president dimwit thinks that means he's not on the hook for his tax crimes in NY state?
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  7440. It took the USA 99 days to go from 1 case to 1 million cases .. then only 43 days to reach the 2nd million .. then only 28 days to reach the 3rd million. I came here only to read the comments of the fools who call it a "plandemic" or a hoax. A lot of them seem to have quieted lately .. maybe they're hooked to ventilators, all because they couldn't see why they should wear masks. Can't cure that kind of stupid.
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  7441. Err, the operative difference is that the CHAZ police (or whatever they call themselves) don't seem to be doing a boatload of extrajudicial killings, like practically every official police department in the USA seems to have been doing for decades. And it was a killing of that type that sparked the George Floyd protests that led to this.
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  7442. A very bad, horrible, no-good day for Trump is a good day for America.
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  7443. Joe was pretty good at the white house correspondents association dinner & roast.
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  7444. Now make some popcorn, sit back, and watch the mushroom sheeple stampede away from Newsmax and to some other, even more nutjob network that will still entertain their delusions that Trump won the election.
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  7445. Governor Abbott of Texas is keeping the governors mansion closed to public tours because of (wait for it) covid danger. Yet he wants everyone else to party maskless like it's 1999. Does the grim reaper keep him on retainer or something?
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  7446. @Vince Trav So, Vince, my challenge to you, if you can do it (you probably can't; your kind are cowards at heart) is to show me some top-level factual news service that has any of what you claim.
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  7447. That is my worst fear. If we ever find ourselves in the position of Sophie Scholl and her friends, lets not play nice. The time of niceness is already past us.
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  7448. PizzaGaetz is a Trumpanzee. He's just aping his boss. Remember on the 15th when Trump claimed the US had passed the peak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLlh3pQGy0
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  7449. Well, the fact that he destroyed the translators notes (a violation of the presidential records act) says it all. Either he asked for, or Putin offered, or both, Putin's advice on how to cling to power, dismiss election results, put your opponents in jail, control the media, etc.
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  7450.  @edwardbernthal160 Especially when they are small and dark and low to the water and there are enough of them to overwhelm a bunch of guns.
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  7451.  @edwardbernthal160 Bingo. Smarts > brawn.
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  7452.  @maxnagel9321 You mean the way I am "misled" by facts? Better luck next time, comrade Stoly.
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  7453.  @Ck-jj2ku  Cope harder, Boris ;)
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  7454.  @Richyvet  Try to tell fools that land doesn't vote. They just don't get it.
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  7455. When the founders wrote "free speech" into the law, unfortunately they weren't thinking of what a glaring loophole that would leave for a narcissistic wannabe fascist authoritarian who lies with nearly every breath. Damn careless of them. On the plus side, this has shown which people and institutions among us are the most gullible to that kind of nonsense.
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  7456. Let's safely assume that McConnell, if he still has any say in the matter, will remain in character and suddenly switch from letting Trump do any old "acting" appointment (to avoid confirmation hearings) to suddenly roadblocking all Biden appointments.
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  7457. Except it's not going to work, because they've already got recordings of him saying that he could have declassified something while he was still president, but cannot now. So he has already admitted to knowing the rules concerning classified documents. His defense hasn't got much to stand on.
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  7458. Who else remembers Trump's first state of the union address? His dark themes of America on fire? (little did we know, it would be him with the matches and gasoline) He stood there before Lyin' Ted, Cryin' Chuck, Jeff Flakey, Liddle Bob Corker, Broken Old Crow, Crazy Nancy, Little Marco, Crazy Bernie, Shifty Schift, Pocahontas, Wacky Jacky .. and all he wanted was a little respect from those people.
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  7459. Plenty of folks who would do Sherman's job a little more assiduously this time around. With more thoroughness.
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  7460. Everyone forgets it now, but Trump promised to run the nation like one of his own businesses. With the help of the Republicans, that's the one promise he's keeping. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  7461. I have a 30something friend who got covid-19 during the first week of February, at least 4 weeks before the first official Oregon case. He was sick for a whole month, Lord knows who he spread it to during that time. No healthcare insurance (thanks USA) so of course he never saw a doctor.
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  7462. One passenger, in haste to get off the Westerdam, was able to travel for awhile in public before testing positive further down the line, and presumably being put into quarantine then. I can understand someone tiring of being cooped up, but do they really want to go around infecting everyone else? Or do they just not care? This is a chain letter that actually works, only instead of delivering bales of money it's delivering disease and death. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-china-live-updates/2020/02/15/34b53ffe-4f6a-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html
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  7463. I have grown fond of the red hats and traitor merch. So good of these people to out themselves. I just wish they had some kind of mark that they can't take off. People deserve to know who harbors hate against their own nation, and who's dumb enough to break the law just because the angry cult leader said so.
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  7464. Pass the marshmallows, will you? ;)
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  7465. It should be his third popular election loss, second electoral college loss.
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  7466.  @ZeroMass  Thanks for revealing your ignorance. The cities you imagine to be burned are still standing .. you've just got some strange predilection for hearing the dumbest lies and believing them. Next fool, please.
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  7467. Unsurprisingly, nearly all extremist killing in the US are committed by right-wingers. Or is it reich-wingers? https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  7468. I'm not sure he's going to survive 2019. Remember how short was the gap between when Nicolai Ceausescu getting booed in public and when he took a one-way trip to the cellar. Even FOXed Noise puts the impeach+remove share at 49% now. I hope he does that fireside chat, it will only make him look worse ;)
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  7469. Is he from the local Hitler Youth or something?
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  7470. We had confirmed community spread here in the USA since sometime in the first half of January, and possibly undiagnosed community spread even before that. Probably there are dead homeless people still in their tents somewhere along the west coast. Keep up the good work :)
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  7471. Face it, the relationship between Wussolini and FOXed Noise is similar to that between Hitler and German news in WW2, with Hannity playing the role of Josef Goebbels.
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  7472. You could see it last week when George W Bush released a statement, and all of a sudden he sounded like a wise and compassionate former statesman, not the fool who had his henchies fake evidence against Iraq so that we could go to war there. And of course the Incredible Sulk attacked him over it.
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  7473. Heard that "both parties are the same tune" before and don't like it. Basically the only ones who want you to hum it are Trump and his boss, Mr Putin. Just check out the last few party line votes on election security, voting by mail, equal pay, education access, healthcare access, etc if you need any proof of how the two parties are NOT the same.
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  7474. Those who are trying to make peaceful revolution impossible (by voting in a fair and open election) will make violent revolution inevitable. Madame Defarge is on the way from France just in case they want to play it that way.
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  7475. It's hilarious (and sad) how, in the eyes of the True Cult Believers, they now have to cast Pence as a member of the Deep State in order to explain away his request to have the Gohmert lawsuit dismissed.
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  7476. Countdown clock. Only 443 hours to go! https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?csz=1&iso=20210120T00&msg=Time+left+until+Trump+leaves+office&p0=263
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  7477.  @bigcat2520  Regarding "They have created the biggest" << Hate to break the news, but the "they" you're referring to are merely the forces of viral evolution, and "they" brought us the 1918 pandemic too.
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  7478.  @4TK-d3h  Last time I was there, you could barely see the ocean. The better-off homeless had their motorhomes lined up nose to tail for miles in a row. Now they're making a nuisance of themselves up the coast :(
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  7479.  @jjboys215  Re "Don't, they are full of HATE and have alot of guns" << They fully deserve to be the target of laughter. Sucking down the dumbest, no-proof propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. They're right down there in history with the earnest young Brownshirts who committed terrorism in late Weimar Germany after having been misled into believing that Jews were trying to destroy their cultural heritage. Trump is borrowing from a well-worn playbook. The rest of us have plenty of guns too and little patience for lame-brained traitors who seem bent on plunging our nation into chaos.
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  7480. Who else comes here just to read the comments from ignorant folks who assume that this must be a hoax because they haven't caught it yet themselves? The kind who look at NYC and think that it can't happen here because Oregonians are magically immune to it?
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  7481.  @Leo-yd6ig  Now we get to see how "bulletproof" that thing is.
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  7482.  game over man 69  Be nice, just exile them.
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  7483. Unfortunately it takes a really bad local outbreak for the idiots to get the picture. By June, there wasn't anyone left in NYC who thought the pandemic was a hoax or that it wasn't really happening. Unfortunately the idiocy is a self-fulfilling reverse prophecy .. the same covid denial that leads people not to mask/wash/distance also produces the big outbreak that takes out many of the same idiots.
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  7484.  @douglasblowe805  Surely, and thanks for your excellent comment! https://deadline.com/2020/12/armed-protesters-enter-oregon-state-capitol-building-assault-police-chemical-agent-1234660385/ https://www.malheurenterprise.com/posts/7992/around-oregon-arrests-and-outrage-follow-violent-protest-at-capitol https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/infowars-host-praises-violent-attempted-takeover-oregon-statehouse-rails-police Uggh, this reminds me of stuff written about 1930s Germany :(
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  7485. It's good to know they exist.
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  7486. NONE OF THEM will have careers later or be able to live down their participation in Don-the-con's shitshow attempt at authoritarianism. They are indelibly stained.
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  7487.  @Patvk8  About that one - apparently her trial began October 30th. Haven't found much since then. From the most recent article - Shry's father, Mark Shry, testified that his daughter has a drinking and news consumption problem. "Mr. Shry believes that Defendant is a non-violent alcoholic. He testified that she sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers. She then becomes agitated by the news and starts calling people and threatening them," Sheldon noted. "Mr. Shry stated that his daughter never leaves her residence and therefore would not act upon her threats." Shry faces charges of "transmission in interstate of foreign commerce of any communication containing a threat to injure the person of another," which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. (and those are Trump's people .. the easily-misled and -angered)
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  7488. And if the good people of Russia do take care of their internal problem (as we are all hoping) then we must welcome them back to the civilized world, and make clear that we wish no ill will upon the good people of Russia.
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  7489.  @Zeus-qu3zq  Re "the Russian people support Putin" << A noisy minority do. Just like support in America for Trump. But no one else.
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  7490. My car is so clean now with all the MAGA tears flowing.
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  7491. I'm hoping some patriot, remembering what GWB said about how you've got nothing to hide if you've done nothing wrong, has been copying actual transcripts for release later. And this is just the stuff they did through official channels. What kind of illegal kaka has the Mango Manchild been doing over his unsecured cellphone?
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  7492. Funny you should say that - because these days Republicans claim they want to live under a dictatorship and they don't like democracy anymore. Some say they want civil war. They haven't experienced any of those things, because if they did, they'd feel rather differently about them.
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  7493. I only came here to read the whines of folks like you. Thanks for indulging.
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  7494. They're just jealous that it's perfectly normal to lean your AR against the porch railing while you're grilling 😅
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  7495. Indonesia has done that to great success. 100% of the virus deniers are cured within just 2 weeks of digging holes for covid corpses and then burying them. For some of those idiots, release from their denial coincides with them getting a hacking cough they can't shake. The Chris Christie variety of moron.
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  7496. According to Paul Beckwith, AGW-induced decline in global agricultural output has already started. It will disproportionally affect people in hot places, poor people, people in flood-prone places. Everyplace that currently thinks of itself as safer (further away from the equator, further away from flood-prone places, better water supplies for now, more affluent) had better get used to the notion that the flow of refugees from those affected places will increase greatly. This is a giant cluster-F in the making :(
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  7497. If sense worked on them, they wouldn't be Trumpanzees. End of story.
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  7498. Now there's proof that Ben Cline hasn't even watched the Star Wars saga - because if he did, he'd realize that the closest character analogue to Trump is Jabba the Hut.
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  7499.  @bossman6798  I wish they would go full senator-McCarthy on this backdoor cooperation the Republicans are doing with Putin.
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  7500.  @davidclark1566  They will never wake up, just like a lot of people in Germany post-1946 never got over thinking of Hitler as their savior, even though he absolutely ruined the country.
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  7501.  @AineEithne  Well, no, Trump and his media helpers (FOXed Noise and the rest of the RWNJ floating garbage patch) have made it political. He refuses to wear a mask, so do they. He pushes BS on his twitter feed, they echo it. This approach isn't going to work for him long-term since his loyal followers (the ones congregating and wearing masks) are going to get a lesson in the reality of the virus. Some of them might not survive the lesson.
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  7502.  @ripvanwinkle4532  See? More faulty thinking from the right. In this case it's false equivalences. Just because someone isn't gung-ho to get sick and die right now doesn't mean they're not itching to return to normal (we all are, duh) it just means you're more cognizant of dangers than the dummies are.
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  7503.  @DonoVideoProductions  Correct - there is no low to which they won't go. I'm fully expecting MAGA Mikey to refuse to certify the election results that show his cult leader losing, just as I'm expecting Harlan Crow's "hire court" (the Supremes) to step up to rescue 45 after he loses the election again.
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  7504.  @briankeebler4634  More like, "We don't like this person, let's impeach them, even if we have to manufacture the 'evidence' ourselves."
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  7505.  Sin Page  All good choices. I live in one of the states that's among the lowest 5 for covid cases per million, and, rather predictably, the same people who are alive due to public health measures (masks, distancing, hand washing, closure of covid-spreading businesses, etc) are whining about these measures. I'd say it's ironic, but the concept seems to be as far above them as the sky is above the sea.
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  7506.  @klondike444  Usually propagandized people say those exact words when facts & truth are introduced. To that thinking, I reply that I'm sweating today only because the weatherman said it's hot out, not because it's actually hot. And those "thermometer" thingies are in on the scam too.
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  7507.  @klondike444  Sure, but hydroxychloroquine "worked" until it was proven that it didn't. https://www.dicardiology.com/article/fda-reports-deaths-and-injuries-use-antimalarial-hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-patients
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  7508.  @davidjohnpaul333  You people are the most hilarious bunch of cultists. Keep up the good work.
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  7509. There's still time for us to get out the vote.
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  7510. Watch how quickly he cancels the aid to Puerto Rico (a shallow trick to get the votes of PR expats, three years after the disaster) when his approval among Hispanics doesn't improve.
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  7511. I simply left it awhile back. Most useless waste of time I've ever engaged in. At least it helped me see which of my so-called 'friends' were closet racists and closet fascists.
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  7512. Oh how awful. Government saving you from yourself yet again. Lots of people didn't want to put on uniforms during WW2. Lots of people whined about seat belt laws. You'd need a whole lot of cheese for that much whining.
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  7513.  @сырпошехонский  There are also the considerations of distance to market; transportation & infrastructure costs required to deliver to market; etc. As Zeihan notes, areas of Russia are so agriculturally unproductive that they have only one partially-decent crop per year, and are too economically unproductive to afford to build good roads.
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  7514. Is Ben Shapiro on T-blockers? That high soft voice, that face that's obviously never known a razor -- and he's 36. Wtf?
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  7515. Wish the Lincoln Project had been on the clock back in 2016. How many lives and jobs and prosperity could America have saved? Maybe the Lincoln Project should be a permanent fixture.
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  7516. Trump: Cancels global pandemic response unit. Covid19 pandemic follows. Manchin and Sinema: Cancel it again!
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  7517. Too bad we have such stupid people loose among us. My workplace closed mid-March. No stimulus money, no unemployment money. I'm probably going to take the car off the road. I'm surviving only on the generosity of friends .. but then I'd rather be broke and alive than employed right-now-this-moment and dead. Besides, some of those soon to be dead Trumptards will leave behind jobs and businesses for the rest of us to snap up later.
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  7518. I wonder that too.
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  7519. Trump has been toxic for decades. It was easy to see even if all you did was watch his stupid show for a few minutes, listen to one of his speeches, or read the editorial he posted for why the Central Park Five should be put to death (the ones who were later found to be innocent). His nuttery is out in the open for anyone with eyes to see.
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  7520. @Jack Stefan Still wrong. What kind of a reward do you deserve by being so stupid? You're like the sort of moron who would say there's no such thing as climate change because it's [insert favorite weather] where you are. At the moment. Go read the news from Italy or NY or any of those closed meat plants if you need a clue about how the disease spreads.
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  7521. @Jack Stefan Allow me to kick your empty head around a bit. You said "Statistically speaking, none of them will contract it". Cali had 9,807 cases on 4/1. Now it's got 42,596 just 24 days later. Have you ever heard of this cool thing called doubling time? Di you know that the virus spreads through (wait for it) people getting close to each other without wearing masks?
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  7522.  debra young  Debra, if you're so butthurt about being at home too much with your roommates, feel free to take a job in an essential service. The hospitals are always in need of workers. Amazon is hiring. Security jobs are plentiful if that's your thing. But instead, like a true American couch potato, you're seemingly available to whine 18 hours a day on the internet. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is and go take a hospital job?
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  7523. Benito Mussolini suffered a surprise in April. Nicolae Ceausescu got his in December. Perhaps Trump's surprise will be coming soon.
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  7524. Who cares about the gas prices? There are bigger things afoot than whether it costs you a certain amount to drive your shiny, never-been-offroad pickup truck to CostCo to get a bigger flatscreen.
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  7525.  @andrewtomlinson5237  That approach might have worked 6-8 weeks ago, but now you've got a whole nother problem on your hands. Learn from the lesson of the governments that have tried and failed already with that approach. Does it not make you notice when the world's most advanced police state is unable to keep a disease from spreading?
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  7526.  @waqaa3085  Regarding "Fauci had no choice but to trim the truth and deflect the reality of Covid-19" << Whatever you are smoking, you should stop that stuff before it robs you of your last two brain cells. Obviously that's all you got left, lamebrained nutter.
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  7527.  @waqaa3085  LOLz, I nailed you on your absolute bullshit and that's the best you got? Go back to thinking of yourself as the smartest whatever in your corner of that tiny Ohio trailer park where you life. Frigging anti-science nutjob doing Putin's work.
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  7528. Oh, doctor Deborah Birx, you showed your true colors in the moment. Instead of leaping up to get in front of the microphone and tell people no, don't try injecting household cleaners to protect yourself from covid, she just sat there and wished she was anyplace else but on camera with one of the dumbest fools ever to come along in US politics.
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  7529. Remember that famous national park every schoolchild knows the name of? Yo Semite. Yet he pronounced "Mein Kampf" perfectly. Huh.
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  7530.  @frankperino4215  No. Trump apparently still imagines he won by a landslide, but the vote numbers he's wishing for don't seem to be part of the factual world.
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  7531. He might be shoveling a grave for you. Don't let that get in the way of blind loyalty though.
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  7532. This emphasis on how Russia was treated after the wall came down .. umm, outside of the aid rendered to the USSR during the war, is there even a single historical example of one long-cold-warring superpower to refurbish another to modern standards after the conflict? For that matter, did Russia have any long-running history of being a prosperous democracy? Putin is proving that the west was right not to indefinitely continue the wartime aid to Stalin's USSR.
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  7533.  @orangutantapioca1530  The smart businessman is the one who sold a sinking turd to Musk for $44Bn - who was dumb enough to borrow money at interest for the sale.
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  7534.  @Bisquick  "Manufacturing"? Have you been living under a rock the last four years? The only thing Trump ever says to Putin is, "Please, sir, I'd like another" even as Putin puts out bounties on American troops.
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  7535. I can see there being a 20-foot circle all around him where no one wants to be anywhere near the serial con man sociopath insurrectionist.
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  7536. Rest assured, the radical Trumpers (around 20% of US population) will never accept any news saying that Trump does what he does. Instead, it will be blamed on Democrats in a Hannity/Trump interview, and those bozos will lap it up as fact.
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  7537. History will remember that when fascism slouched into the white house, humping the flag and brandishing a bible upside down .. conservatives tripped over each other trying to out-Quisling each other.
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  7538. When someone moves from Oregon to Idaho, the collective IQ of both places goes up. Now that's a win.
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  7539. To elaborate - Joe Biden and Hunter Biden had no role in the Trump administration's violation of the Impoundment Control Act, or the administration's cover-up for the crime, or the administration's obstruction of congressional investigation. Those things are what the impeachment is about.
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  7540.  @catdaddy8603  "Lying, grifting, cheating incompetence and criminality are good things" << Only when they or their tribe do these things. For them it's OK, even admirable. For anyone else, though, they suddenly put on "All laws matter" airs.
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  7541. And still ATACMS is the older variant. Seems to have no trouble chewing up Soviet air defenses.
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  7542. The Trumps are to politics what the Kardashians are to news: zilch. About time people realized it.
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  7543.  @timjones7547  We'd have to see a list of the specific crimes they're being pardoned for.
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  7544. And thus it begins. The Republican party starts pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with Trump or his reign of error. Remember this? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  7545. Dump speaks in incoherent word salads, Biden speaks thoughtfully in complete sentences, yet they call Joe "sleepy"?
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  7546. Whose building? Our building. We paid for it, not the Sh*tler Youth occupying it.
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  7547. There's a channel here on youtube that covers how they are still getting arrested every day. This will go on for awhile. Channel is "raw news and politics".
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  7548.  @WilliamMacKenzie-dq6bf  Bingo. It's like watching the chickens vote for colonel Sanders.
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  7549. When the founding fathers wrote "free speech" into American law, they probably didn't envision a president who would encourage citizens to "rise up" and "resist" necessary health measures during a widespread pandemic.
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  7550. Russia did NOT withdraw or retreat! It was a special retrograde maneuver.
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  7551. Trump's followers are so enamored with the idea of a one-party state that they've set up fake ballot drop boxes so that votes from certain areas will never make it to the final count. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/california-ballot-drop-boxes/index.html
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  7552.  @camwyn256  Re "well Trump was registered Democrat and" << Your denial is amusing. Trump is not, and has never been, any kind of liberal. For some perspective on this subject you may wish to look up Trump's behavior regarding the Central Park Five. You're welcome, fool.
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  7553.  @camwyn256  Your stupidity is almost as crass as the dumb, misinfo-laden links you send. Plenty of conservatives are pro-choice. Trump is arch-conservative, as one can easily tell from his racist attitudes going back decades.
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  7554.  @alien4422  Let's match the UK effort!
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  7555.  @lynnebarrett9912  On Friday, Nov 20 2020, Trump had two Michigan politicians flown to the White House so he could personally pressure them into changing the vote results. These were Michigan state senate majority leader Mike Shirkey (R) and Michigan state house speaker Lee Chatfield (R). They ultimately told him there weren't any grounds for changing the election results.
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  7556. I for one am grateful that Trump washed over the USA like a big litmus test, showing us which of the people among us are most receptive to the dumbest propaganda, and most easily snookered into asking to do away with democracy. It's nice knowing exactly who these people are and where they live.
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  7557. For a side that's supposedly losing (your words) they've taken back a great deal of what was initially conquered during the blitzkreig phase, and with the use of modern western weapons (and some of their own invention) they are perfecting the art of vaporizing Russian mobiks.
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  7558. The virus is the same as the one in China. The host species (us) is the same as in China. They had to resort to extreme measures just to contain this thing and even then the results weren't perfect. Until masks are mandatory with strong penalties for noncompliance, until travel restrictions are strictly enforced, until testing is not just free but mandatory (with the authorities going door to door), etc, this virus will not be brought under control.
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  7559.  @dorianshadesofgray  Not sure if you follow the news at all, but in some cases the hospitals were overwhelmed within less than a month of reopening - meaning that there had been significant stealth community spread all along. https://www.krem.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/yakima-hospitals-out-of-beds-coronavirus/293-d9e2858f-3023-4fc4-93bf-db1ed89f349a
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  7560.  @JoySullivan-je2yn  There are several requirements for a candidate to be eligible to be (or run for) the president of the US. Not having rebelled against the US government is but one of them. What other requirements would the Republicans want to evade if we let them do this one? Might they put a 30yo Russian-born friend of Putin forward as a candidate?
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  7561. Timing, my friend, timing. At the rate dinner is being prepared, it's not unthinkable that Trump's treasonous accomplices still on the ballot may find themselves arrested the night before the election.
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  7562. It's winter. LOL
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  7563. Notice how the news hardly ever covers how some of the worst offenders in uniform are the biggest Trump fans? Among many other things, that #45 stain on the office showed us that a certain subset of Americans seems to be wired to love a hateful authoritarian ruler. Go figure.
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  7564. I don't see why Putin is so mad about the F-16s. It's not as if we are sending F-15C's to Ukraine with love from America.
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  7565. The H1N1 epidemic happened when Obama had been in office just 3 months. 93 Americans died, and Trump complained about that and how Obama golfed occasionally. The covid-19 epidemic happened when Trump had been in office THREE YEARS. Almost 100K Americans have died, and Trump is still complaining about Obama.
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  7566. Didn't fool me then, doesn't fool me now. Wish my blood relatives could see more clearly.
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  7567. This is pretty funny. It's probably the other way around: the USA has a case rate of 5093 per million whereas Brazil has a case rate of 1710 per million. So any random American is almost 3x as likely to be covid-positive as any random Brazilian.
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  7568. Did Dr Oz tell him to get out of the bunker every now and then?
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  7569. Wait 3 seconds, 45 will be crowing about how he's now "immune", even for underage sex troubles that happened long before his sht show of an administration?
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  7570. Mr Garland will probably retire to someplace far away so he can whine about America being such a mess - even though he helped make it much worse.
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  7571. This is nothing. Wait until they finish becoming a minority party that's corrupted the system to ensure they remain in power permanently. They've already shed the "party of law and order" skin. Wait until they decide that staying in power means disarming America, which is what comes next.
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  7572. The conversation will be something like this: Russia: We took one of your islands. Finland: What island? (dials up some B-52s)
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  7573.  @jonathanperry8331  Correct, he used/created the Obama birther nonsense to calibrate his fine control via FOXed Noise on one hand and Twitter on the other hand. All he needs someone else to do is say there's an investigation, and he can do the rest. And in Hannity he found a willing accomplice to manufacture the news and the consent of his sheeple.
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  7574.  @ramsberg2  Re "But it's astounding and disgusting to me how far Republicans are willing to go to do this." << It tells you everything you need to know about Republicans that they would destroy our democracy, plunge the nation into chaos and bloodshed rather than face the fact that their favorite orange con man (well-known serial scammer) lied to them and was rejected by American voters.
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  7575. Nothing to worry about! Pick any happytalk scenario you like! A) We're all magically immune now from 10 weeks of watching Netflix. B) The virus magically went away because it too got bored. C) Baby Jeebus will protect us.
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  7576. I fear the USA is in for a harsh lesson about how some things are not free speech, or normal political speech. Germany got this lesson already. Pray it's not our turn.
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  7577. Can just imagine the texts going back and forth. * Trump pings Lindsey Graham * Lindsey: Call off your hogs, it's getting hot in here Trump: Hey, uh, word is that my guys, my beautiful people, have almost got Pence. It's almost finished. Gonna be a whole new world by tomorrow morning Lindsey: Don't say that Trump: And the reason I'm calling is to give you a chance to be a part of it. But we have to be clear. What can you do for me? How can you be helpful to me?
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  7578.  @chaosopher23  Luckily for the Russian navy, the CIA/NSA have officially said "cannot confirm or deny" when it comes to weather modification. Of course, it would be a shame if their navigation systems somehow got them into the Bermuda Triangle zone. Ships just disappear there.
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  7579.  @atsylor5549  She should have considered that before lying in public for the benefit of our Mango Mussolini. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  7580. At one point or another, everyone in America has laughed at the pre-1992 pictures of the face of communism: long lines, bare shelves. Looks like capitalism isn't much of an improvement :(
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  7581. No one ever accused conservatives of being quick on the uptake.
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  7582. I'm sorry for that business owner that he doesn't understand the risks he poses to the community by having people indoors, in an enclosed space, breathing heavily while in proximity to each other. He's probably a great business owner, but he's a lousy epidemiologist, since those are ideal conditions for the virus to spread among people. Indoors setting, heavy breathing = high output of droplets and aerosolized virus. Even with distancing that's very risky and produces a high rate of spread.
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  7583.  @shovelcharge  Wrong. Opening a disease-spreading commercial location IS a risk to the public. California's outbreak started in a nail salon, of all places. This is why bars and restaurants have been closed all around the world. Have you been asleep for the last 4 months, is that why you're not aware of how this disease spreads?
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  7584.  @shovelcharge  Oh and for the record I already am unemployed, so I do volunteer work outdoors to keep busy. I am OK with losing the car and going broke over this, because I can recover from that, whereas no one has recovered from being dead from the virus.
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  7585. Why don't Republicans just flat-out admit that they are the American version of the Taliban. It would make things so much easier for the average voter.
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  7586. When Trump's cult weirdos get together, it always looks like Halloween night at the lunatic asylum.
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  7587. Rejoin the Paris Climate Accords; strategic arms limitation treaties; repair relations with Iran and apologize for the nutball who's presently on the way out; apologize to our allies for what the departing nutball said and did; allow ICC inspectors into the US; deliver Stephen Miller, professional ghoul, to the Hague so he can answer questions about US policies that violated several parts of Hague 33.
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  7588. The people of California are approx 11.8% of US population; for NY it's approx 6.03%. That should be the measure of their say in things, not more, and certainly not less just because their closest neighbors are within earshot.
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  7589. Livestock medicine is what you use on barnyard animals - like sheeple, for instance. Sometimes they are able to buy it themselves at Agway.
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  7590. You must have a long memory. Republicans have been stuck-to-the-ceiling nutters for decades now.
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  7591. Tillerson's former job was convincing farmers that nearby fracking wouldn't damage the value of their farmland, even as he fought in court to keep fracking operations away from his own dude ranch on the excuse that it would lower the land value. No wonder Trump liked him :(
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  7592. Biden made it clear that everyone needs to be in that tent. The only people Trump wants in the tent are the hateful, irrational, racist minority that love him for "telling it like it is" even when it's all lies.
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  7593.  @huldaliljeblad3611  Re "could ever be elected by a sane people" << Dump45 lost his first popular election by 3 million votes and the second one my 8 million votes. It's only through the fuckery of the electoral college that he got in at all.
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  7594. "Stupid" is just old-rightwing-male speak for "you don't look like me or the rich guys I golf with".
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  7595. Correction on Dr John's question about guns in the state capitol .. under Oregon laws, certain cities and municipalities require the bearer to possess a concealed handgun license if they wish to open-carry in Portland, Salem, and a few other places. What was different with the recent protests at the state capitol is that people clashed with the police (breaking into the building) while wearing body armor, pistols, and carrying long guns and chemical weapons. That's not normal for here.
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  7596.  @frankozz8699  I see your "duck hunting" argument and I raise you this .. this is the one I use for trolling gun nuts: "I'm a responsible mailbox bomb owner and would never actually use one to kill anyone. I use the explosives to protect my property and explode mailbox bombs in my back yard for fun. I can't help it if some nut gets their hands on a bomb. They would have just found another way to kill, say with a gun or something else. Mailbox bombs don't kill people. People kill people."
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  7597.  @alexandersuraev4026  Usually it takes at least one party to end a business relationship, so let's see how this works. Any new customers (should Russia be able to find them) are now part of a smaller pool of potential customers, and of course they may well want concessions because of that. I would ask for a super low price and some guarantee that supplies will not be cut because one day Pooty wakes up in a bad mood. Perhaps some large assets would suffice as a guarantee.
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  7598. The governor of North Dakota FINALLY enacted a mask mandate, after months hanging onto Trump's coattails. Of course he waited until his state is completely engulfed in covid cases. Like trying to lock the barn door after the horses have escaped and the barn is fully engulfed in flame. The stupid, it burns :(
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  7599.  Mike Hefley  No, no, please do not encourage them to target Swamp-a-Lago, which is located precisely at N 26.676702 W 80.038590 .. there are innocent Floridians nearby.
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  7600. A more likely outcome is that folks will give them a few S-400 air defense systems. Nobody in the world wants to see the US do a new war over there - except for certain chickenhawks here in the USA.
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  7601.  @dbsti3006  You're finding something positive to say about the 219K+ American deaths from covid? Even for a Trumper, that's pretty sick and twisted thinking. Go seek mental help please.
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  7602. Musk doesn't seem capable of learning the type of lesson you're proposing we teach him. Everyone should just take their business elsewhere, like the advertisers already are. By the time Twitter has completed its transition to the next 8chan, it will be worth less than Trump's PRAVDA Social.
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  7603. This is not the first time we've seen red & blue states pursue diverging agendas. Oh, and 70% of America's GDP comes from the counties that voted for Biden in the 2020 election.
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  7604. That guy is actually Trump's unofficial economic advisor, hangs out at Swamp-a-Lago, underpays his 1500 workers enough to afford a hang out at Swamp-a-Lago, and generally blows sunshine up Trump's ugly butt. Even Dr. Oz would have something more relevant to say.
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  7605. This variant is definitely bad. It spreads so damn easily, not like the kinder gentler covid that went around last year. I hate to think of how many have been infected at the anti-lockdown protests :( On the plus side, they won't be so uppity when they're hooked to ventilators. If there are enough to go around, that is. Put those ones last in line.
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  7606. Actually I was expecting worse. Considering how badly-behaved his followers are/were, and how much he loved their actions (armed protests at state capitols; racial violence; etc) I was expecting him to use the powers of state to run America like a giant filtration camp designed to weed out the unbelievers. That and a hot civil war.
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  7607. Truly, the United States has the most advanced form of capitalism.
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  7608. Considering how many Trump fans are virus deniers of one kind or another, Trump is punking his own followers in the worst possible way by gathering them together indoors in large crowds. No doubt there will be some Dolph Lundgren lookalikes patrolling the crowd and saying that masks are for wimps, liberals, traitors. Within weeks, thousands of them will develop a strange cough.
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  7609. If you didn't already know that twice impeached convicted felon former president Trump is a clueless POS who cares only for his whim of the moment, then you have only yourself to blame for not having paid attention.
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  7610. He still retains that toddler's fright/disdain towards people who can speak in complete sentences.
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  7611.  @gneac24  Hate to break the news to you, bud, but the country is bigger than just the few nutty fools you tend to hang with. Joe got millions more votes that the other guy. The rest of us are happy that things are getting done, folks are getting vaccinated, and we're working to defeat covid.
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  7612. And guess what the Supremes will do then?
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  7613. FOXed Noise people have a long history of saying wacky sh*t: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do."
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  7614. Maybe we can get Chris Christie to explain it to them in person. Too bad Herman Cain can't be reached for comment.
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  7615. I'm afraid that the foiled plots in Michigan are but a taste of what Trump's "fine people" will do as they see Trump's chances of re-election slip away. The truly horrifying thing is that regardless of which way the election goes, he will continue to egg on the very worst segment of Americans, and his followers will continue to commit acts of political violence. Just since the George Floyd murder, the right-wingers have committed more than 100 vehicle assaults on protesters.
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  7616. Through their words and deeds, Republicans have made it clear that they care not for the will of the people if it's against their Mango Mussolini. Their warm embrace of the idea of one-party rule and a wannabe dictator mark them clearly as people who should be living in North Korea, not here. Betcha it wouldn't take more than a month of NK "hospitality" for them to recover from the orange kool-aid.
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  7617.  @paulortega5317  Sorry but we are still seeing an exponential increase everywhere, just a slower exponential increase. Left mostly unchecked (hat tip to Tony Spell and pastors like him, who regularly host super-spreader gatherings) the US virus case count took only a month to go from 400 cases to 400,000 cases. At the same rate it would take another month to reach the whole US population (327 million) but obviously that's been slowed. Err, feel free to archive the daily snapshots from Worldmeters if you need to see the proof of what I'm saying. Put it this way: over the last 7-day span, Alaska went from 182 cases/M to 306 cases/M (68% up). Montana went from 203 to 319 (57% up). South Dakota (not locked down yet, wtf) went from 146 cases/M to 455 cases/M (211% up). There is noplace in America, from country down to county level, that is not showing this pattern. Some places are just faster than other places at spreading it.
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  7618.  @fionaanderson5796  I hope not too. But some in the USA apparently believe that economies cannot restart after disasters. They can, they do, they have. I think what the Trumpies mean when they say that is that Trump's presidency might not survive this.
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  7619.  @lizd2943  Correct. I'm basically expecting him to burn everything down just out of spite. Trash all our allies even further, cause as many future problems for America as possible. And the 30% racist twats who back him will be his fifth column helpers.
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  7620.  @Coffeepanda294  Unfortunately for them, they have always been 20-30 years behind the curve in semiconductor development. We give Ukraine missiles that are both cheaper and much more sophisticated than the Russian combat vehicles they take out.
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  7621. Pretty sure 45 did the same basic thing with Afghanistan, when he sold out the Afghani people & government .. he went to the highest bidder for his kind of game (in this case, the Taliban) and asked them what they could do for him personally if he were to sign off on withdrawing US forces from the country. Then he slow-walked the actual widthdrawal in order to leave a mess in his successor's lap. Pretty sure 45 did the same kind of thing when he sold out the Palestinian people with the Abraham Accords .. he went to the highest bidder (the Israeli government) and asked what they could do for him personally if he were to OK a "peace plan" that would screw over the Palestinians. And that was a ticking mess he left for his successor.
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  7622. More like their moral basement now has a bottomless hole in it :(
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  7623.  @rookmaster7502  Regarding "started gargling gasoline or spraying pesticide up their noses" .. this seems like an opportune time to repeat Winston Churchill's famous quote about how [some] Americans will do the right thing only after they've exhausted all other possibilities.
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  7624. This is kind of interesting .. so by putting him forward as an AG candidate, Cheeto set in motion a process that will basically remove Gaetz from the game board. Is Marj Traitor Greene next for a similar removal? Cheeto doesn't need the old MAGA anymore.
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  7625.  @space.youtube  Sadly, if you go on youtube, there are travel videos posted of people who've been going all over the country evading the lockdown police. Wonder what part they played in spreading it everywhere? Some of them even admit in their videos that they broke the law. Naturally they are ant-mask anti-vax folks themselves.
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  7626. Add the whole west coast to that list. Trump and his jackbooters can stay out.
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  7627. The people who haven't lost their own children to covid are the only ones minimizing it.
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  7628. He was probably outside selling Trump merch.
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  7629. You should see the whacktard propaganda being put out by the Second Amendment Foundation these days. Trump cult members have caught the mental disease of making stuff up and believing it as fact just seconds later.
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  7630. It is as if the people running the US think that strategy is not needed when you have the world's biggest hammer, and it's always looking for new nails to pound :(
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  7631.  John Griffith  And there is the difference between Trump and God: God doesn't think he's Trump.
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  7632.  @poolman20001  Re "Na. Fighting a proxy war is so much smarter." << It's even better when that proxy war is slowed down in order to keep the opponent's forces tied down and bleeding. The longer Russia stays in Ukraine, the more Russia loses arms, equipment, personnel. If they left tomorrow they'd begin the process of rebuilding. Right now they are still sticking their own limbs into the wood chipper and hoping for a different result. It's not working. Armenia & Azerbijan are at it again, Khirghistan/Kazakstan are having a water war, and Georgia & Chechnya are taking lessons from Ukraine in how to kick out the Russians. The longer Russia remains tied down in Ukraine, the worse everything else gets for them. Maybe Georgia wants to join NATO too?
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  7633. Shades of pastor Niemoller's famous words. First they came for the trans youth, but since I wasn't a trans youth I didn't stand up.
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  7634. I won't sleep easier until Sweet Potato Hitler is being led out in extra-small handcuffs, and all those who went along with his reign of error are voted out of office.
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  7635. High as a kite on something,f or sure :(
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  7636. He'd make a fine corpse.
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  7637.  @skis_injeans  The good news is that social distancing seems to be slowing the daily case spread rates. Here's what the day-over-day percentage growth numbers look like from April 1st through April 13th: 12.84 10.40 9.71 9.28 6.84 7.09 5.35 6.46 4.47 5.96 4.51 3.83 2.54 Hope this gives you some hope. Stay safe :)
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  7638. Dang, I remember the good old days when Putin's bot army was a much more thorough presence on these threads. Probably a lot of them have been conscripted to go absorb kinetic and thermal energies in Ukraine; that's why their ranks are so thinned lately. PS: You might want to hide if you're anywhere near the border .. as a Christmas gift, Ukraine is receiving a whole bunch of JDAM kits. With much love from the USA :)
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  7639. This was explained quite a long time ago - consider it just one of the many facts that escapes your attention. Normally getting full FDA approval for a new vaccine is a matter of 5+ years. However, waiting 5 years would have been an even worse disaster.
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  7640.  @gailcarmack2954 Even worse, there are apparently plenty of regretful departing Republicans who helped make the T monster what it is at every step along the way. And now they're complaining that it's turned on them. Shades of, "But I never thought leopards would eat MY face :("
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  7641. It's a toss as to whether they lie, whether they're just mistaken, or whether someone put LSD into their drinking water.
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  7642.  AUTONOMEN LX  Dammit, I told them to turn off that automatic fact checker. /sarc
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  7643.  @reynardblake293  I call it the rabbit hole .. used to call it the FOXed Noise echo chamber.
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  7644. You're welcome to watch all of his videos and figure that out for yourself.
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  7645.  @hreodbeorhtcheesewright4889  If you will recall the news from earlier in the year, the UK government's responses were in fact pretty inadequate, partly because BoJo was playing the role of Trump's mini-me and disregarding the seriousness of the pandemic. Then he got it himself, and it almost killed him. Like former NJ governor Chris Christie here in the US, Boris Johnson felt differently about the seriousness of the virus after having personally experienced it, and that's how some policy changes got put into place. Does that help explain? Otherwise I am reminded of that joke about some American conservative saying something like: "Gorram it! That Obama is such a liar! Last year he said he was 54. This year he says he's 55. Stop being inconsistent about the facts, Obama!"
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  7646. Although Republicans will spend the next generation pretending otherwise, just remember: Trump did not get into or stay in the white house all by himself. Just flip back to this 2019 series of events for reference: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  7647. He's like a corpse that they keep putting layers of shellac onto. Like Lenin in his mausoleum under all that wax and paint.
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  7648. As usual, Trump is looking to deflect. This is his reaction to the bombshell NYT report about how his team ignored warnings going back to early January.
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  7649. At times like this, you can see the Quislings pretty clearly. They want to turn America into the next North Korea, all to please their angry cult leader who legitimately lost the election. At some point, if only for the sake of generations of unborn Americans, we need to deal more firmly with this coterie of traitors.
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  7650. @Mainely Not happening on my shift.
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  7651.  @danzemacabre8899  Nobody can recall when car accidents produced so many bodies that the morgue was so overwhelmed that they had to store them in plain box trucks parked on the street. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/nyregion/bodies-brooklyn-funeral-home-coronavirus.html
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  7652. Sure, this next year or so is going to hurt, but make sure the right people feel it. Trump. His cronies. Those who greased the skids for his slide into autocracy, like Moscow Mitch and Miss Lindsey Graham. The people who help form his lies, like Bannon, Miller, Hannity and some of the other swamp creatures at FOXed. The people who cheered him on when he talked about shooting refugees at the border. That crazy old lady, who lived through the cold war and ought to know better, who said Trump should be dictator. The people who still support him after plenty of his high crimes and misdemeanors are made public. Don't just let them walk away from this and brush it off like it was just a temporary incident, like they did with GWB. These people mean harm to our nation. They're worse than cowards, they're traitors.
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  7653. Having a long prison sentence seems to help some cult members. Leslie Van Houten took a very long time getting over her cultiness.
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  7654. There is a lot of money to be made off people dumb enough to believe that spraying vinegar at the sky protects them from "chemtrails". Or that estrogen gets put into all canned food. Etc.
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  7655. Rest assured, he is going to get MUCH MUCH WORSE. Since he wasn't slapped immediately for saying that people should "go after" the prosecutor (instant punishment is the only way animals like him learn, if they can even learn at all) he's going to continue in that vein. So it's an open question when his cult nutters are going to start using truck bombs to answer his calls for political violence :(
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  7656. Yeah, I didn't know that either. Betcha it's not much better than Jeremy Christian's podcast, if he has one. BTW that's the Oregon guy who killed people on a train while doing a Trumpian race rant.
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  7657.  @PC-kd7dj  It's about what you would expect in places with low education and high gun ownership rates.
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  7658.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  "Overhyping"? Guess all those protests against the Vietnam war were grossly overhyping, since it took more than 10 years to kill only half as many Americans as covid19 has killed in just a few months. What's the address of that rock you live under? We need to set you up for remedial education.
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  7659.  Badger Colony  I get that you don't like that the virus will keep effing things up until we deal with it, as other nations have done. Go drink some coffee and get out of your bunker once in awhile. It's not a hoax. Or maybe you want to join some of the other idiots who screeched about it being a hoax, then caught it and died? Jeez. The stupid, it burns.
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  7660.  @loredanatagliaferri5339  Speaking of Putler's trolls .. even though Ukraine is not launching strikes into Russia, is the troll attempting to say that it's a bad thing to attack another nation? Why, what do they imagine Russia has been doing in Ukraine these past 4 months??
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  7661. The rest of us who got the memo can now watch the unvaccinated see what the ventilators are used for.
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  7662. It's not just the police and their enablers doubling down on the reprehensible behavior, but their Brownshirt irregulars too, who have already perpetuated 30+ vehicle and/or firearms attacks on peaceful protesters. This is precisely why Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (formerly CHAZ) has the barriers and the guards.
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  7663.  @lonewolffang  World's biggest crybully :(
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  7664.  @omerusmortem8714  Remember when we used to get higher-quality Russian trolls here? Sigh. Those were the days. But now that even boss Putin sees that his empty-vessel Muscovite candidate Trump is failing, why should he throw money down a hole? Maybe young master Eric will get to be the prison gloryhole for awhile. I honestly don't care, as long as justice is served.
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  7665. If the wheels of justice don't start turning faster, the game is going to change from fighting GQP fascists in Congress to fighting their angry mushroom sheeple in the streets. It's that serious.
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  7666. You must be one of those people who like to put out home fires by dousing them with gasoline .. smh.
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  7667. It's worth remembering that wealth distribution is presently even more extreme than it was under feudalism. And a big chunk of why we brought out democracy was precisely to prevent lopsided distribution of wealth and power.
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  7668. Clearly he was fed up after being driven around the bend by Bunker Boy's tweets and whatever nonsense he saw on FOXed Noise. Guess no one told him it was all rhetorical hyperbole, not actual news.
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  7669. Deranged and bizarre speeches from Trump are what excite the folks of MAGAstan. Listen to the acoustics of the room. He's shouting at the camera practically.
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  7670. No candidate in history, on either side, has ever taken the popular vote in the first 3 states. Weirdly enough, the trolls are claiming that in no country is the leader selected by popular vote. False. In more than half (65) of the world’s 125 democracies, the head of state (nearly always called a president) is directly elected by voters. Thirty other democracies are classified as constitutional monarchies, and in the remaining 30, including the USA, the head of state is indirectly elected. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/
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  7671. Trump is a god to his sheeple .. a strongman to weaklings, a genius to dullards. To the rest of us, he's reprehensible.
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  7672. Russian combat casualty rate is 1000 per day, or roughly that, with the total so far being above 530K.
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  7673.  @charlesm2437  Funny, but if you dig up pictures of actual fascists (Hitler, Mussolini) there's nothing about them wearing masks. Not that these flaming anti-mask retards would notice the difference.
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  7674.  @monkeyphoenix2178  Wearing a mask (to prevent from spreading disease) is "giving up your freedom"? Hope you and the people like you can relocate to some island where, like the true low-IQ nitwits you are, you'll purge out of the gene pool.
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  7675.  @monkeyphoenix2178  If wearing a mask for health reasons is "giving up your freedom" then I wonder what you think of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers using them for the past few centuries? And speaking of your precious snowflake freedom, Mr. Karen, I wonder how you'll feel when you learn you can't get drunk and drive on the left side of the road? Oh the horror.
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  7676.  @kjell1087  Funny thing, though, in WW2 being called up to serve meant that you were actually being put in harm's way. With regards to being told to take a vaccine, the situation is almost reversed: the vaccine [mostly] saves you from the harsher effects of a disease that's currently going around. Do you use a car? You may have noticed the seat belts in it. You may have seen signs telling you to wear seat belts. They are "only" 45% effective at reducing death by auto accident and "only" 50% effective at reducing serious injury by auto accident. Yet in many places the use of those safety devices is mandated by law. Same thing now. Government not only has the right to protect people from their own worst instincts, it has the responsibility to do so.
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  7677.  @andrewtrip8617  Regarding "following orders" .. the Nazis were in the business of killing folks. The vaccines are in the business of saving folks. You flipped a sign in your moral calculations.
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  7678.  @RyanOManchester  Regarding "it's a return to the norm" << Oh dear. Well, since the internet hasn't been around for much of human history, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is, toss your electronics into the nearest canal, and go live out in the bush. Humans were lucky to make it to age 35 before modern medicine and nutrition. Those of us who wish to continue to live in modern times shall of course make a different set of decisions, including that of vaccines and other things that make our health better. I am quite willing to bet that at your age you've already been vaccinated against a number of things for your own good. This is just another in a long line of them. Trying to get someone to be pro-death and anti-vaccine is not a matter of "examining the issue from another perspective", by the way, since we are still very much in the active time window of this particular emergency. Call me back in 10 years on this, if you're still around then, because I'm pretty confident that by then even you may have come to realize your errors.
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  7679. Joe McCarthy, of the House un-American Activities Committee, would have put Trump in the electric chair for what he's done -- to be closely followed by whoever else here in the US is doing Putin's bidding. And THAT is how you clean house.
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  7680. Thanks to the MAGA hats and other traitor merch, lawn signs, clothes, bumper stickers, etc, we now know exactly who Trump's little Quislings are.
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  7681. Well, it's sad, but the people who voted for Hitler in 1932 often didn't recognize their own complicity in what came after, even when they were the victims of it, even when it killed them and their families. It's always been the way that evil sucks in those whose moral compasses are either broken, spinning, or just plain missing :(
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  7682.  @thebilboshow168  Re "magine rioting and looting for 4 years" << Funny you should mention that, buck-o, because nearly all political violence committed in America since the 2016 election was done by right-wingers. Actually y'all should be called reich-wingers. A hateful, divisive authoritarian figure came along and all you could do was play frog for him. Dummies and dimwits are what make up his followers.
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  7683. Oh, I don't know, maybe arbitrarily destroying the livelihoods, healthcare, and retirement of millions of Americans wasn't such a good idea?
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  7684. Your Nazi tattoos are showing again.
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  7685.  @purplenights1  No justice, no peace. Figure that one out. Maybe if some folks busted into your home at night, killed one of your fam, and were only given a ticket for discharging a firearm within city limits, you might have a glimmer of a clue about what people are angry about. But you probably can't reach that sort of awareness any more than you can climb a ladder to the moon.
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  7686. The easily-misled ones were beyond hearing facts at the time. They still are. I tried :(
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  7687. Iran is going to go 100% asymmetric over this. Maybe someone will gift them with multiple sets of S-400 air defenses for their cities. While they are not a superpower (able to send aircraft carriers or submarines to the US mainland) they are also not your run-of-the-mill third-world sort of place that the US usually tends to attack. And an American attack on Iran just united Iranians like few things could ever do.
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  7688. Worried? Maybe he should have considered that before committing crimes and inciting others to commit crimes. Whoops, too late.
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  7689. I'm afraid the good doctor is correct on this .. if we were to do widespread testing such as China and South Korea are doing, the extent of the actual problem here in the USA will probably be breathtaking. All our leaders had to do was watch the news out of China, then South Korea, then Italy to see what was coming our way. Instead, angry tweeting and trying to cast blame elsewhere and whining about numbers looking bad.
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  7690. Trumpist nationalism has brought us "Lock her up!", assassination attempts on foreign officials, and calling the free press "the enemy of the people". Not a good look for America :(
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  7691. I love the way he tried telling that Axios report that the US is doing better than the world at covid. Priceless.
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  7692.  @kelperdude  At least wait for the ink to dry before you wave around your freshly-created "proof" of the nutty stuff you say ;)
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  7693. So many investigations waiting. From how things went down here, we can assume that either Trump asked for, or Putin offered, or both, some advice for how the Republicans could remake America the way they want it. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. Guaranteed election results in his favor.
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  7694.  @thomwessels2281  Long before you were a stain running down your mom's leg, Dr Fauci was fighting wars you wouldn't understand against new diseases. So take your ignorance and stuff it. Reciting? Oh that's funny. Here's the thing. Smart people know they can't know everything. It's not even possible. But stupid people are easily convinced they know everything. You're of the latter type.
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  7695.  @thomwessels2281  Oh puh-leaze. Quoting sh*t that Tucker Carlson made up isn't doing you any favors. If anything it's making you look like the most easily-bamboozled sheeple since sheep were first bred. Fauci has never gone in front of a camera and told the world he knows everything. You are just an idiot who imagines it. Learn the difference between fact and fiction.
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  7696.  @thomwessels2281  Awww. As I completely expected, you are unable to argue a case on merits. Given that Dr Fauci has never stood in front of the press corp and declared that he knows everything - why are you even bothering with that quixotic comment mentioned above- the claim that Dr Fauci says he knows everything? Perhaps you should save your ire for the one person who DID go in front of cameras and claim that he alone can fix this. I'm referring to the twice-impeached former white house resident.
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  7697.  @thomwessels2281  On your most recent claims ("nailed by Rand Paul", LOL) you are again, and as usual, completely off-base. The nutter you named (Paul) got shown to be a nutter. He was again unhappy about it. You must be only very shallowly educated if you believe the nonsense Paul was spouting. But then, that was clear above when you made some ridiculous claim (about your education level) that is in no way borne out through your discourse here.
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  7698. I recall the news from the summer/fall of 2021, where citizens in Kyiv were volunteering to learn military skills before the impending attack. Lots of people older than 40 were taking up rifles and learning to shoot. Kudos on them for their bravery and willingness to fight.
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  7699. Truly, we had the best working on this. A deep thank you to all the rescuers and those who worked on this. Now comes the hard work of figuring out precisely how this happened, what all its many contributing factors were, and making sure it doesn't happen again.
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  7700. Remember when senator Murakowski said Trump had learned his lesson after getting a slap on the wrist over the Ukraine quid-pro-quo thing? The only lesson he learned was that Republicans won't do a thing to stop him from breaking the law again.
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  7701. It's not self-defense when you go there with a gun then put yourself in harm's way so that you "had to" use the gun.
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  7702. I wish that video had shown the faces of the rest of the people in the room. Their expressions would be priceless.
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  7703. No doubt Gosplan 2.x is still running on some old PDP-11 that was smuggled in long ago ..
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  7704. He's not called "Moscow Mitch" for nothing. Still doing Putin's work, sowing division.
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  7705. Disagree strongly on the "no way out but victory". It would be more correct to say that Putler's grip on power depends on his success in Ukraine.
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  7706. Good thing it's not in his control, and the governors will do that on their own if or when necessary. Then he can return to his usual sulking.
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  7707.  @ProctorsGamble  Great username BTW :)
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  7708. Considering the pointy quality of those questions .. most likely the J6 committee has the receipts in Flynn planning to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Behold the shallow sheeple thinking of none-too-bright cultists :(
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  7709. This virus is sort of like a fire. Throwing more fuel on it (giving it more new people to infect) merely makes it burn for longer. Gotta snuff the fire out (deprive it of fuel by social distancing above all else) before you can restart things.
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  7710. On the plus side, those folks cash themselves out of the gene pool at a higher rate.
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  7711. What with Russians withdrawing ships and military resources from Crimea, the Conquest-o-Meter is dipping below 19% for Russia's misadventure in Ukraine. After Crimea is freed, Donetsk is next.
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  7712.  Barr Stool  Trump unfortunately has a lot of helpers in his plan to take down American democracy. His de facto Brownshirt Irregulars are the ones committing domestic terror, and, sadly, police in America seem all too inclined to give their excesses a nod and a wink.
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  7713. And that is how I have come to love the MAGA hats and the Trump flags. Whoever I see with those tokens of allegiance to America's most famous Quisling, I know there lies a traitor, an anarchist, someone who cares not at all for our democracy, for the rule of law, even for public health measures. It's very helpful information.
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  7714. Pretty sure it couldn't have been aliens, because if they were able to get all the way here, something like our F-22 (which is great by Earth standards) is probably like an antiquated toy to them.
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  7715. The land of dirt roads and outhouses sure is stuck on itself. As if they imagine everything is made of gold.
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  7716.  @brothertaro2008  Let's be realistic. Considering that the hardcore nutcases are maybe 10% of the population .. how much work is it to exile/deport that many people? Ship them to North Korea so they can get a taste of what they're trying to turn America into? Put them in some active mental therapy programs so they can understand how far from normal they've been misled? Make a Foreign Legion out of them and make sure they stay confined to base?
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  7717. The leopards are hungry; let's not stand in their way.
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  7718. The ghost of Kim Davis rides again. Any chance I can move to a place where the local sheriff forbids income tax? 😅
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  7719. Raptors be getting hungry at this time of year.
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  7720.  @sierranevada1265  Re "But do the mentally ill realize that they are mentally ill?" << Tricky question. Most normal people, I like to think, wouldn't raise arms against our own legitimately elected government, particularly when all challenges to said election have been tossed out of court for lack of evidence. There isn't a place in the country from which it is impossible to get the news that all of Trump's election challenges got tossed for lack of evidence, meaning that there's a certain amount of willful ignorance in play here.
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  7721. I look forward to knowing that someone in the US will deliver Stephen Miller and a few other Trump cronies to the Hague to answer questions about child separation policies, enforced sterilization, inhumane conditions in the camps, and more.
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  7722. Not necessarily. It's something that sometimes needs to be done with cult members who've gone too far down the rabbit hole. The alternative is to leave them in the rabbit hole for the rest of their lives, like Manson Family cultists still in prison and still under his spell. Deprogramming is a rescue mission for lost souls.
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  7723.  @sidgarrett7247  Thankfully Mitch isn't able to repeat his nominee-blocking game from Obama's time. In all of prior US history, 84 presidential nominees had been blocked, but during Obama's time Mitch blocked 82. Up 4000%.
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  7724. Trump and his people are showing us exactly who they are. They want power, they love violence (as long as it doesn't hurt them), and they don't care one bit about the rule of law.
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  7725. Getting 45 to say, in the debate, that he had nothing to do with ending RVW should be cakewalk.
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  7726.  @2023Naturegirl  Reason is wasted on types like that .. kind of like using medicine on dead people :( I don't know if many of them ever return to normalcy.
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  7727.  @startibartfast42  That's because America still clings to Democracy 0.9.2 even though the rest of the civilized world has moved on to newer versions.
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  7728. That outside wall looked like it was bowed in places .. any word on the structural integrity of the building? Did not look good.
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  7729.  @TheOpenSociety777  Well, since the DC insurgents did in fact commit crimes of terrorism, I don't care if the Illuminati, the boy scouts, Antifa, or anyone else help turn them over to law enforcement.
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  7730. Trumpy already showed he infiltrated and subverted the Secret Service .. remember those agents who tried to hustle Pence into the limousine on 1/6? He refused to get in, knowing damn well they had a "final solution" waiting for him.
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  7731. Hello @Dave K who started this thread. My favorite example of this was when Jared & Amanda Miller went on their Las Vegas shooting spree back in 2014. First they killed two armed police officers in a restaurant, then went to a nearby WalMart to continue their spree. An armed citizen, Joseph Wilcox, drew his own gun and tried to go after Jared Miller, but was shot by Amanda who trailed behind Jared a bit. The gun ownership rate in Nevada is 47.3%.
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  7732.  @claytonbigsby1119  Sure. And the rate of school shootings to "armed citizen saves the day" shootings is pretty frigging high :( Got anything else to add?
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  7733. If the Supremes are going to rule in favor of presidential powers, then they'll sit on that one and deliver it only about 20 minutes before the next time a Republican president-elect takes the oath.
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  7734.  @stevenbaer9061  He's only wanted to be a ruler, not a leader. Being a leader is a lot more work. Being a ruler only entails telling people what to do.
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  7735.  @Kanseal  Bingo. If the Pearl Harbor attack had happened on his "watch" (more like "snooze") he would have called it fake news, and referred to the "beautiful" letters he'd gotten from Emperor Hirohito.
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  7736. She wasn't hired for any supposed intelligence anyway. She's making Sean Spicer and Baghdad Bob look honest and erudite by comparison.
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  7737.  @jeffshankle4159  Ah, the good old days before Operation Varsity Blues. All because her parents probably wanted to keep her off the pole.
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  7738. Heck, I'd hire the Russian military to take the Nazis out of the Republican party.
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  7739.  Andromeda  Oh, so now you're conveniently forgetting (or maybe you never even knew it in the first place) that America is the richest nation in the world, and that our wealth derives in no small part from having the rest of the world use our currency for international trade. In other words, we depend on the rest of the world going along with us. Without that cooperation, we will suffer a decline here, much like the UK did when it stopped being an empire. Huh. Not only do you seem to have never opened any kind of history book, but it's questionable if you've ever been in the same room as one.
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  7740. Make measles great again.
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  7741.  @gracejones1572  Actually I can think of another truth that he tells often to his sheeple followers. And that is the story of the snake. He is talking about himself in third person when he talks about the snake.
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  7742. Wednesday night last week, people in Wisconsin jammed the bars after the state supreme court struck down the stay at home order. Just 4 days later Wisconsin recorded its highest-ever number of new cases in one day, over a thousand. Understanding the constitution doesn’t make up for the lack of biological knowledge. Look at Hokkaido, Japan. They reopened too early, and are now going through another lockdown because of it. https://time.com/5826918/hokkaido-coronavirus-lockdown/
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  7743. After we get over our time of mourning for the passing of democracy .. bad things are coming. Now that you-know-who has just gotten the message that it's OK to withhold aid to whoever (foreign governments, agencies, corporations, you name it) in exchange for election interference, we can expect him to go on a spree of doing just that. 2019-nCoV is bearing down on us. Witness the way the world's most modern, most thorough police state (with many drastic means for controlling the movement of people) is totally unable to keep the disease from spreading .. and surely we will not enact measures here as extreme as what China does internally. Add that to the fact that we've got Republicans in office who surely won't let a good crisis go to waste. Ask yourself this: What might a corrupt governance do under the guise of fighting an epidemic? Quarantine unwanted persons (translation: put them in camps surrounded by barbed wire). Detain anyone on any excuse. Claim that refugees could be carrying disease, and have them shot if they try to cross the border. Using the Patriot Acts, suspend congress because of an emergency.
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  7744. Happy impeachment day, everyone.
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  7745. I was at home that morning watching TV and saw it start. Phoned my friends and told them to turn on a screen right then and there.
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  7746. So Hair Fuhrer just wasted all that political capital for what exactly?
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  7747. Back during the cold war, we in the USA had a derisive term for lamebrained hacks who stuck to the party line regardless of the facts: apparatchik. Time to bring back that word, because that's what Trump's flying monkeys are. All they do is lie and dissemble. Trump doesn't want "his" virus numbers to look bad, so tests are deliberately harder to get here than in other countries, where they offer drive-through testing for free.
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  7748. I like your thinking. Perhaps someone should be paying for Dennis Prager to be on TV more often. People should hear what he has to say. Perhaps he's even better than Trump at turning red states purple and purple states blue.
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  7749. I assume a lot of people will break out the good champagne, while Dolt45's followers will pick up their guns and go punish some minorities.
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  7750. It's almost a fitting end for the "me" generation. You can see why so few of them wear helmets - there's nothing to protect anyway.
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  7751. Vlad is not that bright. He's got his arms stuck in a wood chipper. The longer he stays in, the more he loses. And we of the West are more than happy to help Ukraine box Russian forces into that particular KZ.
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  7752. There is all upside and no downside in going that route - which is why it will probably happen. FYI Konstantin Samalov (channel INSIDE RUSSIA) had a video out on that. Seems the state has a new official posture towards China, at least in the far eastern provinces.
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  7753. Best news I've heard in months. Thank you! :)
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  7754. Not to worry, the rules will be changed back once a liberal or progressive has the presidency. Kind of like how Moscow Mitch held back all of Obama's judicial appointments (totally blocking some of them, like Merrick Garland), then changed the rules to grease the skids for every Brock-Turner-wannabe loser to try being judge. The Republicans have made it clear that both their lust for power, and their disregard for the law, are total and absolute.
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  7755. Anyone who pays at least $750 in taxes has the right to the same level of medical care, including the many undocumented immigrants who pay taxes.
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  7756.  lowmardiep d  Sounds like they are referring to an incident where the (few) nonwhites were put up front (closest to president superspreader) in an apparent reversal of the usual practice.
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  7757.  @teecee9113  He knows quite well what things appeal to the more base natures in people. Retribution, anger, fear, resentment, victimhood - those are the emotional themes that most appeal to the type of people who would follow him. In effect, he used the seven deadly sins as a guide for how to become popular among certain segments.
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  7758. In a nutshell - Trump's supporters imagine there'll be a a brief race war in which all non-whites, non-xtians will be slain .. after which they'll kill off the LGBTQIA folks and pick up where Randy Weaver left off. They have trouble imagining any other kind of future.
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  7759. Trump was just bragging that the US has tested 1 million already. We're nearly 3 months into the spread of this disease in the USA, and that represents 0.305% of the US population. Now we know how he earned those medals behind his desk :( The number of actual infections in the USA is probably well over 2 million by now, but without testing everyone we'll never know until the ER's everywhere are full.
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  7760. Amusingly, the GOP forgot to get a pledge from Trump to honor the results of their primary election. A teensy little oversight.
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  7761. Perfect.
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  7762. With his willy-nilly "because Obama signed it" withdrawal from treaties that the US had signed in good faith, the rest of the world now thinks of us as an unreliable partner in anything, since we have no laws on the books preventing some fool from winning the EC vote and then walking away from things the United States had promised to do. Much of what we used to think of as our pre-2016 "prosperity" depended on the rest of the world seeing us as a guarantor of peace, a reliable ally, the stewards of a global trading currency, the standard-bearer of democracy, and so on. Trump trashed all that. The whole world now knows that we're never more than 1 election away from having a crooked senate leader working in tandem with a crooked president to gum up the workings of democracy. Within 5 years you're going to see the impacts of that. Remember how things in the UK went downhill when they stopped being an empire and reverted to being just another ordinary nation? We're due for that now, all thanks to the greater fool that many other lesser fools supported.
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  7763. Might want to loosen the tinfoil a bit.
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  7764. Who ever knew that sticking to the law and the constitution was "so woke"?
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  7765.  @michelleb7399  Hope you have a safe, speedy, and complete recovery. Glad you pulled through.
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  7766. Good luck with the medical bills. Oh, you have about as much right to be a disease-spreader, during a pandemic, as you do to walk through a crowded mall with a cannister that gives off sarin gas. Which is to say - you don't. I'm just glad that antisocial, unpatriotic morons like this weren't much around during WW2. Germany and Japan would have loved having so many collaborators here :(
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  7767. Yup, this is about the effect I was expecting. Trump Derangement Syndrome. It first showed up a couple years ago: https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-spewed-hate-then-they-punctuated-it-with-the-presidents-name/
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  7768. DeSatan is a regular modern day Pol Pot. How big a pile of skulls is he trying to make??
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  7769. Being called 'lowlife' is possibly one of the reasons why she quit high school.
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  7770. Why so mad at Antifa? If you'd read anything about fascism and fascists (Hitler, Mussolini, Trump) you'd be praising them for fighting something really evil. No, it appears most were homeless people, or those without access to cold water and moving air to stay cool.
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  7771. It's going to take a little longer than that, but yes, BREXIT merely serves to hasten the day when England is a small, insignificant island off the coast of Europe. This was a pyrrhic victory by which those nostalgic for the distant past botched a perfectly good (and different) present & future just to entertain their nostalgia for bygone times. Hint: this won't make those bygone days return.
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  7772. Muskrat is a pirate. He doesn't wear an eye patch or a sword, or have a pegleg, but he's another pirate just the same.
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  7773.  @brodocbetty4856  "By overturn do you mean steal ???" << Precisely. That is what Trump is trying to do: steal the election. He lost by a lot and just cannot get over his butthurt.
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  7774. They do not count. Their whining is of no importance. Any outrage they may feel is of their own devising.
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  7775.  @deletethis6902  Well, they are whining about a civil war, but the rest of America is going to sit down and watch something on TV. If you see the MAGAtards doing anything, get pictures and/or video, making sure to get their faces, their vehicles, their associates, and whatever wrong thing they're doing. We can always build more jails if we run out of room. Clearly tolerating traitors in our midst isn't a good thing.
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  7776. Sounds more to me like Tucky Tuck Tuck just lost that which was protecting him from the results of his own wild mouth.
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  7777. Remember that time in front of a camera when he couldn't read the name of that famous national park, Yosemite? Every kid in school learns that one by age 6 or 7. Then, of course, he goes on to pronounce "Mein Kampf" perfectly. Priorities, eh, Don Pooreleone?
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  7778.  @Riqrob  Not true about masks. If you make a bar graph of new cases per day for NY state, you can see clearly the inflection point past which masks have been reducing the R0 factor to less than 1. Ditto for places all over southeast Asia.
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  7779. The funny mustache guy did the same thing. He let them be their worst selves, and some of them absolutely loved it.
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  7780. Someone else said they have a homemade contraption that's essentially ziploc bags.
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  7781.  @evanpatterson7098  True joke: the only difference between Trump and the Hindenburg is that one of them is a flaming Nazi gasbag while the other is a dirigible.
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  7782. Uggh, I hope this new guy is not another Robert McNamara - a graduate of Harvard Business School who later became US secretary of defense in the 1960s. He was famous for seeing the Viet Nam conflict as a business problem that could be solved by applying more "resources".
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  7783. The daily number of US coronavirus tests has been declining for half a month now. Looks like someone is trying to cure teen pregnancy by testing less for it .. and we know how that will work :( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  7784. Did that same study by chance also include the numbers for how many of those hospitalized were vaccinated or not, and how many of the Massachusetts covid deaths were vaccinated or not? Oh, and the situation in Mass is similar to the situation in Delaware, where all of the covid deaths in June were entirely among the unvaccinated.
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  7785.  Paula Keller  What you just said to me is precisely what I have been saying to everyone else. Most of the covid deaths and hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. Thank you for amplifying what I was trying to say.
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  7786. As they say - an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise. And Trump spent last year polishing the means by which he told his whackjob followers to invade state capitols.
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  7787.  @DavidSheluga  Wonder how many Scaramucci's he lasted?
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  7788. Saw that, loved it. She's probably a fine grandma too.
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  7789. Let's see how long FOXed Noise keeps repeating Trump's lies. Then let's see how long they retain their broadcast license.
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  7790.  @TheRabidWolverine  As much as it seems likely that some of the Q traitors gave orientation tours to the insurrectionists, we still haven't seen the proof of it. I assume that will come out later during the investigation. Not much we can do now but wait, and hope that the leaders of congress build metal detectors into every major doorway in the building.
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  7791. The biggest danger to anti-vaxxers these days is (wait for it) other anti-vaxxers. Let's hope they don't flock together.
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  7792. These days, he probably spends most of his time sedated.
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  7793. That was hilarious. “We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal,” Trump said. “It’s just been announced that a second, brand-new coal mine, where they’re going to take out clean coal — meaning, they’re taking out coal. They’re going to clean it— is opening in the state of Pennsylvania, the second one.”
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  7794.  @jmb3608  Feeding fake conspiracy theories to conservative idiots is like feeding $100 bills to homeless crack heads - they just grab it and run!
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  7795. Were they thinking that Trump was going to pay their legal fees? LOL he's got bigger problems now.
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  7796.  @justineharper3346  Edit: the arrangement we see now is the result of some horse trading from back in the summer of 2019. And I am very pleased with how it's turning out.
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  7797. In your eyes, probably whenever it stopped being like FOXed Noise and echoing the dumbest Republican propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. And Amy has never pushed that stuff.
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  7798. As far as I can tell, Trump has done only one useful thing, and that is to reveal just how many among us are Trump cult members willing to burn down democracy (or just sabotage covid vaccines) simply to please the whims of Hair Fuhrer.
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  7799.  @dennisconrad6124  Thank you for doing the right thing. Y'know, these folks could just move to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea if they want to see what it's like when laws and elections no longer matter. Turns into Animal Farm pretty darn quick :( And it would be ugly AF with Trump as boss hawg.
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  7800. The NRA, the militias, etc are all sitting back in their comfy chairs. Remember how the NRA was bought out with Russian money a couple years back. They are just FINE with the constitutional rights of other Americans being violated. Seems the only thing they wanted to defend with guns is white supremacy.
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  7801.  @Scyllax  Let me know if you can find any Republicans who can explain why they feel your vote should count for less if you are located closer to your neighbor. That's about the sum of their nuttiness.
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  7802.  @richardalderman2752  I think "bio-robots" is what they called the liquidator people in the cleanup of Chernobyl. That this will be a superspreading event is already beyond a shadow of doubt. Gives the phrase "dirty biker" a whole new meaning.
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  7803. It's not crumbling so much as a certain subset of dolts wanting to turn the USA into something like Somalia or Haiti or Ethiopia. Like that would be a good thing for their own kids. hint: it wouldn't
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  7804. No, he just lies uncontrollably all the time.
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  7805. He didn't have "no choice" .. he knew damn well when Trump asked him to commit crime, and he could have kept his honor intact and just resigned. Instead, he chose to participate in the greater evil. There will be consequences and he deserves them all. This is what you get when you hitch your future to a narcissistic manbaby cult leader.
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  7806.  @samboggs3499  I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  7807. Tell me more about your platform.
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  7808. Is there anyone who didn't see this coming since at least the fall of 2016?
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  7809.  Sir Micheal Hunt  In Ecuador these days it's getting up to around 90F during daytime. You can still hear people in the USA peddling the false hope about warmer weather.
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  7810. I'm just glad that the Bidens got their covid vaccines /before/ they moved into the white house. I wouldn't put it past ex Trump staffers to try to infect the new president. The tiny, petty, insecure Trump inspired the same characteristics in his followers.
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  7811. @sandrastone4997 It wouldn't be four years, it would be until he died or his kids took up the institution.
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  7812.  @michellec8546  Another negative influence here in the US is our multiple-personality federal leader, who says one thing when he's forced to read from the teleprompter (sulking all the while, too), another thing on FOXed Noise, and yet another thing on Twitter - and none of those things agree with the others. So when you encounter people saying covid-19 isn't even as bad as the ordinary flu (those same people also call you a libtard sheeple in the same breath) you know where they're getting it from.
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  7813. SAS can handle them too.
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  7814. The video from the Michigan protest showed it was still snowing there. Clearly, those people need to find a nice warm auditorium to gather in. The should stay for hours and shout about how those evil libruls are enslaving them through face masks. And by election time there will be less crazy among the electorate. Like letting the trash take itself out.
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  7815.  @Real_MisterSir Beautifully authentic. They have a funny way of talking over there.
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  7816. Trump at 15 cases: Within a couple of days, it'll be close to zero. 9,000 cases: It's a war. I'm a wartime president! 80,000 cases: We're safe. Let's reopen America! 250,000 cases: I'm not responsible! 644,000 cases: I believe the USA has passed the peak in infections. 925,000 cases: Can we look into injecting disinfectant to make it go away? 1 million cases: I take no responsibility for people injecting disinfectant!
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  7817. America appears to be headed for half a million new cases per day within 4-8 weeks, unless somehow we experience a UK-like sudden slowdown in the rate of new cases. No signs of that coming yet :(
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  7818. FOX to Trump (paraphrasing GWB) - you gotta dance with the one that brung you ;)
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  7819. Condolences for the loss of Jay, who was part of a violent organization seen carrying guns and driving over people in their trucks while spraying them with mace from inside the trucks. His efforts to defend Sweet Potato Hitler, who's been working hard to erode the rule of law in America, will not be forgotten.
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  7820.  @Bao171  You lost me in deep-diaphragm laughing at "he pays more taxes than anyone". You noninformation is more appropriate for 8chan or wherever the Q heads get together.
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  7821. One hopes he is not yet finished with his important work - leading the Republican party off a cliff, using as bait only their own slavish devotions to a wannabe dictator.
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  7822. Nearly every culture on Earth has some kind of cautionary fable about what to do when you meet the Devil and he offers you everything in exchange for doing his dirty work. "Doctor" Birx and the Republicans? All they did was dicker a little about the asking price.
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  7823. When the urge to "own the libs" overpowers the sense (and the patriotism!) not to hurt America and Americans, there's the folly of Trumpsm on full display.
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  7824. AG Garland didn't appoint special prosecutor Smith until 681 days after the insurrection -- and, obviously, when a month or two had gone by and none of the plotters were arrested, they took that to mean AG Garland's silent assent to what they had done. And they began planning the next try. Here we are.
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  7825. Shame on France for selling them antiquated stuff anyway. Like planning to sell a used Prius to your neighbor, only to get offended when they go buy a new Tesla instead. Displaying that kind of butthurt publicly is not a good look for them. Surely they can find other buyers for their diesel-electrics.
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  7826. We probably don't have the full number of deaths yet. If you did not have shade, moving air, cold water, air conditioning, cold air, etc you were in bad trouble.
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  7827. Some of us refer to those ones as Vichy Republicans.
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  7828. This will keep going until Russia runs out of conscripts and other undesirables to recruit. Perhaps Russia will run out of ammo before then too. Meantime, Ukraine is getting good at vaporizing the mobiki.
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  7829. You gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had.
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  7830. Funny how no one from the white house can actually show the tests proving what they say. But then, these are the same doctors who Trump manipulates into saying he could live to 200.
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  7831.  @yvonneplant9434  Riiiigh. Because harmonizing the sentences for crack vs powdered cocaine is the real issue, forget about any insurrection thingie that might engulf the nation in bloodshed. Good thing you're not in charge of anything crucial.
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  7832. 45 was unsuited to be president long before 2016 came around. So many kept hoping he would change .. and he simply got worse.
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  7833. Trump wants the churches filled on Easter? In the NYC area he will probably get his wish .. by then, like in Italy, they may have run out of room to put all the bodies and they'll be stacking them in churches.
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  7834. I am fond of the label "Mango Mussolini" due to his body language during speeches.
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  7835.  @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT  Every other storm battalion man is given a rifle. We know how that works.
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  7836.  @charlesritter6640  As the saying goes, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
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  7837. Meal Team Six? Gravy Seals? Oaf Tweakers? Buzzards gotta eat.
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  7838. If Wussolini is behind in the polls, he's got no one to blame but himself. From the very beginnings of his campaign, it was clear that the only way he had any appeal was through driving Americans apart and appealing to his rabid inbred whackjob nutty foamer racist idiots. And billionaires. The more he thrashes, the more he loses, and thrashing is the only thing he knows how to do. Nonetheless let's all get out in November and make sure he drowns in a blue tsunami.
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  7839. We did it last time. Remember "I take no responsibility for this" in regards to the covid pandemic he made much, much worse?
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  7840. Any bets on how many of these lunatics have been picked up by the FBI in the last week?
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  7841. So the executive branch was coordinating with Y'all Qaida / Vanilla ISIS / OafTweakers to stage an attack on the legislative branch - in order to overturn election results?
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  7842. Notice how the people who Putin reports to just told him to get ready to leave? He failed in the thing they hired him to do, which is keep his pet puppet in office here.
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  7843. The Cesar Sayoc brigade (AKA Trump's brownshirt irregulars) strikes yet again.
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  7844.  @ststriker  Well, let's hope they turn out to be competent leaders. There doesn't seem to be anything in either of their pasts to indicate that they can't or won't be competent leaders.
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  7845.  @busblu1475  That 800 number - does it include the 10yo rape victim who had to travel out of Ohio to have an abortion elsewhere? So much for the "rape hardly ever causes pregnancy" nonsense. Oh, and if you don't like abortion, don't have one. Your rights end where mine begin, and vice versa.
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  7846.  @Daniel15391  Unless you somehow avoided going to school in the USA, you should have learned by now that one of the many rights we enjoy here is the freedom of religion.
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  7847. The best thing you can do with that type is get far away from them, preferably beyond their reach and off their radar. There is no bottom to the barrel of their potential bad behavior.
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  7848. To heal America, for real, Trump and McConnell and others would need to get in front of the cameras and explain some hard truths to their base. There was no election fraud. Biden won the election fair and square. Trump and many others lied about the integrity and results of the election. Their lies incited people to commit violence. Those are all necessary truths that must be told, but it seems few Republicans dare to say them.
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  7849.  @scottmoseley5122  There's a lot of money to be made ignoring the teachings of Christ.
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  7850. Weirdly enough, Shull is a Republican, so he ought to recognize the Texas voting discrimination bill (not yet signed into law, being pushed by [who else?] Republicans) as being the most Jim Crow like legislation in America these days.
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  7851. There's nothing illegal about liking Trump. In fact, I will support people expressing that sentiment - if only so that law enforcement can keep eyes on them. Where it crosses the line is when they do illegal things - so we should stand back but stand by.
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  7852. Uncle Joe (Stalin) would approve of Trump's methods. Stalin too thought the vote shouldn't count for anything. Brothers from another mother.
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  7853.  @Fear_the_Doughnut  Great handle BTW :)
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  7854. Negotiating with Republicans in good faith is like trying to pick up a fresh steaming turd by the clean end.
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  7855. There is quite a lot to the economics of war. Russia is in the process of learning that the west can make and field various missiles/drones in large quantities, and at lower prices, than Putler can afford to make ground and air vehicles.
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  7856. Do it. If the law applies to us, it must apply to them too. LOCK THEM UP
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  7857. What's happening is that the US will be politically Balkanized. Even if Trump and the GOP offenders got purged and replaced ASAP, there are still huge swaths of Americans (mostly concentrated in places where FOXed Noise and painkillers are the drugs of choice) that spent 8 years screeching about Obama doing this and that (you name it - Sharia law, making "merry Christmas" illegal, seizing everyone's guns & bibles) - things that never actually happened - and they are at best divorced from reality. No matter what happens or what's revealed, they will always think that Trump is the messiah, that he can't do anything wrong, and that any election to defeat him is rigged. The effect is to turn the US into a place that is permanently politically fractured.
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  7858.  @MurphPlace  I don't think anyone ever told the association, clearly, anything along the lines of "do this or the building will collapse". There seemed to be zero urgency throughout the process.
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  7859. They're getting harder to remember. It's been going on for over a decade now. 45 (via twatter) was behind much of the TP BS about former president Obama.
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  7860. All of a sudden, he's saying, "Trust the science. We're from the government and we're here to help you." They ought to name a memorial median crossover for him.
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  7861. The loser who got voted off the island months ago doesn't get to opine on these things.
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  7862. The Nazis tried doing that at the end of the war. "What holocaust?" was an oft-heard refrain.
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  7863. The MAGA house of 2023-2024 couldn't accomplish much.
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  7864.  @falkontautai4739  He's a serial liar, a con man, a piece of human garbage. He's lied his way through this crisis. You need to wake up.
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  7865. That's a good phrase for it - "plague enthusiasm". May I borrow it?
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  7866. Everyone compares the recent protests to the government recommendations and restrictions. One of the big differences is that when the government tells people to wear masks, practice hygiene, wash hands, avoid people, practice distancing, etc and then individual people choose to disregard those recommendations for whatever reason, the egg is on the faces of those individual people if they get sick as a result of those actions. But when the government tells everyone it's OK to go back into the pool, and a ginormous outbreak happens as a result of their bad advice getting applied to the entire population (and not just the 1% who are out protesting) not only is it a much bigger problem but then the government has some blood on its hands. And no sane politician wants that.
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  7867.  @PacificForage  Can't take credit for it; saw it somewhere last week.
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  7868.  @dontyouwishyouknewmyname3598  Look, you already sank yourself to the bottom of the barrel by saying (essentially) that you're on Gab and you're fine with it. If you can't see that, the joke is on you.
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  7869.  @Robbie939  Can't see it. YT does not take links anyway. Just to check what you said .. I looked through the entire list of Trump's executive orders (wiki has a page) and the text "Jew" or "Israel" or "Palestine" appear nowhere in the list. The only other way Trump could have signed into law any legislation prohibiting criticism of Jews would be through house and senate bills that got voted on, harmonized, approved, and made it to his desk to sign. Couldn't find that either. So it seems safe to say that Trump did not use the powers of government to prohibit criticism of Jews .. which leads back to someone telling you a load of crock to that effect.
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  7870. Well, when Iran does it, that's proof of how bad Iran is, yet when it happens in the US it's considered proof of how careless those people were to get sick in the first place. America has thoroughly assimilated the victim-blaming mentality :(
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  7871. Nah. Its easiest expansion vectors are towards younger folks (already happening), towards re-infecting the unvaxxed previously-infected (already happening), towards spreading into wild animal populations (already happening) but the vaccinated are a much tougher nut to crack. So this is functioning like a society-wide pass/fail IQ test.
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  7872. Biden missed some opportunities. One of the biggest lies Trump floated was, "What have you done in 50 years in power?" Of those two (Biden and Trump) only one of them has ever been president, and his administration has been a complete f*ckup.
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  7873.  @bulls2386  They say we should reach out to the former Trumpanzees and work with them. All I can say is this. Invasive therapy / remedial civics education / mental hospitals / jail / exile are the appropriate routes for people who were somehow OK with the following things: Driving vehicles into crowds of protestors, or trying to run a campaign bus off the road. Separating refugee/immigrant children from their parents, then disappearing the parents. Stopping the vote counting in places where the trend is against Trump, but continuing it in places where the trend is going Trump's way. Telling Obama that 8 months before an election is too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, then ramming Trump's pick through in less than 8 weeks. Saying that no evidence/witnesses would be seen at Trump's impeachment trial. Militias showing up at the southern border to shoot at refugees. Saying that a 6/3 makeup of the Supreme Court is 50/50 or "fair and balanced". Trashing every staunch ally that has stood with America for decades, while cozying up to the worst dictators and adversaries of America. Trump's lies about the virus and about how the pandemic got so out of control here. All the hateful rhetoric against minorities, ethnicities, different religions, people who vote differently, immigrants, etc. Showing up armed at ballot counting locations. If they don't do any soul-searching after this time, I want nothing to do with them. For the safety of the rest of us, some of them need to be marched to the borders and told to stay out.
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  7874.  @ET-rh5pq  Sounds like you failed to watch the video. I watched it. Go watch the whole thing again, and try not to look away. Can you remember a time when liberals did a vehicle attack on a Trump convoy? No. Oh, hey, good news, Pennsy just went for Biden. The bad news, however, is that a sizeable chunk of American voters chose a guy who checks off every single box on the "characteristics of fascism" list. In hindsight, Trump did the nation a favor by showing how many among us openly embrace white nationalism, hating on minorities, ignoring science and the law.
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  7875.  @alisonbird5491  I want to say something about Republicans being forced to bear their nonviable candidate to term, even though they changed their minds about him ..
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  7876. Who would have guessed that the easiest way to attack American democracy would turn out to be gaslighting its most gullible dummies into thinking that an election had been stolen and that they should storm the capitol? Notice how PAB45 isn't paying their legal bills - he can't even pay his own!
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  7877. Wrong. What you're saying is that you have trouble finding out who to trust. It is not that information itself is all equally true or equally untrue. Sorting out fact from bullshit is what you need to do.
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  7878. Preach it @Alan. Even now, Trump still does not understand that America is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along, and will be running long after he's forgotten .. that his job was merely to watch over it for a little while and keep it going mostly in the direction it had been going. He is too small to see big things.
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  7879.  @bobsemple9341  Is this a lame Z-bot attempt to call those two models useless?
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  7880. After the shearing, the sheep are left cold and someone else takes the wool away in a truck. Nothing to see here, folks.
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  7881. Despite insisting that the J6 insurrection was just a "peaceful family event", MAGA Mike got right out there and said (essentially) "We can't release the unredacted video because some of our people might get prosecuted for the crimes they committed on camera."
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  7882. Another such fine gift was when we watched on live TV the previous January as Trump lied to the crowd, incited them to violence, called them patriots, and just now called for the rule of law to be terminated.
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  7883. By the standards of those people, the Mooch was a flaming genius for realizing quickly how batshit insane Trump really is. Of course, if he was even smarter, he would have seen it before getting sucked into the toilet bowl, not after.
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  7884. Well, the trouble is that when everyone's work is closed, or when the marked demand for goods and services tanks because countries are in the midst of a society-wide medical emergency, there isn't much of an economy. And there's not enough lipstick in the world to pretty up that pig.
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  7885. Unfortunately Clump makes Charles Manson look like a mere disguntled eagle scout by comparison. Manson never affected too many people at most. Clump took more than 50 million aboard his crazy train, and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands by his bungling of the covid crisis.
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  7886. Saint Darwin never stops collecting his own 😅 Can't see any better way to improve the breed.
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  7887. Someone could combine the excuses and say that the homeless people aren't doing enough raking in the forests .. just saying.
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  7888.  @lauriivey7801  Did you not read/watch any of what Trump said? You're welcome to support him despite his actions - and as a fellow American I will support your right to do so - but wow, blindness to someone else's complicity is a scary thing to behold.
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  7889.  @nazspub_keyz4106  "The border crisis" is the 2024 version of the 1932-era "Jews are destroying our nation" lie that they played in Germany.
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  7890. A shame. The only made-in-Russia objects I have ever seen in my life are some old Progress Publishers books and the rare Ural motorcycle. Generally their goods don't make the cut.
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  7891. More stuff is on the way shortly! We got your 6 👍
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  7892. I'd yell too. One thing is clear about Trump - he fires anyone who tells the truth. He's downright allergic to the stuff. Oh, and the captain never sent that email to anyone in the media. Other people did.
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  7893. Was that script inspired for the sad case of corrections officer Vicky White, and her love for the 20-years-younger murderer she broke out of jail and who later killed her?
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  7894.  @aylbdrmadison1051  There are enough loons of that stripe around that it's worth filtering them out. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-drawn-to-conspiracy-theories-share-a-cluster-of-psychological-features/
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  7895. These are the same ones who want to overthrow the government anyway. So if a few of them choose to Rapture via covid .. it's like the trash taking itself out. No great loss.
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  7896. Obviously Esper is going to be replaced soon with someone who is more amenable to Wussolini's whims. Someone who will agree to deploy federal military forces to places where the courts are currently processing cases against Cheeto - namely Washington DC and SDNY.
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  7897. Evil is winning these days. It happens sometimes. Generally bad times follow.
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  7898. She's still safe behind a rampart made of emails, something that the conservatives will never get over.
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  7899. He's been arrested and charged with attempted murder. Karma strikes again. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8392009/New-York-Wolverine-charged-attempted-murder-driving-protesters.html
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  7900. No candidate in history, on either side, has ever taken the popular vote in the first 3 states. Weirdly enough, the trolls are claiming that in no country is the leader selected by popular vote. False. In more than half (65) of the world’s 125 democracies, the head of state (nearly always called a president) is directly elected by voters. Thirty other democracies are classified as constitutional monarchies, and in the remaining 30, including the USA, the head of state is indirectly elected. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/
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  7901.  @AdmiralBlackstar  I hope that's not the case, but at the same time I wouldn't bet against it. Wussolini would happily torch the nation just to escape consequences for what he's done.
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  7902. Privatize the gains, but pass the losses to the ordinary people. Hmm, that sounds familiar.
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  7903. A-10s would be better. Putin may actually understand that kind of "diplomacy". Repeat Stormin' Norman's opener on those a-holes.
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  7904. I'm counting down the hours until former special envoy Kurt Volker is testifying before Congress. Even better material will come when former ambassador Masha Yovanovitch takes the stand. Good time to stock up on popcorn.
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  7905.  R C  Supposedly Mr Volker will testify tomorrow. Hopefully he's retained his conscience and his American values.
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  7906. When a reporter asked him if VP Harris could decide the 2024 election in the same way he proposed Pence do for the 2020 election, he said of course not, that's illegal.
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  7907. Naturally, all the gun-waving "2A is the solution to government overreach" types who spent 8 years screeching about "dictator Obama" won't have a single bad thing to say when someone from the same ethnographic segment as them genuinely seizes power and disregards the rule of law and any checks on his power.
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  7908. There's only 3 ways to get individual people back to work. 1) Everyone wears hazmat suits all the time. 2) Develop a vaccine that works, give it to everyone. 3) Roll out a widespread antibody test, test everyone, and those who have antibodies can go back to work.
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  7909.  @rich2583  Put your money where your mouth is - go lick a bunch of convenience store door handles. Then get back to us in 2 weeks about how serious the virus is. Or just watch the news about how in NYC they're finding hundreds of dead people every day in their homes. SMH.
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  7910.  @rich2583  Thanks, I needed the laugh. I'm a data analyst. Taking the safety labels off everything and letting nature sort itself out is just another way of adding chlorine to the gene pool.
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  7911.  @diannawilson5743  Wussolini's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16yo girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color, so she gets all pouty and treats it liked the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter & insta to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything. Wussolini's followers aren't much better.
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  7912.    Wussolini's agreement with the Taliban went about as well as his other "deals" - meaning that Taliban violence is way up. Same as how North Korea hasn't stopped making enriched uranium all this time despite those "beautiful letters".
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  7913.  @MichaelSmith-fj7di  It's funny, but a lot of people went from being Q-tips and Trump nutters last week to pretending to criticize Biden from the left this week. Besides, yes, we can tell how "Republican" Biden is by how much of Trump's nonsense he's leaving in place - so far, little or none.
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  7914.  @boomersoonerbaby3466  Trump wasn't a Republican? Oh, that's rich ignorance on your part. What year did he begin ripping Obama a new one? 2008 What party did he run for the nomination of? Republican Has he ever held office under any other party? No What party did he represent as the president? Republican When he withheld disaster relief money, he was mad at them for not voting which party? Republican When the impeachment came around, which party was his doormat? Republican You're either ignorant or misinformed, but most likely both.
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  7915. Hitler too kept his Dr Theodor Morell handy, quack physician who basically kept him on drugs.
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  7916. The Q-Anon people said that there were pedophiles in the government. Turns out they were right after all - but wrong about which party they belong to.
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  7917. Size? Land doesn't vote. Land doesn't serve in the military. Land doesn't go to MIT and invent cool new weapons systems. Land by itself doesn't guarantee a GDP allowance. Having more land doesn't mean you're automatically given more and better weapons. All of that comes from prosperity, engineering, resources, people.
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  7918. I'd trade white supremacists for refugees any way.
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  7919. The DNC's corporate backers are pulling strings. Sad. Just as in 2016, they would rather lose to a Trump (or something even worse than him) than help Sanders win. Oh and when I mean worse, well, perhaps you may have read "It's Can't Happen Here" (Sinclair Lewis, 1935).
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  7920. Nixon too (venal, corrupt, eager to protect his own skin at all costs even if it means throwing the country under the bus) also attracted transparent soulless yes-men like Pompeo & Barr. It takes a certain kind to attract people like that :(
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  7921.  @JustineAdlong  These are the same people who whine about seat belt laws. They really are that f'ing stupid :(
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  7922. The sad part is .. Trump could go on every station and claim that he lied about the election being stolen, and sought office only so he could sell America's most valuable secrets to our enemies while trying to destroy democracy from within -- and his cult sheeple would love him all the harder for "telling it like it is" :(
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  7923. Putin has no one but himself to blame for this. In one move he made it clear why no one can trust him and why no one should align with him.
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  7924.  @lyoncat2000  Zactly .. now watch him claim he never heard of it, has nothing to do with it, might have been seen in a few pictures with some of its authors, etc.
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  7925.  @dylanfoster6882  That lie was brought to you by the same people who claim the earth is flat and that vaccines cause autism. How's it feel to be a sucker? All of the major sources agree substantially on the number of deaths and illnesses. So far one American in 1700 has died from this, and one American in 50 has tested positive. #MAGA
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  7926. In retrospect, we should perhaps thank Trump for moving through society like a big litmus test and illuminating which so-called Americans are most easily turned into willing fifth columnists. And if we run out of jail space for them, build some camps. But they don't belong in general circulation.
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  7927.  Will Thomson  These days, a "joke" is when some conspiracy-theory nutter screeches a bunch of non-factual stuff then says "Do your research!"
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  7928.  @giovannigiannetta4926  You gotta love the people who equate young, healthy, mask-wearing, distancing people protesting outdoors with obese, aging Boomers congregating indoors without masks or distancing.
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  7929. Gotta love the way the alt-reich whacktards just made BLM and Antifa look like well-behaved citizens. Say what you will of their propensity to clash with the cops, at least they did not bring long guns when they clashed with police, and they certainly didn't try to use the force of arms to try to inflict their minority fringe nonsense on the state legislature. Otherwise known as SEDITION for which there are penalties due.
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  7930.  @godwins5357  Regarding "What's going happen in winter good grief?" Exactly. We know (from the experience of last year) that when people cluster indoors and the heat comes on, cases will rise. We know (from seeing it happen in school districts everywhere) that case rates will get higher when unvaccinated kids return to school. We know that if Delta isn't bad enough (it is) Mu is coming in right behind it. We know that more and more places are requesting emergency morgues. Anyone who sensibly decides to homeschool your kids, you have my sincere appreciation. Ditto for anyone who gets their whole family vaxxed and keeps up with the masking / distancing / washing / and avoiding crowds like the plague. Get the booster as soon as you're eligible. Those are your best odds of making it through the winter.
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  7931.  @NanineLocke  They probably have no clue that the FBI can see pretty much anything they send or do online.
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  7932.  Kat newsome  The House did that. When it came to the Senate, they voted to see and hear no evidence and then acquit Trump.
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  7933. Right in the backyard of the US 4th fleet, too. Perhaps the Russians ought to summon the ghost of admiral Yamamoto to get his thoughts on what kind of an adversary the US Navy is.
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  7934.  @adrianpallis4568  Re "thats what a psycopath does" Psychopaths don't scare me. But when tens of millions like what they see and vote for psychopaths, that's pretty scary. Like they're having an endorphin spasm that one of their own kind got into power. A couple years ago there was a good Salon article that gave a working example of what elected psychopaths can do. The title is something like, "They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president's name."
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  7935. Lead paint chips, getting dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  7936. The only duty Trump feels is towards Russia's interests.
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  7937.  @CodenameOliver101  Explain again how you know who's responsible for this?
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  7938. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been recalled to duty, hired as a consultant, and given an office and staff. Russians: go home while you still can. Abandon your swamp fever dreams of the neo USSR.
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  7939. There's better ways to say "blue scalps are worth more" if that's what you mean.
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  7940. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get. No doubt Trump spent all last night calling various electors personally to try to get them to bend/break the law in his favor. Just like he did with all of the conservative Supreme Court justices last week. Just like he did with the Michigan delegation in charge of certifying the votes. Just like he did with Ukraine last summer.
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  7941. That's just one of the many lies the conservatives tell each other. Impeachment never was about reversing the results of an election, not when it happened to Clinton and Jackson or when it was about to happen to Nixon. They are a long ways down the rabbit hole, and much of what they say makes no sense. They lost their little minds when a black man got elected twice to be president.
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  7942. She needs some updated Yelp reviews. Internet people, you know what to do.
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  7943. Lord Tinyhands says he'll enforce the laws .. his crowd cheers. Lord Tinyhands says that he cheats on taxes because it's 'smart' .. his crowd cheers. Lord Tinyhands tells his followers, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" .. and his crowd cheers.
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  7944. Trump DID promise that he'd run America like one of his own businesses .. so by the time he's finished doing damage, the nation will be a lot more poor than it used to be.
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  7945.  @Shylade  I hate to say this, but the current Republican thing of "Don't believe your lying eyes - believe us instead!" is more of a feature than a bug. Guessing it's going to get much much worse before it gets any better. When Senators Graham & McConnell mysteriously win by huge margins in 2020, and when Trump mysteriously gets 90% of the popular vote, Republicans will be telling us to mind our own business and get back to shopping like it's 1999.
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  7946.  @CMEAGAIN  On the plus side, the anti-vaxxers now have a fine way to subtract themselves from the gene pool while saving vaccine doses for people who need and want them. A win-win!
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  7947. The part that I'm most afraid of is that the whole rest of the world now knows that America is never more than one manipulated, propagandized electoral-college decision away from selecting an even more unsuited and incompetent fool for the highest office. It's going to make it awfully hard for anyone to sign treaties with us, knowing that another idiot might rip them up out of pique, violate all the clauses, and unilaterally try to destabilize whole economies or regions of the world. Who's going to want to keep using the US dollar for trading, when now other nations look to be a lot more stable and more willing to be the leader of the free world? It's all downhill from here. He's burned up political capital that took centuries to accumulate.
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  7948.    Thanks! Got the idea from one of those Descent mashups.
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  7949.  @quiltygal6981  Amusingly, he thought he was one of "those people" who wouldn't get it. Dunning-Kruger takes another.
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  7950.  @jimm6386  That inability to speak in complete sentences is part of what would make him a leader among stupid people. He's their idea of a smart guy. Former Guy exploited that opening.
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  7951. Anyone who was OK with Trump saying "lock her up!" against HRC (who was not convicted of anything) but not OK with the people saying this to Mango Mussolini, needs to get their authoritarian-minded butt over to Russia or North Korea. Same for anyone who was OK with Republicans shouting "you lie" to Obama, burning Obama in effigy, etc yet now says "Oooooh, you need to respect the office of president".
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  7952.  @buhe1  Re "the days where a black person wasn't allowed to be president" << Truly, the conservative nutters have been stuck to the ceiling ever since Obama won the 2008 election.
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  7953.  @buhe1  "but the truth was that is was because a dictator wannabe told them to do it" << That's what happens when people prefer comforting lies over an unwelcome truth - that their slothgollum orange lord lost the election.
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  7954. Everyone please thank Trump for showing us, by his actions, the Narcissist's Prayer: That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did .. You deserved it.
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  7955. Only if you don't mind killing off lots of people to achieve "perfection". There was a fellow named Hitler who thought the same way.
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  7956. It's not that tight a thing. The 2016-2020 popular vote numbers show that voter dissatisfaction (towards Dump45) increased at an annualized rate of approx 27% per year. So there is a small but vocal minority of nutters in favor of burning down America to please the hurt feelings of the election loser. It's on the rest of us to find a way to deal with them. Big open-air asylums perhaps?
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  7957.  @pagawiccan  The OP in this thread?
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  7958. @Thrasymachus Monk Seriously. I think someone is either trolling or just disconnected from reality.
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  7959. Doll hands Donny was the only time we had someone cosplaying as president who had never before served in any kind of government office. He's not fit to be town dog catcher. Let's not try that again please.
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  7960. Very dangerous. I hope we can still hold elections. Even though Trumpanzees may say that they won't accept the election results.
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  7961. Either the fetus is a person or it is not. Texas law can't have it both ways. So she is entitled to claim it as a dependent and to be eligible for additional insurance benefits and a tax break and other perks. I'm just fine with pregnant women using the HOV lane if the law wants to consider fetuses to be people. Hope they fill the HOV lanes actually.
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  7962.  @garajiseru4087  Knowing Trump, he will probably create the conditions by which no one will ever want to listen to him. Or at least that's what I hope.
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  7963.  @bigboy9693  Seeing a pile of votes without a single Trump vote in it is perfectly normal. You sound like you need some reminding about why this is so: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" November 6: 10,059,782 American covid infections & 242,239 American covid deaths.
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  7964.  @bigboy9693  It's not cheating if one candidate has checked off every single box on the "characteristics of fascim" list. It's survival.
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  7965.  @fionamackie3357  Kudos to Michael Cohen, he speaks publicly about trying to understand what it is about some people that makes them good potential cultists. There are unfortunately so many of them that we'll all need to learn how to gently deprogram them.
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  7966. That she's black/biracial and a former prosecutor is just the icing on the cake. Hoping her VP is Pete Buttigieg. 45's nightmare would be losing the election to such a team.
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  7967. If anyone doesn't know the channel, Vasya in the Hay shows how people live in Russia not very far from major urban areas. Places in permanent state of destruction, as if WW2 ended only last month there.
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  7968. Many current and former Top Gun graduates serve there. The coastal range and the Cascades are their playground.
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  7969.  @RAMelloh-ij5sl  It's more like a "piece plan", sadly. A whole lot of land just got carved up and guess what, the Palestinians weren't even invited to the process. This is about what I would expect from any of those bumblefuck Trumps :(
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  7970.  @lauraschiltz8074  Omfg, bluehairs.
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  7971. So .. when is Putin going to give it all back?
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  7972. Oh, hell, how about A-10s?
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  7973. The way he keeps "both sides"'ing things is hilarious.
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  7974. Re "This has to be America’s lowest point. I genuinely can’t see how it could possibly get worse than this." <<< Please don't say things like that, or if you do, please take back the words. No doubt young Sophie Scholl and her friends said things like that to each other late in 1932. Look what happened after :(
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  7975. When the right named their illegal attempt to steal the election as "stop the steal", I thought the ghost of Orwell (or Stalin) must have smiled at that.
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  7976. I'm just going to go by on a skateboard and drop off a 12-pack now and then. Let the fuzzies try to catch me.
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  7977. Besides, anyone who thinks a hot civil war is a good thing clearly forgot (or never read) the news out of Bosnia when that one was going on. Folks would be reduced from whining about gas prices to being lucky to siphon gas from abandoned vehicles while dodging sniper fire. They know not what they ask for :(
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  7978. Nothing of note, pretty much like during the hearings for the first two impeachment articles.
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  7979. Germany too. It is their people that make their strength.
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  7980.  @drsin6856  Sorry but I think the only things Dump made in the basement were Ivanka, some videos involving warm yellow liquids, and a few inbred miscarriages.
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  7981. There is NO BOTTOM to how low Trump will go. Understand this.
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  7982. Poor Cody Melby - wait, didn't conservatives just spend all summer whining about people who do damage to government buildings? Funny how proud boys don't look so proud in their mug shots.
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  7983. People do things like that during a coup. And the coup began back when McConnell was blocking Obama's court appointments just so Trump could stack them later.
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  7984. Re "They're priming their supports to believe democracy isn't worth fighting for anymore" << Wow are they going to be surprised. Anyone else who's been in the same room as a history book will be fighting their 'feeling' to turn America into an autocratic hell-hole.
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  7985. Huh. Perhaps LP or Randy Rainbow needs to do a video on how you smuggle goodies into a friend/relative who gets snared up in the Trump camps.
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  7986. PSK31 is way better, you silly bot.
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  7987.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud What would you have done with people who are homeless or displaced? (human dignity is unimpeachable .. read Kant) Or are you just mad that the business tax rate isn't a flat zero percent?
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  7988. Sssssh .. lots of viewers find it more likely that a) evil, devious "commie Kate" wants to enslave them all so she can gloat about it than b) the governor is using science to guide the selection of which types of venues need to cool it for a couple weeks.
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  7989. Bloomberg isn't my first choice - but - I love the way he can outspend the Donald without even noticing it. Bring it on Mike!! ;)
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  7990. Faced with waning opportunities to inflict harm on the America he hates for voting a lot more for the other guy, Trump is turning his famous reverse Midas touch on his own party and supporters. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of fascist authoritarians.
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  7991. They are much worse than an embarrassment - they're a clear and present danger. President Pennywhistle obviously hasn't got a good bone in his body.
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  7992. She could still "act" in the next Kevin Sorbo sequel to the Reliant.
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  7993. Poor Republicans 😅 they can't quite decide between being faketriotic enough to support Trump's insurrection and showing enough regard for the rule of law to make them electable. That's gotta suck. Couldn't wish it on a worse bunch of Quislings.
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  7994. To be fair, no US president has ever worked so hard to divide the nation, nor was he assisted by yellow journalism like FOXed / OANN / etc.
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  7995.  @joesterling4299  Even if NATO completely refused to play nuclear exchange, their conventional attack capabilities would leave Russia quite a mess. Russian acts as if no one else in the world has cruise missiles. It would be a rude awakening if they were to lose every bridge, dam, power plant, airport, sea port, railroad junction etc in short time. Pooty seems not to have seen the movie Wargames, and seems not to know its lesson - that the only way to win is not to play.
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  7996. Been asking for awhile now why Republicans couldn't just move to Haiti (or Somalia) if they wish to live in a country torn apart by violent political extremism, rather than try to turn their own country in a place where such violence is common. Especially when this is the place that's home for us and our children and grandchildren. This used to be called balkanization and, before that, lebanonization.
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  7997. They lost soundly and roundly, and all on their lack of merit. Embracing a crazy 70+yo toddler who wants to end democracy. Jeez. How did they think that was going to turn out?
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  7998. It would be the only time those donors ever gave their own money to help the economy.
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  7999. Here in the US, where the testing rate has been going down since late July, they are able to maintain the appearance that this disease is becoming less of a danger with every passing week. Boris needs to borrow a page from Adolph Trump.
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  8000. Between this and covid, bleach, ivermectin, etc, Trump is a noteworthy cause of death among his own followers. In this he joins the ranks of Jim Jones and others.
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  8001. It's the end of the east coast business day, and the front-page news doesn't even mention Clump. If we could harness the hot air coming off his followers, we wouldn't need to import any oil at all.
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  8002.  @xgenwilly8121  "Enjoy your Kool-aid." << Enjoy your medical bills. I sleep well. You're in the path of the storm, not me.
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  8003.  @RedXlV  Trumptardism is a self-reinforcing delusion. That or it's Boris not being very imaginative at paid trolling.
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  8004.  @NorthernSoulIsMyWorld  There are pictures of him showing documents to random guests at Mar-a-Moscow. No doubt every passing retired orthodontist wanted to get pictures of that.
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  8005. ".. the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like." << AKA Gilead
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  8006.  @eroscreatives  I've long been thinking that certain kinds of social media are exacerbating the problem - specifically the kinds that allow people to form closed echo chambers, where they reinforce the common delusions that define the group. It's happening in a number of places around the world. (and by the strangest coincidence, most of them are the NATO partners Putin would love to take down)
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  8007. Tribal thinking is the mental OS of simple folks. It's their crude way of simplifying a complex, nuanced world down to a basic us-vs-them calculus.
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  8008.  @themamasquirrel7274  By removing Trump from the powers of the presidency, we-the-people took steps to lessen his threat to our whole way of life and our future as a country. Indictments and prison time are the next steps.
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  8009. By Trump's logic, anyone who earned a medal from being wounded in combat doesn't deserve the medal because s/he was dumb enough to get wounded. Huh, wonder if he's implemented that policy?
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  8010.  @rb3_900  There are some good historical videos available that talk about how things were during the worst of the 1918 pandemic. Be prepared for massive disruptions to services, local law enforcement taking quarantine measures into their own hands, mass graves, perhaps even some WROL though hopefully not. (without rule of law)
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  8011. Correct, none of us if safe when that's tolerated behavior by someone in power. And what she endured is probably just a taste of what Trump had in mind for all the people who didn't bend to his dictatorial wants. Can you imagine the purge of American society he would have done if given the chance? :(
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  8012. The US senate has a majority of Trump's culties. They approved the nomination.
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  8013. NATO needs to declare Ukraine an honorary member. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Slava Ukraine!
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  8014. This is part of their coup, and the intent is one-party rule, like in Russia or China or North Korea.
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  8015. I only come here to read the comments from the conservative Karens who whine that Oregon has been going commie and trying to snuff out businesses. They got their wish on reopening (I'm doing a one-handed clap here) and no doubt they'll have nothing to say when, 8 weeks later, Oregon is getting above 1,000 new cases per day and the hospitals are jammed.
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  8016. He probably sprained his tiny thumbs during Biden's speech. All those tender, hurt feefee's.
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  8017. A hand crank. Gah. You get more watts per human from something they can pedal. All joking aside, it would seem that the inventor of this contraption was not as familiar with the "1001 deadly things that can go wrong with a sub" as are the US Navy, or maybe Electric Boat in Groton.
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  8018. Pretty sure we haven't seen the worst of Dump yet. Wait until he's saying stuff like - "A big man came up to me the other day, with tears in his eyes, probably a veteran, and he said, 'Sir, when are the patriots going to rise up and exercise their 2A rights on all those evil Democrats? We the people demand blood!' and mind you, that's not me saying this, that's the people."
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  8019. Yeah. This "peace plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Remember that one? Code name "Lebensraum"
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  8020. Coming from the guy who has all his tacky merch made in China, his words are pretty sad.
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  8021. A reminder to all, please keep things family-friendly, no need to say anything here that will have Secret Service knocking on your door.
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  8022. Gah, my former coworker was only 2 years away from being like blue visor guy. Maybe it's kinder that a stroke took him quickly.
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  8023. It’s only hot outside because we have so many thermometers. You wouldn’t know it was hot if we didn’t have them. You’re only perspiring because the weatherman told you to perspire.
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  8024. Ahh, the plight of the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces party voters ..
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  8025. Correct, Trump will probably not attend the swearing-in ceremony .. but then, his absence is the single best gift Trump could ever provide.
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  8026. The building trades will be much impacted by any deportation of day laborers. Sorry homebuyers and homeowners.
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  8027.  @montana_patriot  The only reason you're not stone broke just now is that you get to buy things that were made using cheaper labor in other places. Take a guess about the price differences for various items when Vietnamese labor costs $2/hr and American labor costs $20/hour.
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  8028. There's a lot of money to be made in the stock market if you know the timing of the inflection points, just saying. Every time it looks like we're inching closer to something with China, you-know-who says or does something deeply insulting to China, causing them to step back yet again.
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  8029. Look. If the people of Russia overthrow Putin tomorrow, set up a new democracy, withdraw from Ukraine, sue for peace, and begin making reparations, those sanctions will be gone by the end of the week, and I hope the rest of the world can welcome them back.
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  8030. To be fair, the appointment of House speaker Mike "straight outta Gilead" Johnson does seem to have given a boost to Drumpf's famous reverse Midas touch. And people remember a 10yo rape victim having to travel out-of-state to avoid a "criminal abortion" under nutty GOP rules.
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  8031. Not stupid per se, but too slow (or simply unable) to adapt. There's a new form of danger roaming the streets, and the adaptable people are the ones who realize it and take precautions. The Trumpanzees? Not so much.
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  8032. Sssssh, no need to do anything that feeds the Secret Service. Watch and wait. Maybe he'll fck up so badly that one of his very own gun-toting racist Billybobs does him in.
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  8033. There's a difference between being sucked down the drain, fighting it all the while, versus diving down the drain headfirst. Republicans chose to embrace Trumpism. It wasn't forced on them.
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  8034. I believe it has to do with what attracts the cult crazies to Trump. Basically, Trump speaks to their inner bits that are composed variously of white trashiness, spite, malice, racism, latent psychoses, etc. All the bad things. And the more Trump shows those same negative qualities the more they cleave to him.
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  8035.  @barrymantelli8011  Usually they are not so damn eager to part ways .. but Trump's fools are. Joke's on them.
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  8036. Like every other nation, the US is at war with the virus. The people you're referring to are somewhere between enemy collaborators and useful idiots to the virus. Edit: one of the worst things the internet has done has been to give ordinary folks the false sense that their 10 minutes of googling is somehow better than someone else's multiple doctorate degrees worth of learning.
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  8037. Wait until they find the messages among the sub-group, of which Mo Brooks was a part, who were actively sharing their plans for killing the Secret Service details of the VP and the House Speaker. That's why they had body armor.
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  8038. Every other country in the world does the covid-19 test for free, but here in America they charge you $3500+ for it and/or they charge you for your quarantine too. Brought to you by incompetent governance :(
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  8039.  @pacifactor  You forgot to mention - thank's to the president's intervention in the market, this is the time to lock in those low, low rates on your covid-19 testing account!
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  8040. Trump's first lost was by around 3 million. Second loss was more than double that. So we'll know soon enough if the voter dissatisfaction rate towards Trump is going up exponentially or not.
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  8041. Sadly, the people who most need to watch this are the ones who never would. Ask them to watch it, and you'll hear a bunch of disjointed ranting about Soros and "ChiComs" .. and possibly about chemtrails too.
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  8042.  @ocean_monster1  The way I was thinking (perhaps this is wrong) but it made sense to assume that the oligarch class (kleptocrats) would be extracting a whole lot more excess income (out of enterprises and organizations) than did their Soviet-era counterparts, and quickly running those enterprises into the ground. Look at the difference between the Soviet military and the current Russian military. In one of those, it's common for officers to sell off the night-vision gear to make money on the side, whereas in the other they would have shot the offenders.
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  8043. It took awhile for the coalition of the willing to confront the funny mustache guy back in the 40s. His ideological successor will get his turn too.
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  8044. Is he Uday or Qsay? (can't tell) Funny how Dummy Jr didn't mind his dad blackening the sterling reputation of the Vindman brothers while running them out of the Pentagon for, of all things, taking their oath to the constitution seriously. (Yet another thing for the current administration to fix)
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  8045. Every day in the USA it's like this: Fauci: "Donald, congratulations, we've now tested more than a million people in the USA!" Trump: "Keep telling me how great I am, I need more of that just now." Fauci: "Well, Donald, that means there are more than 320 million Americans that haven't been tested yet." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing?"
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  8046. Sorry to everyone who thinks otherwise, but there is no force in the 'verse that will return the US to the conditions that prevailed in the 15 years following WW2, when the rest of the industrialized world had been bombed to smithereens, when only the US had an intact undamaged industrial base, when the US still had plenty of light sweet crude (the kind most easily made into gasoline for motor fuel), when uneducated workers could make fantastic money and get fantastic benefits. NOTHING will ever bring that back.
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  8047. We will not hear a peep from the right wing militias like the 3%ers, the oath keepers, and others. All those folks who, during Obama's time, spent 8 long years acting out the meme "Obama's violating the constitution, I can't point out how or where, but he's black and I'm mad as hell!" also won't have a problem with Trump, the senate, the DOJ, and the Supreme Corp plainly violating the constitution. Patriots, you know who you are.
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  8048.  @KnightDriveTV  Those statements had nothing to do with Trump choosing to violate the Impoundment Control Act, then cover it up, then obstruct the investigation. Get it? Here's the analogy: long before the Hindenburg burst into flames, people were warning about the danger of fire in dirigibles. However, you can't blame them for actually starting the fire.
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  8049.  @idowanna837  Everyone I know there is pretty welcoming. They even have space to ride dirt bikes :)
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  8050.  @idowanna837  I lived in a tent for a few months the last time I moved cross country. It was actually kind of nice, 7x15 foot. I have fond memories of trying to watch movies on the laptop, headphones cranked all the way up, and getting drowned out by the noise of rain. Or trying to get ready for work when it's 45 degrees in the tent. All good :)
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  8051. Go break the law somewhere else.
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  8052. Bingo (to OP) because poor Caitlin still identifies class-wise with rich whites and their militias, of which Q is one. The OafTweakers are another.
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  8053. Is he especially testy because today is the birthday of one of the few historical figures he truly admires?
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  8054. Thankfully it spreads only from Trump to his co-conspirators, fellow traitors, and delusional cult followers. Not the rest of the country.
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  8055. Ironically, we are now learning that Trump's sole reason for removing the decorated ambassador Yovanovich was that she was good at fighting corruption, and Ghoulini (working with Parnas & Fruman) was trying to get some backchannel American money in charge of Ukraine's fossil fuel assets. Trump is not a good liar. His excuses are transparent.
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  8056. Trump did in fact promise to run America like one of his own businesses. He's got a long history of borrowing lots of other people's money then crashing and burning.
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  8057. @Sinickle Progressive, nothing will affect his 38%. They are the same people who spent the last 8 years filling up our newsfeeds with OBUMMER IS A SOCIALIST ATHIEST MUSLIM WHO'S GOING TO TAKE ALL THE GUNS AND MELT EM DOWN INTO KORANS AND FILL EM UP WITH WELFARE CHECKS AND HAND EM OUT AT THE BORDER AND WAKE UP SHEEPLE SANDY HOOK WAS A FALSE FLAG AND MUSLIM PRAYER CURTAINS AND MICHELLE BURNS CHRISTMAS TREES IN SLEEVELESS DRESSES AND IS GONNA FORCE MY KIDS TO EAT GAY VEGETABLES AND BORN IN KENYA AND CUP SALUTEGATE OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE AND I'M TOTALLY NOT SAYING THESE THINGS TO BE RACIST ALL LIVES MATTER AND WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVEN IF IT'S ARBOR DAY ONE SHARE = JESUS WILL HEAL MY ACID REFLUX ONE LIKE = PRAYERS FOR BENGHAZI. Using reason on those people is like administering medicine to dead people :(
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  8058. People who work in medical fields are, sadly, just as susceptible to nutty conspiracy theories as regular folks. You might want to avoid taking that kind too seriously.
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  8059.  @stinkertoy4310  I just did. Perhaps you need to read the post again?
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  8060.  @stinkertoy4310  Really. Show me when anyone from Antifa or BLM did all of the things that Trump's fine people did in DC - things that highlight the difference between protest and insurrection. Heck, they had restraints, a scaffold, and a kill list consisting of the 2nd and 3rd in line of succession - Pence and Pelosi.
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  8061.  @frankenstein_and_myrrh  Oh yes. Those people. Apparently Harris wasn't harsh enough on Israel. Didn't seem to sway them when I pointed out how much worse Trump would be. And here we are :(
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  8062. That's maybe why I shouldn't go there. LOL I'd never leave.
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  8063.  @joswancorner  Apparently, being extremely rich (maybe inheriting a lot of ill-gained money, or maybe living in a golden tower with your name on it) in some people produces an insatiable urge to destroy the society you live in. Huh.
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  8064. Oh, how I tried to explain this to people. But no, all they had on their brains then was some cargo-cultist thinking about how Brexit would make all the immigrants go away, and restore the great British Empire of bygone days. Condolences :(
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  8065. In America, it's still legal to tell lies that get other people stalked, harassed, killed. Germany tried that once and got a harsh lesson when some people took Hitler's "rhetorical hyperbole" against Jews too seriously. Germany still has free speech, but it has some bounds.
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  8066.  @harryjove6725  Re: You will be surprised, "It's The Economy Stupid " Otherwise called, "Pay no attention to our attempts to subvert election and have one-party rule (our party!) in America. LOOK AT THE GAS PRICES!!1"
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  8067. This is similar to when they screeched in one breath that Obama was an "overbearing tyrant" then in the next breath called him a "weak, ineffectual leader".
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  8068.  @meauxgendron3682  You might want to check your facts before opening the air scoop, just saying .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-life-expectancy-election-idUSKCN1B22DI
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  8069.  @meauxgendron3682  Oh really? All you need to do is get to any new source, youtube, or TV to see conservatives doing the most batshit nutty stuff that makes you think someone's been putting LSD in their drinks. Like this one, who after watching a propaganda piece went on a shooting spree .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/29/suspect-in-planned-parenthood-attack-said-no-more-baby-parts-after-arrest
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  8070. In the meantime, let's build a better, improved version of what used to be the Multnomah County Poor Farm. Allowing people to live on the sidewalk, in a frozen tent surrounded by bags of poop and trash, is an extreme of inhumanity. If you're cold, they're cold. Bring them in. Obviously many of these people need some kind of gently-assisted living conditions. Someplace with showers, laundry, their own rooms, some light work & classes they can attend.
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  8071. Never before did the USA need a law forbidding a president from taking the CDC out of the loop when it comes to need-to-know pandemic data. Guess we'll know more about the extent of the breakdown when everything stops working, food doesn't get delivered to stores, police force is all out sick, etc. But before then the sirens will be wailing all day long without interruption.
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  8072. To add: the other week, Tяump violated the 1947 UN-US agreement by refusing entry to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to protest the attack Tяump ordered. Let's see if he does the same to Iraqi diplomats when they want to visit the UN to complain about the US occupying them after being told to leave.
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  8073. There are a lot of people in Russia who have family in Ukraine. So don't be surprised if stuff inside Russia starts blowing up or burning or getting mysteriously destroyed.
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  8074. At this point, it's something of a surprise that Trump hasn't ordered the US Navy to sail to the nearest Russian port to hand over the keys to their ships.
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  8075. Behold the devotion of cult sheeple to their swamp-creature leader :( Trump sure knows how to find the sort of people who were dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  8076. I used to think it was the pee tapes, but no, I believe that all Putin needs as leverage is the translators notes from his meetings and conversations with Trump and with the hateful 8 Republicans who celebrated July 4th in Moscow a few years ago. Rather obviously, either they asked for, or Putin offered, or both, advice on how to remake America the way they wanted. Guaranteed election results in their favor. Minorities, dissidents, and journalists put in their place. A strong police state. Central government control over the media narrative.
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  8077. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  8078. This "deal" sounds a lot like the "piece plan" that Hitler & Stalin concocted for Poland in 1939 - without any input from the Poles, of course. Look it up. Operation code name "Lebensraum".
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  8079. No. Loosely paraphrasing what Trump says - if the stock market goes down, it's Biden's fault or Obama's fault - but if the stock market goes up it was Trump that did it.
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  8080. Not to worry mate, the first, second, and third places in that contest are already taken by Doodle. (motorcycle channel)
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  8081. It happens on Everest. Darwin tourism.
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  8082. They could begin the healing process if they admitted, loud and clear, that they went along with Trump's many baseless lies about everything, including the lies about the integrity and the results of the election. Since they won't do that (it would be political suicide for the short term) we can count on them defending Trumpism while pretending they had nothing to do with Trump - basically the same as what they did with GWB after the 2008 election.
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  8083.  @mvjh2277  FYI that one Russian aircraft carrier is diesel-powered and not very reliable. It brings a fleet of ocean-going tugs everywhere because the powertrain keeps failing. With that ski-ramp takeoff system (because, apparently, even WW2-era catapults are too unimaginably tricky for Soviet engineers) the flight time and cargo capacity of any launched aircraft is rather minimal. And, in a conflict, the event log would include something like "F22 has entered the chat."
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  8084. Yup, it's HK. Stuff like that will be happening in the US next year once the GOP senate says (essentially) "What impeachment? Trump can break any law he wants, and it doesn't matter. Deal with it!"
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  8085.  @orionsimerl6539  To summarize - large numbers of Americans took note that evidence & witnesses were blocked. That's not the mark of an innocent person, and no education is required to see that.
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  8086.  @orionsimerl6539  Do not put words in my mouth. Even young children know what's up when someone hides all the evidence against himself. Heck, at Davos he bragged about doing just that. Whatever acquittal Moscow Mitch is cooking up is just a sham, and everyone knows it, and nothing is ever going to change that. Talk about winning the battle and losing the war. Heckuva job Brownie.
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  8087.  @orionsimerl6539  You are seriously full of it when you claim that I'm saying things I'm not. What I AM doing is pointing out that anyone with 2+ functioning brain cells can note that when someone is hiding the important evidence against themselves, they are guilty as f*ck and they know it. Everyone knows it. This sham was an acquittal in name only. Without witnesses & evidence, all the senate could do was a popularity contest. Results went about as expected. This fooled NO ONE.
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  8088.  @orionsimerl6539  I give you points for wordiness, but then you lose them all for failing to understand. Do innocent people work overtime to hide all the evidence that would supposedly exonerate them? No. That fact alone will make the senate trial a complete sham in the eyes of most Americans. I'm sorry that you either can't understand that (can I word it any more simply? Jeez) or you don't like it.
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  8089.  @orionsimerl6539  It apparently is not in my power to prove anything to you - at least not in the baroque manner you insist upon. Obviously I do not know the content of the evidence that was withheld from investigators, but that is not the point anyway. The point is that it was withheld from investigators. Without evidence and witnesses, all the senate could do was hold a party-line vote as to whether they like Trump or not. Those quislings performed about as one would expect.
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  8090.  @melodytenisch6232  So when stuff happens, and prices inevitably rise, I'm just going to shrug to those people and say, "Let Caligula be Caligula."
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  8091. Send more. Lots more. Ivan is donating scrap metal to Ukraine.
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  8092. Our Mango Mussolini is big on that flavor of cake. He tells everyone else to bring their factories here, yet has his own stuff made abroad. He tells everyone to keep it pure and white and anglo here, yet he keeps marrying visa-overstaying mail-order brides from the 'stans. He tells everyone that chain migration is evil, yet he arranges for his current plaything's former-card-carrying-communist family to move here.
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  8093. Sorry, relatives, but FOXed Noise / Alex Jones / Donald Trump got bills to pay, and spouting lies to delusional people is 99% of how they get to keep their lights on and their salaries paid. Your father's life, and the lives of many other Americans, are a price they're willing to pay.
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  8094.  Badger Colony  Using yesterday's numbers (github) 1 out of every 405 Oregonians has tested positive, and of those who've tested positive 1 out of every 48 has died. Tell me again how that's good.
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  8095. As Bonaparte famously said .. never interrupt your adversary while he's making a mistake. For those people, Trumpism is like a voluntary tax on their stupidity.
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  8096. You may have learned about this stuff in grade school. There are these things called diseases. Left unchecked, they spread throughout the population. Herd immunity is a myth - see the way humanity has never developed it for the common cold, the common flu, polio, ulcers, lyme disease, shingles, smallpox, chickenpox, cowpox, monkeypox, tetanus, yellow fever, dengue fever, measles - all the things that people get vaccinated for. And folks either suffer less and/or spread these diseases less when they've been vaccinated first.
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  8097. Or 32chan.
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  8098. Pretty sure that's what the Nazis called it after WW2 when they got ratted out and hauled to the Nuremburg court. S0rE LoSeRS.
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  8099. His accent is kinda thick. Use the guy who reads the quotes instead, please.
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  8100. They are trespassing. Time for them to go home.
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  8101. Trumptards: The president is great because he tells it like it is! also Trumptards: The president did not say what he just said. He's being misquoted. also Trumptards: If he did say it, he didn't mean it. And if he did mean it, OBAMA DID WORSE!!
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  8102.  @deepattison9329  Hate to say this, but when people foolishly inject bleach after Dimwit Donny mentions it .. that's like the the trash taking itself. Nature's way of culling the dumbest from the herd. Out in those idiotic rural places where they yak about the "freedumb" not to wear masks, there will be a fire sale on trucks, homes, toys, land etc starting in maybe 12 months or so. The people too dumb to realize the dangers of covid are in the process of getting culled. Unfortunately they're taking a lot of others with them :(
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  8103. You don't even need to ask. :(
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  8104.  @baileygregg6567  You know what they say .. when a conservative moves from Oregon to Idaho, the IQ of both places goes up.
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  8105.  @baileygregg6567  I use the fires thing as sort of an IQ test. Some people who don't live in Portland are under the strange misimpression (thanks to FOXed Noise) that the city has been burnt to the ground. As of yet, the rioters haven't wholly destroyed a single building yet .. but out in flyover, all the turnips hear is Tucker Carlson screeching about mobs of arsonists. Strange times. Anyway I was all over Portland today it it is most definitely still standing.
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  8106.  @TryssemTavern  The same people will tell you "It's implied that the outgoing president can't do anything" when it's a Democrat leaving office, but when it's a Republican they'll say the power lasts through noontime 1/20.
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  8107. Other countries have both higher death rates and higher case rates than Sweden, but that's not making them safe either. Got any more lies to debunk?
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  8108. Anyone dumb enough to go to one of the superspreader-in-chief's covidchella events probably could excuse themselves from the gene pool and not be missed. There wasn't enough chlorine in the water anyway.
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  8109. Another shout out to Ashli Babbit, Kevin Greeson, Rosanne Boyland and Ricky Schiffer for saving our grateful Republic the costs of their trial and incarceration. No one likes traitors, and justice matters.
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  8110. "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas
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  8111. "Save the unborn today so we can shoot them for trespassing tomorrow" is the implied policy.
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  8112. He didn't kill the Republican party; it was more like a mutual suicide. They've had three long years to call him out on his lies, his falsehoods, his racism, his crimes and instead they've just been smarmy with everyone. One way or another, those people are all going down.
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  8113. You would think the authorities in the USA would note that the world's most sophisticated police state, with all kinds of technology to control the movements of its citizens, is unable to prevent geometric spread of 2019-nCoV. Instead, the CDC is like, "Nah, we talked to people who'd been back from China, they said they feel fine, we'll check on them once in awhile". Meantime, Japan and Germany today reported the first infections among people who themselves have not been to China.
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  8114. While it would be nice if Trump could learn from his experiences (as Susan Collins seems to be doing) we all know it is hard to add anything to a diaper that is already overflowing around the edges.
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  8115. Funny that Trump can't pronounce "Yosemite" or "origins" correctly, but he said "Mein Kampf" in the correct German pronunciation. Huh.
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  8116.  @abbersj2935  I expect it will be a long-term thing .. but I do have much hope. Last summer I took a road trip across several states in the US west. Saw only a few signs that mentioned Trump (these were in areas that used to be covered with such signs) and they all mentioned him in the negative. Seems his support plummeted among many people right after the J6 coup attempt. We'll have to be as compassionate with them as we are towards people recovering from substance abuse disorders.
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  8117.  @erikhadinger7655  Re "But the democrats did exactly that Maxine waters called for violence" .. Where DO you nutjobs get your misinformation from? Is it the people at FOXed Noise who make up what they know you want to hear (and don't care if it's true) or the whackjob anonymous reich-wing bloggers that FOXed quotes as legit news sources? No wonder y'all [qaida] are so frigging unmoored from reality.
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  8118. The Grand Old Pricks of the south just aren't happy unless they're depriving someone, somewhere of basic human rights. It's too bad our nation didn't fix that aspect of the south after the civil war.
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  8119. This is hilarious. Like the princess squirming atop a stack of mattresses and finding small imperfections on the floor, Trump's ability to perceive and remember imaginary slights is something he can't let go of. The little Nazi keebler elf is forever tainted to Trump because he recused himself from the Mueller probe. Does he not yet understand that the only person, entity, concept, or organization that Trump feels any loyalty to is Trump himself, and no one & nothing else? Talk about slow.
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  8120.  @melaniel.s8990  Yeah, Idaho is in deep shit now. Freedom to go unvaccinated is about as useful as freedom to drive on the wrong side of the interstate during rush hour traffic.
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  8121. For a group of people who claim to be innocent, the Republicans sure are going to extreme (and illegal) lengths to hide the very same documents, evidence, witnesses, testimony that would not only exonerate them but prove them to be the most open and law-abiding administration in history. If they are willing to do things this illegal, what else might they do if given more time in office? Shudder :(
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  8122. His other act of staggering stupidity was the land war on the USSR.
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  8123. Day in and day out, week in and week out, living in jail, being deprived of internet, and getting out only to go to court and back .. that should do wonders for criminal45's state of mind and emotional sense.
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  8124. We know who DIDN'T stand up to him! Who else remembers this from the fall of 2019? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves. And f*ck the notion of law and order while you're at it.
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  8125. The US Navy has spent trillions finding out all kinds of things that can go unexpectedly wrong with a submarine. Sounds like the developer of Titan was not privy to that heritage.
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  8126. Joe and Mika could do fine things on Fox.
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  8127.  @AmericanWhiteWoman  Whoops. somehow my reply went to the wrong comment. Deleting it and apologies.
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  8128. If anyone's been watching the slow progress of the DOJ working their way up the pecking order of insurrectionists .. it's clear now that whatever "secret" or "secure" or "encrypted" messaging systems were used by the perps, the FBI can see into all of that. And I am totally fine with that. A small price to pay to keep traitors behind bars.
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  8129. No, it's like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird struts around the board, knocks over the pieces, makes a lot of noise, craps all over everything, then flies away squawking that it won the game.
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  8130.  @LucasJasche  Texas law cannot have it both ways. Either a fetus is a person or it is not. So she should claim the fetus as a dependent on her taxes, and be eligible for motherhood benefits and more. The law has to be consistent.
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  8131.  @joebidumb556  Re "If Fox is entertainment" << Hey Billybob, figure that one out yourself by looking them up on the interactive media bias chart. (hint: CNN is a lot more factually-based than the low-IQ propaganda that FOXed shovels to the barnyard animals out in flyover)
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  8132. Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, America got a lesson in just how many people are easily converted into cult sheeple.
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  8133. Russia still hasn't figured out how to do the catapults, hence the ski jump takeoff ramp on the Kuznetzov. Because of g-loading induced during the use of said ramp, jets must take off with about 1/3 of the total loadout that they could otherwise carry if launched from land. That unreliable hulk is at best a liability for them.
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  8134. If he can't get the sheriffs and other nutjob far-right enforcers, he'll call in the Kyle Rittenhouse type whackjobs.
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  8135. Then again, if she was a sensible person whose mind works in logical ways, she wouldn't be a Dolt45 supporter and probably wouldn't be an anti-vax nutter. Chances are, she's old enough to be alive only because mandatory vaccines helped eliminate polio, which hiterto was killing children and often crippling the survivors.
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  8136.  @eioclementi1355  F22 is not available for export anyway.
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  8137. Hopefully no one minds Russia going down the drain in such a manner of their own choosing. It is part of the process of separating Russians from their imperial tendencies towards neighboring nations. It is a much-needed change for the Russian national character.
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  8138.  @penguindrum264  Don't be bitter .. just ask them to prove it by tossing away their masks and taking a big deep breath of freedumb! And since there's no virus, they should gather indoors with like-minded people and nobody wearing masks. Nature always gives the trash a way to take itself out.
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  8139.  @Hexmommy79  Fixing this is a no-brainer. Reactivate the Multnomah County Poor Farm, or something like it. When you see these people living in piles of trash and poop, that's the best they can manage on their own. They need beds in a dorm, and someone to tell them when to get up, shower, eat, and clean up their stuff.
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  8140.  @stephenurmano2198  Not all of it, just the people who are easily deluded.
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  8141. That's just like Trump - to create, fund, and incite an attack on the very same government that he swore an oath to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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  8142. On 5/21 Alabama reopened to much fanfare. Just 9 days later, hospital & ICU beds were so full in Montgomery that they had to start sending patients elsewhere. This bothers Trump so much, he went golfing.
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  8143. You have to remember, this is how it sometimes goes when nutjob Republicans stray outside of the nutjob Republican echo chamber, in which the only things heard are "rhetorical hyperbole", like the specific things Purdue claimed about his opponent.
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  8144. Republicans have a vision for America - a land of prison camps, elections guaranteed in their favor, racial/ethnic/political cleansing. Never forget this.
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  8145. Trump doesn't have any best people. When he sends his people to town, he's not sending the best. Those people have lots of problems, and they bring those problems wherever they go.
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  8146. Sorry, mate, but if your business model depends on having an unhindered online environment where people can discuss their plans to commit capital crimes, calling it a "free speech zone" is like calling Hannibal Lecter a vegetarian.
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  8147.  @johntao6822  Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease.
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  8148. At least the parents didn't drive the perp to the crime scene, like Kyle Rittenhouse's mother did, after she bought him an assault rifle, after he'd posted a video of him saying he wanted to shoot some protesters.
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  8149. President Biden did the right thing by hiring the professionals. Very different breed from Trump's clowns.
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  8150. I kept waiting for the adults to wade in, and say "Alright, this is over" but it never happened. Everyone just blinked and pretended it was perfectly normal for a sitting US president to openly insult longstanding allies, suck up to despotic foreign dictators, shamelessly violate the Emoluments Act, and help spread a disease that's killed more Americans than WW2 did. Over in Europe they can make trash like that gone by the end of the day and replaced the next morning. Over here? We just keep thumbing the newspaper and telling ourselves we'll wait until the next election. Clump's mishandling of the pandemic was what came out of that, long after he'd proven himself unfit for office.
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  8151. No doubt the Trumpies will try saying that when he did the "lock her up!" chants at his rallies, it was either humor or rhetorical hyperbole, and that when Trump's supporters have gone on to target Democrats (like Cesar Sayoc did) it was pure coincidence and had nothing to do with Trump's angry violent rhetoric. Those same Trumpies will then spin around and say how bad, horrible, awful, unfair, and no-good it is for a sitting president to be subjected to boos and chants of "lock him up". Dang, these people stood behind the door when they were passing out common sense.
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  8152. South Korea peaked out at around 9,200 cases and is still seeing around 100 new ones per day .. meanwhile the US has daily increases of above 10,000 cases and it's still accelerating. Our domestic airlines, which are "beautiful" and "precious" industries, have been allowed to remain open, so they've helped export people from the hotspots to everyplace else in America. What's coming next to the USA is going to make China look like a picnic.
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  8153. One thing's for sure about the people running the federal government - they couldn't find snow in the wintertime. Heckuva job Brownie types.
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  8154. And that's precisely why Trump is jealous of people with actual accomplishments. He's always wanted to be well-received but without having done the actual public service that would earn someone that respect.
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  8155. Been using Linux almost exclusively since approx kernel pre.2.0.1 .. and Mint has been my goto choice for years now.
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  8156. You'd think the "guns should be everywhere" crowd would know better than to hold a mass shooting practically every day now, but nooooooo :(
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  8157.  @lodeo7003  Stop deflecting. No one's here to talk about CNN. Try again.
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  8158.  uncle Ricky  It sounds like you are unaware who you're defending - but that's normal for Trumptards. Here's a more accurate timeline. Most of them occurred well before that inbred dimwit thought of running: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
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  8159.  deee 327  What "problem" does that fix? The "problem" of the coronavirus not spreading quickly enough for your taste?
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  8160.  deee 327  Acceptable to you maybe - perhaps you're in denial about this virus, or you think you're immortal. No, vote by mail has got to be available to everyone. I'm sorry you don't like how the vote is going to turn out, but then, the people on the wrong side of history seldom do.
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  8161.  @Bywater-S  Flocks of those A-10s have been spotted all over NATO's eastern front. Other birdwatchers report seeing AC-130s in the area .. another one you don't want to be on the receiving end of.
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  8162. Bingo. This "peace plan" such a joke and a one-sided joke at that. It's as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. This will probably be as fair as the "peace plan" that Hitler and Stalin devised in 1939 for Poland :( Remember that one? Code name "Lebensraum"
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  8163. Trump's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16 year old girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color and treats it as the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything.
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  8164.  @hectorpascal  The leopards will be feasting. And they're not coming after the folks who voted for Harris/Walz.
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  8165. They know they deserve it, hence their fight to secure Russian and other foreign interference in the next election.
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  8166.  @h.a.s.7612  Gonna have to make room on the list of failed Q-Anonsense predictions.
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  8167. Congratulations mayor Wheeler!
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  8168. The main difference between Donald Trump and Benedict Arnold is that the latter didn't induce his nutjob base to threaten the lives of the people processing the election results. It's time for Benedict Arnold to move down to the #2 spot.
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  8169.  peacefulpossum2438  I know that all too well, dammit :( It's going to be on the rest of us to rescue people from that hell-hole ruled by American Taliban.
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  8170. It's a train full of covid patients these days. Don't tell them that the bridge ahead is out. Let them find out.
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  8171. You can also see what he is by the effects on his followers - and he consistently brings out the worst in them.
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  8172. Wonder who put the bug into Tr*mp's ear that this situation even existed? What are they going to tell him next - that the electricity the US buys from Canada is of such vital interest to the US that it "belongs" to the US and not Canada?
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  8173.  @jimmims5622  Regarding "the bill's text" .. if you're going to trot that trope out, can you show us where on the doll that bill hurt you? FFS :(
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  8174.  @sgtgeneweenie  Correct. Most of the reich-wing gun fondlers who claim the weapons are for preventing tyranny were behind Trump in his last effort to establish tyranny.
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  8175.  @jaelo2314  Yup, and all because some shallow-minded fools are convinced that a state awash in guns would somehow not be awash in gun crime, too. Instead of "wild west" it would be more like Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria.
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  8176. The Republicans certainly seem to be begging for that kind of unhappy ending. Let's wait and see what the senate does, although it sounds already like their plan is to not only completely exonerate Trump, but to say that the house impeachment was illegal, to press legal charges against Hunter Biden, to press charges against specific house Democrats, and to sentence the whistleblower in absentia to two consecutive lifetimes in prison for treason. That's when we summon Madame LaFarge, ok?
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  8177. Let's not encourage them. I like it when the trash takes itself out.
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  8178. Too bad this didn't come up earlier or Trump would have offered to pay the legal fees for Mr Desimas and the other three.
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  8179. For her role in this "I don't care, do u?" nonsense, that former illegal immigrant will surely get her due.
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  8180. Love that idea.
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  8181.  @antonyduhamel1166  Nothing whatsoever. I cite the example of the funny mustache guy from 1930s/1940s Germany, who cared nothing for the rights of others, regardless of their nationality. Like Trump, he too had no problems with destroying his own country.
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  8182.  @barbarathompson4963  Sure, just like all the other 44 presidents before him did .. /sarc .. seriously, how does anyone normalize that?
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  8183. CBP Portland operates out of a facility down near the airport .. you can see the unmarked vehicles going in and out. Closest intersection is Alderwood & Cascades.
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  8184. There will be fresh rope when the time comes.
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  8185. Who else isn't surprised that the Trump administration has been disappearing people, separating families, and forcibly sterilizing political "undesirables"? Historically, anytime there's a regime calling people animals, filth, vermin, plague, etc, somewhere there are good little Brownshirts making kids drink motor oil and stuff like that :(
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  8186. Sure, sure, as long as you can point to whatever laws Democrats allegedly made/changed to encourage street racing. Put down your partisan crack pipe now and then, willya? Jeez.
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  8187.  @tammydavis-howard220  Heard that "both parties are the same" tune before and don't like it. Putin and Trump want you to hum it. Keeps you from participating. Meantime, look up the last few party line votes on election security and equal pay in case you think both parties are the same.
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  8188. It's coming. The US senate just approved Lend-Lease. Gonna be a whole nother game when Ukraine has A10s and F15s in the sky.
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  8189. Just think, in a country like this (where corporations and their lobbyists basically dominate the law-writing biz), you could have a scenario where the Universal Basic Income is defined as large enough to purchase a new pickup truck, a big screen, monthly rent on a house, and let you go out to eat a lot.
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  8190. Their calendar seems stuck at 1955 in so many ways :(
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  8191. There should be no civilians living in the attic of the Kremlin. And wow, what a pretty roof that structure has. What a shame it would be if it exploded and caught fire.
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  8192. Those same people voted Abbott into office. Guess he's discovered a little to late that the ones who brought him to the dance are plain looney.
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  8193. I've been assuming that Boebert had a revolver in her bag that day to use on the house speaker. The way she carried it was kind of giveaway if you're used to figuring out who's packing.
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  8194. Ssssssh. Let it be a surprise when the time comes. They have no clue.
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  8195. Yeah. I might have to ditch one of my two part-time jobs now just because a) it's tight quarters, bad ventilation and b) the one coworker just went to a big weekend family gathering where they didn't use masks.
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  8196. What a cute protest. I should watch more of them, albeit from a safe distance. They'll probably keep it up for weeks.
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  8197. Just remember .. Republicans are fine with using the powers of government to force women to risk their lives with enforced pregnancies, but asking them to wear a mask was "government overreach".
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  8198. It doesn't help that our Mango Mussolini has at least 3 personalities. One is the responsible one, seldom seen, when the staff forces him to read from the teleprompter and he's obviously sulking about being forced to sound responsible. Another is the nonsense he says on FOXed Noise. Yet another is the different nonsense he says on Twitter. Occasionally two of those personalities will agree with each other. So when you encounter people partying like it's 1999, and they screech that it's not even as bad as the regular flu, and they go on to screech that you're a libtard sheeple too, you know where it's coming from.
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  8199. It is becoming clear now that not only was Trump's time in office a total crime spree, but he had a lot of help at it from his various flying monkeys, a few of which are now finally in the sights of the law. Perhaps we should be lucky that Trump put his energies into these get-rich-quick schemes and not into, say, more systematically destroying our democracy.
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  8200. Brownshirts will always want to be Brownshirts. It may be that urban voting locations will need to make barricades out of parked cars to prevent Trump's homegrown extremists from forcibly interrupting the voting process.
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  8201.  @bandeleganiyu7596  I just feel sorry for everyone who didn't see it coming and doesn't know how to deal with it. Thanks to some truly shitty narcissist relatives and ex-bosses and ex-roommates, I now know to run in the opposite direction.
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  8202. His beard (Dr wife) has kept him on T-blockers for years apparently .. that's why he still sounds 17.
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  8203.  @peterdavis8471 Guessing that when he can't delay a reckoning any longer, Trump will try to motivate his culties to do bad things. Everyone, stand back and stand by for that time. It's definitely getting closer.
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  8204. Springfield OH is another story of course.
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  8205.  @horsluva0758  Agreed. We may safely consider Trump to be like a beacon of darkness for the type of people who wish great harm to come to their own nation.
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  8206.  @uselesscause6128  They can try to paper over what's obvious simply by cranking down the testing efforts. But when the hospitals get overwhelmed and reefer trucks full of bodies are parked on the streets, it's a little harder to hide.
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  8207. Well, that doesn't mean that people should do what they must to avoid angering said nutjob base. Because doing so means taking that well-worn road that eventually leads to the Nuremburg trials, or something like them.
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  8208. Snorting Adderall, consuming little but unhealthy fast food, the onset of dementia, and now knowing that the impeachment is finally moving along.
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  8209. @Leo3ABP gaming You are correct, but I don't see western governments even thinking about how to accomplish geographic isolation of regions and communities. Here in the USA, our corporate overlords have long been using their "just in time" delivery scheme, meaning that stores can easily be full or empty depending on which way the daily overall purchasing rates deviate from normal. Now that the CDC finally admitted the barn is already on fire, I'm waiting to see how long it is before masks are required when going into stores, or how soon purchase limits are put into place.
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  8210.  @Leo3ABPgamingTV  I am not advocating making things looser .. I'm just saying that those apartment buildings are going to act like mini Diamond Princess virus factories. As is that hotel in Tenerife.
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  8211. No. Cultist can't see the lies they're immersed in any more than fish can see water.
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  8212. But then, you folks sound blessed to have an educated and intelligent citizenry. Over here in parts of the US it's the exact opposite situation. Sometimes, like in North Dakota, the governor /recommended/ masks but did not make them compulsory. That just changed yesterday. Many many people chose not to wear masks, with the sad and entirely-predictable result that now North Dakota boasts 82502 cases per million, a lot higher than the 25801 per million that you have in the Netherlands.
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  8213. Face it, this unsettling time together was always going to end up badly. Either Trump was going to murder her in the basement, or Lady Liberty was going to have to seek out a battered womens shelter to get away from the creep.
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  8214.  @Ohnanawhatsmynamee  "You realize more then half of America supports president trump right" << that sentiment is not borne out by any poll/survey or by the 2020 election results. Biden got a lot more votes. I like the way DC is being made into a big welcoming center for any MAGAts that show up to cause trouble. We can always build more jails if they get crowded.
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  8215. Forgot which one he is .. Uday or Qusay?
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  8216. Wonder who he's planning to start a war with, then use it as an excuse to stay in office? His other plan is to have certain states doing repeated hand vote recounts well into 2021 as an excuse to delay the electoral college results.
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  8217. At this point, no one would trust Trump to handle a glow stick without supervision. Somebody give Trumpty Dumpty a shove.
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  8218. Just like her reprehensible SO, she never bothered to do her job. Both of them seem unaware that they had roles to perform during their time in DC.
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  8219. Sure, but their idiot sheeple followers aren't influenced by facts and logic and knowledge.
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  8220. Trump's behavior makes sense if you assume that Putin pays him a bounty for every hundred or thousand Americans who get needlessly infected by covid.
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  8221.  @PeterLawton  They will still be naming roads and high schools after him 50 years from now.
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  8222. @Zato Ichi Project much? 😅
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  8223. Trump has proved that he can garner more followers than Jim Jones and Charles Manson combined.
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  8224. To be fair, DeSatan needs to get what money he can off those suckers before they go on ventilators. They're not good for much after that.
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  8225. North Korea - where the only aspect of the rocket test that will offend El Trumpo is the fact that 4:3 video looks funny on his "super tivo".
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  8226. It's as if he rolls out of bed every day and considers how to implement "Animal Farm" in our country :(
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  8227.  @maxinel1776  The one nice thing about El Trompo running is that he will give Biden a second term by doing so.
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  8228. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  8229.  @Swnsasy  You are too kind .. thank you :)
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  8230.  @X2LR8  Why would fascists confront fascist Trump supporters and fascist white supremacists? You might want to watch the Charlottesville tapes again to see how many sides there were. Hint: the number was greater than 1 and less than 3.
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  8231. Or they can skip the PPE and just volunteer to bury covid corpses. Either way, it's like watching the trash take itself out.
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  8232.  @mistermeister5795  Is this what you were looking for? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fec-chair-ellen-weintraub-trump-illegal-foreign-election-aid
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  8233.  @LilithFilth  The ad is just clips of Trump saying what he actually said. Where are those free speech warriors of the right now? (rhetorical question)
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  8234. They ought to be the G6 while our ship of fools sails around in circles.
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  8235.  @CCWeazle  Who do you think the party faithful listen to more? Trump, or anything that goes against what he says? Because anything else is small print in MAGA world, and soon denounced. I'm sorry :(
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  8236.  @CCWeazle  Umm, you are so completely wrong with what you said that I feel compelled now to explain to you exactly how. If you look at all the actions currently being undertaken by Republicans, who are they most listening to, Brett Baier or Donald Trump? If you guessed "Donald Trump", you would be correct. Notice how the things that Brett Baier said have not induced a whit of change in the direction of any of the Republican players. You just owned yourself.
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  8237. Wasn't there some southern man in a dress who tried in 2016 to warn them this would happen? Can't say they weren't warned, oh well.
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  8238. March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" November 13: 11,118,081 American covid infections & 250,383 American covid deaths.
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  8239.  @Steve-O_FPV  Some are MUCH worse than 45, who is disorganized, who can't remember his own lies (or it's too much work to), whose natural laziness makes him golf more and dictate less.
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  8240.  @JohnGalt1960  Go ahead! What's the address of your rabbit hole so we can send you some care packages now and then?
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  8241.  @JohnGalt1960  You are bereft of information and imagination as well. You are nobody, yet you don't know it. Kind of like a ghost.
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  8242.  @JohnGalt1960  You might exist if you had something to say, but just sounding wacky and not very intelligent is not a good way to interact with random people. Just saying. Hope you had a nice Christmas though.
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  8243. You could make a lot putting that one up for Pay Per View, just saying.
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  8244. After will come the work of rehabbing all the people who got sucked into his shallow gaslighting, his lies, his division, is angertainment, his tendency towards authoritarianism. All of those things are anathema to a healthy democracy.
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  8245. Funny how Rethuglicans were perfectly-fine with closed-door depositions (like the one they interrupted yesterday in the SCIF) back when they kept investigating Obama but not finding anything. That's how far down the rabbit hole they've gone.
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  8246. Just two days late, Trump's birthday gift to the nation later today will be 3 million covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, even as he claims that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who are you going to believe, him or your own lying calculator? (case fatality rate: 4.43%)
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  8247. Shooting people with a gun is a crime. Therefore, we're going to aggressively deny medical treatment for anyone shot with a gun and put bounties on doctors treating gunshot wounds. And as an afterthought, have the governor make an unaccountable and vague promise to remove all shooters from the streets without any specific plan on how that's going to happen.
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  8248. Thankfully the governor already reached over her head and congratulated the actual election winner.
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  8249. Moscow Mitch: Hell yes. [Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Tяump.]
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  8250. @Chris Smith Correct. The whole present Republican establishment, as well as their herds of propagandized sheeple who like them, need to suffer an awakening of sorts. Perhaps the kind that comes from a blue tsunami.
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  8251. Hope not. I've talked with people who lived through Sarajevo. Suffice it to say that internal war is not the glorious thing some fools think it is.
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  8252. Trump's defenders were PATHETIC. "He didn't do it. If he said he did it, well, he was just joking. And if he did it, well, it's not illegal. And if it's illegal, well, everyone does it anyway. And look at how the stock market is higher than under Obama. And look at how they just don't like him. And look at that big beautiful Goodyear blimp." LAMEST. EXCUSES. EVER. It's like they're all channeling Trump's narcissist prayer. Put it this way: Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, in which case the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  8253. Totally. Instead of fixing broken infrastructure, they'd rather harsh on trans kids.
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  8254. The world must make it clear that we bear no ill will towards the people of Russia, and that with a little regime change on their part they are welcome to rejoin the world community. They know what to do. Putin's going to have a Ceausescu Family Christmas.
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  8255. They can't help it. It's in their nature to do the very things that will push them off the wheel.
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  8256. Republicans are too busy finger-pointing and screeching "Woke!!" to realize how deep they're in it.
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  8257. The Republicans are more than willing to take it from "insanity" to violence, which means it's completely necessary to Roe, Roe, Roe the vote this November.
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  8258. They don't care - they feel they're on a Most Holy Mission directly from God. I have relatives who went down that rabbit hole decades ago and they're beyond crazy at this point :(
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  8259. Beautifully put. Russia lost any pretensions to innocence the day they attacked another nation. This ends when they've been pushed out of Ukraine and their leaders are under the bright lights at the Hague answering some pointy questions. It's Nuremburg time, folks.
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  8260. Sounds like you have been around long enough to see things change quite a bit! When I was very little, I got to talk with (and befriend) elderly adults who were born in the 1880s era. Learned quite a lot from listening to their take on that change. We do live in interesting times :)
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  8261. When the time comes, let them experience the leopards. It's the only way that kind will ever learn.
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  8262. Sounds like he 'did his homework' 😅
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  8263. Zoom call will do, with the judge controlling the mute and screen. He might end up sitting in front of a camera and having only a limited view of the court.
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  8264. Time for people to stop paying for "services" that will be denied them later when they most need help.
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  8265. If only they had thought to stop Trump's misinformation back when he was "merely" fomenting birther revolt in the US by tweeting nonsense about the origins of president Obama. But then, the US is a strange place where hate speech is protected free speech. You can see what that leads to :(
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  8266. If you haven't got minutes of the meetings where they allegedly planned this, could you just go back under your conspiracy-theory rock? Expecting every disaster to have a purely human villain behind it is anthropocentric folly at its height.
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  8267. It's not freedumb to die of a disease (or lose a loved one) and it's certainly not slavery to do the things that keep disease from spreading.
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  8268.  @justingates4985  I wish we could drop some of those people back in 1942 Oregon, where the government would have told them how much gas they can use, how much bread they could buy, what uniform to wear, what job to do (that they couldn't quit) and where to do. What whiners. And America is facing something now that's every bit as destructive as WW2 was to the country. They're the most unpatriotic sh*ts I've ever heard of.
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  8269. @KingUfa206 I gave up on trying to explain virus danger to people who mostly can't spell or think straight. The one silver lining in the cloud is that the people who refuse to wear masks and practice distancing (the ones who think it's a hoax, the ones who say it's no worse than a cold/flu) are by their actions subtracting themselves from the voting rolls. Heck, did they even notice our Mango Mussolini freaking out that some of his staff are infected, or that he won't let them work there unless they get tested every day?
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  8270. Some days he reads from the teleprompter, obvious unhappy that they're not letting him lie about things. Other times, his Dr Mengele personality really shines through the lard and orange paint.
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  8271. Charles Manson was pretty bad .. but Dump has a lot more willing brownshirt irregulars. A lot of them are at the Graybar Hotel these days.
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  8272. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  8273.  Lancemus Blanco  Ooooh, did you get "triggered"? Your poor hurt feelings.
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  8274.  Lancemus Blanco  Let me tell you how great Trump is. As of April 10th, America had 18,747 dead of the covid-45 virus. Just a month later that number is at 80,787. More than died in the Vietnam war that he got 5 draft deferments to avoid. Keep telling yourself how 'great' that is.
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  8275. @kevin Smith Funny how you cannot produce a single shred of legit proof (the kind that would stand up in court) about how you claim dead people and illegals are voting. But, hey, that's just part of why you're divorced from objective reality.
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  8276. His new name is Fled Cruz.
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  8277. Someday there should be an investigation into the whole Trump -> Hannity -> FOXed Noise -> Trump misinformation loop. Here's how it works. 1) Trump & Hannity discuss tomorrow's theme at night. 2) Shortly after, FOXed runs opinion pieces on it. 3) Trump retweets what he sees on FOXed. It's right out of "Manufacturing Consent".
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  8278.  @mtavarez4561  You need to rub some copium cream all over that butthurt. Trump lost, Joe won, and now the country is digging out of the mess that Trump left. What parts of this are you having trouble understanding? FFS.
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  8279. Most of them haven't been doing their jobs anyway. The current House majority crew has gotten almost nothing accomplished other than political kabuki theatre for their audience of one.
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  8280. Off-topic, but did anyone else catch that story about Mark Aguirre, ex-cop, who kidnapped an appliance repair technician at gunpoint on the suspicion that the work truck was full of illegal ballots? Even funnier, the cop was hired by a GOP mega donor: https://theweek.com/speedreads/955510/exhouston-cop-hired-by-gop-megadonor-arrested-aggravated-assault-hunting-fake-ballots
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  8281. Fauci: “Donald, 4000 people have died in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  8282. If today's Republicans are A-OK with blatantly stealing an election just to please their orange demigod .. what else might they be OK with? Putting all liberals into prison camps? Forcing everyone to attend covid parties without masks? Shooting school board members who don't go along with the pro-covid nuttery? We're in Weimar America now, folks :(
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  8283. Who would have thought that at a base named after a confederate, and in a service's been thoroughly infiltrated by white nationalists, some Klan folks are operating.
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  8284. Lovely whataboutism. Wrong thread.
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  8285. Legacy media is proving to be almost completely useless at resisting Orange Adolph.
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  8286. Given that the original Washington case (who hadn't been to China) caught it on or around Jan 13, and wasn't hospitalized until a week later, it's safe to say there could be hundreds to thousands undiagnosed cases up and down the west coast already, mostly along the I-5 corridor. Oh, wait, this is just a hoax, never mind.
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  8287. We might do well to consider what facets of America make it a hospitable environment for creatures like Carlson, DeSantis, Trump, Hannity, Ingraham, Hawley, etc. Other free countries don't have that kind of fascism. So what are we doing wrong?
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  8288.  @Cha4k  You haven't been paying attention to the "peace deals". All of them leave out one major player (like the Palestinians or the Afghani people) whose bodies then pave the "peace deal". I remember when Republicans castigated Obama for even thinking about a dialogue with North Korea. Speaking of them, Trump's actions poured Miracle Gro all over their weapons development programs - his famous reverse Midas touch again. I look forward to when I no longer need to spend an hour or two every morning pointing out to the Trumpanzees exactly how nutball crazy they have to be to approve of trying to run a campaign organizers' bus off the road during an election. They're way beyond just needing remedial civics education .. by their actions they're more like religious jihadists.
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  8289.  @NOYB6930  Nevertheless - ignore any rosy news, just get out and vote, and make sure everyone else does too. Let the will of the people decide it, whatever that may be.
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  8290. The sad part is, when these partisan Republican hacks go to sleep every night, they tell themselves a pack of big ugly lies about how they're secretly working to save America somehow. Sure. It's so secret that no one can see it through their total disdain for the rule of law, through their continued rule-bending, through their defense of an obviously-corrupt president, through their application of one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everyone else. Un-fcking-believable :(
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  8291. But .. but .. Putin will be so happy that Trump is fulfilling his request to take down America from within.
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  8292. Now that he has conceived this feud against Disney, Ron DeSantis should be forced to bear it to term. Ron likes the notion of people being forced to bear to term.
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  8293. Good job Ukraine!! These are the kind of 'sanctions' Russia needs to feel. I for one will not complain if the drones diversify and go after other things .. pipelines .. dams .. bridges .. tunnels .. power plants ..think of this as helping Russia with their decarbonization efforts to have a more green and pastoral existence.
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  8294.  @PhilipsLS1300  Funny you should believe that, when, in the US at least, it is primarily right-wingers who engage in political violence. Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/us-far-right-violence-terrorist-threat-analysis
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  8295. Seriously. It's like Putler hit his head one day, woke up in a daze thinking it was still 1982, and was infuriated to turn on the telly and learn that Ukraine is now independent.
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  8296. Poor DeathSantis (or DeSatan) .. with enough dead Florida people, he could "prove" that the only way to defeat covid is to ignore it. Just like humanity did for AIDs, polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, etc.
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  8297. Some things are born only so they can have awful, unpleasant, really-bad endings. Mike Pillow may be one of them.
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  8298.  @kowak69  The Putinist trolls (Gary's cousins) are all like, "Why resist those home invaders that break in at night? Resisting will just make them mad."
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  8299. Been trying to explain this to people for years now. Trump has officially trashed the American brand. We used to be able to tell others to look at our democracy as an example of how it can be done, but by letting Trump run roughshod over convention, over historical precedent, over the separation of powers, over international law, over the idea of free and fair elections, over the treaties we've signed, over good relations with longstanding allies, etc, it's become painfully clear to the world that we are never more than one electoral-college vote away from bringing in an even worse fool next time. He's burnt political capital that took CENTURIES to save up, all to feed the bonfire of his vanity. It's gonna be a long time before anyone takes the US seriously again :( and with that, we lose many advantages that used to make this a good place to be.
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  8300.  @floridaislandgirl1039  Stay safe! And just for a little perspective .. the US at present can do 16 coronavirus tests per day. South Korea can do 13,000 per day and makes them free and available to anyone. China can test more than a million per day, also for free. The US by comparison is looking like an asylum run by the lunatics.
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  8301. Look, Trump doesn't care about the legality of attacking Iranian cultural sites (on his own whim of the moment, of course) any more than he cares about the legality of violating the Emoluments Clause or the legality of extorting Ukraine for manufactured dirt on the Bidens.
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  8302.  @user-zu5do6ri6r  Russia has already ignored many agreements. There's the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which Russia agreed to not to use economic or military force against Ukraine, in exchange for the return of the Soviet nuclear arsenal remaining there. There's the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, in which Russia agreed that the now-independent nations of the former USSR were free to choose their own path, east, west, whatever. Russia also violated the Minsk Agreement of 1991, in which it agreed to respect the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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  8303.  @RowenaSnow-px3jg  You do have to do a bit of work at it. One person I know (her father was born in Germany) at first only got unlimited residency. At first, no job were available to her aside from the kind no one else would want. And then they offered citizenship, but only if she renounced US citizenship. And finally (after some 20+ years of this process) she was allowed to have dual citizenship.
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  8304. The USSR's debacle in Afghanistan was part of what helped tip over the Eastern Bloc. And now it seems like Putin's horrible decision on Ukraine is what may tip over his dictatorship in Russia.
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  8305.  @kennyw871  As much as I want it so I can resume normal activities, I'm too far down the ladder to see it before next summer at the earliest. NBD. Lost my nice job in March so I'm busy building up two new businesses.
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  8306. Who else here uses data off Worldmeters? According to the average of the last 4 days of new case increases, Oregon is doubling in cases only every 8.2 days. South Dakota, not yet locked down (thanks, Republicans) is doubling in cases ever 4.84 days. Louisiana 3.89 days.
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  8307. Caputo gave away the game already .. they're going to make something up about "leftist militias" then use that as a pretext to send tanks into places that didn't vote for Trump.
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  8308. When Trump blazes away with his word salad shooter, and can't answer the question, just watch his moron sheeple nodding & blinking.
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  8309.  @dougrobinson5830  Agreed. Any insurrection that goes unpunished is just a training exercise. For some of the participants, that was their second or third "exercise".
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  8310. To be fair to senator Graham, Trump has that effect on most of his supporters, save for the few who are smart enough to GTFO quickly, like Scaramucci.
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  8311. Here's a video showing how right wing extremists think of themselves and their powers in a civil war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJh7Ye1Qvc8
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  8312. Remember back when Trump ordered cuts to the IRS specifically to achieve that goal? https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-taxes-irs-audits-1443247
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  8313. We also need to turn out the vote. Get everyone registered ahead of time, particularly those who have turned or will have turned 18 since the last election. Make sure everyone has the ID's necessary for voting. Make sure everyone knows where the polling places are, and has rides/transportation as needed. Make sure everyone has the comforts needed for a potentially long wait in line. We can do this .. we gotta keep the blue tsunami pounding them.
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  8314.  @rosemarie20  Bingo. Every time he opens his air scoop, more confessions emerge. Wait until he gets /really/ desperate and starts talking about who bent the knee to him in exchange for what, back during his term.
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  8315. .. or the way FOXed Noise is the de facto Republican propaganda arm, kind of the same way Goebbels ran that department in Nazi Germany.
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  8316. Republicans were all about companies having the freedom to make choices, like with the gay wedding cakes. Now they're not. Weathervanes are more constant than them.
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  8317. We can build them their own gated communities if necessary. cough cult deprogramming camp cough
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  8318. Please take back what you said. Trump (and those who support him) are just so horrible that they make even GWB look like a highly intelligent, thoughtful, law-abiding public servant by comparison. And they never did find the yellowcake or WMDs, you know :(
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  8319. Been wanting to get those two back together so Mr Swan can question Trump about his claims of a stolen election in 2020. Mr Swan showed quite the ability to peel apart Trump's layers.
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  8320. Putin's hand is not getting slapped hard enough for his imperial overreach. NATO, Ukraine, you know what to do.
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  8321. Wonder if Fitton is the disembodied, time-traveling ghost who also malinformed Sidney Powell?
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  8322. For every drag queen that gets a parking ticket, there seem to be more than a hundred conservative males caught at pedophilia. And guess which crowd cries "foul" at the other ..
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  8323. Let me get this straight. Trump grudgingly offers the people of the USA $50 billion in support, just days after he gave Wall Street $1.4 trillion in support? Somebody explain to him that WE THE PEOPLE are his boss. His wall street bailout, if given directly to the people of the USA, would be around $4200 per person. But then most people don't hang out at Swamp-a-Lago.
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  8324. The damage Trump did to America will last decades longer than his presidency. We are quickly heading towards a future when no foreign students will want to study here - when other nations won't make treaties with us because we renege on them even before the ink is dry - when we are known worldwide as the covid capitol - when no one will want to buy our possibly-tainted food products - when Americans are not welcome anywhere as visitors - when other countries move away from using the US dollar. All our former allies and former trading partners know that bad US presidents come and go, and that Trump's time will end someday. What the rest of the world has learned, to their disappointment and chagrin, is that our safety mechanisms and our separation-of-powers aren't worth the paper they're written on. At no point in this mess did any of the so-called adults in the room pull the plug on it, install the VP, and schedule a new election. Instead, we collectively shrugged and told the world (essentially) "Sorry, but our antiquated electoral college picked him. Sorry, we can't do anything. Sorry, we need to wait for the next election." In the rest of the world, they can have a leader hanging from a lamppost the very next day for less than what Trump did. We have been revealed to the world as a hollow shell of what we once were.
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  8325. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  8326. Ditto. For my sanity I just stopped having anything to do with anti-vaxxers in person. The last one around me was a friend's roommate, and she's easy to snip out of my social life. People like that are so unstable, so gullible, so prone to believing the most obviously-dumb propaganda, I wouldn't trust them with glow sticks. Don't want them anywhere around me. They're never more than one FakeBook meme away from slipping rat poison into the cereal because "someone on the internet" told them it helps fight covid.
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  8327.  @MightyfireflyAndme  The whining of the Trumpanzees will be so thick for awhile, we can cut it up and make blocks out of it. Just tiptoe away and let them talk to themselves.
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  8328.  @MightyfireflyAndme  That will get them talking alright. Actually these people were insane (some of them, anyway) 8 years before Trump came along. In their former Tea Party existence, they spent 2008-2016 shrieking about Jade Helm, Benghazi, Agenda21, chemtrails, Sharia Law, FEMA camps, microchips, yada yada yada. They love to be angry. They love to be misinformed. What we (the nation) does with them is a good question. Remedial civics education? Therapy? Mental hospitals?
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  8329. This is pretty much exactly what the striking rail workers warned us about.
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  8330.  @MrDwicker  If you were a politician and tried to tell people only 1 child per couple max, and only 1 vehicle per family, they'd string you up, then go breed a whole group of 6 kids, and buy them all SUVs at graduation just to spite you. We're just bigger yeast in the big petri dish :(
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  8331. Russia is going to leave Ukraine, one way or the other. This is part of the process of them coming to accept loss. Right now the Russians feel it's unthinkable that they could lose. They will come to feel differently when the border regions (nearest to Ukraine) are turned into a DMZ that's 100km deep, and when every force they send is destroyed.
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  8332.  @barrymacochener6539  Especially Trump's ass-kissers. Talk about blind sheeple re-enacting the Jim Jones Guyana episode. The dumbest of the dump. People who believe propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. And not even an especially smart cat either.
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  8333. Sadly, irony is not just a closed book to those people, it is a burned and buried book as well. They're people in the sense that they have two legs and two arms and a head on top, but in every other aspect they're inhuman.
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  8334. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy.” -- Senator Mitt Romney, the night of 1/6/21
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  8335. The pump-and-dump served its purpose. Wonder how much money they made off that particular snake-oil scam?
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  8336. Given all the dark omissions in the record of Amy Handmaid's Tale (her involvement with anti-abortion groups, being on the board of an anti-LGBT school) she cannot be on the court because she doesn't represent any slice of America outside of the rich white racist small-c christian set. And, as McConnell pointed out four years ago, even 8 months before an election is much too soon to seat a judge.
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  8337. To Republican thinking, however, it's that 10yo's own damn fault that she tempted an adult male into raping her. They blame the victim.
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  8338. You couldn't build either of those systems anyway, so what's your point? Feel free to move to Somalia if you want to see what that no-regulations, no-taxes, no-government thing is really like.
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  8339. Not sure the culties want to heal. They DO want to make our nation more like Haiti or Somalia, however :(
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  8340. If Florida could get a governor who didn't take his inspirations from Hitler's Germany and from the works of George Orwell .. yeah, that'd be great.
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  8341.  @papawheelie5576  Yeah they covered that pretty well in the J6 committee hearings.
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  8342.  @avanellehansen4525  Sinclair Lewis got it almost right .. because when fascism slouched into the white house, humping a flag and telling lies constantly, conservatives swooned over it and jumped in headfirst to help end democracy in America. That's a shame they'll need to carry for a long time to come. There's gotta be a price for being such quislings.
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  8343. Like this one, who was blessed by St. Darwin personally - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513431/Texas-man-30-dies-catching-coronavirus-COVID-party-thinking-virus-hoax.html
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  8344. Speaking of freak shows .. has anyone else been watching the monkeyshines in Stugis, South Dakota? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hngnY6Br9cE
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  8345. Can you imagine what DeathSantis would have done in WW2? The Nazis are bombing ships in NY harbor, and he'd be standing there trying to fine people for going to the military recruiter to sign up. FFS.
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  8346. Take a good listen, and check out how many leading Republicans are speaking out against these threats of violence. Crickets.
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  8347. Take a good look at Trump's followers, enablers, co-conspirators. I have always thought it was because Trump speaks to their inner bits that are composed variously of white trashiness, spite, malice, racism, latent psychoses, etc. All the bad things. And the more Trump shows those same negative qualities the more they cleave to him.
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  8348.  @quincycampbell9828  I disagree about shooting them. They're traitors, sure, and maybe they should just pack their bags and go. They're the antithesis of that description on the base of the statue of liberty, which is to say, they're not really Americans.
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  8349. Since stupidity was the main cause, let's not list these ones as covid deaths. They would have died anyway. Stupidity is probably the #1 co-morbidity.
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  8350. Mask & gloves worn at the same time are even better. Particularly if the gloves are the kind you can disinfect as soon as you get back to your car, then peel off without touching the outsides, then disinfect your hands, then take off the mask.
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  8351. Is this what it took? As if all the other lies weren't bad enough? "It'll just go away, like a miracle"
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  8352. Zelinskyy has been giving a class in how to liberate parts of your own country from Russian invaders. Georgia, Chechnya, Moldova, and others may take interest. NATO may gain a few members too.
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  8353. Playing the victim all the time is how he gets his cult sheeple to trauma-bond with him.
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  8354. Is misleading information like FOXed Noise even legal in Canada? Here in the US, all kinds of nutjob right wing propaganda gets to call itself "news" even when it's pushing complete lies to the public. Hopefully other countries don't do that.
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  8355. We learn this morning that there was no audio of the ground operation. So all of that "sir, he's in the tunnel now" and "sir, we've just blown a hole through the wall" nonsense was more fabricated Trumpian word salad.
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  8356.  J. Muller  "So far everything Trump has done has been best for America." Explain how this is "best" unless you mean "best at bring like Idi Amin. So far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  8357.  @silverpairaducks  I was referring specifically to his lies and how he made the US seem like idiots. Maybe Denmark would rather deal with the Chinese on rare earth elements, or lease Thule air base to the Russians - you know, people who won't treat them like shit for no good reason.
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  8358.  @GrossMissConduct80085  Mo Brooks was the one who openly wore body armor. Wonder if he was part of the detail to snuff out Pence and others.
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  8359. Thanks for being a rare voice of sanity in these comment sections. I come here for entertainment. The dumbest people in the pacific northwest are whinging about the public health measures that are keeping us from suffering the catastrophic illness and death rates that other places are experiencing.
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  8360. I thought Christie would have been good. Too bad he dropped out. Perhaps he'll come back under a third party ticket?
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  8361. Nor healthcare or sovereignty or anything else.
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  8362. It will be hilarious watching Republicans go along with Trump on this, then all of a sudden after January 21st they'll try to pretend they had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Trump and his mad attempt to hang onto power.
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  8363. My job is still gone, so I go trollhunting most mornings over coffee. Got this.
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  8364.  I Want to Write Porn  But by all means go write porn. It's probably more suited to your abilities than posting anything purporting to be factual information.
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  8365.  @keyissues1027  Another angle they use frequently is their "both parties are the same" nonsense. The goal with that is to discourage people from participating in the democratic process, and since the result would be a win for Trump, you can see clearly which side (and whose trollbots) are pushing it.
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  8366. It's also unforgettable. The lawn signs and bumper stickers might be gone now, but we all know damn well which people were the foot soldiers for Team Crazy.
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  8367.  @Devilsgreedybelly  Not to mention all the tanks from their once-vaunted "huge" supply, now turned to scrap metal somewhere in Ukraine.
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  8368.  @zackari  No doubt Kim Jong Un suggested they loft some hot air balloons loaded with poop and trash. Poor man's ICBMs.
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  8369.  @brettany_renee_blatchley  Of course! Tks :)
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  8370.  aboctok  Sorry to hear this. I am trying hard not to let politics cut into any of my friendships.
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  8371. Make abortion illegal / unobtainable and this is what happens.
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  8372. Someone needs to update the Lincoln Brigade recruitment posters ASAP.
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  8373. He's always been a very ill Duce, if you follow me.
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  8374. Aiming for 12K shots per day is a good start, but we need to go big with this if we want to save lives and make a difference. At that rate it will take nearly a year to vaccinate the entire population of Oregon. Hopefully president Biden will use the DPA to get the Oxford vaccine out (only $6/dose, doesn't need deep freezing) and put a vaccination station in every school, church, town hall, and supermarket.
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  8375.  @brianmi40  And even if we take age, word-slurring, and dictatorial intentions totally out of the picture, it's a choice between the prosecutor or the adjudicated insurrectionist. Mm, tough choice.
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  8376.  @jericolandry9872  Well, obviously the noteworthy point to remember about the Russians is that when they act like the villains out of the cheesiest-possible cartoon, it's not an act, it's the real thing.
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  8377.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  He also added more to the national debt than any other single-term president.
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  8378. He's going to be insufferable, but, more to the point, he's going to encourage his moron followers everywhere to try things like those foiled Michigan plots. Like Hitler, he'd rather leave the country a flaming, bankrupt mess than face the music that he won't be the one running it.
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  8379. Keep going with that ZFT manifesto, I've got popcorn and time.
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  8380.  @rudyardwalker9113  "That's because the Repubs have shifted further right over the years" << Correct. The Democrat party is now roughly slightly to the right of where the Nixon administration was back in the early 1970s. And the Republicans are way out where Pat Buchanan / Hitler used to be - with them foolishly and naiively imagining that everything to the left of them is "commie".
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  8381. China and India somehow haven't heard that wind carries fallout east.
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  8382.  @BryanHersch  Good point. We should test them all to find out the truth on this important topic. Wouldn't want them infecting lots of other people, would we?
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  8383. Our Mango Mussolini can be counted on to care about only two things: 1) his family's grift-y schemes for making money off his influence, and 2) that which influences his 2020 re-election chances. People and laws and lives and the future of the nation mean less than nothing to him.
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  8384.  @bluecadillac  Jennifer may also be thinking of the early 1990s agreements in which Ukraine voluntarily gave up some 3,000 tactical nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances from Russia that Russia would never attack Ukraine.
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  8385. Sorry to say, but Trump's people were disconnected from reality years before he became a candidate. They are precisely the same people who spent 8 long years screeching about how their guns were being taken away, how Obama was forcing them into FEMA camps and Sharia law, how chemtrails were being used against the angels, and so on. The characters from Duck Dynasty are more real to them than the constitution ever was.
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  8386.  john johnson  Or who else remembers this from last year? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Moscow Mitch: The Senate is in total lockstep with Trump on whatever he says. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  8387.  @ObliterateTyranny  Well, winning the election is what puts a president into the office. In this case, Joe Biden won, and y'all qaida have got a mountain of insufferable butthurt over it. Like John Wayne famously said - life's rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid.
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  8388.  @ObliterateTyranny  Fact don't matter much to you, do they? Funny how none of you can explain how, if so many ballots were fraudulent, Republicans gained seats in the house. If, as you say, that many ballots were rigged in the favor of the Democrats, wouldn't the opposite be true? Sorry, your guy lost because he's not only a liar and a despicable human being, but his errors have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans. In terms of causing deaths among Americans, he stands right up there with Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini.
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  8389.  @ObliterateTyranny  LOL facts do matter to me. Your guy lost the vote by millions. Deal with it.
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  8390.  @ObliterateTyranny  That's what I keep trying to explain to you, fool - no evidence had been found that suggests anything other than the fact that large numbers of Americans voted against Trump. I get that you just cannot wrap your head around that. If any evidence had been found of wrongdoing in the election, I would be right there with you protesting it (because I believe that following the process is more important than party loyalty) but it has not been found. No evidence, of the kind that can stand up to examination in court, exists to prove that there was anything wrong with the election. All we've got here is a cornered rat desperate to avoid facing prosecutors, and bunch of fools willing to break the law on his behalf. Not on my shift, mister.
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  8391.  @migsvensurfing6310  0.0016106% to be precise. Wonder what percentage of them moved to Russia? Probably a pretty small number.
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  8392. Like most of Trump's accomplices, he probably needs a MyPillow to rest his guilty, rich head on afterwards.
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  8393. Looks like this is why Cheeto is using private military contractors :( the kind of who don't have a badge or a warrant from a judge.
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  8394. Correct. They pulled a classic Stalingrad-Rostov switcheroo. You may recall how Hitler, imagining that Stalingrad was a done deal, diverted the 4th panzer army south to assist Kliest's assault on Rostov -- but then tried to shift it back just a few weeks later when the blunder was realized. That's about what Ukraine just did to Putler ;)
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  8395. The many state National Guards would end up bearing the brunt of the costs. And in true fashion, they'd be using troops everywhere from different parts of the country. Huh. What with 20+ state governors already openly ignoring Supreme Court rulings to go full Erich Honeker at the southern border (which may be our Fort Sumter moment already) they're showing by example that it's perfectly A-OK for state governors to do as they see fit with their national guard resources.
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  8396. "Therefore, there are women who use abortion as birth control" << The numbers say this is an extremely small percentage of all abortions.
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  8397.  @SharonPierson-d4l  Some things are best kept surprises. In the meantime, feel free to enjoy some snark as the GOP forces itself to carry a nonviable candidate to term.
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  8398.  @thomasjackson2223  She's not honest enough to be a stripper. No personality either.
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  8399.  @tomfury6276  Aww, isn't that cute, another sorry dipsh*t who thinks that anything to the left of Hitler / Pat Robertson / Trump must be "commie". Heck, those 3 are so far out in right field, they had to make up new zipcodes.
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  8400.  @kellywalker1664  Zactly. It's the sort of "joke" that features jackboots, sharp uniforms, and barbed wire.
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  8401. FOXed Noise ran an article recently where they claimed that Biden was falsely claiming that going to Trump's rallies could be dangerous to a person's health. Funny how it took them no time at all to forget how Herman Cain contracted covid at Trump's superspreading event in Oklahoma, then later died of covid.
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  8402. Who did Merrick Garland think was supposed to take care of this? Frigging Ghostbusters?
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  8403.  @pc4mlc451  "He hasn't run away from journalists? He hasn't taken vacations after domestic tragedies?" << Not nice to insert words into other folks' mouths. They may construe that as reason to give you a lesson in consent.
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  8404. Vichy Trumpers.
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  8405. It's right up there with the cost of those many recounts of Arizona election results, all because the partisan nobodies couldn't handle the way their candidates got rejected by the voters.
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  8406.  spaski3  I just wish that every journalist, all along, had been treating him properly. "No, Mr Trump, that's a bald-faced lie" is what he needs to be told again and again.
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  8407. Crazy people are everyone .. and no one will do anything about Tucky Tuck Tuck insinuating the things that lead some crazy people to strange crimes. This is another Comet Pizza.
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  8408.  @conshvili6335  I plugged it into the translator, and it gave "My uncle, brother".
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  8409. One hopes the California DOJ is already investigating the way their cries of fraud predated the opening of the polling places. Crimes that go unpunished are merely training exercises for bigger crimes later.
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  8410. Apparently the new laws didn't make it illegal for you to mask up in public, avoid crowds, and continue being safe. Not yet anyway. But since DeSantis seems to want the disease to spread more widely, it's entirely possible that he might outlaw masks at some point down the road.
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  8411. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Sorry. The really ugly phase is still some weeks off.
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  8412.  Vanadyan  FOXed Noise is reaping the results of spewing nonsense like this since 1996: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do."
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  8413. Correct. Putin already sold them on the idea of permanent, one-party rule. Now all they need to do is abolish elections or work to make them untrusted or considered worthless.
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  8414.  @frostfree7 Been wondering that. Honestly can't tell. For sure, the town arsonists are going to keep trying their thing if they no longer fear the law coming for them :(
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  8415. Only if they never went along with Trump. If they did, vote them out with extreme prejudice.
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  8416. Who else remembers Trump's first SOTU address? Trump looked out over Lyin' Ted, Cryin' Chuck, Jeff Flakey, Liddle Bob Corker, Broken Old Crow, Crazy Nancy, Little Marco, Crazy Bernie, Shifty Schift, Pocahontas, Wacky Jacky .. and all he wanted was a little respect from these people, respect that he thought he deserved.
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  8417. Just out of curiosity .. what 5 neverending wars are you pinning on Obama? I hadn't heard of those.
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  8418.  @bigpatman7846  To be fair on that count, Trump also did nothing to end the war when he had all three branches of government for 2017-2018. Maybe now that, on Trump's watch, Iraq has voted to tell the US to leave, the withdrawal will actually happen.
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  8419.  JOYA MAHAN  Using the doll as an illustration, show me where it hurts you when a woman has an abortion.
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  8420.  @stirlingfletcher7040  Re "It might as well be rocket science to their ilk." They probably sucked a lot of lead paint chips during childhood, and/or got dropped on their heads a lot by frustrated parents who just didn't understand their special-needs children. Seriously, though, the wisdom of keeping their religion out of state-of-whatever laws is easy to illustrate to them. Suppose a group of Muslim clerics successfully lobbied the state of Texas to make pork meat illegal there. Then it would be a case of a minority inflicting its religion onto everyone .. kind of just like when a whackjob minority of anti-abortion nutters inflicts its beliefs onto everyone. Not on my shift.
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  8421. So .. the RNC is telling the registered R's of their states that their votes have already been made for them, and that Trump already got 100%. Sounds pretty much the same thing as when Stalin and Hitler kept getting near 100% in every election. Every day, the "law and order" party gets further away from law and order.
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  8422. This is the third time someone in their entourage has tested positive. Given that people can be emitting virus for more than a week before they test positive, there's hope for the nation yet.
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  8423.  @Romanticoutlaw  Fox noise has indoctrinated them well to veer towards the sexy, evidence-free lies instead of the boring truth about the litterboxes and stolen election and many other topics.
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  8424. Oregon too.
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  8425. Correct. The replacement government would be operating under the burden of (so to speak) higher entropy levels.
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  8426. What's even more disturbing about Trump is how Republicans took to him like ducks to the sticky tar of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  8427. Why is Flynn still receiving a pension and medical benefits from the same nation he just committed treason against? I'd rather have a busload of immigrants than one traitor.
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  8428. Somewhere in Florida, there are hamberders stuck to the wall over this.
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  8429.  Alexander Van Burk  Good job on showing off your ignorance. Maneuvering you into showing it to everyone is soooo easy.
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  8430. If only the Republicans (who had a front row seat to this whole shit show) had been as against Trump's mishandling of the pandemic as they were against, say, Obama wearing a tan suit or Obama using mustard. Oh the horror.
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  8431.  @lorenzocabrini  Whatever it is, I'm neither forgetting nor forgiving on that score. Surely there is some "solution" when it comes to dealing with traitors. Perhaps even a permanent solution.
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  8432.  @lorenzocabrini  That's precisely what I've been afraid of. Trump bashed a hole in what we thought of as normalcy .. never before had it been necessary to have laws requiring a president to take the word of US intelligence agencies over that of the Russian president .. or have laws preventing a US president from trashing America's longstanding alliances. We're just lucky that he's so frigging inept. We might not be so lucky next time.
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  8433. It's much worse than that. Trump has been trying to undo everything that was set up to prevent WW3 from happening, under the flimsy excuse that it costs a lot. The extent of the damage will be clear in maybe 5 years, when the US no longer has military bases in Greenland, South Korea, Turkey, maybe even Japan and Germany too. Russia & China are making hay while Trump is asleep at the wheel.
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  8434. Hope everyone is stocked up on popcorn, because there's going to be a whole lot more like this coming for as long as these loons are in charge.
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  8435. I was with a boss like that for way too many years. Also a big Trump fan :(
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  8436. Well, considering that they have neither oil nor lithium, the West is not much inclined to bring democracy to them.
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  8437.  @malachi8151  It's more like they're providing good jobs and cheap houses for whoever wants to move out there when this thing finally blows over. Might have to peel a few MAGA stickers off things but oh well.
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  8438. Didn't take long for Amy Handmaid's Tale to show why McConnell rammed her through 8 weeks before an election, and after early voting had already started, when not long ago he blocked Merrick Garland because he claimed 8 months before an election was much too close to election time. Fair court my ass.
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  8439. And he would use the powers of state to carry it out :(
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  8440. Is there some citation to the claim of pro Trump media being banned? Or is it just about as popular as a child molester with herpes?
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  8441. @Greyson Gagliardo Well, when you wear a badge that stands for lawlessness, racism, and violence, yeah, well, you can't expect anyone to take that stuff too kindly.
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  8442. Solavev keeps (or used to keep) his gay son in London. The kid has obviously never served in the war his dad promotes. Not sure on the others.
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  8443. More than anything else, this shows off the failure of PPB to have any meaningful community dialogue in certain segments. If they could be as buddy-buddy with all sides (instead of just with the Proud Mama's Boyz and other assorted white supremacists) things would have never gotten this far.
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  8444.  Mason Albert  Preach it!! Republicans at the roadside: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. That just proves your bias. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Republicans in court later: "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement." Republicans after losing in court: "The laws don't apply to this speeding!" Like some of the German politicians of the 1930s, who happily (and by hook and crook) installed their Fuhrer as above all laws, the Republicans of today will happily burn down the constitution, ignore all law and precedent (and even the rules they made themselves during Obama's time) just to have their it's-our-way-or-the-highway hissyfit.
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  8445.  @Patricia-zt8ub  Republicans have been gutting public education since the 1950s, when they got a taste of what the US would be like with an educated aware middle class, and they wanted none of it. Those were the days of 90%+ marginal tax rates, the days when Trump was a kid, and his fondest wish seems to be to destroy the systems that helped make the 1950s better for Americans.
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  8446. If the Trump resorts no longer let you take cellphone pics of classified, sensitive, top-secret documents, what's the point of going to them? Going home to sell them on the dark web was just one of the many Trump resort perks until those pesky FBI agents stopped it.
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  8447. Watching Tяump crow in public (see the Davos clips) that he's withholding all the incriminating evidence won't cause any of his cult followers to defect. I used to wonder how the Nazis took over Germany, but now seeing a similar thing happen here in the USA is quite eye-opening. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the German Senate (the Reischtag) and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Tяump.
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  8448. You know who uses maps that are missing the correct country names? Politicians doing planning for a rearranging of country names & borders :(
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  8449. The difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the golf pro doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it.
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  8450.  Mistare Anonymouse  And here is the law that Rudy apparently violated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
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  8451. I thought that was great. Biden knocked it out of the park, and Trumpty Dumpty can't even pronounce simple words or names.
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  8452. A lot of older people who were never very healthy to begin with experience a longer form of covid that messes them up. Our Mango Mussolini may be developing a tolerance to the steroids they put him on.
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  8453.  Matthew Allen  Re "The Democrats via Antifa and BLM have total us for decades" << Well, when you start with totally incorrect assumptions, usually what follows is totally incorrect too. Let me put you in touch with the manager of Antifa. They can explain it better to you.
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  8454. "It's my pleasure to introduce a friend of mine, whom I KNOW is VERY passionate about youth outreach programs, please welcome Mr. John Wayne Gacy" 😅
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  8455.  @honestbusiness1371  Re "Not all republicans are nuts, right?" << One hopes not.
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  8456. Personally, I love the sight of whacktard conservatives gathering without masks or distancing during a deadly pandemic. While society may bear the brunt of their medical costs, burial, and raising their children, in the end the IQ of society in general will rise due to the departure of the dumbest. I lift a cup of coffee in their honor.
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  8457. FOXed Noise needs to break it more gently to their mushroom-farm sheeple. A lot of them will have very tender feefees for awhile over the fact that Biden got a lot more votes than Trump.
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  8458. Wasn't there a book out about this kind of behavior? Some title like "Triggered"?
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  8459.  @Lorenzovonmatter  Or voting rights too, apparently.
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  8460.  @micheleconner5083  The reich wingers have some pretty good propagandists at work here. Let's see how long they can keep people from seeing what their own lying eyes are telling them, as their friends and neighbors and relatives drop because of Delta.
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  8461. There are several requirements for a candidate to be eligible to be (or run for) the president of the US. This is but one of them. What other requirements would the Republicans want to evade if we let them do this one? Might they put a 30yo Russian-born friend of Putin forward as a candidate?
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  8462. Betcha AT&T & Verizon have logs of activity between Parnas and Hannity. Any takers?
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  8463. Best comment! :)
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  8464. The sad part is, lots of Russia looks like WW2 was fought there last month. People still living in abject squalor, having never seen a flush toilet. When Germany reunified, the west got to see the level of USSR disinvestment in the DDR after the war. The USSR went all book-of-Leviticus on the punishment :(
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  8465. ".. who, in the heat of frantic, aggressive rhetoric, try to deter us from invading sovereign nations." Fixed it.
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  8466.  @littlemac8673  Bingo. They will find another one in a heartbeat if TikTok's new owners attempt to make the platform more reich wing friendly, which is really what Trump wants anyway.
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  8467. In terms of WW1 thinking, yes, Russia has more land and more people than Ukraine. But Ukraine is not only just Ukraine .. it is being aided by the arms manufacturing capacity of the combined West. Ditto for Western military care for wounded UA soldiers, ditto for Western training and educating of UA soldiers. If Russia can learn how to take 100 UA soldiers without losing 500+ of its own in the process, that will be something, but until then they're on a losing trajectory despite those WW1 flavored 'advantages'.
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  8468. I love those speeches. Every time he flaps his gums, he loses more votes by going off into hateful and sometimes bizarre and incomprehensible tangents, like his nonsense about "cancerous" windmills.
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  8469.  @bchristian85  Yes. Those are the half that fly the flag upside-down to remind everyone how they live in the Upside Down.
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  8470. Education & healthcare too. Readying the grid to support lots of EV's. Hardening utilities against the coming damages of climate change. Public funding of all election advertising, like in Norway. Make election day a national holiday, free public transit to everyone that day, etc. We could be so much more.
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  8471.  @janradtke8318  It's the weather and the shitty sandwiches.
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  8472. Losing is the one thing he is good at. Him and that famous reverse Midas touch by which everything he gets involved with turns to shit.
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  8473.  @anthonycall5566  Strange, but these people don't seem to be complaining about things that cost a lot more, like Trump's tax cuts for the wealthiest. Selective amnesia :(
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  8474. Apparently Putin does not care if he leaves Russia a glassed, irradiated wasteland and his name in pariah status for all of world history. Normal, sane people don't do that to their own countries. Wtf?
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  8475. Think of it as the match that lights a bigger fuse .. or the kindling getting warmed up.
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  8476. Their time is coming. I'm glad (for them anyway) that the professionals are dealing with them. Amateurs are unfortunately more sloppy. So it's better if the GQP coup members enjoy a long stay at the Graybar Hotel with their fellow criminals.
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  8477.  @davidgamboa918  False. Democratic socialism is what you see in Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. It is not communism. It is not even close cousins with communism. Two of the most specific markers that separate it from communism are a) the state seizing all private enterprises in the name of the workers councils, and b) the state making large-scale private property illegal. Those are both the province of communism.
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  8478. For this, they need to be out of power for a generation or two. That's how bad they f*cked up. Some conservatives saw this day coming: “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz, May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham, Feb 17 2016.
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  8479. There are a bunch of effects like this in the pipe. No one will want to come here from abroad to further their education. US students and workers will not be welcome around the world. US troops may have to leave their foreign bases, or remain forcibly quarantined on site. US tourists can look forward to being shunned and sent home.
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  8480.  @lorenzos1666  Yes, this is the weirdest longest Twilight Zone episode I never wanted to live through. We have these little windows into the real world by means of news .. for instance, Germany and Brazil both saw large coup plots unmasked, and quickly arrested the guilty ones and went searching for any co-conspirators. They didn't just shrug and let a couple years go by, long enough for the guilty ones to come back with another plan for attacking their own country. Need to find a way to crawl through that window!
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  8481. I think what Barr meant to say was that Trump's tweets unnecessarily expose his illegal & partisan activities at DOJ to public scrutiny, and that it would be easier to carry out Trump's dirty work if Trump didn't air it so publicly.
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  8482.  @Rtg5637  The facts of Russia's failure need no interpretation. It's been 638 days since Putin went all Barbarossa on Ukraine. For such an allegedly superior military force, they somehow fail to show it in terms of combat performance. This from the country that invented Potemkin villages, what a surprise.
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  8483. Humanity has never achieved "herd immunity" for measles, chickenpox, polio, smallpox, cowpox, lyme disease, ulcers, dengue fever, yellow fever, tetanus, pneumonia, the common cold, the common flu, or anything else. The more you let diseases spread, the more people get infected. And DeSantis (or is it DeathSantis?) has done a lot to help spread the disease.
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  8484.  @nickiemcnichols5397  They said it was an iPhone 12, and those came out Oct 2020.
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  8485. Ever hear of this place called Portland, Oregon? Case in point.
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  8486.  @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess  Maybe the ultimate gravy seal / meal team six guy Stephen Seagal is volunteering? Fat chance 😅
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  8487. The vast majority of people arrested for bringing fentanyl over the border are Americans!
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  8488.  @pimphandduke8447  Yup, so far the trial has been cutting into his campaigning time but not into the time reserved for golfing and rage-tweeting. Priorities. It's not like his crowd attendance is increasing. Quite the contrary. His rally people seem to have outlived their usefulness.
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  8489. The leopards will be feasting. I am of half a mind to bring popcorn.
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  8490. Thank you Georgia! Otherwise we'd still be stuck in Moscow Mitch's America :(
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  8491. Let me guess, the 'good people' at FOXed Noise read somewhere that Wastebook was the leading source of disinformation about vaccines, and they got upset about Zuckerberg muscling in on their franchise to disinform Americans about a wide range of subjects from vaccines to evolution to pollution to politics to history?
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  8492. Lies are all he has. He's been issuing them for decades and it never seemed to earn him any pushback.
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  8493. No kidding. The Rosenburgs got arrested for less than that.
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  8494. Trump just walked the constitution out to the middle of 5th Avenue and shot it .. and Republicans were just fine with that.
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  8495.  @JoaquinLomeliJr  Mind you, these are the same Republicans who spent three days in a loud tizzy when Obama wore a tan suit. But when Trump subverts the rule of law and breaks his oath of office, they are silent.
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  8496. There's only so many refineries in Russia - fewer than 50. Perhaps Ukraine should diversify to thermal power generation, railroad tunnels and bridges, pipelines of all kinds. Think of it as helping Russia move away from fossil fuels.
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  8497.  @wesleydeng71  Also by the way, NK remains an otherwise-dirt-poor place where people of intelligence try to escape by any means possible .. kinda like some other nation that appears in the news these days .. and it pursues a military economy almost at the expense of everything else.
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  8498. One of the better books about that process is "Last Train From Berlin" by Howard Smith.
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  8499. Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" October 29: 9,123,229 American covid infections & 233,157 American covid deaths.
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  8500. May I suggest you do some simple add/subtract math using the numbers. As of this moment (things will change) worldmeters lists 658,208 cases, of which 30,336 are dead and 141,419 are recovered. Subtracting the dead+recovered from the total cases leaves you with 486,453 not yet recovered.
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  8501. Erich Honeker would approve of the new look of the White House with all that fencing.
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  8502. She hoped that he'll change?? Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  8503. He's not that smart.
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  8504. His proper name is DeathSantis or DeSatan or something along those lines. His idea of treating it like the common flu (which burns out within months) has been a colossal failure @ 39K covid deaths so far in Florida. Some of the countries that fought in WW2 had fewer combat deaths than that :(
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  8505.  @mrblonde1264  In other words, Ms Chao suffers from dissassociative identity disorder. Somewhere in her head, she thinks of herself as an immigrant-bashing white conservative. Rafael Eduardo Cruz does the same thing.
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  8506. "I said that?" << That's when you put it on the big screen so everyone's own lying eyes can see it. Jeez what a toddler.
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  8507. This is why the community-scale pandemic outcomes will be so different in different places. Blue-leaning places are going to get through this a lot better than those meth-drenched yahoos who think covid is good and masks are the real enemy.
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  8508. It's right up there with, "Just ignore your lying eyes and believe me .. please!! :("
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  8509. Last I heard, the then-jailbait victim is still in love with him and refuses to cooperate.
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  8510. Isn't it absolutely hilarious that so many here are saying "but but but but the protests!" ? These aged, obese people gathering indoors in bars without masks and distancing (which is the same thing as the Republican National Convention, amusingly) feel they're on the same level of risk as healthy young people masked and outdoors. This is an event on the same scale as Mardi Gras New Orleans, but the general virus prevalence is much higher now. I fear the worst :(
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  8511. Hearing Russian denials about this is like hearing Hitler claim that his SS officers were "boy scouts" in occupied territory. Pull the other one, Pooty.
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  8512. There's been plenty of direct evidence. Go back and watch today's proceedings until you get it. They defined the term and used examples from the impeachment just to make it clear to everyone.
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  8513. As of yesterday, NY state had 5,319 cases per M and the rate is still accelerating upwards. Even worse: on 4/1 the US had 34.44% of the world's new cases for the day .. on 4/2 this was 37.46% .. on 4/3 this was 38.92%. (based on worldmeters data)
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  8514.  @dennisyoung4631  Bingo, tanks to rebar.
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  8515.  @stischer47  Clearly, it was a mistake to ask Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons.
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  8516. The polls mostly question stay-at-home bluehairs with landlines.
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  8517.  @EvilMonkey7818  I'm not talking about the numbers, silly, but the measures that it took to stop the spread of the virus. They switched from normal shopping (people in stores), to meeting the customers at the door, to having dedicated couriers drop off food at individual homes or apartment blocks. Regional travel completely shut down.
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  8518. @Ryan Tandy Sadly, Gary is one of those people whose brains are miswired to ignore the largest consensus and veer straight to the most-fringe explanation for anything.
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  8519. @Ryan Tandy No kidding. To them, the fewer people who believe or say something, the truer it must be. That's when you get lunatics yapping about lizards from space secretly infiltrating earth.
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  8520. Looks like Lukashenko and Trump are just two keys on Putin's keyring .. they seem to have the same "screw this democracy thing, I want to stay in power" act going. Only it's not an act :(
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  8521. I like to think of Tяump as a sort of stress test that so far America is failing. Confronted with the president's obvious guilt, the 53 Republican senators (America's most senior politicians) choose to throw the rule of law under the bus rather than risk being on the receiving end of a nasty tweet from the Incredible Sulk. America is now in the place where democracies go to die :(
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  8522.  Q Continuum  What's even worse is that there's such a long lag time between a large social event and the peak in cases caused by the event. In the case of Mardi Gras (New Orleans, Louisiana) it was 40 days between peak attendance and peak new virus cases. At the worst they were seeing more than 2000 new cases per day. The early cases will be the ones who attended the event themselves, the later cases will be their families, neighbors, coworkers, and everyone else they came in contact with.
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  8523.  @Gryph01  The only places I know of where "communism" is succeeding are the few completely-worker-owned shop enterprises and some of the income-sharing communes around the world.
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  8524. He may have appeared in this video "We are Germany" .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY
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  8525. I figured they would wait a week or two before gently revising the curve downward, but nooooooo. Mind you, this is the same administration that forbade federal agencies to use terms such as "evidence based" years ago. Edit: link from 2017: https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/365204-trump-admin-bans-cdc-from-using-evidence-based-and-science-based
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  8526. Isn't it strange how "People who use guns for killings" is a subset of "People who like/own guns"? Those pesky Venn diagrams.
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  8527. Ignore what Trump says, just watch the air accordion. Who else remembers this Trump episode? First he made a secret offer to buy Greenland. Then the PM of Denmark (of which Greenland is a protectorate, sort of like PR is to the US) went public with her repudiation of the idea, calling it "absurd". Then Trump denied having made the offer, and called her "nasty", his usual term for women who stand up to his bullying. Then Trump canceled a planned visit with her, but denied it had anything to do with the Greenland thing. Then only weeks later did he admit he canceled the meeting because she refused his offer to buy Greenland.
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  8528. Is it possible to rescind something from the National Archives after you've already submitted it? Asking for a friend. In the heat of the moment, he forged some documents and now he doesn't want to have anything to do with the crime.
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  8529. Madame DeFarge has been summoned already just in case Sweet Potato Hitler wants to play it that way.
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  8530.    Small world, my major was physics. CS & math as minors. Great handle BTW :)
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  8531.    Even now, Trump doles out testing supplies and ventilators along the lines of political advantage. Perhaps he's related to the famous Vikdun Quisling?
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  8532.  @staylowdubz  All that donated western long-range precision artillery is starting to make itself felt all along the front. Russians better go home while they still can. Ukraine isn't lacking in tactical skills. Next come the big encirclements of Russian troops.
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  8533.  Hahaha BenisXDD  Unfortunately for your way of thinking, resistance is the only answer when foreign troops come into your country and start shooting. Cooperating with the invaders is an act of treason. Nobody misses the USSR. Do you know how most people experienced life in the USSR? Three families crammed into the same shitty apartments and sleeping there only when they were off-shift. Waiting your turn in a lottery system, then waiting in a long line, just to get a half kilo of carrots or some flour. Fruits only at special times of the year. Periodic currency devaluations to discourage saving money.
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  8534.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  Funny, but you're not the first person to say what powers the government ought or ought not to have. Good luck with that one.
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  8535. Kemp is essentially saying he's backed into a corner - that if all elections were fair, he and his racist fellow GQP'ers would be voted out, and that he knows it.
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  8536. Considering that FOXed Noise pays Ingraham $15 million per year to do to America what Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose once did to US troops, it's funny that she would speak of "temptation".
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  8537. More like the arsonist saying, "What can you do for me so that I stop lighting fires all over town?"
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  8538. Yup. We're going to have at least one more insurrection attempt - and possibly two or three.
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  8539.  @thatweatherman4411  He wants to be reinstated in August - probably because SDNY just gave his lawyers info on an upcoming indictment. They haven't specified the coup date yet but I'm thinking the window begins before July 4th.
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  8540. Watching Trump destroy the GQP from within is karma coming home to roost. Lady Lindsay did warn them.
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  8541. Knowing that the doubling time of this disease is around 7 days, we can work out a few things. Given that the school employee has been symptomatic since Feb 19th, we can assume they were initially exposed on Feb 12th and have possibly been spreading it since Feb 14th. So assuming other people were exposed as far back as Feb 12th, there has been time for 3-4+ generations of further community spread. 95% of the population of Oregon lives right along the I-5 and I-84 corridors. It's already here. Sugarcoating the reality is NOT helping anyone. If we are smart (and I doubt we are) plans are being drawn up to do what China and South Korea have done: quarantine everyone down to the town & neighborhood level, cancel any venue where people can mingle, test everyone all the time for free, etc.
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  8542.  @bainesdanson4662  Russia whines that they're fighting NATO. Heh. The real thing would be an instructive experience for the survivors. Check out the [brief] battle in Syria at the JSOC outpost in Deir al-Zour.
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  8543.  @DanA-nl5uo  Also the failure of the just in time delivery systems used in all things. Regional groups of states need to band together on manufacturing medicines and PPE. This thing will probably be around for a long time :(
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  8544. Trump's "peace plan" reads a lot like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by which Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany divided Poland between them after attacking it.
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  8545.  @thehellyousay  America already meets the definition of batshit crazy, with military spending more than the rest of the world combined, and bases in 180+ countries.
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  8546. Watching Tucker morph into the next "Lord Haw-Haw" is quite scary.
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  8547. Even in the good old days when the only "community" that these unmoored-from-reality people had was the World Daily News (available in checkout stands) and news stations were held to standards, there were always groups of crazies. With social media -- particularly the means for them to form isolated subcommunities in which they reinforce the group delusions -- bringing them back to reality is going to be a problem. In fact they don't even want to come back.
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  8548. Trump knows well that his very own "fine people", white supremacists, MAGA hatters, Proud Boys, etc like to chant "Jews will not replace us" in between targeting synagogues. This is his way of mouthing the threat, "vote for me or else".
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  8549. Ditched FakeBook (or is it WasteBook?) years ago, don't miss it.
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  8550. Trump says the same things about protestors today that the defenders of white apartheid rule in South Africa used to say when change was coming.
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  8551. That dumb clown could embarrass himself while in unmonitored solitary confinement. This is about what happens when you let your drunk, senile, elderly, FOX-Noise-addicted, racist uncle cosplay at being president for awhile.
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  8552. Couldn't Republicans just move to North Korea if they hate democracy this much?
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  8553. The term length for a Ukrainian president is only 5 years. Surely Ukraine could put up with Putin's choice for just one year longer than the USA had to.
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  8554. Glenn Kirchner. Kushner was Ivanka's doormat.
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  8555.  @buckjohnnie2642  "Rules for thee, not for me." Republican standard practice.
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  8556. Without rallies and golf, presidenting just isn't fun for him anymore. Heck, even his favorite OANN bimbo got kicked out of the briefing room. And FOXed Noise had to fire that whacko who called the virus a "liberal impeachment hoax".
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  8557. Oh look, the barnyard animal found some lipstick. Didn't work for Palin either.
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  8558. Obviously it was the understatement of the century when Clinton referred to Trump's people as "deplorables". Obviously the truth is somewhere to the right of "despicables" :(
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  8559. Trump tweeted for Michigan to "liberate" on April 17: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/trump-tweets-liberate-michigan-other-states-democratic-governors/5152037002/ The whacktard alt-reichers began looking for Governor Whitmer's home address on April 19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#Initial_investigations
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  8560. There's a price to be paid when you willingly associate with a traitor who has poisoned America with his lies about the results and integrity of the election. His customers are now voting with their feet. Guess he doesn't like the free market after all.
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  8561. America's current ruling class will be known by history as the Vichy Republicans.
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  8562. Good idea, all those little nazi boys should have leg monitors. Ordinary citizens deserve to know when wannabe 5th columnists are nearby.
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  8563. @Attila The Pub They're not thinking of themselves, except in the narrow sense of "I don't care if I cause others to sicken and die, a little discomfort is too much for this Karen!"
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  8564. There's no one who the Trumptards wouldn't falsely accuse just to further their twisted agenda. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  8565. In other news .. Murdoch spends decades building up a monster, then clutches his pearls when it commits monstrous acts. Wtf?
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  8566. He's trying to save his remaining integrity for the post-Trump future at FOXed. Hannity, Tuck, and others will twist their heads all the way around trying to say "Donald who?" come November 4th.
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  8567. Yet another reason to be living in either a blue state (where thin-skinned Sweet Potato Hitler won't go) or a purple state (where he knows he stands no change of getting votes anymore). He's never been to the state where I live. In fact, of the four states with the lowest cases/M rates, two of them (Oregon and Vermont) haven't gotten any visits from the superspreader-in-chief this entire year.
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  8568. Personally I'm glad to see that Iowa results won't be out until after other, more relevant primaries happen. Iowa is a place that's about as important to politics as a groundhog is to weather forecasting.
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  8569. Hahaha, Wussolini is going to do the same with the election results .. he'll grab that magic sharpie and change the results by 25% or more to show he actually "won".
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  8570. Space Karen does have a few pressure points that the general public can put some pressure on. Leaving X and joining BlueSky is one way, plus it merely hastens the process of X becoming the next 4chan. Damage being done to Teslas and Cybertrucks, with videos shared widely online, is another way for apartheid boy to feel it. Apparently those vehicles are especially flammable once they get going. Folks cancelling their Starlink service too will show up in the reports that he gets. Folks calling their congress folks and telling them to get the muskrat out of their government is another way. Let's get creative.
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  8571. Nor are their kids.
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  8572. They have nothing to worry about. Remember, the virus went away in April "like a miracle". Any evidence to the contrary is just paid crisis actors and the dishonest fake news media trying to make Donald Trump look bad.
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  8573.  @charlottesmom  Excellent!
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  8574. We do have the right to organize. Let's not wait until we're in the position of poor Sophie Scholl and her friends.
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  8575.  @e-spy  All of sudden, the GOP will have to switch to saying that age doesn't matter, and they won't even mention that 45 is the oldest presidential candidate ever.
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  8576.  @hebronharvester1487  That "test" 45 took was something any 6 year old could pass. And that's oddly appropriate considering his temperament and emotional age.
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  8577.  @liberalshaveitallbackwards4667  Considering that the border isn't open and considering that you have to prove citizenship to vote (same thing in all 50 states) .. are you writing us from the Fox alternative universe?
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  8578. Sending other folks' kids to die is the highest aspiration of a draft-dodger who's wormed into a position of power. DC is full of that type.
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  8579. Lavrov probably has to be sedated most of the time.
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  8580. As long as governments are led by people who sit on golden toilet seats and who've never had to do their own grocery shopping and never experienced poverty, things in the US are not going to change :(
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  8581. If Barr is going to pretend now that he actually has a spine (unlike when he totally misrepresented the Mueller report) the least he could do is stick around until Trump's term ends. There's no telling what shenanigans his replacement might do, should Trump find someone dumb enough to go along with his nonsense.
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  8582. Every time I think of him appearing in public, it's with the Police song "Don't stand so close to me" playing in the background.
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  8583.  @Jillians1025  Behold the effect of a cult leader on weak-minded grovelers.
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  8584. @James Omalley From a guy who said "your" instead of "you're", well, guess who's the blithering idiot. Your comprehension is even worse than your english.
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  8585. @James Omalley Clearly the only time you've been in proximity to a law book was when you were first booked in juvie. Ignorant moron, fed only lies. This is a frigging public health emergency.
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  8586. We're going to need bigger mental hospitals.
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  8587. Germany, Iceland, the Faeroe Islands etc could answer that question later on. Here in the US, the CFR may be somewhat higher because instead of testing we [mostly] wait for people to show up at the ER or wait for them to be found dead in their homes. Those are both lagging indicators anyway. As of the last 8 full days of data (4/1 to 4/9) the US went from 650 cases/M to 1416 cases/M - it doubled in a little over a week.
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  8588. "Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?" That's a good question to be asking Republicans, who mostly seem to be in the service of a selfish, evil man's wounded pride -- they seem intent on plunging America into chaos and bloodshed. It's high time they get treated as such.
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  8589. When you say it that way .. it makes me want to buy a food cart and position it near a good vantage point. Maybe rent out binoculars too. Talk about the biggest block party ever.
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  8590. Thankfully, that third who believes El Trumpo takes it literally when he calls the virus a Democrat hoax, and thus fails to take basic precautions. Eventually, when the pandemic dies down, you'll know which houses have dead people in them by the MAGA bumper stickers.
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  8591.  @perihelion7798  It's like Lavrov stepped into the chat.
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  8592. "Why tf they fly a confederate flag in a northern state?" << Because their biological identity doesn't match how they really feel inside.
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  8593. The senate is obviously going to exonerate Trump. After all the other stuff Moscow Mitch has pulled (going back to before the Merrick Garland incident) we don't have to guess how much respect they have for the rule of law. All they seem to have for that (and the concept of democracy) is the deepest contempt.
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  8594. With an election coming soon, the Republicans are doing wonders for their opposition by making clear to everyone their complete and total contempt for the rule of law.
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  8595. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get. He can't even conceive that such behaviors are not normal for presidents. He's so dumb he probably thinks Obama was a "sucker" for not using the powers of office to harm states that didn't vote blue.
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  8596. Yeah, yeah, tell us again when the Democrats caused more than 170,000 Americans to die because they downplayed the severity of a very real public health crisis.
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  8597.  @missingpiece2071  Sigh. Look, nobody is buying the "all news outlets are the same" kool-aid this month, next month, or any other month after seeing Trumpty Dumpty use others (but not this one) to spread his lies.
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  8598. DeSantis made it clear during his campaign that he would be the best boot-licker Trump ever had. Yet somehow, that didn't serve to warn Floridians what he would be like. Vote in haste, repent at leisure.
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  8599. Sadly, there's no shortage of "free speech"-minded Trumpers yapping that he had the right to tell lies to them.
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  8600. Magats are certifiable. They seem to think that it's a good idea to engulf the nation in bloodshed all to serve the lies of the 2020 election loser, whose hurt pride kept him from conceding the election.
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  8601. Trump's going to be impeached then jailed, but Sondland won't be, so it's obvious who won that encounter.
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  8602. No doubt the latest excuses will in 30 days be proven as transparent as the phantom ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, the yellowcake and WMDs that Iraq allegedly had, and so on. Let's all remember what happened the last time a major military power was headed by a loser madman with no curbs on his nuttiness.
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  8603. Thankfully the governors are in charge, and none of them are going to lift any lockdown until case counts are heading back to zero. And that's not going to happen anytime soon. Yesterday the US had more than 10K new cases in one day. Today it's probably going to be above 12K new cases for the day. And it will keep going like that until several weeks after the whole country has achieved total lockdown.
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  8604. Sounds like Oregon.
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  8605. Get your head straight - he swore an oath the preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic - but he didn't swear to protect the Constitution.
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  8606. Popcorn ready.
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  8607. Not sure what Russia is so mad about anyway. It's not like we're giving Ukraine any F-15s or A-10s.
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  8608. When 45 said those few words about the nation coming together (heard that snippet on the radio) it was clearly in that sullen, whipped tone he uses when his advisors have forced him to say something halfway civilized but he very much wants to say something else.
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  8609. Nothing says "I love my country" like pursuing measures that will sicken and kill more Americans - especially children. Oh Republicans :(
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  8610. The finest cognitive dissonance money can buy. "Sure, we destroyed the biosphere, but there was a lot of money to be made at the time."
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  8611.  @ezellmoore487  The people that try to become dictators are notoriously thin-skinned in that manner.
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  8612.  @slightlymadmom6532  Clearly, he doesn't believe in presidential immunity for any of the other presidents. In fact, he spent quite a bit of time in 2017 shaking down the DOJ to find some crime to charge former president Obama with.
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  8613.  @pilotactor777  It was lost when no punishment happened .. that just turned it into a training exercise for the next attempt :(
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  8614. His next "appeal" is to use federal control of military resources against the members of the court :(
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  8615.  @TangomanX2008  Yeah, but it takes only one errant Apache helicopter pilot to do the wrong thing, or one sniper.
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  8616. Sinclair Lewis had it right .. because when fascism came to America, humping the flag and brandishing a bible upside-down, one whole major political power lined up to do his bidding to end representative democracy.
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  8617. @Paranoia Why would they report on the southern border? It's not as if there are terrorists and insurrectionists coming from there. Instead, they all seem to be coming from Trump's camp. Hundreds of Trump's idiot followers arrested already for their involvement in the DC insurrection, with many more to come. CNN is merely reporting on the #1 source of domestic terror, Trump's camp. Don't like it? Jam it where the sun don't shine, fool.
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  8618. His supporters are like that too. That's probably part of why they adore him.
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  8619.  @DanielPaulsen884  Ukraine existed as a political and territorial entity hundreds of years before Russia. History matters, friend.
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  8620.  @crystalgiddens7276  Stop reposting FOXed Noise here. Oh and here's how political identity and violence tie together in the US these days: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-terrorists-2018-were-almost-all-right-wing/581284/
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  8621.  uncle Ricky  Wipe that orange stuff off your chin! 1. ⁠He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Tяump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.” 2. ⁠He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect. 3. ⁠He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole. 4. ⁠He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized. 5. ⁠He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful,” including “insurance for everybody.” You bought it. But he didn’t repeal and he didn’t replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 24 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, he’s doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about 4 million Americans have lost health insurance in the last two years. 6. ⁠He told you he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You bought it. But now he’s planning such cuts in order to deal with the ballooning deficit created, in part, by the new tax law for corporations and the rich. 7. ⁠He promised to protect anyone with pre-existing conditions. You bought it. But in June, his Justice Department told a federal court it would no longer defend provisions of Obamacare that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the decision was made with Tяump’s approval. 8. ⁠He said he’d build a “wall” across the southern border.You believed him. But there’s no wall. 9. ⁠He told you he’d invest $1 trillion in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, there’s no money left for infrastructure. 10. ⁠He said he’d drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 11. ⁠He promised to re-institute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government.” You bought it. But the five-year ban he signed applies only to lobbying one’s former agency, not the government as a whole, and it doesn’t stop former officials from becoming lobbyists. 12. ⁠He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he has created the most dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, and has already fired and replaced so many assistants that people there barely know who’s in charge of what. 13. ⁠He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by negotiating “like crazy” with drug companies. You bought it. But he hasn’t. 14. ⁠He told you he’d “stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for American elections.” You bought it. But foreign lobbyists are still raising money for American elections. 15. ⁠He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.” You bought it. But the giant tax cut for corporations and the rich doesn’t leave any money for this. 16. ⁠He said he’d create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for younger and elderly dependents, and have the government match contributions low-income families put into their savings accounts. You bought it. He’s done neither. 17. ⁠He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. But then he declared China is not a currency manipulator. 18. ⁠He said he “won’t bomb Syria.” You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 19. ⁠After pulling out of the Paris accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment. You bought it. There have been no negotiations. 20. ⁠He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.” You bought it. He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out. 21. ⁠He said he would not be a president who took vacations, and criticized Barack Obama for taking too many vacations. You bought it. But since becoming President, he has spent a quarter of his days at one of his golf properties. 22. ⁠He vowed to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” You believed him. But he hasn’t. Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit college to defraud students. 23. ⁠He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad, especially government contractors. You believed him. Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas. There have been no consequences. 24. ⁠He promised to end DACA. Then in January 2018 promised that “DACA recipients should not to be concerned… We’re going to solve the problem,” then he reversed himself again and vowed to end the program by March, 2018. Currently, the federal courts have stayed any action on it. 25. ⁠He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. You bought it. But coal is still losing customers as utilities turn to natural gas and renewable power. 26. ⁠He promised to protect American steel jobs. You bought it. His tariffs on steel have protected some steel jobs. But industries that use steel – like automakers and construction – now have to pay more for the steel they use, with the result that their jobs are threatened. The Trade Partnership projects that 400,000 jobs will be lost among steel and aluminum users. 27. ⁠He said he’d make America safer. You believed him. But mass shootings keep rising, and Tяump has failed to pass effective gun control legislation. After 17 died in Parkland, Florida, Tяump promised “immediate action” on gun safety in schools, but has done nothing. 28. ⁠He promised to make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. You bought it. But Tяump’s most recent budget contains deep cuts in aid for low-income and first-generation college students, reduces Federal Work Study, and eliminates the 50-year-old Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, which goes to more than a million poor college kids each year. 29. ⁠He promised to eliminate the federal deficit and bring down the debt. You bought it. Yet due to his massive tax cut mostly for corporations and the rich, and his military spending, the deficit is set to rise to $1 trillion, and the debt has ballooned to more than $21 trillion. 30. ⁠He said he’d release his taxes. “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released,” he promised during the campaign. You bought it. He still hasn’t released his taxes.
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  8622.  @youtubewatcher2  Correct. The Hague will be very busy,
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  8623. You misspelled "Q-Anonsense".
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  8624. This is another of his attempts to usurp the power of law, but he also wants to have the option of rescinding it at his own whim later.
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  8625. Where's Francesca and that leopards eating faces video? Thoughts & tariffs.
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  8626. This would actually explain a lot. Keep going, I want to hear more.
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  8627. It reminds me of the hotter parts of the Cold War, when you went to sleep wondering what crazy new thing would happen tomorrow. Only instead of living under the threat of Soviet missiles we're living under a president destroying democracy from within.
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  8628. Probably Erich Honecker is rolling in his grave, wishing he'd had enough useful idiots who were as stupid as Clump's people.
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  8629. Just as in 1947 Germany you couldn't find anyone who'd admit to ever having supported Hitler, one suspects that when the extent of Trump's criminality is better known, the Moscow Mitch and Lindsey Graham types will be full of excuses as to how they were unable to act against Sweet Potato Hitler.
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  8630. Well, per the CDC the excess deaths number vs the previous year is in the 400K-500K range. Pretty soon that new-variant covid will be ravaging all the rural places that voted for the orange traitor - places where conservatives have steadily been undercutting the healthcare systems. Gonna be grim out there this winter :(
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  8631. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  8632. I prefer presidents that don't go full authoritarian and try to jail their opponents for no valid legal reason other than a bad case of "l'etat, c'est moi" and a desire to avoid persecution for crimes committed.
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  8633. The Trumpies are NOT yet beaten! We stop only when they're led away in handcuffs. Until then it's game on, m'f'ers.
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  8634.  @CarolynDeerlamb  I voted for Kamala, and wore out a bunch of keyboards telling people what a monster Trump is. Not happy with what he's done :(
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  8635. A cruise ship with coronavirus aboard is a floating petri dish with thousands available to infect. Why bother redoing the Diamond Princess scenario?
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  8636. (to the OP) Unfortunately far worse creatures will enter the scene if we allow election results to be subverted as the Republicans are still trying to do. They know damn well that they cannot win elections when more people vote. And it is sickening to see how inciting insurrection is now as acceptable to them as going to the bathroom or breathing.
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  8637.  @guacamolekid3899  There is not a shred of evidence, after many recounts in many different states, that anything was stolen from Trump. Get your head screwed on straight. Or maybe you watch nothing but right wing nut job media so that's all you hear.
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  8638.  @guacamolekid3899  Funny how you can "know" something that has no factual evidence behind it that can stand up in court. That's why every single case was tossed - even by judges that Trump appointed! The word you are looking for is "believe", as in when someone "believes" that God is really a giant flying plate of spaghetti. Without facts to support it, all you have is "belief". Not facts.
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  8639. Also an adjudicated insurrectionist - Colorado state supreme court.
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  8640. Keep telling yourself that, second-rate handbag designer and living embodiment of the Peter Principle. Has NOTHING to do with the way daddy-o is practically the next Hitler, or the way you and the other spawn are shameless milking your privilege. Y'all need to go to the same happy place that the Ceausescu family went to.
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  8641. "The stage 4 liver cancer was very aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." -- Trump
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  8642.  @tomtheeagle1  Yes. Sometimes it seems safer to switch to Turbo Truffles.
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  8643.  @weirdshibainu  Considering that no president, senator, or congressperson has lifetime office .. "your analogy is fallacious". I'm kind of surprised you didn't spell it as "you're analogy".
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  8644.  @ianmuir3640  Didn't anyone tell her that the undertaker will fix that with a little spray paint? (sorry, morbid humor)
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  8645.  @7sons484  You are so wrong. By going outside, Anne Frank wasn't spreading any virus to her neighbors and community, or steepening the curve of fascism. Duh.
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  8646. Uncle Pooty has jumped the Trump shark - and the first rule of dealing crack is that you don't spend all your time consuming the same stuff.
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  8647.  @julesmasseffectmusic  What crack are you smoking? That's some pretty entertaining paste of non-sequiturs that you gummed together. Did you forget your morning hit of narcotics or something?
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  8648. Wondering how they are going to try to walk away from this after it fails. Is there any normal to go back to after that? Probably Moscow Mitch will go back to holding gruelling confirmation hearings, after 4 years of just letting Trump do "acting" appointments in order to skip confirmation hearings. As during Obama's time (then 83 nominees were blocked, as opposed to an average of maybe 1-2 per president hitherto) the blocking of nominees may go up by 4000% relative to the historical norm. Probably Moscow Mitch will dust off his Obama-era language and, if a Supreme Court vacancy should open partway through Biden's time in office, Mitch will tell him that 32 months before an election is much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge. Some Republicans are just plain nuts, some are trying to carry out a coup, and some are both.
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  8649. Let's keep checking Craigslist to see how many sweet deals pop up. That will show us. Also the next elections being more blue-shifted.
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  8650. @Hattie Lankford Like everyone else, I used to think there was no such thing as a cure for stupidity. Then covid-19 came along and proved otherwise. To watch this many people getting bad medical advice from folks who aren't doctors is like watching what happens when they take the safety warning labels off everything.
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  8651. Notice how it's only the Trumptards saying that the economy can't restart after the disaster. I think what they mean is that Trump's presidency won't survive it. For sure, the US economy has restarted after other disasters (the 1918 pandemic, the great depression, WW2, the Civil War, you name it) and it will again. And every time a boom follows. Only this time, one party fucked up so bad they'll soon be out of power and they know it.
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  8652.  @josephdahdouh2725  Bingo. Funny how no one has any pieces of supposedly alien craft as proof.
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  8653.  @blue4democracy  Those are all the same things Hitler did upon seizing power. When he didn't like the courts ruling against him, he said up an alternate system of courts (the Peoples Courts) staffed with yes-men to help punish his designated enemies.
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  8654. Using the power of the presidential office to investigate your political rival (and then trying to cover it up) is what got Nixon impeached. Trump is merely doing the same thing by means of getting Ukraine to do the investigation by means of withholding US government aid to Ukraine.
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  8655. The MAGA pleasure with Russia makes it clear how pwned that party is. We all remember the old-fashioned kind of Republican patriot. We didn't agree with their policies, but, wow, if you suggested working with Russia and throwing our best allies under the bus, they'd shove you into a wood chipper.
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  8656. Uggh, I know the kind all too well. Both of my abusive parents :(
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  8657. Antifa used to have millions of members in uniform .. and according to the Nazis, it was an illegal act when Antifa maliciously interfered with the free-speech rights of Aryans back during the D-Day landings.
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  8658. Forcibly sterilizing refugees at the border, in complete violation of international laws? Tried that. Forcibly separating refugee families at the border, in complete violation of treaties we signed? Tried that. Trashing our longstanding allies? Tried that. Lying to the American people about a deadly disease, then killing hundreds of thousands through those lies and inaction? Tried that. Destroyed the export economy through "trade wars" that he thought were easy to win? Tried that. Rapidly increasing homelessness all over the country? Tried that. A whammy as bad as the 1918 Pandemic and the Great Depression all at once? Tried that.
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  8659. People like DeSatan are just one wing of Y'all Qaida. Another kind is the Tuck, who's been learning from Orban's regressive regime in Hungary, where you can see what Trumpism tried to do: journalists and minorities ruthlessly repressed, silenced - guaranteed election results in favor of the authoritarian leader - ending democracy as they knew it.
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  8660. @Brendan .. it's interesting, but the above-50 age brackets (the ones that voted more for Trump than against him) are precisely the ones suffering much higher covid death rates than the rest of us. So maybe there is a god after all.
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  8661.  @caroltopalian593  I've come to the conclusion that for certain weaker-minded segments of the population (and this is a global problem) the use of social media platforms to disseminate false/misleading information has roughly the same effect as pumping hallucinogens into the public water supply. Thus you get people burning down perfectly-harmless 5G towers that will bring them faster mobile broadband, people refusing the same vaccines that will prevent their own children from dying, and more.
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  8662.  @claymitchell2335  Maybe there were some nice Nazis in WW2? just kidding
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  8663. Bingo. Keep those resources out of the hands of both Putin and his US lapdog, and make sure Ukraine benefits the most from any sale or use of their resources.
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  8664. I'd like to call the Cheeto an idiot, but it's worse than that. He's like a horse loose in a hospital, doesn't understand the place, just wants to get out. People are going to get hurt and there's going to be lots of damage before the horse finally gets removed from the hospital.
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  8665. It is part of a special operation to provide artificial reefs for marine life.
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  8666. Notice how he talked about "the heavy hand of government"? That's the same hand that Republicans are trying to put on every woman's uterus.
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  8667. So, just because your favorite flavor donut (Sanders) isn't on the menu, through your actions you will end up with a muffin made of broken glass (Trump). Vote like your life depends on it, because it does. BTW the only people who want you to think both parties are the same are Trump & Putin. Keeps you from participating in the process.
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  8668.  @rhorizon  You know what Putin & Trump call you? A useful fool. You serve their purposes and don't even know it. Go look up the last few party line votes on election security, equal pay for women, economic relief to those affected by the pandemic, and so on. Both parties are NOT the same.
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  8669.  @rhorizon  At first I wanted to suggest that you change your username to something that reflects how you are the walking poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect, but then, most anyone with half a brain can tell it from reading your first 30 words. A 22 calibre mind in a 44 magnum world.
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  8670. According to Peter Zeihan, this process is already well underway. AI drone swarm combat.
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  8671. The pain needs to last them a generation or two. This has been simply unhinged to witness.
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  8672. Sorry for your loss. Hope they can come back from the darkness.
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  8673. SNL did a great one on that - let me repost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-5-CGq39k
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  8674.  @livingtribunal4110  They're right here on the screen. There are easier ways to earn rubles, comrade.
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  8675. Are you by chance referring to those giant yellow "stop the abuse" banners that were all over coastal Oregon this summer? Some people sure have a funny way of thanking governor Brown for science-based public health policies that have kept Oregon near the bottom of the charts all year for cases per million people.
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  8676.  @bobs3354  "So he should not be allowed to exercise his first amendment rights" << I was under the impression that guns were covered by the 2nd amendment, not the first. Although you may want to argue that when a person pulls out a gun in order to speak politically, they're exercising both the 1st and 2nd amendment rights at the same time.
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  8677.  aamerican aaron  "how did HE start the confrontation" << Stopping and getting out to engage verbally. He could have kept driving, but nooooooooo, those tender hurt feefees (presumably over the way Trump lost the popular vote a second time by an even wider margin) just wouldn't let him.
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  8678.  @jigzawtactics5957  The videos don't seem to show whether his car was attacked before he stopped. I do give him points however for having an actual holster and some trigger discipline and a practiced draw.
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  8679.  @bobs3354  "How long would you sit in your vehicle while someone was smashing it before you did something?" << Funny thing, but that's exactly one of the questions our instructor asked during the CHL class. According to him, the yes/no decision point was when weapons penetrated the glass of the vehicle and were affecting the people inside the vehicle.
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  8680.  @bobs3354  Our instructor was trying to keep us out of having to answer pointy questions in front of the judge. With the bright lights on and the cameras rolling. I think he did a pretty good job in that regard.
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  8681. @TikTok - the Republicans are religious about government not interfering in business, except when Trump does it, all to sooth his pique over how groups of TikTok users pranked him over his Tulsa superspreading event that we now know caused thousands of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma.
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  8682. Face it, people, the only circumstances in which Trump would participate are something like letting Jordan & Nunes run the circus, and the only agenda that of finding the Bidens guilty of trying to frame the Russians for 2016 election hacking. Kind of like Al Capone agreeing to meet the IRS only if his people get to run his tax hearing, and the direction of inquiry is solely about the unfair auditing process at the IRS. Jeez.
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  8683. The USA is a slow learner.
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  8684. Carpet-chewing is happening somewhere in RWNJ-world.
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  8685. Idiots and their integrity were lucky to be together in the first place, and easily parted.
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  8686. I'm afraid that someday we'll wake up and realize that back when Moscow Mitch McConnell held up president Obama's supreme court pick (and many others) citing an election 9 months ahead, he should have been dragged out and punished in the street. It was but one little step in their slow-moving coup, the goal of which is a one-party state with them in charge.
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  8687. Excellent news! :)
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  8688. Just wow. Seen a lot of footage but never saw this stuff.
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  8689. "Show us your papers, please!" is only for voting or getting an abortion. Not for vaccines or buying weapons. /s
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  8690. Thankfully, King Tinyhands the Mad hasn't figured that out. He keeps encouraging his inbred base to "liberate", so they hang out in groups inadvertently doing a lot of droplet transmission with each other. It's like watching the trash take itself out.
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  8691.  @BluesBewitch  Tks! Got it from a badly-translated Hitler rant parody video! :)
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  8692.  @terryhand  Correct. 45 said recently (early February 2024): "I would encourage them [meaning Russia] to do whatever the hell they want."
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  8693. That happened before when Jonathon Swan (Axios) interviewed Trump about his pandemic lies. Mr Swan showed him a chart of how the USA's covid deaths per capita were going up. He told Trump that means we're worse. Trump looked at him with that shocked animal look and said, "That means we're better!"
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  8694. Crazy levels of corruption. It's only going to get much worse. Now that the senate is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump Corporation, we're seeing things like the senate budget committee not holding hearings on Trump's budget on the flimsy excuse that it would be a "diatribe against the president" .. or the senate suddenly willing to entertain flimsy evidence/witnesses against the Bidens.
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  8695. @Margaret McLaughlin Two states with nearly equal levels of people per square mile (Montana vs N Dakota) have got wildly differing health outcomes from their policies. Even in rural places, this virus can spread exponentially. Hope it doesn't take you or your family.
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  8696. I kind of like the 4:3 video and retro background. Kind of like he's doing Deep Farron from some undisclosed location.
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  8697.  @chefboyardee1260  Stores gotta go curbside only, with everyone wearing masks and practicing distancing. Office work has got to be done from home. And so on. American ingenuity has prevailed before - people need to consider how they can do things without spreading the virus, because returning to business-as-usual (just pretending the virus isn't there) is NOT a solution and will just fuel another outbreak.
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  8698. @TravelerPat I saw something recently on just that topic. Trying to find it now. They basically said that 90% of known infections were spread in office settings, restaurant settings, people having parties in their home settings, etc. The upshot is that if you go in and out of a public indoor place pretty quickly (the grocery store, and under 10 minutes, and where everyone is wearing masks) it's fairly safe. Being in a sit-down restaurant setting, or an office, or a long subway ride shoulder-to-shoulder is NOT safe.
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  8699. @TravelerPat I have been trying to track that down too. Some of the states had more porous lockdowns than others. NY & Massachusetts had among the tightest ones, with people being required (under penalty) to wear masks and practice distancing. Both of them have successfully flattened the growth curve. Minnesota is my mystery case - despite the lockdown (of sorts) they have had the fastest-growing viral spread in the USA for weeks now. Another interesting pair of states would be Montana and North Dakota, who have nearly the same population density (per square whatever) yet different policies and very different outcomes. Montana's case doubling rate is 234 days, which is almost as good as South Korea. North Dakota, on the other hand (with no lockdown and no masks required) has the third highest growth rate and is doubling in cases every 21 days.
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  8700. Get a different workplace.
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  8701. I love the way no one in the white house can say when Trump last tested negative, yet they still insist it's OK for Trump to mingle with crowds. In other words, people meeting with him today will be testing positive by just a few days later, and this administration can't completely cover it up.
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  8702. America's quislings :(
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  8703.  @Jennyfeather_22  Speaking of Dementia Don - sometimes he imagines he's running against Obama, apparently.
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  8704. His ego also won't let him do the right thing, and admit to all & sundry that he lied about the election outcome.
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  8705. In the wise words of Benjamin Franklin - "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  8706.  @wokeness420  Of course, these people crying for fascism and/or a dictator are Americans who've never lived a day of their lives under such regimes. My fervent wish is that the lot of them would go take vacations to North Korea, to Russia, etc to see for themselves how "great" these things are.
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  8707. The squad grew in size. We need squads in every state. Turn that squad into a platoon, then a company, then a division. We can do this :)
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  8708. I'm going to be incredibly disappointed in the acting adults if they allow the country to burn out of the caution that taking matches & gasoline away from the town arsonist is a violation of his free speech rights :(
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  8709. People are actually keeping detailed online lists of everything that needs to be set right later. The white house is going to get some deep cleaning in January.
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  8710.  @majobr100  You people are hilarious! Do you have OANN blaring on your home screens because you consider it to be the only true source? You dimwits are the funniest thing I've seen yet today.
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  8711. After this is all over, we can thank Trump and FOXed Noise for showing us exactly with of the hitherto-normal among us have no moral compass. We in America may get a harsh lesson in why not all speech should be protected free speech (such as Trump's lies and bullhorn calls) when some Trump supporter smuggles a bomb into a ballot counting center.
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  8712.  @odojang  They're going to be hurting a lot more as this goes on. Couldn't wish it on a better bunch of retrograde asshole dimwits.
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  8713. The longer Pooty keeps his forces in Ukraine, the smaller the forces he'll have this year, next year, and for awhile to come.
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  8714.  @jjones6606  The sad part is, he seems to have forgotten that the US has the capability to supply multiple allies in a big way while simultaneously fighting multiple-front wars .. and that's just the US. Meantime, much of the west (including some heavyweight economies and their militaries) are also supporting Ukraine. That's a losing game for Russia on so many levels. And not just every time he loses a $24 million fighter jet to a $50K missile, which we can afford to make quite a lot of.
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  8715.  @alexsim2614  Coming from someone who ignores the last umpteen party line votes showing that Democrats were in favor of election security, better access to healthcare and education, income equality for women, the environment, etc .. your comment is hilariously ignorant. And don't even get me started about Al Gore inventing the internet just so morons like you could use it to whine for (wait for it) Democrats being bad.
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  8716. The US is very slow to learn from the experiences of other nations. Especially when the orange man tells everyone it's no big deal. And the US can do only 16 tests per day and they charge you USD 3500 for the test. By comparison, South Korea can do 13,000 per day and they make them available to everyone for free.
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  8717. Smart people learn from reading about (or hearing about) the mistakes that other people made. Ordinary people learn only from making those mistakes themselves. Stupid people never learn.
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  8718.  @PanglossDr  What's that saying? "All's well that ends."
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  8719. Looks like the House needs ranked choice voting.
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  8720. And yet, these same antics make him a slightly-brighter-bulb than the super-dimwits who think he's a god. He's just doing what simple people wish they could do.
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  8721. Massachusetts should return the love by shipping racists and/or white supremacists to Florida. Let Florida Man deal with the inevitable uptick in crime and drugs that will follow.
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  8722. Trump lied, and Americans died. Strangely, Moscow Mitch and the others have nothing to say about the 193,000+ dead Americans .. but remember how they spent 3 days in a tizzy just because Obama wore a tan suit? Or the years of investigations because four (4) Americans died in Benghazi?
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  8723. So .. the only way to stop a bad student with a gun is by a good student with a gun?
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  8724. I'm voting for those who support Ukraine wholeheartedly - and Ukraine is right at that stage where we were, 250 years back, when England was using violence against us to reclaim us as a colony. France and others supported us back then, and we have never forgotten it. Now it's our turn to pass on the favor.
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  8725.  @strumbum946  I would ask the same. When the next election turns very blue, what are the conservatives going to do? Shoot at town hall, the mailman, public school teachers? Who for them is the face of the other side? Sorry, it's a rhetorical question, since we all know they're going to take it out on minorities as they've been doing ever since the 2016 presidential election.
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  8726.  @strumbum946  Eh, I hope cooler heads prevail and everyone just avoids that stuff. Let the police record it and arrest anyone who behaves badly.
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  8727. As this point, considering the depth of this administration's demonstrated disregard for the law, it'd be surprising if there aren't mass graves somewhere out in the desert :(
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  8728. Alaska, Connecticut, Michigan, and Mississippi have all opened their vaccination programs to the general public. What the F is wrong with Oregon that we apparently can't commit to even doing that by May? Where is the problem? What's being done to fix it?
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  8729.  Biden Ukrainepuppet  Re "Still going with the Russia hoax?" << Still going against what every single US intelligence agency concluded? And you think you somehow know better than them? Dream on, bacterium.
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  8730.  @sherrysnyder4195  Regarding "It’s an experimental vaccine" << At this point, more Americans have gotten covid vaccine than have gone on Twitter, so I think you can safely drop that particular bit of nutjob propaganda.
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  8731. THANK YOU GEORGIA!! Now you need to set up universal voting by mail. Because the Republicans will not rest in their attempts to keep people from voting in person. They want to set up apartheid here in the USA. Not on my shift.
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  8732. That's simply not true. Even in places where it is well under control (South Korea) they do not test every person every day. They DO test everyone who a confirmed positive person could have come in contact with, however. Their method of sorting out who to test is much more efficient than what America is doing now.
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  8733. FFS, even Helen Keller would be able to tell that Trump is a gross threat to the United States. His constant lying would be bad enough, but he's also able to rope in the dumbest and most gullible bad actors to commit crimes on his behalf.
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  8734. So .. states rights matter when abortion is the issue, but not when following the 14th amendment, section 3 is an issue? And a zygote is a person but a woman is not? These are truly the American taliban :(
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  8735. "Fake news" = "Anything I don't like" to conservatives. Even if you have the video of them saying / doing / posting it.
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  8736. Or .. if you fail to make the necessary adult decisions, someone else will make them for you, and they might not see things the way you do.
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  8737. Everyone knows Portland liberals don't use guns. Duh.
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  8738. Hopefully the US government will partner with the Oxford/AstraZeneca people to speed the rollout of that particular vaccine. It costs only $6/dose and does not require the super-cold freezers. I'd rather have that one than the Pfizer or Moderna versions.
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  8739. Maybe they don't do this in Belarus, where you troll from mom's basement back in the good ol ComBloc, but here in America children first start getting vaccines at the age of 12-15 months. Oh, and since more people have taken mRNA vaccines than use Twitter, it's time to start calling the vaccines normal and twitter "experimental".
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  8740. Who were those guys cheering as a dam started breaking open? Couldn't tell if it was the same dam. Guessing not, the background looked different.
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  8741.  @dontaylor7315  A typo, though maybe I should have left it in the original.
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  8742.  @dontaylor7315  I once worked with a foreign colleague whose English was not good. She was very self-important too (the kind of person who hires a live-in maid then brags about it). One time she emailed the office and said, "How are you? I am god." We printed that one and hung it up on the wall.
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  8743.  tony atals  Nazi bastards hide out behind their keyboards. They're too chickenshit to do much else.
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  8744. Wouldn't be long before the next Lenin / Stalin / Bannon showed up to exploit that hole and gain power.
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  8745. Right. Gives him more raw ingredients to claim he's the victim.
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  8746.  @imsligh1  Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  8747. It warms the cockles of my heart to see Trump ripping off his own supporters. No doubt poor Trumpy misses the days when he could rip off the whole country. His base of grift victims shrinks with every passing week. Well played, sir, well played.
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  8748. Although Iran is only 80 million people, far more turned out for the general's funeral than turned out for Trump's inauguration - and the US is 327 million people. Not since the popular revolution of 1979 has Iran been so united from top to bottom.
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  8749.  @steelzmb4262  Are you Trumpanzees still hating on Ukraine because they didn't go along with Donnie's scheme to get them to make up dirt on the Bidens?
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  8750.  @epic103  No, it just means I don't suck down the stew of lies that is FOXed Noise and OANN, which is all you like. That's appropriate. Mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed nothing but manure, also develop a taste for manure. Enjoy your ignorance. Or, better yet, keep running with it so the rest of us get to laugh at your ignorance. Unless you have some compelling argument for how your ignorance somehow gets you and your kids ahead in life. Personally I don't care for it. My kids won't hire your kids.
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  8751.  @epic103  Haw haw haw. I mention facts and all it can do it get your panties in a knot. So thank you for the feedback. I will keep doing it. My work schedule is easy these days so I have all the time in the world to fact-bat you morons clear into next week.
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  8752.  @jimmyjames6487  Re " lol. I guess you don't know that policies create change." << Well if you're taking the same tact that other moron (Ken L) took, there wasn't any significant oil production on the federal lands that Biden closed to drilling (Trump had only recently opened them) and there wasn't any oil flowing through the pipeline that he cancelled too. All of that was still under development. If your tiny, peppercorn-sized brain could be more inventive at making up nonsense, it would be much appreciated.
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  8753. Vichy conservatives.
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  8754.  @markrayes2973  I guess the white house press corps doesn't want anything to do with him. Little binder-barbie Kay Lie fled the last time she was near a camera. Wonder if she's at home medicating?
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  8755.  @henriikkak2091  To be fair to Putin's [odd] way of seeing things .. didn't Poland "provoke" Nazi Germany by seeking a military alliance with the UK?
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  8756. The main difference between Trump and God is that God doesn't think he's Trump.
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  8757. Prices of everything are going to go up. Big Orangey has no clue how anything works.
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  8758. Huh. Shoes and rotten fruit are the traditional items.
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  8759.  @pm6550  I know where to find useful idiots - on the conservative side of the aisle. Need the wiki definition of the phrase? They'll be rotting in jail while he's out golfing. Unpaid actors in political theatre that outlived its momentary use. Like Oklahoma trying to return all that hydroxychloroquine now that it's no longer needed to prop up Dolt45's myth of infallibility. They should have rented the stuff instead of buying it.
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  8760.  @paintinganimalsonrocks7633  Well, Trump has been so uniformly awful that anything would be an improvement.
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  8761. I've tried to explain this by analogy. Suppose you're driving along the road, and you see a homeless person pushing a grocery cart, so you assume (without evidence) that they must have stolen it, so instead of taking a picture and reporting it to the police you try to run them over instead. Umm, no, one imagined wrong is not righted by breaking the law, and in fact that's when you get charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter.
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  8762. In that regard, he reminds me of that smug Ribbentropp, Hitler's foreign minister, a man whose only qualifications were intense personal loyalty to Hair Fuhrer - and he used to work as a champagne salesman.
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  8763.  @littlebluedaewoo  Those people somehow imagine they're immune to the wrath of the people. As well as coronavirus.
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  8764. Behold the power of propaganda over stupid people. Betcha he watches FOXed Noise, gets his other misinformation from WasteBook/OANN/8chan, and has a bumper sticker collection something like that of Cesar Sayoc. In other words, a radicalized domestic terrorist.
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  8765. Wait until they hear that the science proving the earth round was peer-reviewed too.
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  8766. Hyperbolic missiles 😅
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  8767. It's that way in most places - like in Chicago. Also required in Portland, but I've never heard of it being enforced. And large areas of the city don't have sidewalks anyway. Some streets still haven't been paved either.
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  8768. Trump on January 6th to the traitors: "We love you, you're very special" and "We had an election that was stolen from us"
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  8769. I'm down with sending Trumpanzees to Russia - if they're not wanted here for crimes. Putin has even less use for foreign traitors than he does for homegrown traitors.
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  8770. Usually I watch these videos only to see the parade of comments from right-wingnuts yakking about alleged communism snuffing out businesses. Since Oregon is the second-to-worst state in terms of testing per capita (only Idaho is worse) expectations are bleak. The virus doesn't just go away because everyone got bored with lockdown.
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  8771. There never was. Shame it took some people so long to see it. He was just as he is now, long ago when he took out that editorial calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated. A spiteful, cruel, lying excuse of a human being.
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  8772. MAGA = many are getting arrested. How thoughtful of them to post and livestream the evidence of their crimes. Interesting how they're all running and hiding, which is not the behavior of innocent people. Maybe they're guessing that Trump won't pay their legal fees?
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  8773.  @marylynne9104  There was still another one, the Cyber 'Ninjas'. Can't say that one with a straight face.
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  8774.  @LeoLynch-yg7vo  Bingo. If you don't do anything until after the concentration camps are up and running .. you missed the opportunity.
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  8775. That interview where he talked about "retribution" (when federal police killed an unarmed Portland leftist) should give everyone the chills. It's a bullhorn to his militia crazies and other wannabe brownshirt irregulars, as well as their racist fellow travelers acting in official capacities. Probably his Kyle Rittenhouse types are going to bring guns to polling places in the cities. That's what Trump wants.
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  8776. That large majority is going to keep getting larger as Agent Orange denies, hides evidence, tells people not to testify, etc. Even a cat could see that these things are the flailings of someone who knows they're guilty. And he knows that doing the right thing (switching to full transparency mode, telling everyone to testify, making all those secret conversations public, etc) will only hasten the day he gets removed from power. In his great and infinite wisdom, he has again gotten into a lose-lose situation.
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  8777. Mp, there is no limit. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  8778. In the interests of accurate journalism, shouldn't Leningrad Lindsay Graham's face be all brownish from being so far up Trump's ass every day?
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  8779. Her old social media stuff (going back 5+ years) has got to be hilarious. She's easily off-the-rails enough to be from Alex Jones' old group from before Q-Anonsense came along.
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  8780. Re "which they believed would mark the start of a racial civil war" .. seems to be a common refrain among this type of nutter. If they knew how much the rest of us are tired of their nonsense, they'd stay under their rocks. It's safer for them there.
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  8781. That's also why he is so beloved by stupid, insecure, narcissistic people: they finally got one of their own in office - with predictably bad results.
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  8782. How does anyone not see Trump for what he is? That incident over Greenland was a perfect example of it. In a private conversation, he fielded a purchase offer to the PM of Denmark. She refused, then she went public with his offer. He denied ever having done it, then called her names, and his culties rushed to defend that position. Then he admitted to saying it, but that it was just a joke, and his culties did a quick 180 to defend the new position. Then he said everyone does stuff like that, and his culties changed direction yet again. Only weeks later did he admit the offer was serious, and his culties changed course for that position too. Did anyone miss the parts of that which spell out his lack of fitness to hold office?
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  8783.  @cbryce9243  I just hope that shock turns to something more useful than going home and grumping about it for the next few years while waiting for another election that may not come.
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  8784.  @toddfraisure1747  I misread your comment because I was expecting a comma .. but, yes, let's make all the necessary changes to a) eliminate the electoral college and b) make sure as many people as possible can vote safely and legally.
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  8785.  @danialhillmann5374  "why would I do that" << Yeah, sorry, you don't get to go around infecting others just because you're too daft to wear a mask or get vaccinated.
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  8786. It always was, I think more people are finally realizing it. Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump Casino, etc were all vehicles for Tweety to invest lots of other people's money into enterprises that were never going to succeed anyway, just so he could keep some of it to invest in the next scam. And buy a gold plated toilet seat.
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  8787. Source?
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  8788. He was just trying to keep the sun out of his eyes.
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  8789.  @pinonnut  Err, but the difference is that stay-at-home people aren't infecting their roommates and employers and community. These idiots are merely spreading the virus further. https://www.wpr.org/illinois-still-closed-its-residents-come-wisconsins-open-bars-restaurants
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  8790. There are still some in the south who are mad that Lincoln freed "their" "farm equipment" :(
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  8791. Probably many more. Most every state has one or more large urban counties where people vote in ways that Trump doesn't like.
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  8792.  @LazyIRanch  Alles klar hier, danke. Stay safe! Do you by chance follow Dr John Campbell's excellent channel? Hope your counselor friend stays safe too :)
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  8793. Somebody please cue up the Republicans whining about the free market and gay wedding cakes.
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  8794. They're slaves and they need to be freed. Come join the Resistance!
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  8795.  @shelleybleu4903  Actually you kind of pwned yourself with that one. I didn't say if that person and I are very close in age.
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  8796. Pretty sure she stepped forward on her own, instead of being forcefully pulled forward by other interests.
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  8797. Population's going to be smaller by this time next year. By the time one in six has gotten infected and one in 50 has died, they'll figure out Trump told them lies.
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  8798. Just think, in the short span of 15 years, these very same billybobs will have repeatedly flipped from screeching during Bush's time that everyone needs to respect the president, to spending Obama's time screeching that he's a secret Muslim from Kenya with a tribal mentality and a socialist agenda, and needs to be hung, to spending Trump's time defending Trump's obviously illegal acts and screeching that he needs to be respected, to totally ignoring the popular vote next time. Gah :(
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  8799.  @dianabarahona2233  Well, knowing how they (conservatives and Trumpanzees) act out their feelings, we can safely assume that it's because they delusionally imagine that liberals and minorities are the vanguard of a satanic, international communism that's coming to rob them of their guns, force them to live under Sharia law, imprison them for daring to say "merry christmas", force them to eat vegetables, and so on. The ones who act out on their fears harp about those things all the time. In reality, they are simply people easily misled through fear and propaganda. My work has me traveling through rural areas a lot, so I get to hear their propagandized idiocy coming through five by five through their comments. Seriously, Hitler couldn't have wished for better Brownshirts to stir into action to burn down synagogues.
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  8800.  @dianabarahona2233  You can't tell because you're stupid, not because I've failed to communicate. Perhaps you require smaller words and shorter sentences. You're a Dunning Kruger persona :(
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  8801.  @badass-d4k  Re "extremists are in control of the Democrat party" << Oh my gosh! Surely that's why they want people to be educated and healthy and have decent chances of succeeding in life. Good to know that you don't support any of that, you regressive hack.
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  8802.  @Nick_Lamb Conspiracy craziness, how predictable :( go take your meds.
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  8803. There is some poetic justice in the GOP killing off the people who usually vote for them and who put them in power, deranged psychopaths that they are. The US has always had its share of cranks and people susceptible to conspiracy theories. Every once in awhile comes along a reverend Jim Jones figure to lead them to the kool-aid stand. Hail St Darwin.
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  8804.  @Nilla187og  Uncle Pooty is just waiting for the right moment. 5-D chess and all that. Lulling Ukraine into complacency by setting his own warship afire.
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  8805.  @Nilla187og  Only if Pooty starts it. There's no upside to that option. Much easier for the West to reduce Pooty's conventional capability by equipping former SSR's with the goodies. Depends on how long Pooty wants to stay in the ring. NATO could stomp him flat. By now he must have realized that the Ukraine misadventure is lost already.
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  8806. This is just a proposal, but maybe businesses like these could compete to buy a special kind of license from the government that will allow them to infect and possibly kill off a certain number of their customers, and/or whoever they pass the disease to. Because by trying to stay open during these conditions, they're essentially looking for a license to kill.
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  8807.  @lillyanderson3623  Traitors, people who hate the concept of democracy, people who'd rather spread the plague than stop it - it's like someone poured a whole lot of crazy into their drinking water :(
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  8808. The official numbers are a joke. Here in Oregon, you can't get tested unless both a) you're already in hospital for respiratory distress and b) you've already tested negative for the flu. No doubt some stupid flunkie somewhere is very happy for making it look as if Oregon has nothing to worry about :(
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  8809.  @haleybrown2836  Truly, Trump is a "seagull president" - he flies in, craps all over everything, then flies away when the breeze changes.
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  8810. Funny how Trump points to all the chaos he's caused, then says that's what Biden will do, even though Biden had 8 years of vice presidential experience and never did such things.
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  8811. There will always be the stupid, the childish, the sore losers, the delusional among us. Every once in awhile comes along a reverend Jim Jones (or Donald Trump) type character to lead them off to the kool-aid stand. It's nature's way of improving the breed.
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  8812. Remember when Trump complained that China was downplaying the numbers? Clearly it's become his turn to think it's a good idea to do just that.
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  8813.  @lesleyedgley8371  Whoops, sorry, I apologize, I misunderstood. Thankfully, Clump lost his access to the White House batphone shortly after that.
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  8814. America has always had its share of wannabe cultists and cranks. Every once in awhile, some reverend Jim Jones type figure comes along to lead them off to the kool-aid stand. It's like the trash taking itself out.
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  8815.  @rifflequeen  I shall record the dailies off worldometers and point to the chart later, saying this is when those bozos decided to take the brakes off a runaway pandemic.
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  8816. Gross understatement. Things are going to get MUCH worse. In the interests of maintaining my sanity, I've opted to put some kind of upper limit on how many tears per day can be shed for the memories of anti-science dopes who got Delta'd right out of the gene pool. Can't say they didn't have 18 months of news to get the memo about a new respiratory disease going around.
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  8817.  @isabellecavanagh6074  I tried interacting with some of those biker people on other threads. Guess they won't believe in covid until they're gasping for air and getting hooked to ventilators :(
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  8818. @Tyler Mitzner Yet when he's merely being investigated (all under the law) he whines that it's "lynching". Biggest snowflake ever :(
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  8819. Trump obviously knows the true Georgia election results (he lost by 11,779 votes) well enough to ask the guy to find/create 11,780 fake votes. Changing the Georgia vote on its own wouldn't have changed the overall election results, however, so how many other states did he call?
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  8820. I only came here to see all the Trump fanboys explaining that Trump would have just preserved peace by standing aside while Putin attacks Ukraine. Because appeasement worked so well for Neville Chamberlain back in the 1930s 😅
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  8821. Joe said we could get "physical" with Russia if they go nuclear. It would be more correct to use the word "kinetic".
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  8822.  @LilCindyLouWho  In other words, the WWF entertainment plan.
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  8823. If all of Ukraine really is Russian territory as Putin claims -- then why is he willing to nuke his own country?
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  8824. It will take awhile to see the effect. The time between Mardi Gras and the peak of cases caused by Mardi Gras was around 40 days. Mandating mask-wearing is what's slowed down the transmission rate in New York down to where the hospitals are slowly emptying out.
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  8825.  Misty Blueyes  LOL google wouldn't hire me if you paid them to. My language skills are a couple decades out of sync.
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  8826. NATO can help Russia build a DMZ on Russian territory. Should be at least 50 km deep into Russian territory all along its western border. Special operation on all infrastructure within that zone.
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  8827. Agent Orange's voice does that for me too. I mute it quickly or change channels. What a lying sack of.
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  8828.  @Haroun-El-Poussah  You guys should get your hands on a copy of "Oath and Honor", Liz Cheney's new book. It contains lots of material I did not see in the J6 Committee hearings or in the news. Here's a quote from Steve Bannon, the day before the insurrection: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in. Tomorrow is game day. So many people said, 'Man, if I was in the Revolution, I would be in Washington.' Well, this is your time in history." -- Steve Bannon, 1/5/21
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  8829.  @cantecleer  Specifically, you are peddling the fiction of, and pandering to, the nonsense that "anything but the vaccine" is the way out of this. I am so glad that people like you stayed under your rocks when the polio epidemic raged then was eliminated thanks to a vaccine that was new and experimental at the time. Likewise, I am so glad that people like you were nowhere to be seen when the government told us that the Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor and that we all had to go to war, working long hours in munitions factories and closing many regular businesses and putting on uniforms and being sent all over the world.
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  8830. Yeah. That's why I'm thinking it would be best for the nation if he were to get raptured (perhaps by coronavirus) just after losing the election, because Pence hasn't got his boss's pull with all those wannabe-right-wing-terrorists among us, like the Proud Mama's Boys and certain militias.
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  8831. Don't expect Dr Campbell to address things that aren't based in any factual reality. You may as well ask why he hasn't revealed the link between Bigfoot and coronavirus.
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  8832. Can't Trump just take comfort from the memories of all the nights he called up Hannity to get a bogus story inserted in tomorrow's news just so he could retweet it and use that as his edict to the government?
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  8833. Fun fact: if you drink a pint of bleach, by the next day you'll never again be asked to wear a mask.
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  8834. That's the UAP movement summarized. Flypaper for the curious-but-indiscriminate.
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  8835. Like Trump told Bob Woodward, this thing is quite deadly and spreads quite easily, even more so than the flu on both counts.
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  8836. .. and enjoy all the protections of being on federal ground.
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  8837.  @jamesarnold7253  Good question. Basically because Republicans succeeded in crafting legislation to keep regular hospitals (at least those receiving certain kinds of money) from engaging in certain kinds of family planning care.
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  8838. Considering that the US has now illegally detained a 6-digit number of refugees (essentially Hispanics) and that we already know about appalling rates of deaths among them, this was probably a necessary GOP move to hide data from (potentially) the Hague and the International Criminal Court.
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  8839. @TravelWell .. notice how Biden has never mentioned a word about either UFO's or late term abortions. His silence says a lot.
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  8840.  @Amazing_missB  We know what's going to happen when testing is slow - cases will get even more out of control, except the obvious measure of it will be jammed hospitals, higher death rates, and refrigerated trailers packed full of bodies and hauled away.
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  8841.  @mskimberly7777  Back in early January, the leaders of the US were told what was going to happen unless urgent steps were taken. Instead we got months of lies and happytalk. Now look where we are. Months too late, our leaders are finally talking about masks making a difference.
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  8842.  @watekinggamres9934  In the same way that I've seen a picture of the Taj Mahal, I don't need to think that the existence of it is "fake news". Grow a frigging brain, sheeple.
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  8843. Mango Mussolini will throw her under the bus, soon, and hard, all for saying a few days ago that there should be witnesses and evidence at the trial. She clearly doesn't yet realize what he is.
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  8844. They got so mad, they cut off some small portion of electricity going to Finland. Guess they didn't need the money anyway ;)
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  8845. MAGA tears by the bucketful. Enough to wash my car with 😅
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  8846.  @IndengiousGoth  Happy birthday to you! :)
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  8847. You gotta remember, we are living through a time when one party (the Republicans) has renounced democracy (unless the votes go their way) and they've got several major Party propaganda outlets (as well as the disgruntled ex-president!) shading president Biden 24/7/365. This is NOT normal.
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  8848. In other words, they're happy with the idea of Sharia law, as long as it's by the bible and not the koran. And that doesn't make me sleep any easier :(
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  8849. Funny, Trump LOVES causing panic when he's ranting about how voting blue will mean fire & brimstone, the end of the world, cats and dogs living together, THE CARAVANS, oh my.
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  8850. Republicans need to be made to feel something stronger than just "regret" over their Dark Ages nonsense about abortion.
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  8851. Yeah. I'm waiting for Trump to cut public funding for NPR and start posting videos of him assaulting NPR, like the ones he posted of him assaulting CNN.
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  8852. Trump always was going to try to take all the toys, and burn down the playground, if we didn't make him king of everything. Who didn't see this coming?
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  8853. Well, now that Putin is oh-so-obligingly keeping his mitt stuck in the monkey trap, the rest of the world can make hay with the fact that Russia cannot afford to weaken their forces in Ukraine. This is when we kick them out of other places and get more nations safely signed up for NATO. Trump taught him pretty well how to lose bigly ;)
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  8854. Huh. No doubt Hitler too wanted to put Germany through a "turning point", which we now know came sometime between the commencement of Fall Blau and April 1945.
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  8855. Mitch McConnell is the one person most at blame for Trump still being in US politics. This is his golem.
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  8856. Putin had the four Ukrainian Quislings with him at that ceremony - representatives of those four regions. They got about a week to live before their cars mysteriously blow up. Shame on them for their treason.
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  8857. Or "we'll let you keep your broadcasting license".
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  8858.  @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885  Correct. And the theme Hitler harped on again and again (until everyone was numbed into believing the lie) was that Germany had been "stabbed in the back". That feeling of being wronged is what helped him make them commit atrocities gleefully. You see the same thing with the Trumpanzees.
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  8859. Getting away from FB is a good thing. Congrats.
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  8860. I've been advising friends in Germany to pay attention to this modern replay of what happened there in the 1930s.
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  8861.  @junsu21  I think what s/he's trying to say (and not succeeding) is that it's some special 5-D chess of Putin's to lose so spectacularly, lose so much hardware he can't easily afford to replace, unite the west like never before, expand NATO, and put his own forces into the wood chipper.
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  8862. Mind you - the same Republicans who are OK with illegitimate violence against the government would be TOTALLY FINE later if the forces of government (once subverted to their side of course) got used against everyone else. The ghost of Adolph Hitler must be getting wood over the thought :(
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  8863. Trump was pretty useful for Putin when it came to providing cover for Russia invading the Crimean peninsula. At the 44th G7 summit, Trump said out loud that Crimea is Russian because everyone there speaks Russian - not all do, but that distinction, like so many others, was as far above his head as the m-o-o-n above a barnyard animal.
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  8864. Perfect and succinct ;) He stands head and shoulders above his surroundings.
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  8865.  @nkosikwame-ojuju4799  Heard Fox has now got yet another lawsuit against them brewing .. and this time for their Insurrection Day lies.
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  8866. Maybe he could team up with that fellow intellectual/legal heavyweight, Mike Lindell? 😅
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  8867. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  8868.  @michaelp7185  You might want to read the history of that before you open the air scoop. In particular, go read "Last Train from Berlin", Howard K Smith, AA Knopf, 1942.
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  8869. In the long term of history, Trump is of a recurring type, one willing to burn up his own nation's political capital (accumulated over centuries) and destroy norms merely to achieve short-term objectives. What's not normal is one whole major political party going along with the nonsense.
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  8870. China, South Korea, Iran: creaming bodies at a rapid pace people in the USA: nah, they say it's no worse than the flu
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  8871. Today it's "Don't say gay", but next month that might include "Don't say Jewish". Pastor Niemoller wrote something about this process.
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  8872. Forgive my ignorance of Canadian law, but isn't it some kind of violation when private US citizens fund the lawbreaking activities of a group in Canada? That group didn't protest - they obstructed traffic and closed international borders.
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  8873. Heck, Dump will be plenty dangerous during his civil and criminal trials, calling for prosecutors and judges to be disappeared. It's only a matter of time before his more-unhinged culties start setting off truck bombs in front of courthouses. Republicans, that is all on you for falling madly in love with an obvious con man, criminal, grifter, serial liar, and wannabe dictator.
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  8874.  @Eriksvensson4231  Here are some comments that didn't age well. Quote from the article: The traditional Republicans and business leaders Trump will likely appoint will then shape his policies. The executive branch adheres to a decision-making process whereby relevant departments and agencies determine the risks and rewards of given scenarios, and then furnish the president with a limited menu of policy options from which to choose. And, given Trump’s inexperience, he will be all the more dependent on his advisers, just as former presidents Ronald Reagan and George W Bush were. Trump will also be pushed more to the centre by Congress, with which he will have to work to pass any legislation. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/11/oval-office-will-tame-us-president-donald-trump
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  8875. South Dakota is getting a lesson in why everyone was locking down their states a few weeks ago.
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  8876. "We have lots of theories, your honor, we just don't have any evidence." -- Rudy Giuliani
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  8877. Dr. Fauci earns approx $400K in his capacity as NIAID director .. yet Horseface Ingraham makes $15 million per year for lying to the American public. Somebody please fix this. I don't care how. No one else cares how either. This is not the time to have paid propagandists making a global pandemic worse.
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  8878. I beg to differ. Some numbers in USD & population: The USA has more than twice the manufacturing GDP per capita that China does. China manufacturing GDP: $4,975 billion .. China population 1,416 million .. works out to $351,385 manufacturing output per 100 citizens USA manufacturing GDP: $2,497 billion .. USA population 347 million .. works out to $719,635 manufacturing output per 100 citizens It was complete gaslighting to say that there aren't manufacturing jobs in the USA. There just aren't the kinds of manufacturing jobs where large numbers of low-skill no-experience people can make great money.
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  8879. Here's the situation. It's as if all of America lives in one giant apartment building. We just had elections for the condo board and officers. A small but vocal minority is pissed that their guy, an inept dolt who couldn't find his own fat ass on a clear day using both hands, lost the election. They're so mad that they're setting fire to the building, endangering all of us.
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  8880. Benjamin Franklin: "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." Donald Trump: "Hold my beer."
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  8881. As Sweet Potato Hitler explained to Bob Woodward, this thing is many times more deadly than the flu and it spread airborne, just like the Chinese told him.
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  8882.  @faithingod5533  Land doesn't vote, people do. More than 50% of US population lives in cities of above 1mil population. Unless perhaps you think people's votes should count for a fraction because their neighbors live nearby?
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  8883. She shouldn't worry. The undertaker will fix that with some spray paint. She had some obvious co-morbidities .. age, obesity, incipient diabetes, mild dementia.
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  8884. @Deborah Funny how the people crying "socialism!" are not only unable to provide a link showing where candidate XYZ supports workers seizing the means of production, but blitheringly unaware that it's the signature feature of socialism - like you.
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  8885.  @Deborahmarie1217  So, once again, tell me which Oregon politicians talk about workers paradise and workers seizing the means of production? This is an easy answer if you have read up on the candidates' platforms.
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  8886.  @Deborahmarie1217  Sounds like you're the one who's been reading Marx. And considering that you support a guy who said he might toss the ballots to prevent any transfer of power, you are probably the only commie in the room here. Stalin would have done that.
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  8887.  @jefftraboulsy8631  Here's what one Republican had to say that day: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  8888.  @prodemocracyseth  Election deniers didn't do too well in this election. Good thing too.
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  8889. Well, on the day that the USA reached 3,000,000 covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, comrade Trumpski tried to say that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who would I believe, LOL, him or my calculator which says the case fatality rate is 4.5% and the closed case fatality rate is 9%?
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  8890. Portland 1, Trump goons 0.
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  8891. @Libras In Space The irony is, he's the 70+yo loser who made up fake Time Magazine covers to hang at his roach-motel resorts, and she's the female teenager who actually made POTY. Poor little Dimwit Donnie isn't going to take that very well.
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  8892. This is sort of like watching the GOP go to a crowded nightclub, claiming they don't want a fire & stampede, yet each carrying a liter of gasoline. Oh yeah that's going to leave a mark.
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  8893. Once again, US law enforcement appears to be hiring mostly from Q-Anonsense supporters, the KKK, and every other pool of hateful racists. Time for a new breed of public safety officer.
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  8894.  @brettdemauna9994  ATACMS has entered the chat.
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  8895. After watching Muskie silence non-conservatives on X, MAGAts are shocked, I tell you, shocked when they themselves get censored. Oh the humanity!
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  8896. "Baseless" Muller allegations? Where there's smoke .. Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  8897. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  8898. Bingo. And he waited a whole 4-5 weeks, no doubt seething and chewing the carpets.
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  8899.  @engliterra355  Sure, people miss the Russian occupation the same way they miss a heavy boot on their neck.
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  8900. Hah, well, they should fear being strung up on lampposts by angry constituents if they DON'T allow witnesses. This seems a good time to repost some quotes from prominent Republicans who correctly foresaw this day in advance: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  8901. There's that ancient saying - them who the gods would destroy, first they make proud. And Trump has plenty of pride, though no one knows why since it's not based on any actual achievements.
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  8902. To be fair, Trump never wanted to be a leader. He's only wanted to be a ruler. Leaders are responsible to the people; rulers aren't.
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  8903. No wonder he and Putin loved each other. That one's clearly not a normal human being either.
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  8904.  @CatFurOnMyPyjamas  Deleted mine more than a year ago and haven't missed it. Drama, bots, drama, stupid people, and more drama. That's all it is.
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  8905. Brave crew. Putin's terrorist organization is full of aging losers who miss the days of Soviet empire. NATO or the US Navy ought to be nearby.
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  8906. I've been so angry at Dr Birx sever since then. She should have leapt up, gotten in front of the mic, and implored people not to try injecting household cleaners to protect themselves from covid. There was a wave of that following Trump's mental fart episode. But no, she just sat there and wished she were someplace else. She shouldn't be in charge of anything. Zero spine.
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  8907. Getting NATO members to snipe at each other is probably why (one presumes) Putin told his associate Trump to be as insulting as possible to leaders of western-allied nations.
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  8908. A perfect example of that phenom is Oregon state rep Mike Nearman, who got expelled from the body because he let a bunch of armed insurrectionists into a closed capitol session, and apparently they had plans to kidnap/kill the governor (and others) similar to what almost happened in Michigan. Mike Nearman's constituents were so happy with his attempt to murder democracy, they wanted to re-elect him.
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  8909. Err .. on 4/1 Washington had 767 cases per million. By May 1 it had risen to 2,078 per million. Now it's 2,212 per million. Whatever happened to the federal guidelines of 14 consecutive days of declining new cases?
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  8910.  @Vycious2  There wasn't any proof. That's why the lawsuits keep getting dismissed.
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  8911.  @philo3407  Thanks for the laughs! At least you will have another month or so to get used to the unwelcome reality that you're as wrong in this as someone facing west at sunset and declaring that it's morning in America.
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  8912.  @philo3407  You and the rest of Jim Jone's / Chuck Manson's followers were of a like mind.
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  8913. Florida seems to be headed for the Mumbai experience. Mass burials, mass cremations, so many covid corpses that they just throw them in the rivers and ocean. Then the fish get covid :(
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  8914.  @lizcunningham1321  Bingo. This is why I refer to them as a "hire court". Just ask Harlan Crow!
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  8915. Like Klan protecting their grand wizard - or in this case a lizard.
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  8916. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now." Donald Trump 9/26/2019 You heard the man. Let's do as he suggested. Traitors should go through some things.
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  8917. If it consoles you, Katherine, just remember that the leopards need to eat too. Focus on staying sane and protecting your good mood. America's dummies need to go through some things. Won't be pretty.
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  8918. Exactly. Can't he just get a big pickup truck and an assault rifle like most guys who feel the need to compensate?
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  8919. With his flair for making good things bad and making bad things much worse, Trump will surely manage to further alienate the Iraquis so much that the USA is forced to leave, and suddenly Iraq becomes new best friends with Russia.
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  8920. Ah, let’s examine Drumpf’s exact coronavirus words and timeline shall we: Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.” Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm – historically, that has been able to kill the virus” Feb 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away. They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb 26: “We’re going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26: “As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only FIVE people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time” WRONG! Feb 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” Feb 28: “They tried the impeachment hoax, that was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost, it’s all turning, think of it, think of it, and this is their new hoax’ ... We have lost nobody to the coronavirus ... The press is in hysteria mode.” Feb 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” Mar 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” Mar 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Mar 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” Mar 4: “Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and, based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.” Mar 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” Mar 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” Mar 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” Mar 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” Mar 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” Mar 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” Mar 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Coronavirus.” Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.” Mar 10: “Going up fast. We need the WALL more than ever.” Mar 13: “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location.” Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.” Mar 13: “I take no responsibility at all.” Mar 14: “Relax. We’re doing great. It will all pass. I would like there are a lot of people on Wall Street who are very happy.” Mar 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something we have tremendous control of.” Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. We were very early with respect to China, and we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn’t do that” Mar 17: “I’ve always known this is real – this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was a pandemic.” LIAR! Mar 19: “It’s not racist at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I want to be accurate” Mar 20: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter” Hmm..can’t answer a simple question about Americans being SCARED. Whoa. Mar 21: “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not too distant future"
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  8921. Amen to that! As much as history will judge Trump harshly, I'd rather see the judging take place at the Hague.
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  8922. Correct. Kids might tolerate the disease OK (mostly) but their parents and grandparents and teachers are another story. Also, we're about halfway through a current low zone for new daily cases. The last one like this lasted from mid July through early September, and by early October the trend had completely reversed.
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  8923. Trump "negotiated" that one too.
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  8924. Poor little nazi-binder-barbie Kayleigh. The highest in life she's ever been is climbing up a spinning pole. Anything past there is the Peter Principle in action.
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  8925. It's like a rapist's wet dream :( Huh, probably some of the people who pushed this nonsense are pro-rape guys.
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  8926.  @juliehenderson1672  Good thing you weren't around for WW2. Not only would they have recuited you, put you in uniform, and told you what to do (serve in the military; make war material; serve in military hospitals), but they would have given you a lot of shots to protect you from all kinds of dangerous diseases. You're like the dolts who protested seat belts being mandatory, even though, just like with the covid vaccine, it's already proven to save a lot of lives. Do you really think your ancestors sacrificed just so you could play Karen when it's your turn to be responsible?
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  8927. MAGA cultists are drawn to Trump only because he shares their white-male-rage and persecution complexes. And that's the only lever Trump has to make them act badly.
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  8928.  @haroldtruffman  As we know, Trump went on a firing- and reshuffling spree (at the Pentagon) right before the Russian hack went down. Then he cut Biden out of the Pentagon briefings. Those briefings resumed after the failed insurrection. The guilty will pay.
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  8929. Honestly, I was waiting for him to break out the Rambo appearance and do a pantomime of mowing down CNN with a minigun. While obedient schoolchildren cheer him on.
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  8930.  @tdoljuu  Re "it takes two to fight." << I hear your both-sides-are-the-same nonsense and I raise you this one: "The cancer was horrible, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive. So there was aggression on both sides." - Donald Trump
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  8931.  @paulahik211  Good luck with the move! This is quite a tumultuous time. Maybe for the trip you can double-mask then sanitize everything. Wishing you all the best of luck in your new place :) I just went coast-to-coast, and it was scary seeing how much of America is still in the "What pandemic? That's all fake news" stage of grieving, even as their own neighbors and relatives succumb to covid. All because a bunch of spineless traitors had to pander to an audience-of-one who felt the disease was going to make his re-election effort look bad. Former Guy's damage will outlive his own grandchildren :(
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  8932. Endless lines to stand in, waiting a week for your chance at half a kilo of carrots. Fruits only at special times of the year. Being spied on by your neighbors, and being turned into an informer on them too. Pogroms against Jews, Georgians, Chechens, anyone the Maximum Leader didn't like that month. Periodic currency devaluation to make it hard to accumulate wealth. Bungled environmental stewardship. That's what Putin misses?
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  8933.  @randomguy4989  Yeah. I think I wore out a keyboard already trying to explain what you said to the lunkheads who want to apply a test positivity estimate to the entire population to "prove" the total number of cases.
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  8934. Look at it this way - when it came time to contest the 2020 election, Trump had approx 140 flying-monkey conservatives in the House. Now he has only 91 or so.
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  8935.  @ChristmasLore  It's "rabbit hole". I left FakeBook (or is it Wastebook?) years ago for the same reason. Don't get me started on their "Let's feed everyone's budding attention-whoring" product Insta.
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  8936.  @ChristmasLore  Maybe Reddit would work for you?
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  8937. PM Trudeau, that was fantastic :)
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  8938. I've stopped working hard to keep the trash from taking itself out. Sensible people, on the other hand, are both easily saved and well worth saving. Let's consider this to be sort of like a pass/fail IQ test.
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  8939.  @anthonywatson7735  You mean Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu. Yeah, they got theirs. And before he was famously hanging upside down from a lamppost, Benito Mussolini was hanging from the awning of a gas station.
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  8940. Let's go Bannon!! ;)
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  8941. Those are rookie numbers. Do a GoFundMe and watch that number get bigger.
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  8942. Republicans made their choice between democracy and the rule of law on one hand, and on the other hand Trump.
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  8943.  @dorianshadesofgray  Uh, no, the Joker is the guy who loves Putin, already tried one coup, and tries to incite civil war. Pull your head out.
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  8944. Correct. And both of them are of the Republican party, which doesn't respect election results and doesn't condemn political violence. Textbook-definition fascists.
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  8945. Good luck with that. Trump is busy sulking, hiding in the white house, golfing, ignoring the pandemic, and trying to subvert the results of the election. America will just have to wait. And ysterday the US recorded 204,179 new cases in a single day, which is more cases than each and every one of the following 181 countries have recorded over the entire 10 months of the pandemic so far: Samoa, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Anguilla, Marshall Islands, Western Sahara, Montserrat, Falkland Islands, Saint Pierre Miquelon, Solomon Islands, Greenland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Laos, Vatican City, Timor-Leste, New Caledonia, Fiji, Grenada, Macao, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent Grenadines, St. Barth, Antigua and Barbuda, Brunei , Caribbean Netherlands, Seychelles, Saint Lucia, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cambodia, Isle of Man, Bhutan, Mauritius, Faeroe Islands, Tanzania, Eritrea, Monaco, Mongolia, Comoros, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Burundi, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sint Maarten, Channel Islands, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Niger, San Marino, Liberia, Curaçao, Chad, New Zealand, Lesotho, Yemen, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, South Sudan, Gambia, Thailand, Mali, Somalia, Uruguay, Aruba, Martinique, CAR, Guyana, Mayotte, Belize, Equatorial Guinea, Iceland, Suriname, Hong Kong, Rwanda, Congo, Djibouti, Nicaragua, Malawi, Andorra, Eswatini, Trinidad and Tobago, Syria, Bahamas, Réunion, Cuba, Mauritania, Cyprus, Guadeloupe, Malta, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Haiti, Estonia, Botswana, Jamaica, Cabo Verde, French Guiana, Tajikistan, DRC, Maldives, Latvia, Guinea, French Polynesia, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, Madagascar, Zambia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Finland, Cameroon, Australia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, S. Korea, Albania, Norway, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Ghana, North Macedonia, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Denmark, Ireland, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Paraguay, Kenya, Libya, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Tunisia, China, Azerbaijan, Greece, Slovakia, Moldova, Venezuela, Croatia, Georgia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Egypt, Lebanon, Serbia, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Oman, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Japan, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Qatar, Kuwait, Bolivia, Panama, UAE, Hungary, Jordan, and Ecuador.
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  8946. And now we know why Trump won't let ICC investigators into the US. Maybe a coalition of allies will extract the perps and take them to the Hague.
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  8947. Perhaps Trump's most useful contribution was to show us just how many hateful cranks and wannabe traitors we've got among us.
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  8948.  @minnesotaproud1949  It would be a short time before Texas became desperate enough to beg for some US federal disaster money, which happens every time things happen that they don't want to think about, like for instance really weird weather events caused by the AGW they deny happening around them. My only fear is that, in their desperation, and in their affinity for foreign strongmen who hate democracy, particularly the US, they would turn to Putin for help and would let Russia build missile silos on their territory.
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  8949. Wrong question. Why did the Republicans gut the office of government ethics back in 2017? What were they complicit in hiding? https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-trump-broke-the-office-of-government-ethics
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  8950. By the time the vaccine trickles down to most of us, we'll know by then if there are adverse side effects.
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  8951. On the other hand, it's nice to know that ~30% of our voters are so easily-misled, so mentally ill, so disgruntled, that they would support ending democracy just because of the baseless, wholly-unproven lies of their cult leader. Even better, we know exactly who they are, thanks to their MAGA hats, insurrection Clump flags, and other merch. Good to know.
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  8952. Face it, Republicans already made up their minds to carry out this putsch attempt by any means possible. Our inescapable duty must now be to treat them as such. Be strong, people, you're going to need it.
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  8953.  @hitlerbiden9790  "its going to break down the people vs the government." << No. This is a classic election-loser-trying-to-overturn-the-election-results type coup. Results will be as expected.
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  8954. That's called hatriotism.
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  8955. I was in that group of people (Oregon) who got the same cold just before Christmas 2019. Those who got the cold did not later get covid. However, I've taken the antigen test several times, and it said I hadn't been exposed to covid. I think what we saw was an earlier version of the same disease.
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  8956.  @maryfontenelle8633  Interesting footnote about Sarah Hucksterbeast - she resigned on the same day (6/13/19) that figures prominently in what we now know of the Ukraine call scandals. That was the day our Mango Mussolini told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he "would accept damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign government."
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  8957.  @Frizzy678  Here's the thing. You seem not to understand that you are just like the disgruntled former grocery store stockboy standing out there in the rain, whining out loud that the grocery store chain CEO makes all kinds of mistakes. If you could only rise to the level where you could show us how or why, that would be nice, but your baseless criticism is simply more whining. Do keep it up. It's slow at the help desk today your free humor fodder is much appreciated.
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  8958.  @Frizzy678  "how am I going to try to debate someone that doesn’t respond" << Go back upthread and read what I sent you. You imagine you're boxing, except you're blind and too drunk to notice you already got KO'd several moves back. If all you got to cling to is your partisan delusions, then it's perfectly appropriate that you're a conservative. Note especially my post where I responded to your whining about president Biden not leading. I even gave examples. F O O L
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  8959.  @Frizzy678  The comment I responded to is still up. Basically you claimed that Biden doesn't lead. I showed you two examples where he does lead, and they happen to both be examples that Trump failed at. Your partisan nonsense is weak tea and not the strong acid you imagine it to be. And now you imagine your comments are being deleted. Very emblematic mental gymnastics of a Trumper. Thanks for the LOLz ;)
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  8960.  @Frizzy678  "The points you made is not good" << Laughably sad. I proved you completely wrong, and that's the best response you can muster? With a brain as weak as yours, no wonder you fell under the con man's spell. Truly he has a small army of idiots behind him. You are not earning good trolling money today, Walter. Or any other day, I suspect. Another thing Biden does well that Trump could not is be nice to America's allies and not suck up to America's enemies. Trump did it the other way around. Did you already forget about the Greenland thing?
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  8961.  @Frizzy678  Re "ll Biden can do is stand and do nothing while Russia" << Thank you for bringing up Russia, holder of so much personal debt of Trump's that Trump threw the US intelligence agencies under the bus to please boss Putin. Did you forget how Trump destroyed the translators notes? How Trump abandoned US bases to Russia after a phone call from his handler? How quickly you forget how Trump caved to Putin every time and on each level. You're delusional and misinformed. The only true thing you could say so far is that you don't like Biden.
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  8962. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it! Trump: I give myself a 10/10 score for handling this bigly.
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  8963. Notice how the Trumpanzees had nothing to say when gas reached $4.70/gallon during Trump's time .. or him admitting that he took classified documents.
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  8964. Ditto. These are some of the most thoughtful interviews on the subject.
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  8965. But it was just a peaceful family event! /sarc
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  8966. Eventually the pied piper will lead his lemmings away, never to be seen again, or the latest iteration of reverend Jim Jones will pass out the funny-tasting fruit punch. Let them go.
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  8967.  @pmac1951  Look at the way he never, ever in his life wanted to lead, but instead always wanted to rule. From the way he called them "his" judges (and soldiers and diplomats and businesses) it was clear he had in mind a sort of king-of-England lifestyle as president. He never even cared to learn how the government functions. No doubt he thinks all previous presidents are "stupid" and "low IQ" for not using the powers of government, as he did, to commit various crimes in order to remain in power. Trump would happily torch his own kids, and use them to heat marshmallows, if what he wanted right then was a hot marshmallow.
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  8968. I couldn't watch it either. If it came on the radio I changed channels. While it is sometimes amusing to listen to him ramble about toilets, windmills, and how unfair the world is to his attempts at criminal governance, it's disgusting to listen to his lies and bullying and threats (while his spineless, dictator-friendly flying monkeys cheer him on - people who were raised in the bosom of America and who are now trying to destroy that very same America) and really, Republicans, this is the best you've got to offer?
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  8969. That kind of talk had consequences during WW2. Bad things would have happened to anyone saying they'd vote in Hitler for president. It should have consequences now too.
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  8970. Poor Mike Nearman. To him, those folks trying to get in were just some nice white people with guns and body armor and an agenda of destruction.
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  8971. Actually, the difference lies in what each did when NARA asked for the stuff back. Of the three (Trump, Biden, Pence) only Trump lied about it, obfuscated, ignored, attempted to withhold, etc. And that's why the orange cult leader is going to be in court.
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  8972.  @roochuckyroo  Only Trump's fan base and the people who watch FOXed Noise. The rest of the country keeps a fairly constant, or at least slow-moving, average age. Perhaps you forgot that old people die and younger people take their places?
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  8973.  @NorthernKitty  You wrote "My biggest fear is that the behavior of my generation and the generation before me" << may I ask where you're coming from on this? (full disclosure, I'm from gen X) I'm fully expecting that future generations will not be so kind on their elders, who, despite having heard from the 1960s onward that continued use of fossil fuels would destroy the climate, nonetheless kept driving cars, jetting around the world, and carrying on as if the can could be kicked down the road indefinitely.
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  8974.  @NorthernKitty  Correct, not all of us .. I've been a bicycle commuter for a couple decades now. Unfortunately enough humans have kept on the "party like it's 1999" bandwagon to send the climate into the hot place.
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  8975.  @NorthernKitty  You're doing good things :)
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  8976. Correct. It's one of his tells. Like when the former guy played the air accordion.
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  8977. Pretty sure his base knows that he's a hateful ethnonationalist who can't wait to complete his takeover of government so that he can put his opponents into concentration camps - or worse. This is a feature, not a bug.
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  8978.  @TheRealMake-Make  Zactly. Sloth, ignorance, spite, deceit, anger, greed .. and apparently bad smell .. these are the things Trump is champion of.
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  8979. 140 died crossing the Berlin Wall in its 30 years of history. Meanwhile, upwards of 20,000 Americans die per year from not having medical coverage. But - freedumbs! :(
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  8980.  @jvh8806  Re "which he violates every day" << But, just like with the election fraud you guys claim, there's no proof of it. Go back under the bridge, bad ComBloc troll.
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  8981. If anything, we're underspending, and why do you come here repeating Hoax News nonsense?
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  8982. Deplorable? That's too kind. More like despicable.
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  8983. All that oil is merely calling the US to "bring democracy" to that place.
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  8984.  @stringmonkey568  I can say it because that is what's happened. Let me spell it out more bluntly - it is Trump's lies and Trump's incompetence that will cause more virus related deaths. Take it up with him, not with me.
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  8985. If he thinks not answering the questions means he's going to get off scot-free, then he's got a rude awakening coming.
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  8986.  @troygomez5254  Re "hold the FBI accountable" << If you are convinced that's the right thing, then why are you not doing it yourself?
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  8987.  @glitchedgame4141  Darell isn't dreaming .. s/he is foaming. At the mouth. Facts are hurting her/him.
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  8988. Let's see how long Bunker Boy can delay the inevitable by having votes continually recounted over and over again, even when they show the same result every time.
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  8989. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  8990.  @jefferyjacobson3290  Bingo. Like watching the trash take itself out 😅
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  8991. Well, it sort of makes sense in an Orwellian way.
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  8992. Bingo. All those fools got behind a rich guy who does to them precisely what they complain about the elites doing to them - he doesn't pay his fair share of taxes, he turns wealth into political power, he puts mom-and-pop operations out of business, he ships jobs overseas.
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  8993.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  Bingo. And then they have the nerve to tell us to respect their orange ruler who's still insulting everyone.
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  8994.  @jaxdarnell  The binder was necessary for keeping all the lies straight. When you're working off facts and the truth, no binder is necessary.
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  8995. Historically, regimes that say the hateful rhetoric in public are usually doing some kind of 'final solution' type stuff in private.
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  8996. About the Yale study - in the first week of March I met an EMT. He was telling me that since sometime in late February, much of his shift time had been taken up by bringing people in their 50s from home to the hospital for breathing problems. Lots of them were turning blue already.
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  8997. @ Jo McGrath The easiest way to understand it is that America has some of the dumbest misinformation consumers in the whole world. Trump could tell them that the sun used to rise in the west before the eeeevil democrats consorted with Satan to make it rise in the east as a nod to China, and they'd storm the white house demanding to punish Biden for supposedly moving the sun around. They're that dumb :(
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  8998. Makes you wonder if "doctor" Karas has got a framed, signed print of Dr. Mengele at home :(
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  8999.  @takeoUup115  They got stopped before it went that far. You may have heard of this function called "security". Here's a question: if you saw armed strangers busting into your own house, would you just put out the milk & cookies for them? Guessing not. Same situation here.
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  9000.  @calinasagilitypartner4444  Gladly
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  9001. Wastebook: America's #1 source for disinformation about vaccines, gravity, politics, news, etc. Remember that recently-named private FB group where Customs and Border Patrol officials shared racist memes and talked openly about doing a hit on AOC? Wastebook is essentially a destabilizing influence.
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  9002.  @billfarley9167  Let's see. He lied about it, insulted the PM of Denmark, eventually told the truth weeks later, and Putin was happy at discord in the west.
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  9003. Remember, too, that Republicans/conservatives have clearly decided that burning down the nation and plunging it into bloodshed and lawlessness is, to them, somehow a lesser evil than accepting their loss as Clinton did in 2016, as Romney did in 2012, as McCain did in 2008, and so on.
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  9004. That's an expensive way to provide free reptile meat to the people passing through there. Rest assured, there would soon be a glut of lizard-skin shoes, bags, belts etc on the regional markets.
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  9005. FYI about Trumpy still being mad about Portland .. Portland is another union town where his Nazi sycophants are made to feel most unwelcome. That little Nazi keebler elf, Sessions, left quickly with his tail between his legs.
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  9006. His "deals" regarding Iran have advanced Iran's nuclear program beyond what it was when Obama stopped them .. his "deals" with North Korea have seen NK advance its missile program quite a bit .. his "deals" with Turkey have given territory to Turkey and helped push out our allies (the Kurds, who helped defeat ISIS) and has allowed ISIS to regroup. Someone needs to stop him from "winning" more.
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  9007. All Biden basically has to do is say "Have a nice weekend!" to make the GQP nutters screech things like "This is how socialism starts! Marx mandated a good weekend too!"
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  9008. The ghost of general Norman Schwartzkopf is smiling at this operation.
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  9009. That's probably the oranges of his thinking :(
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  9010. * Jedi hand wave * Uncle Pooty didn't need those gas revenues anyway. Or oil revenues.
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  9011.  @AaronBeDarin  One has a funny moustache, the other has orange hair. One plays the air accordion better however. The most lovely tunes, the best ever.
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  9012. 45 doesn't do lessons. Just ask Susan Collins.
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  9013. Solavev has a gay son who he kept in London and who hasn't served. No wonder some US Republicans like Putin so much. Rules for thee, not for me, etc.
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  9014. Another plus is that there will be a fire sale on homes, trucks, and other stuff.
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  9015.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  As George W Bush famously said .. if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
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  9016. Only Trump would see no conflict between his oath of office (swearing to protect America against all enemies, foreign or domestic) and wanting immunity when telling his followers to destroy Congress. His followers aren't much brighter either :(
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  9017. A longstanding Russian saying (probably centuries old): "The tallest blade of grass is the one that gets cut first."
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  9018.  @bubba842  Best of luck finding another customer for the moral equivalency line. Obviously none of this would be happening if Russia hadn't decided to attack Ukraine.
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  9019. Pardon me for repeating this - but - we can be fairly certain that dense apartment-living situations are no more difficult for this virus to penetrate than were the individual cabins aboard the Diamond Princess - where, if you recall, it spread cabin-to-cabin despite everyone staying in their rooms for weeks.
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  9020.  @barrycarey7521  Let me share a story from the pacific northwet. I was in a Safeway recently. There was a male customer loitering, hanging onto a shelf. He wasn't wearing a mask. He kept coughing and it had that deep honking tone you get from pneumonia or TB. He lost his breath, fell over, and took down a display rack. Then he pawed all over everything trying to put it back into place - with no gloves on, of course, and he kept coughing into his hands all the while. I'm mad at the store for not requiring everyone to wear masks or some other kind of face covering, and for not asking someone to leave the store when they're obviously sick and spewing germs all over the place.
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  9021.  @vaasdc9044  Are you saying that Biden wrote the play book that Trump is now using? That's pretty hilarious, but then, logic was never the strong suit of you Trumpanzees. This week is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  9022.  @vaasdc9044  That's the lamest false equivalency I've ever seen. Of the two (Biden or Trump) only one of them has been in a position to a) issue executive orders, b) tell the senate majority leader what to do like a loyal lapdog, c) seat Supreme Court justices, d) sign things into federal law.
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  9023.  @_Jay_Maker_  No one even had to bother to say that orange man is a fascist. He spoke himself through his actions. He did the "14 steps of fascism" in fewer years than the funny mustache guy did in Germany in the 1930s.
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  9024.  @richardalderman1324  I only came here to read the comments of the nutters who say this is a hoax, that it's being overhyped, that it's a conspiracy, whatever. Those are the kind that went down with the Titanic, secure in the belief that it was unsinkable. Total dummies who don't belong breeding or voting. Subtracting themselves from the population lines up nicely with their disbelief of what's happening.
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  9025. Trump promised his people blood and fire in that speech .. he spoke of American carnage and they loved the sound of it.
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  9026. @Morgan Stevens Err, are you trying to say a little namecalling is on the same level as, say, grossly neglecting a disaster that may kill millions of Americans? And, by the way, he IS a racist.
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  9027. Listening to those Russian conscripts whine that they're "fighting America" is pretty hilarious. They can't even take on the world's 55th largest economy. What do they want, a frigging participation trophy?
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  9028. Herd Stupidity has been achieved.
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  9029. Been calling it Q-Anonsense for awhile. It fits.
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  9030. When he said that he wanted the ballots thrown out, and the election decided by his own handpicked judge, apparently it jostled the wool off the eyes of some of his sheeple followers. Imagine that. Oh, and the judge is being rushed through by the same Moscow Mitch who wouldn't let Obama seat a judge 9 months before the election.
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  9031. This is kind of close to town :( Way back in the days when 82nd ave east demarked the beginning of the farms, Multnomah County put them all the way out in Edgefield. Harder to walk back into town from there. Is there going to be a fence around it too? Some way to keep the site from turning into another giant mess of stolen bicycles and other junk?
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  9032. Huh, you don't see anyone editing Obama out of anything. Not even the Time cover.
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  9033.  @michaelmann7816  The smartest guy in the room is the one who sold it to Muskie for $44Bn and walked away with some change.
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  9034. Congrats :) I got my second dose in May. Still waiting for the magnetism effect. Being able to levitate cars would be cool. But I'll settle for being a 5G hotspot just by blinking and tapping my arm.
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  9035. Poor little Trumpy. His littleboy feelings are hurt because for once he's facing something that he can't berate, can't sue, can't slay with nasty tweets, can't lie about. The virus doesn't care about his feelings.
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  9036. Correct. Because if anyone doesn't yet understand that Clump would only be too thrilled to plunge America into decades of chaos, bloodshed, division, violence, they haven't been paying attention to what he's all about.
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  9037. Bingo. Because Phil Valentine doesn't show up for the funerals of those who've died from taking his BAD STUPID ADVICE. He doesn't help the families who've lost their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents. All he wanted was their media share, and he got it by putting his listeners in danger. He needs the full measure of whatever punishment other traitors get.
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  9038. Something tells me that he and Half Baked Alaska aren't going to be lucky enough to have each other as cellmates.
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  9039. Well, that explains his complete contempt for due process and for the rule of law.
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  9040. The gardener burned the bad growth to ash, but then left town with the job unfinished. The noxious weeds were the first to return. Recommend hiring a full-time gardener.
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  9041. A lot are desperate to be the next Kyle. Who was just the next George Zimmerman.
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  9042.  @emaarredondo-librarian  Love what you said. I hope that if/when Russia throws Putler off their back, and returns to being a democracy that's improving, the rest of the world can welcome them back. Like Germany did after WW2, there will be some work to get past the stain of what they allowed to be done in their name.
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  9043.  @lindarichmond3199  Seeing as how even the accusers don't have the laptop (their story was vaporware anyway) I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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  9044. I rest assured knowing that regardless of how unhelpful or uncooperative trump is for the next few months, his actions will in no way be allowed to interfere with the formation of a new administration, and that administration preparing to assume power on January 20th. They might have to work out of a hotel for a few days while the white house is fumigated, but so what.
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  9045. If they're even Americans, the people still shilling for Trump (after all this incompetence) are collaborators and should be treated as such, just like the French did with their Vichy people, just like the Norwegians did with Quisling's people.
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  9046.  @jayedwards6713  A real leader would have done the right things to keep the disease out. Trump merely took the steps to keep Chinese people out.
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  9047. Watching stupid people use covid and de-wormer to remove themselves from the gene pool makes me feel like .. like .. like checking Craigslist frequently for good bargains! ;) Let them go. They're too stupid to live anyway.
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  9048. Counting down the minutes until someone finds video of her smoking .. because she's about as truthful as Trump ;)
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  9049. Aww, love you too .. you need anything, call us 👍
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  9050. Your argument is awful. By the same logic, a person going to the voting booth "becomes a slave" to those thoughts of regret about whether they should have pulled the red lever or the blue lever, or indeed whether they should have just stayed home and clean the house. Sounds like your HDTV is running at VGA resolution.
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  9051. EVERYONE under the sun told the Brexiteers what a horrible idea it was. Now the Brexiteers are somehow shocked that everyone under the sun was correct about that.
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  9052. On the plus side, the anti-vaxxers now have a fine way to subtract themselves from the gene pool while saving vaccine doses for people who need and want them. A win-win!
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  9053.  @Terrackhimself  "Republican leadership can explain how important it was to listen to morons, and that their taxes are higher now for it" << This. Let them explain how their actions resulted in higher taxes, them who purport to be from the party of smaller government, lower taxes, and personal responsibility. And I hope these ill-considered deeds are given heavy airtime come the next election cycle. Stupid is as stupid does.
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  9054. Over in Indonesia they figured out a great way to cure the people who deny covid .. they put them to work digging graves and putting covid corpses into the ground. By the end of two weeks, 100% of the doubters are cured. For some of them, of course, the "cure" comes in the form of a nasty cough that gets them hooked to a ventilator a few weeks later. Some don't recover. But, hey, it's a small price to pay for letting the trash take itself out. Minus the suffering of the healthcare workers and the waste of money & resources, of course, it's nature's way of culling the dumbest from the herd.
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  9055. That the more-stupid and less-stupid wings of the Republican party have chosen Trump as the hill-of-lard to fight it out (and die) on is poetic justice.
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  9056.  @broken8607  Wow. So not only did you not watch any of the many videos showing president elect Biden answering reporters' questions clearly, you've swallowed the dumbest propaganda telling you that anyone to the left of Hitler / Trump / Pat Robertson must be some kind of commie. You're more than a few fries short of a happy meal, bud.
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  9057. Is this an updated version of those signs like "Warning - bigfoot habitation area - stay on marked trails"?
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  9058. Clearly, spending too much trim around Trump has numbed Mulvaney to the fact that telling lies repeatedly is not the same as telling the truth. The real TDS :(
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  9059.  Craig Bowers  Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a one-party state with them in charge of everything.
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  9060. Their basic play is something like "Officer, your speed radar is a partisan witch hunt, so I'm ripping up the ticket and driving away".
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  9061.  @JohnDoe-nz6bk  Ahh. Typical response of someone whose comprehension level isn't up to understanding the words they just read. Try it again. Your 3 milliwatt brain may require much repetition to understand anything.
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  9062. Sounds like 45 and his people are planning election-day violence. Guessing it will take place in a red state (probably Texas or Florida) and the governor there is already in the loop on using state militias to suppress it - with Fox filming it all to go on a media blitz (about how "the revolt has begun!") to induce other states to follow.
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  9063. A bunch of them were taking pictures of each other in the act - with no masks on, of course.
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  9064.  Karen Byrd  "because he's getting pressure from Wall Street. That's the only reason" << huh? You sure it wasn't the way Biden got ~6 million more votes?
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  9065.  @manueljr7736  I find it ironic (or karmic) that people 50+ (who voted overwhelmingly for Trump; other generations were not so stupid) are the same ones more at risk of covid deaths. So maybe there is a god after all.
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  9066. As if she imagines she's going to have any kind of future legal career.
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  9067. Illegal protests?
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  9068. Even if they hauled a captured Abrams back home, Soviet engineers lack the means to build anything like it, especially in the targeting optics.
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  9069.  @judileeming1589  Makes sense. They are proving themselves as able fighters. And we may rest assured that, somewhere behind the scenes, someone from the US side has mentioned to Ukraine that perhaps we could lease some space in Ukraine for a military base or two. There is a lot the US could do. Perhaps Ukraine would be open to foreign volunteers helping rebuild, and offering Ukrainian citizenship if desired.
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  9070. Shades of "Donald Trump has learned his lesson" via Susan Collins 😅
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  9071. Did she say ".. buried in the water .."?
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  9072. That tiny little air accordion is getting a lot more mileage again! ;)
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  9073.  @harvbegal6868  Bingo. You can't hack paper.
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  9074. My car is so clean and shiny this morning! Thank you Colorado for making it rain MAGA tears!
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  9075. The more likely thing is that conservatives will add a new track to their broken record about how Trump was secretly a Democrat trojan horse sent to make them look bad. Other notable tracks are about a child sex slave ring in the pizza shop basement, and how Jewish space lasers can change elections.
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  9076.  @cheshirekat3050  Your memory goes back further than mine. I remember when Limbaugh and FOXed Noise began working their negative magic :( Getting people addicted to hate and anger is much easier than fixing said addictions later.
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  9077. Imagining "Despot Love" to the music of "Radar Love" heh
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  9078. Fakebook is the #1 source of misinformation on vaccines, gravity, politics, and pretty much anything else. Private Fakebook groups, remember, were where Customs & Border Protection agents were gathering to talk about shooting AOC and killing refugees.
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  9079.  @mikesamovarov4054  We manage that problem somewhat differently in the USA. The people living in rural supply regions get a whole different media narrative, basically telling them that godless liberals inhabit the cities, so they should stay home. But yes, keeping Johnny / Ivan down on the farm has been a societal problem everywhere for a long time.
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  9080. 2:04 What's with all those people not wearing masks in an indoor public setting? That saying "the firsh rots from its head" has never been more true.
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  9081. When they flee for the airport to get on planes heading to Russia, that's when they realize how the American people feel about their treason.
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  9082. Err, it says right on the 1st page header that it's not a verbatim transcript. This has already been well covered, though probably not on FOXed Noise.
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  9083. If Biden had cured cancer, Trump would reverse it simply out of spite. That's basically what he did with Biden capping insulin prices.
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  9084. Any bets on how many times he called Putin during those 7 hours? Chances are, he was on the phone with the same people who stormed the capitol.
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  9085. "But even when people knew what to do, most of them were not doing it" sounds like here in the US :(
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  9086. Hello to Finland from the USA and welcome to NATO! You guys are legendary.
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  9087. Wonder if he's scammed enough cultist donations to fuel the jet for a sudden trip to see his new doctor in Moscow?
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  9088.  @bosatsu76  Re "The PROPER ratio is among those who catch it to those who die" .. I prefer the way they measure it over on worldometers .. it's the ratio of deaths among all the cases for which there was an outcome (got better, left the hospital, went into some other care, went into the ground). For awhile back in the early days (March 2020) the closed case death ratio was up above 16%, and for awhile it even surpassed 20%. Granted, testing was very limited them, used only on the sickest, the disease had spread very quickly in NYC, and effective therapies had not yet been devised.
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  9089. Governor Brown, please make mask-wearing mandatory in public settings. NY has very successfully slowed the spread of the virus by this simple measure. Go ahead and put some teeth behind it. The 95% of us who don't think this thing is a hoax will thank you. Public settings will need to be re-imagined for the time being - https://medium.com/the-atlantic/social-distancing-is-not-enough-5c56e9301304
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  9090. Should call it by its Russian name - PRAVDA Social. Much more fitting.
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  9091. By their actions, Russia showed they were FINE with military units crossing the Russia-Ukraine border.
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  9092.  @ailpaysthebills  Are you cognitively damaged and thus unable to follow the news? This is a virus. It spreads; people get sick; some die. What parts of that are you unclear on?
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  9093.  @matthewmiller6827  And I said nothing about people being asymptomatic or not. The basic fact of this is that it's a disease; it spreads; some get sick; some die. What parts of this do you not understand? For F's sake.
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  9094. Nice reference to Nazi Germany. Back on October 9, 1941, Nazi propagandists bragged to the world that the Soviet armies were in the final stages of annihilation. After that it was more rude awakening every day.
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  9095. Guys, here's a link (below) but I'm copying the most relevant bit: "If the virus has been spreading undetected in Washington since mid-January, that could mean that anywhere from 150 to 1,500 people may have it, with about 300 to 500 people the most likely range, said Dr. Mike Famulare, a principal research scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Washington, who performed the analysis." https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article240785976.html
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  9096. Heard that "both parties are the same" tune before. Trump wants you to hum it. Keeps you from participating in politics.
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  9097.  @Windband1  Yes. It is false. Go check the last few party line votes on election security, equal pay for women, etc, then get back to me. Stupid people believe it because they don't bother to check the facts before believing whatever nonsense wafts their way that morning.
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  9098. It's not an act. And it's the only role he knows.
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  9099.  @tearsofmina  Nope. Sorry. It's the truth. There's a frigging raging pandemic going on. Now we've got hospitals in Portland adding emergency morgue space (refrigerated trucks) because the rate of corpses is exceeding the capacity of the hospitals and local morgues. This disaster needs to be laid at the feet of all the idiots who couldn't believe it was happening - partly because they didn't want to, partly because they're the kind who fall for the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat.
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  9100. America has big problems. Almost half of the voting people in America willingly vote for a guy who checks off every single box on the list of "characteristics of fascism". This is a house-on-fire level of emergency.
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  9101.  @michaelray2981  No, twat, just run the chart of daily cases in NY (or any other place that's implemented mandatory masking) and put in marks to show when the masks started. The widespread use of even imperfect masks (hankies, homemade masks, etc) suppresses spread of the virus quite effectively. But not only do you probably not know how to use a spreadsheet for that, you wouldn't know how to find the data either. You are the perfect example of the Dunning Kruger effect - too stupid to realize how stupid you are.
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  9102. @ELSHELL this is the one I use - Someone robbed a bank. A suspect has been found through police work. The DA is trying to get CCTV footage and testimony from the bank employees. The defense attorney insists his client is innocent and will win the case, yet both he and the defendant frantically block releasing the CCTV footage or letting the witnesses be interviewed. The judge and a number of the jurors have said they'll act in lockstep with the defendant's attorney.
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  9103. Apologies, America, Oregon has some real Boebert type nutters here :(
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  9104. To be fair -- Trump knew as far back as the summer of 2019 that he wouldn't win a fair election against Biden. And the reason we know that for sure is because that's when he began shaking down allies to get them to make up dirt on the Bidens. There must have been more 'perfect' calls besides the one to Ukraine that we know about.
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  9105. Hitler's nuttiness lasted maybe 13 years tops.
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  9106. "I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain." -- Liz Cheney, June 9 2022
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  9107.  @SomeReallyUniqueName  Baghdad Bob!
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  9108.  @prihaps  Trumptards never have an answer for that one. I mean, if you ask how Trump would change a light bulb, he would just hold it still and wait for the world to revolve around him.
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  9109.  @Devildog0166  Surely you can agree that calling out your country's domestic enemies is a good thing? Trump is one of them. So is anyone who shills for Trump. Hope you're already burning that MAGA hat and peeling off those MAGA stickers, because there's going to be a reckoning when the dust settles.
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  9110.  @Thunderstick-y8h  That is true, and sorry if I misunderstood your comment. He's going to keep holding his rallies, of course, and his faithful will eschew masks and gloves just to prove their solidarity with his stance about how the WHO numbers are fake news.
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  9111. All part of the high cost of appealing to the lowest-common-denominator crazies of the reich wing.
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  9112. Lack of evidence never stopped a Trump cultist from believing anything. These are the same people who howled at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit, then being all "meh" while Trump tried to override a legit election.
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  9113.  Dave Cockayne  Fully half of British people have got immigrant ancestry. Someone's blown up a normal thing into a great big inflatable boogeyman. Having 3 million Britons of French descent, for example, doesn't seem to make England any less English.
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  9114. Disagree. Russia's primary objective here is holding Crimea for its Black Sea access. The rest of the seized territory was mostly to serve as a land bridge to Crimea. And the only reason the Kerch bridge hasn't been taken down yet is that it's still useful for Russians to flee on.
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  9115. Even before sanctions, Russia's economy was about the size of Italy's. Not a match for the arms production of the west. The Allies have a lot more to draw from.
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  9116. Switching over from winter to summer blends. Gasbuddy has articles explaining the phenom and what it does to pricing.
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  9117.  @pclay5022  From some of the test balloons the Republicans have floated this past week, it sounds as if they are preparing to not accept the 2020 election results, and dismiss them somehow on the grounds that the "illegal" impeachment unfairly tainted the election results. After that, it's anyone's guess as to how long Trump's thousand-year reich will actually last.
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  9118.  @pclay5022  Well, if the Repubs are in charge and only they get to say which laws are followed and who does/doesn't have to follow them .. well .. you can guess what's next. Minorities better go underground or flee. The wealth divide will grow much worse very quickly. Things will devolve into a 2-tier system, like in Mexico, with the rich living in gated fortified private communities and everyone else in slums. Needless to say, law enforcement will get very hard very quickly too, since by then it will finally be obvious that a coup has happened and we've no longer got a working democracy. Interesting times basically :(
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  9119.  @laura2372  Funny you should mention that. They still cannot find the document with the plan for how to attack Iran. Perhaps NARA should ask MBS about it.
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  9120. Nikki has probably been down at MAGA Lardo, crawling on the carpets. Wonder what her price was?
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  9121. Counting down the days to president Biden's win in the election .. and, sadly, MAGA Mike Johnson's refusal to certify it. History will probably be pretty unkind to 45 and his culties. The people of America may be even less kind.
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  9122.  @briangordon2208  Re "con man, grifter, thief, traitor" << bingo. At least the people of Norway, back in the day, had the sense to recognize Hitler's puppet Quisling for exactly what he was - but in America? Along comes a grifter who wants to seize power illegally, cause insurrection, undermine the faith of the people in democracy, and establish a family kakistocracy, and America's so-called "patriots" rally to help him destroy all that our ancestors fought for. Disgusting.
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  9123.  @bmoore8853  You wrote "nd your solution is what, Mein Kompf?" That's the worst attempt ever to put words in someone else's mouth. If you think that lockdowns, during a time of grave national emergency, are a problem, then I'm just glad that you and your kind weren't in the 15-35 age bracket when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you think wearing a mask is bad, hoo boy/girl, they would have put a uniform on you back then and made you go all over the place and do all kinds of things for 4 years. And your fool president would have been calling the attack "fake news" while bragging about the "beautiful" letters he'd gotten from emperor Hirohito. Now, as then, your non-optional duty as a citizen is to cooperate with the government so even worse things don't happen.
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  9124. He treats everything that way. The Kurds, the constitution, adulting, presidenting, you name it. As the Mooch said, he doesn't even see people as people, he just sees them as objects in his field of vision. He makes Hitler look like a warm, sociable, well-behaved person in comparison.
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  9125.  @grimdarkdiogenes  Speaking of which .. who else has noticed Cheeto's several attempts to rehab the Tate brothers? That's disturbing on so many levels. Put them in a room with the Heritage people and you're going to end up with a social program that's very pro-vapey :( (edit: love your username)
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  9126. That area between Skyline going down to rte 30 is going to be very treacherous. Cornelius / McNamee / Newton / Logee / etc. Be careful everyone.
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  9127. "Be best", eh? She ought to change their name to Ceausescu. It would be so appropriate.
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  9128. FOXed Noise, of course, will never cover the subject of Trump followers committing crimes. Which means that in many places, folks will never hear of these things.
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  9129. @Sean Kurtz Following the rules then (recycling, rationing, respecting the blackout) saved lives, just as following the rules now (stay at home orders, social distancing, masks, hand washing) save lives too. Do you have trouble understanding that?
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  9130.  @Madara_Uchiha69420  In other words .. another classic Allies/Axis dustup.Huh, wonder how the ex-Soviet place is going to do this time without massive western assistance.
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  9131. I'll bring as much booze as my vehicle can haul.
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  9132. This is what they call "bringing democracy" :(
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  9133. Correct. They will toss you like a rag doll the moment you're not useful to them.
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  9134. Best at telling lies, maybe. Not good at much else. So dense as a businessman, he couldn't even run a casino.
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  9135. Horrifying to most of us, without a doubt. A good thing, however, in seeing how easy it is for fash to walk in through the front door via the electoral college.
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  9136.  @Terrackhimself  They're still mad that liberals freed [what they thought of as] their farm equipment.
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  9137.  @TrustNJesusChrist  Are you on drugs? There is a narrow range of agreed upon covid deaths, and the numbers keep getting bigger every day. Are you living on a different planet or something? Do you think this virus cares if you believe in it or not? You are just fresh meat to the virus.
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  9138.  @john-giovannicorda3456  Fear is a good thing to have when facing something very dangerous. Denial is a very bad thing to have under the same circumstances. Good luck with that denial thing.
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  9139.  @john-giovannicorda3456  You are in fact endangering the lives of others by not staying home. There is a dangerous disease going around. It spreads opportunistically from person to person. I'm sorry you're so petty and so small-minded as to see this as an attack on your "freedumbs" instead of what it is: a disease.
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  9140. The no-fly videos were great. The FBI comes in to escort the perps out in handcuffs, and the crowd stands up to cheer the FBI. What was it Trump said? Oh yes. "The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now, maybe we should bring that back."
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  9141. "Is it possible that a president be considered an officer when, say, he tells the military to assassinate Iranian general Soleimani, or rearrange the Pentagon, or fire people, or pardon people, but NOT be considered an officer when some crimes of office arise? Asking for a friend." -- Republicans
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  9142.  @sharond2814  Aww, you're so easily triggered by facts. I could probably make you cry just by reading to you the nutrition panel off Fruit Loops cereal.
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  9143. We have no grievance with the people of Russia, only with their current despotic lawbreaking leader. Should the people of Russia throw off Putin, withdraw the Russian military from Ukraine, and begin the process of making reparations, those sanctions need to be gone the next day.
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  9144.  @southernwarrior3952  The deconstructed version of what you speak of is that they (Republicans, representing richer white males basically) want to reserve for themselves the right to decide what other folks (not them, of course) do with their own bodies.
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  9145.  @southernwarrior3952  Good name fit @ DeSadist. I've been calling him DeSatan. Same thing.
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  9146. Trump has already expanded his base as much as possible among the (few) segments he appeals to. One is the sub-92IQ crowd, to whom his misspeaking and 4th-grade grammar sound 'genius'. Another is the portion of people who have that weird gene for strongman worship. And the last is the angry kind who want to burn down everything. Outside of those segments, he has little appeal.
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  9147.  @brupeboring  Those red hats have other uses too. The British showed us this feature in the War of Independence. Just saying.
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  9148. In too many places in the US, the government lacks the spine or awareness to institute the sorts of public health measures that would greatly slow transmission. Most of us are on our own in terms of precautions. Where I live, they don't even require masks. For a disease that spreads as easily as this one does, how to they think that's going to work out? Maybe they'll have second thoughts when the hospitals are jammed and people are dropping like flies?
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  9149. That skimming you speak of .. I was under the impression that there's a lot more of it now than there was during the Communistic times. Bad as they were by western standards, I can't help but think that the Soviets ran the place better than the current oligarch/kleptocrat class does. Perhaps this is wrong.
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  9150. He will be whining all throughout his lame duck session and for ever after about how he was "cheated". America will have to live with his psycho followers committing what Kyle Rittenhouse / Alex James Fields / Patrick Crusius / Cesar Sayoc / etc have been doing.
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  9151. Just don't let perfect become the enemy of "improvements vs the way Trump did things" is all I would ask, otherwise an even worse version of Trump will soon be along.
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  9152. Sadly, BoJo is the Balsonaro of Britain. The only leaders who Trump liked were the kind willing to kill large numbers of their own countrymen.
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  9153.  @Morwenna1220  Re "Really the US should follow the example of Estonia and Latvia" Umm, Estonia has sent its entire stockpile of Javelins to Ukraine. Not sure if Ukraine even needs the entire US stockpile of those. They already have enough to decimate Russian armor. I would be down with upgrading their HIMARS missiles to ATACMS missiles. From America with much love of course :)
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  9154. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Republicans: GFY, Americans.
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  9155. Reminds me of the former Spetznatz guy I dated for awhile.
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  9156. It's just the bokeh effect. All you need is a camera that can go down to at least f/1.8 and some distance to the background.
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  9157. I looked it up. Directly opposite the planet from Iowa puts them somewhere in the ocean west of Perth off Australia's southwest coast.
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  9158.  @vincefenton  I find it especially chilling that he said "With you at my side" and not "With you helping me win the election". But we already knew he's perfectly happy with illegal means to secure power.
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  9159.  @glenparks5175  Sunset looks a lot like sunrise if you're facing the wrong way at the wrong time, like Reagan famously did. Splain me please why FOXed Noise consistently is proven to be the most disinformative "news" network available.
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  9160. He is the laughingstock of the world, true, but he's also a cult leader for millions of TDS-suffering fools who can't realize when they're being gaslit.
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  9161. Exactly. I hope he lives to be 100 and keeps inflicting damage on the GQP.
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  9162.  @smcdonald9991  Correct. A guy who polls that low nationally could never win the popular election. Mathematically impossible.
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  9163.  @smcdonald9991  .. adults, anyone with a sense of history, anyone who cares for democracy, etc etc etc ..
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  9164.  @rudai123  I prefer presidents that haven't been impeached - like Barack Obama.
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  9165. I assume that was because he negotiated a 5% cut of the business in exchange for his silence.
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  9166. Who else remembers Republicans' true colors from this 2019 incident? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  9167. "when Ukraine goes on the offensive with western tanks" Happening soon if not already. Ammo for western tanks was part of the most recent tranche of military aid. I hear Leopards are very hungry at this time of year.
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  9168. Anyplace where people live more crowded together, where sanitation is not at the level of separated single family houses, where access to medical care is not perfect, etc, will become a major cluster. Prisons, old folks' homes, homeless communities, shantytowns, you name it. And don't even talk about what happens if it reaches Hyderabad.
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  9169. Technically, we are in deep trouble when a certain percentage of our population throws its lot in with an obvious cult leader, an obvious liar, an obvious con man, etc, who has zero respect for the rule of law and for the same constitution he took an oath to protect against all enemies, foreign or domestic.
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  9170. Apparently the reich-wingers are already planning more trouble. Apparently they don't realize that the FBI/DOJ/DHS can see everything they say and type and do and search on and who they talk with. MAGA = many are getting arrested
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  9171. Lawrence: it is easy to lose a chess game against a pigeon. The bird struts around the board, knocking over the pieces, making a lot of noise, crapping all over the place, then it flies away squawking that it won the game. Biden just played chess with a pigeon.
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  9172. Unfortunately the lag time is very slow, and in some places people are very dumb. For example .. in southwest Missouri, the rate of new cases has been going up steadily for 8 weeks in a row. It is the only place in the country with so long a runup just now. It shows no signs of bending the arc or slowing the acceleration. Only just in the last week or so (as hospitals are overwhelmed) have people begun to think there's a problem there. Gah :( And even so, many people there still refuse to mask and vaccinate. So I have come to the conclusion that, while it's sad and unnecessary, it's not a bad thing for humanity if the dumbest ones decide to stampede off a cliff.
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  9173. Welcome back! Your voice is much needed these days.
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  9174. No wonder they liked/like Trump so much. He too doesn't seem to have learned a damn thing during his time on earth.
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  9175. Sometimes I wonder if America isn't destined to get the same treatment Germany got, you know, when the rest of the world gets tired of your lawbreaking for the flimsiest of excuses, your hitherto unchecked military adventurism, perhaps your crimes against humanity, etc, and they form a large and well-supplied alliance that invades your country and roots out all the domestic extremists with ruthless efficiency, some of whom are sentenced to death.
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  9176. Won't take long for them to morph into the North Korea of North America :(
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  9177.  SweetandSour  California 2019 GDP: $2.448 trillion Texas 2019 GDP: $1.639 trillion Every time a cuckservative moves from Cali to Texas, the IQ of both places goes up.
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  9178. They were morally bankrupt back when they were screeching about Obama being a secret Muslim from Kenya with a tribal mentality, a socialist agenda, and a faked birth certificate. They were morally bankrupt when their guy Moscow Mitch blocked Obama's court appointments then opened the floodgates for all of Trump's. They got divorced from objective reality a while ago.
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  9179.  @deadwalkin12345  Excellent points. Love your handle BTW.
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  9180. Political Wire has an article on this still up: Grassley Says Pence Will Skip Electoral Vote Certification January 5, 2021 at 10:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the Senate president pro tempore, says he and not Vice President Mike Pence will preside over the certification of Electoral College votes, since “we don’t expect him to be there,” Roll Call reports.
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  9181. Here's the difference between the two major parties: When you let the Republicans do whatever they want, they try to disenfranchise all the people who won't vote for them, to balloon the deficit, to deny healthcare to as many people as possible, to exclude their political undesirables from the census count, and in general to remake America into a high-tech apartheid second-world state. When you let Democrats do whatever they want, they try to bring affordable healthcare and education to as many as possible, to lower the deficit, to improve America to its former first-world condition, and so on. They are hardly equal opposites.
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  9182.  @loisavci3382  That's coming next. My guess is, the reason behind the sudden switch to public impeachment inquiry is that they found dirt so juicy that when it becomes public, supporting Trump will be political suicide for individual Repub congressfolks & senators. And when he has no support from them, his only option is to resign.
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  9183.  @EconLessons  My cousin and I were planning a trip, but then the war came, and two Americans with German parents are probably not the most welcome people there just now.
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  9184. Gosh, who could have guessed that the little Nazi boys with the henpecked rooster on their shirts were actually anti-Semitic? At the end of every season where the fascists had their fun, there's a Nuremberg season ender. I don't want to spoil the plot, but it always leaves them hanging.
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  9185. Florida has been trying to achieve "herd immunity" for the whole pandemic. No mask mandates allowed. Low vaccination rates. By their thinking, this thing should have been over and done after just a few months. Instead, it's still spreading and mutating and infecting and killing. Oh and it's spreading to wild animal populations too. Herd immunity my ass.
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  9186.  @EdaugEthanbYT  With the way this disease keeps mutating to more contagious forms .. perhaps the target should be somewhere north of 90%?
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  9187.  @EdaugEthanbYT  I like your thinking.
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  9188. Just imagine how you would feel if you denied the existence of cancer (similar to the way ostriches stick their heads in the sand to deny seeing trouble) and you became a victim of cancer yourself. It's the same way with DeathSantis and covid. All he has to be happy about now is how his mismanagement of the covid crisis has helped cause the deaths of more than 62,625 Floridians to die of covid.
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  9189.  @ftboomer1  There's no doubt that Soviets did a lot of fighting. The amount of material aid is pretty substantial. They would have had a harder, longer struggle without it.
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  9190. You gotta remember, Trump loses better than practically everyone else. Every time he sets out to be the world's biggest loser, he wins that contest spectacularly. His losses are tremendous, the biggest ones ever seen. But what else could you expect of dummy who's never in his life suffered consequences from all the things he's done wrong? Sounds like Karma is strapping on her boots and fixing to make a house call at 1600 Pennsy Ave.
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  9191. Don Poorleone doesn't have too much flying time left.
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  9192. What exactly are these Republicans knotting their panties over? Surely they must be aware that Pence is next in line; that he can totally pardon Trump and anyone else; and that McConnell will 86 the impeachment the same way he disappeared Obama's supreme court pick, many other Obama nominees, and the nearly-300 pieces of House-passed legislation that are languishing in the waiting room outside ol' Moscow Mitch's office. What do they have to be afraid of? (besides the president's obvious guilt, that is)
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  9193. Umm, what you said would make sense only if it was the US taking over those spaces closer to Russia (which is not what happened) rather than those nations choosing to align themselves with the West for reasons of prosperity (which is what happened).
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  9194.  @michaelwilson9921  Edit - had to get some numbers - according to the 1989 Soviet census, the total population of the USSR was 286,730,819 .. and according to the 2008 Russian census, the population of Russia was 142,737,196. Under the smothering guise of Marxism, Russia ran the USSR like a top-down empire for its own benefit. Resources, people, whole companies etc were all liable to be taken by the Russians. They took all the best and brightest and prettiest from the provinces to serve back in Russia. Losing the USSR was quite the blow to Russia whereas losing the Soviet boot on their neck was quite the boon to places like Poland, Ukraine, and other former SSR's. And they don't seem to be interested in going back to the bad old days either.
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  9195. Considering how many it's killed and how many it will keep killing, taking this vaccine should be about as optional as shutting the house lights off during the London Blitz.
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  9196. Just wait 20 minutes, and he'll be back to the same old BS.
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  9197. The perp is actually from Westfield, NJ. He merely went to college in Georgia.
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  9198. This is why I prefer the people (Farron Cousins comes to mind) who read 45's rants in their own voices instead of playing the tape. Can't stand 45's whiny singsong petulance.
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  9199. I would have, too, but 50's are kind of overkill for that setting. LRAD them until they're bleeding and unconscious.
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  9200. His spinelessness is the only reason Trump kept him around.
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  9201.  @karsaorlong3761  Actually the most telling numbers are the ones the Russians publish about their own domestic labor shortage. Seems the number is in the low single-digit millions for missing / absent / unavailable workers. All he's doing is ensuring that Russia's population will be substantially lower in 50 years.
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  9202.  @lucasharvey8990  Ask the Z-bots how many men & machines they lost trying to take one (1) Abrams. That usually hits a nerve.
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  9203. No, we do not. They are studying this "problem" in the same way we would assemble a committee to discuss, in slow motion, what food to send with astronauts on a journey to Mars. No hurry.
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  9204.  @rider3859  Once Trump and his collaborators are gone, our great country will be fixed. FIFY
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  9205. I can never tell if he's Uday or Qusay .. either way, it's time to go down with daddy's ship.
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  9206. Our finest are apparently using Robert Mcnamara's faded notes on how to do another Gulf-of-Tonkin thing. Hey, it worked in the 1960s and it worked again when they claimed Iraq had yellowcake and mobile WMD labs - which to this day have never been found.
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  9207. They're not just standing there .. those Trump/nazi/klan people are also hoping to intimidate and possibly kill some darker-skinned folks just to they can go on social media later and brag about "owning the libs".
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  9208.  @oldschoolfunkster1  Calling it an "alternative win" isn't going to help the RepubliKKKans.
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  9209. While Trump would probably love to have his Nazi/Confederate/supremacist base out there with the long guns at election time (to intimidate nonwhites to keep them from voting) someone probably told him that starting the party a few months too early might lead to an adverse outcome.
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  9210.  @rentfree1438  Re "dumb enough to get the jab" << That's right up there with "dumb enough to wear a parachute when jumping out of a plane".
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  9211. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  9212.  @carrollsanders9376  Surely we could ship them to China as prison labor? It would be safer for them.
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  9213.  @pixelninja3590  Re "the amount of projection coming from you leftists" << Have you not been watching the news all this past year? Trump told lies, his "fine people" tried to overthrow the government, his "fine people" have been responsible for nearly all the politically-motivated extremist killings in the USA. Listen up. The other 97% of us are sick of that nonsense. You're on thin ice. Go back under your rocks where it will be safer for you.
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  9214.  @pixelninja3590  "You crazies"? I watched y'all [qaida] live on TV committing treason. Why you're not swinging from trees is a mystery that may someday get corrected. It's the only good thing to do with traitors.
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  9215.  @ajdailey3698  45 could always post a video of himself heckling an empty chair.
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  9216. Checking in from Oregon, USA. Yesterday I went to the supermarket for the first time in a week. Things were much improved. Only a limited number of people allowed in the store at the same time. Shopping carts were being sanitized between uses. Distancing was being enforced in lines and at the checkouts. Perhaps 5% of the customers were wearing masks and gloves. They could have improved this by having disposable gloves for the customers and masks for all the store personnel, but apparently resources are stretched too thinly now for that measure.
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  9217. Same. When she speaks, you can tell she's dead inside. Like a Stepford wife type. shudder
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  9218.  @caveman-zd5yv  Russia is not yet out of Ukraine AFAIK, but certainly it keeps getting hotter for them. Crimea is definitely getting very warm now :)
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  9219. It seems crazy that insurrection earns less of a penalty than, say, DUI. If they had their way our country would have come to resemble Haiti soon enough. Conservatives keep screeching for political violence. What kind of happy ending did they see in that?
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  9220.  @anatolipek8549  When fascism came to America, here's what the Republicans did in 2019: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  9221.  @MyDruidess  Re "One example of many" << Hint: it just makes you look like another moron sheeple when you get fake-outraged over things that aren't even true. The border isn't open, millions aren't pouring across. Y'all [qaida] got too hooked on a steady diet of rhetorical hyperbole :(
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  9222. Stocked up on popcorn. Bring on the leopards. I didn't vote for Cheeto or any of the people who took votes from Harris/Walz.
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  9223. I'm in tears at the mere phrase "hybrid violation". That's a lot like a "partial pregnancy".
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  9224. Crazies get more conservative votes than sensible logical law-abiding conservatives do. Therein lies their problem. Thanks Rupert Murdoch :(
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  9225. We don't know yet that all those "political undesirables" from south of the border, who have been imprisoned by the tens of thousands, are in the process of getting the final-solution treatment by Trump's henchcritters. But it wouldn't be at all surprising to learn this later. Anytime the ethnonationalist rhetoric gets ratcheted this far up, large scale atrocities seems to happen :(
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  9226. More like the USA is the meth party that the Canadians live over, despite the noise and violence.
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  9227. Oh dear. I'm old enough to recall hearing the same sort of nonsense from those who called it "iron-fisted tyranny" when the government mandated that all cars have seat belts. In the case of the seat belts, just as in the case of the covid vaccines, these things save lives. Lots of lives. So pull that crumpled-up gadsen flag out of your ass (where you wadded it up just to feel constipated) and get with the program.
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  9228. Umm, there is not yet any proof that it even works. Do you not know how to do a news search?
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  9229. Somehow the previous 44 presidents made it through office without any need to screech for immunity. Crime much, 45?
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  9230.  @wo7925  They don't have any proof. It's hilarious. Just make a big batch of popcorn and sit back to watch them flail. Free entertainment.
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  9231. Kudos for UW for doing this! Does this concept scale up? What's needed to set this up in every locality with above 20K population? Good job people :)
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  9232.  @jacobstrouble6631  Actually I'm thinking Delta is doing a good job in the US. I used to think science denialism was a bad thing, but now I see it's merely one of the subtle means by which the good Saint Darwin keeps the gene pool at least somewhat cleaned up. People who ignore the obvious evidence and make bad choices that subtract them from the gene pool are - well - experimental life forms that failed the test of evolution, which is to survive.
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  9233. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016. For the love of country, do NOT let Republicans try to paper over the recent past when Tяump is gone.
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  9234. Yah. It's been like living through the hot parts of the cold war, and I don't mean that in a good way either. Only instead of the crazy coming from comrade Nikita, it's coming from the white house :(
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  9235. Every other country in the world worked to contain this thing. He just kept going to rallies and lying about it. And golfing. Trump held rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21, & Feb 28. He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7, Mar 8. And at some of those rallies he talked about how the virus would go away, or how it was a hoax, or how it was supposedly under control.
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  9236.  @davidarmour7766  Google search reveals that the USA is in fact 4.25% of the world's population (not 5%) and a quick look at worldometers reveals that the USA has 55,497 of the world's 208,073 coronavirus deaths, or 26.672%. Good call on checking sources, thanks. It is in fact worse than the original poster said.
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  9237.  @supermushroomariojenkins1717  Bingo. Because when someone goes to work for Clump, you can start counting down the days until Clump is saying he doesn't know them, might have been in a few pictures with them, but he's in a lot of pictures with a lot of people, and people call him up all the time and say, "Sir, those are really great pictures. Really fantastic."
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  9238. Remember Trump's 2017 comments about whistleblowers? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-veterans-accountability-whistleblower-protection-act/
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  9239.  @boxsterman77  Bingo. But but but I betcha the House/Senate oath of office doesn't specifically mention "support" for the Constitution -- just to "preserve, protect, and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic."
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  9240. The goal of this nonsense is to protect Trump from being prosecuted for his crimes and to hand him the powers of a dictator, over the wishes of the people. Culties being culties :(
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  9241. Thank you for spelling it correctly.
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  9242. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  9243. All of the cases are getting tossed anyway due to a complete lack of evidence. Who would have thought that a judge needed evidence? What do they think this is, the senate impeachment trial?
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  9244.  @muninrob  It's a more touching part of Trumpanzee insanity that they fancy themselves the only people in America with guns .. or vehicles.
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  9245. To be fair, people wouldn't be at his rallies unless they were the sort who prefer hearing his weird sing-song lies over the actual truth.
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  9246. @Charles Brightman Given Trump's total disdain for law, I wouldn't put it past him to use US drones, based in Europe, to carry out hits on Iranian people/property.
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  9247.  @jefferyyoung5401  And now he's demanding that the rule book be torn up so he can be declared the winner, two years later.
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  9248. Because Rupert Murdoch.
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  9249. Then Rhonda had better pull on those high heel boots and start goose stepping ;)
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  9250. Fleecing? Hardly. All of the older, more obsolete stuff is being sent to Ukraine. And we're billing them for it!! The newer and more sophisticated stuff has not yet been sent into combat anyway.
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  9251. It didn't help Republicans that they embraced the Handmaids Tale as a blueprint for the future instead of the cautionary dystopian novel that it is.
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  9252. I get the feeling Mr Kinzinger's political career is not over. Perhaps he's just sitting out the time when the crazies are running the GQP.
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  9253. The sad part is .. knowing Trump, he's probably very angry at Susan Collins, and other Republican senators, for not having worked hard enough to sway members of the other party to vote his way. Knowing Trump, he's probably plotting his revenge against all of them. Why they all line up to be used by the f*ck-and-chuck guy is beyond me.
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  9254. Actually he needs a DP and at least two cameras. Preferably someone who knows sound too.
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  9255. Huh. It looks like the easiest way for any random American to actually get a cv19 test is to fly to South Korea. Good luck getting one here. I've got three friends recovering from presumptive cv19 who still have not been tested.
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  9256. @Smiley Chris Good luck with your hopey-changey that the popular and electoral votes already cast & counted are suddenly going to morph into something they're not.
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  9257. If conservatives didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have standards at all.
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  9258. To be fair, it's hard to carry out a coup without hurting/threatening all the people who try to keep their nation from being lost to fascism.
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  9259. That's because they're delusional cult members. They have access to the same news everyone else does, and the news has been clear how Trump's vote-fraud cases have been tossed out of every court for lack of evidence. They just don't want to hear it.
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  9260.  @OregunAdventure  Could you provide an example of what you mean? Tks.
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  9261.  @OregunAdventure  Please tell me you're still researching your alt-facts for a working example of what you said above regarding "delusional is the masses believing the news. Very easy to pick apart the lies."
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  9262.  @OregunAdventure  Wait. So you can't provide a single working example of what you mean? Color me surprised. Oh, and if you can't put your money where your mouth is, don't bother replying to any of my comments from now on. I prefer to talk with responsible adults, not delusional kool-aid drinkers with faulty thought processes.
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  9263.  @Anonomyous-4132ts  That's probably why Tuberville is holding up military promotions. So that Trump can staff those positions with his own loyalists, as he did a few years back to slow down any police/guard response to the 1/6 insurrection.
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  9264. More like, it's been 2+ years of the water heating up, and now finally our little Kremlin frog is beginning to squeak that he's feeling some heat. FIFY comrade.
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  9265.  @Dcoleman523  Well, considering that the ultimate realization of Republican policies is to be found in one particular nation (religion and guns everywhere; almost no taxes; almost no regulations; almost no government; etc) I've often wanted to airlift those people to Somalia so they can experience what they've been working towards here. It might wake them up.
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  9266.  @mrannymus  Russia began the conflict with a lot more stuff (planes, tanks, men) to lose than Ukraine. Presently Russia is fulfilling its potential to lose these things at rates far higher than the replacement rates.
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  9267. Here's Trump's legacy: No Obama investigations. No Obama Special Counsel investigations. No Obama administration indictments. No drama... Obama. Hillary Clinton Benghazi "Investigation" 4 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Hillary Clinton Email "Investigation" 2 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  9268.  @EconLessons  That "low cognitive function" aspect is much on my mind every time I see the content of Vasya in the Hay. Through comments on one of his videos I saw that mini documentary series about the run-down apartment complex people referred to as "the pentagon" :( wish I could unsee it.
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  9269.  @pavmx703  There are videos of his soccer playing online. Perp is from Westfield, NJ, and it's an open question what his juvie records say. His prints were already on file, so he's known to the law.
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  9270.  Badger Colony  Hahah, you still don't get it, do you, moron? You don't know that closing your eyes to [whatever] does not make that thing go away? You're someone's useful idiot.
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  9271. Trump says one bit of absolute truth at his rallies. He's said it many times. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  9272. But but but Cheetolini was in charge of the FBI at the time. So the agents were working for him? (I give up, conservative brains are miswired)
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  9273. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian. Didn't know we had so many B & C people here, but if therapy & medications don't work, we probably need to escort them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back. Just having them here is likely to take down our country and our society. They're like a cancer.
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  9274. You're delusional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wak8UQebNDs
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  9275.  @hippyfrog  Who would have thought that Mr Delusional above had a few more inbred cousins in the family tree. I'll happily drive you to wherever they've got bodies stacked in reefer trucks just to get the point across to you, stupid and delusional though you may be.
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  9276. That "bad girl with a gun" is like the female version of George Zimmerman. Huh, maybe those two will hook up. Just don't let them reproduce please. Or maybe Saint Darwin will put her in the same place as a good girl with a gun and things will sort themselves out the usual way.
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  9277. During the last great depression, the government worked hand-in-hand with the banks to preserve the interests of the banks. Millions were evicted from their homes and farms as a result of prioritizing the needs of the bean counters above all else. Not expecting anything different this time .. except we know what's coming now.
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  9278. Trump at his worst is the same as Trump at his best: quite literally, he has only one tool in his toolbox.
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  9279. This ad has aged well. Trump hasn't, though.
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  9280. One supposes that Clarence Thomas signed one too :(
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  9281. Some of the contractors are WAY off the leash .. but then, we did warn Putin that some very bad things would happen to Russia if he attacked Ukraine.
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  9282.  @matejebach5487  Personally, I think testing is of limited value, even for individuals. By the time you test positive you've already been spreading the virus for up to a couple weeks. The US ranks low in healthcare quality .. and that's about to whack us very hard.
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  9283. Speaking of petty and vindictive .. who else remembers January 20th this year, when Trump sent the white house staff home so that no one would be there to welcome the Bidens? Petty to the very core.
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  9284. Should be more like 5000 now, considering what Russia obviously wants next. Oh and start making lots of long-distance AI drones that run in swarms.
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  9285.  Grahame Wells  I like your line of thinking. He may be the complete-asshole out of a nice fam, and maybe they're just letting him find his own way out of the family pictures.
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  9286.  @carolinemaybe  And yet, anyone with even 1/3 of a functioning brain would not want civil war (open domestic warfare) to come to their land. Ask anyone who lived through the breakup of Yugoslavia, or the siege of Sarajevo - they'll tell you how "glorious" it is :(
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  9287.  @elmolewis9123  Here in Oregon, our governor has finally had it with the crazies, I think, because she told them they can open their schools if they think it's safe to. All those alt-reich crazies are about to get a lesson in how the health measures have been attempts to stop a disease, not attempts to deprive them of their essential freedumbs (sic) and enslave them through mask wearing. Can't fix stupid.
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  9288. Breakthrough clusters! Keep your masks handy, people, we're not out of this yet.
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  9289. Does everyone remember the Greenland thing? (Greenland is part of Denmark) First, he makes a buy offer to Denmark, then claims it was a joke, then cancels his meeting with the PM of Denmark on some dumb excuse (dog ate homework), then claims the cancelation had nothing to do with Greenland, then only weeks later admits that he canceled the meeting because his Greenland buy offer was rejected. At every step along the way, his kool-aid-head fans rushed to and fro, trying to justify every new change of position and deny that he meant (or even said) what he'd just said. They're a cult :( and the cult includes senators, congresspeople, ambassadors, judges.
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  9290. "The forest kept shrinking, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, thinking that because its handle appeared to be made of wood it must be one of them." This is why Reagan, the two Bushes, Trump etc (and most GOP congress/senate members) pretend to be folksy ordinary guys -- even while they are crushing the middle class out of existence.
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  9291.  @DemoCATicMAN  Stinky45 is a red dwarf turning into a black hole. It's physics, it's inevitable.
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  9292. For $5 I'll take, buy an expensive new lectern and defraud the public by concealing her out-of-bounds personal expenses?
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  9293. On the plus side, those Trumptards will leave behind some nice jobs and businesses for the rest of us to glom onto later. We might have to peel the MAGA stickers off a few trucks but oh well.
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  9294. I wish the Republican party could have gotten behind the notion of protecting Al Capone, who ran a soup kitchen during the Great Depression and had other charitable interests. Trump, by comparison, has never done anything for anyone else. Not even the America he took an oath to protect.
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  9295. It should be a scary wake-up call to all Americans that the current Republican ideal is one party in charge of everything - them. What famous one-party states did they teach us about in school? China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, etc.
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  9296. My first thought was - sadly they must have Rupert Murdoch's yellow-journalism channel "FOXed News" available in the UK. Here in the US that's how most xenophobes get radicalized to commit violence.
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  9297. Just days and weeks after various illegal attempts to overturn the election results and threaten the lives of legislators and those in chain of presidential succession, Republicans are suddenly asking for "unity" and "coming together". Pull the other one. On this, conservatives are like the armed carjackers who failed at their attempt and who now want to sing Kumbaya with their intended victims and with the police, now that they're facing justice.
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  9298. If you feel bad about it, just send them what they would send you if you were gasping your last and turning blue - thoughts and prayers.
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  9299. Put it this way: Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is.
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  9300. Thank you for being one of like 3 people to spell it correctly. Not "Marshall Law".
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  9301. Trump is the golem that Republicans summoned back when they spent 8 years shrieking insanities during Obama's time. They don''t know how to put the word in his mouth.
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  9302. To be sure, we never had a president who openly pitted his fans against everyone else, cutting off relief funds to states that didn't vote for him, and encouraging his nutbase to commit acts of terror. The mess may last decades.
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  9303. They're going to lose a lot more of it. And that's a good thing.
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  9304. In any normal kind of country, stuff like FOXed Noise / OANN / Q-Anonsense / InfoWars / etc would be considered radicalist propaganda and get censored by the state. That sort of nonsense is why the governor of Georgia delayed the lockdown (his favorite network kept telling him the virus was just another Democrat impeachment hoax) and why a train engineer did this. America, time to grow up.
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  9305. Trump probably had conversations with each and every one of them. The kind of mob-boss conversation where he asks what they can do for him if he was in charge of everything. And Trump probably kept recordings of those conversations.
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  9306. He made it clear long ago that he doesn't care for anyone or anything else besides himself and his own momentary whims. He's calling for another coup, this time later during the summer.
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  9307. Almost everything you need to know about the current Republicans is that a) they yelled "you lie!" at Obama when he spoke the truth, and b) they clap and say "he's the chosen one!" as Trump continues to spout lies.
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  9308. Although Trump claims not to know Lev Parnas, the recording shows the US president taking Mr Parnas so seriously that in just 20 seconds he goes from not knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed, all based on one (1) person's point of view - someone he claims not to know.
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  9309. When Trumpie doesn't get his way, it will be kicked upstairs to his "hire court", the Supremes.
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  9310. Those shields look like they would burn easily. Just saying.
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  9311. If Trump really wants to get rid of Iran and make it into a pariah state .. all he has to do is become the president of Iran.
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  9312. Oh yeah, tell me about all the times the summer protesters killed policemen by bashing their heads in with fire extinguishers. Or all the times they stormed capitols with clubs, chemical weapons, zip ties, and flags wielded as spears. Your lame whataboutism will work better over on FOXed Noise.
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  9313.  @SuperMutant2099  Again, shit fer brains, tell us when anyone last summer a) tried to kill the 2nd and 3rd in line of presidential succession, b) brought a noose and gallows for executing public servants, c) beat a policeman to death with a fire extinguisher, d) tried to influence the outcome of an election, or e) tried to overthrow the government. That was Trump's "fine people" who did all that. Your attempts to minimize this are very, very lame.
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  9314.  @jeff_725  Yup. Pure whataboutism. Like ignoring the sea of Trump flags among the DC insurrectionists, finding just one (1) Antifa patch, and blaming the whole thing on the left somehow. Mutant was apparently dropped on his head a lot as a child :(
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  9315.  @jeff_725  This is my morning therapy routine. I got the souls of a couple thousand like him/her in an ecto containment system.
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  9316.  @jeff_725  As Darth Vader says, good managers lift their people up. Sometimes by the throats, while they kick and scream.
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  9317. Interesting use of the phrase "look like". Kind of the way the Pacific ocean "looks like" a large body of water. Kind of the way the moon in the night sky "looks like" a satellite orbiting Earth. Kind of the way Trump "looks like" Putin's sockpuppet.
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  9318.  @kiwihib  As the witty Benjamin Franklin famously said - "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  9319. Since Biden isn't Black (and thus easier for conservatives to hate on in knee-jerk fashion) the Big Lie had to be invented to keep the hate going.
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  9320.  Skip Frake  It's impressive that a place as rural as South Dakota (with no lockdown) can be doubling in cases even faster than a super-urban place like NY (with a severe lockdown). That's how easily this virus spreads.
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  9321.  @PrintProfessor  That's because Russia doesn't know how to be a nice neighbor or a friendly nation. Russia imagines everyone else operates as they do - use of violent force or the threats of force to accomplish anything. Russia knows nothing of friendly co-operation. So they imagine their adversaries are just like them, but on the other side of the fence.
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  9322. Responses when told of Russian interference in the 2020 campaign: Trump: Let's blame the "do nothing Democrats" Bernie: Putin, stay the F out of our elections!
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  9323. Pleased to say America is sending more precision munitions. We got your six. With love from America.
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  9324. A hate rally? That's being too kind. It was another Nazi party rally.
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  9325. Now's a good time to read "Hard Times" by Studs Terkel.
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  9326. Of course there seem to be too many who adore Trump precisely because he's a horrible person. And America's enemies are only too happy to bankroll him.
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  9327. Apparently Amy asked Greta for the correct pronunciation of her last name (when Greta was on DN as a guest) and that was her answer. I wondered that too.
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  9328. Tifany Adams is only 33 .. that's what meth does to a person :(
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  9329. The soap. You need to pick it up.
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  9330. We needed to build a whole bunch of factories just to fill the orders this year. Insane.
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  9331. In their recent convo (about the killings of that Mormon sect) I wished the president of Mexico had asked our Mango Mussolini to do something about the insatiable US demand for illegal narcotics which is the cause of so much trouble south of the border.
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  9332.  @england6013  There were those further up the chain. Their turn is coming.
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  9333. He probably told China they could fly balloons over the US as long as they wired $10K to his personal account first.
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  9334. Conservatives cannot describe, when asked, what "happy ending" or "favorable outcome" will result from banning abortion. That's because there isn't one. The reality is 10yo's being forced to give birth to their abuser's rape baby :(
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  9335. I prefer the Russian name: Pravda Social. Has a nice ring to it as well as the correct connotations.
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  9336. Some of us are better at seeing through the chaff than others, but it's been a long time since that was included in grade school curriculum.
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  9337. In a manner reminiscent of kids who know the dangers of licking the frozen pump handle but who are nonetheless too fascinated/horrified to resist, Trump is the rope the Republicans seem unable to resist hanging themselves with.
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  9338. Speaking of failing fossil fuel enterprises being propped up by the law - did anyone else catch how Murray Energy just this week filed chapter 11? Robert Murray (CEO until just a few days ago) was a major Trump donor and was able to dictate to Trump which environmental rules he wanted changed or eliminated - and America's most corrupt president was only too happy to quid-pro-quo that. Solyndra anyone?? And even with that help Murray Energy still went under. Sad!
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  9339.  @klyvemurray  One imagines that the question Biden gets most frequently, from allies who Trump abused in various ways, is what America has done to prevent an even worse fool than Trump from getting into power at some future time? America very nearly failed the test of a close brush with a populist fascist leader. And the people who most loudly boast of how they can use their 2A rights to prevent tyranny instead enthusiastically supported said tyranny.
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  9340. Scary. Is there no limit on how thick the rose-colored glasses are among his delusional followers?
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  9341. IQ45 has yet to realize that not everyone in the world is as dumb/forgetful as he is. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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  9342. You heard the nice lady. Jeebus will protect her.
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  9343. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  9344.  Marc Meadows  Only the people who broke laws. Some of the people arrested didn't break into the building, but violated curfew laws, so, yeah, breaking the law is the bar for receiving punishment.
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  9345.  @eileennovak1656  Agreed, way too much collateral damage. Not to mention the millions of covid orphans who've lost providers, parents, grandparents. That didn't have to happen.
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  9346. Trump was always going to do this anyway. I'm only surprised it didn't happen earlier :(
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  9347.  @rhlang11  Indeed, they are trying to outdo each other in promising future cruelties.
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  9348.  @kwsssssssssss  I tune into these comments sometimes only to see what new shiny thing Tucker "Lord Haw-Haw" Carlson was waving about the previous night.
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  9349. LOL eastern WA is practically like part of Idaho. Even when the mask mandate reappeared, the only change was that the signs went up at supermarkets saying that everyone needs to be masked. The rule was universally ignored and not being enforced at all - I was there for maybe a week after the rules changed.
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  9350.  @slotsnchips  Umm, I used the word "cult" due to its very specific meaning. If you are old enough, you may remember Leslie Van Houten (part of the Charles Manson cult) making a spectacle of herself in court during her first trial. By the time of her second trial, she dimly began to realize that things were not as the Maximum Leader had said. In the same way that you can note the presence of a magnet by its effect on iron filings, or the presence of a black hole by its effect on the orbits of nearby celestial bodies, you can safely infer the presence of a cult leader by his effect on his sheeple. A recovering Trump cultist, who's spoken at length upon the process of recovering from being sucked into a cult, is Michael Cohen.
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  9351. If they're not going to blame it on Jewish space lasers, it's not worth making a batch of popcorn to laugh over.
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  9352. FOXed Noise should at least include a disclaimer that none of their crew, Hannity, Carlson, Doofusey, Ingraham, etc will bother to show up for the funerals of those who died from their bad advice.
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  9353. Re "people vote for somebody who thinks so low of them" << AKA Stockholm Syndrome. It's why trees keep voting for the axe :(
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  9354. Correct. And the nicest thing we can do is find more prison space for them. Let them sulk with Leslie Van Houten, a cult crazy from a different era.
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  9355. Yup :( And to make it even more horrific, the effective political spectrum in America is limited to Manchin/Sinema on the "left" and Trump/Gohmert on the right. Wtf. The whole spectrum has been dragged far to the right, basically in Hitler's backyard :(
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  9356. If the nuclear service is as bad as the Russian army, air force, and now navy have revealed themselves to be, the missiles won't even work, and the guys in charge will have been selling off the components to the black market. Putin's contribution to world history is to show us that Russia belongs in the G50, not the G7.
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  9357.  @gobbleobble4  Ever look at the steep hill (up to River View cemetery) on the west side of the Sellwood bridge? That whole hillside is probably coming down. The matter of getting across the river will be the least of anyone's worries. Fires, thirst, starvation, violence, cholera await the survivors :(
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  9358. Their official merch now reads something like "Trump 2024 .. the rules have changed" which I take to mean there will be further armed insurrections.
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  9359. The only tool in Trump's toolbox is a bludgeon, and his sole tactic is to hurt folks until they do what he says.
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  9360. McConnell's spine puts in only the briefest of appearances. He'll be back in line soon enough :(
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  9361. This is the proverbial $64K question. The overbearing, obnoxious GOP obstruction of president Obama would probably have never happened but for FOXed Noise wailing at the easily-misled, day in and day out, that Obama was taking their guns, forcing them to live under Sharia law, etc. Obviously any Republicans that survive the election will probably do the same, so let's just vote them all out to be safe.
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  9362.  @ablincoln2354  People like that are flummoxed by facts :(
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  9363.  @r3d4cted31  Trump inspired so much violence that even the children of his kkkult followers immediately began acting out their worst impulses right after the 2016 election. Read the quotes. It's sickening what violence he inspired: https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
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  9364.  @r3d4cted31  Also during Trump's time, the US reich-wing nutters took up using vehicles to ram crowds, starting with James Alex Fields Jr in Charlottesville and continuing to the current day. By the end of 2018, reich-wingers were responsible for nearly all domestic terror in the US. You can sum it up by saying that Trump's people are the best bunch of willing dolts to come along ever since in the 1930s Hitler convinced some "patriotic" Germans of some "Jewish menace" that there was no proof of. You know the rest of that story.
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  9365.  @r3d4cted31  Ironically, those oppressed working people got behind a guy who won't pay his fair share of taxes, who won't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and who moves the production of his trinkets overseas .. in other words, they support the rich guy who does to them precisely what they're complaining about "elites" doing to them.
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  9366.  @drugmoney4996  Sorry, Russian bot, the death numbers are real. Just 1 month ago, April 10th end-of-day, the US was at 18,747 dead from the virus. This morning it's already over 80,000. If you want to see more American lives lost, keep telling people it's "just a flu". Heck, Trump is scared of it, he's making everyone around him get tested constantly. No one ever had to do that for the flu.
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  9367.  @drugmoney4996  VP Pence just visited Israel yesterday and this time he was wearing a mask. BTW I'm happy to drive you to NYC so I can stick your stupid mug into a truck full of covid corpses, if that's what it takes to awaken your dim mind to the reality of this thing.
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  9368. When the people running agencies want to please boss Trump, they will do anything imaginable to keep the numbers as low as possible. The Ostrich approach. Here in Oregon you can't get testing unless both a) you're already in hospital for respiratory issues, and b) you've already tested negative for the flu. Somewhere, some Republican flunky is happy because they're keeping the number artificially low.
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  9369.  @themattaos1120  Bingo, and they're not listening to God when they hear a voice telling them to install a wannabe dictator who lost the election. The voice they're hearing is from the Upside Down.
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  9370. One of the very best from LP!
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  9371.  @mehdihatami3391  You may feel differently when they're people voting in a fascistic regime that wants to sterilize immigrants. Oh wait. Trump's people already DID that. Sorry bro/whatever, but tolerating intolerance in your body politic is like saying that your own stage 4 liver cancer cells have every right to exist, therefore you're refusing treatment. Guess how that story ends. Same as in Nazi Germany.
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  9372. Like a battleship-sized anchor dropped onto the deck of a 40-foot wooden yacht, Trump will enact his famous reverse Midas touch on the Republican party. Even Biden's dogs are more popular than Trump ever was.
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  9373. Trump won't let his own kid go to school. Wouldn't want his own son to get sick. But he doesn't care if everyone else's children get sick.
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  9374. This is like watching Leslie Van Houten shriek out Charles Manson nonsense during her first time in court. It wasn't until years later that poor Leslie dimly began to perceive that she'd simply been misled by someone who was obviously a nut job.
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  9375. Meanwhile .. ATACMS has entered the chat.
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  9376. Take a moment to remember those Republicans who spent more than half a week in a tizzy because Obama wore a tan suit, or who did years of investigations over four (4) US deaths in Benghazi. Then contrast that with their silence (or their outright approval) as Trump subverts the rule of law, violates his oath of office, and openly plots to steal the election. They are collaborators, as are the people who support them. In Norway they'd be called Quislings.
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  9377. In other words, Musk has gone full Mike Pillow, making wild claims and offering no proof. Huh. Typical of 45's culties.
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  9378. It would seem that the good doctor was measuring the quality of response by Australia having few infections & deaths.
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  9379. Zelinskyy is giving Sputin a master class in how to be a leader. Of course Sputin isn't listening.
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  9380. The reason people like the caller are cult members is that Trump has been very painfully obvious to everyone (including said followers) that his character is composed of entirely negative characteristics. He is spiteful, angry, vindictive, psychotic, untrustworthy, irresponsible, vainglorious. And the more he displays those negative characteristics, the more his loyal followers love him. Normal people would be repelled by Trump's negative characteristics, but not the cult members. They love him all the more when he gets more negative.
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  9381. Farron, the problem you're talking about is akin to trying to go around putting out fires in the wake of someone dropping firebombs from their fleet of bombers overhead. Cut the lies off at the source.
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  9382. Trump voters care about only one thing, and they are willing to tolerate all of Trump's many flaws for it. The one thing is racism. These intolerant, unhappy, miserable, paranoid, delusional, morally bankrupt people, dream of a country with no muslims, no hispanics, no blacks, no jews, no asians, no indians. etc. They are hateful of non whites, and even hate themselves. Even Trump's economic policies don't appeal to most Trump supporters. They know trickle down doesn't work. They know conservative economic policy is to the advantage of the wealthy. The wall is symbol of Trump's presidency- a symbol of hate. Not just hate for people coming across the border, but hate for all non white people, legal or illegal. Some of these Trump voters blame democrats and republican "sell outs" for opening immigration in 1965. They say that diversity was "forced" upon them. I've read many comments from them, repeatedly echoing, "We're taking our country back". I never understood what that meant at first, but now I know that it's another one of their war cries against people who are racially or religiously different. It is a completely hateful and pessimistic view. I suppose a percentage of the voters for Trump are not racist or intolerant, and support Trump strictly for economic reasons. But look at Trump's Immigration adviser, Stephen Miller; hes a confirmed white supremacist. (jew) The number 1 aim for Trump's presidency is to reverse the trend of diversity and as a result, to oppress non whites, for the benefits of white people. It's an attempt to step into a virtual time machine and go back 75 years. They believe that history can repeat itself, but in my opinion, that belief is wrong. White people have paid a price, either in losing their jobs, their freedoms, or their dignity as a result of blatant racial discrimination or violence. I believe in 2019, decent people of all races and religions do not tolerate this backward looking view and we cant survive very long with an us vs them mentality.
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  9383. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  9384.  @carolwilhelm1810  Unfortunately some people don't have the vocabulary of common good in their heads, and must be forced to do the right thing. During WW2, if the western democracies had relied only upon volunteer armies, we'd all be speaking German now.
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  9385.  @delfinorivera1015  Doesn't stop them from yapping - even as they turn a blind eye to Dimwit Don stealing classified documents.
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  9386. Hmm, then we need to have Nancy Pelosi doing PSA's on the covid vaccine. Let them put themselves on ventilators to "own the libs". By this time next year there will be more jobs and stuff for us.
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  9387. 45 "loves and respects" Melanoma SO MUCH that he had affairs on the side, paid way over the horizontal bop rate just to shut them up later, schemed to keep any coverage out of the media, repeatedly lied about it for years, and was eventually taken to court for it. Seems like the phrase "loves and respects" doesn't mean the same thing to 45 (or to Hicks) as it does to normal people.
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  9388. No doubt that line elicits snickers from all the people who figured out how to make money without losing / selling / sacrificing their souls.
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  9389. Sad. Yet another Republican who disregards the evidence & conclusions of the entire US intelligence community. Cruz may not have been one of the Prostrate Eight, or the Moscow Mules, or the Red Square Republicans (those 'patriots' who celebrated July 4th 2018 in Moscow) but he's certainly aligned himself with their nonsense.
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  9390. It's not as if Trump is a different person now vs how he was before the insurrection. This gal would have had to be nearly blind to miss the way he's a criminal con man and total narcissist who constantly lies to everyone.
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  9391. Our founding fathers clearly didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments.
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  9392.  @AndreasDelleske  I would love to come to Germany. Thank you :)
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  9393.  @ciarypowykonie3096  You might want to get your facts straight. In a court hearing earlier this year, Navalny said that the war would lead to "a huge number of victims, ruined destinies, and a continuation of the impoverishment of Russian citizens." “I am against this war,” Navalny said. “I believe that this war between Russia and Ukraine was unleashed to cover up the robbery of Russian citizens and divert their attention from the problems that exist inside the country, caused by the degradation of the economy.”
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  9394. Like other cult leaders (Jim Jones and a couple others I could name) he is a noteworthy cause of death among his own followers. Covid, bleach, ivermectin, chloroquine, J6, now this.
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  9395. Like George W Bush famously said -- when you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. And Trump hides everything.
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  9396. Vlad, is that you?
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  9397.  @captain_context9991  You might want to talk with the people who survived the siege of Sarajevo, where a pretty bloody 3-way civil war was fought between Serbs, Muslims, Croats. They don't seem eager to repeat the experience. They even recommend avoiding the experience if necessary.
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  9398.  @BigSmartArmed  Replace your projector bulb first - you just said a lot about your own Dad. Back @you dimwit.
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  9399. Contrary to what Blue Oyster Cult said .. sometimes they should fear the Reaper.
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  9400.  @garfield2439  What they intend here is much worse than Russia. There is no happy ending to the type of coup they fantasize about (overturning election results to install their demented cult leader) .. and there is no happy ending to the downfall of a democracy.
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  9401. Sure, because, to your thinking, things that are wrong once can never ever be correct again thereafter. Now that's flatland thinking for ya :(
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  9402. Thankfully Italy had the sense to see where things were headed with Salvini, who is now out of power. You could safely guess that the people of Germany and Italy won't be interested in dabbling with fascism / militant nationalism again anytime soon. The rest of the world, I'm not so sure about, maybe some countries need to experience it themselves in order to get the same lesson that Germany and Italy did.
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  9403. It's like spending 18 months telling people not to smoke in bed, and all those people do is get mad at you and not listen to what you're saying about the dangers of fire. And then the hospitals and the morgues get filled up :(
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  9404. A woman's right to abortion was settled long ago in Roe v Wade. The chipping-away that some states are somehow getting away with is like Alabama suddenly decreeing that Blacks can sit at the lunch counter only on the fifth Sundays of the month, then using the narrow loophole as a flimsy claim that they didn't completely do away with the right so that somehow makes it OK.
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  9405. MBS is correct in saying that he didn't order the hit. Most likely the 'smocking gun' for that is shown in one of Trump's transcripts held on the secret server.
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  9406. Perhaps some Americans want America to take its turn in the barrel. Thankfully, most do not.
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  9407.  @juniorgod321  If that's your best attempt to put words into other folks' mouths that they actually didn't say .. do you have an address so I can send you some coffee? Worst trolling attempt ever. Seriously, go back to sleep.
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  9408. Soon to be featured on America's Dumbest Criminals.
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  9409. Check out this old Russian TV puppet show called Kukly ("the dolls") that totally spoofed Putin back in 2000. They did a show in which blindness causes villagers to mistake an evil gnome for a beautiful youth.
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  9410. Well, you can't accuse the GOP of not being wholehearted about wanting to flip the calendar back to America's dark ages. They don't seem to care that only a shrinking minority of Americans support their regressive agenda.
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  9411.  @deborahrivera6064  Text of 14.3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  9412. Nope. It's because either a) it didn't make the front-page news, or b) you don't follow the news very well, or some combination of those. https://www.webstercountycitizen.com/news/article_3b20d186-399e-11eb-99f1-d3325059eda8.html
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  9413.  @GothicRichard  The Amish are not communities of loners .. they help each other a lot and do many things communally. According to the article their outbreak began back in the spring.
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  9414. There are tens of millions of Americans easily fooled into thinking that complex, long-running problems can have simple solutions.
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  9415.  @spud7823  Aww, I'm sorry your very thin skin got hurt by facts. You might want to put on some thicker clothing. Have you ever thought of getting "I am a plague spreader and science denier" tattooed on your forehead? Anyway, it's happening already. I'm past caring if the virus takes out a few science deniers. The gene pool needed some lifeguards anyway.
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  9416. So .. in addition to being the Coup Klux Klan, they were also pedophiles pushing the Q nonsense about Democrats doing what they were actually doing themselves. Not surprised in the slightest.
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  9417. The GOP agitprop/indoctrination channels have too much coverage. It's easy to find Dump45 voters who've never even heard about the 60+ election-related lawsuits that Team Crazy lost.
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  9418. Anderson Cooper actually asked her that several times and she kept dodging. She must be one of those "do as I say, not as I do" types.
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  9419.  @elinannestad5320  Hi and thanks :) I've been over on Reddit a lot but am still around. Hope you are surviving the pandemic alright.
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  9420. But I have hope. Several years after WW2 ended, and Germany was still struggling in the ruins, cold and hungry, it was hard to find anyone who'd admit to ever having supported the funny mustache guy. Republicans will probably behave no differently a few years after Trump is gone and the insurrectionists (traitors really) have all been rounded up.
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  9421. It might be somewhat safe for kids to go to school, but their parents may find it a whole nother thing when their kids bring home more than just homework :(
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  9422.  @hailsithis635  I was under the impression that the governor finally got tired of hearing from the conservative rural nutballs who, though their consumption of misleading media, have been thinking that covid is a hoax. When their tiny local hospital reaches overcapacity they'll finally get a clue. What's that saying? "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." -- Benjamin Franklin
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  9423.  @hailsithis635  My only beef with the choices that some people make (in regards to covid19 and measures to stop it) is that the burdens usually don't fall on the decision-makers. Ie, when a 30yo gym owner violates the law and opens her business, often she and her clients probably won't be the ones to catch covid, but some of the elder relatives, or people who work in the local supermarket, or the relatives of those people, might be the ones to suffer from covid. To me this is as bizarre as letting people optionally decide, circa 1943, if they wish to participate in the reality that our nation was attacked and is at war. And covid will kill a lot more Americans than WW2 ever did.
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  9424.  @ptronohv.5284  Like I said, they're going to bring home more than just homework. And Grandma is going to get more from them than just a hug :(
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  9425. You forgot the adjective "hateful", and without those activities the R's wouldn't be getting any votes.
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  9426. @Jack Stefan My bad. In California it's referred to as "reckless endangerment" not "public endangerment". The wording must have confused you.
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  9427. While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a non-starter, and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  9428. Shallow minds are fertile ground for the dumbest lies that wouldn't fool a cat :(
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  9429. In some ways you can safely use Trump's old Obama-era tweets as a sort of projectionist's guide to things he'd do as president.
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  9430. Better test for the new variant. It's 70% more communicable than the previous version. It's why things are out of control in London and Los Angeles.
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  9431. Jack Smith is a flesh-eating prosecutor who goes after the worst of the worst, war criminals.
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  9432.  @plantsgardenandthings2474  Honey, that's not riled up. You might want to grow a thicker skin for when you speak with actual adults is all.
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  9433. Not enough makeup to fix her Crypt Keeper looks. She sold her soul.
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  9434.  @jrraven3230  Trust me, chickie, I was alive and watching the news long before you were a leer on your drunk daddy's face.
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  9435. He already did something like that by exempting ZTE from his own tariffs just to get $500M in Chinese loans for a Trump-themed amusement park in Indonesia. He's basically putting the Onion out of business :( https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-zte-order-after-china-gave-millions-to-trump-organization-tied-project-2018-5
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  9436. Not many people can voluntarily make themselves look so stupid, so inept that even the Onion can't make fun of them.
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  9437. Let's take a moment to reflect on their privileged, white, Boomer existence. No, wait, forget it, you'll never get that moment back.
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  9438. Republicans are making it very clear that they do not want or need any Hispanic votes.
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  9439. This isn't an audit, it's a coup. Auditors don't shut down whole departments and dismiss thousands of employees.
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  9440. He's been seething for a whole month .. and now he's using the powers of government to dictate what private businesses can or can't do. Guess the Republicans are against government interfering in business only when it's not them doing the interfering.
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  9441. Yes, well, when things get bad, I'll have to ask people what Kamala would have done worse.
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  9442. Every society has people who are malcontent, easily provoked to rage, capable of being sucked into the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. Every society has people who, under the wrong circumstances, would be perfect little enemy collaborators, working to undermine the same nation that's protected them all their lives. Norway had its Quislings. France had those who opened their arms and legs to the Nazis. America has its Trumpanzees.
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  9443. Cool, now I don't need to watch Fox to know what they're saying there.
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  9444. Err, so Miller is his expert on how to handle folks like Diamond & Silk? Like letting John Wayne Gacy run the YMCA.
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  9445. And if they think getting rid of Trump is even possible, well, he's got a thing or two to show them. Only death will make him give up his grip on the nutterati.
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  9446. The thing that binds today's Republicans together is the vision of a permanent white-majority-rule USA or a future USA made of the counties that voted for Trump. Remember that map Trump loved to wave about? The big red low-population areas with the islands of blue? That's the map of the broken-up USA they envision for a redo of Rhodesia, basically.
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  9447. @anny791 Tell me about it :( Minnesota is showing clear exponential virus spread (doubling time under 10 days) yet the plan is to re-open soon. They had 5 most-new-cases-in-a-day records in the last 7 days. Maybe they can handle it at 400-500 new cases per day, but in a month from now when that goes up to 4,000+ new cases per day, what's their exit strategy?
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  9448. @anny791 To add again (sorry) I went back and looked at other major social gatherings that happened in Feb 2020 such as political rallies, then looked for subsequent spikes in daily new cases. It seems the delay between a large event and the spike in related cases is around 42 days +/- 4 days. It looks as if Trump's rallies may have been the main virus seeding events in Nevada, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Arizona.
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  9449.  @arnoschmadt2686  Everyone with more than 2 brain cells knows that not all who catch it die or even show symptoms - but no one will argue that (until an effective treatment or vaccine emerges) more cases will produce more deaths.
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  9450. Predatory capitalism requires a reserve army of desperate unemployed in order to keep the pressure on workers fearful of losing their jobs.
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  9451.  @selfishcapitalist3523  Hey, don't harsh on Somalia. It's a regular Galt's Gulch, what with guns everywhere, religion everywhere, almost no regulation, almost no taxes, almost no government. It should be a paradise by Repub/Libertarian standards.
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  9452.  @justanotheroldguy738  Re "All capitalism is predatory." - even when the workers own the enterprise?
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  9453.  @justanotheroldguy738  How do you feel about worker-owned enterprises and income-sharing communes, all of which exist here in the US?
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  9454.  @justanotheroldguy738  "Absolutely support them as steps on the way to a fully worker- controlled economy." Just so I can play Satan's barrister .. could you name some good historical examples of that so I can look them up and read more about them? Thank you.
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  9455. A hero! :) And he is the complete opposite of what Trump claims immigrants are all about.
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  9456. Farron - those colors looked good on you. A break from your usual stuff.
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  9457.  @BigDsGaming2022  Are you proposing some kind of war communism with no profits for those who are working hard? heh 😈
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  9458.  @BigDsGaming2022  Like I asked (which you didn't answer) - do you have a problem with hardworking people getting paid for their efforts? Funny how you want to blame the businesses/workers but not Sputin, who is the author of this mess.
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  9459.  @BigDsGaming2022  Aww did your tiny little feelings get hurt again? I'm sorry you can't find it in yourself to blame the actual perp in this Ukraine thing. Go play that tiny violin.
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  9460. Yesterday the US recorded 204,179 new cases in a single day, which is more cases than each and every one of the following 181 countries have recorded over the entire 10 months of the pandemic so far: Samoa, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Anguilla, Marshall Islands, Western Sahara, Montserrat, Falkland Islands, Saint Pierre Miquelon, Solomon Islands, Greenland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Laos, Vatican City, Timor-Leste, New Caledonia, Fiji, Grenada, Macao, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent Grenadines, St. Barth, Antigua and Barbuda, Brunei , Caribbean Netherlands, Seychelles, Saint Lucia, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cambodia, Isle of Man, Bhutan, Mauritius, Faeroe Islands, Tanzania, Eritrea, Monaco, Mongolia, Comoros, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Burundi, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sint Maarten, Channel Islands, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Niger, San Marino, Liberia, Curaçao, Chad, New Zealand, Lesotho, Yemen, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, South Sudan, Gambia, Thailand, Mali, Somalia, Uruguay, Aruba, Martinique, CAR, Guyana, Mayotte, Belize, Equatorial Guinea, Iceland, Suriname, Hong Kong, Rwanda, Congo, Djibouti, Nicaragua, Malawi, Andorra, Eswatini, Trinidad and Tobago, Syria, Bahamas, Réunion, Cuba, Mauritania, Cyprus, Guadeloupe, Malta, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Haiti, Estonia, Botswana, Jamaica, Cabo Verde, French Guiana, Tajikistan, DRC, Maldives, Latvia, Guinea, French Polynesia, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, Madagascar, Zambia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Finland, Cameroon, Australia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, S. Korea, Albania, Norway, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Ghana, North Macedonia, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Denmark, Ireland, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Paraguay, Kenya, Libya, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Tunisia, China, Azerbaijan, Greece, Slovakia, Moldova, Venezuela, Croatia, Georgia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Egypt, Lebanon, Serbia, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Oman, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Japan, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Qatar, Kuwait, Bolivia, Panama, UAE, Hungary, Jordan, and Ecuador. Meanwhile, here in Oregon, some rural sheriffs are saying they won't enforce the mask laws and gathering limits. It's as if they want those places to get as infected as North Dakota :(
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  9461. Don't be surprised if some of those foamers think it's their duty to spread the virus far and wide. Even before the shutdowns, some of our domestic whackadoodles were planning on it: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/488919-fbi-white-supremacists-encouraging-members-to-spread
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  9462. According to publicly available data (worldometers) the US has been unable to move above doing, on average, 150K tests per day. (clear daily diffs data available starting 4/5) At this rate it will take approx 2,100 days to test the whole population.
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  9463. Were these people pulled from successful homes and businesses on account of their religion? crickets
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  9464. To Moscow Mitch, that's a nightmare. But then he's an enemy of the American people anyway.
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  9465. Oh no, David, those people are far nuttier than you can imagine. Lost my parents to that dark cult decades ago :(
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  9466. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy.” -- Senator Mitt Romney, the night of 1/6/21
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  9467. Smart people learn from reading about the mistakes of others. Normal people learn from making mistakes themselves. Stupid people never learn.
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  9468. He'd just be taking the fifth for the whole day anyway. Honestly, those dipsh*t traitors still don't realize that taking the fifth does not magically get them off the hook for what they've done.
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  9469. This is the same nutball who, all his life, has felt that the world was biased against him. Perhaps he's been dumping in his drawers for a very long time.
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  9470. Let's see how long Putler wants to keep playing this "$40K missile vs way more expensive combat jet" game.
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  9471.  @WinteryMix84  Maybe in some neighborhoods in Idaho or Missouri, but not in the rest of the country. Fun fact - 70% of America's GDP comes from the counties that voted for Biden in 2020. MAGA is on its way to the dustbin or the loony bin, take your pick.
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  9472. Restaurants still packed in Oklahoma???? Wtf? Did they not get the news about this virus thingie going around? Save that picture. Within a month many of the people shown there will be in hospital, gasping away their last. Or, more likely, since Oklahoma isn't bothering to slow the wave, they'll just die at home.
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  9473. Lame and long overdue as it is .. this is merely Trump's way of admitting that he did not win the 2020 election.
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  9474. Beautiful place! I'm thinking those folks who summer there have got the idea of it. Bouncing between two residences, one very rural and the other not so, is quite nice actually. I know plenty of Americans who would appreciate a quiet summer place like that and would bring money. Does anyone know what is the river they cross to get to the village?
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  9475. These days in America, it's strangely normal for people to be obsessed with gun ownership and to repost Tucker Carlson's sentiments towards immigrants/refugees. So much for our well-regulated militia. The phrase seems almost like bait for the suspect.
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  9476. We all know Kayleigh won't hesitate to get right on it if that's what's needed. Now her Vegas stripper-grade makeup makes sense to me. Those lashes are so over the top.
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  9477. China announced this thing to the world on January 9th and published the genome of it just days later. They were calling, but nobody at the white [supremacist] house was listening. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200131114748.htm
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  9478. Truly, coronavirus has the best fifth columnists in America. Just imagine how badly WW2 would have gone for America if so many Americans had been working actively to help the enemy :(
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  9479. More like, what's the difference between Elon Musk and Tony Stark.
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  9480.  @Rafael96xD  He would surely not go to a covid funeral. It's well-known that one of the traits of psychopathy is a lack of remorse, and for sure he feels no remorse over the people who died based on his really bad advice. If he even admitted to it at all, there would be grounds for a class action lawsuit.
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  9481.  @Wordavee1  Speaking of Broken Old Crow (Trump's nickname for him) .. wonder what thing Trump asked him to do that was finally a step too far even for Mitch? We already saw how craven he was, telling Obama that 8 months was too close to an election to fill a SCOTUS seat, then helping Trump jam one through just 8 weeks before an election.
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  9482. He would be horrible if he wins and horrible if he loses. Same for his followers. Some creative solution may be called for if they prove to be problematic.
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  9483. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get. He can't even conceive that such behaviors are not normal for presidents.
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  9484. From the US - the people who adore Tr*mp are not much different from that. Unaware.
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  9485. Glad to see someone else caught that.
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  9486.  @tomstamford6837  Putin must have been in KGB-man heaven, to have a US president openly trashing the entire US intelligence community.
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  9487.  @tomstamford6837  Oh yes, I remember all that. I especially remember how Xi could just treat him to a nice lunch and some low-grade flattery ("And he said to me, sir, you really do have the biggest missiles anyone has ever seen. And when you're that great, everyone calls you sir.") and get anything he wanted. Putin took it to even further extremes. Julie Loffe has a great piece under "Putin and the presidents" (Frontline PBS) on that subject.
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  9488. It turns out there is a fix for stupid after all. Unfortunately there's not yet any major class-action lawsuits against those pushing covid lies.
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  9489.  @ShellyAnn1a  Ditto, I like the way you think. The insurrectionists should feel grateful that the professionals are dealing with them. Us amateurs would be a little more .. sloppy .. medieval .. perhaps overzealous.
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  9490.  @brianmelendy1194  I keep waiting to read in the news that governor DeSantis dispatched fighter jets to shoot down a rainbow seen in downtown Miami after a rainstorm. Seriously, Republicans are the party of licking lead paint chips.
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  9491. Trump had done this kind of thing before. The Afghani people and government were cut out of the loop of the decision to hand Afghanistan to the Taliban .. the people of Palestine were cut out of the loop of the decision to hand their territories to Israel .. and so on.
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  9492. That's why Zuckerberg's product is best known as "Fakebook" or "Wastebook". I guess now we're seeing why Zuck had those dinner meetings with Trump months ago.
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  9493. The last time the Russian military was in an actual struggle, it was against Nazi Germany, which was running out of fuel & weapons & everything else, and had just been massively attacked on the western front. Those conditions don't apply now.
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  9494.  @longagoandfaraway7868  Same feeling. Ever since I first heard of him in the news (maybe 80s or 90s) he's always been known as an angry blowhard, a vain and pretentious a-hole, shallow and immoral as the day is long.
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  9495.  @bootstrappedfriend1752  Have you got a chance to read "Oath and Honor", Liz Cheney's new book? Contains lots of material that didn't make the J6 Committee hearings. Very very interesting. Here is a Steve Bannon quote I never saw before, from the day before the insurrection: << All hell is going to break loose tomorrow… It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in… Tomorrow is game day… So many people said, “Man, if I was in [the] Revolution, I would be in Washington.” Well, this is your time in history. >>
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  9496. I'm not expecting them to do much but be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Like those ten Benghazi investigations that cost tens of millions but found nothing .. or the Durham investigation which cost millions and has found nothing. Throwing taxpayer money after pure pique is their thing.
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  9497. Looks like the covid-45 virus keeps trying to get a face-to-face meeting with King Tinyhands the Mad. Hopefully one of these days they'll hook up.
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  9498. Looks like the shredding party at the Pentagon is finally finishing up.
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  9499. Vladimir Putin must surely be pleased to get this level of cooperation out of Republicans in the US. Because his wettest dream is for Americans to take down our own country from within.
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  9500.  @michaellewis3104  In Indonesia, they fix covid denialism by having the deniers dig graves for those who die of covid. Takes them on average 2 weeks to wake the F up. Of course, some develop this weird cough that lands them on a ventilator, but they were stupid and would have learned the hard way anyway.
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  9501. Russians generally don't appreciate people who know them for exactly who and what they are. Makes them uncomfortable. They prefer to be thought of as exotic foreigners rather than the people of a poor, corrupt country with little to no experience in democracy.
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  9502. @cowsmart1 This thing is already out of the bag. The one known patient has been feeling unwell for at least a week so he's stayed at the hospital. That means he's been infectious for at least 2-3 weeks prior to that (depending on how fast/slow the onset of symptoms was) and that everyone who's stayed at the hotel or encountered him in that time is now a new potential vector that will crop up in a few weeks after they get home and start making new clusters.
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  9503. Trump's true color is whine.
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  9504. Obviously, any remaining allies need to stop sharing information with the US as long as this crew of drunk fools is running it.
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  9505. Well, if you think food / gasoline / baby formula would be cheaper after America has become a smoking ruin due to a hot civil war, you're about as delusional as you'd need to be to support Trump.
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  9506. He all but alluded to his relationship with the Brazilian version of the Oaf Tweakers.
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  9507. The great thing about Trump is that he won't listen to any good advice. They should rename the Dunning-Kruger effect after him.
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  9508. He's just delaying until he can attempt seizing power again, then enact revenge on the courts.
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  9509. Don't be looking for Wussolini to bring Americans together, especially since keeping us apart is his only means of hanging onto his inbred drooling rabid cult followers.
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  9510. I just hope his flying monkeys can someday recover from their stupor. By this I mean his fans who are basically just like him. Their minds are a mashup of persecution fantasies, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, spite, anger, confusion, hypocrisy.
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  9511. 45 finds Vance ideal in the important ways: a sycophant, someone who will echo his positions, someone who will insult the people 45 wants insulted, someone who will always suck up to him. Pence won't do those things anymore, not after 45 sent a mob after him.
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  9512. Looks like Alex Jones is the bus driver for the run from the looney bin to this hearing 😅😅😅
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  9513. Winecellar, you would make an excellent Drumpf attorney. It's just another victimless crime, of course, when the election loser asks Georgia to "find" just enough votes to declare him the winner - right?
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  9514. Try interfering with the election where I live, and you'll be in a squad car faster than you think. 45's flying monkeys are NOT welcome.
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  9515. I'd go as far as sending that ghoul Miller to the Hague for crimes against humanity. Thousands of immigrants/refugees remain "disappeared". No doubt they're buried in the desert, or their ashes were distributed in the ocean, or something like that. Because every time there's a populist leader using language like vermin, scum, criminals, animals, subhuman, pestilence, etc to describe an ethnonational target, somewhere else in the government there are boots on the ground burning bodies, shooting people, making kids drink motor oil, putting bodies into ditches.
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  9516. Face it, people, the only circumstances under which Trump would conceivably participate are something like letting Jordan & Nunes run the circus, and the only agenda that of finding the Bidens guilty of trying to frame the Russians for 2016 election hacking. Kind of like Al Capone agreeing to meet the IRS only if his people get to run his tax hearing, and the direction of inquiry is solely about the unfair auditing process at the IRS. Jeez.
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  9517.  @ryanmalone2681  If you insist that Dems are useless, that's your opinion. The J6 committee, unlike FOXed Noise, isn't the mouthpiece for any particular political party. Get back to me on this on three weeks. 😅
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  9518. It's nice of the Republicans to keep fielding presidential candidates who cannot win elections. Maybe Trump is the hill (of lard) they decided to die on.
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  9519.  @pinkysimms  Perfect! The way out of this is already marked and cleared: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/how-will-we-ever-be-safe-inside/611953/
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  9520. Trump's response to coronavirus is the real hoax. The US can test 16 coronavirus cases per day, and they charge $3500 per test. By comparison, South Korea runs 13,000 tests per day, available to everyone for free, and they even have drive-through testing. China can process a million tests per day. Trump is the hoax.
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  9521.  @theheretic3764  Yeah, the attention span of a gnat for having forgotten that incident. I'm happy to help shore up your failing memory if that's what it takes. Oh, and you can't answer my question asking for proof of what you claimed about Trump-appointed judges tossing cases "for fear of causing riots". In fact they were tossed for a complete lack of factual evidence, but that, like so much else, simply eludes you.
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  9522. Remember when Republicans spent 8 long years working themselves into a lather every day, screeching that a Black president was going to seize their guns? Same mental disease, different day.
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  9523. Makes me sick to my stomach seeing president Biden being nicey-nice with the guy who in all likelihood will do his best to burn down America and shred the constitution. Wtf.
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  9524. OP is much kinder than I would be .. the phrase "bad-faith grifters" is what best fits today's Republicans.
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  9525.  Southeastern777  Err I'll wait thanks. Been to Georgia before.
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  9526.  Southeastern777  Nah. It's more like I was noticing how many little towns had too many people sharing the same last name. In the rest of the world, where cousin-f*cking isn't thought of as a good thing, it's different.
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  9527. Putin is a trained KGB case officer, and GWB was the sucker he took with ease.
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  9528.  @ralphstube  Let's see what AG Garland does this time to help Trump. One of his prior acts of helping Trump was to wait until 681 days after the J6 insurrection to appoint a special prosecutor.
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  9529. Indeed, Russians were behind a lot of the covid misinformation.
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  9530. Even that famed Nazi medical torturer, Doctor Mengele, didn't stoop so low as to force women to bear dead fetuses to term. This is sick! :(
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  9531.  @8rikki8  Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Tяump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  9532. Stupid, gullible, want to believe all the Fox News lies which he helps prop up.
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  9533. What a campaign slogan that would be .. "He pardoned himself once before, that's how trustworthy he is! /s"
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  9534. Whether Australia's government puts on its adult pants is an unknown. This is potentially a worse problem than WW2 was. And WW2 wasn't one of those things for which your participation was optional, if you know what I mean. Here in the US we've lost more people to covid than to WW2, more than 600,000 people total.
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  9535.  @Memphis2010GFC  Regarding "There are just many deniers out there. The anti-vaxxers are the biggest danger to the community." << That is so painfully true. What those people are doing now is every bit as bizarre (and dangerous) as, circa 1942, claiming that the war news was "a hoax" and that only sheeple would participate in the war effort. Since when did people get to opt out of reality on such a grossly negligent scale? Scary.
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  9536.  @Memphis2010GFC  Regarding "I do not think some of them really know the impact they are having!" << No, they do not. The net effect of their actions is to increase the amount of suffering and death, the stress on our healthcare, and the time before this emergency is finally put down. It is as if, during the London Blitz, they are running around saying it's their "freedumb" to keep all their lights on at night, while Nazi pilots use the light to guide them to drop bombs on their city. If you have to ask, "How dumb could these idiots possibly be?", then the obvious answer is many times dumber than we know.
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  9537. Color me surprised. Those delusional inbred kool-aid drinkers would believe that the sun rises in the north if Trump told them to.
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  9538. Over here in America that's called "free speech", even when it's misleading and lying information that will cause people to lose their lives. It's insane :(
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  9539. Funny how Trump doesn't want to start with the US state of South Dakota, which has never been locked down. As a result of that, South Dakota now has the fastest rate of case growth among US states, doubling every 4-5 days. At their rate of increase, the hospitals will be overwhelmed in 3-4 weeks and the whole state will be infected in 8-10 weeks. Funny how Trump doesn't mention the one state that took his advice to heart.
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  9540. Face it, Trump is like Jim Jones or Charles Manson to ~42% of Americans. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  9541. Welcome to your new roles in the Trump Organization, dimwits.
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  9542. Mobsters Are Governing America.
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  9543. Trump's behavior before, during, and since the insurrection he inspired, makes the craziest mass murderers look like mere disgruntled employees by comparison. That's how much blood he wants on his hands. His tiny hands.
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  9544. Mewling newborn kittens, with their eyes not yet open, have more self-control than Trump. Perhaps that's why damaged people love Trump? He's one of theirs.
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  9545. Relax, people, it's not as if Trump will fire Pentagon people just hours before a massive Russian cyberattack happens (just coincidence, really!) or order American military assets to carry out hits on Iranians in order to provoke them to war, or allow all kinds of strategic treaties to expire, so the world finds itself in a newer and more horrifying arms race. Oh wait.
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  9546. Reality is obviously much too boring, and too unpalatable, for Trump and his flying monkeys.
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  9547. America's 0.001% ownership class wear the Republican party like a thin glove - that's why.
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  9548. None of the potential Russian presidential candidates (not even the ones who were pushed out, such as Alexy Navalny and Yekaterina Duntsova) spoke out against Russian colonialism in Ukraine. It would appear that turning them into sunflower fertilizer is how you get them to stop attacking Ukraine.
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  9549. Whatever gave Trump's allies that idea?? The way he hides in the white house like a scared little boy, coming onto twitter only to throw gasoline on the fires currently ravaging America? Or the way his rival is saying the words that a president needs to say?
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  9550. Coronavirus likes this.
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  9551. And Texas belongs to Rafael Eduardo Cruz's distant cousins on the other side of the border.
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  9552. Tying down Russian forces was the entire purpose of the Mariupol resistance. It was a success. The red ball express is up and running now, and Ukraine is assured a steady flow of progressively more lethal weapons with which to kick out the Russian invaders. Sadly, Russia doesn't do anything to improve the places it takes. It will require a shit ton of money sometime later to rebuild those places once Russia is kicked out. Every place it controlled after the late 1940s looked as if WW2 had just ended yesterday. And they certainly don't know how to build infrastructure to western standards.
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  9553.  @starpenta  Not only that, but she brought her parents (actual card-carrying communists) over via the same "chain migration" that Republicans whine about.
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  9554.  @velvetlensfilms3290  About Republicans .. faced with changing demographics, their idea is to make a Rhodesia 2.0, a techno-apartheid state in which minorities are systematically disenfranchised. As a consequence, we will have to spend every other year of our free time making sure that people register to vote, get to vote, and are not purged off their local rolls. We will have to make sure that the Republicans don't sabotage the post office and do things like having just one (1) ballot drop box for 4 million people whose skin color they disagree with.
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  9555. Silly Russian propaganda would have more contrast effect at the end of the video, I would think .. try it a few times and see how it goes. Thank you for your commentary! :)
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  9556.  @rosalynjeffery9510  Precisely. Best part is, 70-75% of the Republican party isn't enough to win them elections. They're chaining themselves to a guy who lost the popular election twice (just by a larger margin the second time), who polls nationally at 30% or less, who got impeached twice, and who's facing a whole bunch of criminal charges soon. But, hey, if they want to go swimming after strapping on a bunch of cinderblocks, let's not stand in their way.
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  9557. Trump clearly knew the Ukraine extortion thing was wrong, since he worked fast to cover it up and hide the records & motives.
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  9558. Obviously the founders left a glaring loophole for an outgoing president who might commit crimes so close before the inauguration of his successor that an impeachment couldn't be done on that time. Kind of like when you're busted for embezzlement just 2 days before the ceremony for your retirement after 35 years on the job.
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  9559. Funny how these same reporters never questioned Trump doing what they're trying to accuse Biden of doing. It's almost as if they're applying a whole different standard. /s
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  9560. Have you ever seen that big display of medals sitting behind his desk? He just loves them. Rumor says he gave them to himself for the military parade, for trips abroad, and for meetings with foreign heads of state. The 5-time draft dodger wants to feel so important, it's disgusting :(
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  9561. Realization is a slow thing in the land of twelve time zones. As Benjamin Franklin famously said .. 'Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  9562. The never-Harris voters are a sad, nutty lot. I've heard every excuse under the sun already from that bunch.
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  9563.  @ws2228  Neither the parent article nor my comment referenced rioters. Are you perhaps needing a little therapy to get something off your chest? Did you smash a few cars?
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  9564.  @ws2228  Since when were masks (for public health reasons) associated with any particular form of government? Medical personnel of every culture wear them. Dear lord you are an inbred dipshit just looking for any excuse to whine. Probably you were one of the 3 posters on Oregonlive.
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  9565. Lashing out is all you can expect from Trump. He does not know what to do with the virus. It does not respond to his threats, empty promises, stupid tweets, insults, border walls, or anything else he could say or do. And those things are the only tools in his tool bag.
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  9566. The stock market these days is like one of those underground coal mines that's on fire. Dumping trillions of dollars of cash into the flames isn't going to cover up the fact that the markets are ultimately based on consumer need & consumer demand for things, and right now no one's buying anything except the basics. It's as if the people in charge don't understand this.
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  9567. Republicans: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Then, later when they're in court, the party line switches to "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement."
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  9568. When 45 said, "We're going to turn it around fast" - perhaps he meant that he would put the US military at Putin's disposal? End democracy as we know it? Ban all future elections?
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  9569. It says a lot about Trump that he feels he has no chance in court whatsoever without the ability to have his followers issue death threats. If he's so innocent, it would be revealed in court with witnesses, evidence, testimony.
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  9570. Correct. The general drift is the important thing.
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  9571. Ukraine did NOT sink the Moskva! Instead, it is undergoing special submarine operations.
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  9572.  @zhanna5827  No, no, the Moskva is a special artificial reef donated by Putler to help the marine life recover.
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  9573. Do you remember the one few moments of sanity that McConnell "suffered" in the past 10 years? Let me share this quote: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  9574. If this is what they've been doing to the women, what have they been doing to the children? (shudder) Are there buried piles of ashes out in the desert? Because when a leader calls people animals, scum, filth, vermin, usually in some other corner of the country they're doing some kind of final-solution type stuff.
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  9575. Just as American businesses made money in WW2 supplying the nations fighting fascism. Apparently you have a problem with that, comrade.
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  9576. For some, with your attitude anyway, the "waking up" means begin put on a ventilator while you're still trying to insist that it's a hoax. The rest of us were able to read the news and see it for ourselves. https://radio.wosu.org/post/ohio-hospitals-dealing-covid-19-deniers-amid-worst-surge-yet#stream/0
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  9577.  @jrjr6456  Do you somehow think that in 6 months all of the people who got the vaccine are going to suffer horrible adverse side effects? If so, please cite the peer reviewed medical studies that led you to that conclusion.
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  9578. The GOP is running around screaming about the economy not recovering, but the history books don't contain a single example of that ever happening. This must be like those "caravans" they were screeching about last time.
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  9579. Perhaps it's for the best that Lake is refusing to concede an election that she lost as going by the vote counts. Showing off her character flaws for all the world to see is not going to get her very far in life, unless she wants to live in the same cluster of double-wides as Palin, Boebert, Bachmann.
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  9580. ".. so that we are never ever seeing 2020 happen ever again." At least she is clear about the Republicans not wanting free and fair elections anymore. Those elections tend to be unfavorable to the 1850s regressive Republican agenda along with its concomitant racism, misogyny, bigotry, etc.
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  9581. "The world" hasn't. Dump's cult sheeple have. Bigly difference.
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  9582.  @mrjerzheel  Since when have you heard of a war being paid with using a single lump sum? Does the word "consumables" register? Actually, funding Ukraine is the cheapest way the US will ever have for bleeding the Russians without risking our own people. And if Putin's clowns want to tango with a first-rate unit, 101st Airborne is parked over in eastern Poland right now.
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  9583. @IP WR Correction we are only 0.2905% of the way through this - that's what percentage of the total US population has been infected so far. It's a new virus so we have no immunity to it. The number is based off the cases-per-million number on worldometers.
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  9584. And that's why friends don't let friends consume right wing nutjob media as fact. It's merely "rhetorical hyperbole" - stuff they tell each other to get worked up into a lather.
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  9585.  @savenetneutralityanti-repu7029  When Rethuglicans start getting lit up by laser pointers, and when they realize how many people are sharpening pitchforks now, they'll start calling the 2nd amendment phony. Every dumb stunt they do (like storming the SCIF) just pushes up the percentage of people who want Sweet Potato Hitler impeached and removed. They're painting themselves into a corner.
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  9586.  Jerseygirl8999 m  She does try to sound like an American, but hasn't put any effort into it - kind of like her husband, who occasionally tries to act presidential but doesn't put any actual effort into it.
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  9587. What's so disturbing about Trump is how Republicans took to him like ducks to the sticky tar of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  9588.  @Swails-e9x  It's worse than that - Putin must be so happy that his "associates" here can throw a monkeywrench into the US government. Hope the Europeans can step up to the plate on Ukraine aid.
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  9589. He's trying to save his remaining integrity for the post-Trump future at FOXed. Hannity, Tuck, and others will twist their heads all the way around trying to say "Donald who?" come November 4th.
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  9590. Putin is very happy to see more Americans distrusting their own government. His manchurian candidate, Trump, is making sure of it.
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  9591.  @nolaj114  The funny mustache guy did the same. So that yesterday's outrages / excesses would soon be forgotten.
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  9592. Can't wait until someone finds Stephen Miller's memo about disappearing some of the missing refugee parents and mixing their ashes into the concrete of the border wall. At least that's what I assume has been going on. Anytime there's a government head referring to political undesirables as animals/vermin/filth/etc, somewhere the loyal brownshirts are making children drink motor oil, or forcibly sterilizing people, etc.
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  9593. Face it, Trump is like Jim Jones or Charles Manson to ~42% of Americans. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  9594. Michigan is a net donor of federal money .. so they'd be better off simply not sending Trump any of their own money. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2019/03/20/how-much-federal-funding-each-state-receives-government/39202299/
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  9595. Apparent Kristi Noem is that type of woman .. a puppy-shooting "force rape victims to bear to term" botox-poisoned type of female.
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  9596. Now I understand why the south lost the Civil War. Wow. Anyone who followed the story of the Diamond Princess would have known that asymptomatic carriers are how & why this virus gets around.
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  9597. A note to the wise - don't let Rupert Murdoch set up his Fox Spews in your nation. Its target audience is shallow-minded people who can be lulled into retrogressive thinking, which is the gateway to reich-wing thinking.
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  9598. Let's go BANNON! ;)
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  9599.  @typerkins7122  I'd settle for the orange pied piper leading his lemmings away. It's doubtful if many of them will ever recover anyway.
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  9600. Just a decade ago, Republicans were screeching about government healthcare killing Grandma. Now they're willing to swing the hammer themselves :(
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  9601. Am I the only one highly amused that some conservatives like to fondle their firearms and talk big about how the 2A exists to prevent tyranny, but then they completely ignore actual tyranny when Trump refuses to follow the law then subverts the judicial and the senate to protect himself? Guess those militias were just an excuse for the billybobs to get together and bitch about that "dictator" Obama :(
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  9602. Certain gullible Americans spent the whole summer of 2024 clicking on angerbait videos about an alleged epidemic of trans athletes competing in sports. Never mind that there are, what, 10 trans athletes in a field of more than half a million NCAA athletes. (0.001945%, what a yuge problem) They were irrationally angry about it to the point of being almost incoherent. That helped sway the vote the wrong way, which is what it was designed to do.
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  9603. Unfortunately, it serves 45 (and his Kremlin handler) to have the US supreme corp look compromised, partisan, available for purchase by the billionaire class. Even if it's them that did the purchasing.
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  9604.  @melissaweyrick5311  Ah, who could forget about Moscow Mitch? As a child during the polio epidemic, he received free medical treatment paid for by the US government. Ever since then, he's been on a mission to deny the same level of care to others.
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  9605.  @chrism1503  So true on how they won't even see this :( Heck, out there in Fox Noise land, the cult sheeple still don't know that 45 lost all 62 of his election-challenging lawsuits, or that the J6 insurrectionists have been getting processed by the courts.
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  9606. 45 sought to constantly divide the nation into his people vs the rest. He's still doing it. Somewhere in his scaly skull is the notion that America must be divided to keep his part pure. 45 did not inspire anyone to be a better person. He never has.
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  9607.  @Oregon123  "A small spot"? Land doesn't vote, people vote. Unless you somehow think that "one person, one vote" is somehow unfair to you? Show me where on the doll it hurt you.
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  9608.  @Oregon123  Regarding "this is a dictatorship" << Oh really? Do you not even remotely follow the news? Mike Nearman was dismissed by whom exactly? The legislative body of which he was a part, or the "dictator" you claim is there? Or what about the redistricting process that's been in the news lately? Notice the two parties still hashing it out? If this was a dictatorship, none of that would be happening. You got any other nonsense to share here?
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  9609.  fukk libs  Regarding "43.7 to 50.1 were the results" << If you're trying to tell me that the first of those two numbers is somehow bigger than the second, there are some kites you should go fly. All that reich-wingy nonsense about rural Oregonians feeling "deprived" of their political speech all because they're outnumbered by people living in the Willamette valley .. is just nonsense. Trying to say that "this many counties voted my way" (as an excuse for wanting to illegally flip some election results) completely ignores some extremely basic math that anyone can do using a spreadsheet. Oregon has 36 counties, and if you sort them by population you'll see what's going on. The top four by population (Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Lane) make up 50% of the population of the whole state .. whereas the bottom 4 by population (Wheeler, Gilliam, Sherman, Wallowa) make up 0.31% of the population of the whole state. Complaining about "all that red area and a few blue dots" is the same thing as claiming that land should vote, or that one's vote should count less if their neighbors live closer.
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  9610. Remember how the first rapid testing machines in the nation got installed at the white house? He took it seriously enough for himself, but not for the rest of America. And then he got vaccinated in private, kept it secret while badmouthing the science.
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  9611. @Jisundergroundfornow Exactly. I'm fine with Republicans keeping themselves from causing more harm to America.
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  9612. When Putin decided to pursue the agenda of, "I'm going to keep pushing this war even if it destroys our country and fcks our people demographically", perhaps he did not understand the full consequences of that. Ukraine is busy showing Russia what that means. With the loss of so many men in combat and the loss of so many educated professionals who probably will not return in their lifetimes, the country is doomed to even steeper population decline over the next 50+ years. Already this past winter the loss of maintenance/engineering talent caused infrastructure failure in a number of Russian cities. In this regard, Putin is behaving like George Weller did at the Santa Monica farmers market back in 2003, if you remember that. Everything he does to push this causes drastically differential outcomes.
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  9613. To be fair to conservatives - if they had to stop lying, they wouldn't have much to say.
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  9614. Germany got a harsh lesson in why not all speech should be protected free speech. Back in the 1920s they made the mistake of tolerating a hateful guy whose racist rhetoric inspired the worst in people - and later those people became his Brownshirt then SS goons. Pray we don't go through the same learning process here.
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  9615. That's too bad for Trump, since selling secrets is part of his plan to make money from having access to information like that.
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  9616. It's not an act. They want to enrich themselves off hateful politics the same way the Taliban do or the same way the FSB does.
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  9617. Possibly because of his vile attitude toward Roe v Wade? Possibly because he said women need to be punished? Perhaps because he cheated on his wife with a porn star? Perhaps because he's a convicted sexual predator and super-creepy besides?
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  9618. "Only" 681 days after the J6 coup attempt was special prosecutor Smith appointed. AG Garland must have failed in his desperate quest for a rug to sweep it under.
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  9619. Shame on loose Cannon for sitting on this stuff so long. So it's clear she knows he's guilty AF and so are a number of his flying monkeys.
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  9620.  @lineheuston-hanley7048  Sadly, those who call you "commie" are all unable to define communism by its actual characteristics. They're in some neanderthal thinking mode where "commie" means anything they don't like. It's pretty pathetic :(
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  9621. Matt PizzaGaetz whining about assaults on public servants sounds awfully hollow coming from the party that's howling to release the name of the whistleblower, the same party that's busy slandering ambassadors this morning, the same party that's standing in the way of evidence and firsthand witnesses from the white [supremacist] house.
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  9622. Thanks to either sheer cultism or ignorance of history, the ones who cheer for dictatorship seem not to realize what things would inevitably come along with having a dictatorship. Perhaps they could spend a few years living in Russia or North Korea to see what that means.
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  9623. Think of the Sturgis event as a pass/fail test in news comprehension, disguised as a motorcycle rally. This is like taking the safety labels off everything, and letting nature sort things out.
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  9624. This was just Putin using Rand Paul as a hand puppet.
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  9625. Russia is like the potentially good place being run by bad management. It may have to be in receivership for a bit.
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  9626. As this escalates, one morning we'll wake up to find that he's been exhorting his cult sheeple to stay home and make molotov cocktails and use them to take out the 'deep state' and minorities. And with him, it was always going to end this way. Who could not see that?
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  9627.  @nhutollinsky8913  Relax. Reversing the damage Trump did will be the second order of business, after the coronavirus and economic relief for unemployed.
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  9628. The B-29 allegedly had an air-to-air enemy kill ratio that was even slightly higher than that of the P-51 Mustang. That computer-tracking gun system was really something else.
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  9629.  @aaron3705  Regarding "what percentage of children" << You completely miss the point. By your "logic", molesting children would be OK because it doesn't kill them. Serious covid illnesses leave lasting damage. Childrens hospitals are filling up, indicating that the disease is evolving to better attack children.
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  9630. People have had about 18 months to absorb the news that there's a dangerous virus going around, and that effective vaccines for it are available for free. Who are we to stop the trash from taking itself out? #FreeDumb
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  9631.  @alanmalcheski8882  Re "this is America, and you need to identify yourself when you talk to the authorities" << Got any examples of what you mean? If a cop pulls you over, they're going to ask to see your ID .. yet if you see Ted Wheeler out and about, you can wave and say "good morning mayor Wheeler" and you won't be asked for any ID .. and you don't need ID to vote here in Oregon.
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  9632. I've already set up a bunch of accounts over there from which to lightly troll and to try waking up some of the sheeple. Good fun ;)
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  9633.  @gmw3083  Re "You blue n yeller fan boys have lost your grip on reality" << Coming from one of Putin's Baghdad-Bob styled bots that's actually kind of funny 😅
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  9634.  @gmw3083  Only if the sole "news" you get is from TASS/Pravda. For the rest of us who haven't got our heads up close to Sputin's sphincter, it's clear Russia is losing hard.
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  9635.  @gmw3083  You may as well run around screeching that everyone in the USA should be speaking German because, in your mind, Hitler won WW2. It is the same thing now.
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  9636.  @gmw3083  You speak of commonly-known bits of history as if they are secret things that only you could know. Thanks for the laughs. Been reading history since way before you dropped out of mama.
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  9637.  @gmw3083  Preserving US hegemonic empire is not what the aid to Ukraine is all about. For instance, they don't have a lot of oil and we're not bringing regime change to them to make it easier for US firms to get that oil. And Ukraine somehow isn't part of Latin America either. Do the collective nations of "the west" have some interest in seeing Russia tied down and bleeding? Hell yeah. It was a double-point-score when Russia took forces away from the Finnish border to attack Ukraine .. it removed a hitherto everpresent threat from the border, and it showed Finland & Sweden what kind of critter Putin really is. It's kind of another double-point-score right now because Russia could begin the military rebuilding process the day after tomorrow if only they could get out of the wood chipper that Ukraine has become for them. The longer Russia stays in Ukraine, the more it loses. The forces already lost there, and the ones currently fighting there, and the ones en route there, are all detracting from Russia's ability to exert force in other places. Perhaps Georgia wants to join NATO next. Putin is getting his just desserts for getting too close to the guy whose motto was "Anything I don't like is fake news." And it would seem that this whole Ukraine misadventure got rolling only because he made it clear what he wanted to hear from reports on the ground in Ukraine.
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  9638.  @gmw3083  Vlad, it's nice of you to take time off to troll, but, seriously, you should stop surrounding yourself with the sort of dolts who tell you only what you want to hear.
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  9639.  @gmw3083  Canadians are the people whose second-floor apartment is directly over the biker bar that's got a bad meth problem. Trust me, you don't want the biker bar to burn down just because you're mad about the noise they sometimes make downstairs. Oh and you may have heard of these cool things called media and the internet and books. So the news you get isn't strictly a foregone result of where you happen to live. Must I explain this to you for you to understand it? This is going to be tedious.
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  9640. FOXed Noise people don't know it yet, but trying to make Trump look better than Biden to the American people is like trying to tell the people of Israel why they should try having Hitler as a president. There's not enough spin to cover how inappropriate a choice that would be.
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  9641.  @evawurttemberger4994  I hear what you're saying. In other words - "The cancer was very aggressive, sure, but the radiation treatments and chemotherapy were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides."
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  9642.  @anitawindbigler7100  Russia probably does not care if 45 wins or loses elections. Russia probably cares most that 45 sows division and hatred here while also making the justice system look weak, preferential, easily bought and paid for. This is why I call the Supremes a "hire court" :(
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  9643. Chad Wolf is just another Trump loyalist, chosen for personal loyalty and not for any ability to do his job. Trump doesn't like having competent people around him, which is why he's fired most anyone who shows any spine.
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  9644. Charles Manson had the same effect on his [cult] followers as Trump has on his - up to and including getting them to murder. Stock up on the cheese, because the whining is going to be epic when they start claiming they had no idea they were being manipulated.
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  9645. And, yet, there are still people saying "But but but but Biden didn't look good in a debate that was past his bedtime." Wake up, people, the election is less than 4 months away and the choice is between a responsible older man and a vain, preening, narcissistic fascist.
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  9646. Trump's golf trips don't pay for themselves, just saying. He, Musk, and Putin are all big fans of OPM .. other peoples money.
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  9647. When confronted with an obvious lie, she just repeats the lie, as if she somehow thinks that makes it magically true. She's fking dense.
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  9648. Not only was ambassador Yovanovich spied on, with the options to turn it into a hit, but that activity was conducted by one Robert Hyde, an American, a military veteran, a Trump donor, and a wannabe congress person. Doesn't offering to arrange a hit on a United States ambassador violate his oath of service? He used to be a Marine. Maybe he needs to "go through some things"?
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  9649. Putin, who used to run the KGB, knows well how to turn a malcontent into a straight-up traitor.
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  9650.  @brianwelch1579  Then there are all the people who modify that little engine to get 300hp out, then wonder why it blows up.
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  9651. What a coincidence. America has wanted Moscow Mitch gone for awhile. Maybe Dolt45's broken calendar is correct now and then.
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  9652. Trump's not the only reich-winger who can't tell the difference between communism, socialism, and Biden's centrist policies. Republicans have gone a long way (in the direction of Pat Buchanan and Adolph Hitler, unfortunately) since the days when Richard Nixon signed the EPA into law.
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  9653. Trump's people are fifth columnists. It's not that complicated.
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  9654. Nazis don't have any humanity. They are the foot soldiers of a mass-murdering maniac, and as such they must be destroyed.
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  9655. Everything at Home Depot is going up. Yet another "promise" he could never deliver on.
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  9656. So, according to this SCOTUS, it's OK if Biden incites a coup the first time he loses a presidential election, and remains in power indefinitely? Good to know.
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  9657. Putin was warned, by everyone in NATO, not to invade Ukraine. We told him it would be a costly failure. He chose not to listen. As the saying goes - life is rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid.
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  9658. Someone did a particularly bad job fingerpainting that orange stuff onto the wannabe dictator's face. Does no one tell him how ghoulish his warpaint looks?
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  9659. Sure it is helping the GDP. They do dirty and dangerous jobs, or jobs that many native-born won't do. Those six road workers who died in the Baltimore bridge collapse, for instance, were mostly family men and were all from the Mexico - Central America region. By the numbers, immigrants commit crime at lower rates than the native-born.
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  9660.  @allisonl.7687  Those bootlickers have demonstrated that they have no regard whatsoever for the law. We should all keep that in mind. Even just during the election, they're putting up fake ballot boxes and labeling them as official ballot boxes, and they're cutting the cable going to a state voter registration site: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/13/21514473/virginia-voter-registration-down-internet-cable-verizon
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  9661. @Gloria Platt I have often wondered how America will do that healing. Of the people who stick with Trump precisely because of the horrible things he does and says, I hope that our nation can do an intervention of some kind to bring those people back down to earth or up out of the rabbit holes they've gone down. As gratifying as it might be, we can't deport all of them, and some of them are probably still Americans of some kind even though they've been useful idiots for Putin via Trump - collaborators, quislings, etc. This lesson needs to be made plain to them in some manner that they cannot evade knowing. For reference: nearly 90 years later, Germans are still extremely mad at themselves for ever having listened to or believed anything Hitler said. We got lucky this time that Trump didn't have Hitler's organizational or oratorial skills. We need to fix the structural weaknesses that let a complete idiot and wholly unsuitable candidate to attain office.
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  9662. Putin must be gleeful that his little apprentice Trump is trying to make America less together than it used to be. Seems the courts aren't going along with it, thankfully 👍❤
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  9663. Out in the vast IQ deserts of flyover, this will be spun as "OH MY GOD!!!! There'll be gays everywhere!!!!" So if you know anyone suffering the delusional politics that come from having a hyperactive amygdala gland, please help them. EDIT: this is the same level of Republican freak-out as when Dicks Sporting Goods stopped selling guns .. or when seat belts became mandatory safety equipment on new cars.
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  9664.    President Moonbeam said he's staying inside the white supremacist house until the emergency is over. The lack of rallies and golfing will do wonders for his blood pressure.
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  9665.  @TheMsdos25  OSP would shut that nonsense down anyway before it got to town.
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  9666.  @TheMsdos25  Hoping for a peaceful resolution. The most cost-effective thing being discussed now apparently is some transaction between the legit current property owner (the developer) and the family squatting in the house. Part of the sale agreement is that the fam needs to tell the activists to take down the barricades. That's some quality co-opting.
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  9667. Ignore the rosy polls .. just get out and vote. Make sure everyone else votes too. Let the will of the people decide whether to keep Sweet Potato Hitler.
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  9668. Translation: dolt45 has been given 3 more days to provide additional examples of gag order violations even after he was informed of the hearing next Tuesday. Basically he's being given enough rope to provide the basis for a summary judgement against him.
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  9669. Bad analogy, but it's like this: Newbie skydiver: "Hey, I've slowed down a bit. Can I take off this stupid parachute now? It's chafing."
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  9670. I find the lackadaisical activity of the CDC to be most frightening. Seems like no one has stopped to notice that the world's largest and most sophisticated police state (China, with more forms of tracking people than you've heard of) cannot keep this thing from spreading. We're seeing our first human-to-human contact in the US .. so where did that person go? Has everyone they've been in contact with anywhere been put into quarantine? Guessing not.
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  9671. Trump and his fellow traitors will need to go through some things. They and America will be better off because of it.
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  9672. Show me again where the workers are seizing the means of production? Yeah, I thought so.
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  9673.  @grandsons12  That's what communism is - workers seizing the means of production. It's so central to communism that if it's not there you're not seeing communism. Edit: If you've ever been in the same room as a history book, you would know this.
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  9674.  @porzto  Collaborator. Co-defendant.
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  9675. Funny how the US Post Office is the most practical & cost-effective way of sending out stimulus checks and census forms to hundreds of millions of Americans, even while some in the government (that's you, conservatives) pooh-pooh it. It would cost a lot more to use other services for the same tasks.
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  9676. Here's a blast from the past -- who else remembers that time, at his first SOTU speech, when Trump looked out over Lyin' Ted, Cryin' Chuck, Jeff Flakey, Liddle Bob Corker, Broken Old Crow, Crazy Nancy, Little Marco, Crazy Bernie, Shifty Schift, Pocahontas, Wacky Jacky .. and all he wanted was a little respect from people, respect that he thought he deserved.
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  9677. No one knows exactly when this overlong episode of the Twilight Zone will be over (45's time in the public eye) but the ending of it is pretty clear: when he finally realizes that he won't get what he want, his final act will be to induce his remaining culties to cause lots of trouble. He is the kind who would burn it all down if he can't own it.
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  9678.  @jeffnduran  Regarding "exercising their freedom" << You misspelled the word. It's "freedumb". Like when people drink and drive without wearing seat belts, or choose to fall asleep smoking in bed. When the idiots voluntarily remove themselves from the gene pool, in Darwinian evolution this is referred to as the trash taking itself out.
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  9679.  OpenTheVoid  "The ratio of idiots to smart people are scary" << Look on the bright side, there will be lots of houses, businesses, jobs, and other stuff for sale cheap later when this is all over. And fewer idiots around. Those are not bad things.
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  9680.  @jeffnduran  "You're more than free to continue wearing a mask if you want to, just don't FORCE others to." << Wrong, bucko. You have no more right to skip the mask, when the authorities require one, than you have a right to walk through a crowd letting off sarin gas around you. One more time for all the many dolts reading here: the mask primarily protects others from you, not you from covid (though it does a little of that too). It keeps the stuff that you exhale from getting into someone else's lungs.
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  9681.  @matthewchrist5399  Lincoln didn't lose elections, then lie about it, then motive America's Most Easily Gaslit into storming the Capitol.
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  9682. It's not "leaking" .. Trump's only real power (per se) lies in what he can induce his rabid culties into doing - specifically, the Paul Pelosi treatment, the Shay Moss treatment, etc.
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  9683.  HeyCrybabyLol  Crying over what? Dump45 has been tanking lately. Better send him half your insulin money ;)
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  9684.  @g4orce703  I know, I know, it's in your nature. (cue the clip from Slither)
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  9685. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been recalled. He has an office and staff now. Russians will not see the 35's coursing across their skies.
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  9686.  markinan B  Murdering? That's a stretch even for you paid Russian bots.
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  9687.  markinan B  Trying to save American lives - even those of people who consume propaganda because they've grown to like the taste :( Look, shake your head. There's a fucking deadly disease going around. You might not like this, but frigging deal with it like an adult. Sheesh!
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  9688.  @pongod5751  Got a link for that?
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  9689.  @colecooper5836  Translation: your white man feelings got hurt.
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  9690.  @beardedbill7047  Check out the date on that article. It's more than a month out of date.
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  9691.  Disney is the Devil  In this case, they shot in the head someone who wasn't committing any acts of violence. A civilian. All so Trump could feel bold from a safe distance.
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  9692. Seems safe to guess he could shoot Trump on 5th avenue and suddenly be the single most popular guy in America.
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  9693.  @Acujeremy  Trump himself said he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it. Yet no one stepped up and told him that nothing is accomplished with violent comments like that. Why?
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  9694.  @MS-ns2pj  Contrary to what they say on Fox .. the city is not burned down, nor is it taken over by zombies or homeless or Antifa. If you live here, and you have a job, chances are you were able to get to your job today and back without being assaulted or molested or bothered.
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  9695. California, you might want to check out what's happening in Yuba county. They appear to have a Delta outbreak already, and their vaccination is well under the statewide rate. Oops.
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  9696. The sole good thing about Trump inciting his people to speak out is that it lets us know exactly who they are. That tacky MAGA traitor merch is so visible. I don't forget.
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  9697. I deal with so many people who say "Don't worry, it only affects older people." That's like saying not to worry about the Nazis because it only affects Jews.
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  9698. Do you know what's sad, pathetic, and scary all together? It's the prospect that the thing that MUST happen almost surely will not happen. Enraged by violent rhetoric and by false claims of election malfeasance, a mob committed acts of terror and insurrection in the nation's capitol. This has placed the Republicans in a very tough decision place that's entirely of their own making. What they MUST do is get in front of all the cameras on all the stations, and explain to the public their role in spreading, amplifying, going along with Trump's lies about the integrity and the results of the election. But they won't, because they're craven, and because it would destroy them as a political party. Unfortunately there is no other way of releasing all the inflamed passions and anger that they just ginned up. Nations tear themselves apart for lesser lies than the ones that Trump has told and that the Republicans have gone along with. What the GOP will probably do next is go along with the election results (since they can no longer avoid that) while still pretending that they have not participated in the gross lies about the election. Their 74 million falsely aggrieved morons are the base that the GOP cannot afford to lose. So I doubt they will put more than the bare minimum amount of lip service into disavowing current and future pro-Trump terrorists. So that's what America is facing next: a domestic insurgent class of enraged Trumpanzees who might not be behaving very well at all. With a little help, they seem to have reached a critical mass of self-sustaining idiocy. There's absolutely nothing in our laws that will keep the Alex Joneses and the Rush Limbaughs and the Josh Hawleys from spinning bogus yarns about how the DC insurrectionists were just Antifa in disguise running a false-flag operation; how the librul deep state has secretly and successfully forced all but a few brave conservatives (Trump, Cruz, Hawley) to tell a complete lie about the integrity and the results of the election .. and so on. They've already started reconfiguring their matches and gasoline.
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  9699. The US has not been able to push above the average of now quite 150,000 tests per day.
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  9700. When Russia destroys the local heating system and electrical system, it really is making the place more like Russia. Over there it still looks like WW2 ended only 10 years ago. People who've never seen toilets or washing machines.
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  9701. If you recall, there was someone in the Trump administration who tried to have those words modified on the base of the statue of liberty. It was Ken Cuccinelli, acting head of US citizenship and immigration service. "Acting" because Trump couldn't get him confirmed even with Republicans running the senate. He modified the words to "give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge" in an interview with NPR's Rachael Martin.
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  9702. You say penalty box, I say the woodshed of history. It will be generations.
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  9703.  @aliamjon2550  Before you toss the word "genius", you flaming dolt, you may want to recall the people looking to execute Pence and Pelosi that day. Then refer to the statute I quoted above. I'd ask if you have the smarts God gave an amoeba, but your reply already made the answer abundantly clear :(
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  9704.  @aliamjon2550  Aww, well, sorry to hear that facts hurt your tender little feefees. Maybe you should tuck them away someplace safe from the big bad world of facts.
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  9705. Trump has done a lot to help feed the leopards.
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  9706. The one useful thing that Trump & Trumpism have done for us is show us how many wannabe-traitors, wannabe-Quislings, wannabe-insurrectionists we have among us. Deporting the lot of them to Somalia would be a kindness to them. Let them live in a place that's full of guns and religion and low regulations and hardly any taxes. It should be a paradise for them.
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  9707.  @elisevillemaire8344  If you're looking for a simplistic explanation of the communicability of a disease vs the deadliness of the disease, good luck.
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  9708. Poor little Trumpy's tender feefees sure hurt a lot when he can't get others to repeat his lies. Thoughts & prayers.
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  9709. Funny how US conservatives don't call them "freedom caravans" when large groups try breaking the law at the US southern border. Huh.
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  9710. Funny, I expected to see more protesters in this video, but my contacts in Cali told me that a lot of them are at home now with some strange dry cough, aches, and a fever. Meh.
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  9711. Once Trump's people get a taste for committing domestic terrorism, only death or imprisonment will stop them.
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  9712. It's good to see that some of the chickens are beginning to doubt Colonel Sanders telling them how evil the PETA folks are :)
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  9713. According to available information (worldometers) the USA has not been able to move out of its average of testing around 150K people per day. At this rate it will take around 2100 days to test the whole population. What a frigging joke. I know two people who got sick, were in the hospital, recovering now, and still could not get tested.
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  9714. Listening to the Trumpeters chant that he did nothing wrong, that the impeachment inquiry found nothing .. it's like watching treasury agents ask for Al Capone's private books, Al Capone saying no you can't have them, then Capone's fanboys screeching "See? You have no evidence. You have NOTHING!!!" When those call logs get released from the codeword server, when people aren't blocked from testifying, when the White House and State release all of the requested information - then we will know what happened.
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  9715.  @sgtkabukimannypd8198  Vichy conservatives.
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  9716. Trump and his people are going to be awful; Fox and its kin will be filling the airwaves with "stolen election" nonsense right as Trump is telling them to take up arms and fight.
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  9717. Adults and sane people understand it. Dump's followers are the kind who love it. Obviously they couldn't be trusted to safely handle a glow stick, let alone figure out who'd make a better president.
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  9718. Moisins are going to be pretty cheap on the secondhand market after this 😅
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  9719. Trump is succeeding in remaking America in his own image - hateful xenophobic, corrupt, biased, angry, paranoid, delusional. Somehow he let his mail-order bride's ex-Communist parents to move here by chain migration, however, even though he publicly rails against chain migration.
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  9720. Smelly Steve is not a Lenin, as he fancies himself, but just an arsonist.
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  9721.  MasterMind  https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-united-states-this-year
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  9722. Like that fellow Joseph Wilcox during the 2014 Las Vegas shooting, where Jared and Amanda Miller began it by killing armed officers having lunch. Oh, and Maine honors out-of-state conceal carry permits, albeit with some restrictions.
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  9723. The word salad - ".. by some of the fake news, like you, you're CNN, you're fake news, and let me just tell you, they were excoriated by people like you, that don't know any better, because you don't have the brains you were born with, you should be praising the people that have done a good job, not doing what you do, even that question, so just so you understand, if we didn't do a job .." He really needs thorazine and a rubber room.
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  9724.  @dismalscientist9874  Here, take some memory refreshment. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/15-ridiculous-moments-fox-news-attacked-barack-obama.html/
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  9725. .. or people who keep trying to overturn non-fraudulent elections, the outcomes of which they simply do not like.
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  9726. Uggh, that smarmy smile he uses for his lies is so creepy :(
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  9727.  @clacton17  I am in favor of one-vote-per-person and abolishing the EC. That was the origin of my above complaint about the EC.
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  9728. Getting dipsh!t cultists to incinerate themselves, their future, and their country is one of doll-hands Donnie's few skills in life.
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  9729.  @leonardherring2468  Bingo @ "the 6 times bankrupt, pussy grabbing, disinfectant injecting, Putin's puppet deceived you" Some people are so dumb that they are easily deceived. And they were thrilled that one of their own finally got elected to office. It went about as well as putting a chimp behind the controls of a 747 in flight .. he couldn't figure anything out, so he shrieked and hit the controls. Eventually the adults took over to keep the plane from crashing.
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  9730.  @gerryregan3577  Hatred and stupidity are what hold the herd of Trump sheeple together. It's about time he herds them to a kool-aid rally down in Guyana.
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  9731. Happy impeachment day! I think some Republicans yesterday tried to imply that Jesus would have never been a martyr if he'd been criminal enough to resist Roman subpoenas and refuse to turn over incriminating evidence to the Romans.
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  9732. Then perhaps president Biden could use his new powers to deal with a noisy, unwholesome bunch of traitors who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
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  9733. Trump never wanted to be a leader - just a ruler. This is why he and Vlad and KJU and Xi find common cause.
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  9734. Trump's time was always going to turn out this way. Waiting to see if he tells his supporters to make cocktails and burn down the country if they can.
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  9735. What's a little mic-pulling for people who are OK with insurrection, election-stealing, disenfranchising minorities, and doing away with democracy?
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  9736.  @nicolasolton  That's what I was thinking too. Quite possibly, Russia could try to 'borrow' prisoners from China/NK for that kind of work as well.
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  9737. That dumb old fart chanting "white power"? His dad, cousin, or older brother probably died fighting the same kind of white nationalism.
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  9738. More exactly, cruel lies are his specialty. Bella Depaulo wrote a famous article about it back in 2017.
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  9739.  Philip Murphy  Neither, fool. You are obviously good at putting everything into the wrong boxes. Trump is once again doing his boss's bidding.
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  9740. Wrong. Batsh*t conservatives are doomed. Trump has lost every popular election he's tried (both of them).
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  9741. 1850 just telegraphed, they want Alabama back.
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  9742.  @smallgroup6858  Once again, you fail to notice that inflation and high fuel prices are happening all around the globe. GOP bots: "Pay no attention to our insurrection attempt and incipient fascism. LOOK AT THOSE GAS PRICES!!1"
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  9743. Looks like Orange Adolph isn't waiting for the courts to shut down his attempted repudiation of the 14th amendment.
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  9744. Obviously Esper is going to be replaced soon with someone who is more amenable to Wussolini's whims. Someone who will agree to deploy federal military forces to places where the courts are currently processing cases against Cheeto - namely Washington DC and SDNY.
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  9745.  @e-man1634  Re "You just hear something and re post it without checking the facts" << Correct. Most of the people whining here are morons so abjectly stupid, so lame in the brain, that they long ago decided to treat everything in the news as just a cartoon on the screen, with all of them equally true or equally false, to save themselves the mental "effort" of trying to decide which of it is utter BS. To say that these people lack moral compasses would be a gross understatement.
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  9746.  Nion Ya  Re "m this has killed nowhere near" << Wrong, dipshit, the previous one killed around 675K Americans and we just surpassed that number within the last two weeks. And this thing still isn't finished. More than 1900 Americans in just the last 24 hours :(
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  9747.  Nion Ya  Oh no, it's killed lots of people who were not old, fat, or immunocompromised. Lots and lots and lots. In America, the previous pandemic killed around 675K. In America, the current pandemic has killed around 702K already and it hasn't stopped yet. You're either super-ignorant or the worst ComBloc mom's-basement-in-Belarus troll. Take your pick. Yeah, neither option is flattering, but that's what you get for being ignorant and spreading misinformation, fool.
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  9748.  @annabell3385  Re "what do you care if they don't want it?" << This is why nice people don't survey the religious or political views of victims before they pull them from car wrecks or burning buildings. They just save them regardless. Same thing here. Did your empathy glands get surgically removed?
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  9749. 80 years ago, millions of young people put on uniforms and watched their buddies get blown to bits for four years while they fought fascism and evil. Flash-forward to the people of today, and wearing a mask is too much for them to do. Sad.
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  9750.  @tigercatjones9948  Did you notice how FOXed ooze / Sinclair (all the usual Republican agitprop channels) made no mention whatsoever about how president Biden didn't spend all yesterday on the toilet, issuing juvenile insults at generals via twitter over their comments on the Afghanistan pullout?
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  9751. This is actually a good idea, even if it doesn't sound like one. Forget about them learning from their own experiences - they're not capable of learning anything anyway.
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  9752. Never forget - Republicans are OK with forcing one in four pregnancies (or more) to endanger the life of the mother, but asking them to wear a mask is government overreach! :(
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  9753. First they came for the trans soldiers .. yeah, we all know how this goes.
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  9754. Speaking of defense contractors, a fine thing to take up with the Z-bots is how they spew nonsense about western military-industrial operations but are somehow A-OK with Russian military-industrial operations.
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  9755.  @richardgallagher4880  No, Russian zero troops are in someone else's country. They should go home while they still can.
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  9756.  @natalieturko4808  Rostov was historically Ukrainian land too. Perhaps its return will someday be part of reparations.
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  9757. Looks like the few remaining non-crazy Republicans just got tired of being on the receiving end of the MAGA threat machine.
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  9758.  @snagswolf  Again, working with what they had available, either from materials from before the clampdown (see above), or courageous patriots (like decorated ambassador Yovanovich) who stepped forward.
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  9759.  @snagswolf  Treasury dept: Hand over your books, Capone, we've crunched the numbers and we know that you've broken the law. Al Capone: You guys have been after me for 8 years. That just proves your bias. This is nothing but a witch hunt hoax. Prosecutor: OK, Treasury goons, you heard the man. You'll have to make your case without any evidence. Lady Justice: Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away??
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  9760.  @snagswolf  Keep trying to turn yourself into a pretzel to deny your orange deity's guilt. This is amusing ;)
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  9761.  @starblaiz1986  Regarding ".. and figure out how to ethically deprogram them." Been wondering on that awhile. Somewhere along the way, the tether those people had to normalcy was severed, presumably by someone pulling their fear strings hard and persistently. That's the only way I can explain how otherwise normal people, who learned in grade school that vaccines prevent you from getting diseases, suddenly think they make you sick, even people in technical/medical/scientific work. Or how people who've lived all their lives within the safer environs of an internally mostly-peaceful democracy can suddenly be induced to screech for civil war and dictatorship - because the people who've actually lived through those things would never want to experience that again. Great comment :)
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  9762.  @starblaiz1986  "How on earth do you scale those techniques up to millions?" The places where they do that in China or Russia are euphemistally referred to as re-education camps. You could of course make them a lot nicer and kinder. Think of something that's a cross between a mental hospital and a low-security prison. I got to witness something extraordinary recently that shed some light on this very topic. A coworker (cranky elderly female, prone to the dumbest conspiracy nonsense that wouldn't fool a cat) had been vaccine-averse for months. Her computer went kaput one weekend, which caused her to get disconnected from her daily exposure to absolute nonsense via social media feeds, and within 5 days she was asking cogent questions about why she should get the vaccine. Not wishing to lose what might be a fleeting opportunity, I got her hooked up with a pharmacy the same day and she got her J&J shot. Cutting people off from their nonsense feeds is something you can probably accomplish only through the kind of involuntary confinement setting available in situations described above. That or eliminating it at the source. Here in America, unfortunately, we apply an EXTREMELY foolish consistency to the notion of free speech. [One recalls the full quote - "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."] In Germany, they had a harsh lesson in this stuff 80-100 years back, so advocating genocide is no longer considered free speech as it was during Adolph Hitler's time. They learned. We have not yet learned. As I have read quite a bit about how fascism arose in different countries, it was chilling to hear Trump use the words (and tone) "animals", "vermin", "scum", "criminals", "rats" to refer to ethnonational groups he didn't like. In the parlance of history, when a leader says such things, that virtually guarantees that down at the armed-border-guard level there are doctors forcibly sterilizing women, families being torn apart, bodies in unmarked graves, maybe even burned bodies with the ashes dumped at sea, and few records kept so that all those disappearances are harder to trace later, since none of the perps want to end up at the Hague.
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  9763.  @KaneOzen  You got receipts for that "billions" you claim Democrats spent? Crickets. And yes, he did in fact lose the 2016 popular election, a fact that probably never escaped your memory because it never entered it in the first place.
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  9764. It's a little late for that. Back in November of 2016, right after the election, even the children of Trumpanzees were issuing death threats to their non-white classmates: https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
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  9765. When Trump mentioned "poll watchers", what he meant was for his Kyle Rittenhouse type Brownshirt irregulars to show up with their guns in minority voting precincts in cities where Trump isn't likely to get many votes.
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  9766. Someone can make a fortune reselling all that loud chrome.
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  9767. Trump's traveling road show is a dark circus of some kind, seething with falsely aggrieved anger and smoldering resentments. You gotta admit, he is a champion gaslighter to the most gullible people.
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  9768.  @elizabethstanley7137  I was quoting the news from a couple years ago, when Susan Collins famously voted against finding Trump guilty in the senate portion of his impeachment trial, claiming it wasn't necessary because, as she put it, Trump had learned his lesson. Of course, we now know that the only lesson Trump learned was that he could get away with many more subsequent crimes.
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  9769. Pretty much like propagandized little Germans clapping as Jewish homes get burned down in the 1930s :(
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  9770. Another joke: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the opposite."
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  9771. Asking conservatives why they can't be content in Parler is like going back in time to ask Hitler why he wasn't content to keep the Nazi military in Germany.
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  9772. Can't blame you. The Cheeto showed everyone exactly who he is - a lying, petulant, narcissist who gets off on the pain of others. Somehow, we flubbed two impeachments, then didn't prosecute his crimes, then tolerated his 2020 election lies, then let him run again on a platform of lies. He's been perfectly clear that he's a horrible person and means to cause pain and suffering.
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  9773. No, but if you listen to the abusingly-misinformed commenters on this thread, they'll reassure you that delta is like a kinder gentler version of last year's covid when in fact the reverse is true.
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  9774.  @MR..181  Sorry to rattle your head - but - who was the uninformed, evidence- and fact-free conspiracy-theory nutter who even said there was a bioweapon in the first place? You sound like you have severe troubles telling fiction from reality. Go back to reading Tom Clancy books in your mom's basement.
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  9775.  @borrowedtruths6955  The herd thins itself sometimes.
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  9776. There's any easy way out of this. President Biden, VP Harris, house speaker Pelosi, etc need to put out a PSA telling people to breathe clean air, always look both ways before crossing the street, only drink clean water, always get a full night's sleep, and so on. Within minutes, Republicans will be sucking on tailpipes just to "own the libs". Time to let them go. They've proved their worth - fertilizer.
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  9777. Too bad so sad you f'ing moron. That'll teach you to believe propaganda so dumb that newborn cats can see through it. /rant off
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  9778. Time for the people of Ukraine's occupied territories to write-in Zelinskyy on all the ballots. And the Soviet puppets need exploding vehicles.
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  9779.  Bill C-Kole  Considering that not a single mayoral candidate called for the state taking over private businesses and abolishing large scale personal property (these are the sina qua non of communism) your comment is at best woefully uninformed.
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  9780. Even with Kash Patel's whacky childrens book telling them who the king is.
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  9781. Notice how Republicans did the same thing with "the caravans". Upon finding out that said caravans were just a figment of Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson's imagination, they started shipping migrants north themselves to manufacture the caravans.
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  9782. Solicitation to commit election fraud, and it's all on tape. Republicans took to Trump like ducks to the sticky tar sands of La Brea. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate. He makes Sauron seem reasonable by comparison.
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  9783.  @nancyross7935  Trump's people are funny in many ways. For example, they insist that we thank Trump and respect Trump for his role in helping develop the vaccines. But then they turn around and refuse to take the vaccine, or claim it's an attempt to spy on them, or say it makes them magnetic, or say it lets the authorities track them. So does that mean, in their poisoned minds anyway, that Trump wanted to track them and make them magnetic?
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  9784.  @supreme1572  We here in the US had more than a month to prepare for what China was undergoing .. all we had to do was watch the news. What comes next will be an expensive failure, many millions dead and many more millions sick for a prolonged time.
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  9785. No doubt Lindell is going to miss the days when an ex-crackhead pillow salesman could meet with the president of the United States of America and give him advice. Sorry, man, the Dr Oz salad days are over, and the adults are back in charge.
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  9786. Those "observers" .. it wasn't winter where/when that was shot. Spring or fall clothing. It was outdoors, and no one had winter clothing on.
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  9787. Like their brethren in the Taliban, the GOP and Russians have bonded on their love of jackbootery and hate towards LGBTQIA.
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  9788.  @Roneck888  Good luck explaining that to people who don't want to hear the facts. Worldometers has the closed case mortality rate as being around 4%, but then, Worldometers isn't running for re-election and doesn't need to peddle lies just to avoid prosecution.
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  9789. Where will they find the soldiers and weapons for these supposed new bases? By removing them from the invasion of Ukraine? Does moving Russian forces to warmer climates magically improve their fighting ability somehow? Right now their combat ratings are piss-poor and getting worse with every passing month.
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  9790. It's pretty clear now who's working for America's enemies :(
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  9791. Along those lines, have you heard of Kevin Sorbo's movie "The Reliant"? (the comments are funny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaBzioEI3A
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  9792. Sorry to post a second comment, but the book reviews (user comments) on this one deserve an honorable mention: https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Open-Carry-Brian-Jeffs/dp/1618081012/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HFYJ5OZEI8UO
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  9793. It is kind of interesting that 45's flying monkeys suppose that a future president might corruptly try to prosecute their predecessors .. because 45 spent much of 2017 exhorting the DOJ to find something, anything, to charge Obama with criminally. Failing that (they couldn't find anything) he told them to look into retroactive impeachment, but that didn't work either.
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  9794. Cawthorn = Rolling Hitler
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  9795.  @conniecrawford5231  Feel free to go all Negan on anyone you see acting racist towards our Asian friends, vistors, countrymen. There's no better way to improve the breed.
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  9796. That's "Kay Lie", who isn't McEnany sense.
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  9797. It was surprising that they let Dump anywhere near a high school, given his history of sexual predation and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. And, what a shocker, being around teenage girls induced him to talk about golden showers.
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  9798. Interesting how Bolton's surprise firing resulted in an immediate drop in oil prices, which was "corrected" just days later by this action. If you want to know who's responsible, just follow it back to who benefits the most from high oil prices.
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  9799. Yeah. Trump has some weird pull with those aging boomers who, having lived all their lives in a prosperous democracy, now support the guy who's ripping that same democracy apart, and some of them even say they'd like to make him a dictator. Guess the LSD must have been really strong back in the day, hmm?
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  9800. Getting the chickens to vote for Colonel Sanders is easy once you've convinced their feathery little heads that the Democrats are running a child sex slave office in the pizza shop basement.
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  9801. For Germany, it was Hitler. For Norway, it was Quisling. For America, when it comes to traitors, Benedict Arnold is about to move down into second place.
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  9802. Stupid people, however, watch FOXed Noise with all the fervor of kids grabbing sugar-coated crack or a wino snatching a $20 bill off the sidewalk. It's targeted at their deficient BS detectors.
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  9803. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the Reischtag, and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Trump.
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  9804.  @jimconnole6328  "Try again"? You mean like when Moscow Mitch did everything possible to deny appointments to Obama, then flipped the rules to make it easy to grease Trump's people into positions?
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  9805.  Dez Perkins  You only have the day off now thanks to liberals, in the past, who put work limits rules into place.
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  9806.  Dez Perkins  Good job proving that money and brains don't have anything to do with each other ;)
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  9807.  Dez Perkins  Over half of all super PAC spending comes from just 50 individuals. That's the kind of "democracy" that Moscow Mitch champions - great for oligarchs, sucky for everyone else.
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  9808.  Dez Perkins  Looks more like you're the bot. The numbers show that Trump isn't making successes out of very many Americans. Oh, and the SEC will probably want to look into how he told his Swamp-a-Lago guests about the planned strike beforehand .. since Lockeed Martin stock mysteriously rose 2% just before it went down. Insider trading is always of interest to the SEC.
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  9809. This was NOT a withdrawal on the part of Russia. It was a special strategic relocation of forces.
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  9810. 1936 Germany called, they're missing one of their Nazi boys, sounds like the caller is the one they're looking for.
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  9811. Trump's first coup failed. His fake electors are now on a first-name basis with the DOJ and being given the choice to either flip or do time. To most Americans, thankfully, Trump has all the charisma of a smelly cold piece of debris that's lain on the bottom of a river for decades and was just dragged up. To put it mildly, he's repulsive. The crazies who hear white-supremacy themes in his words are the exception.
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  9812. The Cheeto has never made any secret of the fact that he's a horrible person, has no compassion, and is barely human if that. He's also made no secret of the fact that he wants to burn down the nation. My only question is, why can't enough people see that? Maybe they have to live through his "blood and fire" presidency to see for themselves what he really is?
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  9813. Probably nothing too important. Ornato: Boss, we're all lined up to kill Pence, Pelosi, Shumer. OK to go? Trump: Do it. Ornato: Boss, we can't find them.
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  9814. It's because Faux is the de-facto party propaganda channel.
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  9815. And yet, being the nutball narcissist that he is, he will look straight at 'Pocahontas' Warren, Lyin' Ted, etc, and just want a little respect from everyone.
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  9816. He can do a lot with a compliant Supreme Corp and compliant legislature, such as make up the lie that the blue states don't pay their share of the federal budget, then let loose a new sharpie edict to the effect that their votes don't count until they fix that non-existent problem.
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  9817.  @brianwalsh1401  Bingo. Those Tru,p cult losers have the same access to news that everyone does, and the news has been quite clear that every single one of Trump's baseless election-fraud claims has been thrown out of court for lack of evidence. Things like that would stop normal people cold, and inform them that Trump did in fact lose the election, but noooooooooo, those fricking kool-aid drinkers feel they have to commit acts of terror and insurrection instead. Anyone with an IQ over 95 could see through the lies they believe.
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  9818. 45 has never in his life lived in a rural area, or engaged in rural pursuits, or even gotten his tiny hands dirty doing any actual work. Funny how all the billybobs somehow imagine he "represents" them .. LOL like chickens thinking that colonel Sanders represents them.
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  9819. The only time "phenomenal" is mentioned in the same breath as IQ45 is in reference to his infantile twitter rants.
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  9820. He wanted to make things worse so he could complain about them being so bad. Just like when he agreed with the Taliban (how much did they pay him personally for that?) to leave Afghanistan, then did nothing to make it happen on time, thus dumping the hot mess into Biden's lap so that he could complain about it.
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  9821.  @mindaugasstankus5943  To add: the US is 4.2% of the world's population, not the 30% that Trump and his people seem to imagine it is. A great many Americans have got a weird amnesiac longing for an imperfect past that's not represented well in the history that's taught in school. Mind you, this has been going on for generations and is worse now than when I was young. The internally-taught US history is that everything was right and good and beautiful in the 1950s, that ordinary people with highschool educations could get nice-paying jobs that let them have single-income households that weren't completely broke. What that same history neglects to say is that Jim Crow racism, complete with lynchings, was the unofficial law of the land; that it was an incredibly sexist time, when women weren't permitted to own property or even have bank accounts; that high marginal tax rates applied, and those high taxes paid for the infrastructure that's still crumbling even now; that our manufacturing enjoyed a finite heyday solely because the economies of the Europe and Asia had been badly bombed during the war; that our rivers frequently caught fire due to a total lack of concern for the environment; and more. There are a lot of Americans still thinking that this fictional past is right around the corner and that only Trump will lead us there .. but the conditions of the 1950s are long gone and not coming back, and Trump is leading us straight into the next reich :( This won't end well.
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  9822.  samantha mason  In Germany it's illegal to display the swastika. In America, it's not. What's you point?
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  9823. Fakebook (or Wastebook?) is the #1 source of disinformation for anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, anti-abortioners, racists and conservatives. In other words, Zuck is protecting Trump's base.
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  9824.  @aesir0784  Aww how hurt your tender little Nazi feelings must be. Don't like being called out on how you're such a hatriot? Then don't be one, inbred fool.
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  9825.  @wesglover7569  Listen, bozo, don't put words in my mouth. I said nothing about restricting your freedumbs. But it shouldn't be legal to spout hateful lies like he did for so long. Unless maybe you think radio shows should carry commentary about how people who look like you are communists and baby killers and need to be run out of the country.
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  9826. Remember, Hillary Clinton was too kind when she referred to Trump and his idiots as "deplorables". More like "despicables" or just plain "Nazis".
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  9827.  @untseac  Show the data you claim refutes the data I just showed you. Bet you cannot. Here are the top 10 nations for testing per million .. Monaco 412K, Gibraltar 405K, Cayman Islands 370K, UAE 353K, Falkland Islands 344K, Bahrain 337K, Luxembourg 317K, Faeroe Islands 302K, Malta 220K, Iceland 218K. The US is currently #27 at 107K per million. But you're all allergic to facts aren't you. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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  9828. Trump supporters are about as bright as the guy who saw the sign "Wet Floor", and did just that.
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  9829.  @ECTNF-rn9ic  Bingo. No more free will (or innocence) than Manson's followers.
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  9830.  @waverlyking6045  Thank you for your service! The ones that scare me more are the Oaf Tweaker / 3% / Proud Boyz types. They've taken the decals off their trucks but they are still around. After a successful coup, they would be Trump's informal right-wing death squad organizations.
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  9831. No problem. Federal monies to Florida will be withheld until governor what's-his-name pulls his head out of his ass.
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  9832. You gotta love the red hats and traitor flags and other Trump merch. Lets you know exactly who they are, what they drive, where they live. Good to know in advance who's a f'ing traitor.
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  9833. Trump's mental unfitness was on full public display long ago when he took out full-spread ads in 1989 calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, a group of young black men falsely accused of an attack on a woman. They were later completely exonerated.
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  9834.  @not-so-smartaleck8987  Your username is appropriate - see the difference between 'capitol' and 'capital'. But yes, Trump was happy that his base were carrying guns into state capitols - but unhappy that unarmed Black people protest.
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  9835.  @not-so-smartaleck8987  Basically it's the big building where the legislators meet. No problemo :)
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  9836. McConnell still is not properly aware of how much he helped Sauron get ahead in the world. His turn will come.
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  9837. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  9838. From the way Republicans have worked hard to disenfranchise the vote in places that are urban / minority / left-leaning, and their other work to staff the judiciary with incompetent Dominionists, we may safely assume that they know they no longer represent the American people and are preparing to run the country sort of along the lines of an apartheid state like the former Rhodesia.
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  9839. To rephrase - you do not have any kind of right to spread a deadly disease. They had that problem with Typhoid Mary, decades ago. She liked to work as a cook, kept violating her agreement not to, and kept spreading the disease. Ultimately they had to exile her to an island so she couldn't spread the disease. I'm down with exiling the anti-vax nutters to some island. The new nation of Karenistan!
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  9840.  @cindytripp  Mittens has fallen a long ways. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  9841. Pretty sure every current and former head of state, in countries all around the world, witnessed how casually Frump bandied about the top-secret information about our allies. We may never know how much he sold for personal gain, how much he sent to Putin.
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  9842.  @shane_asylum  He wasn't convinced until FOXed Noise had something on it. Even when he was visiting the CDC he still wasn't convinced. I know, why trust the experts when you've got FOXed Noise misleading you, right?
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  9843.  @ifnotmewho148  PLEASE do not equate Trump's deliberate downplaying of the event with someone screaming about how the sky his falling. His failure to act earlier will have doomed millions, perhaps tens of millions of Americans to unnecessary death. From the beginning, his only focus was numbers that made his re-election look bad, and making the stock market look good to his Swamp-a-Lago regulars.
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  9844. Well, for starters, states like Missouri supposedly had huge numbers of people previously-exposed to covid, yet that's one of the hardest-hit states for Delta. Missouri's overall infection rate is around 105 per thousand. Figure 10x that many were infected and had it asymptomatically. So if prior exposure led to immunity, the rate of new infections would be low, but instead it's pretty high. Same thing in Florida at 114 per thousand, yet a very high rate in new positive tests.
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  9845.  @allisonbumgardner1421  Glad you had a rosy anecdotal experience personally, but please don't confuse that with the larger reality that lots of people get sick from covid and some have died or will die. Wouldn't want to be the person who walks outside at McMurdo Base (antarctica), finds snow at their feet, and proudly declares that there's no global warming because there's snow on the ground where they are right now.
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  9846.  @allisonbumgardner1421  Re "We are the ones making up the percentage" << Almost all covid deaths these days are among the unvaccinated. Case in point: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-unvaccinated-coronavirus-deaths-maryland-june-20210707-7zugtntgifg4pomlrjy4lmjhnq-story.html
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  9847. I love it. Their paw prints are on file for this horrible legislation. Now they're fair game to their own constituents.
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  9848. "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you." And people cheered. Oh well, can't say they weren't warned.
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  9849. Sadly, major news outlets just play everything 45 says - even when it's a firehose of incendiary lies intended to destabilize our democracy. It's as if every channel decided to serialize "Mein Kampf" as a documentary :(
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  9850.  @losrevolucionarios8858  Err, OK, whatever, however you succeeded in mashing that square peg into the round hole probably isn't very interesting.
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  9851. That's strangely appropriate, actually, because when Trumpanzees shriek that they want a civil war, what they mean is that they want to commit atrocities here in America similar to what Russians just did in Bucha.
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  9852. We know who to thank for this. When the Mango Mussolini was asked about it back on January 22nd, here's what he said: "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” On January 30th he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment - five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.” On February 26th he said: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” The numbers are telling the truth; Trump isn't.
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  9853. @Hugh G. Rection Nice of you to pipe up and show off your pea brain. Should have just kept silent and let us doubt your intelligence, but instead you opened the air scoop and made known what was merely suspected. Thanks for the giggles :)
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  9854. Funny how rich Republicans keep telling the rest of us to get rich enough to afford our own healthcare, yet when THEY get sick they scurry over to taxpayer-funded healthcare resources.
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  9855. @Hugh G. Rection Lol. You've proved amply in this thread that you're not above posting dumb comments in the same way that the sea is not above the sky. And if that results in you being considered an idiot, console yourself with the lesson that next time perhaps it's wiser to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt. (h/t to both Douglas Adams and Confucius)
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  9856. @Hugh G. Rection Your tender feefees have obviously been hurt, but your mistake was letting people know that. As they say, the beatings will continue until morale improves. I got stuff smarter than you floating in my cereal most mornings.
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  9857.  @lechatel  Are you trying to claim that locking down caused the virus to spread more? Thanks for the laugh. I like it when stupid people say things like "they cranked up the heat so much, it actually got cold in the house".
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  9858. When is the runoff election? Look at all those idiots without masks. By January 5th, a lot of them will be on ventilators or pushing up daisies. I feel sorry for their kids. This is nature's way of letting the trash take itself out.
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  9859. @Nikki E. Look at all those faces without masks on, at a Trump rally to boot. By next summer, 2nd and 3rd vacation homes in Georgia will be cheap.
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  9860. Funny how America wants none of the responsibilities of the leader of the free world, yet wants to be able to dictate its terms to the free world.
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  9861. American here, standing with Canada on this. Canada, don't back down until these three conditions are met: 1) Regime change in the USA to where you feel we have a president you can trust. 2) Guarantees from the USA that we will never, ever again elect someone who will renege on so many treaties and alliances and agreements and arrangements. 3) Enough demonstrable trust that these guarantees will be honored by the USA.
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  9862. It's also amazing how many of America's most gullible seem willing to wreck our long-running democracy over their cultie devotion to a serial criminal, a grifter, a low-class whiner like Trump.
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  9863.  @siedlesingapore91  Putin already started WW3. He's going to be in the history books, just not the way he imagined.
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  9864. Biden's responsibility, as president, is to manage teams of people to develop and implement policies and to protect the interests of America and of the free world. He's doing that all quite well, albeit with some of the other party trying to kneecap him for the dumbest of reasons - at the expense of our nation.
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  9865.  @NCLUSA  How about taking off your rosy glasses and realizing that being prosecuted for CRIMES is what's happening? Or are you dense enough, like so many a cultist, to think that dear leader is exempt from having to follow laws?
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  9866. Gaslighting. The borders aren't any more "open" now than they were under Trump. It's a "hey, look at the goodyear blimp" thing.
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  9867. You sound like a bewildered American farm kid, circa 1943, asking "Mommy, why is everyone so against Germany and Japan?"
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  9868.  @slooob23  Awwwww .. show me where on the doll you got hurt by facts and information? Crickets. Reminding you of what a dolt you are is practically a public service.
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  9869.  @slooob23  Sorry to hear your tender little feefees are so easily hurt. Might want to tuck them away.
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  9870. Aaaaaand that's when you get when your governor is a science-denying Trump bootlicker.
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  9871. The PressSec is evil, stupid, and ambitious. Bad combination.
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  9872. Ahh, the Swasticar. They're not selling very well anymore.
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  9873. Never thought this could happen, but Americans are threatening the weather reporters (as well as refusing lifesaving FEMA aid) all because their favorite right wing charlatan (Alex Jones, Trump, whoever) tells them lies a cat could see through. It's not enough to win the election. It needs to be a landslide, and there's a big mess to clean up already.
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  9874. .. then just let nature take its course. Kind of like watching the trash take itself out.
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  9875. The easiest way to understand Trump is that he knows how to press the sugar-candy-high emotional buttons in his cult followers. Enough to make them break the law, rot in jail, and even die in the service of Trump's lies. Kind of like a Charles Manson figure who knows how to reach out to the parts of his followers that are variously composed of white trashiness, spite, anger, persecution complexes, entitlement, and other latent psychoses.
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  9876. Huh? Calling out a president for his crimes is somehow a bad thing? Maybe you should move to Russia if you don't like that kind of thing. Over there, Putin has journalists shot if they don't say nice things about him. Trump echoes the sentiment here by calling journalists enemies of the people - a sentiment which is wholly out-of-line with the 1st amendment to the same constitution he swore an oath to uphold. Is there any part of this you don't understand?
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  9877.  @sweetpealee056  Par for the course for RWNJs unfortunately. Kind of how Fox never says "Rafael Eduardo Cruz" but always says "Barack HUSSEIN Obama". If Cruz could speak truth - "My daddy didn't flee all the way from Cuba to Canada, then send his son to the USA, just to see the place overrun by immigrants!"
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  9878.  @aldoranematzada8214  Stay safe in Mass! I lived there a long time.
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  9879.  Soft Poor Corn  They are different, but the virus doesn't care. Any gathering of more than one (1) person is an opportunity for this disease to spread.
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  9880.  @arcdecibel9986  Re "Can you list any crimes?" Just in the last two calendar years, Trump has committed treason, espionage, and insurrection. And that after four years of playing golf, shirking responsibilities, and spreading hate.
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  9881. This is like Barron Trump coming public with how bullying is a bad thing.
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  9882. My, how morally flexible Rethuglicans are. If you all remember, 6 of the 10 separate Benghazi investigations were done by Rethuglican committees using testimony behind closed doors - just like this is being done now. They seemed OK with it then.
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  9883. Possibly even a killdozer wouldn't have made it through whatever defenses are there.
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  9884. Never before has a US leader tried to incite friction between country and city .. and it's frightening that so many Americans will go along with this scheme :(
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  9885. I'm seeing the same coming. Regardless of how much they told Trump what he wanted to hear, in the heat of the moment, all of those white house people are now claiming that they told Trump to his face that he'd lost the election. Pretty soon even Sidney Powell may emerge from her rubber-room condo to claim that she had nothing to do with Trump's frauds, and that she repeatedly told him he'd lost the election. Then John Eastman saying the same. Then Trump's idiot sons. The bus is rolling already, and there's only so many empty seats left.
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  9886.  @juanelorriaga2840  Excellent book out there called "Stalin's War" by Sean McMeekin. Goes over that in some detail.
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  9887.  @ubermind-tim  Wrong. You may wish to crack open a history book once in awhile. German eastern front losses didn't get serious until the big turnaround at Stalingrad, after which they were forever on the back foot. One has only to look at the furthest extent of Nazi penetration eastward to see how that conflict went. "Sent packing" LOL. Are you reading right out of Pravda or something? You are quite funny.
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  9888.  @ubermind-tim  Guess you'll have to find someone else to sell your Pravda-written Russian history books to 😅😅 man you are hilarious. The Soviet-to-Axis loss ratio was above 6:1 in 1941 and fell to approx 2:1 during 1942 and after that, things changed. During the earlier parts of the war (which is the time frame we are discussing) the German losses were minimal and the Russian losses were pretty bad.
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  9889. SURE, Grant Stinchfield, blame the well-qualified not-yet-involved black lady instead of the two unqualified Trump bootlickers.
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  9890. Does Trump pray to Hitler and Stalin every night? Those 'leaders' too were happy to send their own countrymen marching into the wood chipper.
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  9891. Trumpers have no need for a government that they do not exclusively control. America always was like a thousand-unit condo with different groups gaining power of the condo board from time to time. This is like some of the residents setting fire to the building because their boy didn't win the condo board election.
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  9892. Betcha he can't even name which states he wants to march into the wood chipper first .. because all of them are showing exponential increase in virus cases, some just quicker than others.
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  9893. He's not fit even for that.
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  9894. Good thing the electoral college is now allowed to vote differently from how the popular vote turns out. Just in time for our Mango Mussolini to insulate himself from the will of the people. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-21/electoral-college-members-not-bound-by-popular-vote-court-rules
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  9895.  @jjay6432  Somehow, despite all the evidence that he throws everyone under the bus, Dump has an endless supply of fools to take their turn at being his doormat.
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  9896. Republicans can't and won't say anything about this. All Trump did was say out loud what the rest of them were thinking. In the last two elections, all across the land, you could see the Republican antics as they tried many times to cancel the votes they didn't like.
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  9897. There's still room for Trump to have an even worse week. The next news should be about the FBI raiding all of his properties and finding still more classified documents. Then the traitor being told to stay close to home.
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  9898.  @lancepage1914  Tks for the comment. Remember the proof-of-concept closed-ecosystem experiment called Biosphere 2? Anytime someone claims they can do better than that, just ask them exactly how they plan to do that. Antarctica would be a picnic compared to Mars.
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  9899. @Green With every hour that passes, the defense grows stronger. Pretty soon, every unattached free world sniper will be on the ground there. Stingers and Javelins made available everywhere. It's all downhill now for the Russian forces in Ukraine.
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  9900. Remember, a couple years back, when Trump egged his covid-denying cult nutters into an armed occupation of the Michigan state capitol? And some of the guys took it even further and developed a plan to kidnap the governor and do very bad things to her? Trump egged on those guys via social media. Many of them went on to participate in the attack Trump directed at the DC capitol.
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  9901. Ooooh I want to see the translator's notes from that first meeting he had with Putin. The meeting where he emerged looking like Putin had taken a ball peen hammer to his tiny junk. Since then he's been acting like Putin put him on a leash. There's little he does (including tossing the Kurds to the wind) that doesn't advance Russia's geopolitical interests.
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  9902.  @jackb8469  Talk about ignorant - what you just posted isn't even medically based. I prefer the facts, dipshit, and it's clear you do not. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  9903.  @jackb8469  Where do you get this nonsense about the number of deaths peaking in March? The disease has not been going away; more infections mean more deaths.
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  9904.  @jackb8469  Well, I got news for you, as of the end of March there were 4,304 covid deaths in the USA. As of today there have been 133,971 covid deaths. Tell me again how it peaked in March.
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  9905.  @jackb8469  You don't even know what numbers are, do you? Or that the number of dead Americans has been going up every day for months?
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  9906.  @jackb8469  For something that you claim is approaching zero, it does an awful lot of increasing every day - that is, the number of Americans dying of covid-19.
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  9907.  @jackb8469  Look at that! 994 more US deaths today. "Trending to zero" my ass. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  9908. Gym Jordan is fulfilling my every expectation in terms of his whackadoodle conspiracy theories and painting the Republicans as lying idiots. I personally thank the Republicans for complaining that we need public hearings (done), then complaining that we need firsthand witnesses (done). They were right, the American people deserve to hear all of this.
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  9909.  @katherinea.rodgers8366  Worse than the Cold War. The Soviets might have been opposed to us, but at least they were not batsht crazy. Trump, on the other hand .. :(
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  9910.  @tomceman4451  Well then, sleep well, because Biden doesn't do the illegal things that Trump did.
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  9911. Putin may rest assured he will be a historical figure. Just not the kind he wants to be.
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  9912. Makes me want to revive the House Un-American Activities Committee and investigate FOXed Noise.
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  9913.  @allieelectra23  Trump signs may have disappeared from big sections of flyover, but the insurrectionist sentiments remain. Faux has been feeding their bumpkin reveries about some imaginary civilization that hasn't got any cities (because, y'know, that's where libruls exist) and fueling secessionist nonsense.
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  9914. Everything you need to know about Trump is contained in two news articles that are dated a few years back. Titles in quotes since YT won't take links: #1 "I study liars. I've never seen one like Trump" #2 "They spewed Hate. Then they punctuated it with the president's name"
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  9915. Historically, the governance of America has been shared by both major parties. One is the pilot, the other is the copilot, and they switch these roles often enough that it works out to 50/50 for time in the pilot's seat. Just in the last few years, Republicans have decided that they'd rather steer the 747 into the side of a mountain than endure the "horror" of not having 100% control of everything all the time.
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  9916.  @phylis3917  45 almost certainly cannot deal with the truth. Anything he doesn't like is "fake news". Remember the sharpie editing of a hurricane prediction track? Or "Like a miracle, it will go away in a few weeks"?
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  9917.  @sampuatisamuel9785  United denies at 32%. Just imagine how much more profitable they could be at 100% claims denied.
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  9918. Trump is a dying star. A red dwarf on his way to black hole. It's physics, it's inevitable.
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  9919.  @markg.7865  .. and yet she'll get paid above $160K/year. When Trump talks about the "deep state" heck, he's running it.
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  9920. Not to be too blunt, but Oregon has a bunch of badly-informed chickens that like to vote for colonel Sanders, who somehow convinced them that the PETA folks are commies. And they don't like it when the smarter chickens outnumber them. Expect the state-of-Jefferson people to be all riled up for another two years :(
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  9921. Hope she can make a full escape from those evil people.
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  9922. Stephen Miller probably required special training and constant reminders not to mouth the words "final solution" anytime in public or around reporters :( There are still thousands of disappeared refugees.
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  9923. Pretty soon, the World's Biggest Snowflake is going to be saying how mean, bad, unfair, unconstitutional it is for anyone to say that to him. It's going to sound damn funny coming from the same a-hole who popularized the "lock her up" chants.
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  9924. Listening to him rant, you wonder if he's going to ask for a return to landlines, rotary dials, and reference librarians for finding stuff. Wtf?
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  9925. Welcome to America :(
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  9926. By the strangest coincidence, this is something that George Conway also knows quite well. And yet, one of the two kept quaffing from that plutonium-infused pitcher of rat poison.
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  9927.  @chathuranisharada2745  Don't expect replies if you can't post anything except a link with no explanation.
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  9928. To be fair, Moscow Mitch was all about "the ends justify the means" long before Trump came to power. Remember when 8 months before an election was much, much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge?
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  9929. Wonder if they're wearing diapers too? With some stink in them? Perhaps their skin should be dusted bronze?
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  9930. I knew things would get worse in the USA because of the mismanaged pandemic, but I didn't know that every inbred whacktard nutball racist out there would do stuff like this or like the George Floyd murder.
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  9931.  MandoMerc GT  You forgot the /sarc tag.
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  9932. Just yesterday I was saying it wouldn't take long for them to start calling Bolton a deepstate liberal plant. Pretty soon they'll progress to saying he's a leftover originally appointed by Obama.
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  9933. Seems like the Balsonaro of Britain still doesn't understand that the virus sets the timetable, not us.
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  9934. Same for Pence and all the others who refused to talk to the J6 committee. Such spineless traitors. Caring more for their future book tours than for their nation.
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  9935. Fall 1941: Hitler is reportedly 'very angry' at the US for arming the USSR so it can defend itself against the Nazis. Rinse and repeat.
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  9936. They're probably covering everything with plastic ;)
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  9937. A legion of milquetoast, if not compliant, prosecutors and judges is how 45 has skated through a life of crime so far :(
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  9938. Funny how Biden didn't have any public facilities on his property (golf courses, a ballroom, a social club) as well as unlocked doors leading from them to the documents, as well as a large format copy machine waiting there with the classified documents. Funny how Trump refused to turn back the classified documents, and still claims they're merely his personal momentos. Good luck defending the indefensible, R's! 😅
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  9939. Trump in fact lost the 2016 popular election. It was only through the fuckery of the electoral college that he got in at all.
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  9940. It's more like a snuff tape. Trump and some young blonde.
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  9941. Forget about humiliating them. Just re-educate them.
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  9942. In a funny sort of way, Georgia GQP Republicans just ensured that not only will lots of us be present to offer water and refreshments, but we'll also offer rain cover, shade, wifi, bathrooms, placeholders, whatever else is needed.
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  9943. Ha, I've got one better, a Hispanic refugee/immigrant friend who worships his guns and identifies as a white American right-winger. Big fan of Nazis. Works in armed security too :(
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  9944.  @JBguitar-cj8pc  You wrote "Way less dangerous than antifa". Strongly disagree. Nearly all extremist murders committed in the USA are done by (no surprise) white anti-government right-wingers. Which are the Proud Insurrectionist Toddlers and the Oaf Tweakers. Read it for yourself. https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds
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  9945. Notice how Adolph Trump has already forgotten about Herman Cain.
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  9946. This is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  9947. Thank you president Biden for your service! Best president of my life of many decades. Go Kamala! :)
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  9948. Some other channel had it that the new nutso DefSec has been asking troops if they are OK with shooting US civilians.
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  9949.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  The vote numbers are on ballotpedia. Orange Adolph got less than 50% of the vote. I lay this one at the feet of the third party protest voters who clutched their pearls and couldn't vote Kamala. The numbers show that pretty clearly too.
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  9950. The number of cases in Oregon is still doubling every 10 days anyway, so unless that stops (it doesn't look likely to) don't be surprised if the early May opening gets pushed back to early June .. and keeps getting pushed back.
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  9951.  @fauxque5057  Where will Russia get the spare missiles designed for large ships? All of them are being earmarked for hitting apartment blocks and maternity hospitals in Ukraine. Putin's idea of important war targets :(
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  9952. ANother upcoming kult line: those kids had bad daddies .. so they were going to become criminals and die anyway.
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  9953. Awesome!! This will guarantee that the Biden-Harris team wins again :)
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  9954.  @batgurrl  You didn't have it wrong, I just couldn't resist. All good.
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  9955.  @hattmancock6396  Well, YOU cannot do that. Home Depot / Best Buy / Walmart do not sell the equipment needed for genetic sequencing. But universities have had the capability for decades. That's how serial killers are often caught these days. Genetic sequencing. Is this the first time you've heard of this technology which (since you don't have access it it personally) is somehow not real to you? Yikes, wait until you hear about space travel.
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  9956.  @MariaAudioChick  Yah :( Even the ones who totally disagree with it. They're people too. Even when they're trying to infect as many as possible :(
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  9957.  @MariaAudioChick  Re "Do your research" << You're supposed to say that as "DO YuOR REsEArCh!!1" when you spout patently-disprovable nonsense. Seems you've never even been in the same room as any actual scientific knowledge. So, let's see, Florida ranks #9 among US state for covid illnesses per million and #26 for covid deaths per million. Hardly the success you claim to be cheering. BTW it's a very Clump45 way of speaking to say that "People say xxxxxxx" in the way you did.
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  9958. I'm sure FOXed Noise in Clackistan hasn't mentioned this yet, but Portland hasn't been burned to the ground, and Antifa isn't the problem. The agitators who slip in with them and BLM are the problem. If you have issues with Antifa going after fascism, I suggest you relocate to an authoritarian regime someplace else. Maybe Russia. A place where the ruler can jail his opponents and repress journalists and minorities. Some people's heads are just wired for that. Democracy is not their thing.
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  9959.  Lsoj Dixub  Regarding "you just named everything the democrats do" << Obviously you're completely oblivious to Trump's attempts to misuse the powers of office for petty personal grievances. Check out the latest DOJ allegations. Although, in your defense, they probably don't air any factual material on the nonsense propaganda channels you consume.
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  9960.  @CheCosaTesoro  Hate to have to explain this to you, but Andy Ngo is a known writer of right-wing (or reich-wing) agitprop. The only people dumb enough to fall for it are those with zero awareness of when they're being told lies that dovetail neatly with their biases.
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  9961.  @NicNacPaddyWac301  Funny how they don't like it much either when "caravans" break the law at the southern border. But when reich-y white people do it, it's magically OK with them somehow.
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  9962. Sounds like Trump needs to change the batteries in whatever remote control he uses on House Republicans.
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  9963. One of the few good things about Wussolini now is that he will simply double down on the crazy, and keep doing the same stupid/racist/illegal/immoral/despicable things that are causing him to lose the support of more people every week.
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  9964.  @suehinze1566  So if all that applies - how much of a Dem is he really? If he can't run as one, if they don't support him the way the Reps do .. well, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ..
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  9965. I look forward to when I no longer need to spend an hour or two every morning pointing out to the Trumpanzees exactly how nutball crazy they have to be to approve of trying to run a campaign organizers' bus off the road during an election. They're way beyond just needing remedial civics education .. by their actions they're more like religious jihadists.
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  9966. I think what Barr meant to say was that Trump's tweets unnecessarily expose his illegal & partisan activities at DOJ to public scrutiny, and that it would be easier to carry out Trump's dirty work if Trump didn't air it so publicly.
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  9967. That's the same phrase the Nazis used for death camps. The pretense was that the Jews were being sent east to settle in new lands. They even had today's victims write out postcards to send home - right before they got herded into the showers, of course.
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  9968. This is the face of the American Taliban. Child marriage, rapist rights, banning trans kids.
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  9969. There's a verb for that - defenestration. Also means taking Windoze off a computer.
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  9970.  @vicpinto1970  This is an impeachment investigation, not an impeachment. Rules are different. The charge that "it's partisan" is like speeding past a cop and then refusing the ticket because s/he is of a different political party. As George W Bush put it - if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide.
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  9971. Barr is too busy being Sweet Potato Hitler's personal lawyer to do any such actual work.
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  9972. His correct name is Matt PizzaGaetz, so named for reading whackjob internet conspiracy theories then breaking in, shooting from the lip, looking for "evidence" that doesn't even exist.
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  9973. Why are Republicans being such nervous nellies over this? Surely they must know that McConnell will block it just like he blocked Obama's supreme court pick, many of Obama's other nominees, and the nearly-300 bills that the House has passed and are now stalled in the Senate. Surely they must know that Pence is next in line. What's bothering them?
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  9974. Unfortunately, tinfoil sales probably went through the roof all over the place based on those three words.
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  9975. Oregon has conservatives like that. Any time they feel the governor isn't reich-y enough for them, they threaten to join Idahostan. Oh boy. The IQ of both places will go up.
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  9976. Repurposed Soviet subs have many uses. Artificial reefs for marine life. Scrap metal. Trade sub pieces to the US Navy in exchange for some extra goodies in the next supply run.
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  9977. Actually I am stocking up on popcorn. It will be like those many expensive Benghazi investigations that found nothing, or the Durham probe which finds nothing, all sound and fury but devoid of meaning.
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  9978. All these years, the NRA claimed that their gun-clutching was for the purpose of standing up to a tyrant on US soil .. yeah right.
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  9979. What a shocker. Especially since the Republicans are all about "Rules for thee but not for me".
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  9980. Basically the air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and pulled on the correct strings. Apparently Republicans are hardwired to be the mindless minions of the first president to try overturning an election.
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  9981. It's still not clear how Republicans even thought they could manage a post-coup America. 70% of the nation's GDP comes from counties that voted for Biden. The lines are nowhere near as clear as when the former confederacy got uppity. How did they imagine that would play out?
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  9982.  @Portugal2025  Here you got .. it was hilarious. The guy wiped the floor with him and never even broke a sweat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
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  9983. Bingo. We still need to get through the election, then (hopefully) her inauguration .. and even then the same reactionary reich-wing interests that brought forth 45 and 2025 will still be looking for a way to try again.
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  9984. But unfortunately there are a lot of people who Want To Believe (tm) sort of like Fox Mulder for flying saucers, except he actually had much better material to base off. Oh Rob :( Hoping this isn't his gateway drug to 9/11 conspiracies next.
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  9985. Lincoln was too damn nice to the traitors last time. The ghost of General Sherman has already been summoned.
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  9986.  @elimora7497  No, he was too damn nice to the former Confederates after the war. Look where that got us :( The rest of what he did was alright.
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  9987. Oh great, Donald "anything I don't like is fake news!" Trump has appointed Mike "pray the gay away" Pence head of coronavirus efforts. Not only can Trump not even spell "coronavirus" correctly, he's calling for some $6Bn less in funding than Congress is asking for. What could possibly go wrong?
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  9988. Involuntary sterilization is a clear violation of the Rome Statute - a crime against humanity. If Trump and his goons have been doing that, what else have they been doing, away from private eyes, with hundreds of thousands of detainees? Have some of the detained people been involuntarily incinerated too?
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  9989. Remember that scene in Waterworld where Dennis Hopper's character whips up the masses into a frenzy so they'll row the boat around in circles while he thinks up the next scam? Trump's "build the wall" nonsense was one of those things. Bannon and some of the others saw a way to monetize that for their own profits.
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  9990. @ That's unfortunately how it is when you're dealing with cult members. Look at Charles Manson cultist Leslie Van Houten. It took her decades in prison to realize that everything Manson had told her was lies. Many of them will go to their graves unaware that the guy they voted for caused their deaths. Like John Wayne famously said .. life's rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid. There isn't supposed to be any reward for bad decisions, faulty thinking, etc.
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  9991. Doesn't help that El Trompo is telling everyone that it's a "hoax" that Democrats hope to kill millions with. The guy's practically trying to incite violence :(
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  9992. These are NOT Russian losses to Ukraine. Instead, these are a special Russian operation to gift Ukraine with more scrap metal!.
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  9993.  @ElixirEcho  Please tell me that you're not saying that the Western response has NOTHING to do with a horrific attack on one of the larger nations of Europe. You may not agree with them, but there are very real reasons why the West shouldn't be feeding its members to a hungry alligator, hoping it eats them last.
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  9994. Perhaps we can hope that the way he flippantly talked about tossing out the ballots to prevent any transfer of power, or the way his game plan is to declare the election results invalid so that a rushed-through SCOTUS judge can help make the decision, has forced some of his followers to realize that these are the tactics of tin-pot third-world dictators.
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  9995. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  9996. Trump: the economy will be so great, everyone will be working 3 or more jobs. It will be so great, even children will be working.
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  9997. He'd just take the fifth anyway. He's a loser, scumbag, and coward all rolled into one thoroughly unattractive package.
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  9998.  @AncientEgyptQueen  Agreed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/19/florida-covid-19-coronavirus-data-researcher-out-state-reopens/5218897002/
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  9999. I'm fully expecting him to set the school and playground on fire when they tell him he can no longer be the class bully.
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  10000. Just remember, kids - anything Trump touches (even just by fellating it) dies.
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  10001. Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Benjamin Franklin
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  10002. Weird. Now Russia is suddenly whining about military units crossing the Russia-Ukraine border.
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  10003.  @ziggyzugg  So true about the toxicity of fame and power. In fact, giving either of those to someone will show you exactly who they are.
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  10004.  @backpackingorbust3875  Re "Pretty sure Putin is more intelligent then anyone posting on this thread" << That depends. Do you see anyone else on this thread making enormous geopolitical mistakes? Or sticking their d*ck into the gears? Putin's apparently good at painting himself into corners. He's gotta love it that the 82nd Airborne just showed up in the hood. Gives him all kinds of warm fuzzies no doubt.
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  10005. He barely showed up for his previous gig, and then did only the bare and sarcastic minimum. No, what's scarier is seeing how many willing accomplices he has who obviously hate America, democracy, and the rule of law, given how eager they are to plunge the nation into chaos. All to please the whim of their current Charles Manson daddy figure.
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  10006.  @yoloswaggins7121  Re "now they are anti democratic as well." << Bingo. If you want to see them shocked, ask them how they'd feel about Biden losing the next election then overturning the vote results, as Trump attempted to do, just to remain in power. Watch them howl!
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  10007.  @dating4564  Since you failed to understand my answer, let's try a simpler form of the same: They're running the country and you are not. Therein lies the answer about how qualified they are. You probably don't qualify to handle a glow stick safely.
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  10008. Guessing it's only a matter of time before the crazies start doing vehicle attacks on hospitals and vaccination centers. These are the same people who watch a bunch of doctored videos on Fakebook and then screech at you do "do your research!"
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  10009. To be fair to Republicans, they've been trying for decades to breed an easily-misled, low-IQ kind of American who works hard for low wages and then dies quickly before needing medical resources. Mitch probably got the idea way back when free government care kept him from dying of polio as a child.
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  10010. OTOH, it's good to know exactly which Americans would happily work for the next Quisling to come along and try to destroy America from within.
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  10011. The sad part is, the people who yelled at president Biden probably never vote Democrat and refer to Democrats as "gun grabbers".
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  10012. Sounds like Trump is complaining about conditions in Moscow - and yes, Tiffany Moscow was cut off from supplies.
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  10013. It almost happened. The Trumps dismissed the white house staff before leaving, so no one was around to welcome in the Bidens. Trump always was a spiteful nasty little piece of work.
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  10014. When the urge to "own the libs" overpowers the sense (and the patriotism!) not to hurt America and Americans, there's the folly of Trumpsm on full display.
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  10015. I only came here to see which of our nutball commenters would mistake Biden's centrism with something waaaaaaaaaaaay to the left of that.
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  10016.  @user-ll9kg5so4y  Corrrect. I am talking about Joe Biden. He's about as far left as Nixon used to be. The trouble with you (from what little I've heard so far) is that you fail to recognize that Trump is an extreme-right position on the spectrum. He is all the way over at the edge with other notables like Pat Robertson and Adolph Hitler. There is no one more far-reich than him. You are mistaking his position for normalcy (it's not) and delusionally imagining that anything to the left of that must be communism. Were you always this daft, or did you get that way over the course of years by poisoning your mind with Rush Limbaugh and FOXed Noise?
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  10017.  @user-ll9kg5so4y  Disappointing. I was about to ask you for links to Biden endorsing all of the necessary planks for socialism: 1. State seizure of the means of production 2. Abolition of large-scale personal property 3. Making all other political parties illegal Without those things, you don't have communism, and the Biden-Harris team is waaaay too centrist for those kinds of commie ideas.
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  10018. In a sick way, it does make sense that a hateful, spiteful paranoid old man, who feels wronged by everyone, would try to cause the most loss of life among Americans.
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  10019. Expecting to find out someday that Jamal Khashoggi's killing was just a test run for what Trump wanted to do :(
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  10020. MAGA .. many are getting arrested. They caught some of the flex-cuff-carrying thugs already.
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  10021. This time, he didn't use a shovel, he used an excavator.
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  10022. If the testing numbers posted on worldmeters are at all correct, the US is not ramping up testing by much. Here are the numbers for the last few days, with the new tests done each day: 4/5 139,414 4/6 142,171 4/7 161,199 4/8 133,302 4/9 144,055
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  10023. And Tucker obviously doesn't lose any sleep when his "great replacement" lies come home to roost in the form of mass shootings in malls, or folks deliberately run over at a bus stop.
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  10024.  @Thewayoftgefist  It seems it is you who can neither read nor remember what you wrote. Under what prison terms (location & duration) are they being "punished"? (hint: butthurt and punishment are different things)
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  10025.  @Thewayoftgefist  Re "I’m very jealous of Russia and how they handle things" << So in effect you are saying that Obama should have just acted like Putin, back in 2015, and had the other party leader (Trump) poisoned then jailed. Thank you for clearing that up.
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  10026. Living through this sorry episode in our country has showed me exactly how that WW1 trench runner, the rabidly anti-semetic corporal who was an even worse artist, the guy with the funny mustache, once took over one of the major countries of western Europe, destroyed its democracy, and put the nation on a course of aggression.
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  10027. Trump need not worry. FOXed Noise, OANN, 8chan, and FakeBook will always protect his hate speech.
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  10028.  StinkyPirates  No. Chemotherapy would be better. Ironically, chemo (vacor) was originally designed as rat poison anyway.
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  10029.  StinkyPirates  You may wish to take that subject up with people who know how to acquire and administer the stuff. Not my realm of expertise sorry.
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  10030.  @thebusybee7080  Sharing this gem of a comment posted recently by AC, a few days before the election: As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  10031.  @thebusybee7080  Here are the best books I've found for understanding this kind of thing as it's happening: William Shirer - Berlin Diary William Shirer - End of a Berlin Diary Harry Flannery - Assignment to Berlin Howard Smith - Last Train from Berlin
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  10032. Almost every culture on the planet has a cautionary tale that's taught to the children. Something along these lines - You meet Satan, or the Devil, or the evil one, and he takes you up to some high place and spins wondrous lies to fool the shallow-minded. Then he asks you to do this one little thing for him (something that's usually illegal, immoral, unethical, etc) that he needs you to do. A large chunk of America's voting "adults" fell for that :(
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  10033. We're not out of the woods on that one yet. Obviously from the quantities of death threats that Trump's mob can deliver on demand, there are still some of his more violence-prone followers out there who have not yet been arrested.
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  10034. She and the other Republicans, heads lost in a fog of 45's lies, would refer to war as peace, up as down, night as day. They're so easily spun, it's practically their defining characteristic.
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  10035. No one's saying it as such in the news - but - various elements in Hong Kong are presently in open rebellion against the Chinese communist party. It's been going on for months and it continues to ramp up.
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  10036. You and your half million will be together until you spend it on something else.
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  10037. Not only that, but why is Putin so mad about F-16s? It is not like we are sending F-15C's, which are true F-U planes, or F-22s.
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  10038. Haven't seen Lavrov much lately, but then, he's probably sedated a lot of the time. The guy must be spitting every time he speaks. "How dare anyone do to us what we did to them??" kind of stuff 😅
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  10039. That's going to look great on their resumees. Hope they never get jobs again for the rest of their sorry lives, except maybe scrubbing toilets at the bus station. What sorry excuses of human beings.
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  10040.  @unifiedvision999  Notice how few conservatives denounce the lies that lead their people to violence like that. That's why no reasonable person can vote for them.
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  10041. Stop being so MEAN to the GREATEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY! So what if he said he'd work tirelessly, then went golfing. It's his right! Not like that slacker, Obama. You people need to start respecting the president! /sarcasm
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  10042.  @sandiharris5906  Sorry, that post was pure sarcasm. Since we have not yet run the experiment of having Biden as president, there's no way of knowing how he'll turn out. On the other hand, even Stormy could have predicted how Trump would perform.
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  10043. Correct. It will soon be necessary for them to take measures to prevent people from fleeing the Putin shit show.
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  10044. Are you saying that covid should not be mandatory? Too bad, it's going around because all the anti-science dolts couldn't be bothered to take it seriously. Enjoy your medical bills.
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  10045. And that was in the reddest, most bleached-white part of Greater Crackistan. Huh, I don't suppose the GOP thought to get a pledge from Trump to honor the results of their primary election .. might be a little problem down the line ;)
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  10046. Remember that time a 10yo rape victim from Ohio was forced to travel out of state to avoid a criminal abortion in her home state? (so much for the myth that rape pregnancies don't happen) That's the GOP for you :(
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  10047. All because his tender little feefee's got hurt. Watch how quickly his dimwit mouthpieces find the new official party line on cancel culture.
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  10048. Look. If Biden had cured cancer, Trump would reverse the cure just out of spite, like what he did with the cap on insulin prices. Rural folk voting for Trump are like the trees voting for the axe.
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  10049. Wasn't Trump just calling Putin "genius" and "smart" for invading Ukraine? And now he's saying how horrible things are in Ukraine?
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  10050. Norway had its Quislings. France had its people who opened their legs to the Nazis. America has its Trumpanzees.
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  10051. Syria is about what Russia can handle.
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  10052. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Basically all law enforcement agencies are going to have to pursue those who issue death threats via wire. And Trump will need to be denied his means of telling lies to the gullible ones.
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  10053.  @Chazreal  Well try to get a little sun on you now and then, ffs. I refer to it as fish belly white. White like you got scared.
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  10054. Funny, but I don't recall reading about anyone calling it an unconstitutional power grab, back during WW2, when the government forced everyone onto rationing for food, fuel, living space, vehicles, etc.
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  10055. Bingo. This the set-up for Civil War 2. Next comes 4 years of them wailing about the election they claim was "stolen" (even though it wasn't) and they will use the time to get even more virulent, to stockpile weapons, and to find ways to mess up the next election. Next time they'll be driving through polling lines instead of merely trying to shove a bus off the road.
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  10056. Imagine Putin's surprise and pleasure to find so many Quislings willing to help Trump take down the USA from within.
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  10057. It's possible he will still have media access. Some places let the inmates do that. And, to this day, Trump still does one useful thing: he brings out those among us who hate democracy and want to take down our nation. We've got plenty of prison space for Quislings.
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  10058.  @charlesasmith7836  Same. By the truckload :( Remember what happened in Brazil and Germany when coup plots were revealed? They jumped on it, arrested the guilty, and quickly went looking for their accomplices. They didn't look the other way, shrug, opine that they can't do anything yet because it's "political". As if political crimes are a class of crime the DOJ has never heard of.
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  10059. Perfect! 😅 "Those clever Russians! Now we need to spend another 10 trillion dollars developing a way around this! :("
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  10060.  @krystofmraz  I was being facetious about that in line with the OP's comment. Of course we already figured ways around this, probably decades ago. As to getting rid of enemy AA, that's why I occasionally make references to the ghost of Stormin' Norman having been summoned and given an office and staff. What UA is doing to Crimea is a familiar set of opening moves.
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  10061. It is just like when he tanked the border bill, all so that he could push a hot mess into his opponent's lap and then complain about things. He cares NOTHING for the country.
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  10062. I'm waiting for Trump to triple down on the crazy by pressuring the governor of Wisconsin to pardon Kyle Rittenhouse - then ask him to help monitor polling places in the city.
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  10063.  @realist7239  This story is taking up an infinitesimal portion of the media coverage. What do you feel it's possibly blotting out? The story is only of interest to Boomers anyway.
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  10064. This is just one form of extreme fail at trying to "prove" covid to be imaginary. Kind of like when people on death row tell themselves that they're naturally magnetic so the electric chair can't hurt them.
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  10065.  @jojobaggins9224  You're not even qualified enough to capitalize your sentence, which puts you even lower on the food chain than me.
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  10066.  @Fran11686  Bwahahaha. Listen, f*ck stick, the history books are going to put Trump and his supporters as the dumbest of the dumb. You're just digging a deeper hole for yourself now. And just like your turd-brains idol, you don't know when to stop.
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  10067.  @jojobaggins9224  LOL, you just burned out a projector bulb on that one, spanky.
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  10068. China has a new alliance with Russia? You mean in addition to the one they've had for half a century?
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  10069. And some Americans went along with Trump's attempt to end our democracy (!!!!)
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  10070. Or when like Russian parents, back during the Cold War, had to secretly educate their own kids on history and on how to spot propaganda. Secret libraries.
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  10071.  @michaelcasiano9497  Forgot to ask, are you perhaps new to the notion of getting the facts straight before opening the air scoops on your supercharged walnut-sized brain?
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  10072.  @michaelcasiano9497  Aww, what a surprise, the facts didn't care about your feelings. Go cuddle with your emotional support pet.
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  10073. Amazing. Did China first do other things like a) insist no hospital needs more than 2 ventilators, b) call them "complainers", c) spend a lot of time saying "Who ever heard such a thing?" before taking this step?
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  10074. @markmierzejewski9534 It's possible that there are some uppity Trump supporters (the kind prone to violence, like the J6 crew) that still haven't been caught yet, which is why all good citizens should stand back and stand by. We have plenty of prison space for Traitor45's flying monkeys.
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  10075. Where's senator Joe McCarthy and the HUAC when you really need them?
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  10076. All the Party faithful need to know is that they've always been at war with Oceana - I mean Democrats.
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  10077. It was not an explosion. It was a "special pyrotechnics operation".
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  10078. Let's see if Christie will come along and run as an independent next.
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  10079. Iran is running its advanced centrifuges already, and Russia is no longer bound by the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty. Trump has been a boon to America's enemies.
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  10080. @Don M, you could have stopped calling these things "untested" when the number of mRNA-vaccinated people surpassed the number of Twitter users. And no one calls Twitter "experimental, untested". Your brain sounds pretty mushy! ;)
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  10081. If it was good enough for the Rosenburgs, I'm sure Old Sparky is good enough for Bannon. Let's go, Bannon!
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  10082. Like Mulvaney said, "we do this all the time". What he neglected to say is that Team Trumpf has been doing shady stuff in lots more countries than just Ukraine.
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  10083. IF the US is so keen on this kind of stupid behavior, perhaps it should let China or Russia park a carrier strike group in nearby waters (after leveling economic sanctions against the US first, of course) then let them fly drones nearby.
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  10084.  @humourless682  Err, your post got divorced from reality where you said "shut down of health service for everyone but celebs and politicians". In point of fact, ordinary people by the millions have already been hospitalized for covid, and many of them have been discharged to self-care.
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  10085.  @humourless682  Thought you were talking about the USA, sorry. Our elites have solved that problem by making sure that lots of people haven't got any medical coverage - around 9% of our population of 330 million.
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  10086.  @humourless682  "From the projected figure of 200,000 deaths as a result of the first lockdown" << some clarification please: 1) What country are you talking about? 2) If "locking down" directly causes deaths by the hundreds of thousands, then explain how people are able to live for decades in prison, where their freedoms are far more restricted than merely being asked to wear a mask in public and not socialize.
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  10087.  @humourless682  Thank you for the peals of laughter induced by your use of the word "muzzles". (You DO realize that people can speak through them and be understood, right?) Let me try to spell this out using sentences short enough and words small enough for you to understand: There's a deadly disease going around. It spreads when people get together. For every normal pre-pandemic human activity, you can derive a "how easily could the virus spread from person to person" factor that's dependent on the following variables: - Is it indoors? - Are there people from different households there? - How good is the air circulation? - How close do people get to each other? - How long are random people in the close presence of each other? Supermarkets, and other large stores that can afford to upgrade their air circulation, are doing mostly OK in terms of not spreading the virus from customer to customer. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the workers in those places, or for smaller businesses that can't afford to be compliant with these measures. If all you're going to do is whine about your "freedumbs" being infringed upon, then it's a good thing you weren't around for WW2, because people got asked to do quite a lot more in order to save fewer lives than covid will cost. The authorities have had to make some hard decisions about what constitutes an acceptable loss on many fronts. Unless we're prepared to deliver food to everyone's homes (as China did during the worst of their lockdown back in Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr) we must keep those stores open. But everything else should probably stay closed. The alternative is going to look like 3000, then 5000 or more deaths per day.
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  10088.  @humourless682  You have again managed to miss the point. Saying that "this only affects older people or those with pre-existing conditions" is a lot like saying that Hitlerism only affects Jews. Are you aware that a lack of compassion for the suffering of others is a key indicator of sociopathic tendencies? Edit: in the UK there were around 70K civilian deaths during WW2, largely due to the Blitz. As of today, the number of UK covid deaths is 71,109. "Just a flu" << oh please :(
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  10089.  @humourless682  Re "why force millions of them to visit infection hubs" << is there an online translator to turn TinFoilWhackJob-ese to English that the rest of us can understand? It's not even remotely clear what the F you're trying to say.
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  10090.  @humourless682  Still no elaboration for what on earth you mean by "In the UK millions of the most vulnerable are forced to visit infection hubs daily"? Is that too serious a request?
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  10091. Umm, I doubt they did the same thing. There are no indications that the young Air Force man, Jack Teixeira, profited from selling US secrets to our enemies.
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  10092. Since when was this sort of nonsense legal? It would be like the German-American society, in 1940, donating money to send national guard troops to help Hitler take over Europe. What the absolute fuck??
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  10093.  @nickgov66  Re "When was he ever actually hinged?" If you haven't read it, there's an oldie-but-goodie article from Bella DePaulo entitled (roughly) I study liars. I've never seen one like Trump (Washington Post, late 2017) Basically he has a talent for telling lies that cause damage on many levels.
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  10094. To the poster in Germany - until this fool Trump came along, I did not know we had so many people here who could be so easily gaslit / misled into supporting ending our democracy in order to appease the election loser.
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  10095. Correct. She could have conceded gracefully and come back to run again next time. Instead, she let the crazy flag fly proud, and now everyone knows what damaged goods she is.
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  10096. Republicans have realized that the only way to retain their hold on power is to turn many states into Rhodesia-like dens of apartheid disenfranchisement. They're fond of those maps showing all that mostly-depopulated red land that votes their way.
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  10097. @Steven Prime Here's more for you, Captain Ignorant. Wipe that orange jizz off your face. March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: “The United States .. has, as of now, only 129 cases .. and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down .. a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful .. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: “It’s going to go away .. The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point .. when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  10098.  @issahumps  You wrote "Sounded like he was trying to get the mayor to wear one 😂" It does sound that way now that I've gotten different news stories on it. Then again, the creep in question was filming from just 3 feet away after being told to back off. Maybe their idea of "making a point" somehow missed the point. It would hardly be the first time. Like when someone who professes to be a patriot uses the American flag to beat a policeman with.
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  10099. Without real-time fact-checking, I'm afraid it will be a lot of stuff like Trump saying, "Obama sent death squads after everyone who dared to say 'Merry Christmas', but then I came along and saved America from that Kenyan commie nonsense!" and his followers will swoon and send the Applause-o-Meter off scale.
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  10100. Has it taken Florida seniors this long to realize that he's trying to kill them off via covid? Dear God, that's damn slow by New England yankee standards. Did they think Republicans were just joking every time they talked about reducing the size of the nonworking population??
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  10101. OP - it was long known how 45 enjoyed issuing lies for the main purpose of being mean. Check out this now-ancient news article entitled something like "I study liars - and I've never seen one like [45]"
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  10102.  @Jaykilljoy-tt9tt  I got a bone to pick with those nitwit militia fools anyway. They seem to have zero awareness that the other 97% of beyond fed up with their nonsense. I pray they go back under their rocks before they find out how loathed and unwanted they really are.
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  10103. The primary side effect seems to be protection from covid, not necessarily from getting it but from suffering much from it. As for the primary effects (being able to summon Clippy, levitate large metal objects via magnetism, turn your body into a 5G hotspot) we're all pretty disappointed.
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  10104.  @Tuncle54  Without fact-checking the firehose of lies, there's no point of even putting 45 in front of a camera or microphone. It's as if, during the height of WW2, we were putting Lord Haw-Haw and Axis Sally on the front page of every newspaper. Wtf? 45's idea of a happy day is obviously America on fire and Putin thanking him for it :(
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  10105. They're going to have to let visitors stay only so long at maximum - perhaps a week? - so they get put on the plane back home before they start developing a headache, fever, and that dry cough that just keeps getting worse. On the plus side, beachfront property will be cheaper in Cali after the plague burns itself out.
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  10106. I remember that. They flew to DC late at night to meet with Trump privately so he could beg them to change the vote to something than other what the people voted for. Who would even consider such a thing?? (edit: cultists would)
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  10107. Portland got worse on Trump's watch. Next lie, please.
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  10108.  侍大将ジョージ  Good luck trying to claim that Trump wasn't president for the 2017-2020 season. Could you be any more ignorant? (don't take that as a challenge please, you're already way around the bend)
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  10109. I for one am thankful that the Republicans insisted on open hearings, so that this testimony and questioning could be made public. And Gym Jordan is behaving exactly as I hoped he would - sucking on the tailpipe of conspiracy theories, flailing about with things that don't make sense outside the microverse of Q-Anonsense.
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  10110. The Russian word for 'truth' is 'pravda'. 'Pravda' was the Russian government's official propaganda rag. Russians have been funding Trump's version of the same. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
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  10111. Reporting from Oregon, USA. The sole proactive measure I've seen here so far is the University of Washington (the next state north of here) implementing drive-through testing only for the people who work at UW. What resources are needed to scale this up to offer this testing to all persons in every city of more then 25,000 people?
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  10112. 1972 called John Eastman, they want his outfit back. Good god, don't leave the house looking like that.
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  10113. Collect all the little Nazi dolls, including Binder Barbie. They'd look great in those brown uniforms.
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  10114. If Biden could cure cancer .. the Republicans would bring it back to spite him and ordinary Americans.
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  10115. Indefinitely. $50/dozen eggs and SS/Medicare/Medicaid/VA benefis shutdown wouldn't wake these sleepers :(
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  10116. Yeah. I've been having it out with his fanboys over that. Funny how they have no response to the fact that he spoke so loudly and clearly to the Proud Boys that within hours they changed their logo to reflect what he'd told them to do.
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  10117.  @Ohwowamazing  Wrong. I have the receipts from 2014: US Representative Peter King (R-NY) deemed the suit’s color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be “unpresidential.” He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching." “ISIS is watching,” King said. “If you were the head of ISIS, if you were Baghdadi, if you were anyone in the ISIS, would you come away from yesterday afraid of the United States? Would you be afraid that the United States was going to use all its power to crush ISIS? Or would you think here’s a person who’s going to go out and do a few fundraisers over the Labor Day weekend?” Later, in an interview with CNN, King doubled down on his criticism, saying that Obama “looked like he was on his way to a party at the Hamptons.” Informed that other presidents had worn tan suits before, the Republican replied that Obama “could have worn whatever he wanted” if he had taken a stronger stance on ISIS. “I thought the suit was a metaphor for his lack of seriousness,” he concluded.
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  10118. The irony of tRump supporters referring to others as "traitors" :(
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  10119. Correct on how the government has reduced testing. Keep an eye on this chart. We've rolled back more than a month of progress in expanding testing. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  10120. Next time, tell them to object harder when Kim Jong Trump tells them to ignore the science.
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  10121. But but but but .. they heard that trans kids (half a percent of the population) were destroying school athletic programs everywhere.
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  10122. What I've done is download the data to a spreadsheet (it's available on either state or county level, with daily timescale) and put those two on the same graph. Deaths generally trail a month behind cases, when you're trying to see the relation between the two. It's a little muddled in places because the death rate goes higher when local healthcare resources are overwhelmed and someone must make the choice of who to save vs who to send home with aspirin.
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  10123.  @ReflectedMiles  Unfortunately the northwest isn't a whole lot more better-vaccinated than some parts of the south. Delta is so communicative that stopping it probably requires 95% vaccination plus everyone wearing masks.
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  10124.  @ReflectedMiles  Delta has gone in the direction we've left open for it, which is to put ever-younger cohorts into the emergency room. Another direction is a population that's gotten only one type of vaccine (Israel). I pray that, by having a mix of vaccines in use here in the US, we've provided less of an easy avenue for Delta to take during its next set of evolutions. Might even make sense for the Pfizer-inoculated crowd to get a Moderna booster, or maybe the Moderna crowd to get a J&J booster.
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  10125. Sean Hannity, Tucker "Axis Sally" Carlson, and Rupert Murdoch are smirking all the way to the bank. There's good money to be made fooling the gullible, easily-angered folks.
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  10126. Actually it was a snuff film.
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  10127. Trump has only himself to blame, since what he said was essentially this: "Look at this chaos and disease. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My response to the coronavirus was perfect, just like the phone call to Ukraine."
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  10128. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  10129. Susan Collins (R-Maine) famously said, "I hope [Trump] has learned his lesson, but we will have to see." The lesson he learned is that he won't be held accountable under the law, thanks to his spineless Republican enablers. Thanks, you traitors, you made this possible :(
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  10130. Trump's supporters (Republicans and their allied racist/nazi types) lost their precious little minds back when a black man got elected twice as president, winning both the popular vote and the EC vote. Twice. They spent 8 long years frothing at the mouth. Just recently, poor deluded Barry Loudermilk tried to imply that Jesus would have never been a martyr if he'd been criminal enough to resist Roman subpoenas and refuse to turn over incriminating evidence to the Romans. I don't know what we as a nation can do to bring those people back to reality .. and I don't know if we'll survive long as a nation of laws with those people on the scene. On that latter thing, probably not :(
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  10131. Seriously. We're watching history. With enough portable anti-air and -armor missiles, a conventional ground assault (tanks and planes) isn't workable. Long-range artillery is all the Russians can do effectively at this point, and if Ukraine had cruise missiles they'd stop the artillery ASAP.
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  10132. About corona .. it's such a trifecta of shit with Delta spreading just as all measures are being rescinded and vaccination rates have dropped sharply.
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  10133. Just like when Mike Nearman, Oregon state rep, plotted with armed right-wingers to allow them access to the state capitol so that they could do to lawmakers what others tried to do to the governor of Michigan. Everyone will recall their plans to kidnap and execute governor Widmer. STOP PLAYING NICE WITH THESE TERRORISTS please!
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  10134. Musk giving out money to buy votes is illegal. Deport his sorry frat-bro butt back to South Africa.
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  10135. It was more of a deliberate dive (or jump) than a fall.
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  10136. That's not going to end the MAGA madness, sorry :( Those folks already live in some kind of alt-reich rabbit hole of misinformation. We called those folks the Tea Party back in their larval days. You'd have to restore the Fairness Doctrine just to begin the process of bringing those people back to reality. They are as out-there as the Comet Pizza shooter :(
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  10137. With great rights come great responsibilities, and Faux has been abusing those rights for a long time now. Faux should be paying millions (or more) to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for the lies they promoted about those two election workers.
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  10138.  @KB4QAA  Not politics? Where have you been this year? Remember that fellow who said it would go away in April "like a miracle", even as he was admitting to Bob Woodward privately that it's much more dangerous than the flu and it spreads by aerosols? The world is lucky that he didn't apply the same 'acumen' to aircraft design that he's applied to healthcare.
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  10139.  @KB4QAA  You seem to be unfamiliar with recent events. Perhaps this will help jog your memory? https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/politics/cdc-trump-science-reports/index.html
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  10140. An 8.3 mile levee for only $40M?? Sounds like all the corners got cut.
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  10141.  @therose5783  Wonder if their engineering standards rate disasters the way civilized places do, as 1-in-50 year floods, 1-in-1000 year floods, etc.
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  10142. Then we'd have to shut down the Republican National Convention too - which, like protest, is protected free speech.
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  10143. Everyone craps on upstate NY. Has a high birth rate yet a low growth rate .. can't find much future there so most everyone leaves.
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  10144. He's from the same type as Mike Nearman of Oregon :(
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  10145. My anxiety level really went down once Clump wasn't in power any longer, and once about half the country got vaccinated roughly along lines of IQ and party affiliation. The future is actually looking kind of bright. A lot of the trash is taking itself out, with an assist from Delta. There will be more houses and jobs and stuff for the survivors.
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  10146. For 240+ years, the two major parties have taken turns being pilot or copilot of flying the 747 that is America. What's new is the Republicans deciding they'd rather crash into a mountainside (and take us all along for the ride) than face the "horror" of being copilot. That's new. They've been the copilot many times before.
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  10147. Nobody likes Trump or his divisive rhetoric - with the exception of his mentally-damaged base, who feel warm only when Trump pours gasoline on the fires of domestic discord.
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  10148.  @bekindrewind9675  If Trump has any trace of charisma - I can't see it. Any charm his followers feel is like that cartoon of the sheep looking at a wolf's political poster (where he promises to eat them) and they're saying they like the way he tells it like it is.
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  10149. It's more like 30%, and I do hope that something can be done to bring back these people, mostly boomers, all of whom were raised in the same protective coccoon of American prosperity that Trump is presently trying to tear down. Clearly, he's got them lusting for an America in which he has dictatorial powers; in which minorities are silent and invisible; in which Christianity is the law of the land; in which America has all the broadly-based prosperity of the 1950s but without the high marginal tax rates that enabled that same broader-based prosperity; in which America is simpler to them like back when they were children. These people don't just need to move forward 60+ years from wherever the Rat Whisperer has led them, they need to grow up too.
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  10150.  @wendigo53  Well, part of the problem is that we've got Rupert Murdoch's disinformation network telling our most gullible ones various forms of reactionary nonsense. Here are a few: "Letting gay people marry takes from the rights of married straight people!" "Those other people are eating the cats and dogs!"
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  10151. Perhaps the last reporter does volunteer work in a hospital .. wink wink.
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  10152. Sorry, but none of his supporters learned anything from his first abortion of an administration. He mishandled covid, lied about everything, oversaw huge net losses of jobs, took no responsibility for it when things turned out bad, kept appointing people so dodgy that even a Republican run senate would not confirm them. Caligula's voters will need more forceful lessons than what happened last time. I am confident he will deliver on that.
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  10153. 681 days elapsed between the J6 insurrection and when AG Garland appointed special proscutor Jack Smith. Nearly half of a 4-year administration. (46%) 1 day elapsed between classified documents being found at Biden's home to appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate.
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  10154.  Tessmage_Tessera  Looks like we are going to have to endure a few more weeks of the keyboard-warrior conservatives gnashing their teeth and talking about a civil war in the name of the guy who lost the 2020 election.
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  10155. A hero in the eyes of the coronavirus, maybe. Covid says thanks for the fresh meat.
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  10156. Say what you will about Republicans, but wow, they are amazingly talented at taking a very bad thing and making it worse. They're like those two dudes at the end of the movie "PU-239" who just snorted weapons-grade stuff. Dead already, all because of their own very very stupid decisions, just not realizing it yet.
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  10157. The law sees it differently .. but what Trump's accomplices did was nothing less than treason in my eyes.
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  10158. Let's see. Making child labor legal, making the marriage of children legal, banning abortion, defunding schools, suppressing the vote .. sounds like some rich white male conservatives are indulging their fantasies about turning HS cheerleaders into barefoot pregnant stay-at-home moms who don't vote.
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  10159. If that happens, you won't hear a peep from all those militias in the US that formed to protect freedom or protect the constitution. The only thing they meant to protect was white supremacy.
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  10160. Dump45's core audience has always been there for the angertainment. Thanks to decades of Fox, Limbaugh, etc there are now substantial numbers of Americans who are strongly attracted to negative qualities.
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  10161. He's going to be up there with Churchill in the history books .. "I don't need a ride out, get me some fking ammo!!"
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  10162.  @operator9858  OK Boris ;) Yes he did say that, and, 2+ years into this, the "formerly thought of as mighty" red army is still doing WW1 style meat waves against a technologically superior enemy. They ultimate Davis vs Goliath match.
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  10163.  @williamjohnson9321  Re "I say stay and fight these tyrants" << The more thin-skinned among us said the same thing when seat belts and motorcycle helmets became required by law. Why don't you just say that your tender feelings got hurt?
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  10164.  @williamjohnson9321  Every time there's a school shooting, just remind yourself that it's America's "well-regulated militia" in action. Which is why I'm all for mandatory, comprehensive classes in gun handling, use, storage. Help weed out the crazies. There are plenty of responsible people who own guns in America (and I do not want to diss them in any way) but we have got to realize that plenty of crazies own guns too (as evidenced by the crimes being committed) and that we need to do something to limit the one without infringing on the other.
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  10165.  @pieswimmer1  I mentioned motorcycle helmets and seat belts. How did you manage to misconstrue that to mean skin tone? You are funny 😅😅
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  10166.  @williamjohnson9321  Well, unless you are suggesting that we do away with the results of a vote because you don't like the outcome, let's please keep the anti-democracy nonsense down to a low mutter please.
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  10167. People always talk about what would happen if we took all the warning labels off everything. This is why Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shumer, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama should put out a PSA telling people to look both ways before crossing the street .. to wear masks when they're around other people .. to get vaccinated against covid .. to make sure they drink clean water and breathe clean air and eat only healthy food.
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  10168. Pompeo is best known for his grossly-mistaken claim that there would be a smooth transition to a second Trump term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQHXf60uRo
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  10169. One can do some math on Clump's popular election losses, by 3 million in 2016 then by 8 million in 2020. If this is flat progression, in 2024 he could lose by 13 million. If the growth was instead exponential, then it works out to Clump increasing his voter dissatisfaction by around 27% per year, so his 2024 loss (if he even runs at all) could be by 20 million votes or more. I'm betting on the latter case.
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  10170. She's going to be one of a handful of actual Republican patriots that don't have orange goo smeared all over them. She'll still be around while that suet walrus Trump is gone.
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  10171. Considering that Kevin is from the modern equivalent of the Know-Nothing Party, I would expect nothing else.
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  10172.  @mitzimccoy1611  Nuns were practically rioting over it at the time. Long ago during the cold war.
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  10173. There were lots of copies of his speech-of-lies, but only one copy of the translators' notes that he shreds after meeting with Putin. Go figure.
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  10174. It's obviously not the oath to the constitution they took upon entering military service - an oath that has no expiration date. Perhaps they meant "oaf tweakers" since they sell meth to the proud toddlers in order to buy camo. Or gravy seals / meal team six / top bun / special sauces.
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  10175.  @murphyrod4839  By interviewing surviving cult members, probably, and they won't have any good answers.
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  10176. Agent Orange must be feeling a lot of peer pressure from the likes of Putin, Kim Jong Un, MBS, Duterte, Xi etc to deal with any dissent the same way they do. And for sure, the Republicans are more than eager to cross the Rubicon :(
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  10177. Who could have known that fish really do rot from the head?
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  10178. Exactly. This morning I'm sipping coffee watching Republicans flip from saying last week "Why didn't he shoot down the balloon earlier??" to bitching about the latest object being shot down.
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  10179.  @billjones8950  "We're being duped - again" is classic victim-speak for "all news sources are equally wrong to my eyes".
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  10180. Not to worry - it's in the bag already. Sweet Potato Hitler's handpicked SCOTUS judges are on standby to assist. All he has to do is sue to contest the results for states that didn't vote for him. Maybe they'll even rule to let him pardon himself and edit the census numbers to what he thinks is right (with no evidence of course).
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  10181. @ Paul Lea - bingo. It takes a lot to push the public, the average person to where things like this happen. Everyone is sick of America being a TV reality show starring a 70yo toddler with thin skin. Trump and his people are as removed from reality as K-Mart's uppermost management team was.
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  10182.  @wut3358  LOL I am presenting facts. You couldn't find anything to cherrypick out of them (to bolster your flimsy case) so you try to dismiss it out of hand. I look forward to when I no longer need to spend an hour or two every morning pointing out to the Trumpanzees exactly how nutball crazy they have to be to approve of trying to run a campaign organizers' bus off the road during an election. They're way beyond just needing remedial civics education .. by their actions they're more like religious jihadists.
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  10183.  @cooldude9074  For an American to say what you did ("I pray that city burns to the ground") proves that not only do you need to take the civics classes all over again, but you're probably closer to being a religious jihadist than you realize.
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  10184.  @cooldude9074  Do you realize how far away you are from being an American, when you say stuff like that? Here's what an actual American would say: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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  10185.  @cooldude9074  Oh really? Sounds like you've never been in the same room as a history book, if you don't know whose words I was paraphrasing. Wanting someone else's city to burn down? You are one sick f*cker. Hope you can get help. You and all the other Trumpanzees.
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  10186.  @cooldude9074  Once again you have it all completely wrong. By your words above about wanting a city to burn down, you are more like a Quisling than a patriot. You do know what a Quisling is, right? Someone who actively wishes harm against their own nation? There are other unkind words for people like that.
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  10187.  @cooldude9074  By what you wrote above ("As an Oregonian who's family helped pioneer this state, I pray that city burns to the ground") you're categorically some kind of traitor to the USA. Which of the adults in your life would be proud to hear you saying such trash? Or would they just agree that there was something wrong with you anyway? Are you even aware that it's not normal to wish mortal harm to people you've never even met? Just how far around the bend are you that you could say those words?
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  10188.  @cooldude9074  Aww, tell us how Portland hurt your tender little feefees so badly that you want the place burned down. Don't hold back.
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  10189.  @cooldude9074  You claim you said nothing about harming people? It's November now. How many tens of thousands of people would be harmed and rendered homeless by burning Portland down? Where in your deluded little mind do you think everyone would decamp to if that were to happen? You are as shallow of thought as the causes you pretend to support.
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  10190. I think they are complaining that things are getting out of TRUMP'S control. Too big to grift away, in other words.
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  10191. It's always an 8-track tape of hilarity when conservatives talk about the supposedly "failed" economy of California. They can't get over how wrong they are about it just like they can't get over how Trump actually did lose the election (Biden got millions more votes) or how Portland OR is still standing strong and hasn't been burned down. So let's enjoy a moment or two to chuckle at their enduring idiocy. I'll lift a cup of coffee to them for failing to heed the wise words of Confucious - specifically - "Best to remain silent, and be thought of as a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt."
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  10192.  @7171jay  Honestly, even if 45 loses the election for a third time, and by tens of millions of votes this time, I am doubtful that the culties in the House will certify the election win. Instead they will take it to a "hire court" (just ask Harlan Crow which one) and have the supremes pick the winner.
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  10193. Trump's base is comprised of only a few segments of American society. One is the <92IQ crowd. Another is the portion of the population prone to strongman worship. And the last is the portion of the population who wants to burn it all down. Trump has little to no appeal outside of that set, who total around 20%-30% of the US population.
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  10194.  @Quaker-tc8ue  Also, some of them will have permanently lost their right to own firearms, yay. Serves them right. All of this seems too lenient for my taste. A "T" brand, somewhere on their face, would suffice to identify them as a traitor henceforth.
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  10195. That's probably part of why she lasted so long around Trump. Being a delusional narcissistic liar is something he would respect.
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  10196. Tucker Carlson is every bit as loyal to the USA as William Joyce was to England. The latter was better-known as Lord Haw-Haw.
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  10197. Although Trump claims not to know Lev Parnas, the recording shows the US president taking Mr Parnas so seriously that in just 20 seconds he goes from not knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed, all based on one (1) person's point of view - someone he claims not to know.
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  10198. You can recover from being broke and jobless, but you can't recover from being dead.
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  10199. Trump is going to play a major role, alright - as an example of what not to do. There's always someone that's got to try licking the frozen pump handle or the hot exhaust pipe.
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  10200.  @springerworks002  As the saying goes - an insurrection attempt that goes unpunished is just a training exercise. Along these lines, a number of the J6 insurrectionists had practiced their stuff back during the pandemic, bringing long guns into state legislatures in various places across the country. Trump of course egged them on at the time, as did Faux. Makes you appreciate why most countries have active military assigned to protecting the capitol. Belt fed 50s are the appropriate response to a horde trying to kill the VP and prevent election certification.
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  10201. Oregon had one of those too - Mike Nearman - who was expelled for letting armed militants into the state house. Someone please take the crazies away in straightjackets .. they're a clear and present danger to everyone else.
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  10202. Trump's fans were unknowingly correct when they took offense at NPR's re-tweeting of the Declaration of Independence .. because after all, they love him specifically because he is so hateful towards others and so contemptuous of law and justice. For his fans, those things are features, not bugs.
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  10203.  @nancybeveridgetaylor3256  allow me to echo something posted elsewhere this morning. This is something you would say to Agent Orange's defenders and fanboys: I am unconcerned that we have different politics. I do not think less of you because you voted one way and I voted another. We need people to vote and the candidate we select is not always going to win. It is hoped that we will have someone who is competent enough to run our country. That didn’t happen in the last election. We got a thin-skinned egomaniac who has never been held accountable for any atrocities he has committed. Let me be clear. I think less of you because you watched an adult mock a disabled man in front of a crowd and you still supported him. I think less of you because you saw a man spouting clear racism and you cheered for him. I think less of you because of your willingness to support someone who openly admires dictators and demonizes the press and anyone who criticizes him. I think less of you because you heard him advocate for war crimes and you still thought he should run this country. I think less of you because you watched him equate a woman’s worth to her appearance and you thought that was okay. I think less of you because you’ve seen his appointees systematically destroy legal protections and loot the tax payers money and you are ok with that. You watched, along with the rest of the nation, as he separated families and locked innocent children in dog cages and you were not horrified as the rest of us were. You refuse to accept the fact that this man wants to work with dictators but has alienated our long standing allies. I think less of you because you refuse to review the facts and accept that this man is lying to you on a daily basis. It isn’t your politics I find repulsive. It is your willingness to support racism, sexism, misogyny, and cruelty that I find repulsive. You supported a tyrant and bully when it mattered and that is something I will never forgive or forget. Your lack of morals and basic humanity are devastating to me. There are some things I can never be civil about: concentration camps, genocide, white supremacy, misogyny, harm to children, mass trauma, state violence, rising fascism, to name a few. There is NO civil discussion with someone who agrees with putting children in dog cages. So, no...you and I will never be “coming together” to move forward or whatever. Trump literally disgusts me and I hate the sound of his voice spewing hate and dividing the country but, the fact that he doesn’t disgust you is something that is going to stick with me long after this presidency. You have shown me who you really are and the fact that you still support this monster and rush to justify everything he does makes me feel that we have nothing to discuss.
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  10204.  @jlbueno0611  May I up the ante? Wisconsin. Apparently hordes of people from Illinois, fed up with 8 weeks of staycationing with netflix, munchies, and legal weed flooded bars in Wisconsin - and some almost certainly took the virus home with them that night. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wisconsin-bars-packed-supreme-court-overturns-stay-at-home-ruling/
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  10205. Nice to see that Trump's famous reverse Midas touch is still there. Hope he can keep applying it to the GQP Republican party and their dumb hangers-on and their chud followers.
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  10206. Governor Cuomo just released the results of the antibody study. Apparently NYC is well on the way to developing herd immunity, but it took a tremendous amount of suffering and death for them to achieve that. We're not out of the woodshed yet, sadly :(
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  10207. That guy has the same MO as Trump, who sets the capitol on fire then complains that it's on fire.
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  10208. Quislings can't keep themselves from taking down their own country. It's in their nature. It's all they do.
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  10209.  @IFNH8UALL  This war has done more than just destroy the idea that Russia is a first world power. One of their export businesses is selling military equipment and arms. Now everyone gets to see how their junk fares against western stuff, and it's not flattering to them.
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  10210.  @madmaxfzz  We don't know what documents. Many haven't been returned yet.
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  10211. Indeed, he needs Trump to destroy NATO from within. Certainly his troops can't accomplish it in the field, and he's not even fighting NATO anyway.
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  10212. Why is Russia so mad about the F16s anyway? It's not as if we're sending F15s, which are true F-U combat aircraft.
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  10213. Also, just because Nearman got kicked out for deliberately letting armed thugs into the state house, doesn't mean that Nearman's former constituents don't wildly approve of criminal actions to overturn the government. Because FOXed Noise.
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  10214. So in less than 24 hours he goes from encouraging people to flood the streets in protest (most without masks) to congratulating himself for telling people to stay home????
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  10215. Those who adore him are not much different :(
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  10216. That would include the other former presidents too. And it would be in the interests of the nation for Biden and Obama to be co-emperors at least until Trump expires of natural causes.
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  10217. All the vile hate towards the chosen scapegoats, and not a word about their plans to fix the inflation they claim is destroying them.
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  10218. @Geoffrey Morrison Everything about how Trump treats patriots can be learned from how he treated Lt. Col. Vindman. Apparently now it's Fauci's turn, and for the same crime: speaking the truth.
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  10219. Right. Trump's a known serial liar for many decades, then new attorney XYZ somehow delusionally imagines that they're so special that Trump will always tell them the truth, even if he's lied to his other previous attorneys? How gullible can these low-IQ fools be? Jeez.
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  10220.  @mrwhatwhathuhlala2977  Re "Bigger Government is the threat" << The ultimate example of small government is Somalia, but, strangely, few conservatives want to move there. Racial homogeneity, guns everywhere, religion everywhere, hardly any regulations/taxes/government - should be a paradise, right? It isn't. Stop trying to make our nice country into a hell-hole. Just move to the hell-hole yourself.
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  10221.  @mrwhatwhathuhlala2977  I know what you mean. Small enough to be ineffective. So that, say, Republican states could opt to completely ignore it when, say, they learn from a Democrat president that Pearl Harbor just got bombed and that we need to go to war.
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  10222.  @yelenamil  I, on the other hand, find it quite easy to believe that there are all too many deluded-and-delusional Trumpanzees like yourself, still roaming free, sucking down the dumbest anti-American propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. And I'm grateful that Americans were better in previous years. When Pearl Harbor got bombed, we didn't see your kind running around calling it "fake news" and insisting that wearing uniforms was "the government taking your freedumbs".
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  10223. Trump is repulsively negative enough that he has lost two popular elections in a row, but, somehow, those same negative qualities are like cult-follower magic mushroom sauce to the people who spent 8 long years chanting that Obama was violating the constitution even if they didn't know or couldn't explain how.
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  10224. Corruption is in the air they breathe over there. It has always been a dirt-poor place away from the big cities, only recently liberated from serfdom by another name, where any form of corruption & thievery is how you simply survive. Slavery still exists there. Many people still don't have toilets, electricity, indoors plumbing.
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  10225. Everywhere you go, Walmart, Home Depot, Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens, Target, Tractor Supply, Harbor Freight, grocery stores etc are all still open. If none of those stores have what you're looking for, it's probably not anything essential to your survival.
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  10226. 45 was such an embarrassing heap of fecal matter that he fled DC before inauguration, in a cloud of black ink, and sent the White House staff home so there would be no one there to welcome the Bidens. We still don't know the contents of the letter he left for president Biden.
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  10227.  @Mortimer992 To Trump, anyone who follows the rules is a "sucker". He still doesn't get why Obama didn't just dissolve congress at the end of his second term .. Trump was flabbergasted that someone would just walk away from a position of extreme power, and hand the keys to someone else. Of course he couldn't take his turn when it came time for him to leave office. Remember when he spitefully dismissed the white house staff (so there would be no one to welcome the Bidens) and left DC in a cloud of black ink 15 minutes before the inauguration?
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  10228. PSK31 rules, you silly bot. Invest now or be lost forever.
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  10229. Unfortunately there's a comet tail of crazy people following them. We can now count down the days until some nutter shows up armed at a Walgreens, shooting up the place while screeching that he won't have Satan tracking anyone :(
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  10230. He's been a walking advertisement for Trump Lite anyway.
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  10231. Our president already told Putin - if he uses any kind of nuclear weapon, anywhere, Russia will face an overwhelming conventional attack from every side. And after a week of that, Russia won't have any working combat vehicles of any class. And there will be no Marshall Plan type rescue for the sore losers who started the conflict.
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  10232. Notice how Trump hasn't taken the necessary step to defuse some tensions? For that he would have to explain to his MAGA-turd followers that he lied to them about the integrity and results of the election .. that the whole alt-reich media world ran with his lies .. that his followers have been committing sedition on a large scale based solely on his lies.
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  10233. Candace Owens' tweets are nowhere near as lying as Donald Trump's. It's past time that bully lost his pulpit.
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  10234. Fools were lucky to get together with their money in the first place.
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  10235.  Koski Co  It's painful to watch so many people opt out of reality. I'm so glad our country wasn't this delusional when Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The orange-faced McTraitor would be tweeting about all the beautiful letters he'd gotten from emperor Hitohito; his people would have called it "fake news" that Pearl Harbor got attacked; his people would be refusing to serve, refusing to ration, refusing to participate in the war effort.
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  10236. If the Oaf Tweakers want to defend America against domestic enemies, they should form a circular firing squad.
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  10237. Do the world a favor, give them a tour of the covid wards and don't provide PPE. They probably won't believe in the virus until it happens to them.
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  10238. Like everyone else in government, Marie Yovanovich swore an oath to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic. That oath has no expiration date, and those loyalties are not transferrable to Agent Orange. Unlike many others in our government, she is honoring her oath.
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  10239. Sadly, other Republicans (now calling themselves the Insurrection Party) will work to exterminate the kind with spines and duty to oath and country.
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  10240. 80 years ago, whole generations of people put down their usual concerns, donned uniforms, and spent 4 years doing mad stuff all over the world while watching their buddies get shot or blown to bits. The descendants of those same people are now refusing the "horrific" dute of donning masks in public. Some of them even shout "white power", forgetting that a couple hundred thousand Americans died defeating that same thing.
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  10241. t was but a small step from Trump's behavior, decades ago, when he continued to call for the execution of the Central Park Five even after they'd been exonerated, to his current behavior when he vehemently claims, completely without evidence, that the votes against him were fraudulent.
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  10242.  @abajojoe  I've got friends in WA and QLD. For most of the pandemic, they've continued socializing freely with strangers indoors and not a mask in sight. It's as if they're reading about news from another planet and thinking it can't happen to them. Resistance to vaccination is even higher there than in the US. Hopefully their government will put on the adult pants and make it compulsory to participate in the eradication of the disease, just as they made it compulsory to fight the Axis powers in WW2. This is that serious of a threat to their nation and every other.
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  10243. To my ears, the most dangerous part was when he talked about prosecuting people for "illegal protest". Does he intend to issue an executive order forbidding protest? Is he imagining some martial law type situation?
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  10244. Soon it will be .. "We never intended to intercept those drones targeting the Kremlin."
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  10245.  @eyaklen4804  How do you figure that? Is Russia somehow going to resuscitate all its dead soldiers and make them perform like an actual military, instead of shambolic drunks?
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  10246. Trump wouldn't have any audience if he didn't appeal to the very worst among us :(
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  10247. Republicans are showing that it's difficult to follow the law when you're carrying out a lawless coup to seize power. Time to build some big beautiful new jails for all the conservatives that need to be indicted for sedition and treason.
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  10248. There are many different types and scales of the whole "ripping off the band-aid" concept. One version of it is in Florida, where 18 months of pretending that covid is "just another seasonal flu" still hasn't resulted in any herd immunity, just continued waves of illnesses and deaths. So maybe another form of ripping off the band-aid is to engage in keeping the unvaccinated people unvaccinated. They're proving themselves to be the dumbest simpletons, subject to the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat. It's time to let them go. They won't be adults, ever. They won't have good intentions towards their communities and their nation, ever. Let's let them be great in the only way they can - by being part of a big funeral pyre.
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  10249.  AnotherWacko  Who are they planning to shoot at, exactly? Sorry, that's a rhetorical question. In all likelihood they'll continue to take it out on visible minorities, marching protestors they don't agree with, media personalities, etc, just as Trump's stochiastic Brownshirt irregulars have been doing the past 3 years. Hopefully everyone will get video of whatever they do so they can have a long detox session in prison while they reflect on the folly of being misled.
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  10250. Ferron, I am very sorry to disagree with you, extremely respectively, on this slippery slope thing. During WW2 we did have censorship, without which (undoubtedly) the Rupert Murdochs of the day would have seen the opportunity to profit from causing people to question whether the war was necessary, whether Germany and Japan were really our enemies, whether fascism was really so bad after all, and wasn't it just the Rothschilds and a few others who were profiting from this "fake war" propaganda blitz. This thing has already killed a lot more Americans than WW2 ever did, and it's not even beginning to slow down. Our failure to put America on a war footing, during this time when the virus is waging war on us (as it is on every other nation) is a gross abdication of federal government responsibility.
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  10251. Obviously, Russians are not above committing war crimes in the same way that the sea is not above the sky. (h/t to Douglas Adams for that turn of phrase)
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  10252.  @tmnt10000  Looks like you don't follow the news much. Your loss. Or possibly you don't read history much.
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  10253. He can always be impeached at some later time. The important thing for now is to keep him from doing harm during his remaining time in office.
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  10254. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  10255. Funny, Republicans don't seem to care about retaliation when it's Trump doing it to have death threats issues against court workers, their families, election workers, etc.
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  10256. How many people would have to be in on this conspiracy for it to work, without leaks?
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  10257. Want a really good laugh? Here's a 2016 article in which a series of pundits explained why they think Trump will be a good president. Guess they didn't know him very well. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/it-is-possible-for-trump-to-bea-good-president
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  10258.  @meauxgendron3682  Thank you for posting what a crazy person might think if they read only FOXed Noise / Infowars / Q drivel and Tom Clancy novels.
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  10259. Knowing that the doubling time of this disease is around 7 days, we can work out a few things. Given that the school employee has been symptomatic since Feb 19th, we can assume they were initially exposed on Feb 12th and have possibly been spreading it since Feb 14th. So assuming other people were exposed as far back as Feb 12th, there has been time for 3-4+ generations of further community spread. 95% of the population of Oregon lives right along the I-5 and I-84 corridors. It's already here. Sugarcoating the reality is NOT helping anyone. If we are smart (and I doubt we are) plans are being drawn up to do what China and South Korea have done: quarantine everyone down to the town & neighborhood level, cancel any venue where people can mingle, test everyone all the time for free, arrange to deliver food & supplies to each household so people don't have to go out, etc.
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  10260. That's a big, unverified if. Every time we think that critical number of stealth-infected-and-recovered people is big enough in any one particular place, months later another huge outbreak takes place there and we have to go back and say "oops". I was hoping people would learn from the pattern of the way this keeps happening again and again in different places.
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  10261.  @JMUDoc  I'm sorry, but your terminology induces laughter when you refer to center-right Democrats as "radical liberal". Even Bernie Sanders is hopelessly centric by European standards.
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  10262. But but but Rupert Murdoch doesn't know any other way to make money, besides lying and fearmongering. That it destroys whole countries is just an unwelcome side effect to him. He'll move on to the next if America turns into the next Haiti.
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  10263. Turns out, Sinclair Lewis got it only partway right. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, his racism and intransigence so enthralled conservatives that they opted to murder democracy to soothe the autocrat's butthurt.
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  10264.  @DanaFromAlaska  Here is another one you might like. This has to do with the legality of separating refugee/migrant families: While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA .. So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  10265.  @l.j.r.8448  Bingo. What are the chances his victims were not white? And so close to the 6/17 Dylann Roof shooting anniversary.
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  10266. Rafael Eduardo Cruz? Only in America could the Canadian-born descendant of a Cuban refugee pretend to be an immigrant-hating southern white conservative.
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  10267. Those are rookie numbers! Trust me, before the election is upon us, Tяump will have done many more things to embarrass us, to make the United States look bad, to make the Republicans look even more like idiot asskissers, and will certainly have found more laws to break, both domestic and international.
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  10268. Glad to see that some of the state governments are stepping up to the plate.
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  10269. This is like a Skynet takeover, but so much worse because the Heritage Foundation people are the ones in charge of it :(
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  10270. Electric cars are just another "let's fix this through drop-in gadget replacement" approach. The lower-energy-consumption way of life is to live in compact walkable cities, to use grid-powered public transportation, to save the countryside for farms, and to have fewer people using individual vehicles. Suburban living was a dumb fantasy to try out :(
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  10271.  @stevenm732  The most useful one I've found so far is new cases per million per week. The whole dataset is available by county by day going back to the beginning of the pandemic. As of the week ending 4/25/21, Caroline Co Virginia had the most at 8,546. Generally when it goes over 12K new cases/M/week it's showing the rapid acceleration of the variants. All of the pre-Sept-2020 waves were slower.
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  10272. Kash's "evidence" of that alleged election cheating probably comes from the childrens fiction he authored.
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  10273. Creatures like Trump occur often enough in every nation. But to have a whole major political party (and its agitprop apparatus) get on board with it is terrifying. They raised a swamp monster, and now everyone knows that he has no qualms about directing his nutball culties into meting out the Shay Moss treatment or the Paul Pelosi treatment to anyone who opposes him.
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  10274. They're practicing. Next time it will be things like - "Have you had an abortion recently?" "Are there any trans kids in the neighborhood?" "Is your neighbor gay? Americans have a right to know!"
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  10275. You can see it wearing on him. He's going to end up in Trump's F'd and Chucked pile soon enough.
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  10276. Yup, we live in strange times. To show their fealty towards a twice-impeached former game show host, pro-insurrectionists poison each other with farm-animal medicine.
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  10277.  @Haywoodjiblowmie  Trumptards LOVE false equivalences. That's about all they have now.
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  10278.  @MrEiniweini  And for all the people who think warm weather will help - just check out the explosive spread of the virus in Latin America and South America, where it's pretty warm just now.
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  10279. @idcraw Every day in the USA it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, more than 5,000 people have died from coronavirus in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  10280.  @mikeorfe1188  Real Americans? Seriously? Trumpers got behind a guy who won't pay his fair share of taxes, who won't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and who moves the production of his trinkets overseas .. in other words, they support the rich guy who does to them precisely what they're complaining about "elites" doing to them. That's either stockholm syndrome or battered girlfriend syndrome.
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  10281.  @bphater31  Among us, there are children who haven't yet been allowed to vaccinate, and immuno-compromised people who cannot. All those unvaccinated anti-maskers, I lay this disaster at their feet.
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  10282.  @JNosewicz7569  They just hide their true nature less than they used to.
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  10283. Oh look .. a Trumpist finding out firsthand that Trump has no commitment to the rule of law, or the truth, or the country. Sucks to be a slow learner. It took the Mooch just days to find that out.
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  10284.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  When facts and science "brainwash" a person, that's properly referred to as "education". Dammit who let all the nutters out of the crazy house?
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  10285.  @marge3477  Unfortunately you are correct :(
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  10286.  Ray Vorontsoff  What he says or didn't say is no concern of mine. What's important to realize now is that if we don't first corral then defeat the virus, we'll have no future whatsoever.
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  10287.  @benitosotelo444  Sorry it's you who are the bootlicker. Trump's stupid travel ban allowed some 40K non-Chinese to fly here from China during the months before total lockdown. We see the results now. Who let all you nutters out of the crazy house? Did you not make it past 3rd grade? Your brain seems to be full of holes and not working right.
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  10288.  @laurenmarievee6876  Simpleminded fools exist in every part of the world - but only in America are the likes of Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, and Donald Judas Trump allowed to lie to them so flagrantly under the guise of "free speech".
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  10289. Remember that old saying? "Rich and poor alike are forbidden from sleeping on park benches". This thing is much the same. "Rich and poor alike pay the same cost - what could be more fair?"
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  10290.  @jupiterjones3789  To add - a shortage of CHEAP labor would destroy the interests of the rich.
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  10291.  @jupiterjones3789  Sure, but there isn't a human society on the planet that doesn't rely on an army of lower-paid folks to load and unload the trucks, farm & catch food, drive the trains planes and buses, babysit the kids, unclog the pipes, mow the lawns, etc. If coronavirus tests are only available to the rich or to the insured, then someone's going to get a lesson in the interconnectedness of things.
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  10292.  @knightarcane4920  Civilians kill civilians in every country on earth - but only in shithole countries do the police do lots of extrajudicial killings every year. Like in the USA.
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  10293. Lotta whiners here who don't seem to appreciate that Oregon is one of only 5 states that still have cases-per-million rates down in 3 digits. The others are WV, AK, HI, MT. People seem not to realize that the low case penetration here is BECAUSE of the lockdown - not because Oregonians are magically immune to covid-45 (we're not) and not because the virus isn't here (it is).
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  10294. Bingo. This is big government telling a business what it can or cannot do, and trying to dictate the terms of a sale. And the Republicans are dead quiet on the issue when it's one of theirs interfering with business.
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  10295. Notice how Pence hasn't gone before the J6 committee to tell what he knows. And he would probably have quite a lot to say about the events of that day and the extraordinary pressure that Trump applied to try to get Pence to break the law.
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  10296. AKA "We reserve the right to change the election results if we don't like the way the people voted."
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  10297. Notice how few (if any) leading Republicans are speaking out on these violent threats being issued by their side. Crickets.
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  10298. The Murdochs have no one to blame for this but themselves. Pretty sure they haven't learned any overarching lessons about why not to support fascism in America.
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  10299. PM Macron has had an awakening. The only possible message Putin (and Russia) can understand is a really kinetic kind that affects them in highly negative ways.
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  10300.  @georgeburns8447  "And you're angry at him why? What did he do to you?" << Well, for starters, trying to steal the election after he lost it (and then went on to lose every single one of his court cases challenging the election results - all for the same reason, lack of evidence) would have opened up a bloody pit of chaos of the kind that you don't want to see happen in your own country. I don't want it to be like Haiti here, all because some old con man can't face the fact that he lost the election.
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  10301. Wow! Fascinating stories from that guy. If you added all his recollections together, it would make quite the book.
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  10302.  @shanasmith2068  Or as I say .. stand back, but stand by. Gotta love that traitor merch.
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  10303. It's not that mind-boggling. Trump's fine people chose to opt out of reality awhile back. They exist in some bizarre alt-factoid world
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  10304. Maybe there's hope for Trump if he goes full Kim Jong Un and makes it a crime, punishable by death, for journalists or anyone else to say anything other than how great he is and how well he's got this virus thing under control despite Obama sabotaging it from years back.
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  10305. Watching Russians try to explain their lack of success in colonial wars is like watching Felon45 cultists in the US trying to explain his track record for losing elections. Anything but the truth basically.
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  10306.  @stacygagnon6280  Of the two 2 people in line to be president, only one of them didn't participate in telling lies and happytalk to America while the virus spread during January, February, March. So to you that means she shouldn't be president, huh?
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  10307. Trump obviously thinks everyone is as stupid, self-absorbed, and short-of-memory as he is. They really need a big screen behind him (something he can't control) where they can replay what he said previously.
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  10308. Aww, sorry those facts hurt your tiny, sensitive little feelings. I note that you posted your drivel over an internet that was originally developed as a DARPA project. Not that you'd be aware of how pathetically unaware you are.
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  10309.  @curtisjeffries9640  It's the same in every country now.
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  10310.  @yehimstone5492  Every country did its own version of that. You may as well be mad at every other country in the world for acknowledging that the sun rises in the east. Grow up, please.
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  10311.  @curtisjeffries9640  So you want to blame Biden for doing a sensible thing that every other nation did? Grow up. FFS.
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  10312.  @curtisjeffries9640  Yeah, like you're in a position to speak, with your nonexistent decades of government experience 😅
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  10313.  @curtisjeffries9640  Actually I don't have to hold any government position to know that you don't appoint people to do [whatever] who've got no experience with, or knowledge of, that same [whatever]. Like duh.
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  10314.  @curtisjeffries9640  Wrong again. By your logic, nobody should be voting either - yet here we are, in a federal republic that was designed for people voting.
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  10315.  @curtisjeffries9640  If you think you have the expertise to president better than Biden, you're welcome to try out that theory by running for office. And let me guess - you haven't. 😅
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  10316.  @curtisjeffries9640  Voting is more my thing. Since this is a democratic republic, we do get to to choose our representatives and chief executives. And I'm very glad to have voted for Biden. That other character was worse than just an incompetent fool. You may feel differently. That's your right. Your initial comment said it all - how you likin Bidens economy, bruh? As others here have endeavored to explain, the covid rescue hangover exists now in every country. We'd almost certainly have one even if Loser 45 had won the election. So your comment was off base to begin with. And you may have heard that saying - those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither. That's you.
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  10317. Unfortunately Fox snooze has been peddling angertainment for so long that whole generations of conservative sheeple can't exist on any other kind of media fix :(
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  10318. Would love to be the WH intern who answers that request. "I'm very sorry, citizen Trump, but president Biden has got a busy schedule doing adult things. Why don't you just go golfing? Records indicate you played golf more than 285 times while you were keeping the char warm at the white house."
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  10319. Not only that, but he's the darling of the people who refer to themselves as the law and order party.
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  10320.  @JoeGator23  Sorry but nobody likes to click on potentially whackjob video links, especially when the person posting them had 100% hype and 0% substance. Usually that sort of ratio means there's a whacktard conspiracy theory awaiting. Might have better luck with those over at Parler, the new Q-Anonsense home.
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  10321.  @JoeGator23  Sorry, I prefer to be informed more by facts than by unproven conspiracy theories. Yeah I know, it's so dull, when you could imagine that the Illuminati are paying the Russians to frame the Ukrainians to make Trump look secretly bad because ... and so on. Rabbit holes are the only place you're comfortable in.
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  10322.  @JoeGator23  Thanks for the hilarity. "A potential reality". The correct phrase is "alternative reality". The Kellyanne Conway variety of nonsense.
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  10323.  @JoeGator23  Want some ignorance? Try this on for size: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  10324.  @JoeGator23  Ignorance is precisely what we see coming from the mouths of Trump, his enablers, and his painfully-stupid fan base. Here are some of them, dying from covid yet still in denial about it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/17/south-dakota-nurse-jodi-doering-covid-19-patients-denial/6330791002/
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  10325.  @JoeGator23  None of those people were president. Only Trump was. Get it through your thick head. That's like blaming a deck hand for what the captain of the ship did wrong. So much duh in what you wrote. Have 3 cups of coffee then get back to me.
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  10326.  @JoeGator23  Sorry, but my brain doesn't have the necessary miswiring to veer towards extreme minority positions as being the 'truest truths'. Nearly all of those are rabbit holes anyway. Vast conspiracies are effectively impossible to run; like water seeking a way downwards, they leak information, and the only way to win that game is not to play it. Did you know that anytime 2 people get together to form an antigovernment conspiracy that aims to do violence, at least one of them is an agent of the government? LOL at one trick pony. You really need to get out more.
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  10327.  @JoeGator23  Dude, that's conspiracy news, not the actual news. Do you not realize the difference? I see you've furnished your rabbit hole with a nice sofa, and you stay in touch with other people who live down rabbit holes, but at least come back up to daylight once in awhile. FFS.
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  10328.  @JoeGator23  You really got those whackadoodle conspiracies embedded deeply, don't you? I wish I could send you some money to compensate you for the laughter you've provided me lately. Always looking for the least-real, most-obtuse, least-documented explanation to what's obviously something else. If there were 99 scientists saying that the earth is round, and 1 saying that it's flat and that the other 99 are in cahoots with some foreign bank to mislead the world into thinking the world is round .. yeah, I know which side you'd be on.
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  10329.  @JoeGator23  Oh my god, you still don't get that 99% of the normal people of the world aren't even remotely interested in the 1-in-10,000 "alternative fact oriented" scientists who claim the earth is flat. Chill out and move on. You can always make a living selling gold and dietary supplements to the few cranks who do believe in those unlikely and extreme-minority positions. Just not me :)
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  10330.  @JoeGator23  The only thing here that's blowing my mind is how much humor you're accidentally providing me with - as well as anyone else reading this thread.
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  10331. If the testing numbers posted on worldmeters are at all correct, the US is not ramping up testing by much. Here are the numbers for the last few days, with the new tests done each day: 4/5 139,414 4/6 142,171 4/7 161,199 4/8 133,302 4/9 144,055
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  10332. Well, if aliens showed up in force, you wouldn't see folks bitching about inflation.
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  10333. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  10334.  XXII Elhazaroth Pagangrinder LXXXVIII  This is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  10335.  XXII Elhazaroth Pagangrinder LXXXVIII  For the second time today, you're making me yawn, and it's nowhere near bedtime.
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  10336. This is the same duck who penned the note about Clump living to 200, that's how healthy he allegedly was. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/ronny-jackson-ig-report
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  10337. Considering that all his life he's gotten ahead by lying, spinning, deflecting, projecting, gaslighting, being a horrible human being, being a racist, never paying his bills, etc, these past few months must be a puzzling and unwelcome aberration for Trump. Prediction: he'll double down on the nutty.
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  10338.  @snarky4lyfe144  Putin's little helpers here are so obvious .. and 45 is among their leaders.
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  10339. Leningrad Lindsey Graham is up for voter recall in 2020 - as is Moscow Mitch. People, you know what to do.
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  10340.  @ss-hole  Speaking of border security .. the Canadians have every right to close it. 20x more fentanyl flows north than flows south through that border.
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  10341.  @Torrana  Yah, that left a burn. It's what the big dogs at DOJ told him when he was aching to be Trump's sycophant AG.
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  10342. It's probably not necessary to bar her from office .. she's now in the same boat as crazy Sarah Palin, who will never win any kind of election. All because she showed off how incapable she is of functioning like an adult. Even Herschel Walker took his election loss with more grace.
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  10343. Face it, Trump is like reverend Jim Jones to 42% of Americans, and the tainted Kool Aid he passes out is composed of ignorance and coronavirus.
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  10344. If people like this insist on ignoring public health directives, then no public resources should be used to help with the medical care needed after their deliberate negligence. Can't see any better way to improve the breed.
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  10345. Not with meter maid Garland running the DOJ. It's been 706 days since the insurrection attempt, and still the ringleaders are out strutting around.
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  10346. Even sadder, they'll blame their self-inflicted poverty on Biden.
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  10347.  @tedrankin682  Rioting doesn't carry a 20 year sentence - treason does, though, and that's what the 1/6 perps did. Plus their orange oaf cult leader.
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  10348. Look at how the Republicans spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a full on one-party state here with them in charge of everything.
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  10349.  @edgardorosa560  Read the constitution. Tell me again how Moscow Mitch McConnell held the seat open for months before the election. Sheesh. Can you possibly be any more ignorant?
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  10350. @lambchop1328 See, that's where you are so far off base as to be standing in deep water. The Democrat platform in the US is very centrist by European standards, whereas the Republican party is over about where Hitler used to be on the spectrum. Pull your head out of your ass, ignorant partisan fool. There isn't a single thing radical about the current Democrat platform. It's about where Nixon used to be on the spectrum.
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  10351.  Cagraid O'Cleary  Yeah. You know, places where elections are certified to be fair (the US refuses international observers), where the government is held to account for its misdeeds (the US refuses to let ICC investigators in), where people live longer and are healthier and enjoy better access to healthcare and education, where there are more F500 companies per capita, and where the democracy is less autocratic-mob-rule than in America. Sounds like you want to live in Somalia, fool. Although with the US covid situation being so badly handled, even Somalia might not let you in now. Can you possibly be any less ignorant?
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  10352. Expecting comrade Trumpski to get alarmed about Russian collusion would be like expecting Mussolini to be alarmed at all the help he got from his buddy Hitler. Like Il Duce, Trumpski is in office only through Putin's help.
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  10353. Everyone: Coronavirus is out there, we can't resume business-as-usual just yet. College: You delusional, Trump-hating fools, you're just trying to destroy the president's chances of re-election! Fake news!! Coronavirus; Fresh meat! ;) College: Whoops.
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  10354. Putin and his little altar boy, the Cheeto, certainly can.
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  10355. I've traveled about the Pacific northwest recently to see conditions personally. The coasts and hinterlands are full up with tourists, lots of whom don't bother wearing masks or keeping distance. It's as if people go out to the boonies to practice pre-coronavirus behaviors :(
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  10356. It's great that technology allows us to see what the moron Qcumber Greene clicked on, specifically that comment about assassinating the third in line of presidential succession, the House speaker. Some sort of screening for extremist views should be a precondition for any kind of public service job, be they soldiers, police, politicians, pharmacists, teachers, emergency personnel, whatever.
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  10357. To be fair, many were misled to voting for Trump (or not voting at all) because of the demonization of a microscopic minority of Americans ** allegedly causing widespread chaos in school athletics. (** trans kids, half a percent of the population)
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  10358. Trump is a strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon.
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  10359. And a whole alt-news echo chamber to help keep up the constant gaslighting :(
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  10360. But wait, there's more. Ken Block wasn't the only forensic data person they hired. The others will get their time in court too.
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  10361.  Underbitelover  You may have heard that covid-19 is a coronavirus. Just ask how many of that type the human race has developed herd immunity to - none so far.
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  10362. .. and he's far too stupid to realize it.
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  10363. I only came here to read the comments by right-wing douches who titter about the barricades & security while glossing over the fact that their right-wing brethren nationally have committed some 30+ vehicle and/or firearm attacks on protests since the George Floyd protests began.
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  10364. As Hitler's people would no doubt agree (if they were still around) it is very important to ethnically cleanse one's own nation. Every little bit helps.
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  10365. @Allan Baxter the problems lie with a) how easily this disease spreads and b) how high its POTENTIAL mortality rate is. For example, in a country where no advanced medical care is available, mortality rates could be as high as 15%+ due to lack of oxygen/ventilator treatment. Italy has already used up all of its capacity to do oxygen support. Many societies can not afford to lose 10%-15% of their population, with many of them being experienced senior people in positions of authority.
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  10366. "Protect the unborn today so we can shoot them for trespassing later" is their plan.
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  10367.  @ShinyTillDawn  Re "want us to think" correct. Germany has had some kind of public healthcare since the late 1800s. Governments come and go but their healthcare remains.
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  10368. Like any cult leader, Trump pays attention to who gets pouty after he snubs them. To a manipulator like him, that's like a red flag, someone he knows he can make do anything to serve him. Then he chucks them, but not until they've destroyed their careers.
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  10369. Betcha the only actual remorse Trump feels is that he didn't do enough to keep more urban/nonwhite people from voting, or that he didn't do enough to gin up an emergency big enough for that martial-law power grab.
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  10370. I'm squarely blaming the Republicans. Until then, no major US political party had put forth a candidate who was a criminal, a psychopath, a sucker-up to foreign adversary dictators. The Republicans shat and peed in the public swimming pool when they brought in 45 and then stuck with him even as he trashed America in so many ways. It's going to take awhile for the stink to go away, and they need to feel the sting of their mistake for generations to come.
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  10371. Clearly Fox has bet the farm on the guy who wants to do away with law and democracy. Maybe they should just move their operation to Haiti for a year or two in order to see what follows those things.
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  10372. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12, 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  10373. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose. So vote them all out! #OperationBlueTsunami
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  10374. Good luck with your case of TDS. Remember that guy who looked right at the eclipse without protection? President Biden is many IQ points beyond Orange.
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  10375. Yup. We could still have almost everything opening yet still practice masking and distancing, but no, we have to cater to the most scientifically-illiterate who are merely tired of wearing masks.
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  10376.  @peacefuljourney4994  Since when did wearing a mask all the time not be normal life? I can go to work, to the grocery store, to visit my friends outdoors, all with a mask on, and it does not stop any of those things from happening. The ire towards masks is merely the dumbest among us failing to realize how serious this thing is. So if Saint Darwin plucks away some of the dumber folks among us, who's going to complain? They had it coming. Can't say they didn't have 16 months of news to tell them what's happening.
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  10377.  @tomjohnson4681  Regarding "But we have our freedom of choice" << Here is what you do not understand: your freedom stops where another person's begins, and their stops where yours begins. Get it? So when you walk around without a mask, you are sharing YOUR germs with them in a non-consensual sort of way. It's as if you decided to walk through a crowded store with a gadget that emits particles of nerve gas or some other poison. Get it? Do you need another example to understand this incredibly basic thing? If you want to go without a mask, wear a fully-enclosed space suit instead. Those people around you don't deserve to have you wantonly infect them just because you're so stupidly incensed over wearing a mask.
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  10378.  @peacefuljourney4994  Re "hopefully you will come to appreciate" << Spare me the fortune cookie platitudes please. Let me try to explain this again, maybe with smaller words and shorter sentences so it's easier for you to digest. When you wear a mask, the primary beneficiaries of it are the people around you. Specifically, it lowers the odds that whatever gunk you exhale ends up in someone else's respiratory tract - which, if you'd been paying attention the last 18 months, is exactly how covid spreads. Choosing to wear or not wear a seat belt primarily affects only you. Choosing to wear or not wear a mask primarily affects others, and in an exponential-growth kind of way .. the disease that you carelessly pass to someone else could go on to kill thousands if it keeps multiplying and spreading. Are you having trouble with basic comprehension of how diseases spread, and your civic duty in not spreading them to others just because you're cheesed at having to follow yet another rule> Because if so, the dust on freshly-cleaned windowpanes is a lot deeper than you are :(
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  10379.  @peacefuljourney4994  You say to continue not understanding your thoughts, but elsewhere here you're advocating things that under some circumstances could allow you to spread disease to others without knowing it. That's not good. The oldest known laws state, essentially, do as you will if it harms none. Well, it definitely harms others when you choose not to wear a mask and then end up infecting a bunch of people who die. What part of this is so difficult for you to understand?
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  10380.  @peacefuljourney4994  No thanks. Stupid is like a fire that burns, and I don't like to walk away from embers. You're practically aglow by this point. You could have kept silent, and merely be thought a fool, but you opened your mouth and removed all doubt. Do you still understand how you're not allowed to wantonly infect other people? Or do I need to explain that one further?
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  10381.  @tomjohnson4681  Wrong. At first is was mostly the ill and elderly who were most vulnerable to covid. Now covid has evolved to kill all ages with greater ease if they do not get breathing support when they most need it. We vaccinated older cohorts first because they were most at risk then. Have you ever watched a soccer game when the play shifts suddenly and unexpected things happen? That's what this is. A real live situation. You may have heard of these things.
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  10382.  @tomjohnson4681  Re "we dont care anymore" << Are you saying it's your "freedumb" to be wearing a toe tag? Because, frankly, I don't care if Saint Darwin takes the most-selfish and most-stupid of us. The ones that are merely stupid I'm OK with. But the ones that are malicious AND stupid (that's you, buddy) please feel free to shuffle on to the next plane of existence. Clearly you've learned nothing in this one :(
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  10383.  @tomjohnson4681  Once again, wing nut (is that one word or two?) you do not get to wantonly infect other people with YOUR nasty covid just because you don't like wearing a mask. If you need a lesson in consent, it means you don't have the right to do harmful things to other people without getting their OK first. What part of "you are not free to share your deadly germs with others" are you not understanding?
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  10384. The types of crazies wishing that Turner Diaries apocalypse on the rest of us are a fraction of a fraction. The rest of us (or our agents) may need to put their feet down at some point to say no to their "glorious vision" of substations on fire all across the nation. How that makes America better, they can't explain, of course.
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  10385. It's easy to get the chickens to vote for colonel Sanders .. just convince them that their PETA/ALF rescuers are in fact satanistic commie pedophiles operating out of the basement of the slab foundation pizza place. Shallow lies for shallow minds.
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  10386. To be fair, Ms Habba is perfectly dumb enough on her own. What made Trump's legal representation a total disaster was her choice of client.
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  10387.  @Joh2n  OK. Here's what you seem not to understand: the common flu kills around 34K-43K people every year even when no one is wearing masks and nothing is shut down. By comparison, even when people do mask and things are shut down, with distancing and hand sanitization and masks, coronavirus kills above 600K people in a year. One of them is a recurring seasonal phenom we're all familiar with already, the other is something new that killed lots of people.
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  10388.  @Joh2n  Regarding "No good solution" - sorry, I disagree vehemently. We've got some very fine vaccines which are proving amazingly effective. They are available for free. They protect you even better than the immunities you could acquire naturally acquire at the risk of death or permanent effects.
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  10389. You may safely refer to the GOP as the Vichy Republicans.
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  10390.  @simonbrown7501  It's certainly an opportunity for Pervert Hoover to show off how thin his skin is and how frail his ego is.
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  10391.  @THogue7464-g6x  I'm fine with GOP, MAGAt, and Republican types sporting a "T" tattoo or brand on their foreheads. People deserve to know which among us would happily torch democracy to please Pervert Hoover.
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  10392. And yet, a rage-addicted narcissistic lying man-child is precisely what pushed the feelgood buttons on far too many conservative voters - tens of millions of them in fact. What does this say about them?
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  10393. To be honest, who could expect anything else to happen? https://khn.org/morning-breakout/white-house-task-force-directed-cdc-to-weaken-covid-testing-guidelines/
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  10394. Given that the cost of a covid-related hospitalization is around twice what many of them earn in a year, well, it's going to be the gift that keeps on giving for a lot of them - especially the ones with no insurance. You can't fix stupid, but you can send it a box of thoughts & prayers.
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  10395. @scrub44 Well, on a scale of 1-10 for inconvenience, dying from it is a 15. I wish we could resurrect some WW2 vets to talk with the modern-day losers such as yourself. They'd probably slap you clear into next Wednesday to hear you whining about masks.
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  10396. @scrub44 Sorry to hear you won't give me the opportunity. Another time. Some folks are so dumb, they need to be Darwined out of the gene pool just for the common good.
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  10397. @scrub44 You mean FREEDUMB. We spend trillions of dollars every year helping people live longer, and fools like you imagine they need to die quicker. Huh. When folks say that covid is a danger only to people above 70, it's like saying that Hitler was a danger only to Jewish people.
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  10398. @scrub44 Keep talking to yourself while I'm at work. No doubt you're the smartest whatever in your corner of that small trailer park where you live. Hint, Goldilocks, there's deeper water outside the park. Not that you get out much.
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  10399.  @LogCap4Jobs  You are correct about how the worse is yet to come. I've been writing analysis software all throughout the pandemic .. and the runup in cases that's beginning now is the biggest and most widespread one for the entire span of the pandemic so far. To wit: Of the hundred largest counties in the US (populations of 595K and higher) only 10 of them are NOT showing 3+ weeks of continuous runups in the rate of new cases per rolling week. Of the US counties with 6+ digits population (and there are 571 of them, encompassing 72% of the nation's total population) 506 of them are in some state of increasing cases week over week as of end-of-day yesterday's data. Anyone who's NOT vaccinated, and wants to survive this in good health without getting vaccinated, had better get into a microbiologically-insulated bunker situation ASAFP.
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  10400.  @dub2536  Best wishes to you too! Stay safe :)
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  10401. "Restore confidence in the election process" is Republican-speak for "make sure fewer non-whites vote next time" is all.
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  10402. The people who committed the Tate-LaBianca murders for Charles Manson didn't get off on the "I was just following orders" nonsense .. nor did the Nazis at Nuremburg .. nor did the 9/11 bombers.
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  10403. Give them a day or two, they'll think up another bonzo alternative future timeline that's essentially impossible, yet will line up with their nutty beliefs.
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  10404.  @yvonneplant9434  I was trying to be nice. Giving the guilty ones a long time in confinement is the humane thing.
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  10405. That's Mike Nearman (R-Independence, OR) letting those terrorists into the state capitol. Guess he shares more with them than just a MAGA hat and some Trump flags :( https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/08/video-oregon-capitol-mike-nearman/
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  10406. "Dark MAGA"? As if ending democracy and the rule of law in America wasn't dark enough for those crazies? They yearn to usher in the next Pol Pot.
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  10407. Trump's speech would have been more convincing if the gunman hadn't basically cribbed his manifesto from all Trump's racist tweets & invective about "invasion".
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  10408. Newspeople PLEASE stop peddling false hope. Over the last 7 days, CA's cases-per-million rate went up 93% from 248 to 481 .. and the deaths-per-million rate went up from 5 to 13. As long as cases keep going up in an exponential fashion, it's a real problem.
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  10409.  @KJYKJY1985  The virus rate goes up in an EXPONENTIAL fashion. We want hospital resources to be used in a LINEAR fashion. See the problem? To make sure that medical resources are being used in a linear fashion, we will have to lock things down tighter as the months go on just to slow the doubling time from 7 days to 14 days.
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  10410.  @KJYKJY1985  We're not flattening the curve, we're delaying the hockey stick. That's what I mean to say before the coffee kicked in.
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  10411. Sadly, nuclear weapons aren't the only means by which Hannibal wants to salt Carthage. It's only hours before the cooling ponds at Chernobyl start overheating.
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  10412. And why not? Nothing happened to Trump for inciting his followers to overturn legit election results - or threaten FEMA workers. Buckle up. AG Garland's failures will soon bear evil fruit :(
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  10413.  @dpear6773  What you're complaining about is odd. Saying that the department of health has too much power during a pandemic is like saying that the fire department has too much power when the whole town is on fire, or saying that the war department has too much power when we're in another world war.
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  10414.  @dpear6773  Your bad analogies are still missing the point. America is facing a public health emergency presently. It's already killed 1 in 500 of us. This is the time when the health departments SHOULD have power. When the crisis is over, they'll go back to doing whatever they do when there's not a pandemic. And we're not out of this thing yet.
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  10415.  @dpear6773  It is conceivable that there COULD BE overstepping (so many things are possible, even very dimly, like the moon landings being fake) but so far there has been no evidence for it. Considering that we're still in the middle of a public health emergency, you picked a strange time to whine about a theoretical problem that doesn't exist. Even worse, the people who whine about health departments getting too powerful are (so far, anyway) unable to produce a single example, from all of human history, in which a temporary health measure (such as being required to wear masks) turned into a permanent political power play. To summarize the summary - if you're just trolling to sound smart, it's not working very well.
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  10416. @Gabriel it's not that simple. Even if you isolated every household from every other, delivered food to their doors, made sure they couldn't contaminate each other, etc, cases would still continue to rise for approximately 8-10 weeks. That's how it went down in China and S Korea when they did just that. It's got a slow incubation period, and you're contagious before showing any symptoms.
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  10417. People will die. There will be political violence. There will be people in boxcars. That's what this administration brings. Big thanks to all the third party protest voters, not, you could have made the difference but chose not to.
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  10418.  @shirleyrombough8173  Correct. Same for the Republicans who celebrated July 4th in Moscow, some of whom are going to lose their seats.
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  10419.  @empressliving5308  The US is a big place that is not at all locked down. Many many people have a lot of social contact and/or live close together. In a few days, the case count in NY will probably surpass that of WA.
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  10420.  @Clark42EoC  Hate to remind you of this pretty well known thing, but people vote (not land) and when more people feel one way than the other way, it reflects in their votes. BTW "greater Idaho" would be more like "lesser Montana".
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  10421. It's too bad our laws let people off the hook when they do crazy things while under the influence of some cult nutjobs. Somebody let Leslie Van Houten out of jail. It wasn't her fault. She honestly believed what Charles Manson told her. It wasn't her fault.
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  10422. Great. All he needs now is a time machine, so he can go back to 2016 and resolve not to be a complete liar, not to try destroying the institutions of American democracy, and for fcck's sake not to ignore the virus that comes along in 2020. Maybe then he'd look better in the polls. Remember, people, get out and vote!
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  10423. By now the number of refugees+immigrants+children kept in custody (from the southern border) must be up into 6 digits. The polite guess is that the money is being funneled to whoever owns those private prisons, but judging from the evil rhetoric that's been emanating from the white supremacist house these past few years, perhaps the money has been spent final-solutioning those poor people.
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  10424.  @powbobs  Don't waste your time. Facts are as wasted on the Trump culties as medicine on dead people.
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  10425. It's not illegal to be white even in the most remote parts of Africa. Jeez. Talk about a really advanced form of victim-identifying.
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  10426. Bingo. Networks are going to have to realize the importance of reporting 45's lies as the lies they are. Bleep them out, draw a red box around his picture, run the correction in text on the screen, play a buzzer - anything to flag the lies.
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  10427. Back during the Nazi years, the SS had a special unit for "ladies" like MTG.
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  10428. This time, I don't think they're going to wait for the election to roll around.
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  10429. It's anyone's guess as to which of them is more radioactive at the moment.
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  10430.  @Kermit_T_Frog  Bingo. In Brazil and Germany, where they recently found insurrectionists, the authorities arrested them all immediately. They will now face justice. That is how it's supposed to work in a civilized country. Not letting the guilty ones roam free and plan their next attacks.
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  10431. We can learn from the examples of China and South Korea what is to come next to Italy. Let's assume everyone is co-operative and that they isolate down to the household level and stay indoors and have food and medicines delivered to their doors. Even under those circumstances, the case counts will still keep rising for 7+ weeks before finally beginning to slow down the rate of increase. This virus has a slow incubation period. Dr John Campbell has some excellent videos on this subject.
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  10432.  @mammawlee Culties. If you go read the article "They spewed hate, then they punctuated it with the president's name" you'll get a sense of the candy-sugar-high hate buttons he pushes in certain kinds of people. Even children are affected :(
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  10433.  Box Car  Successful? She couldn't even successfully answer a basic civics question, when someone asked her what freedoms are protected by the first amendment. But that's not what she's being rushed in for anyway.
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  10434.  Box Car  Uggh. Only if you like blank-eyed Stepford housewife types. Where does she hide the helium tank to get that squeaky littlegirl voice? She doesn't even talk like an adult female. But then, pervs love that.
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  10435.  Antonio P. del Hierro-Valdés  Perhaps your comprehension of longer English sentences needs some practice. The hope of potential change would be on the part of his staffers.
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  10436. This is one of the many indications that Republicans are planning on there not being any more elections.
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  10437. The doings of Trump's political cult members will be rich fodder for future historians - and jail time for some of the perps.
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  10438. More potent AND more contagious. See the virgin-field type places (like Australia, and certain third-world countries) where its mortality rate is high. Here in the USA (thanks to that idiot Clump 45) so many of us have prior exposure to it.
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  10439. Funny, but Trump didn't mind creating lots and lots of panic when he ranted about the caravans, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, Hispanics, Blacks, city people, poor people, BLM, Antifa, Democrats, etc.
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  10440.  @SwordSinensis  Or they just don't care. I mean, Trump's behavior makes perfect sense if you assume that Putin pays him $1 for every American infected with covid and $10 for every American who dies of covid. Then his actions make sense.
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  10441. When I see conservatives raging about immigrants and others coming to join the long-running enterprise better known as America, I want to take them by the scruff of the neck, hold them in front of the statue of liberty, have them read the inscription aloud, then ask them to explain what part of it they don't understand. Feh :(
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  10442. No problem! Just tell them they can always emigrate to some other place with more "freedumbs" than offered in the USA. Then let them find out on their own that every single country they could travel to will require proof of covid vaccination.
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  10443. @tradde11 Re "They will keep trying" << correct. For some of them, the DC insurrection was their 2nd or 3rd dressed- and armed-rehearsal, having practiced previously in Michigan, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, North Carolina, and other states. And Trump had been involved in each of those via Twitter and other platforms.
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  10444. I tried to explain that to a friend of mine who's all hopey-changey about Trump supposedly pulling the US back from being the world's police force. A) When has any aspiring authoritarian throughout history ever cut back on the ability of their ow military to interfere with events? B) She won't realize it, but that fact of US imperialism is what makes her cushy job possible. C) Nature & politics both abhor a vacuum, and if weren't there, it would be Russia or China or Iran or worse making the choices, and not to our benefit. D) The grades of oil we can easily make into gasoline are not the kinds widely available within the territory of the US.
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  10445. Jeffrey Clark is lining up to be the next one. Wonder what post-coup plans they've developed. One of them already spoke of the A/B/C/D lists. Who to arrest, who to detain, and presumably there are lists of who to disappear.
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  10446. Trump's "peace plan" for Ukraine sounds a lot like his concepts-of-a-plan for Afghanistan: just give the Taliban everything they want, and F everyone else in the process.
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  10447. Saw that too. Thus it begins again. Recall the origins of the Spanish Civil War and the brutal 50-year dictatorship of Franco that followed. All that came about because Spanish right-wingers refused to accept their 1936 election loss that put another party in charge.
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  10448. Let me guess .. just like after the Reischtag Fire, they had a guilty party already lined up to confess how they corrupted the election in certain states - then a speedy trial and execution while the next sham election was being readied. After that, jackboots and prison camps :(
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  10449. Republicans care only about THEIR rights/freedoms. Not about anyone else's. That's one of the most fundamental differences between them and Team Normal.
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  10450. She's not better at it, she's more transparent and ham-handed. She should be working at TASS instead.
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  10451. True Believer (tm) cult members will just say it was Obama in a Trump suit doing the swearing-in .. or space lizards secretly working with liberals. There's no bottom to their rabbit hole :(
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  10452. Betcha we'll find out that he called a bunch of states, asking them for specific numbers of votes like in Georgia.
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  10453. "A failed coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise." Question is, what was the DC terror attack the practice run for? In the alt-reich echo chambers, they're already ratcheting up the plans for more violence.
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  10454. Here's the closest I've found yet to answering that question: https://www.newsweek.com/after-trumps-disinfectant-comments-calls-poison-control-centers-spike-new-york-michigan-1500294
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  10455. His lack of understanding of the rule of law was well-known even before he took the oath of office. But for some reason, that makes conservative voters weak in the knees at the thought of a brutal dictatorship :(
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  10456.  @STALKER777LK  There were some researchers here in the US who realized by March 7th that the US was only a week or so behind Italy in terms of becoming a hotspot. It's in that Red Dawn Rising email thread: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf
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  10457.  @sasquatch6750  Yeah. I've been using tables like rates of car use and population density to help model that. Also there's a whole size factor by which smaller places (like San Marino) reach virus penetration faster than larger places (like the USA) due to how many generations of transmission are required to reach saturation. I'm tracking some states down at the county level to tune the model. Great handle BTW :)
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  10458.  @sasquatch6750  The degree of lockdown (if any) is a huge thing. For example, South Dakota (no lockdown) saw its case rate grow from 146/M to 724/M over the 10-day span ending yesterday - up 396%, whereas NY state (far more urban, but locked down) over the same time saw its case rate grow from 4,313/M to 9,233/M which is "only" 114% up. SD is about a week away from having its "oops, this is why everyone was locking down" moment.
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  10459. This is definitely Trump's MO. Remember how he didn't need Ukraine to actually investigate the Bidens, but just to announce an investigation (even a false one) just to give him room to exploit it? Obviously they planned the same thing for this.
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  10460. They weren't good people if they fell under Trump's cult-leader schtik.
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  10461.  @lord_guan  "I am a socialist" << Now I like you even more :)
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  10462. Like a clown suddenly stripped of the bulb nose, orange wig, and stage makeup.
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  10463.  @nmarbletoe8210  It's not an estimate. It's the cases-per-million number converted to percentage. For example, if there are 82,505 infections per million people, that means 8.2505% of the population has been infected. If there were 300K infected per million, it would be a 30% infection rate. Numbers per state can be found here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  10464.  @nmarbletoe8210  Err, you missed the point entirely. 8.2502% of the population there has been infected. The numbers are given right on the page .. 62,872 cases divided by state population 762,062.
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  10465.  @MariTeabag-lf1ly  Unfortunately the 50 US states are in some ways like separate countries. Over in North Dakota, for instance, the governor was kissing Trump's behind all year long and refused to mandate masks. The largely reich-wing people of the state eschewed them as well. Now they've got the worst state-level outbreak in the country, with 82,502 infections per million people. If the US states were listed as countries on the worldometers countries page, ND would top the list for coronavirus penetration. I live in a place where the governor mandated masks months ago, which is why the virus still hasn't gotten far here. Naturally, all our local inbreds can do is whine about how they're being "oppressed" by the mask order.
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  10466. And you can't get the guard there if the commander in chief refuses to act. Finally Pence did when Trump refused to pick up the phone.
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  10467. It's only 361 days since the last election! Any bets on how long crazy Mike will keep going?
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  10468. The US is about to become the world leader in deaths, just like it became the world leader in virus cases awhile back. And that's not even counting the 200+ people per day being found dead in their homes in the NYC area. https://gothamist.com/news/surge-number-new-yorkers-dying-home-officials-suspect-undercount-covid-19-related-deaths
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  10469. Vast swaths of Russia still look like WW2 ended only a few months ago. That's the "prosperity" they bring to their satellites :(
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  10470. Who ever knew it was as full of cultists as the Reverend Jim Jones cult or the Manson Family cult?
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  10471. As an American, I'm beyond horrified that so many of us here put their support behind an obvious criminal, an obvious dictator-wannabe, an open collaborator with Putin, an open violator of the official records act.
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  10472. Any bets on when he tells the Oaf Tweakers and Proud Toddlers to attack the capitol so he can seize power and end these investigations?
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  10473. Isn't it strange how Texas doesn't deputize random people, and offer them $10K bounties, with a website and hotline and all, for turning in suspected rapists. Huh. It's almost as if Texas isn't concerned with letting rapists roam around unhindered. Probably more than a few of them put their signatures on this Sharia law :(
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  10474. This is like when he said he was going to ban vaping products, then he had a meeting with the Juul executives, got spun around like a top, then he said "naah, not gonna do anything". ANYONE can spin that fool. In just 3 sentences he can get turned around by anyone on practically anything. Same as when he met Kim Jong Un, Putin, Erdogan, whoever. Jellyfish have more spine than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsy Ave :(
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  10475. It's time for Benedict Arnold to lose his place as the #1 traitor to America. Donald Judas Trump has exceeded Benedict Arnold in every possible way :(
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  10476. MAGA folk don't care for "elites" who can form coherent English, let alone coherent policies.
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  10477. There is no bottom to that barrel.
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  10478. If Putin thinks it's fair of him to invite other nations into the war he's waging against Ukraine, then Ukraine is free to invite other nations into the fray too. Putin needs to understand this.
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  10479.  @readmylisp  Except no one will be attacking Russia. Just guest forces holding "special military exercises" in Ukraine.
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  10480. One of the cudgels that Fox Disinformation used to sway the election was the specter of trans schoolkids upsetting school athletics programs. They're half a percentage of the population. Yet that meme got many a boomer shrieking mad about the left in general.
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  10481. Actually criminal45 spend much of 2017 trying to shake down the DOJ to find something, anything, to charge Obama with criminally. When that didn't work, he asked about retroactively impeaching Obama in some way, but that didn't work either. So clearly he doesn't believe in presidential immunity for anyone else but himself.
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  10482.  Bubbles McGee  You mean "strong" like Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Lady Haw-Haw.
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  10483. Exactly. Facing a domestic political cast of people such as Sleepy Joe, Fat Jerry, Foul Mouthed Omar, Dummy Beto, Crazy Nancy, Shifty Schiff, etc, Trump demands some respect.
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  10484.  @mistykeenan6941  Re "covid-19 has never been isolated". Oh dear God. Do you numbnuts never read the frigging news? China released the full genome of covid-19 way back on January 10th, 2020. Guess it's hard to know anything when you live in a bunker and your only "news" is Glenn Beck repeats, huh?
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  10485. This is about when Putin releases another missile video and explains how it will anger him if anyone moves toward Europe/NATO. Kind of like when Dr. Evil explains that when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die.
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  10486. Preach it! We can be pretty sure that every day, Trump & Hannity are yelling at Moscow Mitch to do the following: bury the impeachment, make it go away; have both of the Bidens charged with treason; have ranking Democrats charged with treason; declare the results of the 2020 election invalid because they were skewed by the 'illegal' impeachment; grant Trumpy additional terms for all the pain and suffering this has caused him; etc.
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  10487. Watching the reich-wingers melt down in slow-mo is most gratifying. I mean, during Obama's time they screeched about "death panels", then when covid came along those same people were all like, "How quickly can we kill off Grandma so Wall Street has optimism?"
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  10488. Putin is very happy that Republicans are helping take down America from within.
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  10489.  @kylestewart8354  That's the thing, there's no limit to his pettiness. He completely lacks any introspection. He votes by mail, but then tells everyone else it's fraudulent and can't be allowed. He marries someone who overstayed her visa illegally, but then tells everyone else that we must kick out the illegal immigrants. And so on.
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  10490. Although the last few years has been rough on America, and although we're not out of the woods yet, it's nice that Donald Trump came along, like a bigass litmus test, and showed us exactly which Americans would wholeheartedly (or even partially) go along with his attempts to ignore the law, void an election, and seize power.
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  10491. It says a lot about the Republican party that the living god who makes them drool is a shallow, shambling serial liar who's viciously abusive in person and exhibits only negative characteristics. Forget people like the late senator McCain - El Trompo is what makes them go crazy with adoration.
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  10492. No. A minority want to help the 2020 election loser seize power illegally. That's not war, that's stupidity.
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  10493.  @sinergy111  What changed recently is that Ukraine seized back territory that had been taken away from them by force in 2014. Karma's a bitch, eh? Now Putin's whining about needing a way out. This ends only two ways - either Russia withdraws or Ukraine pushes Russia out of Ukraine.
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  10494.  @viperabyss  Correct, the vast majority of Americans trust and respect Dr Fauci. The previous occupant (45) was angry that Dr Fauci had a better trust rating than he did. But then, 45 was a lying turd whereas Dr Fauci is a devoted public servant.
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  10495. Hmm, "Covidpalooza Airlines" kind of has a ring to it, no?
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  10496. Ah, let’s examine Drumpf’s exact coronavirus words and timeline shall we: Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.” Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm – historically, that has been able to kill the virus” Feb 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away. They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb 26: “We’re going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26: “As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only FIVE people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time” WRONG! Feb 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” Feb 28: “They tried the impeachment hoax, that was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost, it’s all turning, think of it, think of it, and this is their new hoax’ ... We have lost nobody to the coronavirus ... The press is in hysteria mode.” Feb 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” Mar 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” Mar 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Mar 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” Mar 4: “Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and, based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.” Mar 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” Mar 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” Mar 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” Mar 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” Mar 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” Mar 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” Mar 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Coronavirus.” Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.” Mar 10: “Going up fast. We need the WALL more than ever.” Mar 13: “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location.” Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.” Mar 13: “I take no responsibility at all.” Mar 14: “Relax. We’re doing great. It will all pass. I would like there are a lot of people on Wall Street who are very happy.” Mar 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something we have tremendous control of.” Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. We were very early with respect to China, and we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn’t do that” Mar 17: “I’ve always known this is real – this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was a pandemic.” LIAR! Mar 19: “It’s not racist at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I want to be accurate” Mar 20: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter” Hmm..can’t answer a simple question about Americans being SCARED. Whoa. Mar 21: “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not too distant future"
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  10497. Us Americans are going to get a harsh lesson in unrestrained free speech when one of Trump's crazed supporters smuggles a bomb into a ballot counting center.
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  10498.  @age234  How many adult children of Biden are working as special white house advisors? "Just as corrupt" my ass.
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  10499. Another Whitefish Energy. Remember them? The tiny, hitherto-unknown, 3-person operation that somehow got the 9-digit contract to rebuild Puerto Rico's electrical grid, took the money, but got nothing done. Those are all basically Trump's golf buddies in companies like that.
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  10500.  @rebeccamiller3248  Well, the difference is, Trump's crimes were very real, whereas the other ones you referred to were fiction concocted by FOXed Noise to feed the imaginations of those who "want to believe" that both sides are the same.
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  10501. This thing about hitting rock bottom and trying to dig even deeper -- you may think of it as a feature of the Trump administration, not a bug.
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  10502. Pretty sure his base knows that he's a hateful ethnonationalist who can't wait to complete his takeover of government so that he can put his opponents into concentration camps - or worse. This is a feature, not a bug.
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  10503. No, they weren't joking. Those ever-Trumpers who've happily sat through his 16,000+ public lies are essentially people who've been licking lead paint for years. Their brains are so full of worms, they can go from saying "impeachment is an awful thing that should never happen to a US president" then moments later say "If Biden wins, we'll impeach him over debunked Ukraine conspiracy theories". Facts and reason don't reach them - psychiatric meds might work however.
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  10504. Zuckerberg, like everyone else who's tried working for Trump (no matter how intelligent they purport to be), failed to understand beforehand that Trump will use anyone and anything the same way a moonshot rocket uses then discards a first-stage booster module to get where it's going. Just another consumable, of which there's an endless supply for the right snake oil salesman.
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  10505.  Ryback Smith  What?? Where do you get off on misinterpreting actual verifiable facts as shilling? Do you suffer from BSE? Your brain is not working right.
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  10506. It's a perception flaw that's common among the MAGA nutters. They see their whole clan there and think that all of America is will them.
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  10507.  @zaindershabazz5583  This thread is over a year old.
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  10508. He's probably going to be up all night telling the culties how the judge supposedly didn't let him testify. They don't follow the news anyway.
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  10509. "Unpleasant" is probably a gross understatement. Uggh. Nonstop showers for a week probably doesn't make that come off.
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  10510. What they did in Wuhan is what is needed to contain the virus. Even if Italy implemented a Wuhan style lockdown today, it would be 7+ weeks before the rate-of-increase in daily new cases begins to slow down. This virus has a long incubation period.
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  10511. Relax. Finland and Sweden joining NATO is just part of Putin's 5D chess we can't understand.
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  10512. And this is why I am skeptical of any plans to have a self-sufficient base somewhere off-world. Doing the same thing on Antarctica would be so much easier. Frozen water everywhere. Breathable atmosphere everywhere. Already has radiation shielding. Cheaper transport back to the mainland. Etc.
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  10513. While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter, and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  10514.  @scabcrawler632  Yeah, go check the 2020 votes. 45 lost every single one of his court cases challenging the election results - all were tossed out for lack of evidence. Cope harder.
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  10515. As any good Third Reich spokesperson could tell you (if they were here, that is; since they are not here, Stephen Miller will do) the ethnic cleansing of one's own nation is a most sacred duty under any form of fascism.
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  10516. If you'd been paying attention to the news, you'd notice that it was Putin starting it up again .. like in Donbass and like in the Crimea. Good thing Biden isn't appeasing like Trump did.
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  10517.  @Bacuda09  Putin had to move up the schedule now that his little manchurian candidate comrade Trumpski isn't pulling the strings anymore. No doubt Trunpski would be saying, presently, how Ukraine supposedly belongs to Russia because some people there know how to speak Russian.
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  10518.  @Bacuda09  Re "lol. Biden gave putin" << This BS lie is why friends don't let friends get their "news" from propaganda outlets like FOXed Noise. In case you don't watch the news, the only thing Biden has given Putin is a great big headache, all because he has the balls/spine/brain to stand up to Putin's bullying. You trolls are super low quality today. Is the A team off working their shift at the WalMart loading dock today or something?
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  10519. March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: “The United States .. has, as of now, only 129 cases .. and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down .. a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful .. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: “It’s going to go away .. The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point .. when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  10520.  @tanya5322  The Supremes are in a dilemma. How to give lifetime immunity to Trump without also doing the same for current president Biden, former president Obama, and all the other living ex-presidents. If I had to guess, they will probably wait until the 2024 election results are known. If Biden loses to a Republican challenger, they will delay their decision until around 11:30am EST on Jan 20, 2025. If Biden wins, they will rule by mid November 2024 that presidents do not have lifetime immunity.
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  10521.  Toyotacorollaaltis-cn9fd  Correct. Tesla door handles retract into the car, so there's nothing to pull on from the outside even if the doors were unlocked. This isn't the first time people have had trouble getting out of a burning Tesla :(
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  10522.  @theshrivelstein7118  How do you imagine Arizona would somehow do better with a shrill, election-denying governor who's unaware of how the law works? Just go live in Haiti for awhile if you want to see what it's like living without democracy. Hopefully that would temper your zeal to end democracy here.
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  10523. "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
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  10524. All because Cheeto wants to prevent Putin from releasing a certain tape.
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  10525. Tulsi Gabbard is an even worse liar than that batsht incompetent press secretary.
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  10526. America's two-major-parties political system has always been like two people, one from the R's and one from the D's, sharing the duty of flying a 747. They take turns being the pilot or co-pilot. What's new is the R's deciding that they'd rather crash the plane into a mountainside rather than face the "horror" of being co-pilot.
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  10527. This is sad coming from the same guy who egged on the heavily armed thugs who recently threatened legislators in the state capitols of Michigan and other states. Instead of reaching for the Insurrection Act then, he encouraged them and tweeted "Liberate!" Putting Trump in charge of law and order is like putting John Wayne Gacy in charge of the YMCA.
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  10528. Trump has to keep mentioning Obama because his fan base is the old Tea Party which didn't exist until enough of them got upset about a black man being elected president.
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  10529. The light-and-heat treatment was already tried at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No coronaviruses survived. Nothing with less than 3million sunblock on survived.
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  10530. Looks like somebody won't let a convenient crisis go to waste.
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  10531. Betcha the fallout from this one is going to reach so far that any foreign leader who did dealings with our Mango Mussolini is going to suffer a popularity hit among their own people.
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  10532. T-72's best undocumented feature is its ability to launch the turret high into the air upon being hit. Just try not to hit the ISS, comrade.
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  10533.  @44johnburton  Target practice on decommissioned WW1 tanks doesn't count, comrade. T-72s didn't do so well against Abrams in the Gulf War.
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  10534. I used to think that, but then I realized that the more you put his face and voice in front of people, the more voters he turns on to Biden.
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  10535. Correct. As we know now from the Woodward interviews and the audio recordings, China honestly and early appraised Trump of the facts that the coronavirus was more contagious than regular flu, at least 5x more deadly than regular flu, and was already in circulation.
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  10536. "We're not going to try to control the pandemic" is precisely what caused the stock market to tank. All of a sudden, everyone realized that America is the burning building they don't want to be living in.
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  10537. How did Mr Cowboy Hat imagine his life is going to be any different depending on who the president is? I mean, Biden hasn't promised to abolish large scale personal property, or put the state in charge of all enterprises, or make all other political parties illegal, and without those key things, there is no communism.
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  10538.  @eugenegress5896  Sometime in the last century, Germany tried that approach: the streets were clean and the trains ran on time. So, at least for the first year or two, fascism didn't seem too bad after all.
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  10539. Interesting how the people who live there now are not "getting rich" from selling said resources.
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  10540.  @kathleenmitchell1582  Oh, I use "dog" instead of "horse" deliberately. "Goat" is another good one.
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  10541. If only Republicans could explain how gender diversity class is causing inflation and destroying the economy.
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  10542. When they say it's "God's will" to overturn an election and try to remain in power illegally, it's not God they're listening to but his opposite number, the one with the bifurcated tail and scaly red skin.
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  10543. Trump wants to rule, not to lead. It's a shame more people didn't see that in 2015/2016.
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  10544. Putin is reaching around for sockpuppets to tell the EU what he thinks. Sadly, Orban is only too willing to be one of them :(
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  10545. It really made an impact on everyone that Trump violated the terms of the USMCA, which he "negotiated" himself. His own word means nothing even to himself!
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  10546. There are only a few important questions. Do they have oil? And if so, can we bring democracy to them? /sarc
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  10547. All because his nutty birtherism was a way for him to stoke the anger of gullible people, so he made the mistake of showing up to a WH correspondents association dinner where Obama roasted him. Obama on April 30, 2011, mocked Trump’s rumored White House run (which he’d been touting for more than 30 years) and ripped Trump’s pushing of the racist birther conspiracy theory with a crack about releasing his official birth video — complete with a clip from Disney’s “The Lion King.” “No one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald,” Obama continued. “And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like: Did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”
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  10548.  @bryanspindle4455  Presumably the National Archives and the FBI would still be on him about the stolen classified documents - many of which still cannot be found. So - The E Jean Carroll case would have still happened. The New York financial fraud case would have still happened. The Manhattan hush money case would have still happened. The Mar-a-Lago documents case would have still happened. He would have skipped the Fulton County election subversion case .. and the DOJ election subversion case.
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  10549. Trump is no more "demonically deranged" than Adolph was. Some are just truly slow to see it .. and some, sadly, love him for it.
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  10550.  @Morganator42  Fact check says .. that's not true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/former-president-becomes-vice-president/
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  10551.  @UncleEbenezer77  That's because the constitutional amendment restricting presidency to two terms (the 22nd amendment) wasn't ratified until 1951. FDR's presidency was from 1933 to 1945. Link: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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  10552. So, according to Liz Harrington, Obama could have avoided all this by just declaring himself the president after his second term ended? Good to know.
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  10553. In the regard of "fixing" nonexistent election problems which there's no proof of, the Republicans are being a lot like that funny mustache guy from the 1930s who said that getting rid of all the Jews would fix Germany's troubles. He didn't have any proof either.
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  10554. Who wants to bet that the superspreader-in-chief is going to continue his rallies as soon as he can? The loons who go to those events are the only ones delusional enough to take at face value his statement about having evidence that the votes for Biden were illegal votes.
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  10555. Funny how all the gun-waving "2A is the solution to government overreach" types who spent 8 years screeching about "dictator Obama" won't have a single bad thing to say when someone from the same ethnographic segment as them (minus the orange skin) genuinely seizes power and disregards the rule of law. As a barrier against tyranny, they're proving to be worse than useless in this regard.
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  10556. Uncle Putin thanks his little apprentice Donald for saving him the trouble of bombing the USA to demolish it.
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  10557. When you let the Republicans do whatever they want, they try to disenfranchise all the people who won't vote for them, to balloon the deficit, to deny healthcare to as many people as possible, to exclude their political undesirables from the census count, and in general to remake America into a high-tech apartheid second-world state. When you let Democrats do whatever they want, they try to bring affordable healthcare and education to as many as possible, to lower the deficit, to improve America to its former first-world condition, and so on. They are hardly equal opposites.
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  10558.  @mogamadgreyson143  We know it. And he will be exhorting any Proud Mama's Boys / Nazi / militia / Y'all Qaida types to commit violence. It may be ugly for awhile. And someday, hopefully, the ugly self-inflicted wound that Trump left on America (with the full, knowing cooperation of the Republican party and evangelical conservatives) will heal over.
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  10559.  Bocaj Serolf  Looks like you have nothing to say, but then, your type seldom does. BTW, don't expect your fellow Americans to have much sympathy for the way you helped Putin (indirectly, through blind dumb loyalty to Sweet Potato Hitler) to help take down the institutions of democracy in America. In Norway they'd call you a Quisling for that, and run you off the end of a pier.
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  10560. Just a few days ago, it seems, Putin's little bots were talking about how it was really they who had encircled Ukraine's troops at Lyman. They are really wearing out that Baghdad Bob script .. wish they had the artistic sense to switch their BS once in awhile.
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  10561. The difference between Trump and God is that God doesn't think he's Trump.
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  10562. OP: I see that and I raise you these two quotes: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021 “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  10563. Now that they've got an extremely damaged candidate leading their polls, Republicans should be forced to carry baby Trump to term. They seem big on that kind of thing.
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  10564. It's not too hard to imagine future Republicans suddenly not liking the way they ended the rule of law. They're a minority.
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  10565. Or to those who knowingly voted for a guy who meets every definition of a fascist.
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  10566.  @essstefunny  No, he hasn't. The economic slump began months before covid came along. He fully owns this mess. Here are his own words: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" November 13: 11,118,081 American covid infections & 250,383 American covid deaths.
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  10567.  @essstefunny  Thanks for the laugh! It's clear that you've never been in the same room as a history book, and somehow skipped civics classes. Here's a short lesson for you: I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance.
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  10568.  @GhostInTheMachine93  Yeah. S/he's just another dimwit troll. Flag to ignore.
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  10569. A wholly-domestic solar panel manufacturing biz should be a hot item (bad pun) in that strong Australian sunshine.
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  10570. If you feel that younger citizens should face additional restrictions when purchasing firearms, contact your local politicians to see what can be done, and/or run for office yourself so you can get this critical reform rolling.
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  10571. Trump sucks in his cult followers with a combination of grievance bonding ("the world is so unfair to me" and "those people over there are the only reason I'm not rich and successful") and Stockholm syndrome. His schtik works best on older white racist non-college graduates who watch Fox Noise. It doesn't work so well on the rest of us, which is why his popular vote losses widened from 2.87 million to 7.06 million votes from 2016 to 2020.
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  10572. In Russia they would call that "Pravda". Hmm.
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  10573. Obviously we all need to visit the Amazon reviews section when the book comes out ;) .. people, you know what to do
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  10574.  @brenrenn8306  Strangely, Republicans are just fine with Cheeto dismembering our government, trashing all our alliances, shtting on our best allies, using the constitution as toilet paper. They need to change their name to the Manchurian party. They certainly fielded Manchurian candidates.
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  10575. Did Doll-Hands Dimwit Don pass "beautiful letters" Kim some instructions on how to make these things? Seems like their rocketry has suddenly advanced a couple decades. Very suspicious.
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  10576. Obama isn't just living rent-free in Trump's head .. he's taken the top two floors plus the penthouse.
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  10577. It's questionable whether democracy is going to function as such when there are this many woke Quislings trying to destroy society.
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  10578. There are many different grades of oil. Not all grades of oil are found in all places. Some places have only the kind of oils that are good for making certain kinds of products. The kinds of oil that can be made into gasoline are the kind that mostly come from other places. America has relatively little of the kind of oil needed to make gasoline.
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  10579.  @theuglytruth8162  Go read up on oil, a subject you seemingly know nothing of.
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  10580.  @adamcosper3308  And there are many positions. For example, he could staff the Amtrak Reform Board with yes-men who merely auction off assets to corporate bidders. Or staff the EPA with people who decide to shut down nearly all EPA operations and move their headquarters to Nome, Alaska.
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  10581. She's who Ben Shapiro wants to become once their T-blockers have worked.
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  10582. Unfortunately it won't be over when they lose the election. They will spend another 4 years trying to deny the election results. Their rhetoric will get darker and uglier. Their idea of "American values" now seems to mean burning down the nation whenever they lose an election.
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  10583.  @mightymoose9649  In retrospect, it makes it look like they were just telling him it would cost a little more to buy them out.
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  10584. Their guy is guilty and they know it. The rest of this is their attempt to delay the inevitable.
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  10585. So the question is - what election shenanigans will Trump do with MAGA Mike Johnson's help before the House turns over in January?
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  10586. Dershowitz proved himself to be an utter shitstain back in 2019 for his role in that farce. Who else remembers this chain of events? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Moscow Mitch: The Senate is in total lockstep with Trump on whatever he says. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  10587. "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains." - Vladimir Putin, 2000
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  10588. Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  10589. @nov star Could you please point to the exact quote where a politician has said "I want to rip babies into pieces"? Because I don't think any of them have ever said that.
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  10590. To be fair, they CAN'T admit it at this point .. because it would mean the same as saying they have been knowingly lying about the election for months and/or that Trump lied and they all went along with it because they were afraid of mean tweets that will never come.
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  10591.  @Monk-ow3ok  Bingo. We in the west must be absolutely clear that these sanctions are aimed at the Putin regime and not at the people of Russia.
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  10592. When that gang of pickup trucks roamed through Portland (they flew flags identifying themselves as Trump's "fine people") spraying protesters and trying to run them over, most of them were from out of state. Funny how those angry dudes in jacked-up tiny-p3nis-mobiles can't just stay out in their Branch Davidian compounds and stare at their goats & cousins.
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  10593. This is awesome! He's radioactive, and he doesn't know it.
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  10594. For someone whose brazen lying has been tolerated all his life, at 73 it must be a strange and unwelcome aberration to finally get called out on his lies. Why did it take so long? Without the birtherism and anti-Obama sentiment he whipped up on Twitter, it's unlikely he would have ever survived the first primary.
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  10595.  @Vickmihaltan  Bullshit, troll. Been paying taxes longer than you've been spewing methane. Go grow a brain.
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  10596.  @zakariamouih97  What I said above was pretty rhetorical - you're better off going broke, selling all your stuff, and maybe being a little hungry occasionally than charge out to work in the current environment. Stores work safest when a) the workers all have PPE and b) customers are not allowed inside. I'm about to lose my car over this, but hey, it's just a hunk of metal that can be replaced. Better than losing my life. Right now the case fatality rate in the USA is 5.77%. Round that down to a 1-in-20 chance you could die from it. I don't like playing Russian roulette with those odds.
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  10597. When Republicans screech about "communism", they are projecting, as usual. Uncle Joe Stalin would approve of their methods to wreck a country and overturn election results .. after all, he hated democracy for the same reason they do.
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  10598.  @claudechase1648  Sadly, the president offered a misleading narrative. While China is big and has a higher population, the per capita carbon emissions of the US is higher than that of China. So, all things being fair, for China to emit the same levels as the USA would mean that their per capita rate would have to be around a third or a quarter that of the US. But then he is fond of misleading.
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  10599. Re Dump45's claim that "We had no terror for four years" - ?? 3/20/2017 Right winger James Harris Jackson used a sword to stalk and kill Black men. New York, NY 5/26/2017 Right winger Jeremy Christensen used a knife to threaten nonwhite women on a train. Fatally stabbed two men who stepped in. Portland, OR 8/5/2017 Mosque bombing in Bloomington, MN 8/12/2017 Right winger James Alex Fields drives his car into a crowd of protesters. Charlottesville, VA 10/31/2017 An ISIS-inspired truck attack killed 8 and injured 11. New York, NY 1/10/2018 Right winger Samuel Woodward murdered a gay Jewish student. Orange county, CA 10/22/2018 Right winger Cesar Sayoc attempted to bomb Trump's critics. His van was festooned with Trump/Fox posters. 10/24/2018 Right winger Gregory Bush killed two Black people outside a grocery store. Jeffersontown, KY 10/27/2018 Right winger Robert Bowers committed a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA 3/24/2019 Right winger John Earnest tried to burn down a mosque in Escondito, CA 4/27/2019 Right winger John Earnest shot people in a synagogue in Poway, CA 8/3/2019 Right winger Patrick Crusius, fan of the "great replacement theory", fatally shot 23 and wounded 23 in El Paso, TX Does Tucky tuck-tuck Carlson get wood every time his words cause people to get killed? We'll probably never know.
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  10600. So .. what dirt does 45 have on some of them? Did they email him their promises to help him overturn the constitution?
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  10601. It makes sense now why senator Tuberville is leaving so many top seats empty .. to make room for future Dump hatchet men. McConnell did the same thing by blocking so many of former president Obama's appointments so that Dump could install yes-men and women.
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  10602. It would appear that Mr Putin is opting to have problems. It's entirely on him.
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  10603. Funny how Republicans whine about "the heavy hand of government" when it comes to vaccine mandates .. the same hand that they want to put on every woman's uterus.
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  10604. Before he disappears (into a jail cell) he must first face justice.
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  10605. Republicans are easier to understand if you just assume that they want to help spread the same deadly disease that's already killed more Americans in one year than WW2 killed in four years. And that's all you really need to know about them.
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  10606. There will be no covid relief until Moscow Mitch McConnell's hands are pulled from the control yoke, and with it, his insistence on amnesty for corporations that knowingly spread covid among their workers by refusing to pay for the measures that would prevent it. He never saw a corporation he hates, or an ordinary citizen he loves.
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  10607. See if you can find the Trump predictions in what he said: March 2: -“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” March 2: -“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" October 29: 9,123,229 American covid infections & 233,157 American covid deaths.
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  10608. Funny you should mention that. The worldometers site glitched the other day .. US cases went up by 41K new cases 6/5 but the "new cases" column didn't reflect the correct numbers. Michigan alone had 4500+ new cases that day, NY state more than 12K. I was refreshing the page and suddenly the column flipped over to happytalk-style numbers, although if you saved them in spreadsheets and subtracted one day from the next you could get the true picture. Where I live (Oregon) has nearly the worst testing rate in the whole country (only Idaho tests less per capita) so with the state unlocking I am not confident about what's happening next.
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  10609. Oh my gosh. This is a trainwreck like Former Guy's interview with Axios. "But the United States has the most covid cases." Clump blinks. "That means we're the best!"
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  10610. The bamboo fibers are not the intended object - the voting machines and the databases are.
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  10611. Next up, let's watch the legislature try to remove & replace the judges who don't go along with their fascist-takeover idea.
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  10612.  @west_park7993  Correct. The only time that worked for them (WW2) they were being massively supplied and armed and provisioned by Uncle Sam. Ukraine will just get more efficient at killing Russian conscripts.
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  10613. Roll with the dogs, get fleas.
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  10614. Let's see what his cult nutters (and their handlers at Fox) do when Dump has no possible legal means to win office. Methinks they'll try to find another route.
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  10615. Every time Trump appears in public, his campaign should play the tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police.
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  10616. Susan Collins & Martha McSilly are already crisped toast. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  10617. FYI humanity has never developed "herd immunity" for the seasonal flu, the common cold, polio, smallpox, rabies, tetanus, pneumonia, ulcers, chickenpox, cowpox, lyme disease, measles, yellow fever, or anything else. Herd immunity is a myth. DeSatan is just killing people.
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  10618. How long before Trump and Vance start spreading Springfield-type rumors about that blue dot in Nebraska (where lots of voters live) just so his mob will start calling in the threats?
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  10619. Their moral mirrors are fogged over, or covered with dust from neglect. That's how they can cheer when Trump tells them how easily he can mislead them with painting trans kids as total villains. He made them feel like it was OK to be hateful, and that's a drug they'll eventually need to be weaned off. Like a true pusher, he's not letting them get away.
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  10620.  @martinwhalley3286  Or logic, which is why the MAGAts care so little for facts that bore them or don't excite them. Covid vaccines aren't 100% effective? To them, that means they're useless. Trumpy lost 100% of his election fraud claim cases? To them, that means he's president.
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  10621. Oh no, Trump's endorsement DOES in fact mean something. It has a certain effect. The effect is a lot like throwing a solid lead lifejacket to a drowning person, or like having John Wayne Gacy endorse you for national president of the Boy Scouts.
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  10622.  @GotoHere  You're still as delusional as you were yesterday. Seek help.
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  10623.  @DarthVader1977  That's not how you calculate the chance of being infected. It's your proximity to infected people. You're not the first moron to try that bogus metric. Probably you are all getting it from the same bogus source.
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  10624. Pretty sure the deep-MAGA folks have moved beyond the notion of voting to secure power.
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  10625. So if the news networks reported that the Trumptanic hit an iceberg and sank .. does that mean the news networks were the ones that steered the ship into an iceberg?
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  10626. Has anyone done a Venn chart of the clinical features? Thank you.
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  10627. Then again, those same people believe Trump won the election, that the earth is flat, and other nonsense. Sounds like you need to find more realistic people to associate with.
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  10628.  @gusevening4910  You might want to loosen up the tinfoil hat a little .. seems it's either chafing you or causing reduced circulation upstairs. Then try telling me with a straight face that Biden is more militarily aggressive than Trump. I could use the laugh at someone's flaming ignorance.
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  10629.  @gusevening4910  215 (96.4%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted for the 2002 Iraq war resolution. 82 (39.2%) of 209 Democratic Representatives voted for the resolution. Trying to single out Biden, as you are attempting to do, is both ludicrous and misleading. But, hey, if you could be affected by facts and information, you wouldn't be a Trumper.
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  10630.  @gusevening4910  Got any more idiocy to try? I'm always down for batting practice.
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  10631.  @gusevening4910  So what you're trying to claim is that none of 223 Republicans who voted for it weren't responsible for it, and of the 82 Democrats who voted for it, only one of them was? Pull the other one. Did you just recently lose all your marbles, or has the affliction lasted longer?
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  10632.  @gusevening4910  Let me spell it out for you in lower-density information, since you seem to keep missing the point. Of the 535 (combined senate + house) members voting on this, 373 of them voted yes, yet you want to myopically pin the blame on just one of them? Sounds like you got some bad Trumper butthurt. Better stock up on copium.
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  10633.  @gusevening4910  There you go again, making up some nonsense (that it "must be" immoral to support Biden) and believing it, without any proof. Explain to me again how you think Trump is so "moral" when he just pardoned a group of convicted war criminals, who were charged with massacring civilians in Iraq. Fffft. I have stuff smarter than you floating in my cereal most mornings.
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  10634.  @gusevening4910  Well, no, Biden is categorically not more immoral and not more of a war monger. Saying that Trump didn't vote for the Iraq war and Biden did is grossly overlooking the fact that Trump was not in a position to vote for the war. Sorry, you're the one being obtuse. Using presidential pardon powers to let convicted war criminals off the hook is about as Hitlerish as it gets in America. I gladly voted for Biden over that immoral fool who's taken a chainsaw to America's soft power and diplomatic power. You are supporting someone who's practically next in line to Satan, yet you seem to be unaware of it, that's how far down the rabbit hole you are. Got any more nonsense?
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  10635.  @nancyfahey7518  There are times when "going over the edge" is justified. It's not as if we (Americans) remained super-nice while going about the business of prosecuting WW2, for example. In the course of doing things to defend our nation, lots of dead Axis troops were the inevitable result. Similar to when a group of Nazi thugs are trying to overturn a democratic election.
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  10636.  @laluba3603  Perhaps in the initial stages - eg, people who just returned from China. But once a country reaches the stage of sustained community spread (as is now happening in the USA) the distinction of multiple risk pools is obviated.
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  10637. Given how unsafe Russian planes are these days, someone ought to charge them with Geneva convention violations over transporting prisoners-of-war via their shoddy aircraft.
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  10638.  @obihave3210  Agree. But those who voted for the orange fash in 2020 are basically co-conspirators in the plot to turn America into Trump's version of North Korea.
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  10639. The faster those kids realize that FOX Ooze is the dying gasp of a cult addicted to Trump's lies, the sooner they can move forward.
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  10640. So Trump probably wants the schoolbooks to read something like, "Blacks in Africa were rescued from their primitive ignorance by white American philanthropists, who escorted them to America, gave them nice jobs, and showed them the wisdom of Christianity. They were perfectly happy until those evil commie Democrats came along and tried to make things look bad."
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  10641. Just means Putin is a slow learner, unable to adjust his thinking even back to the early 1990s. Everyone's got a different learning style. Perhaps his involves massive defeat on the battlefield followed by a revolution that displaces him, followed by a non-consensual trip to the Hague so he can answer for his crimes.
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  10642. Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" October 29: 9,123,229 American covid infections & 233,157 American covid deaths.
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  10643.  @dawnstanley1733  Notice Tr*mp having lunch with his social media tech bros all the time? Censorship will be only a part of what those services can do for him.
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  10644. New Zealand escaped that by not letting Murdoch run one of his hate-media operations there.
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  10645. Is this a repeat of what the Q nutters said would happen March 4, 2021? Yeah that didn't happen either.
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  10646. No surprises there - she's always been a self-absorbed nobody/nothing. She and her husband should go to wherever Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu went to.
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  10647. Russia is now more isolated from the rest of the world even more than it was during the days of its own self-imposed Iron Curtain. And that's probably going to get worse before it gets better.
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  10648. To be fair, back when we were enduring 8 long years of TP whining about anything with the name 'Obama' on it, accusing him of being an overbearing dictator, accusing him of secretly plotting to remain in power for a third term or beyond, etc, it was not yet clear at the time that they were hoping to bring about exactly that in the form of an adjudicated rapist and adjudicated insurrectionist years later.
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  10649. This is hilarious. Like the princess squirming atop a stack of mattresses and finding small imperfections on the floor, Trump's ability to perceive and remember imaginary slights is something he can't let go of.
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  10650. Apparently, we live in Mayberry, where you can just walz into any sensitive federal facility, bamboozle the security guards, wave a fancy letter around, and be granted access to anything, even if you have no qualifications, don't show any ID, and haven't passed any security checks.
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  10651. A distinction that's lost on his cult followers, who gleefully commit crimes on his behalf. Many go on to mouthing off at the judge (another thing that ought to be a warning sign to them) and getting longer sentences.
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  10652. 45? Self-control?? Mewling newborn kittens, with their eyes not yet open, have more self-control than 45.
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  10653. Let me guess .. suddenly Republicans will be whining about how the free market works. Who'd have thought that no business that values its reputation would want to hire anyone from the administration that tried and failed to overturn a fair election? They'd have better luck passing themselves off as Nazi pedophile animal abusers with the plague.
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  10654. "We've got plenty of theories, we just don't have any evidence." -- Rudy Giuliani
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  10655. On the one hand, Trump obviously neither understands nor cares that the US is a long-running enterprise with longstanding obligations and goals and practices .. but on the other hand, the US Republican party (which is currently in charge of all 3 branches of US government) doesn't care if Trump burns it all down. How they pretend they didn't do what they just did will be interesting going forward.
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  10656. Gosh. It's almost as if the government thinks there's some kind of novel coronavirus going around. Wherever did they get that idea? /sarcasm
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  10657. Even that famed Nazi medical torturer, Doctor Mengele, didn't stoop so low as to force women to bear dead fetuses to term. This is sick! :( Also, that woman needs to find a better place to live. Obviously Texas is whackadoo :(
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  10658. To melt down requires a Chernobyl. But to have a really spectacular meltdown requires a Trump. Got popcorn?
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  10659.  @MITMathematica  Sound of a single hand clapping for "least original propaganda this week". Good luck with your RT salary if those sanctions are any good.
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  10660.  @ralfhaggstrom9862  Ribbentropp was a champagne salesman. Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust, was a Bavarian chicken farmer.
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  10661. See what happened in Brazil and Germany after attempted coups? They did not wait YEARS to deal with the guilty parties.
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  10662. Garland is probably waiting until he's out of the country. It'll basically be damning evidence that he sat on for a couple years.
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  10663. Dump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him -- the ones beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc. A lot of the more uppity ones have been arrested.
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  10664.  @klaus1292  Yeah, well, more of us prefer grandpa Joe (AKA Dark Brandon) over the angry orange dude campaigning on the promise to set up huge concentration camps. But then, most of us don't want to be living in North Korea or Gilead either.
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  10665.  @clarissagafoor5222  By their actions, all too many Republicans are showing how much they've embraced political violence. One wonders if the Nazis of the 1920s felt the same way about their future atrocities :(
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  10666.  @Ahoooooooo  Sorry, but can you get an exact quote or video of her saying violence is beautiful? Otherwise sounds like the fictitious narratives beloved of our reich wingers. Never mind. Found it easily enough. She was looking at a photo of a peaceful candlelight vigil in HK's Victoria Square. As usual, the ones who traffic in lies (the sort of lies that work best on the indiscriminating) didn't take long to turn that into some sort of mushroom food for folks like you :(
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  10667.  @chrise.321  Bingo. First he came for the trans people, but most didn't care because they weren't trans. Next he came for the latino people .. we know how this story ends. Pastor Niemoller eventually wound up in the camps himself.
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  10668. Biden doesn't need to bluff .. because if Russia wants to get into a dustup with us, they won't have much left afterwards.
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  10669. Weirdly enough, when the Democrats want $400/week assistance, the Republicans in congress are dead-set against it .. but when Trump violates the law to try ordering that $400/week bump, the Republicans are strangely A-OK with it. Like they held the ring up just so he could jump through it.
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  10670. @bh5037 More like, ask the person they all report to - Putin.
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  10671. Sad that the people of Florida have to pay the price for the incompetence and blind-Trumpist-loyalty of the governor they elected. With the state's healthcare resources being overwhelmed right while cases are increasing at 5 digits per day, Florida is fast headed for a wave of needless deaths among covid victims.
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  10672. All Grump needs to do is have one of his staffers read the news to him .. WaPo had an article on this (link below). No, what I'm worried about is that we have so many people in America who are just hunky-dory with Trump's attempted subversion of democracy. Those people are a cancer among us, and you don't cure cancer by trying to play nice with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/congress-republicans-trump-election-claims/
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  10673. This loss of life and income is going to be horrific. Let's not mince words. But in 30-40 years, the population of these states will have recovered, and for the next 6 generations or so the Republican party will be thought of in the same breath as Stalin and Pol Pot for how many lives they caused to be lost by blindly following a homicidal party leader.
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  10674. Who else remembers Trump doing this back in 2019? That didn't take long. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-05/trump-officials-have-redirected-resources-from-countering-far-right-racism-fueled-domestic-terrorism
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  10675. LOL @ "he lied about Republicans wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security"
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  10676. Guessing Trump's quislings aren't going to be doing too well in the surveys either. But then, maybe they should have had a trial (you know, with witnesses & evidence) instead of what amounted to a popularity contest for Trump. Sucks to be stupid, eh.
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  10677. @Revolutionary Communist The US does have a talent for making new Saigon's everywhere :( any bets on when the last chopper takes off?
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  10678.  @cesarm6131  The US is the largest per-capita user of oil in the world, and most of the oil is in the Persian Gulf. The US is also the largest per-capita importer of illegal narcotics from central America .. and the US tends to destabilize those places for resource extraction :(
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  10679. They're probably going to be calling in refrigerated trucks, then running out of room and stacking them in trailers parked on the street. All this past week, between 20 and 27 states have been posting new daily cases numbers of above a thousand. This thing is in 5-10 generations of spread already (probably reaching back to Sturgis and those rallies that the superspreader-in-chief has been holding) and now the numbers are starting to bite. It's going to get a lot worse in a fairly short time.
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  10680. Were the protesters threatening the lives of these two losers? No. There are laws against that kind of nonsense.
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  10681. To be fair to the Republicans who back Trump in all ways, the future crisis they see coming (the end of guaranteed whites-only political rule in the USA) is to them so awful that fellating Putin and handing him the keys to the NSA are "lesser" evils 😅
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  10682. Trump (and Republicans) have trouble with that concept. They somehow imagine that when they leave a mess for the Democrats, the people will blame the new administration and not the one that caused the problem in the first place.
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  10683. Remember when 45 had that "business council" of executives? They disbanded quickly after learning what a maroon he is. It is not as if 45's disposition or abilities have improved since then.
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  10684. There IS precedent for this. Hitler's people kicked out all the other parties after they took power. So it's all normal. /sarcasm
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  10685. Haven't seen that ghoul Miller in awhile. Some of us may take it upon ourselves to deliver him to the ICC. They have some questions about the kidnapping and imprisonment of refugees, the separation of their families, the kids being put up for adoption, and the parents disappeared. All of that is against international law. Miller probably wrote the memo to mix the ashes of the disappeared into the concrete of the border wall.
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  10686. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here's what they said before they got sucked in by the shallow, synthetic charms (such as they are) of Sweet Potato Hitler: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  10687. You have to remember, the DC insurrectionists (and the people who supported/bankrolled them, and all those who wished they could be there) were completely not expecting the treatment they've been receiving from DA's all around the country, from the FBI, from the media, from the American people. They thought they'd be welcomed as heroes, but instead, as the useful-idiot foot soldiers of a guy who's got no moral compass whatsoever, they're being systematically hunted down by the authorities. Their own relatives turn them in. People stand up and cheer when the FBI agents lead them away in cuffs. As surely as day follows night, some of the smarter Trumpers may be realizing that no pardons are coming their way; that he'll be out golfing while they're rotting away in some federal prison; that Trump really did lose the election; that Trump's claims of vote fraud were about as real as Rumsfeld's claims of WMD's and yellowcake in Iraq - and those too have never been found.
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  10688. @dave.F0X Apparently, Putin (and most Russians) can't conceive of NATO (or the US) being anything other than what Russia is, a top-down old-fashion empire run as a "do what I tell you or we'll flatten you" operation. NATO is an alliance. To join it, you have to apply (a lengthy process), and be accepted by all of the members, and go through many other steps that take time. It is not as if NATO rolls out of bed one morning and decides to seize parts of Georgia. The notion of friendly cooperation between peers/equals, towards common goals, is something that appears foreign to the Russian mindset.
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  10689. @Donald Prairie Re "At least he remembers" << Coming from someone who wouldn't last 10 minutes debating the guy who they claim is 'sleepy' that's kind of funny. Obviously you don't stray outside your trailer park too much.
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  10690. As if their bloviating "commentary" is worth the toilet paper their teleprompter material was written on? Dream on, nutbags, you are yesterday's soiled diapers.
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  10691. @Frank Easterling Your fact-free comments are pretty dense. Shouldn't you be crying into your Coors Lite about Parler being shut down?
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  10692.  @frankeasterling3402  Awesome. I heard the FBI is handling the webhosting, which is a good thing. It's spooky to think of how many fools we've got here that can be conned by simple lies (stuff that wouldn't fool a 12yo with a browser) into committing serious crimes and killing officers.
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  10693. @Kristin Smith Tell me more about this free speech thing. This is a topic that's near and dear to me. You seem unfamiliar with the meaning of the first amendment. Let me spell it out for you: The first amendment protects you from the GOVERNMENT doing things to curb your free speech. It does not protect you from PRIVATE ENTITIES choosing what to do with their PRIVATE PROPERTY. Example: in the nice small Mayberry type down where you live, just imagine someone sending a letter to the editor, a letter which extols the lifestyle of sexually assaulting minors, blackmailing their parents, and putting cameras in public bathrooms. Do you think the owner of the newspaper has a right to censor that ridiculous, evil, illegal content?
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  10694. @Kristin Smith LOL @ "i live in ft lauderdale, if you're going to sling insults at least make them clever". Listen, chickie, that's a hick town compared to where I'm from. You may as well be the proud resident of some smallish rural Ohio trailer park for all I care. Have you ever been in the same room as a history book? If so, I encourage you to read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", an illustrative story of what happened to a nation that mistakenly allowed hate speech to masquerade as free speech. If you get to the end of the book and still haven't seen the point of it, thumb your way back to the beginning and read it again. He lays it out clearly enough for even you to understand - you who seem to think hate speech, plans to invade the capitol and kill legislators, etc should all be considered free speech.
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  10695. @Kristin Smith Thanks for not doing all-caps shouting. You may have heard of this cool thing called punctuation, but then, it seems your education was deficient in more ways than just that. One of the classic examples of limits on free speech is the issue of whether people should be allowed to shout "Fire!!" in crowded theatres. Are you one of the people who think that should be allowed? If so, why?
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  10696. @Kristin Smith Not surprised you refuse to answer the question about whether people should be allowed to yell "Fire!" in crowded theatres. You're attempting to defend the indefensible, and you know it.
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  10697. @Kristin Smith You did not defend it. You're delusional. You dodged it.
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  10698. @Kristin Smith Among his other crimes, Trump is guilty of misusing the power of his position. So when he tells lies, when his followers believe them, and when they go on to commit crimes on his behalf, well, there's the limit to free speech. Have you somehow not noticed that Trump has lied to you all along about the election? https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-bogus-election-claims-3d34646b34316d2f96f9ae5a267a3303
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  10699. @Kristin Smith As I've covered in another post which you or someone else keeps having removed (nice show of sore-loser behavior) private platforms are under no obligation to carry content that they feel is hateful or that incites violence or that goes against its terms of service. There is NOTHING stopping you from starting up your own vanilla-ISIS alt-reich platform here in the USA. Go for it. No one's stopping you.
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  10700. @Kristin Smith LOL @ "hard to find". It was a top-level factual news source, not the propaganda you seem to have developed a taste for. About Trump and white supremacy .. this article says it all. A report from Nov-2016 about things said in schools after the election. https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools Despite what he claims to say (those 25 instances you mentioned) the remainder of the record of his support of white extremism is as fair and unblemished as milk. https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-history-of-support-from-white-supremacist-far-right-groups-2020-9
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  10701. @Kristin Smith Did you perhaps start up your own down-and-dirty alt-reich chat server while I was at work today? Hope so. Or else I'll have to drag out that gay wedding cakes story where Republicans said that businesses have the right to choose what kind of messing they do or don't want to associate with.
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  10702. @Kristin Smith Any luck with the new free-speech alt-reich chat room?
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  10703. @Kristin Smith You're going to need a replacement projector bulb pretty soon at the rate you're going. Back @ you.
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  10704. Ask me again why Antifa has been protesting against the Trump cult. Historically, regimes don't say the stuff that Trump does without doing something like this in concentration camps, out of sight of the public. Rhymes with "final solution" :(
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  10705.  @leonieromanes7265  Indeed, more than a third of what the Soviets used to fight the Nazis was provided to them by the USA. Left to their own devices, they would be about as effective as those Russian units appear to be in Ukraine, which is not very effective at all. They ought to know better to get into a logistics war with the US, let alone all of NATO combined.
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  10706.  oShane Kasper  Did anyone ever tell you that lame attempts to deflect blame look totally and completely lame? Especially when you use alt-facts to "prove" your case?
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  10707.  oShane Kasper  You're making a gross assumption. Nowhere have I ever said I was a CNN fan. But it's a very Trumptardish thing to bash any actual news.
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  10708. The only reason, the sole reason why Putin called the Ukraine War a "tragedy" was that Ukraine finally seized back parts of territory that Russia illegally invaded back in 2014.
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  10709. 45 has already been adjudicated to be an insurrectionist (Colorado state supreme court) but has not yet been judged to be a traitor. If the Espionage Acts violations trial goes anything like the hush money election interference trial (where the evidence is solid) then it could happen. But let's let the wheels of justice turn freely and see what happens next.
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  10710. No amount of money will buy the Republicans an opportunity to roll time back to late December and redo their horrific response to coronavirus.
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  10711. One-party rule is a dead-end road. There is no shining happy future down that road.
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  10712. The funny part is, Republicans won't say a single bad thing to Trump for including things that Democrats have long asked for (and Republicans have long fought against) such as student debt relief. That's how spinless Republicans are, and how deeply in Trump's back pocket they are.
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  10713.  Solid Snake  Thanks for the laugh! We already have cameras in there.
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  10714.  @freedomfighter4990  Bingo. Suppose private citizens of country X bankrolled ISIS operatives into closing some major border crossings and obstructing traffic in many locations? What would they be charged with? The same applies here. Ditto for the people in country X who gave financial support - whose names were recently revealed. Wouldn't they face charges in Canada?
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  10715. Nah. The event lasts only a week. The time between exposure and death is usually longer than that.
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  10716.  @memowilliam9889  Good luck waiting for Hillary to get indicted on charges that exist only in TDS cult members minds 😅
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  10717. Trump is Murdoch's golem. Perhaps Murdoch should have thought more carefully before greasing the skids for that smelly con man?
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  10718. In other words .. ATACMS has entered the chat.
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  10719. Nice Oz reference :) Coronavirus likes this.
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  10720. At his rallies, Trump leads "lock her up" cheers directed at house leader Pelosi, even though she's committed no crimes, while he calls for Roger Stone to be released, even though Roger Stone has been convicted already. The Republicans are little more than Trump's own Rubber Stamp Reischtag these days :(
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  10721. Ukraine was the place that made the Nazis bleed very hard. Uncle Pooty ought to study history.
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  10722.  @gnice8765  So Russia says. But they say a lot of things, those sheep-fking vodka fueled bear wrestling drunk toilet thieves who keep breaking treaties. They sure do whine. Most people know better than to take the whining seriously.
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  10723. I'm sure they have no idea that their phones are already remote keylogged anyway.
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  10724.  @deannaharris6750  Re "Still not taking it" That's good news! Rumor has it, when the Titanic was going down, there was a group of people (who today would be called Trumpanzees) who stood on the deck screeching at the folks rowing away in lifeboats. They told everyone to stop living in fear .. they said icebergs weren't real .. they said the ship was unsinkable. So when people that dumb choose to remove themselves from the gene pool, it's cause for celebration. Can't see any better way to improve the breed.
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  10725.  @TruthIsTheTrueTribute  I hate to break the news to you, but the hospitals are not mis-diagnosing covid, there's an actual raging pandemic going on now, and lots more people will die from it this winter thanks to the idiocy being spewed - which you quoted some of. If you want, I can toss you in the trunk, drive you to a hotspot, and give you a tour of the covid ward .. though as payment for your stupidity, I may insist that you go unmasked into the covid ward. Some people learn things only the hard way. You sound like one of them. So I'd be doing you a favor basically.
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  10726.  @TruthIsTheTrueTribute  You can't say anything without using a false dichotomy, can you? (probably not) Sorry, fool, I was at the grocery store today (when there was almost no one there, and I got in and out quickly, stayed masked), visited a friend (outdoors, safe distance, 30 feet away) and did some yard work. I know your poor little brain has trouble with imagining still living while you're observing sensible precautions, but yes, it's possible. Don't confuse your near-complete lack of imagination with any lack of possibility IRL.
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  10727. Did you not already know that? LOL
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  10728. The reich-wing rhetoric will only get darker and uglier, and then they'll spend another 4 years trying to deny the election that they lost.
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  10729. We all knew it wouldn't trouble Trump for him to sell America's classified secrets to the Russians or anyone else. But perhaps he was also selling India's secrets to Pakistan and vice versa - if there was profit to be made there.
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  10730. Aside from their feelings towards Blacks, Ron DeSantis and the shooter have so little in common. One uses the his powers of office and the other uses bullets.
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  10731. It's almost like it really was a violent insurrection instead of a friendly, unscheduled family visit by some patriots. Huh.
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  10732. Do I hear bids of $1200 for the tacky gold-painted sneakers and $500 for the NFTs of a buff young Trump shooting lasers from his eyes?
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  10733.  @lawschoolpro  Re "I deleted all social media" Same here. Anything that lets people form closed echo chambers is a bad thing on the internet. So I keep coming back to youtube comments, where people are free to disagree instead of just blocking each other categorically. Besides, I prefer to discuss politics face to face. Keeps everyone more polite. Especially when everyone's armed anyway.
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  10734. Talk about trying to fix nonexistent problems. Lack of election integrity is not why they lost the 2020 election - Trump's odious presence is.
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  10735. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him.
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  10736. Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes!”
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  10737. We should do the Indonesian thing, and have the covid deniers do the work of digging holes and burying the covid corpses. This has proven to be an effective therapy for addressing their harmful ignorance. Of course, for some of them, the "cure" comes in the form of them getting intubated, but, as they've been saying, they would have just died anyway.
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  10738. I think they meant two male Party officials having drinks at a nice table while everyone else toiled. What's that joke? Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the reverse.
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  10739.  @vickistewart  They're not at sobriety through poverty. Maybe someday. Hasn't happened yet though.
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  10740. it was either a perfect phone call, or a solicitation to commit election fraud, or both.
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  10741. The next president is going to rip down that stupid fencing and give the white house a very deep cleaning. Crawl on broken glass if you have to, but VOTE this fall!
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  10742. From all reports, Russian people are much beaten down, and only a few generations removed from serfdom. Bleak living there.
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  10743. The thing Trump actually finds TERRIBLE about NY is that Deutsche Bank just provided prosecutors with some of his financial information.
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  10744.  @kathleenmann7311  Probably a good thing that Wagner group didn't offer to Trump to help him out at the capitol on J6.
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  10745. It will be interesting to see what turns out in the votes. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes.
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  10746. Putin is in denial. He just cannot imagine a time when Russians can't go to their vacation houses in Ukraine, where happy farmers toil under the Soviet boot. Like the USSR, that time is gone and not coming back. I'm sure there are some elderly Germans out there who miss having "their" Nazi fiefdoms in Poland too :(
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  10747. It's like watching the trash take itself out. Just make another cup of coffee and smile at how the collective public IQ goes up every time a conservative subtracts themselves from the gene pool. That pool needed more lifeguards/chlorine anyway.
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  10748. Musk and his rats aren't the government. They're just a bunch of pirates who can't pass background checks. Next dumb analogy please.
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  10749. Once they get slimed with the orange goo, they slip into a coma from which only jail time seems to awaken them.
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  10750.  @liligman  Since around 4/6 we've had numbers for tests performed in the US. I ran the scatter chart on that data last night. Basically the only reason we're not seeing 35K+ new cases per day is that we're not testing widely enough. So instead we are flying blind and won't see the extent of the problem until it's too late - when the hospitals everywhere start filling up then getting overwhelmed.
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  10751. Thanks for showing us what they say on TASS and PRAVDA, comrade.
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  10752. Capitalism requires reserve armies of disposable workers just to function.
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  10753.  @anaxa4883  If you don't see why the comment about capitalism needing disposable workers is relevant to another comment about capitalism .. just have another cup of coffee and get back to me.
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  10754.  @anaxa4883  It keeps throwing fresh battalions to march into machine gun fire.
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  10755. We have a lot of quarter-wits who looked up to him .. a dumb person's idea of what a smart person is like .. a poor person's idea of what a rich person is like (spray-paint gold on everything to make it look "classy" LOL) .. etc
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  10756.  @85Funkadelic  Remember the time before his corruption? I do. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  10757. If you don't know yet that Trump would only be too happy to plunge America into decades of chaos, division, bloodshed, and violence, you haven't been paying attention.
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  10758.  @mnemonix1315  They barely waited for the ink to dry on those batch-created troll accounts.
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  10759. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. The real question is, going forward what do we do with a 30% of our electorate who have clear tendencies towards racism, ethnonationalist violence, concentration camps, undermining democracy, etc? These people are mostly Boomers who were raised by the same America that they're now hell-bent on destroying, and the values they espouse now are not what they were raised believing. So what do we do with them? At best they're misinformed, at worst they're traitors.
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  10760. If some rural places choose to become just like North Dakota (worst infected place in the nation) then at least they should barricade their borders and seal off all possible exits from those places so that disease carriers can't escape and infect the rest of us who are following the rules. Them insisting on the "freedumb" to not wear masks is like them insisting on having a peeing section at the public pool FFS.
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  10761. MAGA faithful: covid vaccines are "only" 85% effective, so they're no good. MAGA faithful: Trump lost 100% of his election fraud cases, so he's the real president.
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  10762. Rather obviously, someone is PUTIN these ideas into MAGA heads. Just saying.
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  10763. Pretty sure contagious folks were flying out of China even before Christmas 2019. Some were asymptomatic anyway, but spreading it to others nonetheless. The CDC here in the US is asleep at the wheel, otherwise they would have been doing larger quarantines earlier in the game. Or maybe they think white people are immune to it or something.
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  10764. And, somehow, that makes him practically a living god to a fair chunk of Americans. That's the very picture of a mental health crisis.
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  10765.  @deathtouchltd  Bad mental health requires no explanation. Nor does the worshipping of a strongman figure, or stockholm syndrome, or ideation of blood-and-fire themes, or simple culty slavishness.
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  10766.  @skippylippy547  Nice projection. As always with your type .. every accusation is a confession. Go admire your Trump NFTs and sneakers.
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  10767. That dumb old fart who shouted "white power" probably lost his dad / older brother / cousin, who went to Europe to fight Nazis who used that same slogan.
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  10768. Trump is a cult figurehead. Put it this way: Trump could spend a week tweeting how he's a Russian sockpuppet out to destroy America from within, and Republicans would still stand behind him and claim he can't be impeached. That's the level of nuttery on their side of the aisle.
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  10769. Coming soon: a lot of new openings among the ranks. This is like being against seat belts when the hospitals are full of car accident victims - jeez :(
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  10770.  @leonardtaylor6526  Hate to break the news to you, but there's a pandemic going on now. Being against the things that could save your life is the dumbest strategy available. Why, they should stop wearing body armor too, and stop carrying weapons. Just give flowers to everyone they want to arrest, sing "Kumbaya" with the bank robbers and muggers and druggies. That's how stupid it is to be against something that could save your life.
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  10771. Republicans obviously don't care much for the Hispanic vote.
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  10772.  @be0wulfmarshallz  From what I hear, it is still economically depressed relative to the rest of Germany. The former East is also where the party "AfD" gets most of its backing. They are always in need of workers there. They especially need young people who might be starting families.
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  10773. Trump is giving ol' Baghdad Bob a run for his money. "They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
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  10774. Some people in the USA have trouble understanding that just because they've gotten tired of staycationing with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies, it doesn't mean the virus has gone away. If anything, in most places your chances of catching it are higher now than they were when the lockdowns began.
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  10775. Neither are the spambots trying to hawk dodgy crypto here.
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  10776. With approximately 70 million people traveling for the holiday (about the same number that voted for Sweet Potato Hitler, who downplays the virus) it's going to be more like a mile-high tsunami than a "surge".
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  10777.  @tobiashoyden2644  Nice misinformation. Sorry to bust the news to you, but people who identify as white-only are at the present time 76.3% of Americans. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
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  10778. Like a fire, this virus too is not alive and it cannot be killed. The only way to end it is to deprive it of fuel (new people to infect) and snuff it out. What Trump wants to do is throw a whole lot fuel onto the fire :(
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  10779. Until this all went down, I had no idea how satisfying it is to watch the FBI swoop down on traitors and insurrectionists. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?”
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  10780. A lot can happen between now and then. I'm expecting Trump to exhort his cult sheeple to much much worse behavior. He knows that once he loses the freedumb to misinform the most gullible Americans, it's game over for him.
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  10781.  @therockpile6734  It is a lot different. You are in the gym for awhile in more-or-less the same position, whereas in a store people don't clump together and stay clumped together while they're all exhaling hard from exercise. Exhaling hard from exercise is much the same as singing out loud - both emit shitloads more viral particles/droplets than just plain breathing when you're at rest.
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  10782.  1Me  Civilization is not being destroyed. Are you on drugs and hallucinating this stuff, or are you getting it from FOXed Noise?
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  10783.  1Me  You really are crazy. You probably sit there in your mom's basement, watching FOXed Noise 24/7, clutching a shotgun, terrified that the world is falling apart. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. So try to get out of your bunker this week please if only to return to sanity.
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  10784.  1Me  You asked no coherent questions, so I assume you weren't looking for answers.
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  10785.  1Me  Once again you are making sh*t up in your pea brain and mistaking it for fact. You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried. You're like one of those people who mistakes sunset for sunrise (aka mourning in America) by facing the wrong way at the wrong time. Keep parading your ignorance. I could use the laughs over morning coffee. Put it this way - my kids won't be hiring your kids.
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  10786.  @cjfilmproductions  That's not the only struggle in the phone book. Italy's Mussolini put it oh so well: fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. In the US, that's best seen at Swamp-A-Lago, where our own Mango Mussolini holds court.
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  10787.  @Picklemedia  Sure, sure. The chances that frustrated D voters will let Trump win is sort of like saying that when your favorite flavor bagel is unavailable, you'd rather have a muffin made from broken glass.
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  10788. A confused old man, who's known to sht in his pants constantly, who wasn't wearing gloves and hairnet, was somehow allowed to serve food? He's not fit to be the third assistant dog catcher in a podunk town.
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  10789. I hate it when people say Trump acts like a 2 year old. Hint: it's not an act.
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  10790. Has anyone else noticed the precipitous decline in the rate of tests being performed in the USA? It's been trending down since July 29. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  10791.  @tracidufore616  Condolences - I know how you feel.
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  10792. Here in the US, where the vaccine is readily and freely available just for the asking, it has indeed become sort of like an IQ test. While I am sad for them and their families, it's basically a good thing for the herd if the dumbest ones stampede off a cliff as they are choosing to do.
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  10793. Huh. Not only does Nancy Pelosi live rent-free in Trump's mind, but she reserved the top 3 floors for the DNC. Epic ;)
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  10794. If Republicans want that badly to live in a violent failed state, why don't they just live in Somalia, Ethiopia, Haiti instead of trying to make America a hell-hole for their own families and descendants? There are no winners in a civil war. If you can't win elections honestly, you deserve to disappear from the scene.
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  10795. Fine. Then go take your household and move to your own little Covid island. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to infect other people simply because you're having a hissy fit. Your rights stop where someone else's begin (and vice versa) and that does NOT give you the right to infect others.
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  10796.  @DestinyLabMusic  By failing to wear a mask, you are potentially participating in infecting others. Once again - your rights end where someone else's begin, and vice versa. Is there some part of that you don't understand? You are free to be unmasked on your own property of course.
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  10797.  @DestinyLabMusic  If you claim you are free to not wear a mask, how can someone be charged in this manner? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/coronavirus-terrorism-nj.html
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  10798.  @DestinyLabMusic  When you cough, when you sneeze, when you breathe freely, you give off droplets. Most infections happen by droplet. Almost any kind of face covering will reduce droplet spread, although some kinds do it better than others. Did you not know any of this, and if so, have you been under a rock the last 6 months?
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  10799.  @DestinyLabMusic  Here you go, since it seems you haven't been following the news. This is exactly what the masks are to prevent. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-coronavirus-spreads-through-the-air-what-we-know-so-far1/
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  10800.  @DestinyLabMusic  You're going to have to ask a medical practitioner that. Please try to deal with the fact that in Oregon, you can get in trouble now for sharing your germs with other people, because that sort of activity is why the case numbers keep going up.
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  10801.  @DestinyLabMusic  Yeah, I was just out there and witnessed that nonsense myself. The people at the Lighthouse Pentacostal Church didn't believe in masks either, and look where that got them. Next fool argument please.
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  10802.  @DestinyLabMusic  You can have all the choice you want AS LONG AS YOU HARM NO ONE ELSE. When you're going around in public not wearing a mask, in violation of the law, you are potentially harming others. Not that you are intelligent enough to parse what I just said.
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  10803.  @DestinyLabMusic  The alternative, of course, is to test every single person every single day. If you don't want to wear a mask in public, you can always be confined in your home until you suffer a change of heart on this matter. They had to do that in China for awhile. People can be so stupid.
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  10804. Gotta love the way the president-elect is holding daily briefings and the way the white house press corps is moving there a few at a time. It's just as well. The other press room is so full of lies that even FOXed cut it off. His use of complete English sentences and correct grammar must be like an assault on Trump.
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  10805. If the testing numbers posted on worldmeters are at all correct, the US isn't ramping up testing by much. Here are the numbers for the last few days, with the new tests done each day: 4/5 139,414 4/6 142,171 4/7 161,199 4/8 133,302 4/9 144,055
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  10806. Sounds like the Supremes may be getting a whiff of which way the winds are blowing these days.
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  10807. Gingrich only needs to look into the mirror to answer that one .. Dump is the epitome of the illogical hate politics that Gingrich unleashed years ago.
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  10808. Sure, sure, focus on the 1-in-gazillions problems from the vaccines vs their excellent chances of saving you from covid. Your brain isn't working right.
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  10809. After earning himself one very unwelcome impeachment inquiry by secretly asking Ukraine to find dirt on his political rivals then trying to cover it up, Agent Orange then openly asks another country to dig up dirt on his political rivals. Does he want another impeachment inquiry, or new charges added to the first one? Hmm. Must be that "very large brain" acting up again.
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  10810. Those aged, obese Boomers congregating in bars indoors somehow think they are at less risk than the young, healthy, fit masked protesters who stayed outside and mostly practiced distancing. Sigh. Can't fix stupid, but you can read about it in the obituaries.
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  10811. Poland and France have come to the correct conclusion about what Russia is trying to do these days.
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  10812. Think of it as donating some artificial reefs for the fish to enjoy :)
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  10813. Let's see how many of his cult sheeple spend the next day or two bleating about communism. You can have great fun with them. Most of them can't even spell it correctly, let alone define it by its attributes.
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  10814. Trump runs a dark traveling circus. It sucks in only certain kinds of people. One kind is the under-92IQ people, to whom Trump's 4th-grade speech sounds genius. Another is the kind prone to strongman worship, which is an unfortunate part of the psyche of some. And the last is the angry kind who's mad at the world and wants to burn everything down. Trump has little appeal for the rest.
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  10815. Good points. Antifa didn't beat in a policeman's head with a fire extinguisher, or break into the capitol with guns, zip ties, pipe bombs, molotovs, and chemical weapons on order to execute the second and third in line of presidency. That would be Trump's fine people who did that.
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  10816.  @neveahsugden210  Sorry to hear that your butthurt prevents you from seeing the truth - that a mob of pro-Trump idjits stormed the capitol. But then your kind isn't very good at following factual news anyway. You much prefer alt-facts off Parler. No matter.
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  10817.  @neveahsugden210  Did you read the story of Jake Agneli? After he got home from the DC insurrection, he was enraged that fellow conservatives were saying that Antifa did it. He called the FBI to explain it was him and not some actor who'd been made up to look and sound and act just like him. Good times. Like watching the trash take itself out.
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  10818. I think the secret sauce may be authoritarianism .. a hunger for it is what unites the Mango Mussolini's people.
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  10819.  @michellec8546  If people think it's inconvenient to wear a mask outside of the house, they should try being hooked to a ventilator then having scarred lungs for the rest of their lives. Sadly, people who think they're perfectly healthy (and who thus avoid wearing something that would keep them from sharing their droplets with others) are the ones driving the spread of this disease.
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  10820.  @davidpnewton  Oh god. So much keyboarding, so little thinking. You are still trying to assign massive weight to the inconvenience of masking outdoors and assign massive discounts to the value of the lives of others. Not only can't you write concisely, you can't think concisely either. FFFS.
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  10821.  @davidpnewton  Are you frigging kidding me? We're in the middle of a pandemic, you blithe fool, the extent of which is being exacerbated by people not wearing masks enough. Your actions make sense, but only if one assumes that your intent is to further spread covid. Are you by chance at Sturgis presently, whooping it up with all the other unmasked Bovine-Americans?
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  10822.  @davidpnewton  And miss a chance to have fun with some fool who thinks he's the smartest person in his corner of a smallish trailer park? Your blithe ignorance of science, news, and pretty much anything makes you a chew toy for others.So - are you happy being an agent for inducing others to make the disease spread further and be in circulation longer? Because that will be the net effect among those dumb enough to listen to you.
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  10823.  @davidpnewton  Is dawn coming to marble head finally? People who follow your advice, and wear masks less, are going to serve to further spread the virus. Perhaps you should make it clear in your comments that you are an enemy of America and/or an indirect employee of Putin.
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  10824. Ukraine will be a great addition to NATO. They are proving themselves to be resourceful, hardy fighters. Between them joining NATO and Germany finally re-militarizing, Russian intransigence is going to have an expiration date on it.
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  10825. The only kind of people that Trump likes are the kind who will light themselves on fire for him. Rudy just happens to be the latest.
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  10826. Knowing Tяump, this means that Ghouliani just got sent back to Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Levi Sanders (Bernie's son), who, we will soon hear on OANN and FOXed, was involved in some corruption coverup there.
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  10827. Or the way those mail-order brides whole families were brought over by the same "chain migration" that Republicans fume about.
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  10828.  @staceyeverson8379  His own children are "poisoning the blood of our nation" in his own words.
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  10829.  @guynorth3277  Bingo. It was public news that 45 lost the election, then lost all 60+ of his court cases challenging the election results. All were tossed for the same reason: total lack of evidence. That too was public news. Under those circumstances, there wasn't any happy ending (for anyone) waiting at the end of a coup to install the election loser.
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  10830. That WRX made someone feel invincible for a little while.
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  10831. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  10832. His social media post is hilarious! Look at how there's no mention of E Jean Carroll. Let's see how long that lasts! We can schedule trial #3 within hours of him doing that again.
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  10833. Who else saw it coming before he was skipping the preparation briefings back in December 2016, using the lame excuse that he's, like, a smart person? https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-intelligence-briefings-skip-2016-12
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  10834. This model is a joke considering that the US has so far tested only a million people - which is a little over 0.3% of its population of 327 million. Oh, and more than 180,000 of those have tested positive.
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  10835. Save the sadness for those who deserve it. It is perhaps not appropriate for those who fell for the angry orange cult leader and who participated in his scheme to plunge America into chaos and bloodshed .. which is about what would have happened if his coup had succeeded.
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  10836. FakeBook makes $51 per quarter per person. So if everyone can get two of their friends to sign up this year, Zuckerburg can buy himself an even bigger island next year!
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  10837. That whole "government spending is EVIL" schtik doesn't work so well when even Chinese peasants have better internet / healthcare / education / transportation than Americans do, and all the while our bridges/roads/dams are falling apart thanks to the decades of disinvestment that Republicans caused. The whole rest of the world is moving forward while the Grand Old Pedo party wants to freeze everything at 1950 to make it match their favorite Norman Rockwell prints. Feh :(
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  10838. Where in Oregon do you see any "socialism", the key feature of which is workers seizing the means of production? It sounds like you're using that as a term for "taxes going to things for people I don't like". Funny how no one calls it "socialism" when we buy yet another outdated aircraft carrier.
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  10839.  @waynebooker498  Aircraft carriers are an expensive sop to the US defense industry which is still gearing up to re-fight WW2. Chinese are smarter, they'll just make a better missile system. Oh, and why would the US need to be ready to take on the whole world? Didn't Germany once try to do that?
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  10840.  @waynebooker498  You don't get squat, but, being the Dunning-Kruger exemplar that you are, you'd never know it. Continue with your short, brutish, miserable life.
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  10841. ... and this is why most sensible nations don't let Murdoch operate a "news" (actually antigovernment propaganda) operation in their territory.
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  10842. Guess no one's interested in Bannon's book idea.
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  10843. No. Florida is too big a place for the extreme nutters. If left to their own devices, they'd soon be torching trans kids and librarians at the stake. They need a smaller and more managed setting, somewhere deep inland. Needs to be heavily monitored so people can escape whenever they get tired of the crazy.
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  10844.  @mtavarez4561  The infiltration of police/military forces by right-wing (or reich-wing) agitators is well-documented and has been going for decades. The OafTweakers have been a part of that. Here's some nice light reading if you are unfamiliar with the topic: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement The problem has been growing for decades. And now you finally noticed it.
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  10845. It's no accident that bottom-feeder "news" networks like FOX Noise / OANN / SInclair have got their biggest market share in sparsely-populated places.
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  10846. Putin's little helper, that's her :(
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  10847. No helmet - no mask - nothing to protect anyway. This will be a gift to the used-bike market and the funeral home industry.
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  10848. Did he think there was any kind of good side to Trump, that he'd suddenly get better? Trump doesn't have any good sides. He never has. He never will.
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  10849. Because one insurrection wasn't enough.
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  10850. Yeah, yeah, sure, that's probably what the British told themselves back when those uppity north Americans started whining about the right of self-determination.
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  10851.  TheHomoludens  Fool. Your ignorance is your most visible calling card.
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  10852. To all the Republicans wanting the incomplete impeachment to go to the senate ASAP, here's what I've been saying: Investigators: We're collecting evidence. OJ Simpson: No. Your investigation is a fraud. Investigators: Alright. Sorry for bothering you, sir. Here, take this parking ticket. Your vehicle was illegally parked at Nicole's place. OJ Simpson: Those bloody gloves are going to stay in my safe until I can burn them.
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  10853. Fox Disinformation bills Russia as working hand-in-hand with Trump's people for being anti-woke, when in reality their main similarity is being pro-autocratic.
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  10854. Apparently, plenty of Republicans too are aghast at the thought of insurrection-friendly and child-molester-friendly Jordan being in charge of anything.
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  10855. Who would have thought that a virus dangerous and lethal enough to make China shut down its economy wouldn't just go away "like a miracle" all on its own in April?
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  10856. They are cult sheeple. Folks who need just the flip of some mental switch to turn into Quislings. Which is why I like the tacky Trump merch and other such insignia. Good to know who's prone to treason.
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  10857. While the US can indeed get "physical" with Russia, it would be more correct to use the word "kinetic".
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  10858. Is there by chance some unreasonably high bar for the charge of treason? These guys planned a coup, then tried to carry it out by force.
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  10859. DeSatan can "prove" that pretending to ignore the virus is how you defeat it ** , they just won't let him kill enough people to "prove" it. ** Didn't work for polio, smallpox, cowpox, monkeypox, chickenpox, mumps, measles, AIDs, the flu, ulcers, yellow fever, malaria, lyme, zika, eastern equine encaphalitis, dengue fever, tetanus, rabies, or anything else.
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  10860. Pretty sure this isn't the first time they've been involved in people disappearing.
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  10861. On days like this, the worms in his brain are acting up again. That seems to happen a lot more these days. And even if you have a picture of him on every wall in your house, to him you're some kind of deep state never-Trumper if you do anything he didn't like.
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  10862. Coming from the guy who paid hookers while his p0rnstar 3rd wife was pregnant, Trump's insults don't have the moral impact he imagines they have.
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  10863. In other words - Russia has completely lost its window to hang onto the recently-overtaken territories and sue for peace. By late summer, Russia will be out of Ukraine entirely. The heat is still getting cranked up. When Ukraine has long-distance missiles it will be game over for the Ruskis.
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  10864. And Trump already had his dank-MAGA goons in the secret service by then. Like the ones waiting to take Pence to his final resting place.
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  10865.  @primesoccer3540  If they want to be a glassed, radioactive ashtray and the pariahs of the world for all time, maybe.
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  10866. .. just like when he denied emergency aid to states and cities that didn't vote for him.
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  10867.  @Born2Btrouble  Orban? His military couldn't take on Boston.
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  10868.  @sharandasb  Bingo, put it up on the big screen, ask him for clarification, then keep replaying the clip until the moron runs out of denialism.
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  10869. I'm just glad there weren't so many around like her in WW2. Otherwise we'd all be speaking German now. (not that speaking German is a bad thing)
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  10870. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  10871.  jordan mackenzie  Spoken like a true piece of shit from whatever generation is probably embarrassed to have whelped you.
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  10872.  @Watchdog_UFOtestpilot  Thank you for mentioning automobile deaths. In the US in 2020, 42,060 people died in vehicle accidents. The lower figure for US covid deaths in 2020 was around 375K, but when you look at it in terms of unpredicted excess deaths the real total is almost double that. So keep whistling past the graveyard and telling yourself which thing is more risky. FFS.
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  10873.  @Watchdog_UFOtestpilot  You had me rolling on the floor at "I’m not sure I can help you". Dude, you can't even help yourself. You're immersed in ignorance on this topic and seem to like it that way. In case you missed it, there's been a pandemic going on since early last year. It spreads when people get together. Vaccination rates in the US have declined precipitously just as new variants are spreading. Not enough people are vaccinated yet. Go read up on the news once in awhile.
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  10874.  jordan mackenzie  You're a joker. I get that you don't bother to understand anything, can't follow the news to save your life, and couldn't find your way out of a wet paper bag. I gently remind you of how ignorant you are, and all you do is get mad. Loser.
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  10875.  jordan mackenzie  Nice try to cover up how you keep being wrong every time you open your mouth. Keep digging, fool.
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  10876.  @Watchdog_UFOtestpilot  You had me in stitches at "The easiest way to control someone is" No, the easiest way to get a person into that state is to fool them that up is down, bad is good, that everything their teachers told them was wrong, and some dude posting videos from his darkened basement is telling "the truth". That's the dark place that all the covid deniers are in now.
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  10877.  jordan mackenzie  Well, you started with the most nonsensical stuff (like "Exactly. Stop living your life like a battered wife....go live your life coward") and just went downhill from there, burning out projector bulbs at every step. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
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  10878.  jordan mackenzie  Do you actually not realize that when you talk about subs and cucks you're basically showing off your own fetishes to the world? This is hilarious. Thanks for the free entertainment.
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  10879.  @Watchdog_UFOtestpilot  You claim not to be a covid denier. You've already claimed lots of untrue things here, what's one more?
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  10880. Funny how these "protesters" attack only the DNC and not the RNC offices. Do they wear Trump merch on other days?
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  10881. Mike Pillow knows something that the CEO of cyber toddlers apparently doesn't know: that you need to keep the lies rolling if you don't want the crazies sending you death threats.
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  10882. This is just like when he totally mischaracterized the Mueller report, except he's more brazen now because he didn't get swatted hard for it last time.
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  10883. Well, that didn't take long for Trump and his henchies to decide to defund the cities where not too many people vote for Trump, and to send goons to intimidate voters in places where not too many will vote for Trump. No doubt the Kyle Rittenhouse types will be encouraged to attend as well :(
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  10884. Pretty sure hospitals everywhere are going to sue over the deluge of patients they later get from this mind-bogglingly-stupid event.
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  10885. Can somebody please bring back Aldo's Apaches? There is only one appropriate way to treat Nazis.
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  10886. Both my parents are Trump-type narcissistic controllers. Uggh, I can spot that type a continent away :(
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  10887. @robbes7rh Nicely said. The last time anyone heard these billybobs bitching about the constitution, it was because they were trying to find some way to gripe about that "dictator" Obama (hint: they were actually complaining about his skin color). And now that there's an obviously criminal president trying to destroy the separation of powers in order to consolidate his power, these Meal Team Six bozos are threatening revolt.
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  10888. George W Bush might have a word of wisdom on the use of the phrase "mission accomplished".
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  10889. I'm waiting for them to launch an investigation into why Confederate statues were removed and why the plot of the Turner Diaries isn't taught in history class.
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  10890.  @mamapetillo8675  Relax, Republicans will investigate nothing of consequence. And they will spend a lot of taxpayer money in the process.
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  10891. Beautiful. Sondland didn't just throw the entire administration under the bus, he backed up and parked it right on top of them.
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  10892.  @michaelhomes8049  Tell me again when the checks went out. That's right, they're not going out.
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  10893.  @PETE4955  Possible (Trump and his henchies have been looting the treasury) but unlikely. The US is the richest nation in the world, so we should be able to swing this one easily. Including this for the benefit of MAGAstani fools who, without proof, keep insisting otherwise: United States (GDP: 20.49 trillion) China (GDP: 13.4 trillion) Japan: (GDP: 4.97 trillion) Germany: (GDP: 4.00 trillion) United Kingdom: (GDP: 2.83 trillion) France: (GDP: 2.78 trillion) India: (GDP: 2.72 trillion) Italy: (GDP: 2.07 trillion)
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  10894.  @aujuliawod  Regarding "You’re going to feel really dumb when you find out fully vaxed people can still get covid (they’re calling it “breakthrough cases”) and still transmit it" << No shit, Sherlock, I've been preaching this to everyone for months. Did you just now find that out and are telling it to everyone who knew that months ago?
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  10895. I've always wondered what was the draw of them - an expensive, unreliable way to turn gasoline into noise without making too much power.
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  10896. Funny how all the people who believe in mysterious vehicles can't show you a single crashed one. Sometimes they're the same people who claim there was vote fraud in 2020, but can't show you any proof of it.
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  10897. There is no statute of limitations on treason. The FBI will come for all of them. I hope they spend their remaining time living in fear.
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  10898. Not all of the public; just the ones that are Marmalade Mussolini cult zombies.
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  10899.  @mikeha  More likely tens of millions just here in the US. Those moves in the middle east will probably get WW3 going. Europe is heating up, since the Russians don't understand that this isn't 1950 and they're not the big bad USSR anymore. Bird flu and drug-resistant TB are spreading here, just after inmate Trump told a couple hundred thousand government scientists to stop working.
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  10900. Here's a chilling reminder (2016 article) of what happened after Trump was picked by the electoral college. A wave of bias crimes that reached even into schools. https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
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  10901. Wow. History of the 1918 pandemic doesn't seem to mention any Americans being so nutty, so stupid, so misled that they conflated necessary public health measures with totalitarianism. How about we provide these Trumptards with a separate enclosed area where they can congregate all day long and whine about how unfair it is that the authorities are behaving responsibly? Surely we can GoFundMe this and provide them with free covfefe - err, free coffee too. Let the trash take itself out.
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  10902.  @Galactic_fart_sniffer  You just proved my point, bozo. Go sip your nonsensical proof-less theories while the rest of us have a laugh.
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  10903.  @hoodootheclown929  Please remember, the sort of "evidence" you're referring to is graphics that look like they were faked by a 2-year-old playing with an etch-a-sketch. The only people they fool are those who liked being fooled. Who want to be fooled. Who "want to believe". The rest of us just laugh.
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  10904.  @hoodootheclown929  Like I said, it's just crude graphics and interviews with easily-misled people. No functioning equipment. Just rumors. You may as well be trying to "prove" that visitors from the future have been coming back. If only you had some actual evidence, not the stuff that fools easily-fooled people.
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  10905.  @hoodootheclown929  Wrong, clown, I know what "not enough evidence to stand up in court" means. You apparently don't. I got a bridge in Florida to sell to people like you who believe in stuff that has no proof behind it.
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  10906. None of the establishment resistance seems to be aware of the danger facing us. This is like having the living room on fire and people just ignoring it. You could see it when Obama was being all nicey-nice with the Cheeto at Jimmy Carter's funeral, seemingly oblivious to the way the Cheeto means to do great harm to America. Wtf? How can anyone not see this?
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  10907.  @zed739  Probably because no Democrat president ever did the things the Cheeto has. Good luck both-sidesing all that.
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  10908. Trump didn't destroy the Republican party .. the Republican party invited Trump to ruin them. And he's not finished yet.
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  10909. Fox will never have her on again. They just learned the same lesson Trump learned after his one debate against her.
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  10910.  @loyi-kyong  45 was the worst thing ever for US businesses. The economy did so much better after he shuffled off to mar a lardo, stealing some white house stuff on the way out of course.
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  10911. Well, the worst that will happen is that the Muskrat will lose a lot of money and Trump will get his opportunity to burn down our democracy using lies as the match and easily-misled people as the tinder. No biggie 😓😓
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  10912. Republicans are finally getting their wish - a drag queen is being prosecuted. They're just unhappy that it's one of their own 😅👍
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  10913.  @kelli2036  Mitch McConnell, as a child, was afflicted with polio, and was saved thanks to the public medical care available at the time. Ever since then, he has devoted much time and energy to making sure that ordinary people will never have those benefits. Wtf?
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  10914. This is why I support marching racists to the nearest border and trading them for refugees or immigrants. Racists are the lowest form of trash.
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  10915. Figures. Per Jeffrey Clark's comment about the Insurrection Act, they were ready to illegally overturn the election then (on false pretenses they created) use the military to suppress the population.
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  10916. As bad as it is that an unelected immigrant is staging a hostile takeover of the most central data systems of the federal government, it is 100x worse that they are doing this as de facto agents of the Heritage Foundation. Think about that. They will want to know the particulars of people who have mixed-race marriages .. people who are married to partners of the same gender .. anyone who has ever changed their name or gender markers .. the database of birth and death certificates .. and the list goes on. None of these people have security clearances. This is the world's worst data breach.
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  10917.  @JeffreyjkKlein  Why yes, the last 3 years have been better. Stinky45, if you can remember his unpresidential behaviors at all, would have been telling Maryland in general and Baltimore in particular that no, since they didn't vote for him, there would be no federal disaster aid following the recent bridge collapse. Then there was the constant lying, the rule-by-tweet, the trashing of our allies, the sucking up to dictator adversaries (and apparently giving or selling them our secrets), the badly botched covid response, the appointment of people who even a Repub senate could not confirm, so he got around it by appointing a series of losers in acting capacity, and a whole lot more. So were you asleep for his reign of error, or do you hate America enough that you want more of that?
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  10918. Dump and all his enablers need to go NOW.
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  10919.  @marciadryburgh8285  The hilarious part is that they think lawless disorder will somehow work out to their advantage. They'd be the first against the wall.
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  10920.  @Anarking  Bingo, don't bother trolling or replying, just report all the posts for spamming. Community housecleaning.
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  10921. Iowa is probably the deepest-red state in the union .. and Trump got 51% of the vote there. Time for Christie to go independent.
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  10922. The 7:41 whackadoodle tweet is like him saying, "I have authorized the release of all documents proving that Obama is a Kenyan muslim commie agent! America will finally get to see the truth! Waaaaah!"
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  10923. Give credit where it's due: Putin has a talent for finding wood chippers and sticking his limbs into them.
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  10924.  @marklouis1890  A bunch of states are now busy Trump-proofing their situations. Those places are where you want to be.
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  10925.  @michaelwachendorf2096  Re "Telling everyone else be a patriot and don't get the shot" << FOXed Noise does the same. They require their people to get the vaccine, of course (since covid is very real) but they're cognizant of how, to keep their base, they must push the nonsense about how the vaccine is dangerous.
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  10926. IIRC the Russian ICBM-launching sub fleet put to sea about 4 weeks before the Ukraine misadventure began. Pretty sure those whales are being hunted now.
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  10927. "We'll have to endeavor to persevere", isn't that how you're supposed to say it slightly obfuscatingly?
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  10928. 82nd airborne has been over there in Poland awhile. Seems Ivan isn't responding to their friendly request for a game.
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  10929.  @rubyremi3832  In other words - "There's no such thing as summer because I just found some snow where I am right now." FFS
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  10930.  @rubyremi3832  Oh, by the way, when you don't like the term "raging" -- can you recall another time in history when hundreds of counties had to apply for emergency federal assistance to bring in portable morgues because the hospitals and funeral homes were already full up? Crickets.
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  10931.  @rubyremi3832  Good luck.
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  10932.  @stacyliddell5038  Is that anything like the way you need to "show your papers" to vote, prove you can drive a car, receive medical care, buy a weapon, travel on a plane, travel to another country? Oh, the horror of having ID. You should have started protesting this ID concept earlier on. It would have made your whining seem a lot more authentic.
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  10933. So God is using Trump to try to overturn elections that he lost fair and square? Consider me an atheist then.
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  10934.  @JT-zy2ft  All we need to do is go overboard on PSA's and laws requiring mask wearing and distancing. The people too dumb or too brainwashed to see a disease as a disease will be more likely to perish. It's like taking the safety labels off everything and letting nature sort itself out. There's going to be quite the sale on used trucks and houses and toys next year.
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  10935. There's gonna be all kinds of Republicans claiming that they had nothing to do with Trump and his attempts to overthrow democracy just to salve his huge, fragile, gaudy ego.
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  10936. I'm a city cyclist too who rides in car traffic all the time -- this is where I learned how to do it safely: https://vimeo.com/9827254
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  10937.  @YvonneWilson312  Awful :( No I haven't been in that situation in Boston, Chicago, or rural places yet.
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  10938.  @YvonneWilson312  You might have better luck taking out your misplaced anger on the driver who hit your friend, not on another cyclist. Just saying.
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  10939. This is just Putin's famous 5-D chess. We're all too dumb to understand it. Like when he sinks his valuable ships so that Ukraine has some new artificial reefs for marine life. Or gifting Ukraine with lots of scrap metal by leaving blown-apart tanks all over the place. Or making turret tossing a new Olympic sport.
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  10940.  @chaunceywallace6447  If this is America's war, then why did Putin attack Ukraine? Is he too scared to put his drunk soldiers up against the US military? Does he wanna go one-on-one with the US air force? (hint: his air force would be a lot smaller afterwards .. possibly a few remaining planes that had not yet been assembled)
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  10941. You can tell the pump-and-dump scheme for Hydroxychloroquine is over by the way Sweet Potato Hitler isn't hawking it anymore.
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  10942. Guessing this is because the price of food was highly indexed to the cost of the labor required to produce/harvest/deliver it, whereas buildings (once put up and running) have fairly low carrying costs month to month.
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  10943. Stop ragging on Polish people. Not very nice. History shows them to be extremely resilient, tough people.
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  10944. As if it would come with a strong oath of office (easily broken, for one guy) and a yearly salary of $400K and a lot of perks, such as personal and family protection paid for by the US Treasury Dep't. Hmm.
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  10945. Some cult members drink tainted kool-aid and die. Some try to bomb ballot counting offices. Same garbage people, different day.
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  10946. Who else thinks the new Berlin Wall around the white house won't go away anytime soon, or that the military forces brought to DC won't go away anytime soon? Can't have a coup without either of them.
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  10947. So both parties are the same, you say? Uh huh.
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  10948. Nope. This goes directly to his character, as he denied for quite awhile that he even knew her at all. And that was the background when he was doing dodgy accounting to cover up the payoff to her to shut the F up because it would be unhelpful to his takeover of the "family values" party. Hence the election interference. And the perps even wrote down the whole scheme in longhand!
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  10949. Darwin strikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/nyregion/barber-virus-kingston-ny.html
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  10950. He's not just a traitor, he has a thing for underage girls too :(
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  10951.  @clawdabove1941  Take a good look at the list of CEOs who showed up to bend the knee and offer money at Cheeto's inauguration. Heads of social media, tech, IT, news firms. They're in on it.
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  10952. The only true thing Trump has ever said at a rally is "You knew I was a snake, and you took me in anyway."
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  10953.  @WitchDoctor87  Forget about the editorials. Just look at the voting records from the last few party line votes on those subjects. Then come back and tell me what you saw.
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  10954. Did anyone else see a dotted line going from Kimberly Gilfoyle's crank-the-crazy-up-to-11 hate-filled rant and last night's Wisconsin shooter who took her rhetorical hyperbole (about Democrats wanting to kill Americans) too literally? He killed two protesters, then the police let him go.
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  10955. The turtle may stick its neck out, once in a great while, but it will soon be retracted. This has happened before.
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  10956. People who work for Trump are generally very slow learners. Usually it's not until well after he's knifed them in the back do they begin to notice they're just the latest additions to Trump's f'd and chucked pile.
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  10957. Kind of like the same way he tries to take credit for the covid vaccines (bragging about how quickly he invented them) while simultaneously badmouthing them, spreading fear & doubt about them, getting them in secret months before the rest of us, and calling them a deep state conspiracy.
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  10958. One of the many things we can do is vote against them in numbers so overwhelming that a recount cannot be requested. Being pounded by blue tsunamis would be a good thing for Republicans.
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  10959.  @DaBearz80  Once again, there's no proof of fraud. The margin by which the challengers each lost is so large that an audit cannot even be requested. This wasn't a failure of voting security, it was a failure of Trumpism. Everyone can see for themselves how Texas and Florida are killing off their own people to please the anti-vax anti-mask nutters. You people seriously need to reinvent your schtik. It sucks. No one wants to vote for it.
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  10960. Farron, the Republicans are much worse than just bitter sore-loser idiots. They have proven that they are willing to throw our long-running democracy down the toilet to appease their narcissistic, authoritarian, slimy-toad orange deity. We must treat them as such.
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  10961. The real insanity is that unless Musk's paper wealth is kept artificially high via pumping Tesler stock, the Republican party loses Musk's ability to buy elections, and without that the Republicans would be a sad footnote in American history.
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  10962.  @chroniccrypto5621  Without the racists, the Republican party wouldn't get votes. And because of the racists, their party is doomed. Sucks to be them.
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  10963. She makes Donald Trump look calm and empathetic by comparison :(
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  10964. No, she was being way too kind. 45 & his culties are more like "despicables". Take a long hard look at the violence in Haiti - because that is what would have followed if they had succeeded in trying to override the 2020 election results.
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  10965. America these days is like all of us living in a 50-unit apartment building. In the civil war, about a third of the units wanted to form their own condo association. In the great depression, we were all broke. In WW2, another building started shooting at us. But now? It's as if we just held an election for the condo board and officers. A small but loud minority are mad that their favorite guy didn't win the election. They're so mad they're setting the building on fire. This is a different kind of crisis.
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  10966.  @12footsativa  Are you by chance one of the people who spent 8 years filling our feeds with Jade Helm, chemtrails, agenda 21? Seems y'all didn't have respect for the president back then, did you? Remember how 8 months before an election was much too soon to seat a judge?
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  10967. (not sure on cyrillic spelling) Is the word 'unishdozen'?
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  10968. We know now that the MAGA threat machine was very active behind the scenes back then. Their standard tactics are unfavorable doxxing, threats to family members, threats to the politician her/himself, threats to withdraw Lord Tinyhand's endorsement, and threats to primary them in the next election. Still, it's no excuse to subvert democracy under perceived duress.
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  10969. The "party of law and order" is ironically sending armed thugs to intimidate voters these days.
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  10970.  @allhumansarejusthuman.5776  Those are rookie numbers .. do a GoFundMe for the bounty and it'll get a lot bigger.
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  10971. Lotta traitors need to get what's coming. We may have to release some lower level criminals to make room for the traitors. Or build more jails. Whatever it takes.
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  10972.  @wekurtz72  It's no accident that the same people who voted against baby formula (a crisis which came about because of Trump's tariffs on that particular import) would also vote to force juvenile rape/abuse victims to bear the rape baby. Also the same people who vote against any public support for those juvenile parents. Also the same people who vote against school lunches and public healthcare programs. Why? Because the cruelty is the point.
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  10973.  Arun Sathyan  Sure, sure, so much "ruins" that they have fought off the invaders pretty well. No doubt you are commenting from behind the iron curtain, that's how ignorant you are.
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  10974.  @silverianjannvs5315  You sound like you get your news exclusively from Moscow channels - which of course never mention the atrocities committed by them. Some folks are going to find out the hard way that even the Tiaga won't be enough to hide them from the ICC. Because justice matters.
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  10975. Next thing you know, Trump will use the stimulus check signature thing as a pretext to have his signature on paper money too.
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  10976. What's going to happen? Higher internal inflation. Full-on repression. Full mobilization. Ruble 150:1 against the Euro. Stricter internal controls. Going harder on Ukraine. And, eventually, the oligarch class replacing Putin, though not until after he has caused even more damage to Russia's future and people.
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  10977. Where would Putler use a nuke anyway? If Ukraine really is part of Russia, as Putler claims, why would he nuke any part of Russia just to punish those who are currently living on that part of the land? Nukes have long-term effects. It would be like salting his own best farmland.
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  10978. Funny how their talk of "massive election fraud" stopped as soon as the lie had served its purpose.
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  10979.  @whiteeulogianraven7995  Wrong. Voter participation in Cuba is above 85%. They allow only one party but they do want everyone to vote, since it's important to have a mandate from the people. The Republicans here in the US, on the other hand, seem to be aware that they don't represent the will of the American people, so their "solution" is to prevent voting.
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  10980.  @whiteeulogianraven7995  I would argue that the Trumpists are more like fascists than communists. Both seek one-party rule, both use force to obtain it, but they differ in key areas: Communists/socialists want as much voter participation as possible, fascists don't care if there are elections or not as long as they win them. See the Trumpanzees talk about taking it to their DC law firm, the supreme court, if they don't like how the will of the people goes. Communists/socialists make abortion available and medical care universal, whereas fascists make abortion less accessible, and Trump fascists are actively against public healthcare options. Communists/socialists push for public ownership of industry and utilities, whereas fascists glom onto the rich and fold them into their government so that rich people hold posts and nepotism is the rule of the land. Witness the Trumpanzees, Swamp-A-Lago, tax cuts for the richest, and so on.
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  10981.  @whiteeulogianraven7995  Tell us more about this "presidential republic" in which you live. And yes, US conservatives in their present form (the emphasis on tax cuts for the rich, preventing public option healthcare, preventing abortion, building out the military, etc) are on the fascism end of the spectrum and not the socialist/communist end. Greetings from USA, where I've had decades to witness the place changing.
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  10982. Most snake oil salesmen just take people's money. Trump does that and more - he gets people to set themselves on fire for him. Only the really stupid ones though 😅😅 so it's not really much of a loss
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  10983. Rest assured, people, it will never occur to KKKonservatives that their act of backing characters (such as Agent Orange) who espouse racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant views is part of what's helping propel them to the dustbin of history.
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  10984.  @hughjanus1557  The Republicans are at the bottom of a hole and they just keep digging. Somebody robbed a bank. A suspect has been named and the investigation is ongoing. The DA is asking for the CCTV camera recordings and other evidence to prove or disprove that the suspect is indeed guilty. The defense attorney claims that he will easily win the trial, but he and the defendant frantically oppose the release of the CCTV recordings. He also wants to keep to witnesses and the bank teller from testifying. The judge and many of the jurors have said that they will act in total lockstep with the defendant's attorney. Idiot sheeple (aligned with the guilty party) are saying "no crime, get over it". What the absolute F?
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  10985. "Drifted"? No, like a black hole buzzing through a cloud of loose drifty stuff, Wussolini got nearly all of the rest of the Republican party to go along with his assault on the rule of law. Seems many of them are slow to wake up to the coup they've been supporting.
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  10986.  @redox4088  Those who made the thousand year reich kept telling themselves that. And what a shock it was to be under the bright lights in the Nuremburg court in 1947.
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  10987. Republicans would NOT approve of that. But they are considering those same powers for the guy who lost the 2020 election then tried to overthrow it. Partisan Derangement Syndrome is no joking matter.
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  10988.  @drewpknutz1410  They got welded into their houses for 3 months. We didn't. Every anti-mask fool out there has contributed to keeping the virus in circulation, and because it's still out there circulating (thanks to those same anti-mask fools and idiots and inbreds) we can't meet in public like that. FFS.
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  10989.  @Graymenn  Excuse me, but are you attempting to claim that the number of covid deaths is lower than the official figure? Have you got any proof of that nonsensical claim? At the moment it's 354,215 American covid deaths per worldometers. Oh, and not having an exact list of names doesn't make it any less real either. So, by your logic, I could claim that Germany never invaded Poland in 1939 because you don't have a list of all the names of the Poles who died defending their country? Idiot. Try better.
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  10990.  @drewpknutz1410  Yeah, but for awhile they managed to stop the thing from circulating. If everyone had been doing what they're supposed to, we wouldn't be in this predicament, but no, some people can't see the big picture too well if ever. Everyone who failed to mask & distance has blood on their hands.
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  10991. To be fair, Trump DID promise to run America like one of his own businesses. The Trump hotel in Vancouver just went bankrupt this week. His promise was code for running America right into the ground.
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  10992.  @CalebTrask  681 days elapsed from the J6 insurrection to the appointment of special prosecutor Smith. By comparison, 1 day elapsed between discovery of classified materials at president Biden's residence and the appointment of a special prosecutor for it.
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  10993. Stand back and stand by.
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  10994.  @cherilewis2899  About that dirt. Most likely it's a set of recordings in which Republicans spoke with Putler and asked him how to make the USA more like his (Putler's) dictatorship. Election results always guaranteed in their favor. Repression of minorities. Evangelic religious law becoming the law of the land. Etc.
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  10995. No doubt the J6 committee is open to receiving factual information about Trump's coup attempt. Trouble is, Mike Pillow hasn't got any of that.
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  10996.  @onlyme972  45's current time in the public eye began back when he incited birtherism (towards then president Obama) around 2011 on Twitter. And if every reporter/journalist had done their job and said, "No, Mr. Trump, that's a lie" every time he told a whopper, history would have taken a better course.
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  10997. Putin has been the best salesman for NATO. Even better than Stalin. He makes it abundantly clear why no one should trust him.
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  10998.  @antipropo461  Putin is the best salesman NATO ever had. All he has to do is keep treating his neighbors like shit (seems natural for him and for the Russian military) and of course no one wants anything to do with them. Seems no one ever told Mr Putin that willing friendly open cooperation (which is what Ukraine has with the west) is much preferable to being abused into doing what your abuser wants you to do. Russia had every opportunity to be the perfect neighbor to Ukraine, but no, they couldn't do even that.
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  10999. I could not agree more with this sentiment. Do you love your country and do you want to help make it a better place?
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  11000.  @atrociousconsequences4432  Wish I knew the answer to that one. As it is now, more than 50% of all super PAC money comes from just 40 individuals. We've got the best modern feudalism that money can buy :(
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  11001. The whole bunch of them should surround Trump on stage (for his safety of course) and crowd inside the white house. Just saying.
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  11002. Let's start calling these people what they are: the reincarnation of the Typhoid-Mary type of idiot. Put them on their own private island. Survival of the fittest and all that. Party of personal responsibility and all that.
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  11003. Republicans are reaping the results of spewing nonsense like this since 1996: Somehow, I don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote about "free speech" in our laws. Here is what those fine militia people hear from any number of RWNJ sources: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  11004. It's clear that Trump, the GOP, and the Russians all on board with saying that the entire US intelligence community was completely wrong with its unanimous conclusion about Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Clearly the Kremlin has got some good dirt on the GOP - probably the info that without their help the GOP would have lost badly in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
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  11005. It's so transparent when the same guy who spent 8 years demeaning Obama, questioning his citizenship, who then went on to tell Cryin’ Chuck and Lyin’ Ted, Crazy Bernie and Pocahontas, Dicky Durbin and Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flakey and Liddle Bob Corker that it was his way or the highway, etc, then demands respect from everyone. Not happening. That ship sailed a long time ago.
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  11006. The absence of any detectable fraud in this election, and the preponderance of votes for Biden, will in no way deter the Trumpanzees from shrieking that the election was "stolen". Most of them got divorced from reality years ago. We all recall how they spent 2008-2016 shrieking about Jade Helm, Benghazi, Agenda21, chemtrails, Sharia Law, FEMA camps, microchips, yada yada yada. They love to be angry.
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  11007. Putin has probably handled the documents containing NATO nuclear contingency options. Ought to be interesting when the FBI finishes fingerprinting all of that to see who had their mitts on such things.
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  11008. It's not too late to correct that. Only this time let's quarter it and Marshall Plan it. So there's not another Putin.
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  11009. Counting down the days to "I take no responsibility for this" and "Who ever knew that international trade could be so complicated? No one ever heard of such a thing."
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  11010.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  For who? Here in America the closed case ratio is around 10% as clearly shown by the data. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  11011.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Umm, that would be bad math, since the incoming number of infected people skews the fraction small. That's how the CFR is calculated, and in the US that's now around 4.53% (known deaths divided by known infections). The closed case ratio is around 10%. So if you catch it you have around in 1-in-10 chance of eventually dying from it.
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  11012.  @jackb8469  The question you are completely missing is this - how did it go from killing nobody to killing more than twice as many Americans died in Vietnam in just months? There's this thing called "acceleration", which you are about to witness the effects of as the US gets more and more cases each day. But your third grade education didn't cover that topic, huh.
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  11013.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  I didn't make up the numbers, I'm just trying to reach through to your propagandized, misled little mind. Got lots of patience for psych patients.
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  11014.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  LOL "to calculate fear". No, it's called caution. That's they the government makes you wear a seatbelt, and arrests you if you're caught driving drunk. Like most humans, you are not good with making decisions or seeing the bigger picture of how your own bad choices could affect others.
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  11015.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  BTW you seem to have shifted two decimal places in the wrong direction to get .04%. It's 4.53% as of this morning - that is the ratio of dead people to the total known number of cases. I got plenty of patience for you psych patients.
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  11016.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  So what you're saying is that you are unable to take data, and instead prefer spin, because you don't know how to calculate a percentage? Lamest excuse I've ever heard.
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  11017.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Protecting you from yourself is part of the government's responsibility too. And that's because like most people you are bad at making decisions. It costs society more (overall) when you hurt yourself by not wearing a seatbelt.
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  11018.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  No, you cannot. Witness the fact that you cannot do long division without mysteriously moving the decimal point two places. The current numbers for the USA are 132,301 deaths and 2,933,589 cases. Divide the first by the second and you get a case fatality rate of 4.5%. Which you insist on misrepresenting as .04% because you are inept at simple math. Source numbers: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  11019.  @jackb8469  There you go again. Making stuff up like "hiding under the bed". You are a lot like those idiots who stayed in their cabins as the Titanic went under, convinced right up until the last that the ship was unsinkable. BTW check out how long it took Oregon to go from 1 case to 1000 cases (36 days) then how long from 1000 to 2000 cases (17 days) .. and now it takes only 4 days to go from 8000 to 9000 cases. Do you know what acceleration is? That is what's happening now.
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  11020.  @jackb8469  To continue .. the only thing that will curb that acceleration is people wearing masks and practicing distance and hygiene. You know, those same masks that idiots like to inveigh against. Not the first time the government has had to protect stupid people from themselves.
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  11021.  @jackb8469  Not insignificant. Of the cases in which there is closure, here in the US, 10% of the time that closure comes in the form of death. The case fatality rate is lower (4.5%) only because more new cases keep coming in.
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  11022. Thank god it never got as far as Piggly Wiggly buying out Safeway. People all over the nation would revolt if that happened 😅
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  11023. Apparently the "Let's have guns everywhere!" people want to hold mass shootings every day now. Y'know, to show off their right to bear arms. Makes you wish they'd take up stamp collecting or model railroading instead.
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  11024. And yet, knowing that, every new fool thinks that they're the special one and Tr*mp won't F-and-ch*ck them like he did to all their predecessors.
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  11025. We've heard their lines on this topic in previous years. They'd be bleating that you're trying to "cancel" an election just because Trump "won" it.
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  11026. The so-called "twitter files", like the Turner Diaries, are also a partisan work of fiction.
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  11027. This is the future of every overcrowded place, sadly 😪
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  11028. I'll bet he's hoping to have Half Baked Alaska as a cellmate, except it's going to be someone else. Now there's a made-for-TV.
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  11029. Watching reich-wingers kill off their own via bad medical advice, all to please last year's stated whims of Individual One, has effectively put the Onion out of business. This is weirder than we could have made up as of 2 years ago.
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  11030. Everyone recalls that incident in Georgia, a funeral in late February, where all it took was one (1) asymptomatic visitor to start a hellish local outbreak. And even when you might think your local town/county/whatever is virus-free, it probably isn't, and you're not testing enough to know this for sure.
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  11031. America is set up to be a safe haven for the virus. Not only are there 50 separate states doing things each their own way, but a sizeable percentage of the population are of the Crazy Eddie type, who will either concoct or latch onto any dumb tinfoil-hat theory to justify why they shouldn't wear masks, get a vaccine, practice social distancing, or even believe that the virus exists.
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  11032. One day, there will be easy visa reciprocity between Ukraine and the west .. kids will go to school in both east and west .. Ukraine will be a part of NATO .. and the nation will be rebuilt to modern western standards. Meanwhile in Russia .. :(
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  11033. That's an insult to whackjobs everywhere. She's something else.
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  11034. Trump has decided that if the jackboot fits, he's going to pull it on and start goose-stepping. Seen that movie before, don't like it.
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  11035. News like this is just going to confuse the science-deniers who think it hasn't been an emergency all along.
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  11036.  @JakeBroe  President Biden was being helpfully blunt when he explained to Putin the level of consequence that would follow the use of any kind of nuclear weapon in the struggle over Ukraine. Russia won't let go of the dream of their imperial ambition in Ukraine? (more like imperial overreach) Fine. So we turn it into a monkey trap for them. The harder they try, the more they lose.
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  11037.  @aljoschalong625  Plus it remains to be seen how many conservatives might regain their sanity if they stopped drinking from the poisoned waters of FOX/OAN.
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  11038. He did, once before, when she lost her election and went to live at MAGA Lardo for awhile. He will probably fill her up with new lies and send her back to Arizona when he gets tired of her little bobble head.
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  11039. Majorie Traitor Greene, like Trump, unerringly shows off his most negative characteristics when given any chance to behave like an adult. The net effect of this will be to make Republicans lose votes in the 2024 general.
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  11040.  @EconLessons  Agree. I have long been thinking that the west is in this primarily to keep Russia tied down in Ukraine and bleeding. It makes sense from the western POV. It would be important to postpone or delay any Russian realization that Ukraine will not be theirs. Metering the flow of western stuff to Ukraine is the spigot for inducing Russia to have hope that they could win. A short sharp quick defeat there would only convince Russia to move its empire-building activities to places that are harder for the west to supply - and probably bring out Lavrov for another highly-punctuated (almost spitting mad) rattling of the nuclear threat. Ideal option for the west is for Russia to exhaust itself there and go home - and that is absolutely horrible for Ukraine :(
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  11041. Trump tweeted for Michigan to "liberate" on April 17: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/trump-tweets-liberate-michigan-other-states-democratic-governors/5152037002/ The whacktard alt-reichers began looking for Governor Whitmer's home address on April 19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#Initial_investigations
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  11042. Anne Frank lived in an attic for 2 years and couldn't even make soup, because someone would smell it. These "fine people" have been at home for all of six weeks, with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies, and they feel so victimized that they go out and protest. Whiners.
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  11043.  @lynnrunningdeerB4  This is an "all hands on deck" moment in our nation's history. Stand back and stand by. If the culties get uppity, dogpile them and call law enforcement. They can go do their time at Graybar Hotel, where they'll have years to reflect on the error of causing terrorism to serve the lies of their angry orange leader.
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  11044.  @juliec5309  And when Trump sends his people, he's not sending the best. They have a lot of problems, and they bring those problems with them.
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  11045. Forget lawsuits, the International Criminal Court needs to get its hands on that gang. Trump, Nielsen, Sessions, and others have systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees.
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  11046. The sad part is, Trump clearly doesn't believe in presidential immunity, since he spent much of 2017 directing the DOJ to find something to charge former president Obama with criminally. Or perhaps he means immunity only for himself and not for anyone else.
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  11047. Oh my god. This is perfect!
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  11048. Expecting the manbaby to take responsibility for anything is obviously a waste of time. Heck, he dismantled the global pandemic response team in 2018 and that's part of what led to the current problem. He exacerbated it by refusing to accept the tests that WHO made available early in January.
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  11049. Because Liz Cheney's term ended Jan 3rd this year and she's no longer in the House.
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  11050.  @SadAce21  Oh that's right. Forgot. Remember how the R's made all kinds of noise about appointing DT as house speaker?
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  11051. Helmet wearing and mask wearing are similar. Those folks have nothing worth protecting, is what they're saying.
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  11052. So we have a private military that doesn't answer to congress? And it's active in the same area that holds the house, the senate, the supreme court, and more? That's 9 kinds of wrong.
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  11053. Look, Dan, students aren't allowed in without MMR vaccines and others. There's a reason for it. These are dangerous, communicative diseases that will spread like wildfire. Is some part of that difficult for you to understand? Society is a cooperative endeavor and this is part of participation in it. You don't get to endanger other people.
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  11054. Owning the libs, one self-inflicted death at a time. Keep checking Craigslist, there will be some sweet deals coming along.
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  11055. To paraphrase a saying from Europe -- if you see a traitor sitting down with 11 people, what you've got is a dozen traitors.
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  11056. Once Trump's people get a taste for committing domestic terrorism, only death or imprisonment will stop them.
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  11057. The white house is probably the only place in America where the government is behind the idea of regular testing (now done daily) and contact tracing of positives. From his place safe behind that protective wall, it's so ironic that Trump tells everyone else to go back to work and not worry about testing. Obviously he's afraid of catching it himself, but he doesn't care if ordinary Americans die from it.
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  11058.  Badger Colony  Are you this type of idiot? Because wherever you live, the place will be smarter after you move on. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513431/Texas-man-30-dies-catching-coronavirus-COVID-party-thinking-virus-hoax.html
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  11059.  @strangerjank3445  Obviously the allusion to Stephen King's novel "the Stand" was about as far above your head as a moving satellite in orbit - or you are way far down, just going by your complete lack of punctuation. I got stuff smarter than you floating in my cereal most mornings.
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  11060.  @borneoman8574  "Sure, Trump used her, like he uses everyone. But he's not on the way to the moon, unless by "moon" you are using" << For the umpteenth frigging time, that was an allusion to a retarded character in "The Stand" by Stephen King. He was dimwitted so he spelled everything the same way, m-o-o-n. In like fashion, Trump thinks of everything in the most simplistic of terms, either for him or against him.
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  11061. The death rate is around 3.6% as explained on all of the major data sources. One is linked below. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. So if it were to run wild throughout America (as looks likely now) projected death toll could be around 11.9 million. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  11062. LOL, let's see some of these vanilla-ISIS nutters try doing a citizens arrest of president-elect Biden. The secret service is on duty. Closed casket funeral is the likely outcome.
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  11063. Sad to say, it won't end with the inauguration on 1/21/25. There are those among us, some Vichy Republicans, who will continue to deny the results of the elections they lose. Stay strong, people.
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  11064. You could tell where this was going, back in 2017, simply by the way one of this administration's first priorities was to abolish the Office of Governmental Ethics. Those were innocent times alright.
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  11065.  @juliabelcher3773  More like "the best people who want to destroy democracy and install a tyrant".
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  11066. How awful for Moscow Mitch. How is he supposed to violate several of his oaths, and keep his promise to the obviously-guilty president to get him off scot-free?
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  11067. They have no ability to tell fact from fiction.
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  11068.  @survivinginflation8579  If you'd rather we be polite to insurrectionists as they destroy our democracy - better get off the bus now and walk the rest of the way. You need the time to think of the impact of what you're advocating.
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  11069. Last summer, a number of northern-hemisphere nations saw dropping covid numbers as the warmer weather caught on. Everyone thought covid had somehow "gone away", though later, in the fall, it became clear that covid had merely been spreading in a more stealthy way during that time - as if it spends more time growing the roots in warm weather and grows the shoots in cooler weather.
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  11070.  @thethoth1755  Tell us more please about this war you see coming. Are you envisioning China trying to land shock troops in SoCal? I just made a fresh latte.
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  11071. This virus spreads whenever and wherever people gather too close together indoors. That is all. Significant risk factors include age, diabetes, and skin pigmentation.
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  11072. Huh. They embraced the human wrecking ball who said he wanted to take down American institutions, then they backed him during his failed coup, and now they're wondering if perhaps this was not a good idea? Can they not see any further than the ends of their noses? The guy is radioactive.
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  11073. Looks like the Founding Fathers didn't quite envision a type when a lying sack-of-shit one-term president would rather destroy the country than admit he lost re-election.
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  11074. Amendment 14, section 3, imposes no burden of conviction or accusation. Here is the whole text of it, unabridged: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
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  11075. Trump is long accustomed to that form of delivering verbal poisons. Hopefully everyone remembers when he simultaneously pooh-poohed the pandemic as being a "Chyna hoax", denigrated the science behind the vaccines, got the vaccine in secret, insisted on testing anyone who got near him, bragged about having created the same vaccines in record time, and complained about the government spending money on these things.
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  11076. More like president Von Hindenberg, who handed off power to the new guy in January 1933, not realizing what a disaster that would be.
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  11077. I kept my fingers crossed all the while, afraid that some Q nutter would try dive bombing the ceremony in a stolen aircraft. (edit: I'm sure the capitol was a no-fly zone and that anything trying it would have been shot down easily)
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  11078.  @pedronunez3456  It's a falsehood that both sides are equally responsible. Go look up how many bills the Democrat congress passed, the last four years, that died on Moscow Mitch's loading dock. And stating that "both parties are the same" is one of the finest ways to show off one's ignorance.
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  11079. It's high time we set up some special "clinics" for wilfully-unvaccinated adults who present with covid. Either send them home with a bottle of cough syrup and tell them to put plants around their beds (because "plants make oxygen" heh) or set up a big auditorium full of cots, and use a bulldozer to dig a trench outside for all the corpses. Because that's how it goes when the ignorant ones decide to punch out.
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  11080. New Zealand, under Trump management, would have had 3K deaths instead of 25. The USA, with NZ's management, would have had only around 1,600 covid deaths.
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  11081.  @Ronne-s8o  I don't think we've seen even a fraction of the damage he's willing to do to America. He would rather leave the place a flaming mess, engulfed in bloodshed and chaos, rather than face how he lost the 2020 election.
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  11082.  @mithrasrevisited4873  Also, there was never any fix for Rupert Murdoch's lie/gaslight business to destabilize the nation. Down here in the US there's a huge market for "angertainment", material that keeps the bubbas frothing in anger at anyone who's not exactly like them.
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  11083. In other words, he can't say whether or not he was conducting germ warfare on candidate Biden.
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  11084. It's so telling that Trump's main reaction to losing the election was to burn everything down out of spite.
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  11085. Ahh, we can look back fondly on those days in 2016 when various conservative apologists still said out loud how the responsibilities of office would make Trump more mature.
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  11086. You got a link to that?
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  11087. It's probably the same reason why Clarence Thomas doesn't pay for his vacations, his fancy huge motorhome, or his mother's house. Some benefactor covers these bills.
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  11088. @ Oliver Barstow Correction, it WILL happen unless governments choose to get all of their people out of there ASAP. The Diamond Princess experiment doesn't need to be repeated. We already know that it spreads easily in ships, apartment buildings, prisons, hotels, hospitals, etc anyplace where people are packed close together. For perhaps more than a week now, everyone who's been coming and going from that hotel has been a potential new vector that will pop up someplace else a week or two after they get home.
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  11089. And there they go, continuing their coup attempt by other means. They JUST. CANNOT. GET. OVER. the way their orange deity lost the election and that there was no massive vote fraud as he/they allege. So now they want to murder democracy rather than put forth candidates who can win elections. We're going full Weimar :(
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  11090.  Nestor Alegre  "They" didn't make anyone believe anything. The votes did that. The popular vote is 78,753,377 Biden to 73,119,421 Trump and the EC is 306 Biden to 232 Trump. Sorry these facts hurt your feelings.
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  11091. His license has been suspended. Hope someone is tracing down all the resulting positives. https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2020/05/11/castle-rock-restaurant-closed-coroanvirus-covid/
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  11092. Truth is singular. Other versions are simply lies.
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  11093. I went through this before the election, with folks who voted third party spoiler candidates to protest that Biden-Harris were too harsh on the Palestinians. I pointed out that Cheeto would be so much worse.
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  11094. Even if this is true - get out and vote! I don't trust Sweet Potato Hitler, or his henchies, until they're all being led away in handcuffs. Until then it's game on. Blue tsunami motherfcckers.
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  11095. Well, to be fair, Trump DID say he was going to run America like one of his own businesses. This is his 7th major failure. We're not quite at the crash-and-burn phase yet.
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  11096. The Republicans have tried a lot of things to get their nutjob base to vote them out: Forcibly sterilizing refugees at the border, in complete violation of international laws? Tried that. Forcibly separating refugee families at the border, in complete violation of treaties we signed? Tried that. Trashing our longstanding allies? Tried that. Lying to the American people about a deadly disease, then killing hundreds of thousands through those lies and inaction? Tried that. Destroyed the export economy through "trade wars" that he thought were easy to win? Tried that. Rapidly increasing homelessness all over the country? Tried that. A whammy as bad as the 1918 Pandemic and the Great Depression all at once? Tried that. But now Trump is waking people up to how bad he really is. His reverse Midas touch is still working.
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  11097. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  11098. Don't be looking for the cuck Republican party to say anything about President Pennywhistle calling parts of the constitution "phony". But wow, how those same Republicans fumed and ranted and raged when Obama wore a tan suit, or when Obama used Dijon mustard. Perhaps Republicans got dropped on their heads as children. A lot.
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  11099. By now we are all familiar with why MAGA folk idolize Trump .. his complete lack of a moral compass .. his open willingness to sic his Brownshirt irregulars on anyone .. his transactional approach to anything/everything .. his tacit designation of other-party Americans as officially unwelcome, as demonstrated by withholding disaster relief to places that didn't vote for him. The MAGA folk looked upon this and practically had orgasms over it.
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  11100. He added more to the national debt in one term than any president before then. He spent $10 billion on southern border walls that can be defeated with cheap ladders. He saved a little money by gutting Obama's pandemic preparedness program. He was the first president to normalize public behaviors that result in bias crime convictions. You don't see these things as great? 😅
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  11101. Josef Stalin would have found a place for this douche Republican governor in his government.
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  11102. And when the time comes, he'd happily add another nutball to the supreme corp just so that abortion can really be banned.
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  11103.  @AlexanderDunetz  The political capital is more than 50 years old. We are now known everywhere in the world as that nation that you can't count on to honor its word on a treaty. Trump pulled out of a several treaties willy-nilly (the Paris climate accords; the JCPOA) and has violated a number of treaties: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  11104. It's because Trump knows that if Bloomberg were a rich Russian dude, he and the rest of the GOP would be sucking up to him and trying to him favors. Instead, he's a rich white American dude who can totally speak to the centrists and moderates, leaving Trump his 20% alt-fact whackjob segment, who barely have a complete set of genes among the bunch of them.
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  11105.  @PotatoeJoe69  Bingo. Once an autocrat gets a taste of Lebensraum, they never give it up.
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  11106. Sadly, MTG isn't the only one living in some whacktard alternative reality where there wasn't any pandemic, weren't any free & effective vaccines, and where there were no consequences to other people for some folks choosing not to mask up.
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  11107. Do they have more of these design bureaus?
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  11108. Apparently, in Republican math, 6/3 = 50/50.
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  11109.  @fidget2020  Didn't anyone ever explain to you the bad in making perfect the enemy of better? "I can't have the tasty cupcake I want, so instead of bread with jam I'll have a muffin made of broken glass."
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  11110. I remember when Republicans called our President a Muslim; when Republicans called him and his family a pack of monkeys; when Republicans said he wasn't born here; when Republicans blocked every single path to progress that they could; when Republicans made pictures of him as Hitler; when Republicans shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice, just to spite him; when Republicans turned their backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialogue; when Republicans would not even listen to any choice for a Supreme Court judge no matter who the nominee was; when Republicans openly said they would oppose Obama at every turn. Those people got a lot worse under Trump. Now we're in this strange place where some of them think it's perfectly OK to toss the legal ballots they don't agree with, or drive their cars into crowds of protesters, or try to run a campaign bus off the road. If America is going to heal, those people are the ones who will have to do most of the healing, and, frankly, they seem disinclined to step away from their dictatorship-friendly pro-violence anti-science stance.
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  11111. Funny how MAGA faithful don't find it "divisive" and "political" when the 2020 election loser, who staged a coup, refers to the current lawfully-elected president as an "enemy of the state".
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  11112.  @dougjones7609  It was also a frigging horror. Straight outta Gilead. Not too hard to imagine the "pregnancy prison" conservatives would gladly construct for raped women :(
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  11113. AKA "I'll give $10 million to anyone who can prove that Jimmy Hoffa wasn't a space alien who left the planet after his mission here was complete."
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  11114. Ah, the old "If a Democrat cop stops a Republican child molester, it's just a partisan witch hunt!"
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  11115. Hint: our current Trumpian governance won't let a good crisis go to waste. What might they do under guise of an emergency? (shudder)
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  11116. Wondering how Amtrak will fare under Cheeto .. as well as all of the many metro transit systems throughout the country. Hope none of them are dependent on any kind of federal aid.
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  11117. The funny thing is that he didn't used to believe in presidential immunity - witness the way he spent much of 2017 directing the DOJ to find some excuse to bring criminal charges against former president Obama.
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  11118.  arron young  One can say it more nicely than that .. for example, should Trump steal the election, he and those who supported him are getting a free one-way trip to wherever Nicolae Ceausescu went back in late 1989. They're enemy collaborators, all of them, and they deserve to be treated as such.
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  11119.  @rushantaylor4711  Thanks, I reported "Assad Tutorial" too.
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  11120. George Floyd did what he was told to do, and they murdered him anyway. Have you not been following the news this year?
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  11121.  Badger Colony  Are you trying to claim that George Floyd died of an overdose too? Otherwise your comment is pretty non-sequitur. Or maybe you're attempting to claim (without evidence) that all the Blacks who died at the hands of police were actually OD'ing on drugs at the time?
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  11122.  Badger Colony  I brought up George Floyd. Why do you keep non-sequitur'ing to whoever that is? Oh, and as an example of "he would have died anyway", your lack of compassion labels you clearly as a Trumpanzee. Maybe when a truck runs you over then backs up to finish the job, random passerby will shrug at you lying there and say that you would have died anyway.
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  11123. The material on those phones ought to be interesting. Presumably Trump messaged a bunch of on-the-fence allies to brag that "his people" have nearly got Mike Pence, and to ask them to send proposals on how they can be useful to him in his dictatorship.
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  11124. Oregon has plenty of open space out in the desert, east of Bend, for setting up a camp for these indigent squatters. In previous decades, people like that would have been living on the poor farm that's now a McMenamins way out on Halsey.
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  11125. Wonder where America would be now if Rupert Murdoch had stayed in Australia? Fox Gaslighting (hard to call it "news") keeps our gullible ones thinking that tyranny is freedom.
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  11126.  @SoWeBackInThaMines  Then why does Putin spend so much money on troll farms, trying to help Trump win? Why don't you think about that for awhile.
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  11127. Same in Oregon, we've had it since 2000. Of course Rethuglicans seem to think that the reason for their shtty results is some problem with the voting system and not their retrogressive, back-to-1850 book-of-Leviticus approach to things. Another weird notion they sometimes get is that people's votes should count for less if their houses are closer together. Land doesn't vote, people do!
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  11128. Sounds like the sane people (those who can see a dystopia from a distance) have been fleeing Texas. Can't blame them.
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  11129. Who could have known that years of angry LARP'ing isn't the same as actual time in the military?
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  11130.  @paul-zz3vx  You mean, conservatives haven't been this out of their gourds since Lincoln freed "their" farm equipment. FIFY.
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  11131. 3 big things to hold over this: 1) Mulvaney said on camera that "we do this all the time" .. 2) Trump said on camera that he wished Ukraine and China and others would investigate the Bidens .. 3) there are many other foreign-leader conversations stored on the codeword server. Any adults in Washington DC, please designate a committee to do some fact-finding.
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  11132. Who was that crazy lady?? We need him like we need a magnitude 10 earthquake followed by locusts. Jeez!
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  11133. Funny how governor Abbott didn't do anything to set up a hotline/website to report rape attempts, with bounties offered for turning in offenders.
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  11134. Hopefully she will carry that plot line to term (heh) and go Rapture off with her culties like that Jim Jones fellow did with his.
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  11135. A citizen who wasn't even a member of the current president's family .. didn't have any kind of official white house job .. hadn't been given any security clearance over the objections of our intelligence community .. wasn't making a shit ton of money while engaged in private business from within the white house. Nope, it was Trump's rugrats who did all that.
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  11136. What graduations occur in mid-April? None. Those aren't until later in the year. Just more BS from the air accordion player.
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  11137. Trump is still giving the prosecutors ammo almost every time he opens his air scoop. That should continue. And soon, hopefully, Trump will in desperation start spilling the beans on who bent the knee to him in exchange for what back during his one failed term. Clearly he's got some dirt on Graham and others.
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  11138.  @b.k.9797  Don't you sometimes miss the good old days when the only sense of community that cranks had was that cheesy checkout-stand newspaper that featured large pictures of two-headed alien babies and other such nonsense? Letting them have their own "news" networks and chatrooms has been an experiment not worth performing :(
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  11139. More correctly - Putin wants the US to fail bigly, and Trump is only too happy to oblige Putin in exchange for a personal money lifeline from the Kremlin coffers.
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  11140. My take is that he's hoping to cash in on that April/May energy that Hair Furhrer aroused when he told his people to "Liberate!", resulting in armed right-wing (or is it reich-wing?) wackos blocking traffic, carrying guns into government buildings, threatening legislators. Because the cat is out of the bag already as to how Trump made the covid test numbers go down: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  11141.  @MichaelHalbert1952  I guess it's easy for some collaborators to screech "fake news!" when they're not among the 200K+ corpses (which they call "crisis actors") cold in the ground already.
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  11142. Trump dumps in his drawers constantly. No one saw him wash his hands. Fecal bacteria is what he probably added to the fries :(
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  11143. And now you know why, years ago, conservatives worked to make fracking processes & chemicals exempt from the following: the Clean Water Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the Superfund Law; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; the Toxic Release Inventory requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act. They knew damn well that they were pumping poison into the water table.
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  11144. All Marco needed to do was look at the pile of F'd and chucked people Trump leaves behind him, people who also saw some gain in associating with him and turned out to be wrong.
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  11145.  @st.gregory  So, if a truck runs you over and then backs up to finish the job, do you mind if the rest of us look at you lying there and just shrug and say that you would have died anyway? News flash, everyone's going to die someday. It's just that covid is killing them years or decades before they would have otherwise died.
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  11146.  @hirokim81  Whether I know the people who've died is immaterial. I don't know anyone personally who died in a car accident either, but that doesn't mean people don't die in car accidents. DUH.
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  11147. "Fine men" don't swear an oath to the constitution on day, then bear arms against it just a few days later. He resigned from the WV house of delegates before they could boot out his sorry ass, and he's facing one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Nice patriotic boy my ass :(
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  11148. Why should they freak out? They're the ones who caused it to happen. The voters slapped them hard in 2018 but they weren't listening, and instead Republicans poured Monster Gro all over Trump's bad behaviors. They've earned themselves a couple decades in the penalty box over this. Now they gotta dance with the one that brung them.
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  11149.  @snivanov  Too bad Russia seems to produce such people in large numbers. Hope they can turn that around.
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  11150.  Sage Dawn  Bingo. Trusting a Trump-aligned conservative to respond to logic or to follow the law is a lot like trusting a corpse to respond to medicine or laws. Just shovel them into a hole and leave some thoughts & prayers.
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  11151.  Sage Dawn  Not only must a person be very badly damaged to do and say what the Trumpanzees do, s/he must also be heavily propagandized. Before this time I did not understand that the intersectionality of those two negative qualities, similar to how you would show this in a venn chart, would produce that ~30% of Americans who not only support a psychopathic president bent on taking down America, but would get in everyone else's faces about it. Regardless of which way the election goes, this is a big problem that America must fix.
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  11152. Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
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  11153. It was as if the administration had told their party faithful to call in to explain where you can buy left-handed sandpaper.
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  11154. Hearing a whole lot of "We refuse to agree to certify the 2024 election winner if it's not our angry orange cult leader" :(
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  11155. Correct, pre-civil war takeover plans. They did advertise their "August surprise" plans well in advance.
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  11156. Trump is the test that the Republican party is failing, and the test that is in danger of taking down America. Who ever knew that we had so many Americans who would drop their pants and bend over for the first wannabe-authoritarian figure to come along?
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  11157. That look on their faces. Of course the families wouldn't have anything to do with the traitors who support Trump, and who even now refuse to condemn Trump for calling for the end of the rule of law.
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  11158. This begs the question of when or if some of those folks are ever going to return to consensus reality. Trump never did (and in all likelihood never will) admit to his cult members that he lied to them only in the vain hope of retaining power after losing the election. The defendants in the Dominion lawsuits may have stopped spouting election lies, but so many other reich-wing voices just keep on repeating them. We may have to accept that perhaps 10-20% of voters out there are permanently unmoored.
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  11159. @David Wolff Re "you really don't understand" << Whoa there, bucko. I was honestly afraid of that sh*t back when Trump took the Republican primary, months before the 2016 election. The guy is unhinged in ways you can see from thousands of miles away without visual enhancement.
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  11160. Arrest these f*cktards, throw the maximum penalty at them for willful public endangerment during a grave public health emergency. It took the USA only 23 days to go from 5,000 deaths to over 50,000 deaths. And these kooks want to protest? The stupid, it burns.
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  11161. But, we safely guess (from how things went during Orange Adolph's first two impeachments), the House is just going to take the angle of, "Whatever the dictator says, we're with him".
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  11162. Leaving as big a mess as possible for Biden has been a thing for Sweet Potato Hitler for awhile now.
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  11163. I'm shocked. The guy who told more than 30K lies during his previous administration, and who just spent 4 long years lying about the 2020 election, turns out to have lied some more during the campaign?
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  11164. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  11165. Clearly he's never had to be at a desk for 8 hours every day, 4 hours per week. The things that happened (and failed to happen) during his abortion of a sole term pretty much agree with that too. He spent the time golfing, whining on social media, holding rallies, and doing Putin's bidding to undermine US democracy. He did not spend the time leading or doing anything constructive.
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  11166.  @Shimmy246  Here are some of the ones I found that shed light on this most interesting topic: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/20/cdc-data-excess-deaths-covid-19/ https://www.hcplive.com/view/excess-deaths-us-increased-covid-19 They all agree substantially.
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  11167. So that Q-Anonsense shaman guy could have been called "Dances with Karens"?
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  11168. How ironic, the same people who say Americans don't need testing before returning to work won't let anyone work around them unless they get tested daily.
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  11169. I think we should all do our part to make sure it goes the way of the Whigs, who also had zero respect for the will of the people. Flush the turds, vote straight blue across the board.
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  11170. Remember that time the NPR announcers read the Bill of Rights on air, and the Trumpanzees just assumed all those side references to the mad king George were about Trump, and were completely offended, to the point where they did not recognize that the NPR people were reading from a document a couple centuries old? They hallucinate conspiracies behind /everything/. It is part of the collage of mental deficiencies that makes them good cultists :(
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  11171.  @philiplindley7384  You are correct. No society is equipped to deal with the disruptions that will inevitably kill 1%+ of its population while sickening many people all at the same time. No society has the means to provide oxygen support for the projected numbers of people who will need it to survive. Organizations (businesses, transit agencies, shipping, distribution, law enforcement, emergency services, grocery stores, trash pickup, whatever) will all be heavily impacted when many people are sick at the same time. We're looking at a disruption that is on the same level of overall impact as wide-area earthquakes or EMP or being militarily attacked.
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  11172. And the nice part is, more of his violence-prone followers will end up in trouble over whatever he incites them to. And no, he won't pay their legal bills. Some of them may not be able to vote again or own firearms again. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  11173.  @keltonscott734  Ted Cruz. Huh. Real name Rafael Eduardo Cruz. His daddy (himself a Cuban refugee accepted into Canada) didn't send him all the way here just to see the place overrun by immigrants.
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  11174. Just the Republicans who supported the insurrection. They don't like it? Perhaps they should have refrained from committing the crime.
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  11175.  @Bill-dw5wk  At the top of that page it says it's the estimates from July 1, 2019.
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  11176. Let's be clear - the only kind of "order" conservatives support is the kind that the Proud Boys might enforce with their boots and fists.
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  11177. You should try living in Somalia. By conservative definitions it should be a thriving paradise - racial homogeneity, religion everywhere, guns everywhere, low taxes, hardly any regulations or any government at all. No welfare. But if you want to live in a nice place like the USA, you gotta pay your HOA fees. Get used to it.
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  11178. I'm afraid things are much worse than we in America want to realize. Even if by tomorrow morning we had Trump's head on a stick, we put a sensible replacement into office, we undo every bad dumb thing he's ever done, and we profoundly apologize to every foreigner he's ever offended in our name, we would not be off the hook. The rest of the world will rightly ask us what steps we're taking to keep a Trump from happening again. If we don't fix all the structural problems that allowed Trump to happen, we will eventually be the world's biggest leper colony.
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  11179. Here's the $64K question - which red-state virus-hotspot governor wants to be the next to host a superspreading event?
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  11180. Kremlin sympathizers in the US take that approach too.
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  11181. I find it rather noteworthy that despite their immediate history with the mad, spiteful, power-seeking King George III, the Founders still did not anticipate a political creature like Trump coming along. And we got rather lucky in that he was not overly familiar with the workings of government. DeathSantis is a whole nother worse thing.
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  11182. 150 million people celebrating their "freedumbs" by traveling during a pandemic .. coronavirus likes this :(
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  11183.  @billcasey9672  ? That's a really narrow footpath to griping about work conditions in the USA. We were talking about election fraud delusions. Almost like a complete non-sequitur.
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  11184.  @billcasey9672  Yeah you might want to keep trying. We weren't even talking about work, or habits, or habits that anyone tries to incur, but about election fraud delusion.
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  11185. The Agent Orange news cycle follows predictable patterns: 1)the imbecile shouting over his helicopter, openly soliciting international oligarchs to participate in money laundering (to prove that it’s actually no big deal). 2) Dragging as many political allies into the mess as possible and implicating them as well. 3)Attacking the committees/witnesses/whistleblowers/leakers/journalists/janitors/candlestick makers that are actually following the law, and labeling them as “very conflicted” or “wacky” (even if he’s appointed them HIMSELF!) 4) Telling his extraordinarily ignorant supporters that it’s all “fake news” and they should go back to their Kraft dinners. 5) 50+ rage and constipation induced, entirely misleading or untrue, misspelled, poorly worded, inflammatory tweets. 6) Golf. 7) Guliani making his rounds on tv and admitting to all 1 through 6 8) Trumptard cultists making their rounds on tv denying 1 through 6 ever happened 9) Trumptard cultists making their rounds on tv admitting 1 through 6 happened but then saying it's not a crime and bringing up Hillary's emails and Biden
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  11186. Let's thank uncle Pooty for starting it. Funny how he fancies himself Mr Big Military Power, yet he attacks the 55th largest economy in the world. Let Pooty go one on one with the US air force if he really wants to play.
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  11187. In the video clip, it looked like a chunky white guy with a shotgun. Which is why he was taken alive. Unknown if he got the usual Burger King stop on the way in.
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  11188. Trump's been doing this same thing in court for decades now. Let's not expect this sh*t leopard to change its spots anytime soon.
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  11189. There is not a lot you can do to reach the people who pay so little attention to the factual news that they don't realize Kari Fake just lost in court bigly and must pay damages shortly. It is the same with the J6 insurrectionist nutters who, despite all the news coverage, somehow did not hear that lord Cheeto lost all of his court cases challenging the election results. Good thing we have lots of jail space.
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  11190. "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas.
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  11191. I pray that the rest of the world is prepared to rescue Russia after Putin's inevitable fall. The failure to do so would likely just result in a hotter mess sometime further down the road. The people of Russia did not democratically choose Putin, and his behavior does not reflect the wishes of the people of Russia. Should they overthrow him themselves and become a responsible nation again, the west needs to make the sanctions go away ASAP. Russia could be so much more than just another rehash of the USSR.
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  11192. Absolutely. I saw a very grainy video on Fakebook where someone appeared to be logging onto Dominion from their phone in order to change votes.
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  11193.  @ecurewitz  That works. Technically, we are in deep trouble when a certain percentage of our population throws its lot in with an obvious cult leader, an obvious liar, an obvious con man, etc, who has zero respect for the rule of law and for the same constitution he took an oath to protect against all enemies, foreign or domestic.
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  11194. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  11195.  @mtavarez4561  "Why do you Trump haters just say stuff without proof?" You mean without links, right? https://time.com/5565991/russia-influence-2016-election/
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  11196. The price of oil dropped immediately after Bolton's surprise firing. Funny how this "correction" happened just days later. Who benefits the most from high oil prices? That's who did it.
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  11197. I will believe this when I see it .. but I can imagine that many senators have been sniffing the wind and noting which way the weathervane is pointing. If they try to acquit Trump, or vote for no witness, they'll be facing something more immediate and more blunt than just tarring & feathering. But that's what happens eventually when you hitch your wagon to the Flim Flam man.
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  11198. OK, I confess I came here to see how many of Oregon's room-temperature-IQ fools have somehow misconstrued this week's news as, "Oh my god! Commie Kate wants to take my business away and force me to wear a mask so she can gloat 'Bwahahaha!' in the state command office while suffering way-lower tax revenues!" instead of our state government taking sensible steps to limit the spread of the disease, without which it would get even more out of control.
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  11199.  @bootsnake69420  Sounds like the original "source" that confused poor Mr Peterson was OANN.
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  11200.  Derry Taylor  Besides Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, you might also like Last Train from Berlin.
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  11201.  @SRosenberg203  Not sure on that. I could actually fix racism in the US, but you'd have to suspend habeas corpus, give me 10K trained military contractors, and an unlimited supply of shipping containers and zip cuffs. I take inspiration from the means by which the Allies de-Nazified Germany after WW2. Why the shipping containers? Because there's a place for racism in the world. It happens to be inside a locked shipping container that gets shoved overboard in deep water.
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  11202. Trump has never wanted to lead or even tried to lead. He merely wants to rule. Remember his "mean rule by tweet" style of firing people?
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  11203. .. but stirring the base to anger with red-meat extreme lies is what wins the election for you. Being truthful and calm is not.
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  11204. Sorry, no prizes for the Dotard except maybe a trial at the Hague. So far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  11205. Hopefully some staffer can furnish the video of Trump watching the violence live on the big screen, bragging about how "his people" would overturn the election results so that he would remain in power forever. Perhaps then, AG Garland will be awakened to the possibility that something wrong happened January 6th .. something criminal.
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  11206. When armed white thugs with military style weapons invaded state capitols last month (to protest against public health measures) conservatives were screeching that government must be of the people, by the people, and for the people. Watching them whipsaw to "how dare politicians respond to the people" over this is the funniest thing of the year so far.
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  11207. @ Jahborn There are several kinds of desperation. Guess which one Putin is in. Victim of circumstances beyond his control, or victim of his own stupid decisions. Think carefully.
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  11208.  @TBI-Firefighter-451  It's now become the #3 cause of death in the United States. Some "flu" :(
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  11209. This is just a modest proposal (heh) but it should be theoretically possible to run tourism businesses that provide for rapid viral spread - you just need to add a lot of thermal imaging scanners and put folks back on the bus or plane out of town as soon as they start showing symptoms. There will be other rubes waiting to take their places at the slots anyway. AS long as Lost Vegas doesn't mind becoming a virus exporting hub this should be feasible. Any takers?
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  11210. Let's be perfectly clear: the ONLY reason our super-thin-skinned con-man in chief is pursuing this action is because groups of TikTok users pranked him back around the time of his Tulsa covid superspreading event (they booked lots of tickets, convincing his moron organizers that attendance would be in the 300K range) and he's still mad about it. He's misusing the powers of office for personal vendetta.
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  11211. @Ron Tice Seen your name too, brother. Hang in there. Do you by chance watch Beau of the Fifth Column? His stuff is wonderful. A level-headed voice in a crazy world.
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  11212.  @namehere2206  Speech that is pure lies (and divisive ones at that) should be blocked, or ignored, or not even carried anywhere. Sorry you can't see the wisdom in that, but then, from your post you sound like half your brain cells are rebelling against the amygdala gland's weird messaging. What Trump has done here in the US, with his many lies downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, has been the equivalent of getting on the intercom, in a locked-in shopping mall that's on fire in many places, to tell the people inside just to keep shopping, don't worry, you're in no danger, the reports of fire are all "fake news". And crap like that ought to be blocked. You got any answer to that? Or are you just today's faceless brainless troll in a long line of the same?
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  11213.  @namehere2206  Given that I didn't say anything about "shutting down your own country and locking yourself and all citizens in your house" -- why does your entire lame attempted argument depend on something I never said? That's the lamest dumbest sort of trolling. Grow a brain, fool, or find yourself some coffee. Is that the best you've got?
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  11214. Trumpanzees are what they are, essentially, because they veer straight for misinformation just like crackheads veer towards the $100 bill they see being blown across the parking lot.
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  11215. Republicans often suffer from Partisan Derangement Syndrome like that. For example, when a reporter cornered John Eastman and asked if it would be legal for VP Harris to override a potential Biden loss in the 2024 election, he snapped out, "Of course not!"
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  11216. I've been trying to ask that exact question to Herman Cain, but he's hard to reach.
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  11217. The only time Trumpers care about a gun crime is if Hunter Biden was involved. Then suddenly they pretend to care about law and order. The rest of the time? Crickets.
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  11218. You can tell Trumpanzees by the way they howled in rage when Obama committed the unconstitutional crimes of wearing a tan suit, using mustard, or trying to seat Merrick Garland a whole 8 months before an election - which, they said, is much too soon. Then when Trump tries to sue states that aren't voting for him, they shrug and say he's the law and order president. These people are either heavily medicated, heavily propagandized, or got dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  11219. Tacopina is just the latest in a long line of "attorneys" who have not only torched their own careers for Trump, but who probably isn't getting paid for it either! He's going to be doing some fine whining in a month or two.
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  11220. It was 680 days from the 1/6 insurrection to when AG Garland appointed a special prosecutor. He gave the coup plotters quite the head start over the forces of justice and freedom :(
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  11221. Ahh, there goes "free speech bro" finally showing his true F-face.
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  11222.  @ArialAElise  Don't say it out loud, he might read it and think it's a good idea :(
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  11223.  @trinitytwo14992  Putting that anti-science nut Mike "pray the gay away" Pence in charge of fighting the virus is like putting Luddites in charge of NASA.
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  11224. So they're worried, are they? Well, they had THREE LONG YEARS to reign in their little bunker-boy Dimwit Donnie every time he did something stupid, illegal, immoral, or detrimental to the long-term interests of America and the American people. The horse isn't just out of the barn .. the barn is on fire.
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  11225. "Minions" is a good word for them, and it's a good thing that the USA has lots of prison space. We can accommodate them as they process the facts (the actual facts, not the alternative facts, that is) one at a time as they rot in jail for attempted insurrection. And that's being kind to them.
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  11226. Clump45 has made the peddling of his lies into a purity test for party membership. That being said, they deserve to be tossed from their political responsibilities for their support of his lies, for whatever reason.
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  11227. The difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the golf pro doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it.
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  11228. Those dudes are the world's dumbest useful idiots. They got suckered into doing the #1 thing that will cause normal people to look at it and think, Wtf, we need better gun laws. Out in the real world, responsible gun owners use them for target shooting, hunting, or carrying concealed. Not for walking into the coffee shop as if you're under fire in Mogadishu.
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  11229. Huh. In his long diatribe against the US federal government, governor DeSantis somehow neglected to mention that Florida receives more federal monies in benefits than it pays out in taxes. In other words, Florida is a net taker of federal money. Odd how that slipped his mind 😅
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  11230. To be fair to Cheeto, he only meant that birthright citizenship should be denied to brown/black people. As some of you may recall, Cheeto used to make money off hosting visiting, pregnant Russians so that they could give birth on US soil and thereby have US citizenship. "Wealthy Russians are flocking to give birth at Trump’s luxury US resorts so their kids can have dual-citizenship" Harriet Pavey 7 September 2017 While President Trump cracks down on the children of undocumented migrants, wealthy Russians are using his properties to secure dual-citizenship for their babies. The President's Florida properties are a Russian birth tourism hotspot, according to a Daily Beast investigation. Trump resorts are a popular choice for birth tourism companies, who offer luxury holidays to help expectant Russian parents secure dual Russian and American citizenship for their baby by giving birth in the US. Russian birth tourism companies are offering Trump apartments as part of packages costing £57,000 ($75,000) plus, as well as medical care, the Daily Beast found. Status-Med, a Miami birth tourism company, offers a Trump Royale penthouse apartment for £5,300 ($7,000) a month alongside full access to the Sunny Medical Centre, which organises both beach yoga, get-togethers and medical care for expectant mothers.
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  11231. Watching Ben Shapiro trying to argue something is like watching a 25cc go-kart with a broken transaxle .. the tiny engine is all wound up but they're not going anywhere.
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  11232.  @JohnMoran  Years ago = the Merrick Garland thing that happened in March, 2016. You think 2016 is 2020? Go howl at the moon, peabrain.
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  11233. If Trump wants to win the election in a landslide, it's simple, all he needs to do is hop in the time machine, warp back to 2016, and tell his younger self to stop lying all the time, to stop breaking laws all the time, to work hard at being a decent and compassionate person, and for fcck's sake not to ignore the virus that comes along in 2020.
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  11234. Saint Darwin is taking him own. Let's offer our condolences. Thoughts & prayers.
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  11235. He STILL cannot admit that he said what he openly said on TV last week. His only choice now is to apologize and resign, but he's not adult enough to do either, which is why he's banned from my screens and devices. A nobody and a nothing, like the Christchurch shooter whose name isn't even mentioned.
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  11236. Tampering with voting machines? Lock up, throw away key.
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  11237.  @gordonchell4364  Re "What exactly has he done to earn this much loyalty? Nothing!" BINGO. His followers whine about how the rich people of the world abuse them. They say that's why they voted for him. But he's one of the same rich people doing the abusing - he doesn't pay his share of taxes, he doesn't pay mom-and-pop contractors, and he offshores the production of his trinkets.
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  11238. I love watching the whining of the Trumpanzees. It's as if they're trying to blame the sinking of the Trumptanic on water entering the ship illegally, rather than the captain being dumb enough to ram an iceberg.
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  11239. Oh dear god :(
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  11240. The US tests at only 38.6 per thousand, ranking #39 among nations in that regard. If we tested as much as Italy does (52.4 per thousand) we would probably find more cases.
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  11241. Trump reached out and found the Americans who share the same psychoses as him - anger, spite, persecution complexes, entitlement, hypocrisy, delusions of grandeur, narcissism, etc.
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  11242. Russians have already admitted that their own stuff explodes or burns all on its own.
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  11243. @margaret lamb Here they are again. 165K deaths and climbing here in the USA. And our Black Knight brigade is chanting, "It's just a flesh wound."
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  11244. The funny part is, Greene isn't even a Jeffrey Clark - and the best thing anyone ever said to him was, "You're an environmental lawyer. Why don't you go back to your office, and we'll call you if there's an oil spill."
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  11245.  Suicide by Muslim  Considering how they were "protecting" George Floyd (or that 75yo pacifist in Buffalo), no thanks, I'll handle that myself.
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  11246. This reminds of that time when Nicolae Ceausescu started getting booed in public. Not long after, he got a free one-way trip to the basement.
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  11247. She needs to change her name to Dr Mengele. It would be more appropriate.
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  11248. He's a red dwarf, fading into a black hole. It's physics, it's inevitable.
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  11249. Ahh, the dangers of using economic & political "solutions" on perceived social problems. At least Brits can now rest assured that illegal immigrant labor isn't so much of a problem anymore.
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  11250. I hope he only lives long enough to see his loss in the coming election. And I'm not saying this out of any meanness towards Trump, but a desire to see him not harm America even more during the lame duck session. Pence hasn't got the same pull over the reich-wing militias and Proud Mamas Boys nutters, and he apparently wouldn't even hurt a fly. Trump on the other hand will make as bad a mess as possible just to punish America for not voting for him.
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  11251. Conversely, real traitors wear tacky Trump merch when they're storming the capitol because their guy lost the election.
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  11252.  @one4truth236  He's come a long ways. Remember this? “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  11253. Yah :( that kind of measure is just beyond batsh*t insane :( Couldn't these people just move to Somalia instead of trying to make American democracy die a painful death?
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  11254. OP - correction - millions of religious Americans would like to shove their religious agenda down everyone's pants, whether they like it or not, and in America the church and the state are separate. If you don't like abortion, don't have any abortions. It's that simple. Your freedoms end where another's begin and vice versa.
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  11255. Putin is using Hitler's terms of speech. It's kind of funny considering that he's the one who invaded another country in order to impose his unwelcome will on the place. And in another fit of WW2 irony, German-made tanks may soon be rolling into Ukraine - to repel Russian forces.
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  11256. Those schmuck moron protesters? Gobsmack them with the maximum penalty for public endangerment. Find an adult patient enough to explain to those 'tards that there's a dangerous public health emergency happening.
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  11257. It won't take long for the cult to find another Hitler- and Putin-loving candidate. Seems that to them, hating democracy and loving autocrats is how you best win their vote :(
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  11258.  @cspdx11  "Supposedly you are all safe and vaccinated so why do you care if others are or not" Funny you should ask that, when the answer is so obvious: the biggest danger to unvaccinated people is other unvaccinated people.
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  11259.  @pantheonastrology9020  "enjoy the karma of willingly participating in tyranny" << Sounds like you stopped taking your anti-psychotic meds again. The cool thing is, the new variants from India are here already, so maybe that's nature's way of giving humanity a little pass/fail IQ test, or letting the trash take itself out.
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  11260.  @williamswenson5315  Trump's getting his wish. Show fewer new cases by testing less. It's going to work about as well as ending teen pregnancy by not testing for it :(
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  11261.  @thecook8964  The hospital bills alone (from the illnesses that will inevitably result) will drown any profits made off the event, but the costs will be transferred everywhere - American predatory capitalism strikes again.
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  11262. Not at all. US reichwing media merely paint it as such. Very little airtime, legislation time, or speech time get given to the 0.5% of people (trans folks) who are Trump's favorite boogeyman at the current moment. And yet, reich wingers see it behind every mailbox and telephone pole.
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  11263. Yes he has. Let's tune in to the Biden inauguration on Jan 20th.
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  11264.  @icontrolmythoughts4712  What proof have you of that? Crickets. Pull your head out. Or don't. Lately I've harvested enough MAGA tears to sell the stuff as springwater by the gallon.
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  11265.  @Stratus6  Looks like a lot of Ohio people remembered when a 10yo rape victim had to travel out of state to avoid a "criminal abortion".
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  11266. The poorly educated are going to go through some things, to say it like Tr*mp.
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  11267.  @somewhatdamaged2946  Well, there's that Canadian woman who tried to mail some poison to Trump. She never claimed she was threatening him, however.
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  11268. To the OP from Europe - the USA is in the process of getting a lesson in the difference between free speech rights and the 'rights' of the town's serial arsonist to continue playing with matches and gasoline while muttering threats as long as he is careful not to do the dirty himself. Charles Manson (the infamous cult leader) never participated in murder, but he served life in prison nonetheless. Similar situation with the stochastic terrorism Trump incites.
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  11269. But then, true Republicans (the old-fashioned kind) didn't celebrate July 4th in Moscow like these ones - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html
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  11270. These Republicans seem happy with their goal of a one-party state. I don't think any of them have ever lived in one. Perhaps sometime we can deport the lot of them to North Korea or China so they can experience for themselves how wonderful one-party states really are.
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  11271.  @oscar7135  They're worse than dumb; they're completely misled. They're similar to the nutters who screech that Biden is lying by not saying that the earth is really flat like they know it is! PCR tests are actually pretty good.
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  11272.  Keith Schick  There ya go, brandishing the label "socialist", when there was no systematic move afoot for the workers to seize the means of production -- which, if your pea brain had been educated in the slightest, you'd know as the quintessential feature of socialism.
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  11273.  Keith Schick  Love that random capitalization. Hint: it's not a mark of educated folks, but the opposite. You just proved what I said above. You satirized yourself without even knowing it.
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  11274.  Keith Schick  Didn't take long for your short fuse to burn out.
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  11275. Send LOTS more Stingers and Javelins. Send in the Reaper drones to show Putin some nice hot love.
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  11276. He's still got two and a half months to pour gasoline on fires everywhere. Whether his own administration goes along with that plan is another thing.
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  11277. OP - correct. Trump is looking for some easy victory to brag about. Trouble is, there aren't any such easy things available, and everyone abroad remembers how easily misled he is. Unfortunately Trump is still daydreaming about that brief golden age in the US economy for the years right after WW2, when the rest of the world had been bombed to pieces, and no one else had an intact manufacturing base.
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  11278. I feel my Raytheon stock going up already :(
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  11279. Trump loyalists, obviously. And that's probably why Tuberville is holding so many top positions open in the military.
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  11280. Which parts of Australia do you want to pray for? Sure not their Quislings who have been busy spreading the virus.
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  11281. Oh look, another idiot troll trying to imply that $800 million is the US budget. Works out to $2.42 per American citizen, spread out over all 330 million people.
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  11282. Please tell me that the DOJ is not hands-off on political crimes .. because if that's the case, we won't have a nation much longer. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%. That's where the GQP is these days.
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  11283.  @wingabouts  Thought folks might like this long but detailed video on the 1918 pandemic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDY5COg2P2c
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  11284. Notice how Cheeto's culties never offer any actual evidence. Huh.
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  11285. Or at least return her $160K/year salary, since all she did was constantly lie and cover up for her psycho criminal boss all that time. She can jump into a car crusher to apologize.
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  11286. Show him some love, send in the A-10s. They love eating tanks for breakfast.
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  11287. The Trumps know that if justice ever comes for them, what they did in four years will put them all away for a long time. Hence their continued preoccupation with insurrection and overturning the 2020 election. The scope of their wrongs has barely begun to come out.
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  11288. Fox deserves some blame too for misinforming people for the last few decades.
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  11289. It's going to get worse. When their status as a minority party is obvious, and when gerrymandering fails to keep them in power, they'll suddenly decide that letting citizens have guns isn't a good thing. They've already kissed the rule of law bye-bye, which is a clue that much worse things are in the works if they remain in power.
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  11290. You people are all being so mean to Trump. Why, back when he had to work with Cryin’ Chuck and Lyin’ Ted, Crazy Bernie and Pocahontas, Dicky Durbin and Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flakey and Liddle Bob Corker, all Trump wanted was just a little basic respect. /sarc
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  11291. You can tell Trumpanzees by the way they howled in rage when Obama committed the unconstitutional crimes of wearing a tan suit, using mustard, or trying to seat Merrick Garland a whole 8 months before an election - which, they said, is much too soon. Then when Trump tries to sue states that aren't voting for him, they shrug and say he's the law and order president. These people are either heavily medicated, heavily propagandized, or got dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  11292. One whole major political party is almost entirely just fine with what Trump is doing. Huh.
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  11293. It's good of these guys to fess up, but there were many many more who helped put a Russian asset into the white house where he could steal classified information. There needs to be an investigation into how this happened.
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  11294. Here in America, people who fund terrorism are considered just as guilty as those who commit terrorism. Buyer's remorse much? Sheldon Adelson at least had the sense to see which way the wind was going to blow .. he clocked out just days after the failed coup.
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  11295. Trump is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is like. That's how he sells his schtik to idiots. Not so much so to the rest of us.
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  11296. "Military tribunals" is conservative code for the sort of atrocities that the Ukrainians are finding in the wake of retreating Russian forces.
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  11297. Never has it been wise to say on your resume that you worked in the Trump administration .. but finally it's obvious why. As if Sean Spicer's futile job search wasn't a clue. In the future, saying that you worked in this administration might be like meaning that they want you at the Hague to answer questions about Trump's crimes against humanity.
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  11298.  @maxinel1776 They have only themselves to blame for thinking a serial con artist, serial bankrupter, adulterer, liar, narcissistic, nepotistic slumlord would make a fine president. Lindsey warned them. Many did.
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  11299. About FakeBook (or Wastebook) it is the #1 source for misinformation on vaccines, gravity, politics, and everything else. And Zuck makes a lot of money off all that clicking.
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  11300. Leslie Van Houten (another cult member from another time) also had trouble mouthing the words that her cult leader had broken the law.
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  11301. It's been 316 days since the November election. Not a shred of evidence has stood up in court to support their BS about a stolen election. It's been 238 days since president Biden's inauguration. The only question is, how far will Republicans go in trying to burn down the country just to please Dolt45's whims? By now it should be obvious that plunging the country into decades of bloodshed and violence would make him deliriously happy.
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  11302. Seeing as how comrade Tяump is merely fixing part of the mess he created himself with that ill-advised trade war, I give him -5 points for this. The TPP, which he pulled out of because Obama had something to do with it, would have provided the US with the framework to address all concerns.
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  11303. Update from Oregon, USA. One of the largest supermarket chains here on Monday had a sign up saying certain items are limited to 4 per family through the end of April: hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes, bleach, disinfectant spray. By Wednesday the same week (just two days later) the limit was expanded to include bottled water, gloves, masks, soap.
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  11304. Here's another disturbing thought: Dolt45-loving teachers in Floridastan and Texastan will be echoing the anti-vax anti-mask sentiments of their governors.
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  11305. That orc tea must be laced with something :( Ukraine is going to keep getting progressively more lethal weapons aid from the west until there are no more Russian forces in Ukraine territories. And then they'll join NATO and armed with the best of what the west has to offer. Russians go home, while ye still can. Your days in Ukraine are numbered.
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  11306.  @k.k356  Plus they're going to get removed from those areas by later in the summer anyway. Russia needs to be made to understand that there is no upper limit on how much the west will arm Ukraine to drive out those war-criminal invaders.
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  11307.  @PhilLesh69  Yah. Russia still hasn't figured out how to take anything without suffering massive losses in the process. And they still suffer from the demographic hits of WW2. Losing young men now is a very bad thing for the future of Russia.
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  11308.  @courcheval  Actually you are wrong on a bunch of vectors there. For starters, Covid wasn't a Chinese bio-weapon any more than the 1918 pandemic was an American bio-weapon. For another, less than 2% of US covid deaths occurred in the 35-and-under age bracket, which is the max age for US military recruitment. Thank you for painting your ignorance so visibly ;)
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  11309. Did Javanka mention by chance, just as an aside, that Daddy bought out the Supreme Corp so that all his personal legal matters can be settled there once and for all?
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  11310. Glad to see someone finally asking Zuckerberg the hard questions. I left FB awhile back because of their pro-white-supremacist pro-conspiracy-theory bias. Wish everyone else would treat them like the third rate propaganda service they are.
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  11311.  @ak5659  If they could roll that far west, I'm not sure Putin's forces would stop at the borders of France.
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  11312. Not sure how the "healing" thing will work when a sizeable minority of the country is hooked on racism and angertainment. Those people need to come back to reality and it's not clear that they even want to.
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  11313. About those previous Chinese spy balloon intrusions on Trump's wash - I just want to know how much he charged them per visit. Or maybe it was quid pro quo for greenlighting Ivanka's many trademark applications.
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  11314. And it's not as if the Republicans don't have millions willing to lie for Trump. So what if they found a few agents who will gladly be mouthpieces for Trump's lies. BFD.
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  11315.  @christopherjames7477  Hehe, Russian trolls are getting paid a lot less these days. There's still room to further diminish the value of the ruble. They'll have to post 300x as often as before just to make ramen money ;)
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  11316.  @paulschulte1064  See the NDAs he requires certain folks to sign. Nothing to hide, my ass. Sensitive to criticism, just not as much as Hair Fuhrer.
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  11317. I don't suppose this means Republicans in the house will now invalidate Bill Clinton's impeachment (since his actions & behavior in the office are now off limits) or that they'll stop soliciting false witnesses to "catch" president Biden in some imaginary crime? They've tried that a couple times already.
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  11318. I'm shocked, I tell you, absolutely shocked over what could happen when CNN gives matches and gasoline to the most prolific arsonist in America. Who could have seen that coming?
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  11319.  @civildiscourse2000  For some reason, I do not think the trumpies are going to just sit around and wait for their inevitable election loss. Guessing they have an August or October surprise planned. Remember how the Spanish Civil War of the 30s began - Spanish right-wingers refused to accept their 1936 election losses.
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  11320. Explain again where the white house allegedly "endorsed" threats against SCOTUS. (hint, they didn't)
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  11321. At the present time, the Republican party is defined as the subset of American politicians susceptible to the "charms" (such as they are) of the angry vindictive none-too-bright orange guy. Here's to hoping that the pied piper and his lemmings go find a cliff.
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  11322. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it!
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  11323. He's now the oldest candidate in US history .. and shortly the GOP will pivot to saying that old age isn't a problem.
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  11324. Waiting for Trump to unleash the "send them back" sentiments on anyone of color who he doesn't like. Won't be long now :(
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  11325. There's nothing in the constitution allowing a minority group of partisan whackjobs to hold back election results just because they don't like the way the people voted.
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  11326. It's about time that Team Crazy started getting swatted down for the way they've been yelling "Fire!" in the crowded theatre for almost two years now, motivating thousands of America's dumbest into taking up arms against their own nation.
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  11327. It's already started. President-elect Biden is a long ways ahead of Trump on this.
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  11328. Unfortunately Australia was not able to move the vaccination needle much during the phase when last year's kinder, gentler strains of covid were easier to keep at bay through snap lockdowns and quarantines. Delta is a whole nother thing. Delta can spread much faster than vaccination efforts can be ramped up.
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  11329. Not much vaccine acceptance in the shallow end of the gene pool, which is sad but there's not much we can do. Saint Darwin's gene pool cleaning service will take care of that.
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  11330.  @tomasneel1980  by Martha Bellisle 3/19/25 SEATTLE (AP) — Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump, but many worry that mass federal worker firings will leave the nation more vulnerable to wildfires. The permanent pay raise comes as Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut about 3,400 workers at the U.S. Forest Service, about 1,000 at the National Park Service and another 1,000 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many of those workers kept trails free of debris, oversaw prescribed burns, thinned forests and were specially trained to work with firefighters. They say staffing cuts threaten public safety, especially in the West, where drier and hotter conditions linked to climate change have increased the intensity of wildfires.
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  11331. Aaaaaand there's reason #397 for deleting Wastebook off your devices, closing the account, and reformatting from scratch.
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  11332. The creepy incel dude might get laid more often if he wasn't getting his social cues from 4chan and Return of Kings.
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  11333. Trump's vindictiveness against Cali is not hard to understand .. he is still mad that California's 55 electors (and the population, by 8.7 million vs 4.4 million) voted for Clinton and not for him. Even now, years later, Trump's ego is still nursing a grudge over that.
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  11334. Wow. I had forgotten what it's like to listen to a president who's not a bloviating sack of sh*t flaking out like a teen drama queen over the latest insult on Twitter.
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  11335.  Hank Voight  Better call a waaaaaahmbulance, buddy. Get that noggin checked out.
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  11336. True story: I once saw a guy on the sidewalk, at a busy intersection, with a nicely-painted sign showing an angry Trump face and the words, "Every time someone gives me money, Trump loses his mind". Gave that guy a $20 :)
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  11337. No doubt the ghost of Al Capone is regretting not being a Republican politician. Doing so would have allowed him to claim that the IRS investigation [of his tax fraud] was just "a partisan witch hunt" and therefore an excuse to ignore the law.
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  11338. It is not too hard to imagine a future in which the people of two generations younger than Greta Thunberg are really cheesed at the previous generations. We all know the numbers for sea level rise if all of the landlocked ice were to melt.
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  11339.  @paulsam6537  "The US and NATO are making things worse" << Shy of rolling over and handing Putin the keys to the west, what could NATO and the US do to make things better for Putin? Putin is in a box of his own making. Guy needs a reverse gear.
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  11340.  @paulsam6537  Re "Why is NATO becoming allies with countries around Russia" << Apparently you suffer from the same dense misunderstanding as Putin. Rephrase the question: Why do former Soviet satellites seek to join NATO? Could it be the way Putin is overly eager to have them return to their former status as doormats to the Soviet Union? Could it be the way Russia tends to aggressively interfere with their elections (as happened in the US) in order to install some friendly puppet president who then invites Russian military forces into the country? Could it be the way Putin sees himself as a hammer and everyone/everything else as a nail? NATO doesn't expand; nations choose on their own to join NATO. Huge difference.
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  11341.  @paulsam6537  Re "I wonder why. America is the most corrupt" << Considering that you're shilling for Putin right now, your statement is pretty funny. And considering that 100 rubles don't even buy you a dollar, you need to post more nonsense if you want to eat even ramen this week.
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  11342.  @davidclark1566  One of the ones I remember well was this older Boomer woman who stood up at a Steve Bannon rally and said that she thinks Trump should be dictator. You have to wonder at that. Here's someone who was raised in the protective system of America, where normally all institutions fight against that kind of nonsense, and she wants to destroy that very same system that has protected her all her life. I suppose there's always some discontent minority who'd be happy to burn everything down to make up for what they feel to be slights or insults over the years - and that's exactly why no sane country allows a leader who acts as a lightning rod to those types.
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  11343. This is so sad. The governor is probably tired of fighting the rural crazies who imagine they know better. Just wait 3-4 months and those same counties will have covid rates going through the roof, not to mention all the infected teachers, bus drivers, etc. Then there'll be another shutdown all over again. FFS.
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  11344.  @waynew3884  Freedom riders? The folks who went into segregated places to register voters?
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  11345.  @waynew3884  Too many people try looking at the term "consistency" from the POV of a human. They need to try looking at it from the point-of-view of the virus. This has nothing to do with politics. For each normal pre-covid human activity, you can derive a "how easily could the virus spread from person to person" factor that's dependent on the following variables: - Is it indoors? - Are there people from different households there? - How good is the air circulation? - How close do people get to each other? - How long are random people in the close presence of each other? Supermarkets, and other large stores that can afford to upgrade their air circulation, are doing mostly OK in terms of not spreading the virus from customer to customer. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the workers in those places. IF you're going to complain about masked outdoor riots not being shut down, at least be fair and complain that Trump's superspreader rallies, and the Proud Boyz marches, weren't shut down either. The reason they weren't shut down (even though in some cases they violated local health measures re masks & distancing) was that political free speech is protected in the first amendment of the constitution. The authorities have had to make some hard decisions. I credit governor Brown for keeping Oregon in the lowest 5 states for covid rates. Unless we're prepared to deliver food to everyone's homes (as China did during the worst of their lockdown back in Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr) we must keep those stores open. But everything else should probably stay closed. The alternative is going to look like 3000, then 5000 or more deaths per day.
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  11346. Trump's only as dangerous as his violence-prone cult followers. The rest of us can stand back and stand by.
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  11347.  @veganpotterthevegan  Sounds ideal that the GOP would nominate a crazy who will utterly fail in the general election. The crazies push out the sane ones .. look how they treated Liz Cheney for (of all things) adhering to the law.
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  11348.  @karenrhoads1598  Guessing not. The ones who call for political violence, for overturning elections, for suspending the constitution, etc, seem to have no inkling that their choices could bring about conditions like those in Haiti or Somalia. They and theirs would not be safe from it.
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  11349. It remains to be seen if our nation must put some of those people into therapy, into prison, or whether we should give them plenty of remedial history & civics classes, or make them tour the Auschwitz museum to see exactly what fascism does and how they were manipulated into supporting it, or whether we should just transport them to the nearest border and tell them not to come back, ever.
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  11350. The passage of time may have softened the memories of some, but thankfully Trump will dispel that notion almost immediately if given a platform. This is a good thing.
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  11351. His supporters are the same people who spent 8 years screeching that the sky was about to fall any second (Jade Helm, Agenda21, chemtrails, Benghazi, Sharia law, waaaaaah) and never once noticing that none of those things were real. They got divorced from reality quite awhile back. And now we know that around 30% of our population would vote for a guy who checks off every box on the list of "characteristics of fascism".
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  11352.  @ripvanwinkle4532  So you think only "wacko loons" would want to keep as many Americans as possible from dying from the virus? Wow, you're even more of a traitor than I had thought. Or just a psychopath who wants to see lots of dead everywhere.
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  11353.  @mzny4314  If the Trumptards want to gather together and infect each other, well, that's their freedumb to do so. Where they cross the line is when they take it home to their family, friends, community, workplaces, healthcare providers, etc. If they want to go form their own Slab City type post-apocalyptic gathering out in the desert afterwards, so that only they suffer from their infections, well, that would be great. Without decent medical care the mortality rate is around 20% for this disease.
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  11354.  @ripvanwinkle4532  For a guy who advocates cutting the crap, you just dumped a truckload of manure out on the sidewalk. Trump and his sycophants have mismanaged this thing so badly that even reverend Al Sharpton would win this election with Bill Cosby as a running mate. And Biden is a lot more palatable than either of those, especially to a nation that's way past being weary of Trump's constant lies & self-promotion.
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  11355.  @NothinginMind503  You misunderstand the purpose of the simple (non medical grade) mask, which is to cut down on the level of droplet emission when people breathe and especially when they talk. When everyone wears masks, virus transmission is much reduced.
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  11356.  @colognearmy4506  70 patients in Baghdad? That trial?
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  11357.  @TheKeswani  The Flat Earth society people use that same phrase, "the debate is over". You chose your words better than you realize.
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  11358.  @mimibergerac7792  When you need to resort to conspiracy-theory thinking to "prove" your point, you haven't got much of a point. They teach that in the very first class.
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  11359.  @davidjohnpaul333  The kool-aid is strong.
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  11360.  @davidjohnpaul333  You guys are hilarious. Seriously. What's it going to be next? Flaxseed oil? This is better humour than you realize.
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  11361. Just like the "peace deal" in Afghanistan totally excluded the Afghan people and government. Just like the "Palestinian peace deal" completely left Palestinians out of the negotiations. Just like the way North Korea is still refining enriched uranium like they've been doing for years despite the "beautiful letters".
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  11362. Oh yes, our little Nazi barbie doll and her indexed binder full of lies. How she wears that "T" for the rest of her sorry life.
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  11363.  @curiousnerdkitteh  Trump doesn't take lessons - but he gives lessons. Ask Susan Collins about that sometime 😂
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  11364.  @johnwattdotca  Remember how one of the first things Trump did was dissolve the Office of Government Ethics back in 2017?
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  11365. Thanks to Trump bringing out the worst in people, we now know how many of our fellow Americans, and even which ones, are the low-hanging fruit for the next authoritarian wannabe-dictator who promises to run the trains on time if only they let him purge all the undesirables. Germany got a harsh lesson on this topic already, let's not repeat it here please.
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  11366. Although Trump claims not to know Lev Parnas, the recording shows the US president taking Mr Parnas so seriously that in just 20 seconds he goes from not knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed, all based on one (1) person's point of view - someone he claims not to know.
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  11367.  @normapenetta5940  My worst fear? They're going to just let the can roll down the road, and not release any decision until January 19, 2025.
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  11368. Plenty of conservatives will tell you that they own guns to prevent the US from being taken over by a tyrant .. and plenty of those same conservatives were ready to help Drumpf put an end to democracy in America :(
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  11369. In similar fashion, Trump still won't admit he lost the 2020 election. He feels it would make him look weak.
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  11370. As I feared, the world is splitting up into the BRU countries (Brazil, Russia, USA) that cannot or will not control their epidemics, and everyone else. Those "everyone else" nations aren't going to let their people come here; won't want to send their ship crews here; won't want to buy our possibly-tainted food products; won't send their kids here for our Duck Dynasty level education and culture; won't want to get into treaties or alliances with us; and eventually won't use our currency for international transactions.
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  11371. Well, you know, that's kind of funny. So many of those pro-2A types claim that their guns are to prevent tyranny. Yet when the actual test came (Trump tried to end democracy, and establish tyranny on 1/6/21, after his election loss) so many were there rooting for the tyrant. And the legislators who claim to be pro-2A for this very same reason? None of them took out personal firearms to help repel the traitors.
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  11372. The G6 will meet at a place and manner of their choosing. Wussolini is not in charge of it.
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  11373. Because they're trying to hurt America, and they know it. Their actions lead to more hospitalizations, more lives interrupted, more deaths, a prolonged pandemic, and so on. They're really just Quislings. Every nation has them, people so full of rancor that they hate their own nation. Just didn't know we had so many of them.
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  11374. Hope this doesn't make it to the supreme corp, and hope justice Beerbong is gone by then. He can be impeached or removed by other means.
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  11375. A friendly reminder .. humanity has never developed any "herd immunity" to the common cold, the seasonal flu, chickenpox, smallpox, cowpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, anemia, ulcers, hepatitus, bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diptheria, typhoid, varicella, rabies, encephalitis, yellow fever, or anything else. Governor DeathSantis is still going "full Sweden" long after Sweden stopped that idiotic policy all because it was killing too many people.
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  11376. It's not a matter of opening too soon, it's a matter of failing to REQUIRE absolutely EVERYONE to wear masks in public and forget about bars and sit-down restaurants for the time being. If and when people gather indoors, the virus will spread.
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  11377. All it took was a question about attending the Biden inauguration. Trump has come a long ways since (if anyone remembers this) he said he would charge into a school shooting unarmed. Pull the other one. He dodged the draft 5x. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-would-have-run-florida-school-n851266
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  11378.  @rendafranker7088  Regarding "You need someone to tell you what to do" << Oh sure. Sarcasm. In the same way I need someone to tell me not to jump in front of a moving train, or tell me not to stick my head into a meat grinder, I need someone to tell me to take the vaccine. Failing to take it is like failing to grab a lifejacket when you're drowning. But then, if you're that stupid, the only way you can help humanity is probably by removing yourself from the gene pool.
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  11379. Nixon tried using the attorney general as his private lawyer for similar reasons - and he ended up doing jail time as a result. Barr needs worse since he's done worse.
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  11380. Does Putin pay Trump some kind of bounty on American civilian deaths???
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  11381. People like her are why I don't go to TJ's. Winco is more my speed.
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  11382. Unfortunately, history shows that when there's a leader spewing hateful rhetoric (remember how the El Paso shooter quoted Trump verbatim in his manifesto?) there's usually some kind of "final solution" being undertaken elsewhere, out of sight.
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  11383. Why bother? It's more fun to watch him flail about with the shopworn lies. Plus there's the delicious irony of the Republicans forcing themselves to carry a failing candidate to term.
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  11384. "They were about to interrupt a Pride celebration" is as good a cover story as any for picking up a bunch of Proud Boys / Oaf Tweakers / militia types. After what we now know about the Jan 6 shenanigans last year, and how the voted-out Former Guy used those types as his foot soldiers for the attack on the Capitol, why not round them all up.
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  11385.  ForageGardener  You may wish to check out the World Population Review page on that subject (homelessness rate) as well as the wiki page. Sorting by high values, homeless rate per 10K population, the following countries rank higher than the USA: Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Greece, Luxembourg, Australia, France, UK, Canada, Turkey, New Zealand, Mexico. As an interesting note, Mexico is ranked #3 at 1,111 homeless per 10K (11%), Canada is ranked #36 at 62.5 per 10K (0.625%), and the US is ranked #55 at 19.5 per 10K (0.195%).
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  11386. Let's hope that the contingency plans being worked out now are not the same ones as Trump secretly passed on to his Moscow handler.
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  11387. It's called intelligence. Listening to the chatter. Putin didn't want to hear it. So we went public with it to warn as many people as possible.
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  11388. Here is a video that gives some window into how they think. It implies that the "grassroots" right is planning on a campaign of destabilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJh7Ye1Qvc8
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  11389. You don't fight arson by burning down more buildings, sorry, that's not how it works.
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  11390. Trump's fanbase is exactly the same people who spent 8 long years filling our feeds with the worst, patently-made-up-5-seconds-ago nonsense about Obama. Guessing they were trained to be that way (listen to what nonsense FOXed Noise tells you, ignore everything else) even before Obama came along, but I'm not sure exactly when or how. Those people are absolutely convinced they survived Obama by the skin of their teeth, with him supposedly banning "merry christmas" and wanting to force everyone to live under sharia law. None of that ever happened, or was even tried, but noooooooooooooo they still want to feel like the victims.
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  11391. I prefer to think that president Biden would be a mostly benign ruler, if that were to happen. He might even use his new powers to deal with that particularly loathesome group of traitors who tried to overturn the 2020 election in the name of the loser, Trump.
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  11392. I LOVE the US military for this - they're refusing to give Trump the send-off that presidents usually get. He's not doing anything he should (conceding his loss, working with the incoming administration, being there for the ceremony, keeping Americans from dying of a disease, etc) so they're returning the favor: https://www.mediaite.com/news/pentagon-confirms-military-will-not-hold-traditional-farewell-ceremony-for-trump/
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  11393. Someday people will come to realize the folly of electing someone who uses the "14 characteristics of fascism" meme as a to-do list.
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  11394.  @nancychandler3673  Behold the power of a cult leader over their weak-willed sheeple :(
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  11395. What killed it was also the people who voted Democrat downballot but could not bring themselves to vote for the prosecutor over the felon. They have a million excuses. "Kamala won't be harsh enough on Israel" - so instead they'll see Trump give Israel the green light to do much worse. "I've had friends picked up by the cops" - so this means you can't vote for a prosecutor. And so on.
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  11396. What Smerco can or cannot see is his own business. Betcha he didn't see Trump's massive election loss coming either ;)
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  11397. Any second now, minority leader McConnell will pipe up that 22 months before the midterm election is much, much too soon to seat any judges.
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  11398. We're going to find out soon enough if that particular "hire court", the supremes, are still in on a plan to put Felon45 into power somehow. Guessing they want to swoop in once MAGA Mikey refuses to certify 45's loss.
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  11399. The call us "snowflakes" for disagreeing with them. Surprise, m*therf*ckers, there's going to be a blizzard. Be there, will be wild.
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  11400. @Jack Stefan Once again you choose to parade your ignorance for all to see. Even plain, non-N95 masks significantly cut down on one person sharing their droplets with another - and that's how this thing primarily spreads. Here are the actual numbers for how dangerous the regular flu is - and that's something we have vaccines and partial herd immunity to. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza-pneumonia/by-country/ Numbers are in deaths per 100K. Italy's flu deaths are typically 8.15 per 100K .. but for corona their death rate is 43.6 per 100K and rising every day. The USA is normally at 14.91 flu deaths from the flu, but we're already at 16.4 corona deaths and rising. Do you not have any ability to use the net to gather actual facts to inform your beliefs or something?
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  11401. @Jack Stefan More perspective along the same lines. NY state is already at 111.7 deaths per 100K from corona. This may sound cruel, but I believe you would be doing society a favor by going out and licking convenience store door handles and shopping cart handles. Sanitize these things afterwards please. Your departure will lift humanity's IQ a tiny bit.
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  11402. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now."
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  11403. I like to think of Trump as the frozen fire hydrant the Republicans just cannot resist licking. Or maybe the rope they can't resist hanging themselves with.
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  11404. I keep hoping that Biden will troll the Republicans by wearing a tan suit one of these days and saying how much he likes Dijon mustard.
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  11405.  @TheEvilQueenHasSpoken  Death by GPS maybe. Perhaps at some point in the past, google maps showed it as a road. I've been on a few like that. Scary at night :(
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  11406. There's no understanding of why some chickens continue to vote for colonel Sanders. Don't waste your time trying to understand them. They're like NPC's with no capacity for self-reflection.
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  11407. Doesn't matter if there's no law against it. Cheeto was very clear about how he's in this for retribution. Cheeto was very clear about how he wanted to be a dictator.
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  11408.  @paulfletcher3998  Bingo. In order to accuse governor Newsom of mismanaging water resources.
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  11409. Red states and Red China have more than just that in common.
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  11410. Left it years ago. Fakebook / Wastebook / AttentionWhoreBook.
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  11411.  @rayvanham4579  Funny how Trump goes from not knowing who the ambassador is, to saying she should be fired, all in 20 seconds. No wonder Putin enjoys spinning Trump's weathervane head around :( Remember when Erdogan did that to him about the Syria withdrawal thing? Putin shares him like a cheap cigar.
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  11412.  @rayvanham4579  Err, the only thing most of us are "indoctrinated" by is factual reality - which you seem to be extremely averse to. Perhaps you need meds?
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  11413.  @rayvanham4579  I see your Cirque du Lame talking points and I offer you this. Betcha you have not seen any of this in whatever "news" you watch: No Obama investigations. No Obama Special Counsel investigations. No Obama administration indictments. No drama... Obama. Hillary Clinton Benghazi "Investigation" 4 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Hillary Clinton Email "Investigation" 2 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts) Let me know if you want to discuss the relationship between smoke and fire sometime.
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  11414. Hitler too had a kangaroo court to do his bidding. Sounds like some of our own SCOTUS justices have been getting new robes fitted for their role in that kind of court :(
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  11415. If you took the lies out of everything the Republicans say, there wouldn't be much left. Just a few instances of "the" and "and".
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  11416. If Adolph Trump didn't need the votes of expat Puerto Ricans, he'd be happy to continue withholding relief money for the disaster of THREE YEARS AGO. Heh, watch all that stuff get put on hold after he no longer needs their votes.
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  11417.  debra young  Be careful what you ask for.
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  11418.  debra young  Err, I spend my time outdoors doing volunteer work. You?
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  11419.  debra young  My parents kept a 4-acre vegetable garden just for that. And yes, I'm out doing volunteer work. Shame all you can do is call someone a shill or a stooge for not agreeing with your warped views. Let me guess, it doesn't win you any followers.
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  11420.  debra young  You disprove your own claims to intelligence by making so many bad assumptions. It's a wonder you're able to vote and drive with a mind that tiny - and closed.
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  11421.  debra young  You are still misreading me. Nowhere did I claim responsibility for shutting down the economy. What's sad is that you're probably the smartest person in your quadrant of the trailer park, and you still don't know that the water is a little deeper out in the rest of the world. I'd say enjoy your stupidity and constant misunderstanding of almost everything, but the sentiment is wasted on you.
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  11422.  debra young  You had me at "flew season". Thanks for the laugh. Almost got coffee all over the keyboard. And from where in your giant, dimpled wide-load ass did you ever get the mistaken notion that only 0.1% of covid-19 victims die from it?
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  11423.  debra young  Since I have time before heading out to my unpaid volunteer work, let me do you a favor. You made a fallacy in mistaking your local conditions (if you even understand them, which seems doubtful at this point) with the overall picture. An example would be a person claiming that there's no such thing as global warming because there's snow on the ground where they are right now. So for your sake, I hope your town doesn't get one (1) asymptomatic visitor, like that place in Georgia where a funeral resulted in an outbreak that, at its peak, resulted in over 2000 new cases per day.
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  11424.  debra young  Hahahaha. You're lying to me right now (0.1% CFR) but you can't even prove that number. Looks like you're the one being lied to. There are hundreds of sites from which you can get the true numbers - here's just one. Divide the deaths by the cases and you can see for yourself what the death rate is. Did you get far enough in school to learn division? https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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  11425.  debra young  Good job cherrypicking a very small scale example. On the world scale, meanwhile, the case fatality rate (confirmed deaths divided by confirmed cases) is around 6.9%, or roughly 1-in-15. Would you take your family to a store that had a sniper in the attic tasked with randomly shooting one person out of every 15? It sounds like you would love that kind of shop since that's basically what you're advocating.
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  11426.  debra young  Here's an even better tiny example - a choir practice incident. 60 attended, none were symptomatic, yet 45 got the virus and two of them died. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/us/washington-choir-practice-coronavirus-deaths/index.html
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  11427.  debra young  Here's another small-scale example you need to read about. Seems likely you never heard this story. All it took was one asymptomatic person attending one funeral. Since then Georgia has experienced 31,575 cases and 1,340 deaths (4.2% death rate). The story is about a month out of date. https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-update-albany-funeral-believed-be-starting-point-georgia-outbreak-2954957
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  11428.  debra young  I've seen no verified news that every death is being counted as covid-45 death regardless. Just rumors and conspiracy theories. The cruise ships are very interesting to me for another reason .. especially the Costa Atlantica,docked in Japan.
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  11429.  debra young  Glad to know that you too are out there doing some kind of work every day. I hope you get paid for it; I don't. My former work is not likely to return anytime soon. Anyway the Costa Atlantica experiment seems to be ending now that people are being evacuated from the ship. Spreadsheet the numbers for total aboard and total infected for the Diamond Princess, USS Theodore Roosevelt, Costa Atlantica, and USS Kidd and you may see what I find so interesting.
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  11430.  debra young  The thing that's interesting about the ships is that they are bounded populations. Everyone living in a big metal can and not too far from each other. You'd like that would be the perfect place for the virus to spread to everyone, right? The interesting thing is that it doesn't spread to everyone. Of the 4 big examples I found, it only came to 22%~28% max. I haven't found any city/state/country where it was allowed to run wild to see what its max penetration rate is.
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  11431. Knowing Trump's well-established history of lies & gaslighting, the official number of 100K-240K means that they know the actual death toll will be much much higher. And a much-higher death toll is fully consistent with the way domestic travel in the US still continues unabated, people still gather on beaches in Florida, some states are not yet shut down, etc. Even if most of the country is locked down, those people still socializing and gathering and traveling will spread the disease throughout the country.
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  11432.  @richardtodd1898  Not sure. The common flu is still evolving every year to the point where we make a different vaccine for it every year. And that's of the same family of coronaviruses.
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  11433.  @matthewbowen8065  Your political prognostication is duly noticed. What's your track record on these things?
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  11434. He went golfing as the nation approaches 100K dead from the virus he said would just go away in April. Is that his way of apologizing?
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  11435. Who else remembers what Miss Lindsey Graham had to say about impeachment back in 1999? You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.” 20 years later, Republicans, formerly calling themselves the party of law and order, are now arguing that laws don't apply to a president.
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  11436.  Chill Will  Funny how when you look at the list of signatures, it's full of dead people and pets. But that's all a fringe crank minority can do, in the end -- make stuff up. Because they don't represent the will of the people.
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  11437. @Messatsu ! You need to go read the law, then, because public health emergencies do. I like stupid people like you, I honestly do. Bonus points if you can figure out why.
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  11438.  @lucasgrey9794  The only ways in which Russia can be said to be "growing" now are all negatives. Russia is growing poorer. By losing young men (to this senseless act of Putin's aggression against sovereign Ukraine) Russia is becoming older too. Russia continues to lose allies. Russia's GDP has dropped precipitously. Russia continues to lose 7+ figure combat vehicles to 4+ figure missiles, which is an exercise in stupidity on Russia's part.
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  11439.  @williamdickerson8898  Thank you for mentioning those protests. BLM/Antifa didn't beat in a policeman's head with a fire extinguisher, or break into the capitol with guns, zip ties, pipe bombs, molotovs, and chemical weapons on order to execute the second and third in line of presidency. That would be Trump's fine people who did that. Got any more false equivalences you want to try? Do you have trouble distinguishing between protest and insurrection?
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  11440.  @jackb8469  Well, jack, if you'd bother to read any actual information, you would learn something. As of the moment, of the 1,028,705 US cases with a closed outcome (meaning they're no longer in the hospital) 12% have died and 88% are recovered or discharged. What nonsense are you smoking? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  11441. Proxima, there's a housing shortage in Oregon anyway. Maybe the house you leave behind can be better used by someone else. Good luck with that cough.
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  11442. And yet, Trump spent his time in office acting to his own benefit and not to the benefit of all Americans as was his job description. He golfed, he rage-tweeted, he took vacations, he watched Fox Noise, but he didn't spend much time presidenting. And somehow, Republicans were just fine with him acting like a useless trust-fund baby rather than taking on the responsibilities of office. And those same Republicans deserve a great deal of blame for tolerating his bad behavior.
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  11443. A really silly question - if Covid-19 is suppressed by warmer weather, why don't those cruise ships head down to near the equator?
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  11444. This is kind of like the way he kept promising he'd release his taxes, but then did everything possible (including using the DOJ as his own personal law firm) to keep those taxes from being made public. Now we know some of what he was hiding, though surely not all of it. No wonder he bails like a scalded chicken anytime reporters are nearby.
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  11445. He should feel lucky that it was only booing and heckling he got. Pretty soon no Trump will be able to appear in public without hearing "lock them up!" Things are fast moving from angry verbal sentiments towards where eggs and tomatoes get thrown.
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  11446.  Arthur Culbreth  Pretty sure he meant war POWERS president - as in, who needs those pesky November elections?
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  11447.  Arthur Culbreth  Yeah. The irony of a 5-time draft dodger calling himself a war president. Gah :(
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  11448. Russia has become enemy #1 to a whole bunch of other nations that are allied with Ukraine. Zero trust (or respect) for Putin exists anywhere in the west.
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  11449. This guy is nausea-inducing in his zeal to embrace and spread cruelty.
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  11450. Not the planet, just the parts of it that make up the US and those aligned with the US. Russia, NK, Iran, etc would make out quite well with Felon45 in charge.
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  11451. It's not LIKE speaking to a child .. it IS speaking to a child. He's not fit to be trusted with a glow stick.
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  11452. The US had over 17,000 new cases in just one day alone (today). There are only 6 other nations whose total cases so far are greater than the number of cases we added in just one day! That won't last long :( by next week we may be seeing more than 25,000 new cases per day. And 2-3 weeks behind these massive case increase numbers will be 5%~10%+ of those people dying. Now there's a USA#1 thing Trump can finally hang his hat on.
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  11453. Been awhile since I've seen a big 3%'er decal in the back window of a pickup truck. What did they change their name to now? That much Quisling, anti-government sentiment doesn't just vanish on its own.
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  11454.  @leeadickes7235  Re "really? What guns were found?" << Since it seems you don't know how to search for things (probably explains why you don't know anything) let me help you with specifics. One man, Lonnie Coffman, is facing multiple weapons charges after police say they found him in possession of five guns, eleven Molotov cocktails, a crossbow, smoke bombs and a stun gun. Coffman was arrested only because police were investigating pipe bombs that were discovered near the Capitol at the Republican Party and Democratic Party headquarters and noticed one of the guns in his truck while securing the area. A man named Cleveland Meredith, who traveled from Colorado in order to participate in the protests at the Capitol, was arrested at his hotel in D.C. last week after law enforcement received a tip that he had threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Meredith told investigators that he mistakenly arrived in the District a day after the riot. The FBI said in court documents that it found a handgun, an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Meredith’s trailer and text messages on his phone in which he talked about killing Pelosi and told a friend “headed to DC with a shit ton of 5.56 armor piercing ammo [purple devil emoji].” Another man, Christopher Alberts of Maryland, was arrested on the Capitol grounds as police were clearing the building when an officer noticed that he was carrying a pistol.
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  11455. 2:32 .. before this is over, Trump will have encouraged his people to rough up (and do much worse to) lots of people. There are more than 100,000 Hispanics locked up due to his failed border policies. Wouldn't be surprised if his people have been working out a "solution" .. as in a final solution :(
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  11456. The ones in denial are still repeating Trump's lies about how it was a 'peaceful protest' or how the officers supposedly let the insurrectionists into the capitol. They prefer comforting (to them anyway; to the rest of us it's a horror show) lies over the truth.
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  11457. If you ever speak with stupid people, that's what they go through life trying to find - simple shortcuts to look at complex things that befuddle them. Trump is a genius to simpletons and a celebrity to the unwashed .. but to the rest of us he's just a none-too-bright greasy con man.
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  11458. Let's just say that persecution against LGBT's is one area where Putin and Trump's people are completely aligned. As are the Taliban.
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  11459. Was that Russian dark humor? A political joke?
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  11460. If by chance the election deniers got what they're asking for (domestic strife, the end of democracy, a nation on fire) surely they would deny having had anything to do with the ensuing tragedy.
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  11461.  @hamadkennedy6295  "Putin has Ukraine"? Dude, the conquest-o-meter has been pegged at 19% for months and isn't moving much. The ratio of Russian to Ukrainian combat vehicle losses is 3:1 or more. The loss disparity is even wider for troops. Congratulations on decimating your own military. The scrap metal industries of Ukraine thank you for the donations.
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  11462.  @chauffeurdrivenbimbo5850  No. Those missiles in packaging actually take up a bit of space. 5000 missiles would take up a lot more than the five shipping containers I specified. A few of them dropped on the Kremlin might get the point across, even if the warheads were duds.
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  11463.  @chauffeurdrivenbimbo5850  Indeed, there are some jobs that absolutely must be completed.
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  11464. Condolences. Taking a break from the ERP/MRP world. A very long break :)
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  11465. Inciting insurrection isn't protected first-amendment free speech, just in case that's not clear.
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  11466.  @bobcobb7992  Nearly all states have signature matching. Fox is still airing that worn, tired lie?
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  11467. Republicans are in the majority in both House and Senate, meaning that lord Cheeto will get no flak from them no matter what.
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  11468. With the extremely lax media laws in the US, it has long been the practice of America's adversaries to use domestic American propaganda outlets quite openly to further the atmosphere of isolationism. Hitler did it through the Lindberg's and the German-American Bund and the America First organization .. pretty much just as Putin is doing it now through Trump, the Republican party leaders, and the party media outlet "Fox news". Republicans have been systematically disinvesting in public education to the point where some Americans probably can't spell the word 'propaganda' correctly and far too many can't identify the stuff when they encounter it :(
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  11469. Won't be just one day. Hoax News has been keeping the bubbas on "boil" for awhile now.
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  11470.  @fredsanford1437  I see your "both sides are the same" nuttery and raise you this fine quote from the cult leader himself: "The stage 4 liver cancer was aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." To dim-minded people who lack moral compasses (folks like you apparently) both sides appear to be the same because you lack the ability to tell right from wrong. And it's wrong for an election loser to seize power for himself personally.
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  11471. Not to worry. With an unresolved impeachment trial in the works, Trump no longer has the power to pardon. He certainly won't pay the legal fees of all the idiots who engaged in sedition on his behalf .. heck, he doesn't even pay his own legal fees, just ask Rudy ;)
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  11472.  @michaelmorningstar8645  Speak for yourself - after all, it's YOUR party that rejects election results and embraces political violence. Better slip on that jack boot, it fits you so well.
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  11473. Not only that, but Haley is distancing herself from Team Crazy, and Team Crazy is looking worse in the public eye every day.
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  11474. I think America needs to face the fact that governor DeathSantis (or DeSatan) is doing his utmost best to make the pandemic worse. If this were WW2, he'd be Tokyo Rose.
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  11475. Wussolini forgets that time he sent his emissary Sessions (the little Nazi keebler elf) to the pacific northwest. No one wanted to stand anywhere near Sessions. He got chased out of town with his tail between his legs thanks to Portland Antifa and others. Whatever federal force he sends here is going to be met with 30x opposition.
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  11476.  @joandolliedoyle775  Remember when he trashed the US intelligence community and believed Putin instead? For shame.
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  11477. If you want to understand Clump at all, first you must come to the realization that he would be overjoyed, ecstatic, deliriously happy to plunge America into decades of violence, bloodshed, disorder, chaos.
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  11478. Republicans said in surveys that they were comfortable with the notion of political violence. Huh. Wonder if being on the receiving end of it has opened their eyes to what that would be like? Did they think they could save democracy that way?
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  11479. Also it will be remembered that when fascism slouched into the white house, humping a flag and insulting our best allies wildly, Republicans tripped over each other trying to help him end the rule of law in America. They're going to need to spend a couple generations in the woodshed for that.
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  11480.  @tavish4699  Sure, unless those troops have drones or Javelin missiles handy, then it's a turret-tossing competition.
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  11481. The entire senior staff at DOJ threatened to resign over this. Clark would have been presiding over a desk and not much else.
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  11482.  @geenal360  Great suggestion. Those places too are ruled by self-important tools who know nothing and who flail about on the world stage. Maybe the US should be allies with those places?
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  11483. I knew months ago those MAGAstanis were going to try that one. Trump did great in the counties where everyone has the same last name, go figure.
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  11484. Those aged, obese Boomers congregating in bars indoors somehow think they are at less risk than the young, healthy, fit masked protesters who stayed outside and mostly practiced distancing. Sigh. Can't fix stupid, but you can read about it in the obituaries.
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  11485. What was discussed in that ill-fated call between the presidents of Turkey and the USA? Just look at everything that happened almost immediately after, and you can see the effects of it. Clearly Agent Orange gave away everything the USA has been working for there (and lots more) and the USA got nothing in return. This is similar to all the other "deals" he's made so far :( just without a fancy meal and some photo op.
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  11486. It's proof that we have a lot of poorly-educated people and/or those easily moved by the most blatant disinformation.
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  11487.  @airfish8216  Someone said it well - Republicans are watching a movie in their heads, it's called "the Biden Crime Family", and it's as fact-free as anything Dinesh D'Souza has ever done.
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  11488. Sad that Russians for the second time allowed some maniac to butcher a whole generation of them. Russia needs outside management after this.
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  11489. This is not the first time that Donald Trump has lived in his own delusions for the long haul. Well after they'd been exonerated of the charges, Trump kept calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, even to the point of buying full-page ads in the NY Times to enunciate his racist desires. As of 2019, he was still imagining them to be guilty, even though DNA evidence cleared them back in 2002. So yeah he's a goner.
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  11490. Filthy traitors is what they are.
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  11491. Trump didn't ask that to the reporter .. he asked it to Dr Birx.
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  11492. Let's face a sad fact about American policing: for some people, work is no fun if they can't Ferguson every now and then on minorities, journalists, immigrants, union members. And it's good that those people are finding other duties. Our police force should be more European anyway.
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  11493. Normal people don't actively want to be deluded, but Trump's people do. It's so much easier for them than facing unwelcome truths. Perhaps the pharmacy industry and the prison-to-work pipeline could do something to help those poor chickens who identify as Colonel Slanders fans?
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  11494. Watching Trump's sheeple line up get fleeced is poetic justice. No one's ever accused them of being intelligent anyway.
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  11495. Maybe they should have something on that they can't take off. I too would like everyone to know which among us voted for Trump to destroy America.
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  11496. Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him, beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc. Some of the more uppity ones have been arrested.
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  11497. It's laughably sad to see Trump use that number scale. He's a <= 0.5 on the scale of male attractiveness himself.
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  11498.  @kathcasey2090  One of them is the kind that takes their single-issue thing so seriously as to constitute tribalism, the other one is plain nuts.
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  11499. Ben is allegedly 35, yet their voice hasn't dropped yet, and it seems their face has never known a razor. Are they on T-blockers?
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  11500. My gosh, what excuse will they try next? Twinkies? Feh.
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  11501. Yup. The election was 354 days ago. I can't improve on what senator Romney said the night of 1/6, when they met again to certify the election results: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy.”
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  11502. The only way Trump can make a small fortune at anything is to start with a large fortune in Other People's Money and then mismanage it on the way down. That's all he's ever done.
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  11503. Coronavirus likes this. People from different households gathered together indoors for more than 15 minutes at a time.
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  11504. There is a wound that won't heal down at Mar-a-Lago. There is a darkness from there, reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here, and it's not just visiting anymore. It wants to stay. Trumpism is a disease that thrives in darkness, and it is never more alive than when we sleep.
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  11505. Republicans know they're going to have a harder time every year winning votes, all due to them doubling down on the crazy. So they want to detach America from the whole voting process. Pretty sure it's some of their crazies who've been mailing white powder to election offices.
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  11506. At the rate dolt45 is going, he could be appearing in court by zoom, and judge M will have the mute button.
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  11507. When Dump said he likes people who haven't been captured, pretty sure he meant "arrested", since he does nothing to help those followers of his who get picked up for those crimes in service of Dump.
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  11508. Sure, sure, Putin has nothing to do with it. Could the Russian trolls here possibly be any dumber? (don't take that as a challenge, please)
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  11509. Clearly, by giving China everything they ever wanted on Hong Kong (like the US thumbing its nose at past assurances), this is Chump's payment to China for [something]. Taiwan, I hope you're paying attention because you too are on China's ask list.
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  11510. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him.
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  11511. Interesting that Donald Judas Trump, in private conversation, wears the same dumb "who would have thought anything was complicated?" expression that Tucker Carlson usually wears.
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  11512. Tell me again why there weren't any Russian sanctions against Floriduh .. or Trump .. or Tucker Carlson. Doing Putin's dirty work.
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  11513. She's in fine company. Leslie Van Houten, criminal follower of a different obviously-deranged cult leader, did 53 years in prison.
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  11514. Watching Republicans trying to twist themselves into pretzels to make up some wacky explanation for Trump's obvious corruption is sweet fodder for the history books and for the judgement that will be passed upon them later. Apparently types like senator Johnson & Bill Barr & Miss Lindsey Graham are drawn to authoritarian types as blowflies are drawn to a rotting corpse.
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  11515. Her objections to abortion would no doubt suffer a magical reversal if the pregnancy was the result of interracial rape, no doubt :(
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  11516.  @cathyrehill3876  Speaking of salaries .. who else is outraged that traitor Michael Flynn who still hasn't lost his rank & benefits and been court-martialed for treason?
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  11517. And yet, petulant 3rd grade bully behavior is what makes Republicans swoon and cry, "He's our savior!" like crackheads going after a $100 note blowing down the sidewalk.
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  11518. He could turn out to be another defsec Robert McNamara type .. just saying.
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  11519. Hate to say it, but those beautiful tests for everyone don't exist, just like the website. Knowing a little about the depths of this administration's incompetence and its aversion to the truth, we can safely say that nothing is getting done and nothing will be done anytime soon.
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  11520. Next regular election for Putin's buddy Tuberville is November 2026. Unless the people of his state do a recall-and-replace.
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  11521. You'd think the "let's have guns EVERYWHERE!" people would have enough sense to stop holding mass shootings every day now, but noooooooo.
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  11522.  @Ziggy024  Republicans contradict themselves often. Seems they have no sense of irony. They insist that Clump be respected for inventing the vaccine, then turn around and say they won't take it because it's a commie 5G enhancer with nanobots. Their brains are mush :(
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  11523. Nice to see the Australian government not pussyfooting around with this deadly contagion.
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  11524. This is what Occupy Wall Street should have been. Let's see if it happens in more places.
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  11525.  @lynnkmiddle  That is what I am expecting. Our Mango Mussolini has already thoroughly explored the use of the remote control of his words to incite his followers to violence against minorities. After the election results are known, it would not be surprising if he starts tweeting that Hispanics, Blacks, Muslims, immigrants are going on a killing/raping/looting spree against whites to celebrate his loss at the polls.
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  11526. All you whiners and covid deniers: If you think that lockdowns, during a time of grave national emergency, are a problem, then I'm just glad that you and your kind weren't in the 15-35 age bracket when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you think wearing a mask is bad, hoo boy/girl, they would have put a uniform on you back then and made you go all over the place and do all kinds of things for 4 years. And your fool president would have been calling the attack "fake news" while bragging about the "beautiful" letters he'd gotten from emperor Hirohito. Now, as then, your non-optional duty as a citizen is to cooperate with the government so even worse things don't happen.
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  11527.  @andrewk8636  Apparently my point is as far over your head as the moon is above a cow. Fascism requires a national scale organization, control of the military, control of the government. Antifa has/had none of that, Rump did have that, and here are the 14 points of fascism which he fulfilled - while treasonous, Judas-faced so-called Americans cheered him on: 1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” 5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” 6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.” 7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.” 8. The humiliation by the wealth and force of their enemies. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” 10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” 13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.” 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
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  11528.  @andrewk8636  Ergo, dipshit, they might be a bunch of street rowdies, but they're not fascists. They certainly haven't done anything as drastic as storming the capitol in DC, searching for the 2nd and 3rd in line of presidential succession in order to kill them. That would be your "fine people" who did those things.
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  11529.  @andrewstevenjo9621  Nope, you are again wrong. Antifa is not in government, whereas Trump, the obvious wannabe fascist, was. Fascism happens when a small intolerant minority gets power (again, Trump) and pursues its hate-on-everyone-else agenda (again, Trump). Antifa is not even a political party and it fields no candidates. I can find plenty of examples of nations that got taken over by fascists. No examples however of nations taken over by Antifa. Exactly what are you smoking? It's pretty good stuff. Keeps you from remembering history.
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  11530.  @andrewstevenjo9621  Wrong yet again (no surprise there). Trump lost the popular election both times and by a wider margin the second time. It was only through the fuckery of the electoral college that he got into office at all. Oh, and Hitler got 33.09% of the vote in the German elections of 1932, which only proves that one should not underestimate the potential dangers of large groups of truly stupid people.
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  11531. They gave Trump enough rope to hang himself, and, like a sucker, he didn't hold back. Next comes a followup hearing.
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  11532. Notice also how no ranking Republicans are stepping forward to tell their own not to break the law. Total silence from them when judges are getting threatened. Can someone ask them why they want to turn America into Haiti?
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  11533. "You can't rig paper." Bingo. And that's part of why Trump hates vote-by-mail. Makes it harder to overturn the will of the people. And, mind you, that's all the Republicans have got left, just attempts to disenfranchise the people they imagine won't vote for them. This action causes a reaction that makes them even more pariah, heh ;)
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  11534. Bingo. Because they can. Look for the conservatives to try to block it of course.
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  11535. Given that these non-truckers have been blocking an international border (which has got to be some kind of crime) as well as deliberately obstructing traffic in many other places (also a crime) are there going to be penalties against American citizens/organizations that bankrolled these lawbreaking activities in Canada? Thanks to some nice sleuthing, the donor names were recently revealed.
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  11536. You have to wonder if those culties are ever going to come back to reality. They're essentially Leslie Van Houten type people, and it took her decades to realize that Charles Manson was just a psychopath who'd induced her to commit violent crimes.
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  11537. Party of fiscal responsibility, uh huh, just like the party of law and order just like the party of family values. Hence Bobo getting her date off on camera.
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  11538. Stop coddling the insurrectionists. Like the capitols of other nations, ours too should be a most guarded place. No point in letting a noisy, violent, uncouth extreme-minority bunch of hatriots have any opportunity to threaten lawmakers and the operations of our government.
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  11539. Pillow is perfect because he can speak to them in their own language - and at this point they've made up their own language: "The election was stolen! But I can't show you exactly how" "There's pedophiles in the pizza shop basement! But you won't find them even if you shoot up the place" etc
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  11540.  @ry1023.3  AddForm may not understand that in politics too nature abhors a vacuum. The best way to cede [whatever] to your adversaries is to withdraw from it.
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  11541. That was him test-marketing those ideas, years before trying them.
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  11542. To be fair to FOXed Noise, colonel Sanders is always going to have limited luck and convincing the chickens to vote for him - no matter how often he refers to PETA as "communists" or claims they're running a child sex slave operation in the pizza shop basement. Good luck colonel! 😅
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  11543.  @redwade7803  Exactly. The people who bring military weapons to protests (and to Walmart, the coffee shop, whatever, where there are no military threats) are merely serving as useful fools for those who wish to make gun owners look irresponsible, anti-social, violent.
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  11544. Paging Aldo's Apaches - a bunch of American patriots who know exactly what to do with Nazis.
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  11545. That stage comes after every other nation in the western hemisphere refuses to let us drop off unvetted people in their territories. Some of those people may be legit US citizens needing a ride home.
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  11546. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get.
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  11547.  @Lisa-pl6gv  Guessing the same. A lot of things will have to be on pause. I can see a number of other nations suspending their agreements with the USA for the next four years.
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  11548. Trump will be gone someday, but the stain of Trumpism will still be all over the Republican party. Even now, ranking Republicans can't step forward to tell their own people not to threaten court officers, elected officials, election workers. Silence from them = consent.
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  11549. Looks like some basement apartments may have been stepping in for that function. Oops.
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  11550. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him and work for him.
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  11551. On another thread I heard back from one of the fools who believed the Lin Wood nonsense, hook line & sinker, and who apparently believes that Biden is not in charge. Better start building more mental hospitals :(
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  11552. With Trump, the phrase "people are saying" is the tag for a lie following shortly afterwards.
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  11553. In other words, Trumpanzees are saying at least these two distinct things: 1) They don't want there to be any more presidential elections, because 2) they know they can't win it again (possibly ever) on account of how many people are so pissed at their insurrection attempt. Got it. Crystal clear.
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  11554.  @Gotoooooo  Let's see. 710 days to take 19% of Ukraine, with around 350K casualties so far. Let's say these rates are flat. Means Russia needs only 3026 more days and 1.49 million more disposable bio-robots. Oh yeah that's working out great for them 😅
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  11555.  @Hedningen1  And, despite how absurd it sounds to western ears, we really do need to understand that when former Soviet satellites vote with their feet to join NATO (they still have recollections of the Russian boot on their necks) the Russians really do see it as NATO "encroachment" or even "making war". And from that standpoint they've essentially worked themselves into enough of a lather to believe that invading and brutalizing Ukraine is a defensive act.
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  11556. If only Tucker "Lord Haw-Haw" Carlson had a little more business sense. Surely he could start up a Fascist News Network. First guests: Andrew Tate and Viktor Orban.
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  11557. Republicans do worse than just work for themselves and for the billionaire class .. they work for our enemies. US government dysfunction is Putin's wettest dream.
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  11558. I haven't hiked the gorge since the big fire. Even before then, there were too many unprepared people bumbling around up there :(
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  11559.  @sarawelling5271  While it is legal (though dangerous) for reich-wingers to take to the internet and call Trumpy's indictment "an assault on liberty" (plus whatever else they can say to stir up their sheeple) it's incredibly dangerous too. With great rights come great responsibilities. I for one am not prepared to see our country turn into a failed country just because one narcissistic grifter couldn't handle how he lost the 2020 election.
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  11560. There is a wound that won't heal down at Mar-a-Lago. There is a darkness from there, reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here, and it's not just visiting anymore. It wants to stay. Trumpism is a disease that thrives in darkness, and it is never more alive than when we sleep.
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  11561. More false equivalence from the far right. Calling them out on their lies = interfering with free speech. Yah right, Cheeto.
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  11562. I thought conservatives were all for blocking traffic as a form of protest. Like when they did Operation Gridlock a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtlmXzKpAs
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  11563.  @davidpress8195  Funny how the journalists who've been beaten up by police weren't the ones pointing lasers at anyone.
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  11564.  @toast1012  False on all counts. Those people blocking traffic in Operation Gridlock were most certainly Trump-following Republicans. Your denials sound shrill. Want some cheese with that whine?
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  11565.  Big Billy Wallace 1237  Coming from someone who backs the Big Gov't goons, what you said is kind of funny. It's as if you think the Nazis were plucky upstarts who weren't in charge of Germany's military or government.
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  11566.  @charlie-obrien  As long as Republicans keep proving themselves to be partisan nutbags who are completely and acrimoniously divorced from objective reality, they're going to continue to lose elections. And that's a very good thing. Obviously the kind of nondemocratic country they have in mind for America is like Hitler plus the Taliban :(
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  11567. Rudy has a fool for a client, and Rudy's barrister is pretty much a moron too. They're made for each other.
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  11568. Hearing people refer to 45 as "president" is even more revolting than when Charles Manson's culties referred to him as "supreme leader" :(
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  11569.  @realsugar7056  Precisely. It should be a scary wake-up call to everyone that the current Republican idea of "fair and balanced" is, to them, Republicans in charge of everything.
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  11570. Little Nazi binder barbie once again.
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  11571. In his last will and testament, Hitler too blamed everyone else for the wars he'd started and for all the other troubles he brought upon himself.
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  11572. So .. he is using the threat of tariffs to induce Mexico into violating its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention? Ha, if you tried telling him that there were norms and that he's violating them, he first wouldn't believe you, then he'd claim it's a conspiracy to keep him from precedenting -- I mean, presidenting.
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  11573. A lot of them were exit-interviewed, which revealed most of them to be single-issue voters. The typical response was along the lines of "I don't care if he checks off every single box on the characteristics of fascism list, I just like the way he did [whatever]".
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  11574. Trump is like the serial arsonist telling the mayor to be nice to him or more things will burn down.
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  11575. @Christy A Ever hear of this cool thing called math? 80% of US population (rounded down to 320 million) will be affected, either as asymptomatic carriers, not affected enough to need hospitalization, or in need of medical care. Of that 80%, approx 15%~20% will require hospitalization, either for oxygen support or fighting secondary infections. Without medical care, many will die. That 15%~20% slice (in numbers) is between 38.4 million and 51.2 million. There are less than 1 million hospital beds in the USA. Does this make things any clearer to you?
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  11576. @Christy A Oh dear, you really haven't been paying attention to the news, have you? Start with Dr John Campbell's channel. He's been on this subject since sometime in January.
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  11577. @Christy A I'm sorry you find it "dubious" that within a year, 80% of the population of the world will catch this bug. Hope your disease resistance is better than your understanding of covid-19.
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  11578. Apparently with the US population being 103.2M in 1918 and 675K dying from the Influenza, 1 in 153 Americans died of it. We've got a ways to go. Much idiocy to be re-informed. Many idiots need to learn the hard way, one corpse at a time.
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  11579. That "fantasy world" you speak of is the continuous droning that goes on in the MAGA echo chamber. Whoever tells the most outrageous lie there gets amplified the most in there.
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  11580.  @Ophellas1  Whatever Trump says in the negative about the court workers, here is what spews from the mouths of his TDS-suffering followers: “You should be killed. You should be not assassin executed [sic]. You should be executed.” Another said: “Resign now, you dirty, treasonous piece of trash snake. We are going to get you and anyone of you dirty, backstabbing, lying, cheating American. You are nothing but a bunch of communists. We are coming to remove you permanently.” Trump always did attract the "best" :(
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  11581.  @jessejive117  Have you not been following the news in America for the last 7 years or so? Trump spews bile, and gets echoed back as antisocial behavior from his cult sheeple. Wake up. Every rally of his is followed by a wave of bias crimes. His attacks on the court personnel are pretty bad.
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  11582.  @joboygbpedwards  There it is, the Turner Diaries fantasy of a state or country without "liberal cities". That's where most of the GDP comes from, didn't you know that?
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  11583.  @TopoGigio555  And, if you note, I put the "(sp)" after the term to denote the deliberate misspelling. Some have mocked it with the name of "lazy fairy capitalism".
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  11584. There's that saying: "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other." -- Benjamin Franklin
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  11585.  @grownjohnboy  Quote away! :)
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  11586.  @gb7418  Regarding "natural immunity for adults" << Yeah that's worked so well. Imagining that natural immunity is the way out is probably why the US has such a high covid death count.
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  11587.  @gb7418  I prefer to call it "herd mentality". Applies to sheeple and other barnyard animals, the kind that get their meds from Agway. Given that humanity has never developed "herd immunity" to the common colds, the common flus, tetanus, mumps, measles, rubella, chicken pox, smallpox, cowpox, monkeypox, malaria, diptheria, pertussis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, yellow fever, dengue fever .. yah, it's safe to say there's no such thing as herd immunity to covid either. Call me back if you find someplace where the ostrich approach (bury your head in the sand and ignore the problem) actually produces "herd immunity".
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  11588.  @gb7418  Regarding "I think we’re talking about two different things - any SURVIVING children who acquire lasting immunity thru infection" << inserted one word into that. To wit: Which has a better survival rate and better effects? The vaccine or the virus?
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  11589. Republicans did the same thing back in 2008, when George W Bush (who lied us into a war in the middle east) was conspicuously absent from the election. https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/02/bush.absent/index.html
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  11590. Well, for starters, only one of those two things tried to overturn the US government, and in doing so committed the worst invasion of the capitol since the War of 1812. Tried to overturn election results on the whim of their cult leader who lost the election but didn't have the big hands to admit it. Does that clear it up any? If not, go watch the J6 hearings again starting from episode 1.
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  11591. Last time around, 45 was in power, and he misused it to prevent the forces of law and order from immediately aiding the capitol complex when it was under attack. All he has this time is Harlan Crow's "hire court" (the Supremes) and MAGA Mikey Johnson, who we can of course count on to refuse to certify a Harris win.
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  11592. There's no bottom to his pettiness. And it's well worth noting that Republicans took to him wholeheartly, the same way animals get sucked into the black ooze of the La Brea tar pits. The air accordion player reached deep into their shallow souls and found something easy to manipulate, something that thrives on misinformation.
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  11593. Comrade Krasnov, AKA Donald Trump, is delivering exactly what his handlers in Moscow requested.
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  11594. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" -- DJT at his rallies.
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  11595. It's beyond clear now that Multnomah County requires the re-establishment of a classic old gated community that formerly existed far out on Halsey. A place for people who, if left on their own, would behave irrationally, would clash with the law too often, who would live in piles of filth by the side of the road.
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  11596. Wonder why? Have they done anything wrong? Do they have anything to fear from a thorough investigation of what the administration has been doing? As George W Bush famously said, if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide. Seems that still applies.
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  11597.  @lauram1145  To repeat a famous maxim - capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.
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  11598. Trump didn't "ruin" Giuliani's life any more than gasoline "ruins" someone's life when they douse themselves with petrol and light themselves up in a public place. There's no cure (except just desserts) for willful stupidity.
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  11599. Wonder how long before they set up the old "Iron Curtain" style western borders like the DDR used to have? Effectively to keep people from escaping.
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  11600.  @dudesonismyhero  Bingo. Hence the delay. Their 3 scenarios are roughly these: 1) 45 loses the 2024 election roundly, in a way that cannot be denied or contested, and soon after our "hire court" rules that there's no such thing as presidential immunity, but they don't deliver the ruling until late at night January 19th .. 2) 45 loses the election, but it's close (close enough for another coup attempt to be tried) so the Supremes just sit on it indefinitely, and, if the coup is successful, they rule that yes, there is such a thing as presidential immunity .. 3) 45 wins the election, and the court rules that, yes, presidential immunity is real. Think of this as the Supremes wanting to be useful somehow to a dictator who may decide at any moment that he doesn't need to be hobbled by a court. Even a court staffed by "his" people.
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  11601. Wait until they tell you that Moderna was a new company and their covid-19 vaccine was their very first product.
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  11602. "Almost NO action stands alone" - you mean?
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  11603. He means a somewhat changed constitution. No term limits for him.
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  11604. Listening to the 100%-doormats trying to shame an 80%-doormat doesn't sound as threatening as they imagine it does. More like a demonstration that there are degrees of Stockholm Syndrome, and some are too stupid to realize when they're suffering from it.
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  11605. 51% of 14% of the Republicans in the most deep-red state? Sounds like even Republicans have gone never-Trumper.
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  11606.  @sidneyaarmstrong  This is the Supreme Corp trying to have some legitimacy in the time of a wannabe-dictator who has no use for co-equal branches of government.
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  11607. If you guessed that nearly all actual groomers are conservative white cis males, you'd be correct.
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  11608. Sure - and that raised-fist signal he gave to the insurrectionists, just before they attacked, that was just to keep the sun from getting into his eyes just then.
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  11609. Trump, and Trumpism, were/are so damaging for America (as well as America's long-term interests) that she should not only cost them the 2022 election, but every subsequent election for a couple decades.
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  11610.  @shovelcharge  Divide the confirmed deaths by the confirmed infections and you get around 6% here in the USA. Learn how to do math or learn how not to get your "facts" from crackpot sources.
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  11611.  @dddd-uk4vn  You are perfectly wrong in that regard. If there are 200 people crammed into a subway car, or a restaurant, it doesn't matter if there's one Delta-infected person or 50 of them - everyone present is going to be exposed. Got any other completely-flawed and badly-thought-out arguments?
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  11612.  @komphatak3395  Condolences on your uncle :( .. hope he can recover.
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  11613. I'm not resting until the Toxic Turtle no longer has his senate-leader chokehold on America, and until our Mango Mussolini is removed from the white house.
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  11614. Re "Condoning breaking the law is certainly in line with the libs !! " << Guess which party has been supporting the guy with all the felony indictments.
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  11615. That's awesome news. Hopefully that's a trend in Europe. Europe has the means, if united, to have more economy and more military than the USA has. And, speaking as an American, nothing would help America better (in the long run) than for the rest of the world to stop doing business with us while Cheeto is running the show. He's a dipsht who doesn't understand that his job is to caretake a long-running enterprise (with many longstanding practices & obligations) for a few years. Instead, he's treating it like a bag of money you find lying in the road.
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  11616.  @jasonruggles4622  There's a poem at the foot of the statue of liberty. And nowhere does it say to stay away if you don't look white. Nowhere does the constitution or the bill of rights say "only if you're white" either. These people are just racists latching onto an excuse.
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  11617. Trump's remaining supporters are in the process of being whittled down to a group that will eventually be a little under 30% of Americans. Of that bloc, many are overweight, out of shape, toodling around in their medicare wheelchairs with their medicare oxygen tanks. The percentage of them that could marshall the means to cause trouble is a whole lot smaller than the percentage of Americans already wanting impeachment & removal - which is only going to keep growing as more evidence is revealed. They'll go back to being a whiny, annoying, permanently-offended group of nutters like they were during Obama's time. If you see these people doing anything illegal, catch video of it and save it for their trial later.
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  11618. Are you kidding? They love that stuff. They would happily sniff through a gym full of dirty undies.
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  11619.  @courtneybrubaker9738  What's really disturbing is that they think there's some kind of happytime waiting after a successful coup to install their cult leader who keeps losing elections. There is not. What follows is chaos & bloodshed, ultimately ending with the perp and his supporters going through some pretty rough things.
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  11620. Remember when 45 said he didn't need the State department and would do things personally? His text message log with Putin (and other adversaries of America) would probably be pretty incriminating. What a traitor-in-chief :(
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  11621. .. while they are absolutely wrecking our government, too.
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  11622. The easiest way to understand the Trump phenom is that he knows how to press the sugar-candy-high emotional buttons in his cult followers. Enough to make them break the law, rot in jail, and even die in the service of Trump's lies. Kind of like a Charles Manson figure who knows how to reach out to the parts of his followers that are variously composed of white trashiness, spite, anger, persecution complexes, and other latent psychoses.
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  11623. And the rest of us need to welcome them back to the table (even if we don't agree with what they say) as long as they respect the rule of law.
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  11624. Who cares what Putin said? Ignore the mouth. Watch the hands.
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  11625. Let's not fool ourselves, a possible president Hailey would do everything in her power to obstruct law enforcement from going after the J6 insurrectionists, Trump's cabal, the congress people who were part of the coup, etc.
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  11626. PLEASE use his full name - Tucker "Axis Sally" Carlson. Thank you.
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  11627. Goes to tell you how much of a mental health crisis there is here.
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  11628.  @tonyu5985  You've already seen some of it with your own two eyes. Remember when Trump said, "Russia, I hope you're listening, if you have any dirt on Clinton I'd love to hear it" (paraphrasing) It's against the law to ask foreign governments for help in an election. On July 27, 2016, Trump called on Russia to find presidential Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump proclaimed. He added, “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
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  11629.  @daveharvey5764  Doesn't have stormtroopers? In case you're completely unaware of events in the news, let me remind you that the Proud Boys were (surprise!) Trump's reich-wing hired muscle. Otherwise known as stormtroopers. Wannabe headbusters in the name of bleached-white skin and small-c christianity. If you could get more familiar with basic established factual reality .. that'd be great.
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  11630.  @nevana1656  So - by your logic - if parents hate the school shooters who kill their kids, they shouldn't take part in decisions about school shootings? You're not making much sense. Trump and his people were fine with lighting the constitution on fire just to please his butthurt over losing an election. Take an hour to think of how sideways things would go if the rule of law didn't exist. And if that conjures up some rosy vision of life, seek therapy quickly. It would be anything but rosy.
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  11631.  @jaybee2337  Tiny hands, tiny venues.
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  11632.  bigtruck guy  I don't think you have to tell anyone to do that. There's been a continuous run on guns & ammo since sometime last fall. It really picked up by the end of February.
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  11633. And we should have said back, "Don't worry, Putin, we wouldn't dare supply Ukraine with weapons. Wink wink"
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  11634. The orcs in Kherson are in line to get isolated and starved out. Payback for Mariupol, bitches.
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  11635. Oh yes. That's the next step. See who in those groups was checking the hallway signs against pictures on their phone. This was a wonderful step of the J6 committee .. they just showed loud and clear that they've got the goods on the bunch of Judases who gave recon opportunities to the insurrectionists. This ought to shake a few rats off the anchor chain. Loudermilk in particular will be squealing to turn states evidence.
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  11636. Both of those plus her ability to wield political power is why they (racist Americans) are apesh*t with her. Obama endured the same thing. That's how the same Republicans that howled at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit are somehow silent while Trump tries to undermine the election results.
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  11637.  @gennaterra  Exactly. Right now, Pooty's guarantee isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot.
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  11638. This was intentional. He wants to be able to later accuse governor Newsom of mismanaging CA's water resources. That's why he went behind everyone's backs to order the Army Corp of Engineers to release the water. It's been a relatively dry winter there.
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  11639. @Southern Belle "How do you all still believe covid is real?" I don't usually ask people how often they got dropped on their heads in your children, but in your case it's obviously a very, very big number.
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  11640. Best of luck, Mr Pence! Right now the Venn diagram of conservatives, wannabe traitors, racists, and inbreds looks like an archery target.
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  11641. Those dang shipping clerks at DOD must have sent ATACMS missiles instead of HIMARS. Whoops ;)
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  11642. I've stocked up on popcorn and good champagne just for this occasion. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of short-sighted nitwits.
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  11643. If president Zelinskyy wasn't Jewish, then uncle Pooty might have even the barest excuse for calling him a Nazi, but he doesn't have even that.
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  11644. Doing damage to America, by every way possible, was the price Putin asked of him. And now, even though he cannot prevent what's coming his way, he's doing as much damage as possible. Leaving behind a fractured America has always been Putin's wet dream. And Trump has done nothing but sow divisiveness among those dumb enough to listen to him :(
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  11645. Mr Putin made it clear months ago what he wanted: the population of Ukraine welcoming Russian troops with flowers and kisses. Somehow he missed the fact that bombing their homes and hospitals and schools and infrastructure is not the way to win over anyone's hearts. No amount of that would make anyone enjoy the neo-Soviet jackboot.
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  11646. It's on the way to becoming the Ulsted Sphincter of Asserica (from V for Vendetta). A has-been place. World's largest leper colony.
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  11647. White boy. And even if his victims all turn out to be black, and even if he posted a whole lot of online drivel saying he wanted to be the next Dylann Roof, they'll just say it was a senseless crime and no one could have seen it coming.
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  11648.  @davidjuliesmiththomas7983  I was referring to the way testing levels have been reduced in the US to minimize the scale of the problem at hand. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  11649.  @mee091000  He doesn't understand history either. Probably doesn't know that the Axis powers were in American waters, sinking American ships.
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  11650. Somebody please give Lucy Liu a crash course in journalism and a white house press badge. I'd pay to see that.
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  11651.  @topcheese2889  Masked & vaxxed. Best we should all stay that way until they give the all-clear.
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  11652. More proof that Hillary saw him correctly for what he is. Not sure he's even human. He lacks empathy, warmth, humility, self-awareness, shame, restraint, compassion, and a sense of humor.
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  11653. Is that by chance somewhere in Massachusetts?
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  11654. Because it's easy to get the chickens to vote for colonel Sanders. You just need to convince them that their Animal Liberation Front rescuers are running a child sex slave ring in the basement of a slab foundation pizza shop 😅
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  11655.  @Bangin0utWest  Then voting for POC.
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  11656. @Aaron - good idea! Apparently you've been reading Neville Chamberlain's best-selling book on how appeasement leads to peace.
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  11657. If you must scratch your head raw to come up with a reason why anyone is still protesting, just ask yourself if cops in America are still carrying out extrajudicial executions of Black people. No justice, no peace. Are you by chance one of those people working hard to reform the police everywhere so that they stop killing Americans?
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  11658. Perhaps Republicans looked at the torn-apart democracies and violent societies of places like Haiti, Somalia, Ethiopia .. and they decided that's what America should be like. Because what they're trying to do here will not benefit anyone, not even them or their own children.
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  11659.  @dreamsofturtles1828  Got any evidence you'd care to show that he's not serious? Or is this one of those hopey changey things?
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  11660.  @dreamsofturtles1828  .. and people who believe things without any evidence are called what? Religious? "I want to believe" agent Mulder types?
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  11661.  @dreamsofturtles1828  You are probably the smartest person in your corner of the trailer park. I get that. But there's a bigger world out there and what you wrote barely makes sense out there. Try again, if you actually have something to say.
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  11662.  @dreamsofturtles1828  Are you sure you're not just a 22 calibre mind operating in a 44 magnum world? Because if you are, it would be easy for you to prove that, and I'm guessing you cannot.
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  11663. You know how it is with some people: faraway things look very tiny, and tiny things aren't worth worrying about.
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  11664. Those who support Trump, in all the disgusting and demeaning things he says, must have something wrong with them if that is what they idolize. We have a mental health crisis on our hands here.
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  11665. Unlikely. Trump is well on his way to being a Monty Python character, or one of those stock characters that cruise ship comedians do. He'll probably follow the retirement curve of former senator Joseph McCarthy.
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  11666.  @OPERATIONNEMESIS11  Hopefully someone's moved an A-10 squadron to near the western border of Ukraine. Show Putin a little of the only kind of love he responds to ;)
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  11667. Betcha he can't even name which states he wants to march into the wood chipper first .. because ALL of them are showing exponential increase in virus cases, some just quicker than others.
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  11668.  @SkycometAnimeVamp  My father died full MAGA (cancer came back a second time) and it was bad because he'd grown up in Nazi Germany and should have known better than to support an open fascist. But no, he went to his grave muttering about wholly fictional "election irregularities" that he own lying eyes had never seen.
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  11669. Sorry but the claims of good news in NY are false hope. They might see some 1-3 day fluctuations in deaths, but deaths are ultimately driven by new cases (with a 3-5 week delay) and in just 5 days NY has gone from 4313 cases/million to 6724 cases/million. One county in NY has above 17K cases/million. Hint: Spain's rate is 2923 cases/million and Italy's is 2192. Edit: data from worldmeters and NY state.
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  11670. Unfortunately Musk is buddy-buddy with the guy whose horrible decisions are making for tough times. It's like the serial arsonist complaining that there are fires all over town and only he can fix it.
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  11671.  @LD86  I LOVE watching them lose their everloving marbles over this stuff. Joe is getting stuff done calmly, coolly, professionally. Unlike Trump, who apparently learned nothing during his time on earth, Joe appears to have learned a lot during long career in politics. As Moscow Mitch and many others are learning to their chagrin.
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  11672. What aegis exists for this "coalition government"? Smells like a power grab.
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  11673.  @jimbojackson4045  Clearly you're not good at following actual events in the real world, because after Trump delivered that "very fine people" remark, he was forced later by reporters to explain what he'd meant, and that involved some backtracking on his part. No doubt he didn't enjoy not being able to say how "good" his little Nazi followers were and how "bad" the anti-racists were. Here, get acquainted with some facts. Trump's history of racist words and deeds is well-documented and goes back decades. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/ https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-racism-examples_n_5991dcabe4b09071f69b9261
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  11674.  @jimbojackson4045  Can't remember if any of those articles mentioned the Central Park Five, and how Trump kept calling for their execution despite lack of conclusive proof. Of course he had nothing to say when the evidence exonerated them. One of the most telling examples of his particular bent was when he wanted to encourage the regular publication of lists of crimes supposedly committed by immigrants. (ref https://immigrantarchiveproject.org/brief-history-anti-immigrant-propaganda/) It was a little too much like this for many people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/02/adolf-hitler-also-published-a-list-of-crimes-committed-by-groups-he-didnt-like/
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  11675. You gotta love the way Trump is now the DNC's secret weapon for helping Republicans screw the pooch in election after election. Trump's been hearing boos and chants of "lock him up" at every public event since the world series game in Washington DC, up to and including the NYC Veterans Day parade, he hasn't gotten the wall built, he hasn't won any trade wars, he hasn't fixed the Middle East, he's added trillions to the debt, and the best the Republicans can manage to do is say what great clothing their fat naked emperor is wearing. Feh :(
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  11676. Thank God things are going back to normal. After four years of letting Trump do "acting" appointments in order to skip the confirmation hearing process, Republicans will return to normal by blocking lots of Biden appointments. After letting Trump ram through a SCOTUS judge in less than 8 weeks, Republicans will return to normal by telling Biden that even 24 months is much too short a time to appoint a SCOTUS judge. Couldn't possibly be scheduled any sooner. After four years of letting Trump trash every norm, rule, and law, Republicans will return to normal by insisting that Biden do things the way every other president before Trump did them. Can somebody please take the Republicans out to the woodshed?
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  11677. Counting down 3 .. 2 .. 1 until the inevitable: "I take no responsibility for this" followed by "Who ever knew that international economics could be complicated? No one ever heard of such a thing!"
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  11678. Everything you need to know about Trump Republicans is shown in one of those photos from the DC insurrection showing a crazy Trumpanzee beating a policeman to death with an American flag.
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  11679.  @janeem4371 Yep, those sneaky bastards and how they use logic and facts instead of believing the lies like good Trump culties do. Is that what you meant? ;)
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  11680.  @EconLessons  That old black market is surely going to come back with a vengeance. Surely the Russian government hasn't tried to eliminate paper-money transactions? Smuggling people out of there should be a big business. Guessing the government will have to make food and housing contingent on gainful employment - and we know how that's going to turn out.
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  11681.  josie  Bingo, because Trump wouldn't know enough to separate the personal from the political. I doubt he knows the difference between the two.
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  11682. You know, it's strange, but the MAGA chuds in red states do enjoy watching that movie "Red Dawn". Kinda ironic that it's them who form a bond with the Russians and could perhaps someday bring in Russian paratroopers to help seize power here.
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  11683. I used to wonder how nations fall to fascism .. but no longer. We're living through it :(
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  11684.  Dillon McCluskey  Coming from someone who thinks hyperbole is a figure of geometry .. thanks for the laugh.
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  11685. ​ Dillon McCluskey  Err, you used insults yourself upthread when you wrote "Our foreign policy has been in the crapper sine Bush and Obummer." I get that you're probably the smartest whatever in your corner of that small trailer park in Ohio .. but some of us actually bother to pay attention to facts and history, and you're not a member of that club. Got any other nonsense to try?
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  11686.  @jorymollenhauer3295  At 91 comments so far on this thread, at least use some quotes to show what it is you've got your panties in a knot over.
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  11687. Just remember - Republicans had more outrage for Obama wearing a tan suit, or for Jill Biden having an advanced degree, than they do for Trump inciting an insurrection and having his mob attack the Congress.
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  11688. Trump is especially effective on people who lack any kind of moral compass.
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  11689. Gosh those Trumptards really hate it when someone reminds them of realities that don't fit their party line BS.
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  11690. It's over 180,000 already. Someday there will be a memorial like the Vietnam war monument. Lots of names on big panels. In the center will be a bronze statue of Sweet Potato Hitler, with his famous words, "I take no responsibility for this".
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  11691. Ironically, the lawsuit that resulted in that recent Alabama judgement (the nutty one that has us all aghast) was brought about by a couple that wanted compensation after their embryos were accidentally destroyed. Apparently they did not consider how it would affect the rest of the people of Alabama. Oopsie there :(
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  11692. You gotta love the way Trump thoroughly researched the Wesley Mouch character before playing him on the national stage. /sarc
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  11693. Obviously the one good solution is to let Amazon (or some other company) host Parler again so that the authorities can use it as a honeypot to trap any remaining DC insurrectionists and future wannabe traitors planning violence online. A win for everyone.
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  11694. All of this makes you wonder if Hitler spent his final few weeks, in the bunker, ranting that the Allied and Soviet troops pouring into Germany all suffered from some bizarre syndrome that made them hate him irrationally. Perhaps he even referred to it as Hitler Derangement Syndrome.
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  11695. Who else remembers John Boehner?
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  11696. Sadly, you don't have to imagine a large minority of Americans deeply in thrall to an ex-president who threatens the lives of jurors, court personnel, doctors, election workers, etc. Their cult leader threatens to make America as messed-up as Haiti, and all they can do is swoon over him. Madness.
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  11697.  @dstorm7752  New cases have been going up exponentially. Some of them will die. More cases -> more deaths.
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  11698. The US is seeing more than 10K new cases per day and it just keeps increasing. Domestic air travel is still operating, meaning that people have been fleeing the hotspots and bringing the virus wherever they go to start new clusters. Some states are still acting like business-as-usual. Guessing we're maybe a month or a little more away from the maximum acceleration rate of the virus in the US. It will be something like 75,000+ new cases per day. And two weeks behind that will be death rates of above 4K per day.
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  11699.  @purpleflametarot39  Isn't Balsonaro himself infected? So he wants to take as many people with him, sacrificially? Uggh :(
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  11700. More white powder mailed to election workers, more death threats to court workers. This is the legacy of Trump.
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  11701. Soon it will be, "Our troops were just going camping for the weekend, they didn't mean anything by it."
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  11702. Translation: Trump extorted something out of the other party by holding America hostage again.
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  11703. If a Republican has been in office the last four years, and Republicans had all three branches of government for 2017 and 2018, any "hate" you're talking about probably came from Republicans.
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  11704.  @a.t.2612  That's what they say on Q-Anonsense, which only total fools read. Thanks for proving my point so unintentionally.
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  11705. Apparently when you are born in the biggest democracy in the world, and when you inherit a sht ton of money, and you live in a gold tower with your name all over it, it makes you want to destroy that same democracy and totally balkanize its politics. Huh.
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  11706. And this is why friends don't let friends listen to Trump or Tucker Carlson.
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  11707. 1850 called, they want their conservatives back.
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  11708. President Bleach Injection is waaaaay too easy to see through. He tests himself and his staff constantly (as if he's afraid of a dangerous virus) but tells the rest of us to go back to work without workplace testing. He tells us the USPS needs to go, but he uses it to send out stimulus letters because it's cost effective. He tells us chain migration is bad, then he uses chain migration to bring in his mail-order bride's parents. He votes by mail, then tells us that voting by mail leads to fraud. Could he be any more transparently dishonest?
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  11709. The way this will probably turn out is that the rest of the world, plus the EU, will form a large free trade zone, perhaps with the Euro being the global reserve currency. And by then the US Republicans will be claiming that they had absolutely nothing to do with the Manchurian candidate Trump who they brought to office.
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  11710. Face it, Trump Republicans are best understood as a cluster of mental diseases.
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  11711.  @hollihawk1  Evidence?
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  11712. Betcha there are Republicans who did Nazi that one coming.
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  11713. We know already some of the names who will help him murder democracy. On the executive end, start with the three he put on the Supreme Corp; the DOJ; a number of his "acting" agency heads and cabinet members; the senators and congress folks like Moscow Mitch and Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton; etc. And on the boots-on-the-ground end you've got the militias and the police, DHS, HHS, etc. Americans need to be asking themselves, right now, what it is they'll do to prevent Trump from stealing the election.
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  11714. It makes sense now that so few of them wear helmets - nothing to protect anyway. And what is it with all those girls big enough to burn diesel?
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  11715. Top countries ranked by GDP: United States. GDP: $19.48 trillion. ... China. GDP: $12.23 trillion. ... Japan. GDP: $4.87 trillion. ... Germany. GDP: $3.69 trillion. ... India. GDP: $2.65 trillion. ... United Kingdom. GDP: $2.63 trillion. ... France. GDP: $2.58 trillion. ... Brazil. GDP: $2.05 trillion. Please, for the love of f*ck, research something before parroting alt-reich nonsense.
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  11716. Nice to know that FOXed Noise hasn't lost its signature touch for being 180 degrees wrong. In the 2016 election, every age group over 50 voted more for Trump than against Trump, and now those are the very same age groups most experiencing bad covid outcomes. The same ones loved FOX. Makes me think there really is a god after all.
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  11717. If he spoke, it would only be "I take the fifth" hundreds of times over and over.
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  11718. Bingo. Because Fox lost $787million to Dominion for supporting Trump's lies .. next up is the Smartmatic lawsuit, asking amount $3billion. Murdoch took it in the shorts.
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  11719.  @rockybalboa4593  This seems like a good time to remind everyone how the ugly, brutal Spanish Civil War began in the 1930s. Big shocker, it started when the right-wing party refused to accept the election losses of 1936 that put them out of power. Their intransigence resulted in 50 years of rule under a bloodthirsty dictator.
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  11720.  B E  Huh. The monies that get spent on covid vaccines and their development are paltry compared to what gets spent on military equipment. One's saving lives, the other is in the business of taking lives, and guess which one you're whining about.
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  11721.  B E  I'm not slated to get a booster, but thanks for your mock concern. I still go to work every day like everyone else - except perhaps the low-quality ComBloc trolls in mama's basement in Belarus.
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  11722.  B E  Aww, man, what's with the fear-based nonsense? Most of us vaccinated people live pretty normal lives, shopping, going to work, going to restaurants even. Breakthrough cases are rare and seldom fatal. Heck, we live with seatbelts having only a 45% chance of saving our lives in a serious accident, but that's enough of a safety improvement to make them worth using. Same deal with the vaccines, except the protection is more like 90% or above. It's the unvaccinated who should be walking around thinking they've got targets painted on their backs. Covid makes housecalls, karma makes housecalls, then the undertaker makes a housecall. Turns out there's a cure for stupidity after all.
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  11723. There's no mystery there .. they want no part of a government that is not exclusively theirs to rule. You could tell that from their attempt to overturn the election, that they simply didn't like the results of, and how little they care for actual working democracy. Tell 'em to be ready to put their sheets onto sticks and wave them around in the air like last time.
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  11724. Faced with changing demographics, the Republican idea is to make America into a Rhodesia 2.0, a techno-apartheid state in which minorities (and anyone else who votes blue) are systematically disenfranchised. As a consequence, we will have to spend every other year of our free time making sure that people register to vote, get to vote, and are not purged off their local rolls. We will have to make sure that the Republicans don't sabotage the post office and do things like having just one (1) ballot drop box for 4 million people whose skin color they disagree with.
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  11725. To be fair, if the gun fondlers of America could take a month or two off from doing mass shootings every week, it would go a ways towards cooling things down for the anti-gun crowd. Just saying.
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  11726.  Peter S  If I don't want to argue their "right" to rebel against public health measures, could those people at least have the decency to remove themselves from the rest of us so they don't spread the virus? It would be greatly appreciated.
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  11727.  Peter S  You care completely wrong. People who think they are healthy, and who thus avoid wearing droplet traps on their faces, are capable of spreading this disease widely. Otherwise it would only be circulating in senior care homes and nowhere else.
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  11728.  Peter S  Yawn. We're up to 165K American deaths and the number keeps going up up up. What's been exposed is that when people fail to take this thing seriously, death follows.
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  11729.  @ariadneschild8460  Does anyone want to bet that Boebert may have been the author of any of those death threats mailed to Colorado state supreme court justices?
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  11730. She's a Boebert wannabe. Evil.
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  11731. Both of those are considered to be treacherous. The bar at Astoria has taken many a ship.
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  11732. Remember, kids, the same Republicans who turn a blind eye to this and other illegal Trump actions are the same people who once had a total sh!tfit over Obama wearing a tan suit. Gah. Did anyone tell them that "It Can't Happen Here" was a cautionary tale and not a how-to manual?
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  11733. Trump will spend the whole time taking the fifth. I prefer to wait and see where the evidence leads. Particularly the interesting angle of any inappropriate fingerprints on the documents. Wouldn't be surprised if Trump let Putin see the list of NATO nuclear contingency responses - which would, incidentally, perfectly explain why he keeps trying to escalate.
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  11734. Given the proclivity for a large portion of Americans to vote for authoritarian-minded lying bullies (as long as those lies jive with their prejudices) we're definitely living in dangerous times. Possibly Weimar level of danger.
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  11735. With projectionists, every accusation is a confession.
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  11736. This is code for "Putin wants to deploy the troops elsewhere so other former SSR's don't do what Ukraine just did."
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  11737. Trump was just doing standard narcissist behavior there .. she's one of his marks .. alternating between rewarding her and snubbing her is part of what he does to hook her into torching her future for him.
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  11738. She's clearly psychopathic, to burst into a big grin when being told that children are dying.
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  11739. If you need any reporting on this particular subject, go lookup the article entitled (loosely) they spewed hate then punctuated it with the president's name. Lots of examples. It affected even school children :(
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  11740. If they wanted to go after Trump, they'd just target Swamp-a-Lago instead, which hasn't got the nice defenses that DC does.
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  11741. Too bad they had to wait for president superspreader to get infected before they could make that fact public on their website. Oh, that's right, saying it earlier would have made him look like the total liar he really is.
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  11742. Trump's disastrous mistake in Portland is going to cause 10x, 20x, 50x more people to hit the streets. The federal goons had better leave town while they still can.
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  11743. Thankfully, Trump can practically be used as the spec for what to avoid.
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  11744. Things in the USA are a little crazy now. It's a toxic combination of shitty healthcare system, lots of unhealthy people, lots of willful denial, and a leader with at least 3 different personalities. His followers are out there proving their loyalty by continuing to socialize as normal even as the virus spreads rapidly - as they put it, "owning the libs." By summertime, you'll be able to tell which houses have bodies in them by looking for the MAGA stickers on their vehicles.
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  11745. If the jackboot fits, Trump (and by extension his GOP) ought to slip it on and start goose stepping.
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  11746. The cruelty is the point. Plus boss Putin is pleased.
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  11747. Plenty of Trump followers still don't realize how they're lied to. Some have grown accustomed to the feed mix they get from FOXed.
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  11748. Trump's followers are so enamored with the idea of a one-party state that they've set up fake ballot drop boxes so that votes from certain areas will never make it to the final count. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/california-ballot-drop-boxes/index.html
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  11749. When Republicans say they want a more prosperous country - does that include Trump's undeclared income from selling American classified documents to whoever he can meet privately with? At least now we know why Trump didn't want any witnesses when he met with Putin.
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  11750. Sydney's not the only Trump administration alum who'll be needing a rubber room after this is done with.
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  11751.  @TheLAGopher  When they come flying into the picture, those ATACMS or HIMARS rounds (or JDAMs) don't care what language Putin's meat speaks.
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  11752. Perhaps governor DeathSantis has been inhumed.
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  11753. Getting the most gullible Americans to harm their own nation (via the dumbest lies a cat could see through) surely warmed the cockles of Putin's heart - if he has one. Notice how Russia doesn't allow Faux Noise to operate there, and would jail the bejeebus out of insurrectionists.
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  11754. To be fair, Trump DID promise to run the USA like one of his own businesses. So this will be his 7th bankruptcy, and this is the part where the shareholders are revolting while he's trying to make a getaway with some of the loot - in order to start up his next scam, of course.
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  11755. No candidate in history, on either side, has ever taken the popular vote in the first 3 states. Weirdly enough, the trolls are claiming that in no country is the leader selected by popular vote. False. In more than half (65) of the world’s 125 democracies, the head of state (nearly always called a president) is directly elected by voters. Thirty other democracies are classified as constitutional monarchies, and in the remaining 30, including the USA, the head of state is indirectly elected. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/
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  11756. It's worth asking which of his shtty spawn will take up politics. Probably Barron.
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  11757.  @mallardofmodernia8092  Kinda disagreeing. Putin still wants something from the world that he cannot get if he nukes everything. Look at all the things he's NOT doing, despite losing horribly in Ukraine and being stuck in a monkey trap he built for himself. He hasn't tried to attack NATO proper either. There's no win for him when Russia's a glassed wasteland and its people the pariahs of the globe for all time to come. The stain they have now won't come off easily.
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  11758.  @silverwolf6866  Well, I'd wish you good luck with your selective outrage.
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  11759. And Musk is the one who wants to cancel NASA ..
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  11760. Let's see if he pulls another Georgia and tells his loyal sheeple to sit out the election since he can't guarantee the results.
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  11761. Because Republicans just quietly look the other way when an angry white dude with a MAGA hat guns down minorities. But they'll talk your ear off about "violent libtards" :(
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  11762. They're a different breed of rioter. Ever since Alex Fields, their preferred method of attack has been by vehicle. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020
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  11763. This is hardly the first time the Republicans are up in a tizzy about something they have no proof of.
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  11764. Who else remembers this from his first term? "Wealthy Russians are flocking to give birth at Trump’s luxury US resorts so their kids can have dual-citizenship" Harriet Pavey 7 September 2017 While President Trump cracks down on the children of undocumented migrants, wealthy Russians are using his properties to secure dual-citizenship for their babies. The President's Florida properties are a Russian birth tourism hotspot, according to a Daily Beast investigation. Trump resorts are a popular choice for birth tourism companies, who offer luxury holidays to help expectant Russian parents secure dual Russian and American citizenship for their baby by giving birth in the US. Russian birth tourism companies are offering Trump apartments as part of packages costing £57,000 ($75,000) plus, as well as medical care, the Daily Beast found. Status-Med, a Miami birth tourism company, offers a Trump Royale penthouse apartment for £5,300 ($7,000) a month alongside full access to the Sunny Medical Centre, which organises both beach yoga, get-togethers and medical care for expectant mothers.
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  11765.  @alvinbanks  682 days elapsed between 45's attempted insurrection and the appointment of special prosecutor Smith. Jeez. AG Garland may have doomed our democracy by being so milquetoast :(
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  11766. Presumably, Putin's off-ramp is to withdraw Russia's forces to their pre-2014 lines, sue for peace, return the deported people, and begin making reparations. That won't happen. For its part, the West must keep its troops out of Ukraine, and not allow Ukraine to use western long-distance weapons to reach far into Russia. Ukraine will soon figure that out on their own anyway.
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  11767. Not for awhile, sorry.
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  11768. To be fair to judge Luttig, anyone who's even barely slighted Trump once would be on a death list if Trump had a chance to implement his revenge administration. That includes some supreme court justices who didn't rule his way, and many many others in the US.
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  11769. Now is when his followers get to demonstrate whether they're American's or just cultists in service of Putin. They can't be both.
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  11770. No, Trump gets flak because he's acting like this type of criminal: Investigators: We're collecting evidence. OJ Simpson: No. Your investigation is a fraud. Investigators: Alright. Sorry for bothering you, sir. Here, take this parking ticket. Your vehicle was illegally parked at Nicole's place during the murder. OJ Simpson: Sorry, those bloody gloves are going to stay in my safe until I can burn them. Have a great day, officers.
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  11771. One could also use a Texan reference and call the Republicans all hate and no cattle.
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  11772. It's simpler than that. Fox and other bad actors filled the airwaves with "Democrats are supporting bad things" nonsense designed to sway the easily-swayed types. Which is how the Republicans used a tiny minority, half a percent of the population, to beat the drum about some alleged great evil happening in athletic programs everywhere. (trans kids)
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  11773. GQP cultists veer towards misinformation in the same way that cockroaches veer towards dark hiding places when the kitchen lights come on.
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  11774. Well, that didn't take long. You know how Democrats celebrate winning an election or two? Pizza. You know how Republicans celebrate the same? Attempts to overturn, weaken, erode the rule of law.
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  11775. Decades. There was a time when the world was welcoming to the people who had finally cast aside communism, but after this, no one's going to want to stand near them for a long time. And still no one wants to invade the land of outhouses and dirt roads. They don't have anything that you can't find more & better of from someplace else.
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  11776. Ewww. I have sudden disrespect for that show, just from hearing they let him on.
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  11777. Trump's complaints about cities are part of what he uses to pull in gullible rural people - some of whom harbor a common bumpkin fantasy about whole states that contain no large cities.
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  11778. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy.” -- Senator Mitt Romney, the night of 1/6/21
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  11779. The next Rush Limbaugh.
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  11780. Here's how it works in the USA: socialism for the very richest, rugged individualism for everyone else. Hope you know which team you're on.
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  11781.  @gailcarmack2954  They were OK with his lies, his rule-by-tweet, his sucking up to dictators, his trashing of our best allies, his divisivenesss, his attempts to prevent the votes from being counted .. but now costing the RNC money is just one step too far for them.
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  11782. I cannot stand those robot-matthew type voices.
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  11783. One of the few favors he did America was wake him up to how many other Americans are willing to end our democratic experiment in the service of that same thug's lies. I knew we had some, didn't know we had so many. Lotta Quislings :(
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  11784. Unfortunately for us all, Sweet Potato Hitler sees the coronavirus as merely a public relations problem, not as a public health problem. That's why he told HHS to spent $250Million on a PR campaign convincing us that coronavirus really isn't so bad -- and this, while Trump continues to test everyone around him constantly.
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  11785.  @catherinedee981  Oooh look, a future sore loser. Take a picture of yourself at this tender moment. Future you is going to need some reminding.
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  11786.  @samuelvimes5770  Thanks for the correction! I take comfort in knowing other parts will remain in the EU.
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  11787.  @jeffreym68  Sad. This is like Mississippi & Alabama leaving the USA and expecting their old Confederacy to suddenly reappear. I understand that some people in England have got a lot of nostalgia to get off their chests, but couldn't they have found a way to do so that wouldn't fuck over the rest of the UK so hard? Maybe they should have gotten into WW2 re-enactment instead.
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  11788. When Trump has Habba represent him, she's got a fool for a client and he's got a fool for a lawyer. They were made for each other.
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  11789. Unfortunately we are most certainly in for a very rough ride. The Republicans rightfully regard the future as an existential conundrum - that is, the matter of how to cling to white rule as whites become less of a majority in the USA. They are going full Rhodesia at this point. They see shredding the constitution as a good thing if it means they can prevent non-whites from being in positions of power.
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  11790. The new rules make it clear that, while many places are reopening, you are free to continue wearing a mask, distancing, avoiding crowds, avoiding indoors public settings, etc. If you have doubt in the efficacy of the vaccines, please feel free to do those things.
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  11791.  @GoldenRetrievers4President  Dear Lordy, do you folks get all your misinformation from the same bad sources? Wearing a mask protects you AND protects others who you might accidentally infect. Doesn't prevent it entirely but greatly cuts the risks both ways.
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  11792.  @GoldenRetrievers4President  I would rather we all continue wearing masks and all get vaccinated, so that when cases drop down to rural Australian levels they can give the all-clear. Those are the things that will push new-case rates to near zero. But some people apparently don't want that :(
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  11793.  @GoldenRetrievers4President  Exactly on the mask use! Last winter we all greatly reduced the spread of seasonal flu just by wearing masks. In Asian societies it's perfectly normal to wear a mask for those reasons, or even just because you feel like it. I have grown to like mine since it's been a year or more now of not being told to smile.
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  11794. Unlike the Incredible Sulk who slunk off to Florida, president Biden can actually think and speak clearly. Who else remembers when Australia's then-PM Malcolm Turnbull had to learn the hard way that Trump is a total moron? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/full-transcript-of-trumps-phone-call-with-australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull
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  11795.  @waynegnarlie1  We can always find more prison space if we need to. Nice to weed out the people who don't care for democracy.
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  11796. Hopefully sometime in the next 4-5 months, most folks will be able to go to the local Walgreens to get a covid vaccine. There are more still in the developmental pipeline, and some of them work with just one shot.
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  11797. @Jane Goodall Do you have the special "I hate Democrats" matching socks-and-underwear sets? Have another swig of copium.
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  11798. Mitch had a brief moment of sanity. Didn't last long. Here's what he said: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  11799. There are going to be whole new mental disorders named after the current batch of GQP Republican cultists.
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  11800.  @dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621  These are people who have a kind of deficiency. What's said and what they hear are two different things. Example: What is said: "We will tolerate gay people getting married." What they hear: "Everyone's going to get forced into gay marriages! :("
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  11801. Every nation has its traitors and Quislings. Don't feel obliged to be nice to them.
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  11802.  @lastjob2011  Exactly. 45's appeal is only to the negative things that some people harbor within themselves .. simmering resentments .. racism .. phobias .. persecution delusions .. conspiracy thinking. There are no examples of anyone whose lives have been improved by following 45. He sows chaos, division, undoing.
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  11803. He can hardly be expected to bite the hand that feeds him and pets him.
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  11804. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway, and the French people who helped the Nazis. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  11805. @ Also if Mitch hadn't let Dump stack the supreme corp .. and if Mitch hadn't pushed Citizen$ United .. there's plenty of failure with his name on it.
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  11806. Silent submarine mode. The Moskva class of totally-silent submersibles so good that they can remain underwater for years. The west has nothing like it.
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  11807. The world's second biggest air force is the US Navy .. Russia should go home.
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  11808. Unknown .. going to wait and see what happens.
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  11809. Quite possibly it's some peculiar Russian way of looking at things. To Russians, it seems perfectly OK that they bomb maternity hospitals and childrens schools, but when one of their AA rockets misses its target and explodes near a beach, they shriek about "oh the humanity". They're in desperate need of some kind of readjustment of their views on these things.
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  11810. What's with all those wide load girls who look big enough to burn diesel? Is short/fat/ugly some kind of requisite for that crowd?
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  11811. If Trump should badly flame out, there would be all kinds of former Trump toadies trying to similarly rehab their reputations after the fact. Don't let them. They need to wear that shame for a long time after.
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  11812.  @andrewlockett4569  It's bad enough if he reaches out to his culties and asks them to follow the example of Anthony Quinn Warner of Nashville.
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  11813. Perhaps much of their once-vaunted troll force has been conscripted into Wagner Group, then turned to vapor somewhere in Ukraine?
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  11814. The easiest way to understand MAGA Republicans is that they want to destroy American democracy. They are a sort of American Al-Queda.
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  11815. You might want to move to a blue place. Things are going to get worse quickly out there in maga places. Job losses, healthcare losses, rising costs of everything. Caligula will keep blaming whichever scapegoat he can find.
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  11816. Few conservatives will be later able to claim that they didn't know how toxic Trump was, that they didn't know what kind of a person he was. Here's what some conservatives had to say about Trump, in their own words: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  11817. Camps are a little too transparent to the passage of disease. Should be more like a remote island, one where all the boats and aircraft have been destroyed. That's what they had to do with Typhoid Mary, a FOX Noise watcher who was decades ahead of her time and insisted on the right to spread a pandemic anytime she felt like it.
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  11818. Unfortunately it's only the richest countries with high vaccination rates. The other 93% of the world's population is going to be in a bad spot if Delta shows up in their town.
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  11819.  @MakeCentsOfThat  Just as during the time when AH reigned in Germany, gullible people are the devil's helpers.
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  11820.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Easy question. If you look at the numbers just from the Americas (you seen to be from the US, given your ignorance) there are just not that many, around 22K total for north and south America combined. The seasonal flu kills more than that. Covid-19 kills way more than that. https://tbfacts.org/deaths-from-tb/
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  11821.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Did you honestly think you were clever with such a stupid question? My cat could solve that one. Jeez.
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  11822.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Here's something to feed your ignorance. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. 11% of the time, at least in the US, the closure of a covid19 sufferer's case is by death. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  11823.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Err, no, it is not over 99%. Go read data itself, not the babble you hear from Hannity or that orange fool. 11% of the closed cases in the US were deaths, 89% were recoveries.
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  11824. To be fair .. these days Republicans must out-nutty each other in order to grab the vote share of the most radical, alt-reich fanatics.
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  11825. Damn. Is it bad that I saw the first 3 words in the title and hoped they used something large calibre as a "shock and awe" reference that he wouldn't get?
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  11826. Sorry to say, but at this point I think we (humanity) are mostly due for the disaster recovery scenario, eventually, since it seems that containment is not working effectively. How will your community function when various vital services have got 20%-50%+ employee absenteeism rates? Fire, police, hospitals, food distribution, stores, etc. You can garner some clues for how humanity responded by reading up on what things were like in various places when the 1918 pandemic was raging. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGi9FKZzDI
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  11827. The sad thing is, though, Putin would never allow Faux to push anti-government nonsense in Russia. So their only use there would be as Americans saying bad things about America. Kind of like William Joyce AKA Lord Haw-Haw.
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  11828. Did anyone else catch the bad cv19 reporting coming out of Michigan, USA yesterday? The previous 11 days of reporting had an average of 1489 new cases per day, but yesterday only 645. It is not as if the virus suddenly ran out of people to infect there. Similar for Louisiana, where promoter Tony Spell has been gathering people for covid-19 spreading parties. The other notables are Texas (50% down from previous 11 days average), Virginia (43%), Hawaii (45%), Montana (39%), South Carolina (42%), Maine (40%), Missouri (45%), Georgia (60%), Idaho (76%), Vermont (58%). EDIT: This morning some of those states seem to be carrying over the increases that apparently didn't get posted in time for yesterday's refresh.
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  11829. That's a question that has no meaning to them. Like, if you ask them how putting all the immigrants and trans children into detention camps (which is what they want to do) would fix inflation, they can't answer the question. They're purely tribal at this point, and logic is not part of their picture.
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  11830. .. while charging a lot for it too.
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  11831.  @Nerdyone50  Yes :( Unfortunately :( Uggh I have wasted shit ton hours of my time trying to convince those brain-dead sheeple that yes, the virus is real, yes, it's dangerous, and yes, there are vaccines to fight it. Even though they ate lead paint chips and were dropped on their heads a lot as children, they're still worth saving.
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  11832.  @Nerdyone50  They'll be gasping for breath, trying to tell us that they didn't think covid was real. As if the last 18 months of news, and the shutdowns, and the vaccines, were only some elaborate scheme to waste their time.
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  11833. There will probably be a whole lot of new specialty hospitals being built for those people, in much the same way that once loads of sanatariums existed to help people who'd suffered from tuberculosis. There will be huge numbers of people with these lingering troubles :(
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  11834. "Deplorables" is too kind a term. "Despicables" is more like it. Do not lose sight of the fact that they wanted to make our country as internally violent as Haiti or Somalia (shudder) over accepting that their guy lost an election. They're not Americans anymore.
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  11835.  @Alley-dw2fl  Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him, beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc.
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  11836. I hear you .. lost all my immediate relatives to the cult craziness  @kevinbaird5169 
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  11837.  @seanbinkley7363  With Putin's reckless waste of human resources in his war against Ukraine (particularly younger males) he's setting Russia up for a precipitous population decline somewhere down the road. Millions of professionals have bailed and found homes elsewhere, probably never to return. Putin has poisoned the waters back home by removing those who could have steered Russia on a better future course, like Alexi Navalny. Even before the current war started, Russia still had not recovered from the demographic shock of losing some 20M people during WW2.
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  11838.  @mooseantler In other words .. "Hitler had this fine private mountaintop retreat. Did you? No. So stop criticizing him for committing atrocities."
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  11839. Rest assured, he asked for a more final solution, but they told him this was all they could do. If true, this is a gross human rights violation.
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  11840. Guessing the Republican thinking is like this: they would rather see Americans die at home by the millions because it's cheaper than what we're doing now: locking down the country and trying to expand testing.
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  11841. Eh, I've been giving that "Roman" salute to those. Share the love.
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  11842. This must be a rinse-and-repeat of how he used taxpayer dollars to bribe Hispanics with recently, via a 3-years-delayed aid package to Puerto Rico for the damages they suffered during Hurricane Maria.
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  11843. Trump told most of the crazies that their delusions were real and that they'd been wronged and that he'd fix it all.
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  11844.  @paulwettstein7071  It's like something visiting from the upside down, muttering what they think is something important, then disappearing.
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  11845. It is a "special operation" to gift Ukraine with scrap metal for recycling.
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  11846. Notice how we haven't heard from Sidney Powell lately or that human rat, Stephen Miller.
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  11847. So does most of the Republican leadership.
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  11848. It wasn't "parallel data" it was alternative facts. Those were what Trump yakked about during the Axios interview. Remember that exchange where the interviewer pointed out that the US had the most coronavirus cases and Trump reflectively blurted out, "That means we're the best!" and the interviewer made a wtf face?
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  11849. Huh. Like their good friends, the Trump family crime clan, they probably thought they were the first ones to think of gaming the system to their own advantage :(
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  11850. Has everyone seen this video? Classic German humor for America in these dire straits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY&ab_channel=ZDFMAGAZINROYALE
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  11851. This sounds almost like a request to prove that other world leaders don't advocate injecting disinfectants. Hope it's not.
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  11852.  @Syrnian  Most cultures have a cautionary fable about selling your soul to the devil. We get to watch it on TV. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his supporters & enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had. And when he's done with them, he fires them on Twitter. But not until he's sucked them dry and made them use up all their credibility.
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  11853.  @a5cent  From the dome for the pilot, it would appear that the thing stays just a few meters below the surface. Note the cargo space taken up by commandos .. probably meant to deliver boarding parties up close and personal.
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  11854. Normalizing hate is how you normalize violence .. and for his followers, Trump mashes that sugar-candy-high hate button like nothing and no one else.
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  11855.  @DissectGibberish  They have to be serving Satan when they'd want to force a preteen rape victim to bear to term. That's Dr Mengele level medical torture.
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  11856. Government big enough to surveil every woman's private medical business, big enough to support the billionaire class, and big enough to go after every trans kid - that's the kind of government Republicans have in mind. Any words to the contrary are just so much hot air.
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  11857. Nice to know Trump has his priorities right. Besides sulking, golfing, ignoring the pandemic, etc, he's working to undermine the election results. Oh, and yesterday the US recorded 204,179 new cases in a single day, which is more cases than each and every one of the following 181 countries have recorded over the entire 10 months of the pandemic so far: Samoa, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Anguilla, Marshall Islands, Western Sahara, Montserrat, Falkland Islands, Saint Pierre Miquelon, Solomon Islands, Greenland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Laos, Vatican City, Timor-Leste, New Caledonia, Fiji, Grenada, Macao, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent Grenadines, St. Barth, Antigua and Barbuda, Brunei , Caribbean Netherlands, Seychelles, Saint Lucia, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cambodia, Isle of Man, Bhutan, Mauritius, Faeroe Islands, Tanzania, Eritrea, Monaco, Mongolia, Comoros, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Burundi, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sint Maarten, Channel Islands, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Niger, San Marino, Liberia, Curaçao, Chad, New Zealand, Lesotho, Yemen, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, South Sudan, Gambia, Thailand, Mali, Somalia, Uruguay, Aruba, Martinique, CAR, Guyana, Mayotte, Belize, Equatorial Guinea, Iceland, Suriname, Hong Kong, Rwanda, Congo, Djibouti, Nicaragua, Malawi, Andorra, Eswatini, Trinidad and Tobago, Syria, Bahamas, Réunion, Cuba, Mauritania, Cyprus, Guadeloupe, Malta, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Haiti, Estonia, Botswana, Jamaica, Cabo Verde, French Guiana, Tajikistan, DRC, Maldives, Latvia, Guinea, French Polynesia, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, Madagascar, Zambia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Finland, Cameroon, Australia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, S. Korea, Albania, Norway, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Ghana, North Macedonia, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Denmark, Ireland, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Paraguay, Kenya, Libya, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Tunisia, China, Azerbaijan, Greece, Slovakia, Moldova, Venezuela, Croatia, Georgia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Egypt, Lebanon, Serbia, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Oman, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Japan, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Qatar, Kuwait, Bolivia, Panama, UAE, Hungary, Jordan, and Ecuador.
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  11858. Another good thing Tяump has done is about the Lincoln Brigades. No need to travel abroad to fight the fascists, you can do it here without ever leaving the US. Net carbon savings! :)
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  11859. For all we know (this is just a hunch) perhaps Mo Brooks was one of the people prepared to do violence in the name of the insurrection. As in, carrying out the hit on Nancy Pelosi or Mike Pence, who in any case would have had Secret Service protection nearby. So did Mo Brooks have a gun stashed somewhere too, or was he carrying one? Who else had body armor and/or weapons handy that day?
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  11860. If this vote doesn't go the way the pro-rape-baby nutters want it to go, expect them to work to prevent this type of vote from ever happening again.
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  11861. Take a good look at the Faeroe Islands .. they've posted no new cases since 4/7. To stop this thing at the "low" level of 3766 cases/million, they tested at above 112K/million and did contact tracing too.
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  11862.  @petardetar5191  Ukraine isn't perfect, but they're working on it, whereas Russia is one of the most corrupt places on earth and not getting any better. One is in the middle of the sort list and one is at the worst end of the sort list. Do the math.
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  11863.  @tessjuel  I am fine with Ukraine as long as they are improving. Russians, on the other hand, can pat themselves on the back at being less corrupt than, say, North Korea.
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  11864. Oh, so "christians" finally noticed that the serial con man, serial adulterer, serial bankruptcy guy they've been supporting since 2009 isn't christian at all? Just how slow are they to realize something?
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  11865. Is this one Beavis or Butthead? Man are they dumb. Absolutely zero self-introspection.
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  11866. Jeffrey Epstein would poll higher than Mango Musso at this point, and the numbers are only going down from here.
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  11867. It's going to be a lot worse than just being poorer. At best this will later turn out to have been a very painful and expensive way to accommodate the fantasies of a few people for the "good old days" of empire. Hope Scotland and Ireland can remain in the EU if they want to, and not ride BoJo's crazy train.
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  11868.  @Koop784  Being part of something does indeed mean being subject to the rules of that thing. This is sort of like a soccer goalie who wants to get divorced from the team while still remaining in the game. The ethnonationalism that was used to sell Brexit belied the nature of Brexit. There's no turning the calendar back to 1930.
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  11869.  @Koop784  At its heart, sorry, Brexit is at best a retrograde, lets-turn-the-calendar-back-to-simpler-times movement. At worst it's one of the several ethnonationalist spasms currently happening around the world. If violence against immigrants, refugees, and foreign nationals should suddenly rise just afterwards, the truth will be painfully apparent by its effects.
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  11870.  StinkyPirates  Covid-19 has become the third leading cause of death in the US, which is something the flu never attained. It might make the top of the list. There's still lots of dimwit we-won't-wear-masks host material out there for the virus to colonize.
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  11871.  @sandraal2585  To be fair, "both sides are the same" is a meme that sells well to folks who don't like to do homework and total up the receipts.
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  11872. I've worked for people like that .. the kind who don't trust you unless they can put the coals to you personally or financially or whatever.  @berggrog1 
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  11873. He showed the world that there's nothing keeping an even more manipulative, narcissistic con man (or woman) from winning some future election and then doing what Trump did, which was to trash our allegiances, suck up to hostile foreign powers, and pull out of whatever treaties we'd signed in good faith before. He burned up our political capital (the savings of centuries) just to roast a few marshmallows.
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  11874. Finding actual vote fraud was never the intention of this. Scaring the non-rich and/or the non-white into not voting was the plan.
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  11875. Pay close attention, people, it's not often that a whole Whig party commits suicide so publicly. This is their way of passing out the tainted kool-aid in classic Reverend Jim Jones fashion.
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  11876. Friday, Nov 20, 2020 .. Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield (both of Michigan) were flown to the White House so Trump could pressure them personally to change the election results.
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  11877. Not just living rent free .. former president Obama took the penthouse and the next two whole floors below it.
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  11878. In Russia those pipes appear to be above ground, and wrapped in what must surely be asbestos.
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  11879. It's only been 15 months. (sarcasm) Who did he think was going to do this? Ghostbusters? Or is he more comfy doing nothing, then letting our democracy burn down a few years later due to DOJ inaction?
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  11880. One thing we can count on: the business model at Fox is that they will fill the airwaves with BS about "election irregularities" in order to spread fear, uncertainty, doubt .. they will echo fake memes/disinfo authored by bad actors.
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  11881. Actually it is much worse than that. Trump would have used the powers of State to purge the place of unbelievers. It would be like something out of "It Can't Happen Here" :(
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  11882. Funny you should say that, because Putin would probably pay Trump something for a copy of the NATO nuclear contingency options and a list of all Agency folks on assignment in Russia. And he probably wants it right about now.
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  11883.  @bbadass106  People who can't spell aren't very scary. They are, however, subjects of ridicule. Even foreigners do english better than you.
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  11884.  @monkeyphoenix2178  You must be awful upset then that you can't down a six-pack of your favorite beer and then go drive on the wrong side of the road without wearing a seatbelt. Go ahead and whine, snowflake. I'll be the first to drop a dime on you for not wearing a mask in a public place.
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  11885.  @DestinyLabMusic  Sounds like you've never heard of how asymptomatic people have been spreading this disease all along. Here's a nice local story to explain it to you in simple words and short sentences - https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-superspreader-singing.html
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  11886.  @jspringer86  So glad for you that you realize now that 1/25 equals 4%. By the oddest coincidence, the American covid deaths to covid-infected Americans is similar at 4.5%. If you look at the closed case ratio, the deaths are more like 9% of the total cases. I mention these numbers if only to tease you away from your familiar, yet pathetically limited horizons.
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  11887.  @69birdboy  Thank you for bringing those complete non-sequiturs into the discussion .. shows that your mind holds a discussion topic about as well as a fishnet holds water. Back to the topic - using the NVSS data, there was an approx 17.7% increase in the mortality rate in the USA during 2020. What big new thing was happening in 2020? Gun deaths? Bad eating habits? Car accidents that went viral? No, silly, it was covid.
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  11888.  @kjell1087  Regarding "A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country" << Thank you for contributing that, because that is precisely what someone is doing when they are anti-mask and/or anti-vax and/or anti public health measures. They are serving to spread the disease to more of their own people. In case you haven't been watching the news the last 2 years, there's a virus waging war on every country on the planet. Don't be a stooge for the enemy.
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  11889.  @techroach6343  Sorry, twat, at least I have the sense to be doing the right thing. You, on the other hand, would have been punished for your inability to do the right thing, even when it would save your own life and the lives of your countrymen.
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  11890.  @RyanOManchester  On the estimates of human lifespans before modern medicine came along, you are once again completely off base. I'm feeling sorry for you. Somehow, events in your cozy life have led you to believe you have even a portion of a clue about anything you speak about. Whoever encouraged you do feel this way merely set you up to be mocked. It's one thing to be the smartest person in your corner of that central-Ohio trailer park where you live. It's a whole nother thing to actually know what you're talking about.
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  11891. His handlers in the Kremlin find him most easy to manipulate.
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  11892. Boebert is course herself vaccinated. But she still pushes the party purity test that the vaccine is bad/wrong/evil/etc.
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  11893. Shouldn't you be outside, spraying vinegar at the sky to "defeat the chemtrails"?
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  11894. Face it, hundreds of school shootings are committed by white cis dudes with guns, and now there's one committed by a trans person with guns. Guess what the GOP will be shrieking to ban next, and it's not going to be guns.
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  11895. What would these Republicans have said to Ronald Reagan back when he told Mr Gorbachev to "tear down that wall"? Would they have said, "Hell no, president Reagan, those folks from the other side of the iron curtain are here to steal our jobs, and they're not even documented!! We ought to be putting up guns and razor wire of our own!"
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  11896. Hopefully this policy will be expanded to cover all the abject morons out there insisting that they don't need to wear masks and that covid is no big deal. That garbage is costing lives.
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  11897. Dump45 openly admitted he wanted America more of a mess in order to make Biden look bad. In this, as in all things, he is fulfilling Putin's wishes to make America look as bad as possible. Even now he is making our justice system look horrible. Leaving it a smoking ruin is his MO.
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  11898.  @bok7364  I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  11899. Meanwhile in the US, more like this keeps happening: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513431/Texas-man-30-dies-catching-coronavirus-COVID-party-thinking-virus-hoax.html
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  11900.  @lp9280  Just going off what I've read. Err one interesting book was "Secondhand Time". Painful to read but illuminating nonetheless. You may well have better sources. Some people give the figure of a century for a nation to recover from a war as bad as, say, WW2 was for the nations of Europe. Shy of 'resettling' white ethnic Russians from other places (which apparently Russia has been doing with Ukrainians) they are going to have a hell of a time upping their birth rate to fix the aftereffects of this conflict. And the longer it continues, the worse the damages are. Can't see them opening their doors to folks from places closer to the equator either. Who would move to Russia for a better life anyhow? :(
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  11901.  @keelermalmsten3395  It's a line from the TV series "Chernobyl" starring Jared Harris.
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  11902. They like that style of nonsense so much in the UK that they elected Trump's mini-me to rule there. Sad :(
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  11903.  @Justme-rt4gj  Still not seeing any actual, verifiable citations for what you're saying. Have you considered that perhaps you're distributing rhetorical hyperbole (ie, "DEMONcrats want to EAT YOUR BABY!") and not something more factual (ie, "Democrats favor looser rules on abortion")?
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  11904. Since the guilty ones seem to be so damn inept .. wonder when we're going to find the official "kill list" which would have surely included Pelosi, Schumer, Pence, Clinton, Obama, and many more. Perhaps it was in Rudy's or Eastman's phone.
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  11905. What is Trump worried about anyway? Who else remembers his 2018 claim that he has the right to pardon himself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  11906. As a cult leader, Trump has never incited any of his followers into being better citizens, better employees, better family members, etc. He is good at only one thing: bringing out the very worst in his followers. To be fair, though, if he didn't bring out the worst in his people they probably wouldn't like him at all.
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  11907. Aside from the one time it was chasing retreating Nazis and being massively materially supplied by the USA, the Russian army has never been good at offensive operations.
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  11908. Bingo. Because Trump, left to his own, will just spend his time watching Fox, golfing, and rage-tweeting from the gold throne. Occasionally he'll stir himself to steal and sell a couple documents, but most of all he is lazy.
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  11909.  @thebilboshow168  Re "oh yeah it's just a big conspiracy theory" << You mean a big SEDITIOUS conspiracy theory. The charges are being filed. Woohoo :) about time :)
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  11910. Huh. Apparently Eastman has enough fashion sense to dress more normally when he's not trying to help Trump overthrow our democracy!
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  11911. What?? She wasn't waiting for her $20K/year-if-you're-lucky PressSec job at the "alternate white house in the swamp" that Trump just set up?
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  11912. These are the same people who claim, entirely without evidence, that dead people voted in the 2020 election. When I ask them for a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots, they blink and say, "Huh?"
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  11913. Wow, Iraq is really going to like the USA now. Not. Maybe he thought it would help his precious stock market numbers?
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  11914. Mike Nearman (OR) and Matt Shea (WA) are examples of state representatives who engaged in that sort of nonsense.
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  11915. I can see Rainbow Randy doing that one.
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  11916. That was both sad and funny - Moscow Mitch swinging Trump's darkest ideas around like a cudgel. He went scorched-earth years ago when he told the nation that 8 months before an election was much too soon to seat a judge.
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  11917. Can you translate that to English?
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  11918. For what they did, for what they allowed to happen in their name, for the smoking ruin that they would have let Trump turn America into .. yes, the GOP needs a couple decades in the woodshed.
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  11919.  @mattt4163  For starters, the president does NOT have big slider controls in the basement of the white house for controlling consumer prices. That you think so marks you as the dumbest of partisan fools, whose mind couldn't grasp unwelcome facts any more than Trump's can. So considering that Biden asked the oil companies to explain why their profits are so high, what in your fevered imagination is the mechanism by which a president allegedly controls consumer prices? Or do you need me to break the question down into shorter clauses with smaller words?
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  11920. Abrams and Leopards are very hungry in the spring.
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  11921. @ Lazy Artist Here's just another one. Texas will of course need a Pregnancy Police Force to make sure that all pregnant Texas women (be they residents, visitors from other states, or international travelers) remain in Texas for the duration of their pregnancy, to keep them from obtaining abortions elsewhere. Rape insurance for Texas will now have to cover legal fees and possibly the long term related childcare/education/healthcare/food/housing expenses too.
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  11922.  @nonyabizness.original  They will probably try to ban pregnant people from leaving at all. Imagine a foreign visitor, tragically raped, then forced by the law to remain there. Good reason not to visit Texas or other psycho states. Don't let you kids go there either for any reason.
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  11923.  @51panzerman  How many unwanted children have you adopted to raise on your own? Just asking.
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  11924.  @51panzerman  Show actual news links behind what you say, please.
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  11925.  @valerieadams5656  Vote blue, no matter who. I'm ignoring the sideshow of noise about the first debate. It is not a difficult choice between "benign, occasionally-forgetful grandpa" and "vengeful, angry, wannabe fascist".
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  11926. It's nice of Trump to come along, like a big litmus test, and illuminate those among us who are happy to overturn a 80million-vs-73million election just because they're all butthurt that their fascist wannabe-authoritarian favorite candidate lost the election.
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  11927.  @michaelobryan44  It's entirely possible that former VP Biden, when calling Trump racist, was referring to the times when Trump kept calling for the execution of the central park five long after they'd been proven innocent. Or the times Trump attacked a group of female legislators, telling them to "go home", even though three of them are native born American citizens. Or his racial slurs towards Omarosa Newman. Or Trump's slurs towards people from south of the border. FYI you would do better to not mention the border thing at all, as a lame attempted argument, because Trump closed it only to Chinese nationals and not to everybody. As we know now, many tens of thousands of infected Americans returned home from China during that time, thus making the USA the world's covid supercenter. TSA screeners got infected by travelers who passed right through Trump's "China ban".
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  11928. Mind you, Republicans were a lot angrier at president Obama for wearing a tan suit and using mustard (or Jill Biden having an advanced degree) than they are now over Trump suggesting using military force to redo an election on American soil. Think on that before you vote next time.
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  11929.  @tedmounsteven621  I would like to know what those establishments are, so I can go take my friends there for a meal that doesn't involve wading through a sea of covid.
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  11930. We should be disturbed by the fact that crimes are being investigated? Pretty sure Al Capone would have chosen those exact same words.
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  11931.  @donaldprairie1869  Clearly your tender feelings have been hurt if you call it "communism" to ban an obvious insurrectionist from the ballot under 14.3. Trump, Dec 19: "Be there, will be wild!" Bannon, Jan 5: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in. Tomorrow is game day. So many people said, 'Man, if I was in the Revolution, I would be in Washington.' Well, this is your time in history." Trump, Jan 6: "You've got to fight like hell!" Trump Jr, Jan 6: "This isn’t their Republican party any more. This is Donald Trump’s party"
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  11932. That would be typical Russian hubris to think that it will be them doing things to mark May Day. Might be a fine day for all kinds of Russian things to go boom, perhaps even on live TV, perhaps even while some Kremlin personalities are yakking about how splendidly the Three Day War is going.
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  11933. The folks who just acted like total clowns (except it wasn't an act) will be feeling it in the next election. All good. This is how political parties go extinct. And we can thank Trump for greatly speeding up the process by which the Republicans put themselves into the dustbin of history.
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  11934. Who else remembers Trump's dark 2017 state of the union address, when he talked about "American carnage", when he painted the future as a dark place that only he could save? That reference to carnage was him projecting what he had in mind - chaos.
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  11935. That was a grade school level false dichotomy. Sigh. She handed it nicely.
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  11936. Most of the people bringing drugs into America are themselves Americans. Not Mexicans, not cartels, but Americans.
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  11937.  @pollypurree1834  Stop with the false equivalences - no one anywhere is saying that folks will have to wear masks for the rest of their lives. That seems to be all the "argument" you yahoos have got.
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  11938.  @Jeff-kw8jj  By pretending that things are normal (when they most assuredly are not - see the news on a pandemic if you've missed it) all this barber is doing is helping spread the virus. And the WW2 equivalent of that would have been helping the enemy. Does that clear it up?
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  11939.  @criticalcrossroads498  Check this out - not only did he get infected, but the authorities are trying to make sure everyone who saw him gets tested because he may have passed it on to them. Idiocy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/nyregion/barber-virus-kingston-ny.html
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  11940.  @criticalcrossroads498  Again you mistake "scared" with "aware of a danger and working to avoid it". It turns out that the idiot barber (Joseph LaLima) did in fact get infected with the virus. They are working now to find out whether he infected others.
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  11941.  @criticalcrossroads498  What the authorities are trying to do now is track down everyone who the rogue barber could have infected. It's just as if (wait for it) there's a potentially-fatal disease being communicated all over the place now. If you choose not to be cognizant of danger, well, maybe you just happen to be the sort of person who would jump out of a plane without taking a parachute along for the fall. Only when you make a similarly stupid decision via exposure to the virus, it doesn't affect just you, it affects everyone in your household, and everyone they come in contact with, and then everyone in /their/ households and so on. Does that spell it out any more clearly for you, or do I need to use shorter sentences and smaller words?
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  11942.  @criticalcrossroads498  Everybody in the room knows that not EVERYONE dies from this. You say that as if you think you are the only one who has figured that out. But the ratio of confirmed dead to confirmed sick is about 6% in the USA right now, which effectively means better than a 1-in-20 chance of death from it. If you want to cause that for yourself, fine, but don't drag anyone else into your death fantasies.
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  11943. Ah, who could forget the little Nazi barbie, with her binder full of conveniently-indexed lies?
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  11944.  @d.w.stratton4078  S/he is indeed weird. Probably alone in an apartment somewhere too. Perhaps other ways of reaching out would be more effective.
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  11945. Trump: Look at this mess around us. Biden will make it worse. I had nothing to do with it. My coronavirus response has been perfect - just like my taxes and the phone call to Ukraine.
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  11946. I'm just fine with Elon Musk learning the hard way that he is not Tony Stark. Tony, on the other hand, is already damn sure he's not named Elon.
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  11947. Sadly, America tends more towards putting ballistic armor into kids backpacks than making guns harder to get. As if all kinds of badness happens because people can't get their hands on weapons.
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  11948.  @Snail.1  AKA "Why bother having speed limits? Everyone's just going to ignore them anyway."
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  11949. Republicans believe in states rights only when it's convenient for them. Ditto for federal supremacy issues. After the Dobbs decision, when abortion rights were kicked back to the states, some places immediately enshrined those rights into law after ballot measures affirmed it. And Republicans were suddenly like, "Whoops, we didn't mean that kind of states rights :("
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  11950. He won't have been the only one.
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  11951. The sad part is, Hannity doesn't seem to be aware that Trump remembers every small slight that Hannity ever gave him, and one of the dictatorial things Trump might do is have Hannity shot during his day of retribution .. which will stretch into a week, then a month, then .. you know the rest of the story.
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  11952. In other news - Saint Darwin is making housecalls to those who, despite 18 months of news, still haven't gotten it through their thick heads that there's a dangerous disease going around and that vaccines for it are freely available. So let the trash take itself out. The IQ of the nation will only improve. Plus there will be houses and other property for sale on the cheap later.
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  11953.  @porterdor39  Sorry, boo, it's not "great" when the president is an open criminal with no respect for the law or for American patriots. That's Trump. If you like his brand of chaos (claiming the government is broken, then breaking it himself just to prove the point) then you should spend time living in Haiti, or Somalia, or Eritrea. Go get a taste of that failed-government thing you seem to want to bring to America.
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  11954.  @thomwessels2281  Dude/dudette, you couldn't shame me if you tried, especially considering that what you think of as "shaming" is merely regurgitating some nonsense that they made up on FOXed Noise, #1 media choice of people found face down in the Cheez Whiz every weekend.
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  11955. When the Russians display foreign technologies that they themselves are incapable of manufacturing domestically, it is not quite the burn they imagine it to be. Shades of cavemen showing off captured iphones.
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  11956. Hey there :) I have relatives in the Trondheim area. As an American, living through this strange time has made it clear to me how an otherwise upstanding nation could fall to obviously-crass fascism that waves the flag and talks about blood & fire. I don't wonder anymore how this happens.
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  11957.  @AuntieMamies  Unfortunately, 45's deplorable allies are probably still not done. Consider how 45 is losing 20%+ of the vote (in R primaries) to Nikki Haley. If 20% of the R voters refuse to vote for 45, he's losing badly, and I fear that the coup plotters will try again before the election. If not, the next window will be around when MAGA Mike refuses to certify the election results, which would result in the Supremes stepping in.
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  11958. Hope this happens ASAFP. Considering that this disease has already killed way more Americans than WW2 did (and it's still killing more every day) taking the vaccine ought to be as voluntary for Americans as was going to work at Mitsubishi shipyard, Tokyo during WW2.
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  11959. It would be nice if conservatives could stop masturbating over "Handmaids Tale" and using it as a how-to manual for social control via religion. They honestly must envy the Taliban.
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  11960. On the plus side, Zuckeyburg can go to sleep at night knowing that Wastebook will always be a friendly harbor for Trump's white nationalism, just like FOXed Noise, OANN, Infowars, 8chan, and more. Heck, Trump could even use Fakebook to refer to the "Jews will not replace us!" marchers as "fine people" and Zuck would still happily take the profits derived from it.
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  11961. Dear Mr. Putin: We're truly, awfully sorry, but somehow a dozen shipping containers of ATACMS missiles got included in the last DOD shipment to Ukraine. Some shipping clerk sent them instead of HIMARS. Our bad ;)
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  11962. Hitler was at least organized. Dementia Don (if he could get in power again) would be more like a badly-aging Idi Amin or a Pol Pot. All vinegar & alleged victimhood.
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  11963. Did no one tell the GOP nutters that the rest of the country doesn't want to live in Gilead under a Drumpf dictatorship, with Mike Johnson gleefully supervising rape pregnancies?
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  11964. Well, that finally explains the 'yellowcake' and 'mobile WMD labs' from the Gulf war.
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  11965.  @user-fed-yum  And yet (just like the claims of a stolen election) Tuberville has not a single documented instance to claim this thing is even happening. No statistics, no reports, no numbers. Nada.
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  11966. Alternative title: denizens of Mayberry visit a fairly gentle anarchy in the Cali desert.
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  11967. You have to hand it to Trump, he really knows how to a) unify Iraq against the USA; b) make Iranians forget their squabbles, and line up outside recruitment centers like we did after Pearl Harbor; c) make our allies so aghast at these US actions that they'll never do military misadventurism with the USA again, at least not while Mango Mussolini is running it; d) push Iraq into the waiting arms of Russia and/or Iran; e) pour Miracle Gro all over ISIS and the Taliban. Heckuva job, Brownie :(
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  11968. On the plus side, Trump shook the tree, and a whole lot of loose fruit fell out of it. The people who would happily tear up the constitution if their orange Jeebus told them to. Good to know exactly who those people are.
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  11969.  @PeteJenks-z7u  Re "the media" .. got any names and receipts?
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  11970.  @PeteJenks-z7u  Proof. Examples. References. All the things shallow minds avoid in the pursuit of making baseless arguments.
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  11971.  @PeteJenks-z7u  Already have been for decades. It's a matter of public record that Trump lost the 2020 election (go back to the coverage one state at a time, if you must) then lost his 60+ court cases challenging the election results. This news is so widely available, so easy to find, that even foreigners who don't speak English follow it well enough. Not those cultists, however.
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  11972. Trump at 15 cases: Within a couple of days, it'll be close to zero. 9,000 cases: It's a war. I'm a wartime president! 80,000 cases: We're safe. Let's reopen America! 250,000 cases: I'm not responsible! 644,000 cases: I believe the USA has passed the peak in infections. 925,000 cases: Can we look into injecting disinfectant to make it go away?
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  11973. Oregon and Washington would join too.
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  11974. Who would willingly visit this rapey cesspit anyway? Trump is obviously going to embrace the Tate brothers pretty openly. They're birds of a feather.
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  11975. But but but .. won't that conflict with the 12 years in Washington that Trump claims is his fair due? And that's the guy who said his doctor said he was so healthy he could live to be 200. Either way, it's cute that Putin's sockpuppet Tom Cotton imagines there will even be a GOP by this time next year.
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  11976. Do you ever watch the channel "Vasya in the hay"? So many people live in those villages outside the big cities .. the poor, the elderly, the crippled, the disabled, etc are all shoved out there to live primitively. Villages with no stores, just a van that shows up weekly. Dirt roads, water gets carried home in buckets, wood heat, outhouses.
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  11977.  @mtavarez4561  The question is, did YOU see the major errors in the May jobs report? (hint: anything coming out of this administration is pure lies) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8396517/Major-error-jobs-report-official-unemployment-rate-look-3-lower-is.html
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  11978. @Bryan Smith Apparently your kind doesn't need student loans .. they're kind of a waste on serf material anyway.
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  11979. No kidding .. people say, "Biden was weak in the debates" as if that's somehow much worse than 45 being a habitual liar, a felon, an insurrectionist, and a thief of classified documents - which in the old days we would have called a spy and a traitor.
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  11980. Once you understand that GQP Republicans are crazy propagandized loons who want to flip the calendar back to 1950 (or 1850) dealing with them is a lot more clear in terms of what we must do. Make sure everyone is registered to vote, particularly all the citizens who will have turned 18 since the last election. make sure everyone has whatever ID's are necessary for voting. Make sure they know where the polling places are and have got transportation there, as well as the creature comforts needed for a potential long wait in line. We can do this. If every election is a blue tsunami, the Republicans become a footnote within 20 years.
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  11981.  @bobvanderwest9358  Bingo. Because they don't have any more use for traitors and insurrectionists than we do.
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  11982. Aww, if you want to go back 3 weeks in time to change your vote from Biden to Trump .. yeah, just go get your head examined. Don't let perfect become the enemy of making improvements.
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  11983.  @Joerogainistriggered5025  To echo a comment from above - New York City has a significantly lower murder rate than America as a whole, actually. Not other cities--the entire country. It's actually more often small towns now that have high crime rates. Marjorie Taylor Green's home town has more than double both the violent crime and property crime rates of NYC. Actually, NYC has about the same rate for crimes against property as Palm Beach Florida 13.4/1000
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  11984. Apparently quite a lot. Also way too many people who are happy to burn down democracy over the dumbest lies my cat could see through.
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  11985.  @richardn6588  You know it's the security state doing it when the man in charge extorts you for a favor.
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  11986.  @karenmckinley2904  Correct. Caligula will just tell the faithful that Biden & Obama conspired to do it all through the "deep state" government.
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  11987.  @JoecantleyJoecantley  Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth, that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned, that there were no terror attacks during his presidency, that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency, that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has, that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,” that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes, that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries, that Europe accepts no American cars, that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress, and that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election. He also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China. (Both records actually occurred under Trump.)
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  11988. "Debating" 45 is like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird will strut around the board, knocking over pieces, crapping wantonly, etc, before flying away squawking that he won. Shutting off and fact-checking his firehose of lies is what matters.
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  11989. Imagine how the 2021 coup attempt would have gone if the House speaker was the MAGA organizer of the coup - because that's what's going to be happening in the near future :(
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  11990. If you're claiming that all people/parties are equally tribal-minded, there are plenty of studies disproving that. Look at the differing treatment meted to Al Franken and Donald Trump by their respective parties. One was shoved out for accusations of improper behavior, the other was admired for it.
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  11991. Err, you can't run a Fourth Reich without a large and well-trained Gestapo to enforce the new version of the Enabling Acts.
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  11992. The puppy-shooting prairie harpy isn't looking so good now either.
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  11993. A nutjob minority voted for her, but most Arizonans wisely chose someone else.
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  11994.  @DeadAccount05  Has it ever occurred to you that it's not "both sides" having issues when just one side tries to overturn an election that their guy lost? How did they think that was going to work out anyway?
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  11995.  Stormi’s Army  Hopefully it won't come to that. But if it does, there's a lot more of us than there are of them.
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  11996.  Stormi’s Army  You stay safe too. Love your handle.
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  11997.  Stormi’s Army  Bingo. If you talk with people who survived Sarajevo, none of them will tell you that civil war is a wonderful and glamorous thing in which you get to vanquish the evildoers. Instead, everyone loses, lots of people die, and it takes generations to heal the damage. But the maggots (sorry, MAGAt's) in their monster lifted trucks, who like to crash into things they don't like, seem to see it differently. Huh. Maybe they'll be the first to go.
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  11998.  Stormi’s Army  They say you can't fix stupid, but the red hats and the cosplay militia garb sure make it easier to spot.
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  11999.  Stormi’s Army  Bingo. Remember how in 1947, the Allies had trouble finding anyone who admitted to voting for Hitler and going along with his policies? Thankfully, many of us have been keeping notes, screenshots, records. Their feeds are littered with the nonsense they've said. They don't get to walk away from this one.
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  12000.  Stormi’s Army  If the Republicans had slapped him the way they went over Obama for the dastardly, horrible, unconstitutional crimes of using mustard and a tan suit and trying to seat a judge a whole 8 months before the election, things would have never gotten this bad.
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  12001. By now, to him it is "fake news" to suggest he said what he said. In fact, Barr might come after you if you keep insisting that he said what he was recorded as saying.
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  12002. We have plenty of money for free healthcare and education and more. It's just that our very richest prefer to keep it to themselves, and to buy off politicians to keep things that way. Government here is just the skin of the glove, and the hand beneath it is the richest.
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  12003.  @jimdoe3288  Actually it's more your loserhood for failing to read. But no one sends news down your bunker, do they. If ignorance is bliss, you must be the Buddha
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  12004.  @jimdoe3288  Wow your tender little feefees seem to be tingling pretty hard. Why don't you go rub some copium cream all over. See if it removes the sting of your orange cult leader facing the possibility of charges for his crimes. Look fondly on those NFT's you bought while whining about gas prices. 😅
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  12005. There are still a whole lot of missing classified documents .. and Trump's errand boy Tucky may have dropped off a payment, who knows.
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  12006.  @suzpeters6 The way Russia is going, maybe healthcare and education will be cut next to help cover the bottomless pit of war costs racking up. Makes me sick and angry and disgusted all together to see Putin burn his own people, his own country just to support imperial folly. Russia had not even yet recovered from the demographic distortions leftover from WW2. All Putin's doing now is hastening the decline :(
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  12007.  @skankhunt42002  You mean to say it was some other country fighting for Russia in Ukraine, and that it's not Russia who's lost approx 419K bullet sponge corpses there? Do tell.
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  12008.  @theblade9024 Yes!! With "10 likes = 1 prayer" tag
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  12009.  ROB112  Pay no attention to what liberals say about Trump. Here's what conservatives have said: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  12010.  @thegamsta7133  Great at what? NK now has more advanced missiles; Iran is enriching uranium; US farmers are going bankrupt; Asian economies are joining together in a large bloc that excludes the US. A little less of that kind of greatness would be a good thing.
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  12011.  @thegamsta7133  That border wall (no doubt made of expensive, supposedly high quality Russian steel) was an expensive propaganda stunt and nothing more. Tools to defeat it can be bought new for as low as $80. Might not want to brag about that one. The other things can be likened to one-shot improvements such as keeping warm by burning your furniture :(
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  12012. Correct, that is our responsibility as Americans now. The stakes have gotten higher. In every election, we must make sure everyone is registered to vote, particularly those who have, or will have, turned 18 between the last election and the next .. we must make sure everyone has the ID's to vote (you know, when you show them your papers) .. we must make sure everyone has transportation to the polling places and/or ballot drop boxes .. we must make sure everyone has the comforts that may be needed for a long wait in line. Two decades of blue tsuamis is what's needed to cleanse the GQP stain from our land.
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  12013. So .. the story is going to be that he's acquired cancer from 3 years of tilting at windmills?
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  12014. If Biden cured cancer .. Republicans would bring it back just out of spite.
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  12015.  @thetabest  No, no, that's why the Supremes are sitting on this one for now. They are seeking some way to give that power to 45 without also giving it to president Biden. For example, if 45 were to win again (uggh, soul bleach), they would rule on it just minutes after the transfer of power.
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  12016. Forcing people into a ghetto for ethnic/religious differences and then bombing the bejeebus out of it .. hmm, where has history seen that before?
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  12017. The virus is the same as the one that hit China and everywhere else. The host material (us) is the same as everywhere else. Much of what we've been doing here in the USA fails to take these things into account. No, we prefer to think we're so special that the virus will just go away on its own.
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  12018.  @jewellevy  I call her Amy Handmaid's Tale for that reason. Another Phyllis Schafly, rich enough to hire nannies so she can go to work to tell other women to stay at home and not be whole citizens.
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  12019. Remember when the right wingers were freaking out that Obama might open a dialogue with North Korea? And then they turned around and were silent when Trump started exchanging "beautiful" letters with Kim Jong Un?
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  12020. Harley Davidson has painted themselves into the same type of corner.
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  12021. That's about the only job she'll ever get after this one. At least she knows how to do stripper makeup.
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  12022. The difference is, what the Republicans are claiming now doesn't stand up in court. Here are examples of things that DO stand up in court: Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  12023.  @juicylucy5797  Go back and read the post I wrote, fool. So many convictions just from that one investigation.
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  12024.  @juicylucy5797  Go back and read it again if you still do not understand the list. Play that tiny violin and tell me how innocent Trumpies are. Everything you post is a joke delivered from the FOXed Noise / Q-Anonsense echo chamber anyway.
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  12025.  @juicylucy5797  Not a very good factualist, apparently. But, hey, there's always room to improve. Now tell me about why Trump confiscated the translator's notes from his meetings with Putin.
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  12026. They are essentially the same people who spent 8 long years screeching that Obama was violating the constitution, even if they couldn't explain exactly how.
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  12027.  @linbrowning9938  Bingo. Like all the ones who sent death threats to Ms Moss and Ms Freeman based on lies that Trump and Giuliani put out. Like the ones who threaten school boards. Didn't know we had so many (and this is an older term) fifth columnists or willing Quislings among us :(
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  12028.  @rundoetx  Look at how long the lies of the civil war have dragged on. How the south is still mad that Lincoln freed 'their' farm equipment essentially. We may be looking at this. No doubt the reich wingers will need to use covid deaths (which touched every community) as part of their lasting fiction, even though it was Trump who denied, deflected, lied, and ultimately caused more Americans to die from the disease than would have otherwise happened. The covid death rate among Trump-voting communities was particularly high.
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  12029. The sad/funny thing is that if Trump had given a gracious concession speech, and assisted with the normal transition process, he could have left office with his head held high, his brand intact, his GOP influence still intact .. yet instead he gave in to his own worst impulses at every step along the way, and now he's lost it all. His brand is toxic and he's cost the Republican party first the House, then the Senate and the presidency. Truly, he ran them just like one of his own businesses - right into the ground.
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  12030. If this was a communist country as MTG claims, at least education would be universal enough for her to identify what form of government we have here. She's as clueless as Sidney Powell and not half as pretty 😅
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  12031.  @madcratebuilder  The school employee was said to be symptomatic since Feb 19th, meaning that they were likely infected Feb 12th and have been communicative since around Feb 14th. That-s time for 2-3+ generations of further spread from anyone who that person came in contact with. Vast flows of daily traffic go in and out of Portland via routes 5, 205, 84, 30, 26, 99 etc. 95% of the population of Oregon is right in the Willamette valley. If the models from northern Italy apply (and if our authorities are capable of making good decisions) we've got a matter of weeks to go before they decide to shut down any venues that would make for easy transmission of virus.
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  12032.  @kayladunham2360  The crowd here seems like the same 5 basement dwellers that used to live in the Oregonian comments section. Maybe they'll end up like the people this nurse is talking about, getting intubated while they insist it's not covid because "it's not real". https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/17/south-dakota-nurse-jodi-doering-covid-19-patients-denial/6330791002/
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  12033. Trump has no interest in deconstructing any part of the government that he might be wanting to use later on to enforce his agenda. It will be the same with the vast US military presence around the world.
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  12034. Dr John, with respect, the US numbers are completely wonky now due to a long holiday weekend.
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  12035. Nope. We're only a few months away from the revolving-trashbin show of Big Orangey doing a series of temporary appointments to high positions. All because his choices are so ratsht crazy that even a Republican senate can't/won't confirm them. It's our job to humiliate the bejeebus out of them and make them resign early.
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  12036. Ironically, Trump was correct about how we need to fight like hell or we won't have our country. The part he didn't say is that we'd have to fight against him and his flying monkeys who are trying to destroy democracy and the rule of law :(
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  12037. Back during WW2, US news stations were not allowed to run editorials questioning the war effort and saying how Germany and Japan were really our friends, that the Pearl Harbor attack was fake news, or that the war effort was an encroachment on their freedumbs. Considering how high the stakes are with this novel coronavirus, why are we still allowing Putin's news channel (through Murdoch) to sow FUD here?
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  12038. Even more so, I hate the way the dumbest and/or most corrupt Americans are supporting the twice impeached felon. A cat could see through his lies.
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  12039. Saint Darwin loves Dunning Kruger folks, just saying.
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  12040. Indefinitely. Hundreds in the same session, if necessary. Since there will be no video of it, he will then tell his culties that the court refused to let him speak in his own defense, which is a grievous violation of his rights. He is counting on there being no video for his culties.
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  12041.  @markwilliamson4006  The only thing Trump uses for whether to endorse someone, or not, is whether they back his election lies. He cares about nothing else, not even how whacky they are (like Oz) to the people.
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  12042.  @gmfb521  So far the governors are showing more responsibility than your favorite orange clown - what have you to say about that? "omg" LOL
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  12043.  @suserman7775  Show me the link to that one.
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  12044.  @gmfb521  I believe facts. Recordings are nice too. Like that one of Trump saying it'll just go away on its own like a cold, how people can keep going to work, about how we have only 15 cases now and they're all disappearing on their own. I guess you somehow misconstrue those things to mean something else?
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  12045.  @papawheelie5576 Thanks to advances in medicine, we now know that the 405,399 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2 suffered from Hitler Derangement Syndrome.
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  12046. Bottom line: masks help reduce the spread of disease. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172200.htm As soon as they make it a felony not to wear masks in public, I'll be out there with a posse doing citizens arrests.
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  12047.  @jackb8469  "Non existent"? In just a few months, it's killed more Americans than the Korean and Vietnam wars added together. Pull your head out of you ass, man.
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  12048. Bingo. Almost certainly, very few of them realize that a vacuum of authority would be a very very bad situation. With the numbers of guns in circulation in the US, almost certainly it would be local warlords trying to do their thing. These fools might suddenly find that the cost of a vanload of canned food and toilet paper is their youngest daughter.
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  12049. Mewling newborn kittens have more self-control than Trumpy does.
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  12050. Aww, poor Dump is still mad that Putin can bump off his generals (adios Prigozhin) but all he can do is rant on his platform.
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  12051. Despite claiming that he doesn't know Lev Parnas, we can clearly hear Trump taking policy advice from Lev Parnas, namely to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine. How is it that the president of the US "doesn't know" the person he's taking policy advice from??
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  12052. A Republican said "don't worry" regarding the worker exodus? Why? Because they plan to make up the difference by reinstituting slavery and child labor and indentured servitude?
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  12053. All this because police departments everywhere didn't gear up and go full Klan on protesters. Wussolini's ego is so fragile that if he's denied instant obedience even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16yo girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color, so she gets all pouty and treats it liked the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter & insta to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything.
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  12054. She ain't no lady. Not sure she's even female.
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  12055. If you are going to mention that hateful propagandist, at least say his full name, Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson.
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  12056. What's that headline? "Woman who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party sobs that she never expected leopards to eat HER face." Jeebus, it's taken you 2+ years to see what the rest of us could see about Agent Orange from thousands of miles away?
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  12057. Trump and his people are not very bright.
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  12058. It's not just total contempt for the law. It's also near-complete ignorance of how easily the virus spreads, how easily the spread can overwhelm hospital capacity, and how many people will die if/when medical resources are overwhelmed. The only things these protesters are accomplishing are to further spread the disease and to prolong the pandemic.
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  12059. Counting down 3 .. 2 .. 1 until Trump tries this tactic with his sheeple.
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  12060. Which types of people are being sent into the meat grinder by Rocketman Kim? Maybe he's using this as an opportunity to purge whole classes of NK's population, such as prisoners or potentially uppity young men?
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  12061. There is money to be made using inflammatory, misleading content (just ask Rupert Murdoch) .. and without that changing, stochastic terror will continue to be a major thing here. :(
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  12062.  @Trollzrfunni  Perfect :)
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  12063.  @scottmajerus574  At least you're appropriately sorry. Most sensible people would be, if they say they're voting for an openly fascist authoritarian manbaby.
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  12064. Looks like he just found his own Tonkin Gulf :(
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  12065. Think of it as a sort of Darwinistic meme. Those people will go out and congregate on beaches, at NASCAR events, at MAGA rallies, etc, and 3 weeks later many of them will be in the hospital gasping out their last breaths. You cannot fix stupid, but you can position yourself to benefit from it.
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  12066. Gotta love the way no Russian jets flew in the May Day parade. Wanna bet someone's got a Starstreak launcher somewhere around town?
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  12067. This must be the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" they were always yapping about.
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  12068.  @georgerogers1166  Apparently there is a lot of housing, but much of it doesn't have adequate heating / roofing / water / sewer / power. The youtube channel "Vasya in the Hay" shows some of that. Also the Russian documentary series "the Pentagon" about the people living in that disintegrating apartment block.
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  12069. Biden has the bigger stick, and Putin knows it. No doubt poor Vlad is missing having his sockpuppet Trump cosplaying as president.
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  12070.  @Hjominbonrun  How long before we see rural communities, perhaps in remote places, walling themselves off? Shunning all contact with the outside world is a survival strategy, if they can source enough food & resources locally. Kind of like the opposite situation with Krippens Virus and the walls (from the movie "I am Legend").
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  12071. Everyone: Coronavirus is out there, we can't resume business-as-usual just yet. School administrators: You delusional, Trump-hating fools, you're just trying to destroy the president's chances of re-election! Fake news!! Coronavirus; Fresh meat! ;) School administrators: Whoops.
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  12072.  @russellepatch7848  Check out this article from right after the 2016 election. Check out the quotes of what some racist schoolchildren said. That's the true Trump effect :( https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
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  12073. "I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care about you" - and they cheered. "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" - and they cheered. Just let the leopards eat.
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  12074.    Sounds like you're cross-posting from down the rabbit hole at OANN / InfoWars / FOXed Noise / Q-Anonsense. Come back to the table when you can say something that's rooted in actual facts.
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  12075.    You can't fix stupid. But if the trash wants to take itself out - let's not get in the way, shall we?
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  12076. Someone after my own heart! Most days I head out to the wilderness (where there are no people, no virus, and where there's no cell signal) to make trail alone in the woods.
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  12077. Dayum, that freaky Q-Anonsense tailpipe-sucking incel needs to get out of Mom's basement moron often. Just saying. Jeez!
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  12078. Trump: I'm cutting off the WHO because they covered things up. also Trump: I had a navy captain fired for refusing to cover up virus spread on his ship.
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  12079.  @skatermom8259  May I quote you on your statement of "Trump has nothing to do with the firing and hiring within the Navy"? Remember war criminal Eddie Gallagher? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/opinion/letters/trump-navy-seals.html
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  12080. Trump never has been the sharpest egg in the carton.
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  12081. .. because nothing screeches out your innocence in all caps like withholding evidence then retaliating against witnesses.
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  12082. I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  12083. It would be great if Russia's show of force could include the Admiral Kuzetsov. If they can free up some tugboats first, that is. The subs are hungry at this time of year.
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  12084. What's truly disgusting / disturbing is that there's even a market for the sort of lies he tells. Obviously America needs more psychiatric wards.
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  12085. If ever you wondered how the heinous Nazis got a following in Gerrmany back in the 1930s, wonder no more. Of course, he had some help. Interesting fact: before he became Hitler's #1 most trusted follower, Hermann Göring served as president of the Reischtag, and used that position to advance Hitler's illegal measures to gain power, much in the same way that the president of the Senate here in the US (Moscow Mitch McTurtle) is doing for Trump.
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  12086. Kari Lake and Mike Lindell would be the perfect helpers for Trump's plan to continue running the Republican party - right into the ground! 😅
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  12087.  @johnnysgaminglab2126  Let 'em bring what they want. They have not got much left in the way of precision munitions anyway. They can't get close enough to the action (thanks to manpads type weapons) to use what they have. Invading Ivans are about to be on the receiving end of some lessons. Is no better way to cure stupidity anyway.
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  12088.  Cl1nton Body count  If by "winning" you mean losing lots of men and material, yes, Putin is "winning".
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  12089.  @ВежливаяМатрёшка  Your translations are losing their meaning. Stick to the original.
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  12090.  @johnnysgaminglab2126  Things are about to get nasty, yes, but Putin's forces have proved to be a disorganized, inept, and badly-equipped group. But in your Baghdad Bob role reprisal, here, of course you will never admit to any of that. Not that it matters.
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  12091.  @michaeljoseph6809  Ivan really knows how to line up the targets. It's like the only good thing they have is the vodka.
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  12092.  @johnnysgaminglab2126  Saw that news, don't like it. Unknown whether Lend-Lease can get rolling quickly enough. The UK seems to be really stepping up to the plate, though, kudos to them.
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  12093. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard for them to spend 6+ years cheering on Trump's fascism and Trump's lawbreaking, then try to spin around and tell people that they had nothing to do with Trump, please vote for us. I'm an independent voter and will NEVER AGAIN vote Republican after watching them suck up to Putin's puppet like that.
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  12094. Mitch is too late thinking he could close the Pandora's Box he opened. That's called regret, Mitch, for your thoughtless prior actions.
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  12095. Russia still hasn''t figured out how to take 100 Ukrainians without losing 500 of their own Russian conscripts in the process. And Russia is still suffering demographic effects from losing so many young people in WW2 :(
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  12096. Wussolini once said he'd charge into a school shooting unarmed. So this time, when his very-well-armed bodyguards are indoors while lots of UNARMED protesters are out in the streets, he still fled like the whiny draft-dodger he's always been. https://www.bbc.com/news/43202075
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  12097. Whoever knew that the dumbest people in Oregon could get upset that governor Brown doesn't want Oregon to turn into another covid hotspot like North Dakota or New York City.
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  12098.  Robin Hogan  Why are Republicans so torqued over this? Don't they know that when it gets to the senate, this impeachment thing will be just as squashed as Obama's supreme court pick and many other appointments?
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  12099. Can you imagine any of the Trumps serving dinner for regular folks? They're the sort of people who get banned from running charities because they steal from them. Nutter grinches is what they are :(
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  12100.  @boogerlui  Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama too.
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  12101.  @Maggie-rr8gi  Bingo. One of the very first things Trump did (upon entering office) was to dissolve the Office of Government Ethics. Then he proceeded to completely break the Emoluments Clause many times. Then there were the insults dealt to America's best and longstanding allies. Then there were so many agency heads in "acting" positions to avoid confirmation hearings. There was the withholding of emergency aid to states or cities that didn't vote for Trump. There was always the sharp uptick in bias crimes that followed every Trump rally. Anyone who stayed a long time and left late in the game just isn't fast on the uptake :(
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  12102. Whoever knew it would be so simple for the blatant, amplified racism of an electoral college pick to leak down to ordinary government employees who maybe watch FOXed too and who feel the same way as Mango Mussolini does about brown people? What's on their social media feeds? Which of them felt good about this?
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  12103. Knowing how happy CPB is to follow Mango Mussolini's unspoken racial laws to the letter .. how much time before we hear stories of Bahamian refugee families getting separated at the port of entry, and the children going to those same facilities that house thousands of separated Hispanic children?
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  12104. Re "Both sides are right." << What kind of crack are you on? Have you ever been in the same room as a history book? I'm just glad that vast numbers of your type of idiot weren't around back when humanity was busy eradicating polio, smallpox, and other diseases by mass vaccination.
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  12105.  @haggrieshaber5112  Oh dear, you still seem to have not read what I wrote. Let me try again, using Europe of the 1930s as a setting. Was it the failure of the west to work with Hitler that prompted WW2? Didn't the west try hard enough to appease Hitler by letting him invade country after country? It is much the same thing with this virus, and with the people who stupidly and illogically promote the spread of it, even though it will ravage their very own communities and families. It is much the same thing with cancer cells. Tolerating them, instead of eradicating them, leads to an even worse disaster.
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  12106.  @haggrieshaber5112  BTW the word is "practical". And I haven't had the morning coffees yet so I'm not baiting any traps with honey just now.
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  12107. Trump is slathering his famous reverse Midas touch all over the GQP Republican party. Never interrupt your adversary while he's making a yuuuuge mistake.
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  12108.  LouCipher-hb2jx  It ain't "weaponization" when the person in question is guilty AF, buddy.
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  12109. I keep waiting for some reporter to ask Dr Fauci if there is any part of the country where covid-19 case counts per million are not rising in some exponential fashion, albeit some faster or slower than others. Because according to the worldmeters there isn't any such place.
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  12110.  @pokey5736  It's much worse than that. Not only have Republicans never learned how to stand up to a bully, but somehow, the idea of a bully mismanaging the USA makes their voters weak in the knees.
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  12111. He's dangerous regardless. When he knows that he won't be able to rule the country, he'll tell his uppity culties to go do bad things.
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  12112. And any right to own guns. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?”
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  12113. @Porter Technically, he didn't even have a first win. The last time any Republican presidential candidate won more popular votes than a Democratic presidential candidate was in the 2004 election. The last time before that was 1988. If "one person, one vote" were how this country chose leaders, there wouldn't be many Republican presidents. Judging from the obscene shit show they cause every time (ever find out where the yellowcake and WMD's were? no one ever found them, heck, no one went looking for them) it seems clear the people know better than the electoral college. Back @ you, fruitcakes.
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  12114.  @carolyngray7244  "If he comes back he will spend all his time getting EVIL with people" << This is the one thing we can be most sure about. Forget about executive orders to seize voting machines - it would be more like executive orders to set up concentration camps for anyone who opposed him politically or who didn't do what he wanted.
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  12115. @Porter Re "Dems are so fked in the midterms." << Sure, because all of the insurrectionists and conspirators are making the Republicans look like such saints these days - ? You flipped a sign somewhere, chud.
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  12116. @Porter Re "Wake up." << Sure, keep telling yourself that as so many insurrectionists and conspirators get their time in court.
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  12117.  @JonyC6969  Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  12118. Trump's relative silence, since losing the election, has been the best thing he's done for America in 5+ years.
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  12119. Funny how Clinton's impeachment trial lasted a month, with no limits on witnesses and documents, all for a BJ and a stained dress. But when a president is violating the Impoundment Control Act, extorting another nation into interfering with our elections, covering it up, then obstructing the investigation, they want no witnesses/evidence and a speedy coverup. This isn't the America I was born in! :(
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  12120. Hospital bed capacity is predicated on the usual demand for inpatient hospital beds. If you find a nation that's got the capacity to put 20% of its total population in an inpatient setting, share it with us please.
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  12121. Funny how said "reporter" didn't mention that when churches get tax exemptions, that's the rest of the taxpayer involuntarily supporting them. That didn't seem to bother him.
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  12122. Nah. They just got a whole lot more drones. Switchblades are very hungry at this time of year. And those MQ-9 reaper drones maybe get lost in the fog and find themselves in eastern Ukraine, where Ivan lines up the targets in a neat row.
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  12123. In Hong Kong the protesters would have set him on fire for that. He's lucky he was only arrested and charged with attempted murder. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8392009/New-York-Wolverine-charged-attempted-murder-driving-protesters.html
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  12124. Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" October 31: 9,367,623 American covid infections & 235,697 American covid deaths.
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  12125.  @ronswanson2029  Since nobody here is advocating murdering a 9-month old baby, why don''t you crawl back under your rock.
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  12126. Where's Trump when you need someone whining about the "fake news"?
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  12127. Melania's robotic, tone-deaf speech didn't have the intended effect .. just like someone who grew up under communism and toes the party line, she basically tried to tell us that 1+1=3.
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  12128.  @kated3165 Jeez, try telling me something I didn't already know by 2nd grade. FFS :(
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  12129. Check out that look on his face. He would be the most evil of Prince Humperdink types if he ever got in power. What a tool.
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  12130. As inept as they were in many ways, the Soviets did at least marshal the resources of their territories far better than is being done by the current class of let's-ape-the-west oligarchs trying to live high off the hog in an essentially poor country. Putin and his circle fail to realize this rather basic truth.
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  12131. Citation?
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  12132. It would have been hilarious if Brad had called back saying that they found Trump the 11780 votes he wanted (a box had gotten lost) but it also had another 3400 votes for Biden. And then Trump would be whining for 3401 more.
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  12133. It's a well-known fact that young healthy masked people outdoors have much lower transmission rates than aging boomers hanging together indoors for hours without wearing masks.
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  12134. So when Hulk gets scared, Hulk leaves the scene quickly. Huh. Good to know that.
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  12135. No need to apologize for Trump's UK mini-me .. everyone already knows he's more of a Chamberlain than a Churchill.
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  12136. Ahh. Trumpanzees are all upset that someone went against the will of their "Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer, Ein Land!" cult leader. Nevermind that said cult leader was the one actually breaking the law.
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  12137. Clarification: Republicans/conservatives can't stop admiring dictators. This isn't one of those both-sides-are-the-same things. Of course there were a few exceptions among the Republicans. One or two basically. Remember this? “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  12138. China is in the right on this .. because you cannot have any trade arrangement with someone who unilaterally violates it without any warning, all because he rolled out of bed one morning and pulled a nutty for no reason at all.
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  12139.  @keywee849  Lordy, who let you out of the NewsMax mental hospital? There's a disease. We're fighting it with vaccines. I'm sure you learned all that in grade school, way before your brain got poisoned by the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat.
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  12140. Republicans "learned their lesson" and won't impeach him again.
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  12141.  @hissingoose  Most is not enough. ALL is needed. Including the same ones who told the lies that incited the hammer man.
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  12142. After nearly 3 months of virus spread, the US has finally tested 1 million people .. or 0.306% of this population of 327 million. Meanwhile, Germany tests 600,000 per week. Actual number of cases in the US is probably much much higher than the current official number .. guessing low 7 digits.
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  12143. As Samuel Clemens famously noted, a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still lacing up its boots. Wondering when an armed band of "animal rescuers" will be headed towards Springfield, loaded AR's handy, for their turn to play Comet Pizza games.
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  12144. Mosfilm should be able to show plenty of old 50s 60s 70s 80s reels depicting ordinary Soviet citizens traveling everywhere by trail.
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  12145. This isn't just the internet, it's a bunch of people deliberately misinforming and angering the dumbest Americans into committing political crimes.
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  12146. Are we lucky that Trump and his people are so ignorant that they've never read George Orwell's classic "1984"? Because then they'd get a handbook for how better to crush dissenting thought.
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  12147. Trump added more to the deficit in just one term than any previous president.
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  12148. Russia emptied its male prisons; now it's bringing female prisoners to the front lines to engage in combat. Putin will fight until only grandparents and younger children are left. He's going to pull out his own Putin Youth eventually like funny mustache guy did in Germany when the war got desperate.
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  12149. They're essentially the same as the delusional German politicians who in 1932-1933 helped Hitler get into power then consolidate it. They'd happily fck over their whole country just to retain power :( and that my friends is TREASON.
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  12150. Another thing we need to face is that Republicans feel rather off-the-leash these days. They openly planned on social media, then executed, a violent insurrection in the nation's capitol. A cabal of Republicans, elected to office, did everything possible to prevent the outcome of the 2020 elections from being carried out. Their party leader continues to call for political violence. They openly plot to rig future elections. This assault on our democracy stands, and we do nothing. This is empowering them. Bad mistake :(
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  12151. By making all the evidence public, the J6 committee are burying him in the court of public opinion. It just gets better every day. Like those texts from Hope Hicks.
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  12152.  @Scarletspeedster68 Oh that's perfect! ;) May I use that moniker?
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  12153. "The Tuck" was losing advertisers even before this began .. at FOXed Noise this is the standard way of sending someone walking out with a box.
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  12154. They're not pro-life, they're more like the Taliban - they get off on forcing uncomfortable choices onto others. They obviously don't care about the welfare of actual live children, or the health of mothers, otherwise Texas would have all kinds of support for mothers and children.
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  12155. Trump has apparently supported the communist party of China more than he's supported the US. Huh.
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  12156.  @dianabarahona2233  This must by why China's economy is 10-15% better than last years while ours is still in the toilet - Trump's reverse Midas touch strikes again.
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  12157. Translation - CyberDummies STILL hasn't found anything wrong (after wasting a lot of money and trashing the voting machines) so they are looking for something else to waste time with. Remember, they weren't paid to find fraud, they were paid to put on the appearance of looking for fraud. A typical Clump ploy :(
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  12158. I'm just stocking up on popcorn and waiting for the moment when some former WH staffer comes forward with a cellphone video of Trump watching the 1/6 violence on TV and cheering that those are his guys about to kill Pence and Pelosi. Just wait.
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  12159.  @YannR34  Correct. Inside Russia, there were 3 other candidates who made it to the ballot. They had their chance.
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  12160. How refreshing. He didn't spend his time calling anyone else losers or tweeting that they're a disgrace. Totally unpresidented!
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  12161.  @smmusicplus96  You're entitled to believe in things that are totally ungrounded in reality. Heck, I'll even defend your right.
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  12162.  @smmusicplus96  Jeez. Go back to FOXed Noise and telling yourself how tremendous Trump is. Too bad there's no medication for what you've got.
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  12163.  @smmusicplus96  I did. You just didn't have anything worthwhile to say. Trumpanzee. I roll my eyes at your kind.
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  12164.  @smmusicplus96  Good luck with Trump, you fool.
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  12165. Glad to see the motorcycle police returning!
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  12166.  @unclebob7937  Financial darwinism for the cult .. this must be the modern version of the cult leader taking his lemmings to a high cliff.
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  12167. Capitalism there is the exploitation of Russians by other Russians. Communism was the exact opposite. Their culture hasn't evolved much in centuries.
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  12168. The best analogy I have is from the London Blitz, during WW2 in England. The city had to cover all the lights at night so that bomber pilots couldn't see where London was. DeSatan (and Clump's other people) are like the idiots who decry their "freedumb" to turn on all the lights at night, thus causing bombs to rain down on their neighborhood and their city. Wasn't optional then, shouldn't be optional now.
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  12169. Considering that Trump did nothing to stop the 3+ Chinese spy balloons that entered and left our airspace during his reign of error, this Republican whining is quite amusing.
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  12170. I've been assuming it's because Moscow Mitch's American constituents have been communicating with him in a more direct manner, so that he might understand better how enraged everyone is over his BS.
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  12171. What's coming soon in the USA will be absolutely mental. Of the 561 counties with 100,000 people or more (that's 72% of the nation's population) 506 of those counties are up week-over-week, some for several (or many) weeks in a row already. I guess we're 8 to 12 weeks away from the gates of Hell opening.
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  12172. When the French Third Republic fell so easily to Nazi Germany in WW2, there were plenty of Tuckers on hand to help with the process. They had convinced themselves, and each other, to hate their political opposition much more than they loved their own country. Or perhaps "Quislings" is a better term than Tuckers.
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  12173. The daily number of US coronavirus tests has been declining for half a month now. Looks like someone is trying to cure teen pregnancy by testing less for it .. and we know how that will work :( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  12174.  @DulceN  It’s only hot outside because we have so many thermometers. You wouldn’t know it was hot if we didn’t have them. You’re only perspiring because the weatherman told you to perspire.
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  12175. We don't know if the secret police deployed to Portland are even Americans. From their behavior shown on video, it's clear that the ones who attacked the Navy combat veteran didn't recognize his questions or his service badges. Quite possibly they were on loan from Putin or from Betsy DeVos's brother, Eric Prince.
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  12176.  @Petethehun  Thanks to those people, and to FOXed Noise for feeding them whatever dovetails with their biases, we've got a seriously Balkanized political landscape here. Putin must be very happy with his orange employee here :(
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  12177. Dump's cult sheeple are still giving him money. Perhaps that will taper off as he loses his means to misinform the gullible ones?
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  12178.  @InfinityHS  Yah :( This strange situation sometimes makes me try to summon the ghost of senator Joseph McCarthy, who one could not accuse of coddling Americans who had somehow fallen in love with the Russian leaders.
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  12179.  @Givemeproofkid  Nah, you miss the point. Russia hit first. Ukraine hitting back IS the revenge.
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  12180. This must be why Trump forbade everyone from talking to investigators. No matter, the evidence will all come out, and probably sooner than later.
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  12181. Thank you for the book reference.
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  12182. Imagine being so vain, so pathetic, that you insist upon your neighboring nations having only tiny militaries, no nuclear weapons at all, and no alliances that are not of your choosing. SAD! Time for you to go sleepy weepy, Putin.
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  12183. People like that, Trump hates. Look at his treatment of Lt Col Vindman or ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. He cannot stand principled people - probably because they see him clearly for what he is.
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  12184. Also what Trump's kids did, and then trying to blame it on Hunter Biden.
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  12185. Sinclair Lewis was almost correct: When fascism slouched into America, humping a flag and brandishing a bible upside-down, conservatives tripped over each other trying to help him extinguish freedom and liberty and the rule of law.
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  12186. As an American, I'm resigned to living in a third-world country (or soon to be one) that's also behind an iron curtain. Our so-called separation of powers is at best a paper-thin guardrail, a mere suggestion. Too many of our people are deluded, distracted, or too damn blind.
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  12187. The perp isn't from Georgia .. he merely went to college there (soccer player, goalie) and is from Westfield NJ. Wonder what his sealed juvie records would reveal? His prints were obviously on file from some previous incident(s).
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  12188. Sorry to hear you got the same right-wing religious nutjobs there too :( uggh, they're a plague
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  12189. The good part, though, is that his failure to do the job would set in motion events that would cost the Republicans even more votes. And they would totally deserve it.
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  12190.  @snookwestwest2298  Re "You guys are petrified" << The correct word is "amused". Fixed it for you. Watching Republicans fawn all over the guy who lost them the house, the senate, and the presidency all in four years (while getting impeached twice, LOL) is like watching the Chernobyl mop-up crew slather themselves in uranium paste.
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  12191.  @snookwestwest2298  Nope. The word is either amused or bemused. It's like standing there stunned by the sight of Jim Jones followers telling you how great the kool-aid is. That kind of nonsense makes any sane person take pause.
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  12192.  @snookwestwest2298  That's Ferron speaking for himself, not necessarily for the rest of us. Seriously, though, do you not see what a spectacle it is (for the rest of us who still retain our sanity) to watch a certain chunk of America get behind a failed con artist, an obvious grifter, a guy who makes no secret of his pettiness and who desires to rule like a thug? Of course people will watch that news story. It's like watching a chorus of rats sing the praises of D-Con in three-part harmony.
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  12193.  @snookwestwest2298  Those things are nothing that didn't happen under presidents #1 through #45. Try again.
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  12194.  @snookwestwest2298  Re "You guys are really turning things in the right direction". Oh no. I am not entirely happy with everything. But if the eggs are easy over and I asked for scrambled, that doesn't mean I'll throw out the meal and ask for a muffin made of broken glass - which is basically what Trump is.
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  12195.  @snookwestwest2298  Aww it's nice to see you finally not denying that Trump is the muffin made of broken glass. Took you long enough.
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  12196. A lot of people just would not know. I've been checking my temperature 2x/daily since late January and it hasn't budged out of the 96.3~98.1F range, so I'm reasonably sure that none of my friends are getting exposed to it through me anyway. Fingers crossed.
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  12197. Trump represents to last gasp of dying Boomer political power - basically people who reminisce about the America of their childhood, a simpler place where minorities were seldom seen and never heard; where everyone polluted madly but the consequences hadn't yet appeared; where they enjoyed the benefits of good public infrastructure spending, public health, public education which were made possible by high marginal tax rates. Thankfully that crowd is shuffling off to the next place they're going to ruin, wherever it is.
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  12198.  @karenwhite9989  The budgets for the former social security program, the former department of education, the former FDA, etc, could be used.
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  12199. Not by anyone who's asked for evidence. Seems the accusers haven't got any of that.
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  12200. Trump has left an ugly orange stain on the foreheads of conservatives. It's on them whether they want to wake up from their stupor. We have plenty of prison space for the ones inclined to violence. Twenty years in the can will get their attention.
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  12201. Copied and saved your post for sharing - thank you!
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  12202. Precisely. Whatever methods he uses for carrying out his coup, he must immediately after remove, negate, outlaw those same things in case people change their mind once they see the drift of things under the new dictatorship.
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  12203. This isn't Portland. They'd be out criming the same afternoon. Portland has the nation's leading catch-and-release program.
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  12204. This is part of Pooty's 5-D chess. The arsenals of the West are being slowly deprived of all their portable missiles. It's just costing him a few thousand tanks in the process of course ;)
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  12205. Yes. For starters, it means those two had some pretty evil plans for America.
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  12206.  Greg Moonen  Your attempt to set the record crooked has not gone unnoticed. Whether you're a fool, a propagandist, or a liar is immaterial. It was ratified while the US was still the original 13 colonies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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  12207. Maybe you missed out on the basics of this disease. People who appear healthy are able to pass it to both others who will appear healthy and others who will get sick from it. This is why the schools everywhere are closed - kids make fantastic disease carriers, but they bring it home to their parents and grandparents who then get sick in large numbers. Can you do your job in a way that has no possibility of virus transmission from you to anyone or vice versa? If so, go for it, get back to work today.
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  12208. Name some of your previous "bad feelings" & dates so we can judge whether you're accurate or not, mmm K?
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  12209.  @evelynbonner3908  Let me attempt communication one more time - tell us about the previous instances in which you had bad feelings for things .. how did they turn out? Like, did you have a bad feeling about Obama?
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  12210. Dr Campbell, thank you for these excellent videos. Sharing them. Sorry to say but I am with you on the thought of how it's going to spread and we should all get ready for it. The news yesterday really took me aback - the bit about the cluster of cases at a ski resort in France - because you'd think that any government worth its salt would by now have tracked down everyone who's been through the China region since perhaps January 10th. Who knows how many those 5 at the ski resort passed it to.
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  12211. You mean like paying taxes?
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  12212. "We'd rather have the trains run on time than have to deal with nasty questions, like whether fascism is coming to our country." - Berlin people, 1934
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  12213.  Badger Colony  See, that's where your delusional tendencies get the better of your "thinking". Which side has government money and weapons and soldiers behind it - the federal agencies, or the BLM/Antifa? Was Hitler a plucky revolutionary working from outside, or did the fascist takeover of Germany really get moving only after Hitler was made high chancellor?
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  12214.  @albertosillywhips7281  Agents have been shown on video abducting people who weren't doing anything. BLM doesn't do that. Catch up on current events.
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  12215.  @mourlyvold7655  I've heard that "both parties are the same" lie before. Don't like it much.
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  12216.  @mourlyvold7655  Not trying to convince you, since I honestly don't care, but, for the record, substantial majorities of US citizens support things like these: college loan forgiveness; universal background checks for weapons purchases; some kind of basic universal healthcare system that at least provides diagnostics and preventatives at low cost; universal education benefits so that bright children from poor families have the same access to education that the Brock Turner types have got; and so on. And there's one party that supports these things a lot better than the other. So take your "both parties are the same" nonsense, soak it in kero, stick it where the sun doesn't shine, and light it up. It'll be the one time in life that you're actually bright.
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  12217.  @mourlyvold7655  Let me repeat here what you wrote above, since you seem to have either deleted it or forgotten it. While it did not contain the specific phrase "both parties are the same", the MEANING of it is clearly that. Here goes: First party makes an allegation, second party ignores it and makes an allegation, First party makes an allegation, second party ignores it and makes an allegation, first party ignores it, makes allegation, second party ignores it, makes allegation. first party ignores, makes allegation. second party ignores, makes allegation... first party, second party, first, second, first, second, first, second, first, second on and on and on and on and on andonandonandonandonandonanon.......
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  12218.  @mourlyvold7655  You still seem not to understand the meaning of the word "meaning", so let me illustrate it to you with an example. Just imagine a person trying to tell the following [bad, tasteless] joke and then claiming that s/he never said anything bad about Black people: Q: What's the difference between MLK day and St Paddy's day? A: On St Paddy's day, everyone wants to be Irish. In true nitpicky fashion (the narrow mode in which your interpretation functions seem to operate) it could be claimed by a clever lawyer that the teller of the joke did not actually say anything bad about Black people. However the meaning is quite clear. I'll continue to be civil to you if I can. You just have to understand that you are nowhere near as smart as you fancy yourself to be, and I got stuff brighter than you floating in my cereal most mornings.
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  12219.  @mourlyvold7655  Sincere apologies, I did not know English was not your native tongue. You still use it better than most Americans do! Again, sincere apologies.
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  12220.  @DeniNeher  Some folks will inevitably vote with their feet. Seems like those deep red crazy states are no good place to be having a family.
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  12221. I like that. They've all got conjunctivits 😅
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  12222. Dear Mr Pence: thank you thank you thank you for clearing the way for your own impeachment - through the egregious lie that you just HAD to make. Best regards, your boss (the American people)
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  12223.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  As the famous saying goes - appeasement is feeding your neighbors (Ukrainians) to a hungry alligator, hoping it eats you last.
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  12224.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  Great question. Not yet born.
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  12225. Trump needs to resign NOW. He needs to go in front of a camera and explain to the nation that he has lied about many things, including, but not limited to, the integrity of the election, the results of the election, his illegal attempts to undermine the election, his sabotage of the USPS, his knowing downplaying of the coronavirus, and his role in spreading hate and misinformation.
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  12226. “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016.
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  12227.  @rationalfox7736  It was a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith, captain ignorance. Obviously the joke was about as far above you as a satellite is. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_kenneth_galbraith_122383
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  12228.  @rationalfox7736  Any more of your inbred idiocy before I clock out for the night?
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  12229. So many lies from Trump, it would take a very lengthy series of videos to cover them all.
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  12230. How long do we have before a) Trump tweets or retweets video of him beating up NPR (like the videos of him assaulting CNN) and b) all government funding for NPR gets pulled?
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  12231. I hate to say this, but so far testing is proving to be of very limited use. It was revealed yesterday that the time of greatest communicability is in the first 3-5 days of incubation, which is well before any signs start to show. Those mushrooming positive-test numbers in S Korea are lagging perhaps 10 days or more behind the actual spread of the disease - that is, if you could freeze this moment in time and methodically test everyone in the country. Many are not showing symptoms yet but are in fact infected already, they just don't know it yet and would test negative for it at the current moment.
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  12232.  @TheRabidWolverine  I rest assured that the capitol has an extensive audio/visual surveillance system, with the data backed up to hard drives in multiple locations.
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  12233. Wannabe autocrat and president-for-life that he wants to be, his first inclinations will be to militarize the police and push to make protest illegal.
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  12234. Trump doesn't hire lawyers. He hires typists with a little bit of legal knowledge. He's too dumb to realize that intelligent tools are better than dumb tools who do exactly what (and only what) he tells them to do.
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  12235. Dawn is coming to a lot of marble heads.
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  12236.  @BladeRunner21577  Are you talking about the same Ukraine that is very successfully kicking out Russian intruders? Or the Ukraine that seems to exist only in Russian imaginations, where the invaders get welcomed with open arms? Being in deep denial about how this "special operation" has been going isn't going to help you come to grips with how the rest of this is going to play out, but then, getting your "news" from Tass isn't helping you either.
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  12237.  @skottywayne  Of all the leaders present there, Trump would have been the only one who tried to burn down his own country just to please Putin. Normal people just don't do stuff like that.
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  12238. Too bad no one thought to have a big mariachi band welcoming Fled Cruz ..
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  12239. Cheeto lives in a golden tower with his name all over it huge fonts. Shts in a golden toilet, inherited hundreds of millions of dollars. Wouldn't cross the street to pee on a burning poor person. A real man of the people /sarc
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  12240. @Max the maltipoo - At the other end of the spectrum, we in the US will suffer the effects of letting the pandemic become endemic. Already there are only a few countries that Americans can legally travel to. Going forward, no one will want to come here for university, no one will want to buy our possibly tainted food products, no one will want to send their ship crews here and back to risk coronavirus exposure .. and eventually no one will want to use the US dollar for international transactions.
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  12241. To be sure, he's got that nagging remaining 2% of cognitive ability realizing that he's presiding over the biggest and most tremendous shit show in the industrialized world .. realizing that every nation should issue a travel blockade against the USA which is now the world's biggest hotspot .. realizing that the bullet has already left the gun, the inevitable chain reaction is underway, and that the USA will be at a quarter million cases soon enough and that every city will be like Madrid or northern Italy. He can't figure a way out, and acting like a responsible adult is not something he can contemplate.
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  12242. Just for reference .. Hitler's first attempted coup, named the Beer Hall Putsch, took place November 8, 1923. Two days after the attempt, Hitler was arrested and charged with high treason. The trial began Feb 26th, 1924 which was 111 days after the crime. For Trump, Bannon, Guiliani, and the others, we're currently at 303 days since the crime, with no arrest of the ringleaders yet.
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  12243. Not feeling sorry for the GOP. They've had more than three years to rein him in, call him out on his nonsense, make him do his frigging job, etc, and all they did was spend the time cowering in fear that he might tweet something nasty about them.
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  12244. Sorry to chime in on this but sit-down restaurants & bars won't be back safely anytime soon. Basically the danger is people being indoors together for more than 10 minutes and giving off droplet output by talking, breathing, saliva, etc. Everybody's got to switch to take out only for the foreseeable future, otherwise it's just going to cause another round of infections. Yes I know this sucks (I work in that industry too) but restarting 70% of the economy safely is the only good way out. The other extremes (keeping everything closed for a long time, or opening up as if to pretend the virus is no longer around) will cause different kinds of unacceptable losses.
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  12245. That clip needs to play over and over and over for the benefit of the delusional culties who believe his schtik.
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  12246. One wonders if this count includes Trump's compound lies. An example: Trump asked the PM of Denmark if he could buy Greenland. Then he lied about that and said it was just a joke. Then he told a lie about why he unexpectedly canceled his meeting with the PM of Denmark. Then, finally, later he admitted that he canceled the meeting because Denmark rejected his purchase offer. How many lies did that count as?
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  12247. Just so we're clear, this has more to do with Trump having incited an insurrection against the same government he took an oath to defend, and less than them not liking him. Text of 14.3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  12248. Most interestingly, the Spanish Civil War began all because the right-center party refused to accept the election results that put a more left-oriented government in power.
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  12249.  @jcIIXVIIIVII  That's the part that Trump's flying monkeys just can't understand. He committed crimes. Trying him for those crimes is not "political interference", it's justice.
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  12250.  @Digger-Nick  So for the first time since Barack Obama left office, we now have a president who respects the rule of law and who takes seriously his oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign or domestic .. and somehow that's a catastrophe? Sounds more like you're a Trump/Russia bot. The separation between those two positions is measured in seconds of arc.
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  12251. I for one don't miss his CONSTANT lying. Remember when he offered to buy Greenland off Denmark? The PM of Denmark said no, 45 canceled a scheduled meeting, 45 denied it, 45 called her names, and only weeks later did he admit to it.
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  12252. Nice of those sh*tbirds to advertise so openly that they're tools of Vladimir Putin, just like Tucker Carlson is. I prefer it when traitors show their colors openly.
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  12253. Hey Republicans - gee, who could have thought that most normal people would recoil at your slavish devotion to a man who has 91 criminal charges against him, who has been impeached twice, who has orchestrated a coup attempt, who has profited financially while president, who has stolen (and in all likelihood sold) top-secret documents, who has been judged to be a rapist, and who uses an enraged mob (who he has incited by lies) to issue death threats on his behalf? People - this time we all need to vote like hell, or we won't have a country left.
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  12254. Didn't work for Leslie Van Houten, didn't work for the Q Shaman, and isn't going to work for her either.
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  12255. Short answer, his base is very noisy and is comprised of three basic segments of American society that have some overlap. One is the people who are so, ahh, ungifted that to them his 4th-grade speaking patterns sound like the work of genius. Another is the segment of population (everyplace has these) who are predisposed to (or scared into, which is the job of Fox) strongman-worship tendencies. Another is the segment of population (everyplace has these) who want to burn it all down. Systematically degrading public education was a part of this.
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  12256. Correct. All the lockdown did was slow or postpone the first wave. Instead of building up testing capacity during the downtime, we wasted the opportunity.
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  12257. I wonder which state is ready to march into the wood chipper to please Hair Fuhrer? How about South Dakota? They never bothered to enact mandatory distancing, and as a result their case rate is going ballistic, doubling every 4 days are so. Why close things down just to reopen them?
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  12258. So how much $$$$ did Trump make selling Israel's defense plans to the Saudis? Didn't they give him around $2 billion out of the kindness of their hearts?
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  12259. Any citizen of the free world is happy to make things go worse for Putin. Likewise, we welcome the Russian people to the civilized world if they shut Putin down.
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  12260. Fascism came to America -- and Republicans embraced it. That is the story of the last four years.
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  12261. Putin would love removing the US dollar from being the world's reserve currency, and his apprentice is working on that as we speak.
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  12262.  @mawlinzebra  You seem completely & blithely aware of how New Zealand accomplished that, f-face. On the day they locked down, they had 28 cases. After that it was test-trace-isolate. Whereas over here we've got some states that never locked down at all, some states with thousands of new cases per day when they locked down, and no controls on people flying from NYC to spring break to Kansas. But you didn't know any of that, did you?
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  12263.  @mawlinzebra  Since you've expressed your ignorance so profoundly - do you think the record # of deaths and infections in NY had anything to do with the way they didn't lock down until they were seeing something like around 6,000+ new cases per day?
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  12264. You know what happens when you sleep with a big hunk of strontium-90 under your bed? Your hair falls out, your blood gets thin, and all kinds of bad things happen to your health because of that nasty stuff poisoning you with radiation. It is the same thing with welcoming Trump as your leader, your lord, your savior. He's never been anything but toxic.
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  12265. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. 93 Americans died from it. Sad! also Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it!
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  12266. He's even dumber than the old man.
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  12267. Miller is one of that kind too. A perfectly odious, hateful creep.
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  12268. Honestly, I thought she was talking about the 41 Chinese trademark names that Ivanka Trump fast-tracked while working in the white house and traveling to China under secret service protection.
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  12269. This is fantastic. Trump finally gets to see how ordinary citizens think of him. Hope they put some memes on the big screen for the whole court to see. I particularly like that one of him standing in front of our capitol in Washington DC, scowling as usual, holding a can of gasoline, looking at the House and Senate on fire, shrieking that he alone can fix this.
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  12270. Only in America could a Latino refugee born in Canada, descended from someone who fled Cuba, reinvent himself as an immigrant-hating southern white supremacist. H/t to Rafael Eduardo Cruz.
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  12271. Oh yeah, Ukraine is probably thinking how "wonderful" Russia was for Afghanistan when they invaded. Seems like they don't want to take their turn in the barrel.
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  12272. The longer Russia chooses to remain in the maw of the wood chipper that Ukraine is for them, the more they lose. The Russia of 2024 and beyond is going to be profoundly poorer, more isolated, and more demographically damaged than before the war. Putin is taking the nation down in a huge way. The damage will last more than a century :(
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  12273. The Nazis at least had the sense to use euphemisms such as "final solution" instead of saying outright what they were planning to do. 45 and his people are salivating so much for their opportunity to institute bloodshed and dictatorship, they haven't the sense to hold back on saying things out loud :(
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  12274. You mean like Portland International Raceway? There's also a race track in Woodburn.
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  12275. @Masters Of Moore Sounds like you are the one ignorant of facts. Wish you could keep going to the rallies and rub shoulders with your MAGA brothers and sisters.
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  12276. Like Trump, she's squinting at windmills.
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  12277. They also don't get that the Trump name is radioactive waste, or that Daddy's second popular-vote loss was more than twice deeper than the first. They better fix that jet and flee to Russia while they still can.
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  12278. @Denise Fernandez Yeah good luck with that.
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  12279. In the same way the frozen pump handle beckons dumb kids who know better but still cannot resist, Trump is the rope the Republicans seem unable to resist hanging themselves with.
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  12280. So what that means, is, when your gig as a second-rate handbag designer is too boring for you, just call up CreepyDaddy and ask him nicely if you can cosplay at being someone important by speaking for the US at some conference in Europe?
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  12281.  @BUTGOD-j1x  That's not why it's surging. It's highly contagious, and not enough people have been wearing masks.
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  12282. Dump has revealed something interesting .. among his many many cult followers (the number is in the tens of millions) he seems to scratch some special itch that we didn't even know was there. They are just fine with his racism, his authoritarian tendencies, his bullying, his ignorance, his wannabe strongman rule, his sarcasm, and his attempts to destroy America as we know it. Whether we allow disinformation to continue to be widely spread here is an open question.
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  12283. @candy smith We could start with this one. In Leviticus Chapter 24, verses 17 through 21 quote the Lord instructing Moses in words that uphold the death penalty and include the phrase, "If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth."
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  12284. Trump is definitely going to get worse. He's constantly sending out code to his stochiastic brownshirt irregulars and it's going to get more explicit :(
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  12285. You forgot the bit about when Putin's little sputnik, Trump, said he saw no reason why Crimea shouldn't belong to Russia. He said that at a G7 summit.
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  12286.  happy expat  They can soon rest assured (perhaps resting in body bags) that Trump is right about everything and that the virus really is a Democrat hoax just to make him look bad.
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  12287. It's the mark of a halfway professional propagandist that he doesn't eat his own dog food. Although he tells his rally-goers that the impeachment didn't happen, he clearly knows it did.
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  12288.  @peterjones4180  Thanks for the giggles. I love the smell of internet nobodies in the morning, the kind who imagine they know better than those in charge. F22 is not available for export, but then, if you see the way that thing maneuvers, you wouldn't sell it to anyone either.
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  12289.  @peterjones4180  Continue with amusing me. As I said before, the F22 is not available for export. Too much Area 51 inspired tech in it probably /sarc
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  12290. Fox keeps propping up the lies with opinions that get passed off as "news" to the easily-fooled.
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  12291. In case it's not glaringly obvious - comrade Tяump and his closest people are all serious criminals. Not only was ambassador Yovanovich spied on, with the options to turn it into a hit, but that activity was conducted by one Robert Hyde, an American, a military veteran, a Trump donor, and a wannabe congress person. Doesn't offering to arrange a hit on a United States ambassador violate his oath of service? He used to be a Marine. Maybe he needs to "go through some things"?
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  12292. It's like when he drops that punch line at his rallies - "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" - and they cheer. From the look on his face right then you can tell he's happy they don't understand the meaning of what he's saying .. they just think it's a cool story about a snake.
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  12293.  @Love-eg2vf  Beautiful :) Mind if I borrow that verbiage on occasion?
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  12294.  @Gitn2it  A friend of mine in Chicago lives in a building where the condo board has for years been kicking the can down the road by doing regular band-aid fixes to an old boiler system that's long been in need of replacement. After the way they have delayed it, the special assessment to fix it now will be rather steep. It's finally getting fixed now, but only because there was some turnover on the condo board. Just like at Surfside, there were board members who knowingly turned a blind eye to the deteriorating heating system and instead put money into decorative landscaping or other cosmetic things. It hardly needs to be pointed out how much total damage could be caused by heating system failure during the coldest months. Edit: cute handle.
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  12295. Is this going to be anything like the memo FOXed Noise sent out to always refer to president Obama as "that muslim commie Kenyan sleeper agent Barack Hussein Obama"?
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  12296. This is why I think Trump and his family must be kept in DC all this week and next. It's the only way to keep Trump from begging Putin to nuke DC.
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  12297. The wall didn't need to be any more substantial than the Biden investigations that Trump wanted Ukraine to announce (but not actually carry out) .. in other words, just real enough to fool his base. The same base whose history books show a T-rex handing a confederate flag to Jesus (SNL ref).
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  12298. Much of the world is on board with the sanctions that hurt the Russian economy, as a way of telling Putin that his invasion of Ukraine is a bad thing. While we may succeed in motivating Russia to overthrow Putin, there's no guarantee that his successor will be any more evolved than he is. It's not too hard to see Russia continuing to double down on the war and, in the process, making themselves as tight a place as North Korea.
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  12299.  @rxonmymind8362  Russians themselves DO have a way out of this: overthrow Putin, withdraw from Ukraine, begin negotiations for reparations. That will be a lot cheaper than staying in the war.
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  12300.  @tomrogers9467  And what is Germany now? A very strong ally, just like Japan. They let shortsighted folks like you run the show after WW1, and that led directly to WW2. We're not making that mistake again.
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  12301.  @jrs55555  Great :( thanks for that visual :(
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  12302. Trump: I want a judge that will agree with my attempts to throw out votes I don't like. also Trump: If they don't agree with me, I don't have to listen to judges.
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  12303. Some of us don't praise Nazis .. and some keep their Garands and Moisins handy for some "anti fascist" work.
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  12304. This is why they call it "retail hell". Honestly, strippers in the US get treated better, plus they can always tell the bouncer to remove someone who's being obnoxious.
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  12305. A couple weeks ago I was at a camping-type gathering of folks who've mostly been friends for years. At one point, one of the guys started going on (apropos of nothing) about the supposed Biden crime family syndicate and 2020 election irregularities .. and people just looked away, changed the subject, started commenting on the weather. The people still living in the Trump/Fox Noise alternative reality are the left-behinds now .. and every year there will be fewer of them remaining.
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  12306. Cult leader wishes something, flying monkeys try to do it. Does not matter what that something is. Just ask Leslie Van Houten.
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  12307. Ding ding ding, looks like we have a new high score for the turret tossing competition.
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  12308. A public debate would reveal that Vance is just another Charlie Kirk wannabe.
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  12309. Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him - beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc. That's his base.
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  12310. Muskrat is just a thief. You can always try "working" at the bank for free, help yourself to other people's money.
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  12311. Jesse, the proper way to say it is that your freedom ends where another person's begins, and vice versa. They have no more right to wantonly spread covid anywhere than they do to spread sarin gas anywhere. They can go buy spacesuits, and wear them everywhere in public, if they don't want to get vaxxed.
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  12312.  @mikelittle5250  Lots of ironies on that side of the aisle. Forbidding doctors to save a woman's life when her dead fetus is causing sepsis is A-OK with them, but asking them to wear a mask is "tyrannical government overreach". Seems fitting that now the Repub's are going to be forced to carry a nonviable candidate to term. The irony is as far above them as the m-o-o-n.
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  12313.  @TechSucht  Most likely 45 was acting on Putin's longstanding wish to inject fear, uncertainty, and doubt into western relations.
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  12314.  @brendarolph-teisan4085  It was like watching a Nuremburg rally, with good little Nazis clapping at the notion of exterminating human beings they disagree with.
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  12315. New subscriber. Love your content. It is right to be scared. This administration took only 2 days to reach a phase that it took 1930s Germany several weeks to get to - the stage of people being snatched off the streets, for political reasons, and put into boxcars. We're using military planes for now but it's going to be camps pretty soon, as this administration isn't above keeping some free farm labor handy for all those jobs that white Americans won't do.
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  12316.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  Strange coincidence, but we also have ~30% of the population that can be variously characterised as follows - vulnerable to the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a 10yo with 30 seconds of browser time; approving of authoritarianism; eager to turn against their own country; hateful; racist; bigoted; anti-science; happy to prolong a deadly pandemic.
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  12317.  @dennetlane2870  In the end, it seems those suckers were all just hoping that he would change .. and how ironic that they're all hopey-changey over the most obvious con man in the phone book. Seems fitting that Trump is the rope with which the GOP is hell-bend on hanging itself.
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  12318.  @rosariogal5358  You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had.
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  12319.  @hazelpearson7807  In the same way the frozen pump handle beckons dumb kids who know better but still cannot resist, Trump is the rope the Republicans seem unable to resist hanging themselves with.
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  12320.  @thisbushnell2012  Isn't it odd how Republicans screeched to the heavens that asking them to wear a mask, when there's a dangerous new respiratory disease going around, was "unconstitutional government overreach", yet, to them, using the powers of government to forbid life-saving medical treatment to mothers is not?
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  12321. MTG's insanity brought to you by the very same people who tried to make sure Congress couldn't see Trump's tax information.
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  12322. The Republicans traffic so much in nothingburgers, they ought to trademark the name for a chain of sleazy restaurants.
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  12323. Tony Ornato's lies didn't last long. Not that anyone believed him anyway, d*psh*t cult sheeple that he is. Hope he enjoys lifelong unemployment.
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  12324. Well, to be fair, it could have been a very high-UV day there right then. Makes sense for the melanin-deficient types to cover everything up. For their own safety of course.
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  12325. Australians gave hell to the Axis powers in WW2, who were dismayed to learned that they /liked/ getting into a fight.
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  12326. To me it looks like stuff swirling in the bowl after the lever has been pulled. Trump and his lawyers are on borrowed time, and there's not much of it left either.
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  12327. Prettyboy Matt will have a fine time there.
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  12328. Yeah that's already been addressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9VlKiOLLW0&t=312s
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  12329.  @r13hd22  "Go away"? That's the best you got when I try pointing out to you that all elective surgeries have been canceled to make room for the incoming surge of covid-19 patients, and that's why some hospitals may look empty now? Go seek help.
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  12330.  @deleted_why  Dump started badmouthing the election results months before the election took place. He knew way in advance that it would be a drubbing. Hence the scramble to squeeze in one more SCOTUS judge (thanks Mitch, may you burn for eternity), handicap the USPS, make the covid epidemic worse in cities, try to get Ukraine to poop all over the Bidens, etc.
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  12331. Funny how Russia can't blame themselves for putting those troops in harm's way by sending them to invade another country. What did they effing think was going to happen if they invade another country? Send all the orcs to the hot place if they're not smart enough to get the F out of there.
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  12332.  @glockdude5472  You must be referring to drunk Rudy's partial cellphone video of ballots being delivered. The FBI interviewed everyone and found that they were just performing their duties of delivering ballots. You might want to ask yourself why you WANT to believe obvious lies.
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  12333. Poor Proto Rhino above seemingly doesen't have the "evidence" he claims to have. Color me surprised. These whacktards are all the same .. Alex Jones could make up something nutty on the spot and they'd believe it. These folks are similar to Manson's followers. Out of their gourds basically.
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  12334.  @glockdude5472  Listen, Glockie, and learn a thing or two about the difference between real evidence and hearsay. A video of [whatever] happening plus a voiceover does not mean that dead folks names were used on ballots. For that accusation to stand up, you would need a stack of signed ballots and a matching stack of death certificates, with all of it notarized as to its authenticity. So far, the Trumpanzees have provided no such evidence to back up their claims of fraud.
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  12335. To the kind people at Anonymous (if you are still around) .. do you mind doxxing Mr Schmitt's covid vaccine records? Obviously he's taken the vaccine, because while there's a lot of money to be made pooh-poohing it to the anti-science crowd, you can't enjoy all that money when you're dead.
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  12336. The MAGA cult would rather destroy the nation than fade into the wallpaper of a mental institution .. note the proliferation of all those bumpkin reveries about a country without cities - because libruls live there of course.
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  12337. There are people online who refuse to accept any evidence that Russia is no longer the big bad Soviet Union of bygone years.
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  12338.  Badger Colony  Coming from the crowd that sees conspiracy theories everywhere (folks who spray vinegar at the sky after hearing about chemtrails) that does sound kind of funny.
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  12339.  @Bao171  You've made a glaringly incorrect assumption, but the funny part is, you don't even know it. So typical of the know-if-all set who knows nothing.
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  12340. The one good thing I can say about my bad jobs is that they collectively encouraged me to go work for myself and form businesses. Wow did they suck hard. Places that belonged on fckedcompany.
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  12341. There is an oldie but goodie article out there. Work reading. Title is, "I study liars. I've never seen one like Trump"
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  12342.  Amy Hinton  Bingo. Just sitting there fidgeting while he talks about injecting disinfectants doesn't cut it. Whatever credibility she used to have, it's gone now.
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  12343.  @mistyblue5386  He's been a monster for more than a decade. Some people are very slow on the uptake.
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  12344. Putin's idol, Adolph Hitler, had to learn the hard way that bombing London only stiffened the will of the British.
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  12345. Another thing that Republicans "don't care for" is the knowledge that all of Forrest Trump's election challenges have been tossed out of court for complete lack of evidence. They don't want to hear that any more than garden slugs want to cavort in table salt.
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  12346.  @danielplainview5085  Re "Bidens dystopic declaration of war" << Oh you mean it's a declaration of war to call out obvious fascism and attempts to end democracy? "Sure, the stage 4 liver cancer was aggressive, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides!" -- Donald Trump
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  12347.  @sinnahn  "Never in our history has a President has an election-loser president called the legitimate elected president an enemy of the state." Fixed it for you. Also never before has an outgoing US president tried to stage a coup after losing the election.
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  12348.  @sinnahn  Go back to your baseless conspiracy theories, dude/girl/whatever. Obviously you are not equipped to handle unwelcome reality.
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  12349. Unfortunately, Britain is still living with the damages that BoJo helped cause - like Brexit for instance.
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  12350. There's no banana-republic assholery to be seen here, just move along folks :(
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  12351. Behold the effect of the ugly orange cult leader on his flying monkeys :(
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  12352. No doubt she just tells people it's allergies. Heh. Coronavirus likes this.
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  12353. There must be some kind of dark glitter about him that works great on stupid people. To the rest of us it's pretty obvious that Trump is a black hole of chaos .. there's no bottom to how much he would harm America.
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  12354. What about people not associated with DOGE who may already have copies - like the Kremlin?
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  12355. On the other hand, you have the freedumb-loving USA where 200 cases was considered small potatoes, which is how it's become 35+ million cases that's killed 628K+ people. A thing that started small "went viral".
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  12356.  Brad Lucas  Good luck explaining to the dummies on this thread that things-that-can-spread-exponentially are best stopped BEFORE they become widespread. Mind you, these dummies are the same ones who would have left all their lights on at night during the London Blitz, at least until their neighbors knocked all their teeth out and the blackout warden came out to arrest them. Absolutely zero sense of responsibility in them.
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  12357. Err, I hope their estates are ready for the class-action lawsuits coming their way. The thing is, none of these science-denying inbred yahoos have anything that would stand up in court that would justify the lies they were spouting about covid, about masks, about the vaccines. No doubt, none of these three Quislings never bothered to show up at the funerals of those who took their bad medical advice seriously, and none of these three did anything to help the families who lost loved ones and providers over their anti-science nonsense. Somebody's going to be on the hook for that someday.
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  12358. Russia failing to honor its obligations?? Say it ain't so! Russia has violated the terms of the Minsk Agreement of 1991, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the NATO Russia Founding Act of 1997. Their word is worth NOTHING on a treaty or agreement.
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  12359. Part of how the US got its #14 spot on the list of covid deaths per million people was people listening to misinformation about that. Don't think there weren't plenty others willing to take their places.
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  12360. You saw the gag order, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html Unless healthcare professionals choose to ignore this Soviet attempt to control information, all we're going to hear is lies.
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  12361. Thank you for your service. America stands with you.
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  12362. It wasn't an argument, it was an interview, and squirrel-brain Shapiro somehow managed to lose it anyway. Watching Mr Neil wipe the floor with him was most amusing. That video has gotten me through many a dark day.
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  12363. DeathSantis is the sort of nutjob who would ban seat belts and airbags if the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims.
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  12364. How this shit-show administration hasn't already come apart like a hand grenade, we'll never know. I used to have a sociopathic boss who's a lot like Trump, so his "administrative style" is familiar to me :(
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  12365. Try not to say it in those exact words please .. they seem to take it as a challenge when you ask, "How much crazier could this get?"
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  12366. Did anyone else notice that the USA's case count went up 30% in just one day? (that was yesterday) Almost 3000 new cases in one day. That means in about 3-5 weeks we're going to be seeing 1000+ deaths per day.
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  12367. Remember when 45 (I won't use his name, he's not really human) said that he was hobbled by the constitution, and wanted to do away with it? (of course his culties cheered to hear that) Funny how they can't or won't see how the dissolution of the rule of law doesn't have any happy ending for anyone. It would merely lead to domestic bloodshed, and violence like that seen in Haiti or Somalia - especially when it was clear, publicly-available news that 45 lost the election then lost every court case challenging the election results. And it was publicly-available news (not hidden, not secret, not hard to find) that all of the cases were tossed for the same reason: a complete lack of evidence. Rudy G admitted, "we have lots of theories, we just don't have any evidence." Perhaps the insurrectionists owe their lives to the failure of their coup attempt and the milquetoast nature of AG Garland.
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  12368. It's going to take a bit of cleaning to get those greasy orange fingerprints off the scale of justice.
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  12369. Seriously, did it take these dim wits 18 months to realize that the only people dying of covid these days are their own idiot sheeple who swallow the dumb propaganda they put out? Delta is reducing the number of FOXed viewers and conservative voters. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing either.
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  12370.  @MeisterKonfusius  What with 45 being a controlling delusional narcissist, I think he revels in having people like that around him. His big pleasure in life is spinning people around and putting them to his own uses.
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  12371.  @user-ln5il4un3x  Re "and is waiting to cripple Europe before attacking the U.S." << As in Soviet times, the main hard-currency source of money for Russia is sales of raw materials. When Europe finally isn't using Russian hydrocarbons anymore, Russia will have lost that market forever. If this is how they are "crippling" Europe, it's a pretty self-defeating way of using it. At this point, Russia could not successfully take on Italy. Zero chance of Russia attacking the US.
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  12372.  @user-ln5il4un3x  Hopefully the west can split the difference and just aim for the Kremlin.
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  12373. Re "What good are niceties and cleverly worded speeches when it’s only a cover up to push a racist, misogynist, imperialist agenda?" PERFECT
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  12374. Those metal detectors should be built into most key doorways in that building, with sensor logs just like any other monitoring device. That whackjob Boebert probably had a revolver in her bag to use on the house speaker back on Insurrection Day.
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  12375.  @whysoserious110  Correct. 45, should he lose the election, will just do another coup attempt, while complaining all the while about how wronged he imagines himself to be. America seems to be in the middle of getting an object lesson in why it's important not to construe an attempted fascist takeover as the legitimate political activities of the (R)egressive Party. Back in the 1930s-40s, Germany got a lesson in that very same thing.
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  12376. Re << They just can't accept the fact that people come to the protests of their own free will, and not because some "mastermind" is telling them to. >> Yup. That's their mentality in a nutshell.
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  12377. This is a test balloon for how Republicans will handle the 2020 elections, when their losses deepen further. This is how they try to stay in power when they diverge from the will of the people.
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  12378. Looks like Dump burned out another projector bulb: "Everyone can get tested" = only me and other really rich people can get tested all the time "Everyone can get the treatment I did" = it was available only to me and a handful of other people "It will be armageddon if Biden wins" = I'll be really upset if I can't be America's king forever
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  12379. Explain to me please where the silencing of that vile person is a bad thing.
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  12380. Fox snooze is good at finding people who want to feel as if they've been victimized somehow.
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  12381.  @jamescraig4719  Were you proud of Ohio when the 10yo raped girl had to go out of state to get an abortion? If yes, go seek mental help.
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  12382. The very last paragraph of the video reminded me of this - who else remembers this study someone did of Trump's style of lying? It's a couple years old now. About a quarter of his lies are the mean-spirited kind designed to hurt specific people. Most normal people lie but not like that. Here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-study-liars-ive-never-seen-one-like-president-trump/2017/12/07/4e529efe-da3f-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
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  12383.  @JohnPublic-dk7zd  Gee, what's worse, a few Hispanic day laborers or the guy who almost plunged the nation into massive bloodshed? We all watched as he lost the popular vote, then the EC vote, then all of his court cases challenging the election results. We watched as his people said, in court after court, that they had no hard evidence of vote fraud, just lots of theories. And after all that he still wanted to seize power. Had it succeeded, the day after that would have been a bloodbath. Is that not the by far worse outcome?
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  12384.  @MR_KILL777  Oh yes they have Nazi tattoos. Take your lame-ass trolling elsewhere. You probably don't even live in Oregon. I see most of those Clump-train Nazi f*cks come from out of state .. seen their license plates up close .. they'd better not show their little Nazi faces in Portland.
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  12385. Wussolini's sole concerns about a Tulsa rally stem from potential liability issues. If he and his campaign and the venue are legally off the hook, then they're totally game to set up a super-spreading event disguised as a rally.
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  12386. The reason big business is sucking up to Cheeto is because Cheeto just played "Simon says" with the US government. Specifically, he wanted TikTok out, and his sputniks (Musk & Zuck) lobbied heavily with baseless allegations of Chinese spying via the app. On the basis of those accusations alone, the US government was manipulated into going after a private company. None of them want to be the next TikTok.
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  12387. Clearly this is some subset of the cosplaying community - probably the same part that sends fat chicks in Wonderwoman outfits to the comic cons.
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  12388. To be fair, Trump DID promise to run the USA like one of his own businesses. Looks like he's delivering on the promise.
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  12389. It's hard to get a man to acknowledge something when his paycheck depends on his ignorance of that same thing.
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  12390. Is it possible that Mike Pillow is the decapitated time traveling ghost who fed Sidney Powell's delusions??
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  12391. Rather, we can be sure of what Harlan Crowe wants.
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  12392.  @CS-oe7yo  And, you know, we wouldn't be in this mess if every news reporter, going way back to 45's birtherism, had just said "No, Mr Trump, that's a lie." Giving any verbatim airtime to his lies is like serializing "Mein Kampf" in the local newspaper until the lies are normalized.
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  12393. Wondering now if any of the terrorists were off-duty capitol cops .. they would have keys to doors and would know the locations of various offices.
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  12394. This war is Russia's to lose and Ukraine's to win. The table is set, the kitchen is heating up, and it's up to Putler to decide when to get out. The longer he waits, the worse things will be for him.
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  12395. No shortage of Tokyo Rose wannabe's :( .. which is about what someone is when they give bad advice that helps make the pandemic worse.
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  12396. Q is the Father Coughlan of the Twitter era.
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  12397. I'm assuming that the unvaccinated will get Raptured by some strange new variant of covid-19 that's breeding somewhere in Greater Idaho (aka Lesser Montana, aka Trumpland, aka Jeebusland). They will leave us their stuff, their jobs, their businesses. Thank you!!! :)
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  12398. America's version of Elena Ceausescu :(
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  12399. Talked with people who participated in the M1 vs T-72 matches in Iraq. Wasn't much of a contest, especially at night. Those DU darts just go in one side and out the other.
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  12400. I love the comments. 95% whackjobs whose only reason for doubting covid is that it hasn't happened to them yet.
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  12401.  @toddlarson7489  One of my local friends (30s, went to the gym all the time, boxed) had the 14-week version of it. Almost killed him. Now his lungs are scarred and he's got lasting issues. Other than that I lost three friends in other states to covid .. and I can't bring myself to delete their numbers from my phone yet :(
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  12402. As if his complete disdain for the rule of law wasn't already superabundantly clear ..
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  12403. It will be longer than that (1-3 months) but the effect will be the same. A lot of estates will be struggling with medical costs and burial costs.
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  12404. Having a hateful social media presence and being gullible enough to listen to Tucker Carlson's "great replacement" theory are the biggest red flags for probable mass shooters these days, sadly :(
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  12405. The leopards need to feast, and I am not getting in the way. Experience keeps an ugly school, sure, but fools will learn in no other.
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  12406. The senate trial ALREADY looks like a kangaroo court, a frigging joke. More than 75% of Americans wanted evidence & witnesses at the trial. In a perversion of justice, Moscow Mitch made sure we had a trial without witnesses and evidence. And to those 75%+ any "acquittal" will always be a total sham, an acquittal in name only.
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  12407.  @funshtwithfatpete3019  Re "Are you ready for the war???" << Hopefully you are not one of the people romanticizing that sort of thing. Those who do, should go talk with people who survived the siege of Sarajevo or the breakup of Yugoslavia. They'll tell you what it's like to be shot at for months on end, or what life is like when random militias force children to drink motor oil before shooting them and leaving them in a ditch.
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  12408. Rest assured, the Supreme Corp is focused moron wish lists from the likes of Pat Buchanan and less on justice.
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  12409. @Bro koga Some people talk the same way about El Trompo, even though he couldn't give a shit about them.
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  12410.  @charlesritter6640  Borrowed the quote from Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street".
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  12411. Marge Trailer Greene continues to surpass boss Putin's expectations for his wish to have America destroyed from within.
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  12412. Did Putin make this request specifically?
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  12413. Putin still wants something from the world, but nuking the world won't help that goal, which is why he hasn't done it yet.
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  12414. Trump shouldn't stress - as he claimed back in 2018, he has the right to pardon himself: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  12415. America to Dump: RESIGN.
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  12416. May as well call them the Insurrection Caucus.
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  12417. Unfortunately, the only way the tender feefees of racist rural people can only be salved by giving them disproportionate representation in the EC, so that one FOXed-Noise-drenched rural yahoo's vote is worth two or more votes of urban people.
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  12418. Those supporters would cheer Trump even if he told them to set their own cars on fire. They're culties, plain and simple.
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  12419.  @noturningbackever493  Thank you for making yet another baseless, link-less, proof-less opinion post coming from the unhinged alt-reich movement. You people got divorced from reality back when you howled at the moon over Obama wearing a tan suit or using mustard. You've been stuck to the ceiling ever since.
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  12420. Salem has problems. Apparently a mob of goons armed with long guns and chemical spray battled with the police there last week to try to seize control of the legislature. Not sure whether we should string them up for sedition, take away their guns, or just publish the data of where they all live and work, and just let the community take care of this problem on its own.
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  12421.  @whoppergoldstein5308  God bless and merry Christmas to you as well. The only tactical differences between what those goons did in Salem recently and what the Portland protesters did this summer are these: a) they had long guns on them while clashing with police, and b) they tried to storm the state legislature. Thanks to what those reich-wing fools did in Salem, everyone in Oregon now thinks it's OK to settle their differences with the state government in the same manner. It would be painfully typical of your type to make up some blatant nonsense (calling someone a member of the KKK, for instance) without bothering to check first if there's any valid basis for it. But then, being an alt-reich-winger these days necessitates a state of mind that's not swayed by facts or information. Happy New Year too.
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  12422.  @whoppergoldstein5308  You appear not to know the meaning of the word "tactical", but, seriously, it would be silly of anyone to hope that the scope of your ignorance is limited to politics. I'd ask what else you're completely wrong about, but since the printed form of it would take up a couple semi trailers, no thanks. Antifa/BLM don't carry long guns when clashing with the police at the state capitol - so much for your "looks the same to me" nonsense. At least they haven't yet. That might change now that the reich-wingers (Trump people who are basically the rebranded Nazi party) have tacitly OK'd it through their actions.
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  12423. That's awesome!! Yesterday these people were united in their fealty to Trump - and this time next week they'll be united in the ER. Smart move :(
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  12424. Sounds like Trump is channeling his inner Kari Lake 😅 and I totally approve of it. Wish he would rub his reverse Midas touch all over Georgia.
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  12425.  @benleydon  Sounds like you have TDS and you caught it from the master gaslighter - Trump. The joke on you guys is that TDS is what makes conservatives believe every dumb lie out of his mouth.
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  12426.  @benleydon  The effect you suffer from has been around for awhile. https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/survey-nprs-listeners-best-informed-fox-news-viewers-worst-informed/
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  12427. Trump still hasn't released the "concept of a plan" for his allegedly wonderful healthcare program .. or his tax returns .. or his medical records .. or any honest answers to the many questions he just doesn't want to hear.
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  12428.  @UlexiteTVStoneLexite  The aggrieved parties (ant-abortion folks) have no standing in this complaint, any more than than your friendly neighborhood Muslin cleric has standing for complaining that you eat pork. Don't like abortion? Then don't have one.
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  12429.  @busblu1475  Show me exactly where on the doll it hurts you when someone else gets an abortion.
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  12430.  @Daniel15391  I see how you slipped that 180 degree turn in there. It's not on me to find some religion that supports abortion. It is on me to remind you, and those like you, to keep your frigging religion to yourself. Otherwise nice folks might have to switch to some other faith that, say, prohibits the eating of pork products, then decides to visit punishments on you because you're violating their religious beliefts. Do you get this? Your rights end where another's begin, and theirs end where yours begin.
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  12431.  @Daniel15391  Go to some other country if you do not like the freedom of religion that people have long enjoyed in the USA. Fun fact: the percentage of people professing to be religious is a whole lot higher in prison populations than in the general population.
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  12432. Sadly, the Republicans borrowed a page from Orwell when they named their election-stealing efforts "stop the steal". Stalin couldn't have come up with a better name himself.
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  12433. I like the fact that men who prefer synthetic to actual females are going to X themselves right out of the gene pool. Thank god.
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  12434. There are other good things that came out of that sorry episode in American history. Not only did we get to see just how many Americans were gullible enough to fall for an obvious liar and transparent con man who sucked up to our adversaries and in all likelihood sold them our classified secrets, but we got to know exactly which people would make such willing Quislings.
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  12435.  @ashroskell  Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  12436. Patel needs to stick to writing childrens books. Really bad ones, too.
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  12437.  @williamzk9083  Your FOXed Noise echoes are duly noted as the signs of a deluded sheeple. Thanks for removing yourself from the discussion.
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  12438. Unfortunately, the MAGAts have already shown that they can spend another 4 years denying the election results, and Trump has shown no compunctions over perhaps setting the nation afire if he can't have it. Putin must love him.
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  12439. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ted Cruz, Moscow Mitch, and the rest of satan's disciples are still going strong at it :(
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  12440.  @hansvandermeulen5515  Republicans complain about "catch and release" programs for criminals, but here they are, supporting an adjudicated insurrectionist, a convicted sexual abuser, etc with 34 felony fraud convictions.
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  12441.  @alberthenriette8976  So you are admitting that Russia is such a shitty neighbor that their only way to influence other nations is by force. Because if Russia could be a good neighbor, there would be no need for NATO to exist. Instead, Russia's intransigent violence is proving to everyone why they should join NATO too.
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  12442. About preparing in advance .. by the time a coup happens, usually the plotters are a couple steps ahead in their planning. They've prepared a patsy (remember when they tried to blame it on Antifa even as it was happening), they've prepared a show trial for the patsy (to be followed by a quick execution, lest they talk), and they've got lists of people to kill or detain. I'm just wondering which of Trump's people had those documents. Rudy's computers and papers were seized; same for Eastman and that creepy Jeffrey Clark fellow.
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  12443. My parents lived the American dream too. In their latter years, however, they fell into the cesspit of Fox and kept voting against America's future. And now here we are :(
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  12444.  @SiliconCurtain  Or as Beau once said .. if the jackboot fits, better slip it on and start goose-stepping.
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  12445. I dreaded waking up in the morning to see how he'd eclipsed the outrages of the previous day with new ones. Remember when he offered to buy Greenland from the PM of Denmark? At first he denied the offer, then he called her names, then he canceled a scheduled meeting over it, and only weeks later (after the lies had served their purpose) did he admit that yes, he had offered to trade Greenland for Puerto Rico. It was sadly funny watching his minions do a constant series of 180s just to keep up with the latest lies.
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  12446.  @TheDonkeyFuzz  Correct. Putin is far more worried about the other spiders in the Kremlin than what he's doing to his own country by the pursuit of a campaign against a people who really, really do not want to return to life under the Soviet boot.
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  12447. If you find evidence of vote fraud, please share it this time. Two years after the election Trump claimed he won, he still hasn't offered any proof. Don't be like Trump please.
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  12448. The future's bright for kids in Ukraine. Many of them will go to school in the US. Their nation will be rebuilt to modern western standards. Easy visa reciprocity between them and the nations of the west. Meanwhile, across the border, people are still using outhouses and living in dirt-road towns that look as if WW2 ended just last week.
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  12449. AKA "That's a nice country you got. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it. So be nice to me and turn a blind eye to my crimes."
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  12450.  @bugman9787  Well, when the things you do spread virus to other people, you must remember that your rights end where theirs begin, and vice versa.
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  12451.  @bugman9787  If you think it is OK for you to contract the disease asymptomatically, then spread it all over just because you think this is a conspiracy to steal your freedumbs, then maybe you're OK with someone wafting a little sarin gas your way when you're out shopping. What's that? You don't like it when you're on the receiving end of someone else's bad choices?
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  12452.  @bugman9787  As usual you can't open your mouth without disinformation and false dichotomies. My former workplace is closed and probably won't reopen for a year. So I do volunteer work - the outdoors kind, under the sun and the fresh air. Unless you're a farmer you spend more time indoors than I do. Anyway, if you are OK with the thought of randomly infecting other people just because you have to pretend things are normal when they clearly aren't, maybe someone covid-afflicted person will let loose a big sneeze on you when you venture outside. Can't say I'd disprove of the karma. Clearly you can't handle someone doing to you what you would like to do to others. How you manage to vote and drive with a dysfunctional a brain, I'll never know.
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  12453.  @bugman9787  You should try using the actual numbers sometime .. then you would know that 9 days after Alabama re-opened on 5/21, Montgomery ran out of ICU beds - https://www.alreporter.com/2020/05/20/montgomery-hospitals-are-out-of-icu-beds-mayor-says/ - meaning they had a latent infection rate that was completely unknown to them.
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  12454. If Cheetolini can go ahead with this - does that mean that FOXed Noise can get sued into oblivion when they lie?
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  12455. Wonder if the people who claim that could point out where he's knuckled down to their demands to let the workers seize the means of production? Crickets.
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  12456. @Christopher Justice 2,763 Americans died during the 24-hour span of yesterday, a little over 115 per hour and not quite 2 per minute. But I don't think that bothered Hair Fuhrer at all. In fact he's trying to figure out how to use a little flag-waving to get lots more Americans to march into the wood chipper :(
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  12457. This was known about our Mango Mussolini years ago. See this article from almost 3 years ago about how he's unusual in the telling of cruel lies, designed to hurt others. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-study-liars-ive-never-seen-one-like-president-trump/2017/12/07/4e529efe-da3f-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
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  12458. The word "bitter" is usually reserved for fundie religious nutballs who want to cram their narrow, minority viewpoint down everyone else's throat.
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  12459.  @emilyfeagin2673  David Duke could use a running mate, except he's no longer leader of the Klan.
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  12460. Mind you, FOX was just fine with spending 8 long years freaking out over chemtrails, Benghazi, Agenda 21, Jade Helm, Obama's tan suit, the wholly-imaginary possibility of Obama forcing Sharia law & gay marriages onto everyone, etc. They're only just recently noticing that Trump is the sun in his very own imaginary solar system.
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  12461. If you look it up, one of the problems is that some of the residents refused to allow them to drain the pool while working on the building.
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  12462.  @bakarangerpinku  Citation please for this accusation of deliberately drowning the survivors?
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  12463. Unless there's some strong evidence that 45 told them to say what, when, and where, that's just not going to happen.
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  12464. Who knew Putin had such capacity to paint himself as the victim, even while committing egregious acts off offense? Probably learned it from Trump.
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  12465. 45 and his many enablers most have exceeded Putin's wildest hopes at making American democracy look like a POS! So many of them bending over backwards to help the guy who clearly lost the popular vote twice and by a much larger margin the second time .. then he goes on to try to subvert the counting of the votes in a bid to cling to power illegally .. and then the highest court in the land just helps him???????????? :(
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  12466. DeathSantis apparently paid to have a videographer along for the ride to capture what he expected to see - Mass residents being upset at the refugees. Didn't work out that way of course.
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  12467. If you don't understand that Trump cares only for himself, first, second, and third, and that no one and nothing else has any place in his scheme of things .. then you haven't been paying attention.
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  12468. Well, considering that there weren't any nuclear weapons based in Ukraine, you may wish to grope for a better analogy.
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  12469.  @velocirshtr3756  Umm, you may wish to crack open a history book now and then. The two types of missiles emplaced by the USSR in Cuba were medium-range R12's (at 6 sites) and intermediate-range R14s (at 3 sites). You probably don't know these things because your local regime finds the information to be unflattering. Or you're paid not to know things. Whatever.
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  12470. A big THANK YOU to the folks at the Lincoln Project.
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  12471. If you don't realize yet that Former Guy would be ecstatic to see America plunged into decades of chaos and bloodshed, you haven't been paying attention.
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  12472. Yet when you talk to the MAGA nutters, all they do is repeat what they heard from FOXed Noise Network, mainly that "evil libruls" are causing all the problems. Delusional is as delusional does :(
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  12473.  @mhall801  That's a creative way to say that facts hurt your feelings 😅
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  12474. Look. One of the main reasons people voted for Trump was the sheer terror that some trans schoolchild was engaged in a sport activity somewhere in West Virginia.
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  12475. Maybe the one nice thing about America getting through these tough times will be the reckoning coming later to the purveyors of misinformation. This thing has killed more people than WW2 did and it just keeps rolling along, killing and infecting more. Allowing these people to spew bad advice and malinformation is like letting people leave all their lights on at night during the London Blitz, helping Nazi pilots rain down bombs on them and their neighborhoods and their city. That we even allow this to happen at all, during a severe national emergency, is quite baffling.
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  12476. That's kind of like Leslie Van Houten saying it was OK for her to participate in murders because cult leader Charles Manson told her to. Pull the other one, assholes.
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  12477. If they're not unhinged, they're not Trumpanzees.
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  12478.  @falkontautai4739  What part are you confused about? His 5 draft deferments or his promise to run into a school shooting? Both are a matter of record. Idiot.
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  12479. When Trump's despicables are threatening the lives of witnesses, well, witnesses don't need to be paid anything at all. They're just standing up for the rule of law.
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  12480. Take heart, friends, we will get through this. It was barely 6 months ago that president Biden signed into law the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, which renders purely ceremonial the VP's role in counting EC votes and sets a higher bar for challenges to the election.
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  12481. In the 1974 election (the first one after Nixon's resignation) every single Republican who'd supported the obviously-criminal Nixon lost his or her seat. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. People of Maine, you know what to do.
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  12482. What is Trump worried about anyway? Who else remembers his 2018 claim that he has the right to pardon himself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  12483. Same. The sum total of the third party votes was more than enough to give the election to Harris. The numbers are at ballotpedia. All the people who clutched their pearls and declared that Harris wasn't good enough for them, this is on them too. Now we will all get much worse.
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  12484. Where do you get your tinfoil for your hats? It's the really thick stuff.Jeez. So much wrong in under 15 words.
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  12485. Just two days late, Trump's birthday gift to the nation later today will be 3 million covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, even as he claims that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who are you going to believe, him, or your own lying calculator? (case fatality rate 4.43%, closed case fatality rate 9%)
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  12486. Funny you should mention that. Notice how most of the internet media CEO's were lined up at the Cheeto's coronation. Their services will get used for .. other things.
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  12487. The Supremes really need to get off the fence on showing so much aid and comfort to those who tried to overthrow our republic. If 45 (or another one like him) ever succeeds in a coup by whatever means, the other branches of government, including them personally, would be among the first to disappear. A dictator has no need for official critics or for those who could moderate or even question his powers.
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  12488. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  12489.  @dontyouwishyouknewmyname3598  OK Boris.
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  12490.  @Robbie939  Criticism != hate speech. And if you can't tell the difference, there might be a picture of you in the wiki page for "snowflake". See how it works?
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  12491.  @Robbie939  Well, no, not anything can be labeled hate speech. It's one of those things that can't be both-sides-are-the-same'd. Give me a specific example please of what you mean by criticism of [whatever] being banned.
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  12492.  @Robbie939  Let's drill down. Please cite specifics of what you say.
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  12493.  @Robbie939  That's really funny considering that Trump's people are the ones out scrawling swastikas on synagogues and trying to shoot Jews.
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  12494.  @Robbie939  They are Trump's people. They are the same ones who assaulted the capitol and carried his flags, wore his merch, and carried swastikas too. Trump is just a more successful version of David Duke.
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  12495.  @Robbie939  They are Trump's people. The Venn diagram of Trump voters and neo-Nazis looks like an archery target.
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  12496. You weren't the only one who saw the enormous mess coming. I still expect him to try the "Red Dawn" scenario, in which his buddies Vlad or Kim send him some paratroopers to help with a negative election result he can't overthrow.
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  12497.  @chillbill8591  Bingo. I work on the bikes, do yoga, learn how to edit video, garden, go out to the woods to build trail. Like an unwanted unpaid long staycation. All you gotta do is avoid people like the plague.
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  12498.  @kirisutegomen12  I dare you to call the head of any hospital in NYC or Italy or England and tell them that.
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  12499. Yah. There's something like 10 known trans athletes out of around 510,000 NCAA athletes total. But the amount of Republican shrieking over it is just epic. Anything to distract from the fact that it's older white men in positions of authority who are the #1 demographic for child molesters.
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  12500. Wonder if Susan Collins learned her lesson yet? Or is she OK with the monster she helped birth into American politics?
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  12501. Add the US marshals to that list, since apparently they just went straight to the extrajudicial killing of Michael Reinoehl. I'm sure we'll find some Trumpies there if we go through their texts / email / social media.
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  12502.  @schoolingdiana9086  Correct. Right now, Mr Putin is being pigheaded enough to let the west arm Ukraine enough to be a kill box for Russian forces. A pit into which they keep losing men and equipment. If this goes on for another year, Russia will be left with not much more warmaking capacity than Argentina.
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  12503. When the air accordion is playing ..
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  12504.  @jen9297  Does anyone remember a pandemic-era interview that Trump did with Jonathon Swan of Axios? It was so refreshing because Mr Swan took his journalistic responsibilities seriously, and he called out Trump on his many lies. In the US our journalists have largely failed on that score. From the very beginning of his time of political activity (perhaps going all the way back to that editorial he took out, calling for the execution of the Central Park Five) any competent journalist should have stepped in and said, "No, Mr Trump, that's a lie." It is not journalism to echo his lies to a greater number of people.
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  12505. In the USA, the term for a president is 4 years, whereas in Ukraine it's 5 years. If America endured 4 years of Putin's appointed lackey as president, surely the good people of Ukraine can put up with one more year than that.
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  12506.  @dankelly2147  The red mind is busy trying to turn its parts of America into a closed fascist state. As if that is some kind of good thing. They still can't explain how banning all the drag queens and making guns more readily available is going to supposedly fix inflation.
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  12507.  @myreviewstoday  Now that public referenda (in every state that's tried it) indicate something like 70%+ support for not making abortion illegal, as well as a strong willingness to enshrine the right into state constitutions, Republicans are scrambling for a way to ban it from the federal level after blowing the "states rights supremacy" horn for awhile. They don't care which hammer they use to enforce their xtian dominion.
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  12508. Re "You might not like Trump but you know he would have fixed the supply chain issue" << Sure. Just like he fixed the covid thing (he made it worse) and just like he fixed the deficit thing (he made it worse).
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  12509. I am seriously afraid for all my friends in Australia, many of whom don't seem to be taking covid very seriously. They are a large population that's naiive to the virus and grossly under-vaccinated. Even worse, from their personal videos (posted in near real time) it is clear that they have not stopped congregating indoors together without masks. For them this has been a faraway thing that doesn't affect them. Well, Delta is trying hard to break out in Australia now, and if it gets loose and they don't take strict precautions, it's going to be that familiar disaster of overwhelmed hospitals and then overwhelmed morgues. So whoever you are, take the vaccine if you can.
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  12510.  @jasielm5258  What are you referring to? Biden hasn't incited anyone to violence, whereas Trump has incited lots of people to violence. Heck, the El Paso shooter echoed Trump word-for-word in the manifesto he left behind.
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  12511.  @ET-rh5pq  You're still playing with a deck with only two cards in it, and they're both jokers. FYI here's some info on which international laws the Trump administration broke by the child separation policy. Some of us will work to make sure that the responsible parties are delivered to the ICC and the Hague for investigation and subsequent trial for crimes against humanity: While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  12512.  @ET-rh5pq  Parents rights are inviolable under that treaty that the US signed. Deal with it, your orange clown will be wanted by the Hague.
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  12513. The Republicans were a lot angrier at president Obama for wearing a tan suit and using mustard (or over Dr. Jill Biden having an advanced degree) than they are now over Trump suggesting using military force to redo an election on American soil.
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  12514. If committing crimes to stay in office is now considered totally legit, so would be disregarding any contrary results of the 2020 elections - or just not holding them in the first place. America is going to that place where democracies die.
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  12515. Trump to CNN: Please let me do to you what I just did to FOX Noise.
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  12516. Even without the 1/6 insurrection, there's still hundreds of hours of Pox News lies on video, now interspersed with texts, emails, and other documents in which those same hosts admitted that they knew they were peddling lies.
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  12517. To someone like Trump, possessed of (at best) a worm-ridden brain and a complete lack of soul, it must have seemed like a good idea to get AMI to run interference for him by publishing fake news or withholding real news. Surely everyone else has been doing it all along anyway, right? That must have been his thinking.
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  12518. It's almost like laying off firemen who insist on dropping gasoline and matches everywhere they go, even on the job. FFS :(
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  12519. It's not office, Trump said so. Trump also said his oath of office didn't mention "support". As usual, he wants all the powers and none of the responsibilities.
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  12520. His rage will still be there. We just won't hear it! :)
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  12521. Please don't give them the idea? Soon enough Hannity will be waving around a freshly-printed receipt and claiming it's "proof" that Ms Habba was in the pay of Nancy Pelosi all along. Or whoever he's most mad at right then. They story will of course change.
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  12522.  @axiom21  If you're trying to argue why we should all stay home and let Hitler 2.0 wreck the world, you're not doing very good job. As the quote goes, appeasement means feeding your friends to a hungry alligator, hoping he eats you last.
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  12523. This is why I have some hope that if you cut off most of American's most propagandized mushroom people from their misinformation on FOXed / OANN / FB / 16chan / Parler / whatever, they might gradually regain their sanity.
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  12524.  @godfreydaniel6278  Note how I didn't say the government was going to do it. If, say, the Soros Foundation were to provide money to put some of the worst of the Trumpanzees into therapy programs, it might be a net plus for the nation. What else can you do with people who are so warped out of their minds that they consider it good and normal to drive their vehicles into crowds of people (except when they're the ones blocking traffic), run a campaign bus off the road, or try to toss out millions of votes? Those folks have gone WAY beyond just needing some remedial civics and history classes.
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  12525.  @emblemedfate4270  Thank you for sharing your punctuation-less word salad. Wishing you a happy food coma with Russian dressing all over it.
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  12526.  @emblemedfate4270  Listening to the sub-educated try to say something (such as you are doing) is pure humor. Keep entertaining me please.
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  12527.  @emblemedfate4270  Thanks again for the entertainment! Every time you attempt to put your disjointed "thoughts" here, it ends up being humor material. Did you mean it that way? If not, seek help.
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  12528. Republicans. Feh. I'm not thinking kindly of conservatives these days. They've had three years to be relevant. Three years to make the Republican party a foil on an insane despot of a president. To hold him accountable when he ran off the rails, to shake their heads sagely and explain the real world to him when he tweeted some illogical falsehood on twitter or insulted a longstanding ally. Instead, they embraced his madness for profits and votes, looked the other way when implied or overt racism emerged, covered for him when he got caught breaking the law, and sabotaged all efforts to hold him accountable to law and custom. Republicans don't get to walk away from this shit show of an administration and pretend they had nothing to do with it - like they did when in 2009 suddenly nobody knew GWB.
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  12529. Funny how there's one political people where mental dysfunction and disdain for the law make the people swoon for their orange jeebus.
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  12530.  @dzonikg  ATACMS is the obsolete rocket artillery system. It's in the process of being replaced by the significantly-better PrSM. Then there is all the internal logistical support of being in NATO as well as quantities of things .. and someone once said that quantity has a quality all of its own. Ukraine does not enjoy the use of many kinds of surveillance and attack drones such as the US has long had, otherwise they'd be unleashing MQ-9s. Ukraine does not have a navy; modern European nations do have naval assets. NATO countries would bring a lot more AA systems to the fight. Ukrainian bases do not have our Phalanx defense systems to take down incoming [whatever] that's breached the outer defenses. Lastly, what the US would be doing now, after neutralizing AA defenses, is rolling in some B-52s far overhead (they can defend themselves quite well, thank you) to utterly flatten whatever's on the ground .. there wouldn't be one brick atop another by the time they're done. I'd almost pay to see Russian bases and front lines getting that kind of love from America. What Ukraine has been given is pretty pitiful compared to what western European nations have access to.
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  12531.  @Sixstringman  Did I hurt your tender little feefees by mentioning some actual facts - which, clearly, you're not used to? Go take your livestock meds, barnyard sheeple.
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  12532. There are those among us (and I'm saying it this way for lack of better terms) whose brains run on "Tribal OS" and who can't comprehend the entirety of a nation that's made up of many kinds of people, many who are not just like them. Trump let them out from under their rocks.
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  12533. If you think that lockdowns, during a time of grave national emergency, are a problem, then I'm just glad that you and your kind weren't in the 15-35 age bracket when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you think wearing a mask is bad, hoo boy/girl, they would have put a uniform on you back then and made you go all over the place and do all kinds of things for 4 years. And your fool president would have been calling the attack "fake news" while bragging about the "beautiful" letters he'd gotten from emperor Hirohito. Now, as then, your non-optional duty as a citizen is to cooperate with the government so even worse things don't happen.
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  12534. I was assuming that the recent bromance between Trump and Zucc was to enable a new layer of control & surveillance .. kind of like China's social credit system.
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  12535. In other words .. many Republicans are essentially saying, "I came for the racism, then I stayed for the treason."
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  12536. Cult leaders getting people to commit crimes is nothing new. Leslie Van Houten (ex Charles Manson follower) could tell you a thing or two about that.
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  12537. “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
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  12538. Just think, if the question specified Black people instead of just people, the number would have been more like 90%+ instead of 46%. Nazi Germany called, they want their good little fascists back.
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  12539.  Stephan Meno  No, it's just cheaper to make them in China.
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  12540. Nice location. I drove right by there about a month ago while going cross-country on the back highways. Looks different in daylight of course. Anyway you've just named the #1 reason for starting up your own small employee-owned shop .. a collective enterprise.
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  12541. The fact that officers were on scene quickly ought to tell you that the police still haven't been defunded in Illinois.
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  12542. We can always GoFundMe them a 55-gallon drum of lube. They might perhaps think that being traitors makes them look like heroes in prison? Umm, nope.
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  12543. I don't know why people are complaining about this. Mussolini, Pol Pot, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, and Hitler all operated the same way. It's no big deal. /sarc
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  12544. For the Republicans and their Brownshirt Irregulars to carry out their little coup, it is necessary for law enforcement (at all levels) to work with them or at least turn a blind eye to their excesses. Doesn't help that so many of our officers seem to be cut from the same white-supremacy reich-wing socially-retrogressive cloth as the insurrectionists :(
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  12545. The sole good thing Trump has done has been to expose how many wannabe traitors live among us and exactly who they are. This is the Manson Family writ large.
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  12546. Clearly, racism in America is more of a feature (a very odious one at that) than a bug. Coders, time to get to work on this.
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  12547. Detroit isn't the only place that's endured shtty treatment from Trump. He won't be getting too many votes from legal Haitian immigrants, or from the people of Springfield, or from the people of Detroit, or from the city where I live either.
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  12548. Does your brother still remember Reagan saying, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" - ? Does he imagine that the request should have been to build the wall higher to keep "those people" from coming here with their communist ideals and stealing our jobs"?
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  12549.  @SharonVlaar  Sadly, Trump would have no political traction with anyone if he did not bring out the worst in his followers. He is otherwise a wholly unappealing person in every way. It's just that for certain kinds of people, he can press their sugar-candy-high hate buttons. Those people are his culties. The rest of us, not so much.
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  12550.  @JoHough  45 has been fulfilling Putin's wishes to make the USA more Balkanized internally. Sad that so many of the easily-misled, none-too-bright ones go along with it.
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  12551. Being guilty of planning and participating in a coup attempt might have something to do with that. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  12552. Republicans are clearly in need of some harsh wake-up medicine, maybe like the kind that loyal Nazis got during the winter of 1945-1946, when it became clear that their fanatical loyalty to a lying, conniving, corrupt leader is what helped their Fuhrer visit such ruin upon Germany.
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  12553. Heh, I like the way he didn't mention visiting St Catherine street ;)
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  12554. Which segment of the left do you think actually likes Trump? They wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.
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  12555.  @StoneC0ld5345  Eh, I haven't met any of those people yet (the never-Bideners) and that's fine by me.
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  12556. Seems logical that if some well-funded entity or entities tried to take over the US, and failed, there are all kinds of loose ends that would just "disappear" so that these same entities can work on another attempt. Those missing/deleted Secret Service texts were one such loose end :(
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  12557. Err, I gotta voice a minor objection over the original comment by SilvanaDil. There are 3,141 counties in the USA. According to the detailed US-by-counties spreadsheet (CSV file; see link below) over 3,000 counties have reported covid cases. https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us-counties.csv
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  12558. If they stick to form, Musk and his team of incel bros will terminate the court's lease on the property, dismiss the court staff, and fire the judge.
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  12559. Criminals!!!
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  12560. To be fair, the coronavirus didn't defeat America on its own. It had some fifth-column help from within. Forget about a Manchurian Candidate .. we've got a Muscovite Incumbent.
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  12561. Not only is it very expensive to deport people, but it requires the cooperation of the nation to which the people are supposedly being sent. And they're probably no more likely to pay for it than they are to pay for the wall. No, "deportation camp" is a euphemism for something else. The Nazis referred to theirs as deportation camps too. Right before they herded the inmates off to the showers, they had them write postcards to their loved ones, talking about their nice houses in the new lands to the east.
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  12562. Apparently the oath didn't say anything about "supporting" the Constitution.
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  12563. I'm just saving popcorn for when the rats inevitably try ratting each other out to escape penalty. Hint: there's only so many chairs, and eventually the music is going to stop.
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  12564. The descent down the hole started awhile back .. clearly our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform/radicalize swaths of Americans most prone to ethnonationalist sentiments. A glaring failure. That gurgling sound you may hear is democracy going down the drain.
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  12565. With every step they take into the foreign country they attacked, what do the Russians screech to each other? Stuff like "Not another step backwards! Behind us is Moscow! Our backs are against a wall!"
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  12566. There are secret service agents who were in on the coup. Like the ones who were going to take Pence to a final solution. So what if they find a few to lie on his behalf. Lying is about all the Republicans have at this point.
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  12567. Just like with carbon fiber arrows. They're great for the first few uses, then they go downhill.
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  12568. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been recalled to duty. He has a staff and offices somewhere in the command structure. This hollowing-out of Russian air defenses is his message.
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  12569. Good luck getting past their guilty pleas.
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  12570. All signs point to him losing the 2020 election then enjoying the sweet hospitality of Rikers Island once he no longer has any immunity from prosecution. It would be a gross understatement to say that he's considering all options for dodging the fallout from what he's done, up to and including starting a major domestic conflict then having the military out in full force right while people are trying to vote.
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  12571.  @MichaelJ44  You wrote "Jim Jones the Marxist" << Nope, this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones He's practically Trump's role model.
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  12572.  @Ninapia347  Bingo, because the Russians have such a light touch. Just ask every former SSR how mutually fulfilling their time in the Soviet family was.
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  12573.  @KiwiKool  It is one of the several games the US plays. But the only one Russia plays is ham fisted dominance.
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  12574. That's right, 45, we're just getting started. No one wants to go back to your disgusting & deranged chaos. You should have just remained a failed businessman & Twitter crank.
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  12575. Finding results was never the aim of this fraudit - or any of the others. Just carrying out an audit was enough for him to point and say, "See? SEE?? They're auditing the results!" Same as when he wanted Ukraine to merely announce and investigation of a Biden investigation just so he could point to it. Hitler's people did similar cheesy propaganda.
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  12576. No doubt Eastman is feeling surprise that anyone in America wouldn't go along with his treason.
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  12577.  @darthvader5300  See, your comment is what shallow-minded people do when they live in the FOX Noise echo chamber and don't hear much actual factful news.PS You forgot to mention Hunter's laptop and the Italian Jewish space lasers "changing votes".
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  12578. Trump never enjoyed more than around 40% popularity at maximum. He's the lowest-polling president in American history. It would have been mathematically impossible for him to win the popular election with those low numbers. In fact this was reflected in his two popular-vote losses.
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  12579. Republicans: trying to defeat progress at any costs. Get out and vote next year. In fact, get everyone out to vote. Make the GOP extinct.
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  12580. Some of the best books about this are "Last Train from Berlin" (Howard K Smith), and "Berlin Diary" and "End of a Berlin Diary" by William Shirer. I have first edition copies of them all. They chronicle all too well the activities of the strutting, pompous, self-satisfied tools who led their nation to ruin and wove the web of lies necessary to mislead the public. The same stuff is happening here and now.
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  12581. Actually, the smarter businessman is the guy who sold Twatter to Muskrat for $44Bn. It's lost more than half that value during Muskrat's reign of error.
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  12582. On the plus side, that dipshit Musk will sink money into turning Twitter into Pravda Social, whereupon its assets (users and cred) will evaporate.
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  12583. They are all pretending now that they had NOTHING to do with Trump's very illegal coup.
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  12584. It's weird but Republicans seem to be under the impression that nothing bad will happen to America in general and them in particular if they were to enable 45's fash power grab. They ought to talk with Germans of all stripes who remember what it was like in 1947-1949. Didn't matter if they'd voted for funny mustache guy back in 1932. The loss of democracy, and the war and hardship that followed, affected everyone.
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  12585.  @Carolina-4JC  I would guess someone living deep down the dark rabbit hole of whatever gets aired on FOXed and OANN .. someone who just can't fathom that their beloved racist-in-chief violated the Impoundment Control Act, then tried to cover it up, then tried to obstruct the investigation.
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  12586. They are thrilled to see one of their own aspire to power, when most of them don't even aspire to clean their houses or learn how to spell.
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  12587. Smells like the latest incarnation of the Klan .. ie Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Oaf Tweakers etc.
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  12588. Pretty sure that if we wait a week or two, there will be plenty o' footage of darling Ivanka screeching at the crowd and telling them they've got to fight or they'll lose their country - footage from multiple times and places - in complete contradiction of what she said under oath before the J6 committee.
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  12589. Presumably he wants to do the same to Oregon and Washington too, in order to cause/exacerbate fire dangers later in the year. The cruelty is the point.
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  12590.  @dreamlife2351  Now, now, don't try to wake the sleepyheaded Q-Anonsense fools. They're too dumb to realize what hoodwinked sheeple they really are.
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  12591. As John Wayne famously said - Life's rough, but it's rougher when you're stupid.
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  12592. Most days I'm with my elderly coworker who's completely addicted to the FOXed Noise brand of toxic misinformation. Although she tells customers that she's getting vaccinated soon, she has no intentions of doing so. She thinks that what's happening in India is merely China lobbing bio-weaponized covid variants across their border. She goes on and on about how it's a "plandemic". Seriously, someone needs to throw those people into the trunk and take them to a covid hot zone (like LA was last year) just to get the reality of this thing home to them. These people are so poisoned and driven around the bend. How can we get them back? Can we even do that? And who's going to do that?
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  12593. Tucker is beloved by Russia the same way William Joyce, AKA Lord Haw-Haw, was beloved by Nazi Germany. A vocal traitor to his own country.
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  12594. Turns out, a rage-addicted constantly-lying treasonous narcissist is exactly what pushes the feelgood buttons on millions of American conservative voters. We're going to need a lot of open-air asylums for that kind.
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  12595. My mother had several miscarriages along the way to six successful pregnancies. She was always kind of frail from it. She would have died.
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  12596. So they're thinking that Rhodesia 2.0 type apartheid is the way to go. Guess they didn't watch District 9 to see how that turned out :(
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  12597.    Unfortunately, Wussolini has made the word of the United States on a treaty worth less than a festering bowl of dog snot. Republicans are going to have to live with the way they cheered on and enabled his reign of error this long.
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  12598.  @lovely-mk4rt  You need some better kind of super ultra caps lock. For those times when ordinary caps lock doesn't quite convey the sound of Alex Jones.
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  12599. Nobody's going to be surprised at this. Trump, in his role as Putin's little fifth columnists, did his best to cause as much damage to America as possible.
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  12600. 45's fan base never hears on Fox that he lost all of his court cases challenging the election results .. and that they were tossed out for lack of evidence. 45's supporters will never hear that Rudy G said "We have a lot of theories, we just don't have any evidence."
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  12601.  @CatCambak  My business will be gone for at least 18 months, longer if discretionary spending doesn't return.
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  12602.  @theflyingwelshman5338  Since when was I ever blindly loyal to a president? There you go, doing the very thing you accuse me of doing, as if no one would notice it. You're more like a welshman that flew too low in the fog and whacked into a hill. Your lame attempts to obscure the fact that Biden is a yuge improvement over Trump just don't work very well.
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  12603. As an American who's horrified by what Trump is doing .. I can't blame you. Seriously, he's the densest American you could find, yet, to our Republicans, that somehow makes him wonderful to them. He does not understand that the US is a long-running enterprise with many operational norms and many longstanding obligations. Instead, he is a psychopath, and he's treating it the way some would treat a great big bag of money found along the roadside. Obviously it's not possible to have normal relations when, every four years, all treaties are ripped up. Hell, he's violating the terms of the USMCA and he's the one who set it up! That the US Republicans are just fine with him burning it all down is a shame. Trump will be gone someday, but their dishonor will remain.
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  12604. It's a good day for America when the orange one squawks and flaps so much, indicating that he's in bigly trouble and flailing madly.
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  12605. LOL it's not as if Antifa has a website, a PO box, an organization, dues, uniforms, officers, etc. Wussolini, Barr, and the other fascists are smoking rope again.
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  12606.  @why1968  Ooooh you little trollskis are so easily offended by truth. Wish I'd known that. Would have gotten here months ago to trigger you poorly-paid and mentally-unequipped nitwits.
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  12607. Bingo. Wonder if a passenger promised $1M extra if they could get especially close to something. Ocean currents could do the rest.
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  12608.  @jeffgaskell3705  Would not want to try any kind of airlock at that depth. Pressures of 6500 psi.
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  12609. He's being so much more than I thought he would be. And I see the wisdom now of having him and Kamala in those positions while Sanders and Warren are working in the senate. This is a much better use of their talents. I would have wanted Sanders to be president, but, sadly, he'd be opposed at every step to a far greater extent than Biden is.
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  12610. Go get a job, Vincent, that's how the rest of us pay for gas. Jobs everywhere now. It's your own damn fault if you're not making bank these days.
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  12611. "Direct escalation" - ? Is that anything like attacking another sovereign nation which, in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Russia solemnly promised not to use any military or economic force against?
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  12612. Minus the alligators and the stray pythons of course. And those swamp boats with big fans. Does anyone else remember "Maximum Bob"?
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  12613. Huh, imagine that, collusion between a sitting president and the bands of domestic terrorists that were wearing the brown shirts for them. Nixon was such a boy scout, we now know :(
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  12614. There's 170 million vaccinated people in the US vs 68 million Twitter users. Time to call Twitter "experimental" and the vaccines proven.
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  12615. Me too. So I've basically disappeared from social media. Just spent the last decade reminding people what a shtty goober Cheeto is, devoid of any empathy, someone who means to cause harm and suffering to our nation and to as many people as possible. Felt like I was speaking to an empty room. Ah, well, those people will now have to learn it the hard way.
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  12616.  @therock8288  Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Constitutional rights apply only to US citizens. Those rights apply to people who are here, period.
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  12617. What a big baby. As head of the federal government, it was most assuredly his fault that 2 months were lost when we could have accepted the free WHO tests that were made available to us months ago. Everybody, ignore him and work around him, he's useless.
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  12618. Think of it as another layer of registering to vote :(
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  12619. They're realizing this about 4 years too late. How many of them have yet to understand that at any random moment in the future, they could be whisked away by Interpol, to stand under some bright lights at the Hague, and answer questions about their involvement in various Trump policies that were in violation of international laws?
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  12620.  @TarePandaHelp  Yet somehow you think the whackjob sources you listen to are telling you the truth? Pull the other one, fool.
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  12621.  @TarePandaHelp  Let me explain this in terms simple enough for even you to understand. When your Marmalade Mussolini's cases all get tossed out for lack of evidence, the stuff he's saying is a total lie.
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  12622.  @TarePandaHelp  If you don't believe in the coronavirus, that's OK. Just please show it by tossing away all your masks and crawling into a tight, indoor, badly-ventilated place with a lot of random people.
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  12623.  @TarePandaHelp  Anyone with even a few brain cells knows that the case rate and the death rate are two separate things. The numbers to look at are the ones in the box labeled "closed cases". I'll spell this one out for you in case you have trouble following. Of the cases in which there has been an outcome, more than 3% of the time that outcome was death. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ But, hey, at least you don't let facts cloud your opinions.
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  12624.  @Supernova778  When people blow through a store quickly to do their shopping, it is the exact opposite of hanging out together in proximity to random strangers for long enough to eat a meal or long enough to get a good workout while the both of them are exhaling heavily due to exertion. Stores are proving to be relatively safe (though not perfectly safe) when all of the following apply: a) people get in and out quickly & don't socialize; 2) ventilation is good; 3) everyone wears masks and keeps distance. All of those are the direct opposite of pounding away on a treadmill for 30 minutes, breathing heavily.
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  12625.  @brahmamama880  If you're wondering "how does the virus spread when most people are wearing masks", look no further than the fact that this virus is so contagious that only with 95%+ mask wearing and following of all rules (including no one visiting anyone else's home) can it be SLOWED. And, unfortunately, we have way too many f-tards around here who aren't following the rules. Thank them. While you're at it, thank the even greater idiots who push false narratives or by example discourage people from wearing masks.
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  12626.  @brahmamama880  You're looking at the term "consistency" from the POV of a human. Try looking at it from the point-of-view of the virus. This has nothing to do with politics. For each of the activities above, you can derive a "how easily could the virus spread from person to person" factor that's dependent on the following variables: - Is it indoors? - Are there people from different households there? - How good is the air circulation? - How close do people get to each other? - How long are random people in the close presence of each other? Supermarkets, and other large stores that can afford to upgrade their air circulation, are doing mostly OK in terms of not spreading the virus from customer to customer. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the workers in those places. IF you're going to complain about masked outdoor riots not being shut down, at least be fair and complain that Trump's superspreader rallies, and the Proud Boyz marches, weren't shut down either. The reason they weren't shut down (even though in some cases they violated local health measures re masks & distancing) was that political free speech is protected in the first amendment of the constitution. The authorities have had to make some hard decisions. I credit governor Brown for keeping Oregon in the lowest 5 states for covid rates. Unless we're prepared to deliver food to everyone's homes (as China did during the worst of their lockdown back in Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr) we must keep those stores open. But everything else should probably stay closed. The alternative is going to look like 3000, then 5000 or more deaths per day.
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  12627.  @brahmamama880  Oh man. I was wearing a mask even before the March shutdown. The trick to shopping safely is to get in and out in less than 15 minutes, preferably less than 10 minutes, and don't be near any other random people consistently during your time in the store. The most patriotic thing we can do now is try to save lives. By the time March 2021 begins, this thing will have killed more Americans than all of WW2 did. So if that means no coffeeshop, no church, no salon, no hanging out, let's do it. The fast rising illness and death numbers are showing us that we need to get better at curbing the virus. I've read about what people had to do during WW2. The ration board would come to your house and tell you to shut off the upstairs so it didn't use more fuel to heat. People got moved all over the country to work long hard hours, at jobs they couldn't quit, to make tanks and planes and ships. A whole generation of folks were put into uniforms and shipped all over the world to watch their buddies get blown up or shot down or die in flames. Following the rules, to prevent the virus from spreading, is a walk in the park compared to what our nation did in WW2.
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  12628. Sure, as long as you're a hetero white christian male with a big income. Everyone else is going to suffer.
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  12629.  @fromtheSon  The death rate is around 3.6% as explained on all of the major data sources. One is linked below. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. So if it were to run wild throughout America (as looks likely now) projected death toll could be around 11.9 million. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  12630. Now we know why SCROTUS got moving on that immunity thing so close to the end of their term.
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  12631. Thank you for sharing this one. Hadn't heard it before.
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  12632. Once upon a time that's how many cases the US was at. Then Clump downplayed it, ignored it, didn't take it seriously, so covid in the USA came to be 35+ million cases and 628K+ deaths. All because something started small and then "went viral".
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  12633. America had 3 long years to understand that Trump is a childish, egotistical fool who cares more about how he looks than anything else. We were just lucky that no crisis came along until now. He's not even fit to be the town dog catcher.
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  12634. Just think of how much better-received Hitler would have been in Norway if only he'd had something like FOXed Noise at his disposal.
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  12635. Guess it wasn't going to be the classic brown shirts this time around.
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  12636. Trump means to change America no less than Hitler meant to change Germany. Suggested reading on this would be "Last Train from Berlin" by Howard K Smith as well as "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. I'm just saddened (and sickened) by how many fools he can suck into helping him :(
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  12637. Sondland has 3 basic choices: 1. Tell the truth. This won't work because then he'll be in jail and he'll implicate Trump. << this is what adults do 2. Tell the same lie the president does, keep changing it when he does, and get in trouble for it. << this is what stupidly loyal people do 3. Tell a whole different lie, except that he has to keep changing it as new evidence emerges. << this is what stupid people do
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  12638. Remember when Mike Pillow (lol) was going in and out with notes that said "martial law" in large font? Uh huh. That's what Trump doesn't want anyone to see, the fact that he was willing to declare martial law to keep his election loss from going into effect 1/20 as mandated by the constitution.
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  12639. Funny how Trump didn't feel that way about law and order just a few weeks ago when armed WHITE militant thugs invaded the state capitol of Michigan and threatened the legislators. Instead, he egged them on and kept tweeting for them to "Liberate!".
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  12640. Not just yet. Need more witnesses & evidence first. Somebody robbed a bank. A suspect has been named and the investigation is ongoing. The DA is asking for the CCTV camera recordings and other evidence to prove or disprove that the suspect is indeed guilty. The defense attorney claims that he will easily win the trial, but he and the defendant frantically oppose the release of the CCTV recordings. He also wants to keep to witnesses and the bank teller from testifying. The judge and many of the jurors have said that they will act in total lockstep with the defendant's attorney.
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  12641.  @hanzschaggi4254  There's a lot more evidence on the way. You know those long forms that they use for articles of impeachment? Better make copies of the blank forms, because more of them will be filled out. Trump's going to be the first one to be impeached multiple times.
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  12642. Then again, Jim Jones didn't have Fox / Limbaugh / OAN / Sinclair pushing his lunacy either.  @PeteJenks-z7u 
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  12643. Trump's deficiencies were all out in the open for decades. Was no one paying attention? He lacks character, morals, integrity, compassion, honesty, humility, a sense of humor - in short, you wouldn't trust him to drive a garbage truck.
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  12644.  @thepookie1899  LOL. Tell me again how that worked in WW2, where each state fought the Axis powers separately, or decided on its own to join them. That's not what happened, of course, but ignorant fools such as yourself are unable to tell the difference. Keep parading your stupidity in public. I could use the chuckles.
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  12645.  @dylanfoster6882  Your aunt sounds like she gets her disinformation from Q-Anonsense. You should try browsing the actual numbers on how many dead and infected we've had in the US. The closed case mortality ratio is still hovering around 5% and has been there for a couple months already. In case you're bad with searching, here's a starting point - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  12646. Love watching orange-cult zombies twist themselves into pretzels attempting to claim that Trump did not say and do what we all heard him say and saw him do.
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  12647. To be fair to Republicans/conservatives .. well before the 2020 election they had already shifted to a sort of pro-dictatorship stance, that is, they didn't want to have anything to do with actual democracy if the majority of the people don't vote red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLdHCyz8uXg
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  12648. To be fair to the Republicans, it would be harder for them to carry out the coup if their Brownshirts were worried about being arrested for their crimes. Obviously law enforcement has been infiltrated :(
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  12649. Remember how the Republican party suddenly didn't know George W Bush as soon as he was out of office? Don't let them pull that one again for Trump. No way in h3ll. They were in up to their elbows on this stuff.
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  12650. Daily reminder of why this election is important: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10" November 2: 9,567,543 American covid infections & 236,797 American covid deaths.
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  12651. Bingo.
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  12652. As an American, I'm not in the least bit embarrassed. Ever nation has its coterie of nutters & wannabe Quislings. Along came a spider, and the dumbest-of-the-dumb obediently became his criminal sheeple.
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  12653. Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him, beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc.
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  12654. This is awesome. Can't wait to see the reactions from folks when it's revealed that not only is the device of purely terrestrial origin, but also purely domestic.
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  12655. Wonder what kind of disclaimer they made people sign, if any? Can you imagine the lawsuits that will be coming? Most of the people there are in the hot zone of higher covid risks due to age and health conditions.
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  12656.  @kensax3170  Random, irregular capitalizations are a sign of tinfoil hats! For a small fee I will correct your grammar and spelling.
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  12657.  @Chief-et6xk  If you have some better wisdom to share, go for it, I could use the AA target practice.
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  12658.  @Chief-et6xk  One of the most telling differences between the two political sides these days is in tactics. To be victorious, all the Left needs to do is achieve high voter participation, and the Republican stink goes away on its own. But the alt-reich? They have to resort to terror, disenfranchisement, apartheid-type tactics just to get their way. Simple mass voter turnout defeats them every time.
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  12659. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to care about the letter or the intent of the law when you're busy engineering a slow-moving coup to produce a one-party state. Their idea of "fair and balanced" is a one-party state, with them in charge. Like Sophie Scholl said - don't wait until it's too late.
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  12660. So .. Cyber Ninjas was happy to take the money, but when it came their turn to stand up in court and tell the judge that 2+2=5, they suddenly got cold feet?
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  12661. Funny how Ted Cruz says it's OK to just pull out your ID to vote, but when it comes to vaccine passports it's all "Show us your papers!" :(
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  12662. 27 years ago, the population of Portland was a lot smaller, so the # of murders per capita per year in 1993 was a lot higher than it is now.
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  12663.  @performingartsphotography8783  Great point! As of 1993, local Portland Nazis/skinheads had been murdering immigrants (Mulugeta Seraw, among others) but as of the present, Nazis get bloodied and sent to the ER if they show their faces around here. So I guess if you're some kind of Jew-hating immigrant-hating Nazi, Portland probably doesn't feel safer to you these days. Is that by chance the personal perspective you were speaking from when you made your comment?
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  12664.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  Bingo. And obviously it takes a village to keep the idiots in line.
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  12665. Republicans being on a whole nother planet is a good description of where they're at. No one outside their RWNJ rabbit holes can follow it.
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  12666.  @olivekatz9139  Anything with the last name "Trump" on it will be about as popular as a child molester with the plague. He needs to go through some things.
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  12667. "It's not my fault of some nut gets his hands on a conspiracy theory and uses it to attack someone. If it wasn't me misinforming the perp, it would have been someone else. Or he could have just used a hammer or something." -- Tucker 'Axis Sally' Carlson
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  12668. Somebody please explain to Dump that the guy who lies and cheats about everything doesn't have the right to demand squat.
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  12669. Please tell me that woman is in no position to decide what medications other people get, or how. I wouldn't trust that dummy with a glow stick.
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  12670.  @mitchyoung93  It's kind of a self-burn when they display items that Russia cannot manufacture on its own.
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  12671. Considering that military forces loyal to Wussolini (even to the point of hurting peaceful civilians) have occupied the area that holds the house, the senate, the supreme court, and other institutions, I'd keep a sharp eye out for malfeasance. Cheeto would only be too happy if the likes of Elizabeth Warren / Hillary Clinton / Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Nancy Pelosi were to be surveilled and detained by the military.
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  12672. If Russia decides to launch, Russia will get turned into radioactive glass. This is just more pouting from Putler.
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  12673. Did you forget the sarcasm tags?
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  12674.  @richardporter6201  Excellent.
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  12675. Conservatives would just find another scapegoat if Joe didn't have a son around. The appearance of an investigation is more important to them than actually having anything to investigate.
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  12676.  @darkduck3677  Those "topics" are just content designed to anger low-discrimination minds.
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  12677. It's not that Putin has dirt on Republicans (though I'm sure he does) as much as he offered them a path to remake America the way they want it to be. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. They know their platform is unpopular on its own merits, so a techno-apartheid state is what they must seek.
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  12678. Have you got a copy of "the Stand" (by Stephen King) handy? Chapter 8 is a gruesome story of that kind of thing.
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  12679. Trump was so much more manly with the classified documents. First he waited until the National Archives asked for them back, then he stonewalled them, then he tried claiming they were his, then he tried claiming he'd telepathically declassified them. Biden never claims telepathy. Instead, Biden just cooperated with the authorities. LAME! 😅
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  12680. Did Bobo have anything to do with sending threats, or inciting threats, against the Colorado state supreme court justices? No way can Colorado allow her to represent the state if she was part of threats against Colorado judges.
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  12681. One of the possible future outcomes for Dolt45's sheeple is that they'll gradually get more unmoored from reality, with every passing day not doing a damn thing to bring them closer to the 45's supposed reinstatement. Eventually they'll be wondering if everything around them is real or not, or whether they're living in a simulation. Give them time, it's only been 317 days since the November-2020 elections and 239 days since president Biden's inauguration.
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  12682. That was just bait for stupid people. It worked. Houses won't be any cheaper either, and the deficit will again rise massively due to Big Orangey's delusional ideas of economics.
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  12683. Expect the pro-removal number to increase as Sweet Potato-head Hitler calls more parts of the constitution "phony", like he just did with the emoluments clause. Even his inbred cousin-marrying followers have probably got a pocket constitution stashed away from back when they were somehow convinced that Obama was violating it, even if they couldn't say how or where.
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  12684.  @thomasjohn6041  Stock market just hit a record high yesterday. Maybe someone found a way to profit from Trumpy gaslighting.
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  12685. Sounds like she finally heard that deleting the messages off her phone doesn't keep the authorities from seeing evidence of her conspiring against the same government she's [temporarily] a part of.
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  12686. You may rest safely assured that there is still a lot that is not yet known, and with each further revelation it will look worse and worse.
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  12687. Face it, people, the only circumstances in which Trump would participate are something like letting Jordan & Nunes run the circus, and the only agenda that of finding the Bidens guilty of trying to frame the Russians for 2016 election hacking. Kind of like Al Capone agreeing to meet the IRS only if his people get to run his tax hearing, and the direction of inquiry is solely about the unfair auditing process at the IRS. Jeez.
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  12688. But but but but the stock market is doing great! /sarc
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  12689.  @Iecora  Oh jeez. Where do you want to start? The pandemic he downplayed, the vaccine he got secretly, while simultaneously bragging about developing while also badmouthing? The many violations of the emoluments act? Stealing records and then saying it's his absolute right to steal records? Calling our allies nasty name, while sucking up to our adversaries? Saying he trusts Putin over the entire US intelligence community? Have you been living under a rock or something?
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  12690. What a shame this has become the Alex Jones channel :(
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  12691.  @civildiscourse2000  You don't understand. Democrats have been threatening America with single-payer healthcare, universal K-U education, progressive taxation, strong environmental protections, automatic voter registration, and more. Not just due legal process. Somehow, to people who think like Trump, these things are all very bad.
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  12692. Trump is already cruise-ship-comedian material and doesn't realize it.
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  12693.  @kerrialexander4211  This is the public version of 45's "the only way I can lose is if the other side cheats". As if the votes of the people don't matter.
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  12694. Cult members will be cult members. Darn nice of the right-wingers to put out the most bizarre propaganda so the rest of us can see who the dumb true believers are.
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  12695.  @not-so-smartaleck8987  Yes. I do wish Trump would follow in his role model's footsteps in that regard.
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  12696.  @vammekopinion6044  Lotta Drumpf kool-aid sufferers here today. Love it! Their tears are keeping my car cleaner than ever.
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  12697. Ever since the GOP upgraded to LED projector bulbs, they've been able to project far more than the good old days, before Obama outlawed the old fashioned kind of bulb. /sarc
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  12698. PSK31 rules, you silly bot.
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  12699.  @beverlyrhame3692  Extremely scary. I don't wonder anymore how nations turn fascist :(
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  12700. Besides "Mango Mussolini", some call him the "Incredible Sulk".
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  12701.  @tiawarren5403  Specifically, he's Putin's little trumpster fire.
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  12702. Watching Republicans sink themselves (and their party) by getting tangled up in Trump's obvious lies is like watching rats sing the praises of D-Con .. like watching reverend Jim Jones' people tell you how tasty the kool-aid is. They are all pro-covid anyway. Let them enjoy their ventilator vacations.
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  12703. Quite possibly Tucky Tuck Tuck gets his info from the same "internally decapitated time traveling ghost" who misinformed Sidney Powell about the 2020 election?
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  12704. One way or another, harsh-medicine type therapy is coming for Trumpy's remaining cultists. Some will get to watch him go through some things in court. Some are already in prison, and some will land themselves in prison committing violence on his behalf. Some may die, or kill themselves rather than face a world without their beloved orange Fuhrer mismanaging it. All of them will get to witness Trumpy facing justice for his crimes.
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  12705. And that's precisely why these days I'm being patient with people who persist in supporting Trump's lies and treason and other crimes. They need therapy. And since they won't seek out therapy for their TDS, it's going to come in the form of watching Trump go through some things as he faces the law for his crimes.
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  12706. These days Trump is like a saint to the sort of Boomers who were never well moored to reality in the first place :(
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  12707.  @onetwo3549  Or wasn't it just like the flu? I can't remember any years in the past where the white house tested all visitors and staff constantly for the flu.
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  12708.  @jonwyatt3694  One cannot help but notice A) those many polls suggesting that Republicans are getting comfortable with the thought of political violence in the US and B) the dismay of some of those same Republicans, lately, at being on the receiving end of family death threats for failing to vote for Jordan as house speaker. Did they not think about how domestic political violence would reach everyone, and not just the people they don't like?
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  12709. Not only was ambassador Yovanovich spied on, with the options to turn it into a hit, but that activity was conducted by one Robert Hyde, an American, a military veteran, a Trump donor, and a wannabe congress person. Doesn't offering to arrange a hit on a United States ambassador violate his oath of service? He used to be a Marine. Maybe he needs to "go through some things"?
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  12710.  @jadym8543  Yeah good luck with that. As the last election showed, us sane patriots outnumber you crazies. Do us a favor and dig you own hole first.
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  12711.  @frosstchild  Be assured, those subs are being hunted rather actively these days. Putin seems to have a gift for pissing off the opposing forces. It's practically the military-diplomatic version of Trump's famous reverse Midas touch.
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  12712.  @carmennurse8641  Great to see Ukraine doing this well despite the damage trump tried to do to Zelinskyy by denying him material support that the US congress had already authorized. And from the way Trump's been carrying on lately, he's obvious dreaming of a Trump hotel in Moscow.
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  12713.  @Diaszurana  Re "Unfortunately, An entire party of our leadership has proven NOT to have said courageousness" << Remember that famous quote from Sinclair Lewis? He got it mostly right. When fascism came to America, humping a flag and brandishing a bible upside down, conservatives tripped over each other to help him undermine the rule of law in America.
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  12714.  @Xenoyer  A willing volunteer is worth 10 conscripts. A harsh lesson Putin is learning presently.
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  12715. OP: Washington DC is within easy driving distance of the Atlantic ocean. If Putler wants defensive depth, maybe they should relocate to the geographic center of Russia. It's someplace around Lake Vivi.
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  12716. Attention Georgia conservatives: those Dominion voting machines are more hacked than Sidney Powell was allowed to say on TV. Venezuela threatened her with assassination if she told the whole truth, which is that your phone will be silently hacked if you even get near one, allowing China to see your texts and social media posts and where you live. And if you even touch one of those machines, they give off microdot chips (too small to be seen) that make you as trackable as the Bill Gates vaccine. Don't do it! Feeding fake conspiracy theories to conservative idiots is like feeding $100 bills to homeless crack heads - they just grab it and run!
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  12717. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are some of their own words: “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  12718.  @martincahill5622  Care for a laugh? Here's a 2016 article from one of those pundits who predicted the responsibilities of office would make Trump more responsible. Heh. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/it-is-possible-for-trump-to-bea-good-president
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  12719. Correct. The USA ranks #39 worldwide in terms of number of tests per million or per capita or per whatever size group.
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  12720. Bad news, people, the damage Trump did to America will last decades longer than his presidency. We are quickly heading towards a future when no foreign students will want to study here - when other nations won't make treaties with us because we renege on them even before the ink is dry - when we are known worldwide as the covid capitol - when no one will want to buy our possibly-tainted food products - when Americans are not welcome anywhere as visitors - when other countries move away from using the US dollar. All our former allies and former trading partners know that bad US presidents come and go, and that Trump's time will end someday. What the rest of the world has learned, to their disappointment and chagrin, is that our safety mechanisms and our separation-of-powers aren't worth the paper they're written on. At no point in this mess did any of the so-called adults in the room pull the plug on it, install the VP, and schedule a new election. Instead, we collectively shrugged and told the world (essentially) "Sorry, but our antiquated electoral college picked him. Sorry, we can't do anything. Sorry, we need to wait for the next election." In the rest of the world, they can have a leader hanging from a lamppost the very next day for less than what Trump did. We have been revealed to the world as paper-mache eagle, colored in with the magic sharpie.
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  12721.  @ChildlessCatLady  Coming so soon after the inflection point beyond which Trump's loss became clear, it seemed the most likely explanation. In the line of work that Putin's in, "medical issues" is code for getting inhumed.
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  12722.  @bigboy9693  "after all the fraudulent votes are removed" Trump seems to think the Biden votes are automatically the fraudulent ones. Would you go with that?
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  12723.  @bigboy9693  You wrote "It is trumps right to validate the votes" No no no no no. That's like letting one team at the baseball game be its own umpire and make all the calls. The candidates and their representatives are not involved in the validating of votes. Those tasks are up to the states. Trump has already shown his dishonesty by the container ship load, I don't think anyone wants to let him take that magic sharpie to the election results.
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  12724. To a guy who knows nothing about current affairs or past history, everything is "Who would have ever thought this could happen?"
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  12725.  @thetimeisrite  Can't wait to see Habba telling the court (or trying to) that Trump had absolutely nothing to do with all the personal attacks he [re]posted online.
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  12726. Won't be long now before Putin goes full Iron Curtain to keep people from escaping. The world would be better off if he had just remained a cab driver in Berlin.
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  12727. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  12728. Why should he be tested? This whole thing is a liberal hoax. Everyone's doing it just to make Trumpy look bad. He had no idea the Italians and South Koreans hated him this much. And next he will "own the libs" by making Matt PizzaGaetz, Doug Collins, Rafael Eduardo Cruz, and Paul Gosar part of his personal entourage.
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  12729.  @talaverajr391  Ironically, up in Edmonton you can find a strip club almost directly across the street from a church. The locals just don't care. It's great.
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  12730. Blue Horseshoe loves the funeral business :(
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  12731. To be fair to Trump, those people were (variously) stupid, gullible, prone to strongman worship, etc long before he came along to tap that potential.
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  12732. I assume there will be volunteer programs for folks who want to contribute labor.
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  12733. Considering how he was busy getting bone spurs draft deferments (all while being the captain of several sports teams at college) while people in uniform were dying, I'd guess it's safe to say that he already made clear his contempt for those who serve.
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  12734. To paraphrase something from "1984" .. but we've always been in a tariff war with Oceana!
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  12735.  @24james  Nominal GDP Rankings by Country United States (GDP: 20.49 trillion) China (GDP: 13.4 trillion) Japan: (GDP: 4.97 trillion) Germany: (GDP: 4.00 trillion) United Kingdom: (GDP: 2.83 trillion) France: (GDP: 2.78 trillion) India: (GDP: 2.72 trillion) Italy: (GDP: 2.07 trillion) Do some research, fool, before you open the airscoop on your supercharged mouse brain. SMH.
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  12736. So if Trump shoots someone dead on 5th avenue, but does NOT say out loud that it was a murder, there's no crime? That's how dumb Rick Scott's argument is.
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  12737. Lovely burn 👍😅
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  12738. Dying of natural causes and being stabbed in the back are two very different things.
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  12739. Bingo. Please do this. (I'm an American) No business until regime change .. or, in this case, junta change.
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  12740.  Borracho Porrero  Portland doesn't rate F-22s.
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  12741.  @madpierrot6265  Means they're only testing people who are sick. Some states are very stingy about tests. Where I live, it's darn hard to get one even when you're showing covid symptoms.
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  12742. There was crime "like no one's ever seen before" basically.
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  12743.  @kathleenr4047  He said it was a 66% chance that 45 would win. (What bookie made those odds? Walt Nauta? LOL) This is the Murdoch family way of telling us that there's a LOT of money to be made destabilizing a democracy.
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  12744.  @bovinityleak2066  That there are fewer owners is much less significant than that one of the owners (the Murdoch family) seems bent on destabilizing our democracy by any means.
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  12745.  @michaelmartinez3674  Huh. I live in a blue area of a pretty blue state, but I go visit relatives who live in a pretty red area, and I can't help but notice how they live in an information vacuum somehow. I mean, they somehow never heard that 45 lost all of his court cases challenging the election results - or that they were all tossed out for the same reason: lack of evidence. They're living under some parallel reality manufactured by Faux snooze :(
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  12746. Considering that people can be giving off virus for weeks before testing positive, there's hope for the nation yet.
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  12747. There's going to be lots more of this. The hush-money / election-interference stuff is just the warmup. The other trials will have much heavier consequences.
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  12748.  @Apollocreed2076  I'd donate a couple gallons to the cause. Not sure those particular culties are even sentient.
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  12749.  @Mike-lv6vs  There are other ways of getting money from Russia without its cooperation or assent. Uncle Pooty seems to not know this, nor does he care how much he is negatively impacting the futures of Russian generations that are as yet unborn.
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  12750. Looking forward to another year of painfully explaining to pro-2A people that a) they failed the "guns are to prevent tyranny" test when so many of them backed Trump's bid to end democracy, and b) that the same guns they get all "but but but muh freedumbs!" teary over are the ones used in mass killings all over America.
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  12751.  @DavidEFarner  Think of America as the slumber party that no one awoke from :(
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  12752. He's just warming up. Wait until he finally realizes the danger he's in - and tells his cult dummies to make molotov cocktails and take out the "deep state" or which ever nonwhite people they can find.
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  12753. Without testing them all, we won't know. Here's a little news article from the spring, in the New York City metro area, to jog your memory about one of the causes of those excess deaths: https://www.businessinsider.com/teams-retrieving-coronavirus-bodies-from-nyc-homes-2020-4
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  12754. Been explaining that to the moron cultists. It's like when you go to the bank to set up a new account. They ask you for ID. You can't just show them a video of you waving around a piece of plastic and claiming it's your ID .. no, they want to see the real item, then they verify it to make sure it's real and accurate, then you can open the account. The same applies to this vote fraud claim. They'd have to produce a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots, all of it notarized so as to confirm that it's real (and not ginned up by some interns with a printer) before accepting it into court as evidence.
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  12755. It's not as if Trump's trial, conviction, imprisonment will help his braindead cult zombies get over him. The damage will probably last decades. At least with Charles Manson we had the sense to put him and his criminal followers behind bars.
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  12756. The Americans who can still read know damn well that "socialism" only applies when you're talking about the workers seizing the means of production. Here is how Americans poll on various progressive issues: 84% support a federal requirement for paid maternity leave 75% support increased federal funding for child care 60% support raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.00/hour 57% support tuition-free state and public college education 54% support Medicare-for-all https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/majority-of-americans-support-progressive-policies-such-as-paid-maternity-leave-free-college.html
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  12757. One voice versus many .. it's not that hard to figure which is which.
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  12758. That's code for his militia Brownshirts to go take up arms against the opposing candidate. And Trump has plenty of foolish, traitorous followers would would do just that. Who poured the concentrated stupid into their water supply?
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  12759. Pretty sure that's why the Musk Rats are busy dismantling election security right now. They don't want to feel any heat for their misdeeds.
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  12760. Err, mechanics are actually good at something useful - fixing cars - whereas Trump has never proven himself good at doing positive. His only qualifications are all negative - he lies - he's a bully - he's a draft-dodger - he goes bankrupt frequently - everything he touches dies.
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  12761. You and me both. The MAGA idiots who screech for civil war clearly have no idea what that would mean. And later on, when they're on the run and scavenging food from abandoned cars, and some local warlord demands their 13yo daughter as payment for a box of food, no doubt they'll have long forgotten their bit part in ending democracy in America.
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  12762.  @jamesmassey2089  I like the way you think.
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  12763. Do you think that has anything to do with how certain large places (Walmart, HD, etc) have got the resources to ensure masking & distancing & changed floor movement patterns & better ventilation & testing of staff & thermal monitoring? Or does your brain leap to the low-hanging conspiracy-theory fruit of "commie Kate hates small businesses"? (it was a rhetorical question, and you already answered it)
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  12764.  @DD-uw5xg  Wonder why no "filming" in Portland?
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  12765. Won't be long now before wannabe-king Cheeto starts misusing his powers to go after anyone who criticizes him. His thin-skinned fragile ego demands it.
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  12766. We in the west wall states do not care for the shadow of Sauron to reach across our land.
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  12767.  @SiliconCurtain  Wow can that guy speak clearly and deeply.
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  12768. "Be best". LOL.
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  12769. Stinky45 lost the popular vote both times, and by a wider margin the second time. The people have spoken. He's fired.
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  12770. Mass graves wherever Russians go? What a shock. Go warm up the A-10s. They're getting hungry.
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  12771. Full employment would be anathema to capitalism as it exists in the USA today. Employers would have less leverage to put the screws to employees if the employees knew they could leave anytime, go anywhere, and be guaranteed a better job somewhere else.
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  12772. Some of the Americans who homeschool their kids on the Turner Diaries certainly want their children to live like that.
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  12773. They're welcome to wear the traitor caps permanently. In future years, people deserve to know which among them gleefully helped destroy our democracy.
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  12774. Yeah, yeah, the militia already failed its test Jan 6th. "Preventing tyranny" my ass. A whole lot of those angry nutters wanted to go along with the guy wanting to end the relevancy of voting. SAD
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  12775.  @kattycat3502  BLM/Antifa never tried to stop congress from certifying an election. Trump's goons did. You're so on the wrong side of history.
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  12776. Lots of ocean around the southern latitude.
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  12777. On the plus side, one of those two countries is already there, notwithstanding the nonsense RT propaganda that is echoed in the US by Fox and other RT content distributors.
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  12778. Not all Americans, just the shallowest, most childish, most gullible ones. Not sure Trump is even human. He lacks empathy, warmth, humility, self-awareness, shame, restraint, compassion, honor, patriotism, and a sense of humor.
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  12779. Is that a real story? I mean, it wouldn't be surprising (given that reich-wingers have shown their preference for vehicle attacks this year, with over a hundred even before the campaign bus in Texas thing) but I would want to see the proof of it before believing anything. Got a link?
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  12780.  Ronda Leistiko  The closest story I can find (and this is a bit of a stretch) are some dueling groups of protesters connected to the action to block a bridge in New Jersey. Haven't been able to find the story the OP seemed to reference.
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  12781. Huh, usually the false dichotomies have worse grammar and spelling.
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  12782. Funny how the trolls shriek that everyone over there is a Nazi, then indiscriminately kill them all. As if grandmoms, pregnant ladies, and their unborn babies are all members of some nonexistent battalion. They're not fooling anyone.
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  12783. Patience, grasshopper, the allies vs axis teams are lined up but haven't yet ordered team jerseys. But the time is coming.
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  12784. Bingo. There's going to be a lot of chrome on sale in a month or two to help cover funeral expenses.
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  12785. Donald Trump is like America's Jim Jones to 42% of the population, and covid19 is the tainted Kool Aid he passes out at the rallies.
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  12786. Retired judge Luttig didn't suggest it .. he came right out and said it. He even said it twice to drive home the point.
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  12787.  @danahornowicz3403  They want no more of those pesky elections again ever.
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  12788. So when liberals earn more votes they can just "step on in"? Yes, Sarah, that's called winning the election because you got more votes.
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  12789. Not to mention, there is nothing keeping the combined forces of the west from launching their own massively destructive waves of cruise missiles into Russian territory, if that is the game they insist on playing (and losing). Their country won't work so well when there isn't a bridge or power plant left standing - and I'm sure they must know it.
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  12790. @Danny n Ah, so you are complaining that people who practice [whatever] are better at it than those who don't practice much or at all. It's all so unfair, right? /s
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  12791. @Danny n Nonsense. The US is very equal. Rich and poor alike are prohibited from sleeping on park benches, or from parking their private jets on public roads. What system could be more fair? /s
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  12792. @Danny n You know where it's really shrinking? In Russia. They had not yet recovered from the demographic damages of WW2, and now it's not helping that they're sending so many men (particularly younger ones) to the abattoir. If you're suggesting that we ignore Putin's hitlerism just because things aren't perfect here, keep dreaming.
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  12793. And if Putin hates Nazis so much, why was his favorite American bromance with Donald J Trump (twice impeached one term loser) who had the full endorsement of America's Nazi Party and its propaganda organs?
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  12794. I see the SS successfully ran out the clock on that one, as the J6 committee is no more.
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  12795. To be fair, it's hard to watch TV when you're on a ventilator.
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  12796. No doubt beer-bong Kavanaugh and some of the others are trying to figure out how to give dictatorial powers to ex-president Trump while at the same time NOT giving them to current president Biden or ex-president Obama.
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  12797.  @jeffhampton2767  Not half. Less than a third actually. Trump has already expanded his base into the segments where it can grow (dumb people, strongman worshippers of all IQs, and those who want to burn it all down, essentially) and he holds little to no appeal for the rest.
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  12798. He's not just a politician or a party head to them - he's a cult leader. That's on a whole nother level. Like religion but even less shakable.
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  12799. This is so fcked up as to almost be the aftermath of a gender reveal party.
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  12800. Mr Tr*mp conveniently ignores the facts that Americans are the ones bringing drugs into America; that only America's insatiable appetite for illegal narcotics is what results in any importation.
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  12801. Ahh, so masks are supposedly the problem, not the covid pandemic that's put more than half a million Americans into graves and is currently overwhelming the hospitals. Riiiiiiight. /s
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  12802. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating.
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  12803. The anchor chains are getting pretty crowded. Rats all queued up waiting their turn to leave.
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  12804. Why would anyone ever need to overturn the legitimate election results? Oh, never mind ..
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  12805. Perhaps she meant, "I have an insatiable appetite to swoon for the Fuhrer when fascism comes to America with orange skin and raccoon style eye makeup" - ?
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  12806. What's going on in the US? In a nutshell, Trump succeeded in exporting his pathologies to his cult members (much as Charles Manson did) and now they are only too willing to commit crimes on his behalf.
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  12807.  @fordsrule35  Get some facts once in awhile, will you? Jeez. https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article243322656.html
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  12808.  @cherylalt101 According to Trump, members of the military are "losers" and "suckers". Trump's own words :(
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  12809. Nah, he's a doctor trying to save you from a disease you're in denial about. You, on the other hand, are a non-scientist advocating bizarre ways to misunderstand the situation. Your brain doesn't work right.
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  12810. Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later that debt is paid. Putler's lies will come back to him.
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  12811. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  12812.  @MrDiddyDee  Bingo! As George W Bush famously said - if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide. And it seems like Trump is trying to hide everything. Sad!
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  12813. Why should Trump care? None of them are going to get near his polling numbers anyway, and the bunch of them are just angling to be his VP even though he's treating it like an episode of the Apprentice.
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  12814. Good morning Dr John, and thank you for the videos you make. Your presentation of this material is much appreciated. Just wondering, is there any chance you would be interested in doing a follow-up monthly interview with RN Karli Del Biondo? That was a really good exchange.
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  12815. Republicans continue to do Putin's bidding -- and it's Putin's fondest wish that Americans destroy their own country. Duly noted.
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  12816. You might have better traction with that one on a health-related news channel. This is a primary news channel.
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  12817. He's been busy playing nicey-nice with the guy who's going to move into the white house just to burn it down.
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  12818. Coming from the guy who's made life in America rougher for everyone who's not a rich white xtian cis male billionaire, these words sound awful hollow.
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  12819. I wouldn't be against a forehead tattoo/brand to designate traitors. Everyone should know just who tried to burn down the rule of law in America.
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  12820. President Biden did well enough at the debates. The other guy, unfortunately, likes to spray everything down with a firehose of lies. The only way to present 45 correctly is without an audience, taped, and with his lies muted out.
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  12821. That dirt he's got on Agent Orange is the best investment he ever made. (Remember how Orange came out of their first meeting looking like Putin had crushed his nuts repeatedly?) Watching the US destroy its trade/military/diplomatic alliances with longstanding allies has got to be rewarding for Putin.
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  12822. I wonder how Americans would react if some foreign power assassinated Mark Esper (DefSec), and then, when we expressed anger about it, threatened to destroy various cultural sites around the US? Would we a) knuckle down to the foreign power and tell them how wonderful they are, or b) flood the recruitment centers? (hint: more people are showing up for the Iranian general's funeral than showed up for Trump's inauguration)
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  12823. This gives us an insight into the sort of future the Republicans envision for America -- grim. No more meaningful elections.
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  12824. So is making the pandemic worse his idea of venting some spite on America for the bad poll numbers he's getting?
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  12825.  @jesusfalcon160  Now that Trump has tried to say his oath of office didn't mention "supporting" the Constitution, perhaps MAGA Mikey seems to think it might work for him. And this is the guy who's in the line of succession right behind the VP? Strange times indeed :(
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  12826. SC will unfortunately drag their feet on this one. They will either do nothing or release their finding so late in the game that it doesn't matter - which could go either way.
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  12827.  @andrewpeterson9626  KBL is here only to relay TASS anyway ;)
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  12828. Mussolini didn't want to relinquish power either, and ended up hanging from a lamppost. Ceausescu didn't want to relinquish power either, and got a one-way trip to the basement. What Trump has coming to him, I don't know, but it would be the biggest pay-per-view ever.
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  12829. Hate to break the news to Trump staffers, but they may as well have a "T" brand burned into their foreheads. They're unhirable. But then, what did they expect would happen, working to help Sweet Potato Hitler erode the rule of law in America? They're lucky the people don't do some very bad things to them.
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  12830. On April 1, Georgia had 447 cases/million. As of today (April 20) it's got 1884 cases/million. Just because folks have got a little cabin fever doesn't mean the danger has suddenly gone away.
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  12831.  @johnkesich8696  Today's Republicans, in the same intellectual bind as their Nazi forebears in Germany, are unable to explain (and will never attempt to explain) how getting rid of the (fill in the blank social enemies - Disney and trans kids) will end inflation.
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  12832. We need to vote them out for the next couple generations. This is that serious.
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  12833. "Erase"? Didn't he mean "cancel"?
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  12834. Remember when Mitch told Obama that 8 months before an election was much too soon to fill a SCOTUS seat, then turned around and helped Trump do exactly that just 8 weeks before an election? Oh and about his recent announcement - obviously Trump asked him to do something that was finally a step too far for Broken Old Crow. Wonder what it was.
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  12835.  @shielanunn3484  Minor correction: Trump has never tried to lead. He has tried to RULE but not to lead. If he were in power now, he'd be denying federal aid to Maryland in general, and Baltimore in particular, on the excuse that they didn't vote for him. He is not leader material and never has been. He does not bring out the best in anyone, but rather, the worst.
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  12836. His last New Years Eve where he's not wearing orange jumpers .. and he knows it.
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  12837.  user-sp6ri1ih7k  Didn't it kill three crews during the trials alone? Something like that.
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  12838. Karl Rove completely misunderstands. It is not that whacktard Sidney Powell has thrown mud on Trump, but that Trump will flail around until he finds someone, anyone, who will indulge his most wacky narcissistic fantasies. Just when his itty bitty ego needed a voice to tell him that yes, the election really was stolen, that Biden's win was merely imaginary, she came along and, like a crackhead finding a hundie lying on the sidewalk, he grabbed that false narrative and ran with it.
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  12839.  @LackofFaithify  Yet it's only the Republicans who are doing the Kremlin's bidding. Huh.
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  12840. As far as cult leaders go, Trump is in the same category as Hitler in terms of getting followers to joyfully incinerate their own futures in his service.
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  12841. It's not the least bit shocking that Republicans would be the ones inviting Russia to interfere with things here.
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  12842. I'd be sending cruise missiles to Ukraine so that they can create a buffer zone / DMZ to their east .. from Russian territory of course. Perhaps 100km deep into Russia.
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  12843. I hope the fascists stick around for the Nuremberg season ender. Don't want to give any spoilers away, but it always leaves them hanging.
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  12844. Just like the people of Puerto Rico learned, there won't be any hurricane relief until he needs the votes of PR folks living in the USA. Everyone should take a page from that book as to how Trump thinks of covid relief or any other kind of relief - the only time they might see it is when he needs to buy their votes using taxpayer money.
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  12845. Twitter used to be worth $44Bn. 4chan is worth nothing. Musk is halfway to his goal of making Twitter worth as much as 4chan.
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  12846. Who would have thought that radicalized anti-vaxx Trumpanzees would commit crimes? Sorry, that was just a rhetorical question. Anyone who thinks it's OK to ram a campaign bus off the road, or drive vehicles into crowds of protestors, should be locked up or deported.
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  12847.  Regie Love  Sorry to hear you've been victimized by an education system. Would you like a participation trophy?
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  12848.  Regie Love  There ya go, typical for your kind, making up stupid stuff without proof then believing it. Soft and fluffy? That's probably the type of cellmate you prefer.
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  12849. Ahh, Dump45. A strongman to the weakling, a genius to the dullard, a celebrity to the unwashed, a hero to the poltroon. He doesn't fool most normal people, just the broken and/or stupid ones. And we have way too many of them here :( If mental healthcare had public programs that worked, Trump wouldn't get many votes at all.
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  12850. When the GQP Republicans won't participate in America's democracy, I'm not sure how much longer we'll have a nation. Hair Fuhrer, Adolph Trump, is obviously happy when his people talk about a secession of the red states. Their first acts would be to install him as lifetime dictator, then make war on the remainder of the USA. There's no such thing as enough spilled blood to please Trump :(
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  12851. @Phil McKraken Those so affected can just send in someone from their household, or shop online and have it delivered. At this point, shopping doors without a mask on isn't much different from wandering around the store secretly emitting sarin gas just because you feel it's your "freedumb" to do so.
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  12852.  @flowersinherhair  Banning protest (at least in the US) would be like banning the Republican National Convention, or a Trump rally. Both are constitutionally protected free speech events. Churches and birthday parties are not. Does that make the difference any more clear to you?
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  12853. @Phil McKraken There is not a place anywhere that does not do curbside pickup or offer some form of home delivery. Letting people into stores without masks is like giving them free license to kill anyone they encounter in the store.
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  12854. @Phil McKraken Nowhere did I claim to be God. But if you've been following the news this year, you will know that this disease spreads when people get too close to each other without wearing protective equipment such as masks. You don't have the right (during a raging pandemic) to walk unmasked in a public indoors place anymore than I have the right to inject you with copy machine fluid while you sleep. You apparently do not understand that your freedoms end where another person's begin, and vice versa.
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  12855. @Phil McKraken So much keyboard clicking and so little brain activity. Look, fool, in just months this thing has killed a sizeable portion of all American combatants who died in WW2. Deny it all you like, but the virus won't care if you believe in it or not. And, clearly, you are not one of the adults.
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  12856. @Phil McKraken Blanket responsed don't work? On what do you base that ridiculous notion? You may wish to check out the countries of Asia, which have used those measures very successfully. You reach for new heights of folly in your desire to justify not wanting to wear a mask. Poor little you. The keys are clicking, but no one's home.
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  12857. Having secure elections would mean fewer Government-of-Putin votes and they know it. Republicans were bought out awhile back .. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senators-tell-contradictory-stories-about-moscow-trip
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  12858. You're not big into deciphering what the news is all about, are you. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/health/covid-19-deaths-us-250k-trnd/index.html
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  12859. Perhaps they can have a future in rubberstamping his illegal orders? Otherwise, no, a dictator has no need for the other branches of government.
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  12860. Trump: The virus makes it too dangerous for my criminal friend Roger Stone, it's an indoor group setting. also Trump: Your kids need to go back to school, and I don't care if it's dangerous for them or you.
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  12861. Trump's sheeple always were the kind who walk in through the exit doors to "prove" what "free thinkers" they are.
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  12862.  @jimbaker1399  You wrote "Stealing an election is treason, and deserves a death sentence" Mind if we hold you to that? Second homes in the heartland are gonna be cheap next year if we do things that way.
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  12863. Open everything to those who can show they're fully vaccinated. The rest can stay home if they want to keep their membership in the plague-spreader cult.
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  12864.  @carcrazy9167  The only people who should be thankful of Trump's actions all have rubles in their pockets. Red white and blue is getting screwed under that clown.
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  12865.  @basook6116  No, they do not. That is their primary task and I hear they are efficient about it.
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  12866.  @Cryo837  Guess you wrote that retarded comment before Trump got the virus. Joke's on you, fool.
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  12867. That $1 billion is the only Republican stimulus money the general economy will ever get. Hope they keep blowing more on TV spots, print services, meals, hotels, strippers, whatever.
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  12868. Well, back at the time (if you remember these things from the news) some of 45's people discussed seizing the voting machines in a large county in Nevada that didn't generate the voting profile they wanted. Apparently it was fairly inner-circle stuff. It got echoed in near real time as a done deal to the sheeple who read the Blaze. At the time, one of my co-workers was deliriously happy over this news. He subsequently "did his homework" on covid vaccines and purged himself from the voting rolls.
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  12869. Asking conservatives not to be entranced by the Trump-type authoritarians is like asking alcoholics to lay off the sauce. He made them feel good about feeling hateful towards others - and that's about as un-American as behavior gets.
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  12870. Someone who also doesn't know Jack Smith is that loathsome deviant Stephen Miller, who had a hand in drafting vile practices towards migrants and refugees - policies that were in direct contradiction to longstanding international human-rights treaties.
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  12871.  @chadedwards7689  You mean you were secretly being sarcastic? Because if you've been paying any attention to the numbers, the states with the highest day-after-day percentage growth in new cases are the ones that refused to enact social distancing and stay-at-home for nonessentials. In other words - relaxing these things leads to more cases & more deaths. Is there any part of this you have trouble understanding?
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  12872. Those Russian workers. Smoking around the vodka storage again. Remember the Moskva!
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  12873. Of course Trump has to cancel his interviews. They might ask questions, instead of letting him move oddly to his own playlist.
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  12874. More like conservatives choosing to sunset themselves. The rest of the country is unchanged.
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  12875.  @wardcrisp  See, moron, that is where you just burned out the bulb in your projector. Nowhere did I say that trying to burn down a building was OK. Go back and read my post if you have to. Then try again. Let's see if you have any brain cells.
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  12876.  @wardcrisp  They should only be arresting the people committing crimes. Not people not committing crimes. Not journalists. Are you advocating something else?
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  12877.  @wardcrisp  So - you're saying the press has no right to say that [something] shouldn't be recorded? Ahh, I knew that somewhere in you was the beating heart of a brownshirt. You don't hide it very well.
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  12878.  @wardcrisp  This is a democracy. The press is its eyes and ears. Is there some part of the concept of a free press that your thinking is too shallow for? Press are normally allowed into all kinds of things because they are (wait for it) reporting those things.
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  12879. Next we get to see if Glenn Kirschner (of Justice Matters) is correct in his hope that the justices of the SC will want to remain above ground with their priveleges intact, and that they realize a dictator has no need for a supreme court. I'm not so kind .. Trump could have plenty of use for a compliant supreme court to legitimize his edicts.
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  12880. The US has 11 military bases in Germany. It's home to NATO Allied Air Command as well as the Third Air Force.
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  12881. At the time, I lived on a quiet back street. And the street was 8" thick ice with two ruts made by some passing truck. Had to leave my car on the front lawn for 3-4 weeks because it would have just gotten stuck in the middle of the street anyway.
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  12882.  @Truther567  He won a majority of votes in tiny, low-density rural counties with lots of land and few people. Those happen to be the same places where FOX Noise / Sinclair / NewsMax peddle their lies. Not to worry, we got lots of jail space and court time for wannabe insurrectionists.
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  12883. Just wait two weeks, and Ron DeSanctimonious will be howling with the rest of the pack, begging to be Trump's VP. Rumor has it, however, that the Huckabeast has caught his eye somehow.
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  12884. Coronavirus cases are spiraling out of control, and this is what Trump does when he's not golfing?
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  12885.  @MrWheelerjas  I'm not done yet. Tucker Carlson on Putin, February 24 2022: At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative…. At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the week’s news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the opening monologue of Carlson’s February 17 show, in which the American commentator trashed Ukraine’s government. An hour later, the evening news program on Russia’s main state television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News host’s attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like Raytheon. On Wednesday night, just hours before Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine to begin, two excerpts from Carlson’s most recent program were featured in Russian state television’s 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. news broadcasts…. Carlson’s comments were so welcome in Moscow that an excerpt from that rant with Russian subtitles was quickly produced by the Russian-language service of RT, the government-funded network formerly known as Russia Today.
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  12886.  @sheilalopez3983  Oh yes, Murdoch. Jan 26 2022: On the daily televised talk show 'The Evening with Vladimir Soloviev', Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheyev said this about Fox News and Tucker Carlson, as reported by the Daily Beast: “This a good illustration of the thesis as to whether we should be influencing public opinion in America. Yes, of course we should – of course! The question is how to do it and which resources to use. Without a doubt, we should be using any existing divisions. Sometimes I hear ‘what’s in it for us?’ and I will cynically tell you: whatever harms them, benefits us.”
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  12887. Yup! He's the criminal who somehow makes Republican voters weak in the knees at the thought of him mismanaging America - again.
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  12888.  @geef917  If you've got evidence, show it. Even Trump and his lawyers haven't been able to produce any. C'mon, man/boy/whatever, show it if you've got it. // crickets //
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  12889.  @geef917  Go ahead, look all you want. That's what Trump's lawyers have been doing. They still haven't found anything either.
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  12890.  @kymerdeth  I'm afraid you fail to take into account how reviled Trump is for being a truly awful human being and a sore loser. Keep watching him hinder the transition and you'll begin to see what the rest of us saw in him.
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  12891.  @luedog8385  Here's part of what helped ruin the economy: https://khn.org/morning-breakout/white-house-task-force-directed-cdc-to-weaken-covid-testing-guidelines/
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  12892.  @luedog8385  Here's another part of what helped ruin the economy: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-bob-woodward-interviews/index.html
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  12893.  @luedog8385  As everyone in the USA is learning now, America can't simultaneously have both the best economy in the world and the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the world. In fact, that biggest coronavirus outbreak pretty much guarantees that the economy will be in the toilet. And we know from Trump's own words that he's the one most responsible for trying to sweep it under the rug.
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  12894.  @luedog8385  Wrong again, my webfooted friend. The closed case survival ratio in the US is presently around 96%. That is, in cases where the outcome is known, 4% of the time that outcome is death as opposed to recovered or discharged from hospital. Read the numbers, not FOXed Noise. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  12895. Given his affiliation with the pro-Covid anti-vax anti-mask nutters in the USA, I was assuming that Mike Pillow would be airdropping virus-tainted sleep accessories in restricted airspace - and that the RCAF would be all over that, probably with jet fighters.
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  12896. No talks until Russia withdraws to the pre-2014 borders. Otherwise Putin can wait until more of his air bases are on fire. No mercy, MFR.
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  12897. The biggest thing the establishment fears is that the slaves will realize there's more than enough money in the budget for universal basic income. Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy cost the budget a lot more than giving every sub-$50K-earning American worker $500/week indefinitely.
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  12898.  @neveklund3267  When America was at its peak of power and affluence, the top marginal tax rate was 92%. That would still leave them plenty for their 8th and 9th yachts and private jets and sending their near-useless spawn to riding classes.
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  12899. So - when is the US going to invade Afghanistan or some other country (not Saudi Arabia, obviously) over this? /sarc
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  12900. Wait until the Republicans find out that Ivanka, using secret service protection, traveled to China to secretly get 41 different trademarks fast-tracked .. and this is after being given a security clearance over the objections of the intelligence community as well as a white house special staffer job. Oh wait, Republicans don't care about that.
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  12901. Yah, they're OK to force a woman to bear a dead fetus to term (at great risk to her own life) but dead-set against the masks that slow down transmission of novel new lethal diseases.
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  12902. Roll with the crazy dogs, get fleas.
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  12903. Hate to say it but you are already seeing the limitations of testing in the USA. We've only tested 1million of a population of 327million .. make that 0.306%. The acceleration in new cases last week only stopped shy of 20K new cases per day because we're not testing enough. As capacity expands you'll see that increase. Actual cases in the USA are by now probably well over 2 million.
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  12904. Love the way president-elect Biden is holding press conferences every day, speaking intelligently in complete sentences, taking reporters' questions, without insulting anyone or calling them names. Meanwhile, the Incredible Sulk sticks to the white house and the golf range.
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  12905.  @Picklemedia  If you can point me to a time when Biden had the powers to a) issue executive orders, b) seat supreme court judges or any other kind of judge, c) tell the senate majority leader to work with him or else, or d) issue executive orders, sure, let's look at his record for those years. Otherwise what you're saying is a lot like, "Look at Sarah Palin - she was never in charge of the USA but look at how horrible things turned out under the Washington leadership she never had". FFS.
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  12906.  @Picklemedia  Who else did all those things? Or do you imagine it was Biden alone who did all those horrible mean awful things, like pulling a wagon by himself across the continent? SMH. Save yourself the trouble: you couldn't possibly find anything Biden did wrong that can offset the pure concentrated evil that Trump has been to America. Willie Horton's covid corpse would earn more votes than Trump at this point, that's how bad Trump has been. 72 million flies can't be wrong - steaming dog sh*t tastes great!
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  12907.  @Picklemedia  When has Biden ever been in a position to sign peace treaties, appoint SCOTUS judges (or any judges), or do any of the other things you're lamely attempting to compare? When has Joe Biden been president of the US before? (he hasn't) Worst. False. Dichotomy. Ever. Did you even make it past 10th grade?
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  12908. Sniffy crazy Don Junior was one of those insisting on picking Vance as VP .. as were some billionaire donors. Enough said.
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  12909. Putin must be so happy. His minions here have stalled aid to Ukraine and made the US government look dysfunctional.
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  12910.  @Tatteddaddydc  If you can name a period of human history that had no business or trade or commerce whatsoever happening, on any level, I'd love to hear about it. There is always opportunity for those with vision and awareness.
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  12911. Interestingly, his last public appearance was when he came back from Walter Reed hospital on Saturday.
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  12912.  @jerrycampbell3921  Michael Cohen went on MSNBC recently to talk about why people become Trump's cult sheeple. The video can be found under the title "Michael Cohen issues URGENT WARNING to Trump's Jan 6 Co-Conspirators". The good parts start around 2:45 into the video. He said, "What is it about him? [Trump] There's clearly something on our side, I don't have the answer to that, but it's something internal within ourselves that we're lacking, that he [Trump] has the ability to capture like a cult leader, and you don't want to lose your job. Why Eastman did what he did, why Jeffrey Clark did what he did .. look, for Jeffrey Clark, it makes sense, what was he, an environmental lawyer could possibly become the attorney general of the United States? You know, Eastman really doesn't make as much sense. You're talking about a guy who actually orchestrated the way within which Donald Trump could hold onto power in the United States against the will of the people. Why do people do it? Why I did it? Again, there's something that must be lacking within ourselves, whether it's at the moment or, you know, from birth .. I don't know the answer. But we definitely have something lacking, and we were looking to Donald, whether it's the celebrity appeal, whether it's the power that went along, whether it's the relevance, the importance .. it's a multitude of things and I wish I could put my finger on it, because it keeps me up at night all the time."
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  12913. How about the way that covid booster, Scott Atlas, just resigned? Every word he said was designed to make the covid problem worse.
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  12914. SecState is fourth in line of presidential succession. He wants his slim chance at power, seemingly unaware that he's going to end up on Cheeto's fked-and-chucked pile much sooner.
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  12915. Calling it "freedom day" is incredibly Orwellian, though we should expect nothing less from the Balsonaro of Britain, AKA Boris. This is like turning on all the lights during the London Blitz simply because you've grown weary of the blackout curtains.
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  12916.  @yellowbird500  Re "Two years of lockdown for a" << Sorry to burst your bubble, but going without d*ck for a bit hasn't killed any woman yet.
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  12917. With Trump, it was ALWAYS going to end badly. How and why people can't see that is a mystery to me. The guy very obviously would burn the country down to please his momentary spite. Mewling newborn kittens, with their eyes not yet even open, have more self-control and patience than he does.
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  12918. Bingo, as if this disaster has NOTHING to do with Putin emptying the treasury in order to vent his imperial overreach in Ukraine.
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  12919.  @robertanna9964  There has been some coverage of this. Poor, remote, ethnically less-Russian places have been supplying the bulk of the drone fodder. Obviously anyone important/rich enough is able to bribe their way or their kid's way out of it. No surprise there, Russia is as corrupt as the day is long.
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  12920. What? Is Mr Corcoran saying that Trump, an infamous serial liar for many decades, lied to him about something? He's kidding!
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  12921.  @ahundredpercentprosperous4222 Guessing the low is 12mil and the high is 20mil. That's the rough spread between flat progression & exponential progression based on 2016-2020 differences.
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  12922. These are the same people who tell you that windmills cause cancer, and who spent 8 long years screeching that Obama was violating the constitution, but couldn't prove when or how when you asked them.
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  12923. Didn't it mostly spread on Twatter?
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  12924. Does he expect anyone to take this shit show seriously?
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  12925. Yup. Putler is Stalin's wet dream of continuing USSR empire, many years too late.
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  12926. Packing the courts with partisan, not qualified judges was the trade-off Mitch made.
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  12927. Like many in this administration, she had a role in the separation of refugee families at the border and some children being put up for adoption. While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  12928. And not just a regular toilet either, but something more like an outhouse.
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  12929.  @bobmcfierson2163  Bingo. Trump would rather leave the US a flaming, bloody, politically Balkanized dysfunctional mess than simply admit that he lost the 2020 election. And it's disgusting that so many of America's dumbest are just fine with that. They should go live in Haiti for a bit to experience the conditions they're trying to create at home.
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  12930. Pretty sure the whole reason the impeachment inquiry is now going public with the evidence/testimony is that the committees have uncovered some juicy information related to the cover-up of the phone call, the omission of key details from the record of the phone call, and the we're-guilty-as-sin effort to hide the records of the phone call. Public support for impeachment is already high; those revelations will raise it quite a bit. By the time the actual impeachment vote comes along, siding with the criminal president will be political suicide.
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  12931. Correct. That episode is well-documented in the book, "I Alone Can Fix It". Trump wanted the counts to keep going in the places he was winning, yet he tried to use the powers of office to force them to stop counting votes in the places that were going for Biden.
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  12932. Watching Trump drag down the GOP has been the nicest thing he could do for America. We the people have watched as the GOP told Obama that 8 months before the election was much too soon to seat a SCOTUS judge, then they flip-flopped to help Trump do it in under 8 weeks .. we watched as the GOP held investigation after investigation that found nothing wrong with Obama, then they flip-flopped when Trump told everyone not to cooperate with investigators and to ignore subpoenas during the Ukraine extortion investigation. With universal adulthood suffrage, we can and must make the GOP extinct over the next few elections.
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  12933.  @suedawn5784  Remember back when his little Nazi keebler elf Sessions came here? No one wanted to stand near him on the stage. Nonstop protests along MLK where his caravan passed. He left quickly with his tail between his legs. Nazis are not welcome in Portland and they know it.
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  12934.  @ThePhilotherianist  And, presumably, when actionable neglect on the part of the embryo freezer maintenance tech (or the electric service provider) causes embryos to go bad, some person or company has just become liable for manslaughter.
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  12935. Well, just think, the Republican party will be so much better off when Trump leads his delusional MAGAt segment down to Guyana for a kool-aid fest in the jungle.
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  12936. It's also now legal, apparently, for the senate to make trial-level innocent-or-guilty decisions completely without evidence!! So when the senate turns blue, all we can do is hope that Republicans will be magically OK with how all Trump's appointed judges (including supreme corp justice Beer Bong) are summarily impeached and removed.
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  12937. As usual with Trump, this is just a test balloon. Next time he'll try using something that's more under his control (say, the military) to express his wrath on the places that didn't vote for him in 2016.
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  12938. Nearly all of those militias claim that they're standing back & standing by to prevent tyranny in America, yet, when crunch time came, some of them committed crimes in the name of the guy who was trying to end Democracy in America.
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  12939. I go to sleep tonight confident that Wussolini will scream, thrash, misbehave, lie, deflect, project, etc and that all of these things will only worsen his poll numbers. The only thing he does well is fail. Repeatedly.
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  12940.  @patriciahenderson2096  Kristi Noem has been the governor of South Dakota since 2019.
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  12941. Seeing Trump get cheered for talking about violence against reporters is a lot like seeing Hitler get cheered by party comrades when he talked about putting certain classes of people into the camps. He and the people who cheer him don't belong in America.
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  12942. He's probably eying fake-Dr Oz to take Dr Fauci's place.
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  12943.  Oplitis Λ  On what facts do you base the statement about Trump being one of the best leaders? I want to hear that.
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  12944.  Oplitis Λ  Hope you're right that Fauci is unlikely to be fired .. because this morning Hair Fuhrer retweeted a "Fire Fauci!" thing.
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  12945. Peter, US law is no better than the people running the system - like when the speaker of the House decides to abdicate its responsibilities for the power of the purse - or like when the judiciary decide not to apply the laws.
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  12946. It's probably hard to find the words to tell these people that you don't care what they think.
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  12947. The actual transcript is going to be much much worse. And we have every reason to believe that many other such calls have taken place. Wonder if this is why the entire senior state department resigned early in 2017? They didn't want to be part of Don-the-con's sh!t show?
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  12948.  @BrendanBeckett  Not necessarily. Remember how Barr tried to "tone down" (misrepresent) Mueller's findings? The actual transcript is going to be much worse. Paging Madame LaFarge ..
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  12949. Expecting Pompeo to investigate this is like trusting Moscow Mitch to investigate his own ethics. Won't find anything wrong.
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  12950.  @pennydavis9494  Rural Idaho works too. Still Trump signs everywhere. Every once in awhile the locals get mad enough to send a rolling-coal convoy into Portland to try running over protesters.
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  12951.  @DebHammersley  No. Trump, or anyone on Fox, will just sic the MAGA threat machine on whoever doesn't toe the line.
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  12952. I'd send them a couple containers of long distance GPS guided cruise missiles. The longer Russia stays in the Ukraine meat grinder (which is a monkey trap they built for themselves, LOL) the more they bleed out. They don't have the means even to threaten Finland properly - or to hang onto those nations north of Japan either.
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  12953. Years past when Trump promised it, the swamp is being drained now, and (no surprise) the grand-old-pedo party were the worst swamp rats.
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  12954. Couldn't happen to a better narcissistic twat 😅
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  12955. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME! also Trump: There will be fewer teen pregnancies if we stop testing for them.
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  12956. Wouldn't it be a shame if someone were to share with Ukraine the designs and specs for long range drones and cruise missiles. Maybe one of their people just "accidentally finds" such information carelessly lying around while training in the west .. and maybe we'll just look the other way.
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  12957. The people at FOXed watched this and gave each other a thumbs-up for the interview segments. That's exactly the kind of nonthinking they've been trying to instill for decades.
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  12958. Trump was always going to take away the toys and set fire to the playground if it can't be his.
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  12959. Humpty has other ways of getting to ground level quickly, just saying.
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  12960. Nope, he's in trouble. He had a gun in his truck and could have just kept driving. According to the videos, nothing happened until he stopped, got out, and got into a verbal altercation with folks he disagreed with. That's when his truck began getting hit by rocks and paint. Then, to make things even worse, he went back to his truck to retrieve a weapon and then brandished it. In Oregon, the law allows only a few instances in which you can legitimately use a gun, and this wasn't any of them. If he didn't have a handgun license, he's in trouble for carrying that thing in the cab of his truck. If he did have a license, he probably just lost it due to his inability to de-escalate. Defending property (which he put in harm's way of his own volition) is not an excuse.
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  12961.  @leesaunders1930  Ask him, he seems to be the one who took a gun to a word fight. I'm assuming he reached for a gun because he's not articulate enough (like most so-called conservatives are not) to defend the way he's gotten behind a guy who checked off all 14 items on the "characteristics of fascism" list.
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  12962. He was inadvertently proving how hard it is to vote fraudulently - something which he claims (without evidence) happens all the time.
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  12963. Hitler had that same mode too. He'd tell so many lies that by the time you caught up with them the next day he was already well ahead. As the saying goes, a lie is halfway around the world by the time the truth gets its boots on.
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  12964. Explain to us please the roles of Manchin and Sinema in the simplistic scheme you're describing. Take all the time you need.
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  12965.  @jassmann1000  Probably the same extras that AH used in the background at his rallies too.
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  12966.  @wlk2408  You DO realize that people who don't own guns aren't the ones causing mass shootings, right? Or is that too big a thought for your 'mind' to handle?
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  12967.  @dmwallacenz  Remember this? "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  12968.  @rabj5641  So much wrong in what you wrote. Re " untested experimental gene therapy" specifically. For starters, it's not "gene therapy", it's a vaccine. Learn how to read, dimwit. Secondly, more people worldwide have taken it than have used Twitter. By now its risks and benefits are thoroughly known. So let's start calling twitter "experimental" and the vaccine "proven".
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  12969.  @MandyMurder  Truly, irony and introspection are not just closed books to MAGAtards, but burned and buried books as well. h/t Douglas Adams.
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  12970. @tradde11 I would love to see a Trump/Lake ticket going against DeSatan/Boebert for the RNC primaries. 😅
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  12971. No surprise to see Zuckerberg's networks helped catch dissidents abroad. Surely the Cheeto has asked them to do the same thing here.
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  12972.  @wconradjr  And surely the far MAGA right realizes that coming regret. Making it impossible for another coup to happen would be the first or second goal of the dictatorship. Historically, dictators have no qualms about eliminating the ones who made their coup possible.
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  12973. Sulking is the only thing Sweet Potato Hitler does well anyway.
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  12974.  @christinemusselman5499  Re "In fact, I do recall him and his wife" << Your memory obviously needs a little refreshing. Let me help you recall how things went down 1/20. https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712163/trumps-dismissed-ushers-before-bidens-arrival/ Clump was #1 in spitefulness but not much else.
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  12975.  @blairelikan  Most of our leaders seem to be under pressure from the screeching Karen crowd telling them to "stop the abuse". Like they somehow think their governor wants to force them to shut down just so s/he can sit in the capitol building and gloat about how tax revenues have dropped through the floor.
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  12976. People: I want to get outside! Cabin fever sucks!! Covid-19: See you outside .. I'll wait up for you.
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  12977. Boebert is the kind who spent junior high puking into her own shoes, back at mom's place in the trailer park, from too much underage drinking on a regular basis.
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  12978. There was a survey back in 2021 that claimed 4 out of 10 conservatives supported the notion of political violence. Huh. Don't suppose this is what they had in mind.
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  12979. This is all part of what Trump did for boss Putin - undo the trust that most Americans used to have in government.
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  12980. I know a bunch of people who otherwise voted a straight D ticket, but just could not bring themselves to vote for Harris because, they say, she won't be harsh enough on Israel. Thanks to them, now we have Big Orangey encouraging Israel to go full Final Solution with conquering territories that those pesky other people just happen to live on.
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  12981. Trump probably make's God's head hurt, I think that's what he meant to say.
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  12982. Republicans of all kinds looked upon Trump, noted well his racism / classism and his disdain for the rule of law, and they almost all thought, "Yeah, that's our guy."
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  12983. Deprive the Republicans of a chance to rub their brand of crazy all over an America that keeps rejecting them and their nuttiness, and they will only instead rub it all over themselves.
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  12984. Russia better have their Baghdad Bobs ready, because we have a number of Stormin' Norman types ready to roll.
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  12985. Nixon at least had the sense to bail when he realized his goose was cooked. Trump keeps vacillating between "I didn't misuse my office to get my political opponents investigated" to "everyone does this, it's no big deal", both of which fly in the face of the law and established precedence. He's ratfcked himself, and deservedly so. Inquiring minds would love to read all those other hidden transcripts.
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  12986. Who else remembers when Republicans absolutely lost their sht over Obama wearing a tan suit? Oh, those were the days.
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  12987. Poor Republicans. Hunter Biden deprived them of the chance to edit video of him in such a way as to falsify their case to the public.
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  12988. Trump saved Rispone the same way he saved Bevin - both of them in very red states - like a concrete lifejacket saves a drowning person. Heckuva job, Brownie Trump.
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  12989. He forgot to put the orange paint on his hands.
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  12990. Oh good, maybe those inbred cult members won't need long stays in the re-education camps.
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  12991.  @guillermorobledo2842  Err you might want to read up on the definition of the CFR. An example is given. If anything, the CFR is under-estimated according to current data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_fatality_rate
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  12992.  @guillermorobledo2842  Bingo. The title of the page is even "case fatality rate" to make it more obvious to people that it's a now-common term for denoting how generally fatal an infectious disease is. Refer to the original post in this thread (the one you disputed in a comment) for what we're all talking about. Even if no new cases emerged after today, the CFR would continue to go up as some of the people now infected will die.
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  12993. How anyone keeps a straight face around this fool, we'll never know. The rest of us would be busy breaking keyboards over his head, or strapping him to a chair and playing video of him saying/doing otherwise.
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  12994. Looks like the devil has come back to claim his own 🥵
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  12995.  @alexandraclement1456  Here is the event where Pence was potentially exposed. Let's hope he and Trump spend a lot of time together. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/mike-pence-dallas-megachurch-coronavirus
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  12996.  @meauxgendron3682  Or this one, who couldn't tell FOXed Noise rhetorical hyperbole from reality .. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/661183126/pipe-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-had-criminal-history-regularly-attacked-dems-onlin
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  12997.  @meauxgendron3682  Or this one. No doubt the irony of the situation totally escaped her. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-anti-lockdown-activist-stuck-inside-coronavirus-n1194591
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  12998.  @meauxgendron3682  In fact, a lot of us normal people wonder why conservatives are drawn to fake nonsense conspiracy theories like junkies to crack cocaine. https://www.businessinsider.com/alex-jones-lawyers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-was-rhetorical-hyperbole-2018-8 Perhaps, like agent Mulder for flying saucers, y'all just desperately "want to believe" that all dark skinned people really are evil, that rich white people are all good, and that it's perfectly normal for the USA to treat the rest of the wold like a disposable porta-potty?
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  12999.  @yvonnecamacho9773  And in the US these days, the coronavirus business is booming :(
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  13000. Interesting that you should mention closing the border. President Biden has been trying to make moves in that direction, but he keeps getting blocked by house Republicans who want to use the issue as a dead thing to hang around his neck to point at how bad it is. Perhaps if their love of country exceeded their wish to score cheap points at the expense of the country, this problem wouldn't be so bad.
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  13001. Virus cases in North Carolina are rising even faster than in some states that have re-opened. So clearly they've got some segment of their population that's totally disregarding the public health recommendations. What the absolute F? Crushing the virus spread rate (like NY and Mass are doing) is how you reopen sooner, not by ignoring the danger.
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  13002. There's not much left connecting Republicans to any kind of objective reality .. just a single thin rubber band that's too stretched already. What happens when it snaps?
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  13003. Trump is repulsively negative enough that he has lost two popular elections in a row, but, somehow, those same negative qualities are like cult-follower magic mushroom sauce to the people who spent 8 long years chanting that Obama was violating the constitution even if they didn't know or couldn't explain how. And Fox News has spent more than a decade telling the fools how great Trump supposedly is.
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  13004. There are already positive cases related to the Lake of the Ozarks stand-in-other-folks-urine pool party that made the news: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/ozarks-missouri-party-coronavirus/index.html
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  13005. Has anyone told the Republicans that the daily stock market gains didn't help any of the 1,386 Americans who died yesterday (of covid) or their surviving family members?
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  13006. The trouble is, as we saw in NYC during the spring, when too many people get infected within too short a time window, hospitals are overwhelmed and that causes the death rate to rise sharply. So if we had even 95% consistent mask use and distancing, the disease would still spread, but much more slowly.
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  13007.  @swampfox4489  Big restaurants and small restaurants alike are closed for indoors dining.
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  13008.  @swampfox4489  Oh wait. Are you trying to claim that small businesses and large businesses should have different standards for how clean the environment should be inside the stores, how circulated and filtered the air needs to be? Because there's a frigging disease going around (in case you had not heard) and yesterday we lost more Americans than we did during the 9/11 attacks.
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  13009.  @alexanderthomas9458  OK, but as part of the deal you'd have to send that whacktard Matt Shea to Idaho. No doubt there's some fringe religious cult compound where he'd be more at home. This guy: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/matt-shea-christian-terrorism-washington-report-ammon-bundy.html
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  13010. One of the key differences between the US and China is that many in the US power structure keep trying to roll things back to a simpler, 1950s-esque Norman Rockwell type past (with all the goodies of modern technology, of course, but without the high marginal tax rates that made American prosperity more widespread) and China is rolling right ahead towards the future. Clean cities, high speed rail, public healthcare and education, STEM education, using science to improve things instead of trashing science, etc. The US is basically still a buggywhip manufacturer in those ways :(
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  13011.  @CommonSense-nh4cn  My view has been informed by a number of friends who travel regularly to China on business, also to Europe. I hear of the things they have there - networks of clean high-speed trains that go everywhere - clean cities - modern, well-maintained infrastructure - strong public healthcare systems - robust business communities - and way more. Meanwhile here in the US .. :(
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  13012.  @lisadiane10001  That's perfectly OK. The fact that you would post such a denial of the obvious is a perfectly good afternoon laugh for me. You're hardly the first person I've run into who insists that up is down, left is right, war is peace, and slavery is freedom. America is the #1 producer of people like that these days.
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  13013.  @lisadiane10001  Over in Europe, if you want to fly from Berlin to Warsaw, you just buy a ticket from a credit card kiosk machine and get on the plane. Over here, we're still taking off our shoes and putting them in plastic buckets. It's not just the business sector, it's the entire public sector over there that enjoys fast clean cheap transit and healthcare and many other things.
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  13014. The "hire court" is hedging its bets against the next coup attempt, basically .. and how to ingratiate themselves with the new Fuhrer :(
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  13015.  @davebrown9725  Trump also thinks that no one has any memories .. that no one reads the news from other places .. that recording devices don't exist .. that the internet isn't there. He lives in a bubble that's only 2 minutes long - that's about how long he can remember his own lies.
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  13016.  @paulporter6668  Trump is the pied piper whose 15 minutes of fame have lasted too long .. and it's time for him to lead his lemmings to the nearest cliff.
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  13017.  @AIAudiobooks411  He's not going to certify the win if it's not his cult leader - and the cult leader is not going to win - so then the Supremes are going to do something. Guess which way they flap? :(
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  13018. What really frightens me is that the Trumpies would so casually plunge the country into Haiti-grade internal strife .. all to please the whim of the angry spiteful nutball who lost the election.
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  13019. On the plus side, vacation homes in Georgia will be had cheaply after this is all over. And Georgia will get more blue with the newcomers moving there afterwards.
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  13020. Trump likened the Jacob Blake shooting to a golfer making a mistake under pressure. But the difference between a police officer shooting a Black man and a golf pro flubbing a tournament is that the latter doesn't fantasize about it or share memes about it or join private FB groups that glorify it.
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  13021. A court in Colorado found 45 to be guilty of insurrection. He's got no business having his name on ballot.
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  13022. Dear God, if I never again hear about that pro-authoritarian nutter Dershowitz, the day couldn't come too soon. He was DESPICABLE during the impeachment last year. He essentially said, yeah, Trump did extort Ukraine for personal political gain, but it's magically OK because he's president. He's an enemy of democracy.
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  13023. Bolton gets +10 points for this, but -200 points for waiting until the country is on fire before saying these things. It was clear years ago that long-time con man Wussolini would be not be just a failure, but a total disaster as president.
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  13024. Georgia is all the way down in the G's. Wonder how far he got through the white house rolodex before we heard about it?
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  13025. 45 and his ilk cannot win without cheating, and they know it. All their attempts to "audit elections" or "inspect ballots" or "verify ballots" are just a thin cover for flipping votes to the guy who lost both the 2016 and 2020 popular votes. What she's proposing is illegal.
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  13026. Let's all take a moment to offer Mr PizzaGaetz some thoughts and prayers. Was he by chance a frequent flyer at Epstein's island?
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  13027. Any guesses how many Confederate states are going to try the fake-electors thing again when Drumpf loses the popular vote for the third time?
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  13028. It would be more correct to call Trumpism a death cult, although for sure Hair Fuhrer will be in deep trouble when the ICC gets onto the involuntary sterilization of some Hispanics and presumably the involuntary incineration of others.
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  13029.  @timc6245  Only the kind who are easily turned anyway. In Europe they call that type "Quislings" and for good reason.
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  13030.  @mikeorfe1188  You should ask the people in Haiti how much they like it. Or Somalia. Funny how they all try to move far away from that kind of violence - which won't spare anyone, including you and yours. Don't believe me? Read up on accounts of any civil war.
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  13031.  @mikeorfe1188  That's the thing. It's not just you, me, your children, everyone we know. It's a generation or more to follow. All because some vain fool couldn't admit that he lost the election, and instead motivated America's dumbest to torch their own nation.
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  13032.  @gherieg.1091  You can read for yourself qho the Quislings were, who they worked for, what they tried to do. If you can't pick up a book, at least try Wikipedia.
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  13033.  @gherieg.1091  Yes. Vikdun Quisling was hanged after the war. He worked for a foreign power intent on doing away with Norway's democracy. Quisling's relationship with Nazi Germany was far more direct and official than Trump's relationships with America's various enemies (Russia and North Korea most obviously) who must have been thrilled at Trump's work to dismantle our democracy from within.
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  13034.  @gherieg.1091  Sorry, friend (?), it's you who is complicating the simpleness that Trump is. Just imagine someone so vain, so spoiled, so ensconced in privelege, that they honestly believe the world revolves around them. That's Trump. And his many negative characteristics are what make him irresistible to the crazier conservatives.
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  13035.  @gherieg.1091  Ever hear of Occam's Razor? Probably not, judging from your disbelief that someone else might figure out something you did not. Given the way Trump has been a shallow, narcissistic bully his entire life, which of the two is more likely: A) He honestly thought that "he alone could fix America" (despite knowing little to nothing about how government works) and, like Elon at Twitter, just kept fucking things up. Like an ape trying to "fix" a car engine by pulling off pieces he doesn't even understand the function of. B) Trump suddenly changed his lifelong raging egoism, suddenly developed the ability to hold his tongue, and decided against all character to help the party that wants to tax billionaires more?
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  13036.  @gherieg.1091  You may wish to read history (and the news) once in awhile. A "boom" was artificially created 2017-2020 by incurring additional debt to America's future. Nazi Germany ran their finances the same way. Eventually the debts came due. It is always this way with Republican presidents. They run up enormous deficits, then point to the incoming Democrats and ask, "Where did this debt come from?" like it fell out of the sky or something.
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  13037. There was an article about 45 years ago .. the title was something like, "I study liars, and I've never seen one like Trump." His personal specialty is hurtful lies for no reason at all other than to be a chaos agent. Lies that break up marriages or countries alike .. lies that break the minds of gullible people.
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  13038. In other news .. Karma makes housecalls :)
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  13039. LOL. The same fool who in THREE YEARS did not inspect the strategic health supplies reserve (he went on to blame this on Obama) is expecting us to believe this whopper about how he just happened to be "inspecting" a bunker right when protests were raging outside? And it was just coincidence that the white house exterior lights got shut off right then, like neighbors too cheap to put candy out on Halloween? Pull the other one, Cheeto Wussolini!
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  13040. Some say there is a need to forgive and forget, but no, we must not let any Trump supporter/enabler forget that millions of Americans will lose their lives all because Trump was more concerned about letting the virus numbers make him look bad in the 2020 elections.
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  13041. @Bo Bo Bo Hopefully. Got a problem with that? The dark ages are calling you.
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  13042. @Bo Bo Bo If you advertise to the public that you will paint all nudes, then that is what you will do. Are you attempting to imply that the website design (which this Kim Davis refuses to do) is all about gay nudes?
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  13043.  @MISTER23G02xx  When you say ""rainbow terrorist" you can forget about anyone taking you seriously anymore. Have a good day.
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  13044. The funniest one? The few bits of "big, beautiful, new wall" built can be defeated by a $100 cordless tool that's available everywhere: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/smugglers-usd100-hardware-store-power-tools-saw-holes-in-trumps-usd10-billion-wall.html
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  13045.  @chloe-stephlis6281  Yes, I know. Referring to her as 'Scari' instead of 'Kari' was deliberate. And it is indeed scary when the election loser goes full Tr🦨mp.
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  13046. The pro-rape pro-incest types certainly are whooping it up :(
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  13047. Ignore the whackjob protesters, roll out the vaccine passports. We're not going to stop the virus if we let people use the honor system to decide where to go and whether to mask up.
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  13048. I just hope your leaders can do it the way Scotland said .. just refer to him as "the convicted felon" instead of "the American president". That fool needs to hear it from everyone.
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  13049.  @3michael919  Oh, but the Fox News Faithful (tm) are convinced that Portland has burned to the ground. Even if they haven't seen it. But then, if they were more discriminating when it comes to information intake, they wouldn't be Trump followers, would they?
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  13050. Republicans spend all their time deep in the rabbit hole, telling each other (and themselves) batsh!t lies of that nature. Time to toss a few gopher gassers down the hole. Maybe someday they will be rational people and proper citizens again, maybe with a lot of therapy and medication.
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  13051. He won't. But take note of who still supports him. Those folks, you gotta keep eyes on them. Another cult-leading 5th-columnist will come along some other time.
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  13052. It would be even more accurate to say that the "extreme risk" counties are the ones where covid case rates are rising the fastest. Any given county could be 40% vaccinated, yet still have a bunch of fools whose activities only serve to make the virus numbers worse.
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  13053.  @alanmalcheski8882  Regarding "Lol keep blaming average people" - they're the ones refusing to mask, refusing to get vaccine, so, yes, they in fact ARE the ones doing this. What part of that is too much for you to understand? Unsafe human contact is what spreads this thing, not magic.
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  13054.  @alanmalcheski8882  I'm not special. But I do get tired of explaining simple things to people who are dumber than boxes of hammers or rocks. FFS. It's been known since before Thanksgiving 2019 that this virus spreads via human contact.
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  13055.  @alanmalcheski8882  If we had let the virus work its magic without interference, what would have happened everywhere is what's happening in India now. You really ought to read the news once in awhile so you can know these things. It would have been the single largest mass casualty event in US history. Anyway, Oregon is now in the bottom 3 states for covid cases, for which you can thank leaders such as governor Brown who had the stones to do what needed to be done.
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  13056.  @djackson4605  Wrong yet again, dummy. Plenty of average people are capable of following the news. Unfortunately we're cursed with an abundance of people who either can't or won't pay attention to the news and the public health recommendations.
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  13057. This is even better than Four Seasons Landscaping.
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  13058. So .. does that make most Republicans "never-Obama'ers"? Most of us recall how they said they were going to impeach him (they tried 13x, and over the dumbest excuses), they vowed to make him a one-term president, they yelled "you lie" during a SOTU, they endlessly investigated him (and found nothing), the blocked his nominees to a degree never seen before in American history, and so on.
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  13059. All I wish is that the site is redecorated to show the Russian translation of its name: Pravda. No doubt boss Putin suggested it. He may have also suggested renaming FOX as TASS.
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  13060. Barr was complicit in Trump's misrepresentation of the findings of the Mueller investigation.
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  13061.  @uniquelylily1166  Could be Ginni Thomas too. Or one of the congresscritters who asked for a pardon. If so, I'm betting on Mo Brooks.
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  13062. Putin is every bit the "genius" that his buddy Trump is 😅
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  13063.  @coin9007  Those other countries aren't fighting .. they are instead sending just the small amounts of material support necessary to keep Putler's forces engaged and tied down while NATO accepts new members. If those other countries were actually fighting, this would have been over awhile ago. Putler should be lucky that we don't send Ukraine a couple container loads of cruise missiles.
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  13064. Republicans have long been in that sorry state of hating their political opposition more than they love their own country. They are useful idiots to the likes of Putin & Murdoch.
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  13065. Until this whole thing went down, I never realized what a satisfying pleasure it is to hear of the FBI swooping down on those s-bag traitors who want to turn America into a mess like Haiti. Like their orange cult leader said - remember the good old days when we used to treat spies and traitors the way they deserve?
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  13066.  @bigboy8421  The fact that Biden is capable of showing compassion for others isn't the huge negative that you imagine it to be.
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  13067. She is suffering from the same thing all Trump apologists do. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had. And when he's done with them, he fires them on Twitter. But not until he's made them use up their credibility.
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  13068. I've been assuming that mostly nonsensical trouble will happen. From the point of view of these insurgents, it will be as every part and every arm of America is working against their orange god (whose election lies they believe) and thus all are guilty. So they'll be mad at courts for not overturning the vote results in Trump's favor; mad at the USPS for delivering all those supposedly illegal ballots to be counted; mad at police for not joining them in the DC insurrection; mad at the FBI for snatching their comrades; mad at all the governors who they feel must be in on the vast conspiracy of election results; and so on. At this point they're almost indistinguishable from an American Taliban.
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  13069. Like Hitler youth in a wheelchair.
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  13070. Something about Trump's dark circus stirs their soul, and they ache for it when it is absent. They cheer at the thought of concentration camps and dictatorship.
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  13071. @Salt Cube As far as I know, the current impeachment inquiry did not begin until house speaker Pelosi started it rolling September 24, 2019. Show me the citation for the attempted removal of Trump beginning earlier than that.
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  13072. @Salt Cube So you can't point to any actual previous attempts to remove Trump, can you? I mean, where and when did people meet to discuss removing the president and how? This "Russiagate" thing is not even as big a hoopla as all those endless Benghazi investigations were. Got anything more substantial than that?
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  13073. @Salt Cube The Mueller probe (which you're referring to as Russiagate) was not an impeachment, nor was it tasked with removing the president. Does this help clarify things?
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  13074. @passurlamerPerhaps there's some other place Putin wants to invade preemptively to keep them from drifting closer to the west?
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  13075. As the quote goes, "A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." Thus we allow Dump (and Tucker Carlson, Faux, and many others) to spout incendiary lies because letting the country burn down is somehow a lesser evil than depriving an obvious arsonist of their "freedom" to burn down the country. SMH
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  13076.  @davidweyant9356  I take heart from what happened in Idaho in June-2022 when some 'Patriot' Front yoyos planned to disrupt a Pride event. Some quick-thinking citizen noticed the 31 dudes (white supremacist scumbags) in a U-haul, dressed identically, with riot gear, and called for the law. In a just future, people like that would be dogpiled anytime they dare to show their faces in public.Just like what happens on airlines when someone tries to hijack.
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  13077. I hate to point this out, but so far testing is proving to be of very limited use. It was revealed yesterday that the time of greatest communicability is in the first 3-5 days of incubation, which is well before any signs start to show. Those mushrooming positive-test numbers in S Korea are lagging perhaps 10 days or more behind the actual spread of the disease - that is, if you could freeze this moment in time and methodically test everyone in the country. Many are not showing symptoms yet but are in fact infected already, they just don't know it yet and would test negative for it at the current moment.
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  13078.  @oorwullie9229  Don't laugh please but I have been using the wholly-innappropriate term "clever" to refer to this virus. When it is operating in a confined environment (such as aboard the quarantined cruise ships) it produces a higher percentage of asymptomatic carriers who, once they escape into the general population, suddenly go from testing negative to testing positive, but only after they've infected other new hosts. It hides so well in apparently healthy people. From a news report yesterday we learned that the greatest virus shedding occurs in the first 3-5 days of incubation, which is before symptoms even begin to show. SARS was much slower-moving by comparison.
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  13079.  @orionsimerl6539  When the guilty party gets to hide the evidence against himself, it's not a trial, and it's not an acquittal either. It's a joke. Above 75% of Americans wanted evidence and witnesses just for that reason - and they will never view the senate proceedings as anything other than a complete sham.
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  13080.  @orionsimerl6539  Speak for yourself when it comes to having very limited understanding. Let me try an analogy which even you may be able to understand. Suppose you are driving erratically. You get pulled over by police. They want to run a blood-alcohol test. You refuse. Does your withholding of the evidence a) prove your guilt or b) prove your innocence, since the cops don't know your exact BAC? Hint: you get a free ride to the police station.
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  13081.  @orionsimerl6539  I'm sorry you cannot acknowledge that the blanket withholding of the most direct witnesses & documentary evidence will cement Trump's guilt in the mind of the public, no matter what label the rubber-stamp Reischtag (or senate) slaps on it.
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  13082. @Zed Wolf, guess it's becoming the Peoples Democratic Republic of Trumpistan.
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  13083.  @orionsimerl6539  Mmm, sounds like it's gnawing away at you that in the court of public opinion, Trump and his quislings just did the worst possible thing by going along with his sham of hiding evidence and claiming it's OK to do that.
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  13084. Quite possibly that is the /only/ reason. Or they will wait on that until half an hour before a Republican president-elect takes the oath of office.
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  13085. John Kelly sounds like some muddled Nazis on trial at Nuremburg, who struggled to explain later exactly how and why they went along with the program.
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  13086. Great video & thanks for sharing. That thing about the buses .. sounds like Gosplan did its work all too well. There weren't excess buses available that would allow them to trash the units used for the evacuation of Pripyat and the surrounding area. Over here in the US, the common notion is that central state planners were clueless and flying blind, but surely there must have been some pretty good data people crunching the numbers to run such a large republic.
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  13087.  @joyfisher8008  "Really? who developed the vaccines you claim will save the world?" << Must I explain to you how to use a search engine? If you need help, google the topic "how to use google". You're going to have to pay me to tell you stuff you should be able to figure out on your own.
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  13088.  @dominicsteward5595  "oh, so covid-19 is a seasonal virus?" << Lamest attempt ever to put words into someone's mouth that they didn't even say. Cases were going up during the same time period in other places. Here's some light reading if you need more about how India misinterpreted the data on falling levels of new cases: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56977653
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  13089.  @covidfatalityrateinunder7076  With that blithe "The virus has an overall infection fatality rate of 0.15%" you are as wrong as a person can be without speaking backwards while sitting in a bathtub full of snakes. The case fatality rate here in the US has gone down from 16% (at the beginning of the pandemic, when only sick people were tested) to around 2% now that we've been testing suspected cases for months. See the box "closed cases" The virus has an overall infection fatality rate of 0.15%
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  13090. No doubt Sweet Potato Hitler is pacing all over his command bunker, wondering out loud about how supposedly-sleepy Joe can be getting any votes at all if the ad doesn't appeal to people's most negative emotions. Dump has never once appealed to people's better selves - not surprisingly, since he hasn't got one himself.
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  13091.  @StuntpilootStef  Oh, that's right, Trump's mini-me Balsonaro is out there denying the severity of this thing just like Trump is doing. Sad.
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  13092.  @justanotheropinion5832  Re "They know he’s evil and they love it." << Bingo. Trump knows how to reach out to the people who harbor persecution complexes, distrust of authority, hate, rage, spite, white trashiness, and other latent psychoses.
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  13093. Kind of the way he grades the appearance of others, even though he's a gross walrus basically. No insult meant to walruses of course.
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  13094. Let's all wish that person good luck with their medical bills, if they survive Delta that is.
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  13095. Unsurprisingly, nearly all extremist killing in the US are committed by right-wingers. Or is it reich-wingers? https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  13096. At times like this, it seems pertinent to repost this old-but-good 2017 article on the dude keeping the president's char warm while we wait for a functioning adult: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-study-liars-ive-never-seen-one-like-president-trump/2017/12/07/4e529efe-da3f-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
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  13097.  @GodIsLove-eo6qk  You must be thinking of George W Bush and Donald Trump, who own the top two spots for adding the most to the federal debt. Better rub some copium on that TDS before it gets out of control, dude[ette].
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  13098.  @GodIsLove-eo6qk  About Af'stan - seems you have already forgotten how Trump set the withdrawal in motion, then did nothing, leaving a ticking mess for the next president to inherit with only a few months left on the clock. But you are still allergic to facts, apparently :(
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  13099.  @GodIsLove-eo6qk  Oh, you must be referring to the "deal" that Trump & Kushner made with the Taliban. Like all their other "deals", it completely excluded some of the major parties involved, which in this case were a) the Afghanistan government of the time, and b) the people of Afghanistan.
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  13100.  @GodIsLove-eo6qk  If by "destroying the country" you mean the strongest job creation numbers in 50 years, bring it on. President Joe is your president too, even if you're too dumb to notice he's working for you as well.
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  13101. We are all familiar with how the 2A and/or militia crowds say that their whole reason for having arms is to fight against a future hypothetical tyrannical government. Yet when crunch time came, they were in support of the tyrant.
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  13102. Maybe that pasty South African yachtzee boy should have thought harder before he destroyed the livelihoods, healthcare, and retirement benefits of hundreds of thousands of Americans! Put on the waffle stompers, show him how Americans feel ;)
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  13103. Did everyone see that clip of Dump going full nutty with those two children nearby? Their uncomfortable looks as he went full cray cray on camera? One of them had the sense to get away. Can't believe any parent would let their little girl near a convicted sexual predator who used to hang with Jeffrey Epstein and who has a thing for jailbait.
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  13104.  @peacefuljourney4994  Does the constitution protect people from lynch mobs? I recall some Trump cultists with a gallows and noose, right on the Capitol grounds, screaming "Hang Mike Pence!" And it doesn't seem to have protected the many Black Americans who got lynched across the south.
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  13105. Some reporter asked Eastman if Kamala Harris could pick Joe Biden's successor. He said, "Of course not." So he knows damn well what the law is, but he's willing to break it for the sake of the marmalade menace. Got it.
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  13106.  Bartholomew Henry  Considering that Trump supporters and red-state folks are suffering disproportionally from the effects of Trump's policies, I find it easiest to understand them through the Stockholm Syndrome - they're like that battered girlfriend who thinks he loves her because he says all the right racist, ignorant, anti-science, anti-establishment things (even when he IS the establishment, LOL) and it makes them think he's one of them.
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  13107. Clearly some of the secret service were in on it. Like the ones waiting to take Pence to a "final solution".
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  13108. He did complain at least once that he felt hindered by the Constitution.
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  13109. So much good news this week. Karma makes housecalls, then the undertaker makes housecalls, and it turns out there's a cure for stupidity after all.
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  13110. Putin must be very pleased!! Finally he's found some useful idiots over here to screw up the country from within.
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  13111. America's greatest generation didn't vote for fascists .. they cleaned their clocks instead. And calendars.
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  13112. Glad she saw right through that. He'd praise her - for 10 minutes - then stab her in the back as soon as her usefulness was over. Just like he did with his own followers who stormed the capitol. None of them got the pardons they were expecting.
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  13113. Fantastic video. Extremely interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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  13114. It honestly gives me the creepies to see you standing with your back to a pool of muddy water in that place. Feel free to throw something in that goes 'boom'.
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  13115. You know who Pompeo reminds me of? Ribbentrop, who was foreign minister of Nazi Germany 1938-1945. Pompeo has the same smug style of telling obvious lies, and when he's caught in his own lies he reacts just as Ribbentrop did. Occasionally his act falls apart. Interesting fact: before becoming foreign minister, Ribbentrop was a champagne salesman, which initially helped him get access to the high-and-mighty in Germany who initially financed the upstart Nazi party.
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  13116. Given the way the reich-wingers are convulsing right now, one imagines there was some pretty good dirt stored in Jeffrey Clark's electronics. Presumably he and Trump had some discussions on how the power of law could be used to identify everyone who didn't support Trump .. and maybe they even wrote up lists of who needed to be disappeared after the coup.
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  13117. Don't worry, the conservative-leaning justices can change their minds very quickly when the criminals are not themselves conservative. Someone takes a dump on a police car? Treason!
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  13118. Here's one of my favorite quotes from senator Romney: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  13119. All of the west stands with Ukraine. Putler's attempted takeover of your nation is not going to happen on our shift.
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  13120. It is indeed mad. Russia is the sort of place that people try to get away from, not the kind of place anyone wants to go to. Except maybe for tourism. Russia isn't worth much now, but it would be worth even less all glassed over and glowing.
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  13121. Easy fix. Biden, along with Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shumer, and AOC, need to put out a PSA. Look both ways before crossing the street. Wear a mask if anyone else is around. Get vaccinated against covid. Wear your seat belts. Breathe oxygen. Put this PSA everywhere, then wait a month for things to fix themselves.
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  13122. Like covid, there will eventually be an end to the Trump pandemic. He and everyone who revolts on his behalf can all do their time in jail. There's enough room in the big house for them all.
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  13123. Omfg. That sly grin on his face when she said he said he would weaponize the DOJ against his political opponents. His lust for power was very in the open just then.
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  13124. Russian oligarchs are a strange bunch. They like to be able to send their kids to school in the west, and they like their pricey enclaves in Florida and Dubai and the Cote d"Azur .. but at home they spit vitriol about "the decadent west" and that BS myth that they're being "surrounded". Huh.
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  13125. Children of 14 working in arms factories. Inducing Switzerland to abandon its famed neutrality when it comes to Russia attacking Ukraine. Making every former Soviet republic suddenly interested in joining NATO, now that Russia has shown that its word on a treaty means less than a bowl of festering dog snot.
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  13126.  @ray24051  FakeBook sometimes does have a problem when people post misleading content - although, in Trump's place, he exhibits so much reprehensible behavior that reporting factually about him is usually all that's required. Plus it gets his nutters so offended.
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  13127. Here in the USA, the Vietnam war took 17+ years to kill half as many Americans as the virus has killed in just 5 months. Republicans have gone from screeching about government "death panels" to pushing senior citizens into the incinerator to save the economy.
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  13128.  @r563  Funny you should mention the word "ignorance". The city of Kyiv was founded in the year 482, back when Moscow was still a smelly swamp. Back at you.
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  13129.  @KieranMullen  Oh look at the whiny breeders speaking up. Ain't that special. They're providing a reminder of why the phrase is "lowest common denominator" instead of "highest common denominator".
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  13130.  @sharontaylor480  Bingo. And they may not wait for the election to roll around. Pay close attention to the Supremes. They are in on it.
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  13131. I'm not above telling Trump's people to sit this one out (on the fiction that the election is rigged anyway) in the same way that sea is not above the sky.
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  13132.  @elmersglue6259  "Since some Republican candidates are saying if they lose, then it must be fraud." fixed it for you
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  13133.  @NesQuik2258  Sounds like you're the one who doesn't watch the whole thing. Thanks for the free amusement ;)
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  13134. The US has just learned why most national capitols around the world are protected by active military forces. The kind who would, say, roll out belt-fed 50s for occasions like that.
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  13135.  @MrJamberee  Lies have consequences. Mr Jones is about to get a lesson in that. As should anyone who has trouble with the concept.
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  13136. Just make sure everyone votes and that you do too. Don't sit this one out. We have a duty to flush the turds, all of them.
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  13137. So .. who are the Republicans going to impeach over this? That seems to be their goto move recently when they cause themselves problems.
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  13138. That is roughly what Tr*mp would preside over anyway - chaos.
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  13139. Remember back when every day was like this? Fauci: “Donald, more than 12,000 people have died from coronavirus in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “That's a nasty question. I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  13140. Trump has needed predetermined crowds for awhile now. The last two times he appeared before unvetted crowds (one was in Madison Square Garden) he was loudly booed as soon as his ugly mug showed on the jumbotron. And it hurt his tender little feelings.
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  13141. FOXed Noise has a lawsuit pending about their repetition of Trump's election lies. Dominion may well end up owning them.
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  13142. Quite possibly someone in the Trump white house was relaying info as to where Pence was hiding or where the legislators were at the time. Also checking to make sure that the gallows were waiting for Pence.
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  13143. Err, it sounds like this particular "hire court" (just ask Harlan Crow) wants to do away with the republic entirely.
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  13144. Here comes the gag order from on high - now CDC has to clear stuff with know-nothing Pence first??? What a sick joke :( The USA is officially crazy now. This will only make things much, much worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html
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  13145. Haven't used that Microsoft garbage since I left windoze 98. It was crappy then, it's still crappy now.
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  13146. Is Jacob Chanslee (formerly "the Q Shaman") still upset about the prison not accommodating his meal wishes?
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  13147. The same zeal that Trump put into building walls would have probably gone into building concentration camps for his critics in a second term. Totally chilling.
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  13148.  @baileygregg6567  You lost me on the fires part. Explain please?
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  13149.  @baileygregg6567  Folks who call other folks "animals" have already been convinced of an absurdity .. and it follows that it's not hard to get them to commit atrocities. Watching Trump bring out the hitherto-hidden cultist in certain Americans has convinced me of why the US used to have a large network of mental hospitals.
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  13150.  @abelgonzales3695  Who says the superspreader-in-chief had anything to do with your buildings still standing? The infrastructure bill he keeps promising has never been seen, even in draft form. I mean, you're talking about a guy who couldn't even run a casino.
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  13151.  @abelgonzales3695  Err, so you're calling it ignorant to point out the fallacy of folks commenting on places they've never been to? Hmm well OK, thanks for illustrating that you were probably dropped on your head a few times as a child. Your brain thingie isn't working that well.
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  13152.  @whoppergoldstein5308  Whose folks are fleeing to whose neighborhoods now? Got any news references so I can see what you're seeing?
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  13153. Republicans don't seem to care about those rules now. But if a democrat president was making appointments, Republicans would be calling for full senate confirmation hearings.
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  13154. Apparently MAGA Mike thinks it's his job duty to make the make the US dysfunctional - so he and his fam can Rapture sooner maybe?
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  13155. The sad part is that Putin's fan club could be present when president Zelinskyy asks to join EU, yet all they would do is run around screeching that the EU is forcing Ukraine to join. Force is Putin's game. They don't see anything in other than those terms.
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  13156. Making our country look bad (to us, to everyone) is but part of Trump's mission as a chaos agent directed by the Kremlin. And Putin is happy to leave America a fractured, Balkanized mess in Trump's wake.
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  13157. When people wreck the environment, staff the government with cronies, exacerbate inequality, put toddlers into cages, separate families, cause humanitarian disasters, destabilize the world economy, trash the country's diplomatic net worth, etc, their "legacy" is to be ranked among despots, dictators, serial child molesters, serial killers, etc. Enjoy it, Trump, you've earned it.
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  13158. What Trump is essentially admitting to is that he and the GOP think they have a lot to gain from the chaos of an uncontrolled pandemic.
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  13159. The reich wing militias have been training harder for it this time. Given that they're so intent on experiencing a bloody, undemocratic country, couldn't they just move to Haiti or Somalia instead of dragging the rest of us into their sick LARP fantasies?
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  13160. Funny how Graham voted for the tax cuts for the wealthiest, a program that had far worse effects on the US than the cost of the infrastructure bill.
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  13161. In nearly any country, an attempted coup by the election loser would have been dealt with swiftly and pretty harshly. A lot of people would have been burning their red hats to avoid "going through some things".
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  13162. Clearly there are some GOP nutters as governors. If they would do this, what else might they do? If some foreign enemy sends soldiers to attack Houston, would Abbott put some of them on a bus to Massachusetts out of spite?
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  13163. Perhaps we should think about finding better employment opportunities for this type of conservative? Things like pushing brooms or doing laundry under tight adult supervision. Perhaps hoeing fields under tight supervision. Obviously, when given the chance, they have no issues with canceling our 240+ year old democracy just to please the whim of one old cranky serial liar.
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  13164. Ah, the irony of the GOP being forced to bear an unwanted, perhaps brain-dead candidate to term.
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  13165. Just wait until investigators find a copy of the memo from Stephen Miller where he talks about the disappeared parents only to mention that it would be good to mix their ashes in with the concrete of the new border wall.
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  13166. Racists are still mad that Lincoln liberated their farm equipment :(
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  13167.  Warrior Tactical extended loop  Have some cheese with that whine.
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  13168. The accusations of "RINO!", as well as the threats from Trump's unofficial brownshirts, will soon be coming the way of whoever added their names to those amicus briefs. Just as soon as tinyhands can type them out on the phone.
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  13169. No doubt the next few years will be full of news about laws that Trump was breaking. His crookedness was so obvious you could see it from orbit.
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  13170.  @bobbyharper8710  Why look for the most complicated, unprovable excuse? Healthcare quality in the US is among the lowest in the developed world. Heck, as of yesterday, Italy had a rate of 1829 cases per million while NY state had 4313 per million. By the end of today it will be closer to 5000 per million if not beyond that.
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  13171. Republicans are offended that a nothingburger story (editors deciding not to run a piece that was fake news to begin with) isn't getting the eyeball share they were hoping for. Among their cultists, they are, but that's it.
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  13172.  @henrymanzano2201  As much as it may be their problem to keep electing the right-wingers who help make them poor and uneducated and unhealthy .. they also have this bumpkin-reverie fantasy of driving into the cities (in their huge smoky trucks of course) and shooting at BLM/Antifa .. or somehow taking out power lines or other infrastructure. This has influenced my decision to live in the Blue Wall area.
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  13173. Nice numbers post .. thank you for sharing. America has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, so I am fully expecting us to serve as an example to to the rest of the world about how not to do a pandemic. Trump was just bragging that the US has tested 1 million already. We're nearly 3 months into the spread of this disease in the USA, and that represents just 0.306% of the US population of 327 million. The number of actual infections in the USA is probably well over 2 million by now, but without testing everyone we'll never know until the ER's everywhere are full. It's coming. Check out Dougherty County outside Albany, GA for a preview of what everyplace in the USA will have experienced by September/October. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-funeral-albany-georgia.html
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  13174. Correct, Trump is a malignant cancer on the body politic.
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  13175. So Trump went on TV the other day to tell his followers not to cause any trouble. Unfortunately, he did nothing to address their putative cause for violence, which was the lies he made (that many others then amplified) about the results and the integrity of the election. It was as if he temporarily stopped throwing matches, but left the gasoline hose running.
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  13176. Cult members aren't even human when they're still in their cult coma. Check out the first court appearance of Leslie Van Houten (Manson Family cultist, doing life for murder) and all the crazy stuff she said in front of the court. It wasn't until well after her second trial that she began to realize that she was not in fact living in the cult delusion.
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  13177. Just do it. Trump is the dumbest, most shallow excuse of a human being on the planet. The ugliest American ever. And, weirdly, there's a whole major political party that somehow loves him for his negative qualities.
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  13178. Trump had one of the rapid testing machines installed at the white supremacist house. Anyone coming in is required to be tested. His attitude is about what you would expect from someone who lives in a castle but tells everyone else they don't need walls, gates, or a moat.
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  13179.  @marcuscleghorne4793  It was a metaphor, silly. Trump is telling everyone to go about their biz as normal, even while he has everyone tested before they can get near him. I don't suppose he's buying a rapid testing machine for every home and business in America?
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  13180. Nothing proclaims innocence like bragging to the world that you're holding all the incriminating evidence against yourself. He just can't help himself :( Oh and FYI in case it's not obvious, he's going to be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally insufferable if Moscow Mitch succeeds in getting him off scot-free. If you're a member of a visible minority, that would be a good time to go underground, because you can bet his MAGA hatters will be out there committing all kinds of bias crimes.
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  13181. And that's why friends don't let friends take FOXed Entertainment to be "news".
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  13182. I don't want to know what the basement is like.
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  13183. He helped make nuclear weapons proliferation worse by withdrawing from strategic arms limitation treaties, by setting Iran free from the JCPOA, and by enabling NK to restart its weapons program and develop better delivery systems. What the absolute fck?
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  13184. Face it, Trump's time as a cult leader was always going to end this way.
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  13185. And now we know that 42% of America are the dummies that follow the latest reverend Jim Jones (in his incarnation as Trump) right to the tainted Kool Aid.
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  13186. I bet the biggest thing they're afraid of is .. which one of them gets to explain to Putin how they failed him.
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  13187.  ali bazzi  See if you can guess what state went from 935 cases/M on April 1st to 3,214 cases/M on April 20th. NY, CA, FL, or MI? Ding ding ding, it was Michigan. What "numbers" do you imagine are going down, besides your 401K that is? Edit: over the same time span, Michigan's coronavirus death rate went from 34 per million to 248 per million. It's more dangerous now than it was when your really-poorly-done "lockdown" began.
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  13188.  Mark Sturdivant  Where are you getting those "numbers" from? According to worldometers and every other data source, the case rate in Michigan has nearly quadrupled from April 1 to April 20. D'you think this virus is just going to disappear because y'all Qaida got a little cabin fever?
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  13189.  @outrageddeer2101  Thank you for mentioning the land of enchantment. Cases there have gone from 173/million on April 1 to 942/million on April 20, with the most recent week-over-week doubling time of 12.706 days. If current rates of spread continue as is, that means NM will reach 100% infection ~20 weeks from now and 10% in ~13 weeks. By the time of the last few doublings, there will be more than 500,000 new infection cases per week.
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  13190.  @outrageddeer2101  I would love to see some evidence that the virus doesn't spread in rural areas, but so far all the evidence seems to indicate that it will spread in groups of 2+ people. Doesn't matter if they walk past each other on a NYC sidewalk or if they're sitting 2 seats away at the counter in the local diner. I am tracking a couple states on county level, and unfortunately the virus seems to spread wherever it goes. Even worse, those rural places haven't got the medical expertise to handle it.
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  13191. I'm just glad this isn't WW2.DeSatan would be suing the federal government over that "fake news" Pearl Harbor attack. Maybe he'd even reach out to Germany and Japan just to spite a Democratic president.
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  13192. Let's see if Republicans appreciate the irony of being forced to carry a non-viable candidate to term. I'm betting not.
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  13193. Care to share the details of what you're talking about? And is there a state court in Colorado that is higher than the Colorado Supreme Court?
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  13194. Perhaps Trump's enablers live deep in bunkers, with 10 years supply of food and room for their families? It would explain how they are so tolerant of his plans to leave America a flaming, bloody, politically Balkanized mess by any means possible.
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  13195. Communists got nothing on the GOP when it comes to enforcing the party line :(
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  13196.  @Fktrumpanzees  Mind you, that's the same cult that cheered for Trump's dark vision of an America on fire. The phrase "American carnage" stirred their blood.
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  13197. @M Magnificat Umm, would you care to explain the segue from your humor about Trump's purported 2024 election to wages in Germany?
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  13198. @M Magnificat So much nonsense you put forward. Even the little component parts of it are themselves nutty. Take for instance this one: "Democrats are obsessed with overturning" << Perhaps you have not noticed this, but every four years here in America, both parties try to win the electoral college vote. This has been going on since America's inception. And if anything, it was Republicans trying to subvert it with "alternative slates of electors", in case you don't watch the news. As to the name .. has it occurred to you that some Americans may be of German descent? 😅
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  13199. @Leftist Traitors You forgot to mention how you miss hate crimes spiking in every county where Trump gave his rallies. Or perhaps you forgot to mention the whole new phenom of citizens verbally assaulting other citizens, saying that Trump as going to kick them out. There was a great article about this - "They spewed hate, then they punctuated it with the president's name" - and it makes it pretty plain why only the least stable folks like Trump. And they keep getting outvoted, which is good.
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  13200. @Leftist Traitors Hate to break the news to you, but there isn't anyplace in the country where 5yo's are asked, required, or encouraged to read the types of books you mentioned. Likewise, there isn't any school in the country where children are required or encouraged to use litter boxes instead of the bathrooms. When you can stop getting angry over things that are not even happening (while using those imaginary things to demonize then harm others) it will be a big improvement.
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  13201. @Leftist Traitors A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or racial demographic. Examples of such groups can include, and are almost exclusively limited to ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, age, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called "bias incidents". Incidents from the article you seemingly didn't read: A Latino man in California said he was told by a white ex-girlfriend that Trump was going “get rid of the Hispanics.” An Asian American woman in Hollywood, California, had her hair pulled by an older white woman and was told that she had to “go back to China” now that Trump is president. In the Washington, D.C., area, the Trump-tainted threats got so frequent and so bad that Mohammad Qureshi, a Muslim American man who works at the Dulles Airport Marriott, changed his nametag to John. In January 2017, prosecutors say Robin Rhodes, a 57-year-old white man, attacked a Muslim American employee at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. They say he knelt, mocking Muslim prayer, and yelled: “Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you.” In February 2017, Brandon Ray Davis rented a scooter while on vacation in Key West, Florida. The 30-year-old North Carolina man spotted a gay couple riding bikes and ran into one of the men, shouting, “Faggots” and “You live in Trump country now!” Davis was charged with aggravated battery with hate crime enhancements. Fine people, huh?
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  13202.  @abbersj2935  I wonder how we're supposed to do that. From seeing people from the Manson/Hitler/Mussolini cults recover to normalcy eventually, it could take years. They almost have to see for themselves that everything he told them was a complete lie - and that lesson has to be repeated to them day after day, for hundreds or thousands of day. Some of them may never get it.
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  13203. Patriot battery > flying Russian junk. Go home, boys.
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  13204.  @erikhadinger7655  Oooooh I see. When there is just the kiss of a single drop of water that runs contrary to the whole frigging ocean that is nutty reich-wing violence in America, of course you klansters get your panties twisted in a knot. So in case you missed it .. right wingers in the US committed HUNDREDS of vehicular attacks just since the murder of George Floyd (apparently it upsets their racist little hearts when Black folks protest their killing by police), and the BLM protesters didn't try to prevent the counting of votes in order to keep their corrupt, fascist favorite orange president in office.
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  13205.  @Tom--Ace  Nice pun there with "fathom".
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  13206. I was thinking he could have had another mini-stroke, he's so hunched over.
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  13207. @Texas Tea Even for Downer Trump, that was kind of excessive. Lord knows what cocktail of drugs they're keeping him on.
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  13208. Hmm. Wishing that people would start to care for what is true. I am beginning to think that social media (specifically of the Wastebook type, where people cluster with like-thinking people) has caused the worst spread of disinformation and thus the worst social fragmentation. When people clump by "vaccines are bad", or "the earth is flat", or "Trump is innocent" it doesn't help those people get connected with reality, it just lets them get more isolated. I miss life from before Reagan axed the Fairness Doctrine.
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  13209. He's never been able to do even fake compassion. As near as anyone can tell, he's not even human in that regard.
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  13210. Sounds like there would be a glut on the market then, what with the number of covid cases and deaths.
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  13211. Now that president-elect Trump is once again receiving daily classified intelligence via the presidential daily briefings, I assume that was Tucky just delivering another backpack full of copies for Putin. There are a few other couriers who go between Swamp-a-Lago and the Kremlin.
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  13212. Sure, sure, has NOTHING to do with his crimes. If Trump sped through a school zone at 90mph, you'd be calling it a 'political hit job' when he gets ticketed for it.
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  13213. Eh, can't say I've ever set foot in a Russian restaurant in the US. There must be some.
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  13214. Those dolts who claim they want a civil war - what do they plan on doing? Shooting up the post office before shooting up the local fire department? Those cockroaches are going to get flattened before they even know it.
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  13215.  @squirrelsinjacket1804  Much worse, unfortunately. Via their government positions and their party propaganda outlets (Faux, OAN, Sinclair, radio talk shows, Twitler) they can and will sow lots of chaos :( We haven't seen anything yet unfortunately.
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  13216.  @Sheep-5491  It was already amply clear, even by the time of the J6 hearings, that 45's legit advisors had all told him that the election was not stolen, that he simply lost it, and that his attempts to deny his election loss would not work out in his favor. It was also clear that the only voices telling him otherwise were those of the cranks like Lindell and Powell and Ghouliani and Eastman etc. It is completely bogus for 45 to claim that his actions, under these circumstances, could have in any way been legitimate acts of office. Likewise, it is completely bogus for SCOTUS to even entertain this nonsense.
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  13217. @Billy Cole II Speaking of that 2A stuff .. America failed its militia test Jan 6th last year. Of the people who claim their guns are for preventing tyranny, a bunch of pro-2A people got behind the guy who had just lost the election and was trying to install himself as tyrant.
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  13218.  @freighttrain7143  I don't know if you even bother to follow the news (seems not) but the Republican party, of which you profess to be a member, did nothing but stonewall the two legislative attempts to bring Trump to justice. I get it - you are now trying to pretend you had nothing to do with the orange monster and his reign of error. But good luck with that.
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  13219.  @KaiserBlade  Call us back when you can speak coherently, MAGA rubber-room boy.
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  13220.  @Boost1206  Yes. You love him with all the same love you would share with lotto tickets that don't win, and cigarettes that give you lung cancer. As they say, it's in your nature to love the things that are bad for you.
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  13221. "He felt like he was answering the call of the president." Some of the people at the Nuremburg trials, in court because they murdered lots of Jews, said words to the same effect about Hitler. Didn't work then, doesn't work now.
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  13222.  @pagansmc13  Re "Do you have a source" << Oh, forget it, those people are even nuttier than Charles Manson on a good day. Most of them got divorced from factual reality back when they were children, probably through a combination of eating lead paint chips and getting dropped on their heads a lot. Lack of proof somehow doesn't inform them that [whatever dumb thing they heard on FOXed Noise] is not actually true.
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  13223.  @MohammedAli-PigLover  The table is set. The service is first-rate. Let's see when Putler decides that things are getting too hot or he's not that hungry after all. He's still too dumb to realize that sacrificing 7+ figure combat vehicles to 4+ figure missiles is a losing game.
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  13224. Consumer goods prices are the big Goodyear blimp that Republicans are shrieking for everyone to look at. What they don't want you to look at is their attempts to subvert elections and begin one-party rule (their party) in America. Putin surely smiles at his puppets here :(
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  13225. DHS weren't the only fools helping Trump create the illusion of America on fire. Hannity, Carlson, and the rest of the FOX noise wrecking crew certainly didn't hesitate to push the lies that America's most left-leaning cities were "on fire" or "hotbeds of anarchy and communism" :(
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  13226. Like many many other Americans, I would like to know how many other states were subjected to 45's criminal attempts to overwrite the election results that went against him. Seems the pattern was states where the rural areas were predictably red and where there were one or more large urban areas not voting for him and where the legislature was red enough to go along with his culty wish to appoint fake electors. Knowing him, there are surely more than just the ones we know about now, just like there must have been more countries than just Ukraine that he tried to extort into manufacturing dirt on the Bidens. The guy's as slimy and corrupt as they get :(
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  13227.  @thomasgormly6941  Notice how the prior 230+ years of US history had plenty of faith and patriotism, yet not a single president who tried to overturn the election he lost. There's no "both sides" on this one.
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  13228. Let's start calling them the Manchurian Republican party. They certainly fielded Manchurian candidates this time. And now Russia doesn't need to bomb America, it simply tells Trump to dismantle air traffic safety, power grid safety, new diseases monitoring, food production safety, water safety, dam safety, road infrastructure, etc.
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  13229. I had a relative (now deceased) who grew up under fascism, later immigrated to America, spent his life extolling freedom and democracy, and ended his days whining about 'irregularities in the 2020 election' while cheering on our homegrown AH copy. Sad. Embarrassing. He should have known better. It was public news that 45 lost all of his election-results-challenging lawsuits for lack of evidence.
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  13230. This is how it's going to be from now on, apparently. Trump, and those who style themselves like him, will always get 100% of the vote of some small vocal nutty segment, and some of them will do as Trump did after the 2020 election.
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  13231. I figured destroying small farmers was a sop to the larger land owners wanting to buy out all the smaller farms.
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  13232. It would chill any normal person, but not Republicans.
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  13233.  @TheNN  Some of them may wish to read the novel "Animal Farm" and see what roles they're taking in this cautionary tale.
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  13234. Huh. So Trump may have sent a wet team to silence Jamal Khashoggi? I wouldn't be surprised.
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  13235. Funny you should mention that. Back in 2017-2018, Trump was charging expectant Russian ladies to have their births at Swamp-a-Lago so the baby would have US citizenship. The original news articles are still online. It was widely covered at the time.
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  13236. I am not optimistic on Italy just yet. The last 4 days of data show an average daily case increase rate of 4.01% (and it went slightly up yesterday) and a CFR that is still slowly increasing .. it went from 11.9% to 12.33% over the last 4 days.
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  13237.  @MrHogGamer  Thanks for revealing yourself as a little Nazi boy. Now go back to your bunker so you can whine about how everything is so unfair.
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  13238.  @MrHogGamer  Thanks for the laugh! Obviously history is not only a closed book to you, but a burned and buried book as well. But Nazi boys have always been total dolts. You'll fit in fine with them.
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  13239. Remember, Trump would STILL rather leave America a flaming, war-torn, bloody Balkanized mess than simply admit he lost the 2020 election.
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  13240. No, Trump is STILL unfit for office. He was unfit by the time he took out that full page spread calling for the execution of the Central Park Five.
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  13241. Obviously this is but one of many many incidents like that. No doubt Dump45 has been spilling beans ever since he had access to them.
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  13242. All the people who died of covid caught it naturally. Any questions?
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  13243. Yes, they are a cult. Take for instance that J6'er who threatened to kill his own kids if they ratted him out. Or the way they cheer when he talks about concentration camps and being a dictator. The stuff of nightmares, and they're cheering????
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  13244.  @jessetorres8738  Re << The Republican Party should rebrand themselves as the "Grand Oligarch Putin" Party >> So true. As predicted, fascism came to America humping a flag and brandishing an upside-down bible. Conservatives will long be remembered for how they swooned at the thought of ending liberty and the rule of law in his name. They've earned a permanent slot in the woodshed of history.
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  13245. Ah, Rafael Eduardo Cruz, descendant of those who fled to the generous largess of the USA, only to try pretending to be a right wing Texan who hates government spending. He should be called by his real name.
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  13246. The 2018 midterm elections were a strong message to Republicans, who, sadly, weren't at all listening when then the voters repudiated Trumpism and their sorry embrace of a moron fool. Let's send the GOP an even stronger and louder message this time - like losing the senate, the presidency, and Moscow Mitch to boot.
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  13247. If you chart the relationship between the peak attendance at Louisiana's last major super-spreading event (Mardi Gras in New Orleans) then the peak in new daily cases in Louisiana, you'll see they are 40 days apart. We're just coming up now on the 40-day anniversary of the beginning of the anti-lockdown protests in the USA. The numbers may be getting spiky soon.
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  13248. Republicans in their own words are far more funny than anything someone could make up.
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  13249. Sorry, but the truly-lost cult-member class of Trumpanzees are more than capable of poisoning their own children. Seeing their nation burned down, all in the service of the bloviating Bonaparte, doesn't make them blink or think.
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  13250. Thankfully there's one superpower Trump will always have: his ability to get Republicans to fawn over him, worship him, give him money, and let him wreck their political futures. He's a "gift" like radioactive waste in their drinking water.
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  13251.  @dcc70  Russians and Ukrainians are among the largest demographic minorities in each others country, if not THE largest. People have relatives, employees, friends etc all on both sides of the border. One of them is in the process of becoming more aligned with Europe, purging its old Soviet-minded corruption, more prosperous, more democratic, more pointed to the future - while the other one is still a land of outhouses and dirt roads. Putin apparently couldn't let his people see that.
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  13252.  @kerwinbrown4180  Sure, as if anyone would find it acceptable if Switzerland or Kazakhstan were to invade neighboring countries to get ocean access.
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  13253. Bingo. He did say he'd make America #1 (didn't say at what), he did say he'd run America like one of his own businesses (most of them went bankrupt, and then went down in flames), and he did say we'd get tired of "winning". I count that as at least 3 sarcastic promises he's kept. Do you concur?
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  13254. This FD-1023 nonsense is very similar to the UFO/UAP circus show, which also lacks the proof that people claim exists, but can never show you directly.
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  13255. Remove just a few of the lines, and what remains is a swastika. How appropriate for the invaders to use such a symbol.
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  13256. "One day, you don't have any money in your account .." << a new line from him, less than a week after he loses $83 million in a civil lawsuit.
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  13257. We can rest assured that Tucker Carlson, AKA the Axis Sally of the 21st century, was very pleased when his themes appeared in the Buffalo shooter's manifesto :(
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  13258. Wonder how much Rupert Murdoch charges for his nation-destabilizing service masquerading as 'news'? He should be able to shake down Russia, China, Iran, and NK etc for some pretty good coin. This chaos must be their wet dream. Naturally, if he tried doing the same stuff in /their/ countries he'd meet a quick end.
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  13259. No, I'd agree with the sentiment that Trump and his crew want to get their mitts on that money. They are pirates without eye patches.
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  13260. Now we know why he insisted on no witnesses and no translator's notes when he met with Putin :(
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  13261.  @worsethanjoerogan8061  Perhaps you don't recall all the time Trump met privately with Putin and insisted on no witnesses. What the F do you think they were doing?
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  13262. Eventually that recording will be played for everyone to hear Trump in his own voice talking about documents he can't show people because they're classified.. And doubtless more material like that will come out in discovery. Separating MAGAts from their cult leader may take some time.
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  13263. Trump is an idiot. That said don't trust the fake news. My fellow Trump supporters there is a cure for coronavirus and its probably in your home. Simply drink bleach with a lemon wedge. Give it some time and coronavirus will be the least of your worries. Trump 2020
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  13264. Where did they find that so called comedian? Guessing his prior career involved speaking at white supremacist rallies. His "comedy" schedule may be pretty sparse going forward.
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  13265. So Loudermilk is one of the crew of Judas representatives who have blood on their hands. Good to know. And now we know for sure that the video evidence of these pre-insurrection tours exists. Good to know. Let's see how many more rats jump ship.
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  13266. And that was probably from a poll with an 8% margin of error.
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  13267. Even Dr Mengele, the famed medical experimenter/torturer of Jews, did not stoop this low in his cruelty. This woman needs a new residence in a state that's not going full Handmaid's Tale.
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  13268. Prominent conservatives saw this day coming years ago, and tried to warn everyone. Here are their own words: “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  13269. Knowing that the doubling time of this disease is around 7 days, we can work out a few things. Given that the school employee has been symptomatic since Feb 19th, we can assume they were initially exposed on Feb 12th and have possibly been spreading it since Feb 14th. So assuming other people were exposed as far back as Feb 12th, there has been time for 3-4+ generations of further community spread. 95% of the population of Oregon lives right along the I-5 and I-84 corridors. It's already here. Sugarcoating the reality is NOT helping anyone. If we are smart (and I doubt we are) plans are being drawn up to do what China and South Korea have done: quarantine everyone down to the town & neighborhood level, cancel any venue where people can mingle, test everyone all the time for free, arrange to deliver food & supplies to each household so people don't have to go out, etc.
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  13270.  @fredgarvinMP  Then again, none of us artificially deflated the values of our properties at tax time then did the reverse at appraisal time .. none of us misused the powers of office to steal classified documents then [apparently] sell them off to the highest bidders .. and none of us lied to our cult base of millions and got some to storm the DC capitol after we lost an election. Does that help clear things up for you?
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  13271. These people are declaring their preference to live in a one-party state -- otherwise known as the sort of place where the will of the people doesn't matter one bit. I suggest we oblige them and send them off to China, Russia, North Korea.
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  13272.  @cm-pr2ys  You are correct. Unfortunately. I've been watching the dailies out of Wisconsin and they're already in the range of more than 2x what they were on the day the state supreme court struck down the stay-at-home orders as unconstitutional (5/13) and people began flooding into bars.
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  13273. Who else is looking forward to watching Trump fans flip-flop from calling his 2016 306-EC-vote thing a "landslide" to calling Biden's 2020 306-EC-vote thing a "razor thin margin"? They're the best free entertainment I've had since they went by the name of the Tea Party.
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  13274. Russia is not smart enough to get out of the wood chipper that Ukraine has become for them, with a little help from their friends. Keeping Russia tied down and bleeding is the game here. Rendering Russia militarily useless for the next 20 years is also the game.
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  13275.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  Then you have nothing to lose by watching as the good god Darwin takes one side or the other. The ONE conflict in which Soviet Russia did well (WW2) happened only because they were being massively supplied by the US in arms, materials, ammo, vehicles, fuel, uniforms, etc. (for moron this subject, you may wish to read "Stalin's War" by Sean McMeekin) Didn't matter how drunk or disorganized they were. And then they didn't give back all that stuff to the US after the war, the commie bastards. And now Russia is in the process of figuring out, ever so slowly, that the combined arms production capacity of Ukraine plus the western allies is greater than that of Russia. Russians aren't yakking about peace talks now simply because they like the harsh and guttural sounds of their own voices. Nope. The ongoing destruction of Russia's reputation (and especially its military reputation, once vaunted) is well worth what the West is paying to keep Putin's forces stuck in the monkey trap of their own devising.
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  13276.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  That's the best you can do? Call someone a liar when they prove you wrong? You must live in the smallest sandbox known in rural Ohio. Feeling sorry for your incredibly limited understanding of the world.
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  13277.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  Once again you show off that "limited understanding" of which I spoke above. Russia controls only the sky above its immediate positions. Thanks to the lend-lease of many different kinds of portable AA missile systems, Russia can't afford to send aircraft over the lines. Ukraine is free to join NATO after this. Putin has become NATO's best salesman. Just ask Finland and Sweden what changed their minds. This one was lost for Russia when the best of their best were kicked out of Kyiv. The remainder of this has been them being bad losers and being extremely slow to let go of untenable propositions.
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  13278.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  This one is entirely Russia's to lose. And they are doing a fine job at losing. No wonder Donald and Vladimir were such buddies. They actually have a lot in common in the field of being delusional and unable to accept losses. At the beginning of the invasion, Russia was able to launch missile barrages on a daily basis. Now they're down to a few times a week, or only on major holidays. Special hat tip to Russia for keeping its forces tied down in the KZ that the West has helped them build in Ukraine. It would require a special kind of geopolitical dunce not to see how it advantages the West to keep Russia's forces tied down and bleeding. Another year of this and they won't be much of a threat to anyone. Thankfully the planners at the Pentagon saw this one coming a long ways back .. production of various kinds of MANPADS ramped up to three shifts more than 8 months before the conflict began. In the struggle of western arms manufacturers against the dregs that Russia can scrape out of its prisons, guess who's going to lose that one? Ukraine is getting good at vaporizing the mobiki. Good thing too.
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  13279.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  You must be quoting someone else when you claim it was said that Russia "ran out" of missiles. Russia now has a lot less of them than it did before, and their ability to source foreign components is much lessened. But that's too complex for you to understand, apparently. No surprise there. Because when Putin sends his people to troll, he doesn't send his best. Some are criminals, some have brain damage, some are just simple liars, and some, we assume, are good people.
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  13280.  @ExtrovertedCenobite  Hey, don't fade on me now. It's been awhile since I've had a pen-pal from over there.
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  13281.  @Nathan-ry3yu  Russia isn't smart enough to leave, so they keep sending troops & stuff into the KZ that is now Ukraine armed with the west's 10+ yo technology in limited quantities. A year or two more of this, and Russia will be a threat to no one. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of fools.
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  13282. So in other words, you're afraid that long-hidden criminals will be caught, and terrorists won't be allowed on trains and planes.
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  13283.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  So much crazy in your post, so little time. They write articles about people like you. https://medium.com/bigger-picture/confessions-of-a-trump-supporters-daughter-7206f678cd41
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  13284. Nope. People saving women from the Texas Taliban are just as much heroes as the people helping Afghanis escape the local Taliban. If you like having unwelcome religious laws jammed down your throat without your consent, just imagine how it would be if Muslims influenced the Texas legislature to turn Sharia laws into state-of-Texas laws. With a hotline to report those who were eating pork, or who let their women out in public without a male relative escorting them.
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  13285.  @Brakdayton  You just made me wonder when they're going to roll out the Bible Rulez Violations hotline. Isn't it illegal (when Xtian laws become state-of-Texas laws) for a man to jerk off, and waste his seed? Isn't it illegal to wear mixed fibers or get tattoos? Lotta violators in Texas.
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  13286.  Sexy Can I  At the last count, it was 81,282,903 for Biden to 74,223,030 for Trump.
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  13287. Not the first time he has used the "it was sarcasm" excuse. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/23/president-donald-trump-chosen-one-sarcasm-china-trade-war/2105649001/
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  13288. Re "Glad to see Wallace has abandoned ship" << He has been around a long time and has connections. What did he smell coming that the others did not? Notice how his name doesn't appear anywhere in the stream of traitorous text messages back and forth between GQP officials and their party propaganda arm.
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  13289. Apparently he's going in tight circles like a squirrel on meth. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-scale-back/index.html
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  13290. Looks like we're going to have to enlarge the Guantanamo Bay prison!
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  13291.  William Wertz  Do you not agree that Gitmo is the appropriate place for terrorists, traitors, and those who commit sedition? The law is clear about how it doesn't matter precisely /how/ people got deluded into committing various crimes.
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  13292. This is just as good as when Amy Handmaid's Tale couldn't enumerate the freedoms protected by the 1st amendment. Dump doesn't pick them for integrity.
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  13293. Trump's time in the public eye was always going to end this way. When he ultimately faces justice, he'll be exhorting his remaining culties to go out and cause mayhem. His base is shrinking even while he's getting more extreme.
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  13294. What Barr really said: "These tweets coming from the president are making it impossible for me to do the president's bidding in secrecy. Every time I secretly try to hide his criminal activities, he tweets about it to the world. How can I do my job of covering up his messes, helping to silence and punish witnesses, and circumventing the rule of law to reduce sentences for the president's cronies if he keeps tweeting to everyone. At this rate, I might be looking at a prison sentence myself, just like so many other of Trump's associates. It really sucks!"
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  13295. It's funny how quickly things change. Now, when you drive past a big group of people standing together, socializing, you think, my God, they're all risking dying from infection. You want to get out of the car and yell at them to get away from each other.
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  13296.  @charliecarter4290  Funny you should mention jobs .. when 45 left office, the US had lost 2.9 million jobs during his sht show of an administration. President Biden on the other hand is at +15 million jobs so far.
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  13297.  @krisswegemer1163  The only time the Proud Boys have been seen "fighting" is when they're ganging up on minorities or trying to end the rule of law in America. They're not good at either of those things.
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  13298.  @krisswegemer1163  Clearly you get your "news" from TASS. They refer to the PB's as those "fine people" of Trump's.
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  13299. There are a bunch of sources, but the one they are probably using is this: https://govstatus.egov.com/OR-OHA-COVID-19
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  13300. Of course, the USA is perhaps more full of propaganda-addicted dolts than a normal nation would be.
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  13301. Wastebook/Fakebook is highly overrated. Just delete your account and move on. You won't regret it. No one ever regrets it.
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  13302. We've always wondered what would happen if we just took the warning labels off everything and let nature sort itself out. There's clearly not enough lifeguards in the shallow end of the gene pool.
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  13303.  @Samuelsonsneed  Wrong, the guy with a gun then gets taken out by an MQ-9 he can't even see without binoculars.
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  13304. And yet, he would gladly misuse the powers of office (if he can get them back) to have E Jean Carroll disappeared, and you know which immunity decision he'd be quoting.
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  13305. Well, if you look around and note that the US has no German/French/NATO/Belgian/Norwegian/whoever military bases all over the US, you'll begin to realize just how lopsided certain aspects of the alliance are. The US military (not NATO) has 21 bases in Germany alone. Obviously the Germans aren't insisting on having bases all over the US, but then, they're not preparing to refight WW2 the way we are - and that's an expensive activity that we're participating in and no one else is. Hence our large share of the costs.
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  13306. Donald, please, just hold it together until you can use those Patriot Act powers to remove your critics. You don't need those other branches of government anyway.
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  13307. Bingo. Plus there will be some cool stuff on sale cheap at estate sales :)
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  13308. I was raised christian but don't recall hearing anything about Jesus being an abrasive, abusing, narcissistic twat like Trump. In fact Trump is almost the exact opposite of everything Jesus stood for.
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  13309. Since when in America were a group of minority whackjob nutters allowed to disenfranchise their whole county just because a handful of partisan nutters didn't like the voting results?
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  13310. Have you ever seen a US president work so hard to be reviled? He's really pulling out all the stops.
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  13311. In other words, Newsom will remain in the governor's mansion. All fine with me.
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  13312.  @theheard4740  The recall efforts are hilarious. Won't do anything. But it lets the sub-10% minority (AKA the "moral majority") feel like their whining is working for them.
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  13313. Send them in to CPAC and FOXed Noise. Plenty of Nazis there. Plus the Republican party HQ.
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  13314.  @Elennar29  For every one unhoused person that's doing it as a low-rent lifestyle choice, and otherwise has their sh*t together, there are probably a thousand or more who suffer from some form of mental illness, who've got substance abuse issues, who've been in trouble with the law. We seriously need to reopen some kind of poor farm for people like that.
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  13315. Trump lost by 3 million the first time, 8 million the second time. If this is flat progression, he'll lose by 13 million if he runs again. Which is why the Republicans are busy rigging election mechanisms all over the country so that he could lose by even 30 million and they could still declare him the winner.
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  13316. Ron DeFascist has been waaaay too comfortable lately wearing his Klan robes to the office.
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  13317.  @LamePseudonym1  You have a calendar too? And you even know how to read the home screen on your phone? You must be the intelligent one in your corner of the trailer park. Here's some more recent news: https://www.businessinsider.com/dire-coronavirus-alabama-icu-no-beds-2020-5
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  13318.  @LamePseudonym1  I can count just fine thanks. So when Bama gets a deluge of new cases due to the stupid shortsighted policies you support, all you can do is call it fake news? People like you are meant for Trump and vice versa.
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  13319. Konstantin over at Inside Russia had the long version video compilation. Unreal. There's gonna be blood on the walls soon there.
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  13320. The people who follow him have proved they have no moral compass. I suppose we can thank him for inducing these people to identify themselves as such.
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  13321. Funny you should mention that. One of the fables Trump likes to tell at his hate rallies is along those lines. Pay particular attention to the look on Trump's face when he's delivering the punch line - "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!" - he knows he's talking about himself, and he enjoys the way his sheeple are too dumb to realize it.
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  13322. His proper name is Tucker "Lord Haw Haw" Carlson, so named in honor of the Englishman William Joyce, Nazi propagandist during WW2. Convicted of high treason after the war.
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  13323. Broken glass is the least of it to those supporters of the mango Mussolini. At the end, they imagine there are pardons for all of them, and the right to freely persecute anyone who's not as white/cis/het/inbred as them. A wave of bias crimes/incidents followed the 2016 election, and every county that hosted his hate rallies saw significant upticks in the same.
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  13324. An insurrection that goes unpunished is just a training exercise for the next attempt.
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  13325.  @eighteeninseventytwo5038  Re "Both main parties are desperately striving to maintain status quo" << What you said was the same as this, essentially: "The stage 4 liver cancer was very aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides."
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  13326.  @eighteeninseventytwo5038  Re "So, your answer is this. For me, how is that much leisure time making one great." << Are you answering a different person on a different thread? I was telling you how "Blue and Red teams are just the opposite sides of the same coin" (which you said above) is a useless form of whataboutism when one of them is a cancer upon the body politic. You're about as useful (tits on bull kind of usefulness) as those zeroes who tell people not to vote. Send a more intelligent troll next time.
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  13327.  @eighteeninseventytwo5038  Perhaps the internet is not a good match for your tender feefees, so easily hurt.
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  13328.  @eighteeninseventytwo5038  "Won't be responding beyond this message." << No great loss. While you may feel you're the smartest whatever in your corner of that small trailer park in downstate Ohio, there's a bigger world out there, and you're a nobody in that world. It will be a good day for your personal development when you realize how misinformed you are.
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  13329. Sounds kind of interesting. Will we see it in stores, on Amazon, on eBay? Been hording Turbo Truffles for awhile now.
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  13330. Notice how Germany and Brazil got right on the insurrectionists. They're all in jail now awaiting trial (which won't be long) and investigators are searching for any accomplices. Those two fine countries didn't just let the guilty ones run around for years afterwards, scheming for another opportunity to commit insurrection.
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  13331. The kkkult has a ways to go before it hits rock bottom. Guessing it's at least 18 months.
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  13332. Of the people who bothered to vote, less than half of them voted for this creep. I lay this one at the feet of the third party protest voters, who just could not bring themselves to vote for a black female candidate despite her excellent qualifications and experience in all three branches of government.
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  13333. Couldn't happen to a better lying sack-of-shtt nobody.
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  13334. Nobody wants Kevin. First he calls Trump to tell him to call off his J6 goons, then he flies to Mar-a-Lardo to kiss the traitor's ring and beg. What a doormat.
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  13335.  @Comm.DavidPorter  Well, best of luck explaining why, even in the communist times, large swaths of Russia still looked as if WW2 was fought there only yesterday.
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  13336. If he can't take a few simple questions from a handpicked audience, just imagine how he'd be with Putin. Oh wait, we already know. He'd cave in totally, crawl on the carpet for Putin, kiss his ass, give him whatever he wants.
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  13337. Two words. Fking yachtzees :(
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  13338. Trump: This virus is a hoax. No one needs to wear a mask. It's under control. It will be gone soon. Go back to work. DeSantis: You heard the man. Mayor: The government did everything right, it's the people causing the problem.
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  13339. Seems these Trump culties never got the lesson that you don't sht where you eat and sleep .. and you don't destabilize the government of the same country that you live in. That can get bad really quickly.
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  13340. About that urban-rural vaccination divide - a year and a half of easily-found news about this hasn't convinced them, so they're going to "own the libs" by dying (or dropping out of the workforce due to lingering covid effects) and leave behind their houses and stuff and jobs and businesses, which the rest of us can snap up at low low prices.
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  13341.  @ByronNoe It's called financial Darwinism. Fools and their money were lucky to get together in the first place - and soon parted.
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  13342. This is about when Trump claims that the anti-vaxxers (who love him otherwise) are in fact Antifa in disguise.
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  13343. For proper political effect, maybe one should watch this movie around the same time as "The Reliant" (2019) featuring Kevin Sorbo.
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  13344.  @RSW552  Thank you kindly! Stay safe :)
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  13345.  @TurkeysAreCoolBirds  Nazi Germany could have used a "comedian" like that.
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  13346.  @blissfairchild7194  "The BS you believe" << Now that's a total laugh, coming from someone who says "peaceful protesters at Capitol Hill". Just be honest and say out loud that you're a total fruitcake, deluded, propagandized, not connected with factual reality in any way, shape, or form. FFS.
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  13347. Since the GOP is banking heavily on disenfranchising voters, let's all step up to the plate to get people registered and, if necessary, transport them to the polling places. Patriots, you know what to do.
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  13348. Republicans are so easily triggered. They were strangely OK with Former Guy talking directly with the Taliban and agreeing to surrender Af'stan to them, but when it comes to Biden executing said withdrawal plan that Clump negotiated, their howls of indignation can be heard halfway across the solar system. Guess they got dropped on their heads a lot as children.
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  13349. The attorney general under Richard Nixon had to spend some time in prison for being unable to discern where his job slipped from being the AG for the people of the United States of America to being the personal lawyer of a corrupt president. Barr is overdue for that sort of lesson.
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  13350. Imagine a hypothetical Pedo Party having the gall to claim it's "political repression" when 95% of the state doesn't vote their way, so instead they gum up the works of the government.
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  13351. Ukrainians are very kind. All they want from Russia is for Russian military to stop attacking Ukraine. Doesn't seem like much to ask, does it?
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  13352. I hope any "security briefing" he gets is full of red herrings .. so that if his two main courier boys (Orban and Carlson) take it to Putin and he acts on it, we'll know where it came from.
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  13353.  @ericmccarty9656  The full measure of what they deserve, for what they did, would probably be something like what Benito Mussolini eventually got. Because nobody likes seeing their nation turned into a fascist hell hole.
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  13354. I had a relative who left Nazi Germany and ended up supporting US fascists in his dying days. Sad that Fox does to elderly brains :(
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  13355. I tried telling a bunch of MAGA loyalists that Big Orangey had said he wants to be dictator. They didn't believe me. Said it was "fake news". They didn't believe he'd incited an insurrection back on J6 (I watched it live) for the same reasons.
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  13356.  @karrithebestlira3085  Correct. Russians are the foot soldiers of a mass-murdering maniac, and as such, the only thing to do is keep advancing and drive them out of Ukraine entirely.
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  13357. In Russia, the translation of Trump's platform name would be "Pravda". So maybe FOX should be renamed TASS?
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  13358.  Jamtommy1  Trump supporters: Look, look! Tara Reed!! Also Trump supporters: When dozens of women accuse Trump of harassment, that just shows what a man he is.
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  13359.  @lodeo7003  Trump's people seem largely unable to escape his pull, such as it is. The rest of us can see pretty clearly what a con man and generally ugly American he is. Sad.
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  13360.  @lodeo7003  "Anything I don't like is fake news" - is that what you're saying?
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  13361.  uncle Ricky  You still haven't answered my implied question about how Trumpists go from thinking that allegations against Biden are bad while allegations against Trump merely go to prove what a virile, manly man he is. But then I don't think you can or will.
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  13362.  @lodeo7003  You are still wrong. I get the numbers from worldometers and various state websites that report on cases, deaths, tests etc by county. LOL. You are even too dumb to realize how dumb you are. No wonder you like Trump,he's the same way.
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  13363.  @mattlake3282  They mentioned it on Fox. 45 used to tell Hannity what to say on Fox so that he could point to it as "news". Hannity did the same thing Goebbels use to do, basically.
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  13364.  deee 327  You seem to be unaware that other states have been successfully using mail-in voting for decades now, and no genius-level IQ is needed to implement the program. We have a big pandemic going on this year. Mail-in voting is going to be a thing. Get used to it. Whining about the outcome in advance isn't a very good look.
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  13365.  deee 327  No, you are the one grasping. Mail-in voting has less fraud than seen in, say, that video in which a younger Trump drove around trying to vote fraudulently at places where he was not registered, and in the end he voted by mail. Remember that video?
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  13366.  deee 327  LOL @ "not worth your time". You never had anything to say other than that you don't like the results. Mail-in voting has been working for decades. Buzz off to your nest, troll.
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  13367.  deee 327  "Provides nothing"? What kind of delusional crack are you on? There are states that have been doing mail-in voting for decades now and it's working fine. There was no secret special magic sauce needed to do it. Other states can do the same. You're a fool for disregarding the examples that have (for the nth time) been working for decades now.
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  13368.  deee 327  Oh, wait, so you are simply too damn lazy to even google which states have been doing this for how long? Typical behavior for a troll that has nothing to say, just doesn't like how the vote is going to turn out.
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  13369.  deee 327  Thanks for the laugh that you won't bother to look up the facts to find out how wrong you are. In the state where I live, we've had mail-only voting for more than two decades, and no rocket science was necessary to implement it. You are just so scared, Donald, that the vote won't turn out the way you want. Poor you.
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  13370.  deee 327  Less fraud than you just saw your orange master trying to do in that video. No more fraud than regular elections. Suck it up, loser, you are on the wrong side of history and you're merely throwing a tantrum. There's a term for people like you: Trump fans.
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  13371. OIC. Your nonsense was apparent earlier when you muttered some gibberish about Biden selling out the economy for decades. You're one of those Q-Anonsense fools.
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  13372.  @Bywater-S  Russia should have gotten a good taste of our stuff at the battle of Khasham 2018 in Syria. A regular feeding fest with MQ-9s, F-22s, F-15Es, AH-64s. Their large force got turned into a much smaller force - at night.
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  13373. Whoever's in the box is a captive audience. I tell them all kinds of things. Hope they keep a blog somewhere.
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  13374. I am wondering when they are going to bring another major player into the proceedings: Sean Hannity. His call/text/email/message logs ought to be most interesting. If everyone recalls, he took care of seeing that ambassador Yovanovich was being smeared on FOXed as far back as March 20th. Pretty sure he did this in cahoots with Trump and Ghouliani, using FOXed as the president's private media arm.
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  13375. Someone needs to remind these radicalized Republicans -- when the voices in your head (or on FOX Noise) tell you to break the law, it's not God talking to you. And Vladimir Putin (the beneficiary) is not going to pay your legal bills.
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  13376. Look at his range of facial expressions. Reincarnation of Benito Mussolini.
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  13377. In 45's defense, maybe it was a distant favor to his handler in the Kremlin, as Melanoma's parents were card-carrying Communist Party members back in the day.
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  13378. Was he trying to get on Yelp to complain about the lousy capitol tours or something like that?
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  13379. .. and he was only able to say it on FOXed Noise only because Reagan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine.
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  13380. All this time, we were afraid that Trump would learn from Putin how to be more like a dictator. Instead, what seems to have happened is that Putin learned from Trump how to lose bigly.
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  13381.  Herb Burt  1. Given that no significant vote fraud was found anywhere in the 2020 election, what non-problem are the Republicans trying to fix? 2. The steps that Georgia took, and other states are trying to take, are all meant to make it harder for certain people to vote. Ballot boxes will be fewer and further apart. Lines will be short in rural white places and longer in urban places with more nonwhites. And criminalizing the mere act of giving a thirsty person water - didn't Jesus himself have something to say about that?
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  13382. Yet somehow that makes him seem like practically a living god to a certain damaged subset of our population.
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  13383. May I offer an alternative vision of the process? Years ago, Moscow Mitch accurately foresaw the approaching future, a world in which Euro-descended whites would be a slightly smaller slice of the pie chart, where transparency and social responsibility and environmental stewardship would be important attributes - and he didn't like any of that one bit, so he fought hard to obstruct it all and keep the US stuck in the 1950s.
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  13384. In terms of preventing another attempted fascist takeover of America, it's too late. There are political creatures much worse than Trump who will follow through the hole he bashed through the norms of American politics.
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  13385. Don't waste hospital care on that one. Send him home with some cough syrup and a few plants (plants give off oxygen, right?) and some thoughts and prayers. How many times has he voted against paid healthcare for ordinary people?
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  13386. Some activities (schools, bars, restaurants, churches, movie theatres, clubs) will inevitably cause the spread of virus due to people from different households being together indoors for more than just a few brief minutes of person-to-person overlap. This is why grocery shopping is still mostly safe - for the shoppers at least (it's not safe for grocery store workers). Get used to this. Put those activities on ice for now, defeat the virus, THEN it's safe to restart them.
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  13387. On the plus side, apparently only 5 miles of new wall actually got built.
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  13388. For a guy who wants everyone to respect HIS first amendment rights, especially when he grotesquely abuses them, it's funny how he wants to rob everyone else of theirs. Huh.
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  13389. I'd feel better if all stores operated curbside only .. the virus spreads by people from different households being together indoors for a certain length of time. The virus didn't go away because we got bored, or because it's inconvenient for us, and Oregonians didn't magically become immune to it either.
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  13390. Batshit lies are basically the only "proof" Trump has for how he lost the election. In his mind, he's a god and could never lose an election or fail at anything.
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  13391. There are a lot of mentally-lazy people who take refuge in "all sides are the same". I live with one :(
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  13392. Wait another hour and he'll be blaming it on trans kids or Disney. Anything but the truth that their favorite wannabe dictator, Trump, got the willing cooperation of Republicans to try turning America into a concentration camp.
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  13393. Obviously the Trump Party would be more properly named the Julius and Ethel Rosenburg Party. May they go to the same place.
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  13394. Without what he's done to the weak-minded, Trump wouldn't have much political power.
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  13395. Or when they were flown to DC, taken to the white house, where an angry irrational guy asked them to change the vote to something else? You'd think all of that would get your attention.
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  13396.  @popweaselcrunch  That's already a bit too dystopian :( Fck, would be nice if some people could treat the Handmaid's Tale as a cautionary work of fiction and not a blueprint :(
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  13397. I've been assuming it was sort of like the situation in New York City. Prior to the covid epidemic, that large metro would normally produce perhaps 20-25 people per day being found dead in their homes. During the worst of the covid emergency this past spring, emergency services were finding above 200 people dead per day in their own homes. Covid plucked a lot of low-hanging fruit earlier in the game. https://www.businessinsider.com/teams-retrieving-coronavirus-bodies-from-nyc-homes-2020-4
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  13398. All 15 regular FOXed Noise viewers have gotten arrested in the last week anyway for various crimes: pulling a wolverine claw on protesters; ramming into a barricade then shooting protesters; waving an AR at protesters; getting picked up by the FBI for plotting to terrorize minorities; and so on. That's gotta hurt their numbers.
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  13399. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  13400. It's pretty obvious that using the powers of State to weed out the unbelievers was high on his wish list :( along with no more elections of consequence that could threaten his grip on power.
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  13401. Being kept partially in check by other branches of government is something that only a wannabe-dictator would chafe at. He's still pissed at how the virus was able to get into the West Wing, the only workplace in America that supports regular testing and contact tracing of positives. Safe behind that wall, he has no trouble telling the rest of us to go back to work without bothering about tests. He knows there's a virus, he just doesn't care if it kills ordinary Americans in large numbers.
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  13402. It's only because the RW nutters have Party propaganda outlets masquerading as "news" that they can pull off this stuff on their own constituents.
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  13403.  @donkeykong758  Fox has broken a lot of older people, who ought to know better than to be supporting an obvious fascist who cares nothing for the rule of law.
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  13404. Putin: I'm offering bounties to Taliban, Al-Qaida, and anyone else to kill US troops in the middle east. Trump: You and Russia are so mistreated. Let me try to get you back into the G-7 and drop those sanctions.
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  13405. So now Moldova is going to be the next place that the Russians will "liberate" from the people of Moldova?
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  13406.  @joesmith8398  Pull your head out. Both my grandfathers fought fascism in Europe. The number of you compared to the number of people who would stand against you is 50:1 or better. Go crawl back under your rock and wait for the next authoritarian to ooze along.
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  13407.  @joesmith8398  Who has time for video games? You just burned out another projector bulb. Go back to the basement.
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  13408. Their electrical codes predate Stalin, unfortunately. What a shame it would be if the kremlin were to burn down too.
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  13409. Oh, down in Idaho. It sounds so simple I just gotta go. Covid's so hot I can't get home. Guess I have to go now.
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  13410. Correct. Because if Putler wants to see Russia become a glassed surface, and its descendants be the pariahs of the world for all time to come, he knows what to do. And it's not the world's fault that he's so dumb he painted himself into a corner so spectacularly.
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  13411. Huh. What a coincidence. M1 Abrams arrive in Ukraine just as T14 Armatas are removed from the playing field.
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  13412. Wonder what this guy's internet search history & reading list look like. 😅 Perhaps he's stuck in a loop reading "Tarnsman of Gor" :(
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  13413.  @linuxrobotgeek  Congrats on recovering from that - but - how did you do it? I will gladly toil the rest of my life helping people escape from the rabbit hole, if only there's a way to do it.
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  13414. Trump lacks character, intelligence, morals, integrity, compassion, humility, and a sense of humor. In other words, he shouldn't be trusted to even drive a garbage truck.
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  13415. Also remember how the Tea Party and Fox disrespected former president Obama continually. While muttering that he was allegedly a deep-state marxist dictator with a Kenyan tribal mentality, they'd say fluff like, "Oh, we just disagree with his policies". Yah right. Pull the other one.
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  13416. He would do so much worse than that, actually. 45 is still EXTREMELY angry about having been removed from power. Anyone who didn't bend over backwards trying to get him back into power, by any means legal or otherwise, would suffer his retribution. And it would take mere hours for his compliant SCOTUS gang to agree that yes, a sitting president can order military resources to take out his opponents.
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  13417.  @Zeknif1 One imagines that other NATO aircraft have been patrolling NATO airspace with their flying sensor suites. Russia needs to go home before its dck gets pulled further into the wringer.
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  13418. Also on podcast. Google nest mini finds easily enough.
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  13419. I only came here to read the comments from the Trump supporters, who, if they were honest, would do as Herman Cain did - stand next to the president, don't wear a mask, and breathe in the freedumb. To the rest of us, watching, it's like seeing the trash take itself out.
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  13420. The easily-fooled ones are better known as lemmings .. and it's past time for the orange pied piper to lead his to the nearest cliff.
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  13421. Look behind you, it's almost up to 51K already.
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  13422. That's part of the aggrieved neo-confederacy thing he's trying to restart .. except that instead of the Mason-Dixon line, the divider seems to be around 95 IQ.
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  13423.  @wormsali  No thanks, I go out to the woods almost every day. Gotta get fresh air and exercise.
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  13424.  @wormsali  Hey, if you think Trump is right about how it's safe outside, prove it. Maybe touch a whole bunch of convenience store door handles then eat a bag of cips without washing your hands first. Dare ya.
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  13425. Remind me again what Fox/Sinclair/OAN do with their near-100% media coverage in rural places. They own their voting sheeple.
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  13426.  @stevenvox6549  Garland has until early 2025 to do this. He's got a 100% conviction rate, a 0% leakage rate, and his specialty is large-scale RICO offenses.
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  13427. Disgusting that Felon 45 could have sheriffs standing behind him on stage. Like seeing parents supporting Jeffrey Dahmer.
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  13428. I hope they just take the cash with a smile then go vote Democrat across the board. After all, capitalism means acting in your own best interests, right? And surely Trump claims he approves of that kind of thinking? People, you know what to do.
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  13429. @Oregon Motorcycle, that's an excellent question. The answer may lie in the fact that it's predominantly right-wingers who commit vehicle attacks. Signage such as the stuff shown in the article would be wasted on BLM protesters. Citation: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-rise-as-extremists-target-protesters
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  13430.  @OregunAdventure  Just to clarify, did you feel that way back when this was happening? https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/24986/video_gridlock_protest_of_michigan_stay-home_order_blocks_ambulance
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  13431.  @JungleLoveOeOeO  Got any actual proof of that? Or are you just spouting more right-wing nuttery?
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  13432. Think of it as the Republican version of cancel culture.
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  13433. Clearly these Republicans need to go beg Murdoch, Alex Jones, and the rest of the RWNJ media world to stop supporting Trump and his pet causes. And that will not happen.
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  13434.  @ReflectedMiles  When you let the Republicans do whatever they want, they try to disenfranchise all the people who won't vote for them, to balloon the deficit, to deny healthcare to as many people as possible, to exclude their political undesirables from the census count, and in general to remake America into a high-tech apartheid second-world state. When you let Democrats do whatever they want, they try to bring affordable healthcare and education to as many as possible, to lower the deficit, to improve America to its former first-world condition, and so on. They are hardly equal opposites.
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  13435.  @ReflectedMiles  Your argument failed completely where you claimed that " Given a choice, there are plenty of Democrats who would end the Republic" and then offered no proof of it. You get an F. Try better.
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  13436.  @ReflectedMiles  Are you ever-so-lamely attempting to claim that the Democrats are being oh-so-bad for the economy? You named California and Illinois. Here are the top states ranked by 2019 stage GDP in billions of US dollars: California $3137 Texas $1886 New York $1731 Florida $1093 Illinois $897 Pennsylvania $813 Ohio $698 New Jersey $644
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  13437.  @ReflectedMiles  Forgot to add this one - you will note how the blue states continually bankroll the red states. If they're allegedly so broke (as you claim) how could they do that? https://apnews.com/article/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c Your ignorance is your own problem, not mine.
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  13438.  @ReflectedMiles  Sorry, didn't mean to cause you this much squirming when challenged on your asinine assertion (above) about Democrat-run states are allegedly so bad economically. From the way you're defending a ludicrous and indefensible point, it's pretty clear that you're now stuck in a cycle of commitment escalation. Keep squirming. I can always use the laughs. And happy new year :)
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  13439.  @ReflectedMiles  Face it. The blue states are able to contribute more to the country than the red states. There's nothing wrong with their GDP. Life expectancies are better there, economic inequality is lower, etc etc etc. Your original assertion, on which you've based your many subsequent posts, was totally wrong. Thank you again for the laughs, sir.
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  13440.  @ReflectedMiles  Thank you for the morning laughs. When you wrote, "when their political management has been financially inept for decades" .. why is it that the effect you claim to see does not manifest through GDP, ability to bankroll the financial failings of the red states, to provide for the welfare of their citizens, and so on? Have you ever considered that you may be simply another doctrinaire party hack, armed only with beliefs that have no basis in reality? Just kidding. It's clear already that you'll do anything to admit that you're just another knee-jerk apparatchik, spouting the party line.
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  13441.  @ReflectedMiles  Despite your claims to be unaffiliated, the only so-called arguments you've attempted to make here all hinge upon "democrats bad", which in itself is easily disproved. You're just a marginally more articulate party hack than most other people online, is all. There's stuff smarter than you floating around in my cereal most mornings.
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  13442.  @ReflectedMiles  "Talented" is a subjective and relative term. You're far less than professional grade at this work, and that is what makes you a hack at it.
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  13443. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  13444. Couldn't they just move to some part of Putin's empire if they want to enjoy that brand of elections-don't-matter authoritarian living?
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  13445.  @user-jq4po4es8v  Correct, except children are not yet eligible for the vaccine. But otherwise, yes, it's like letting the trash take itself out. The IQ of society will go up as a result.
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  13446. Uggh, remind me why I don't miss living out east. That sh*t is nuts. If the country had been first settled on the west coast, most of the rest would have been a penal colony, that's how horrible the weather is.
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  13447.  Samsung McKone  Which of the 60+ upstream comments are you replying to? This thread is about a month old.
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  13448.  gregory williams  If the jackboot fits, Trump's people need to slide it on and start goose-stepping. Hat tip to Beau for that line.
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  13449.  Samsung McKone  Thanks for the explanation! It's become even more clear with McConnell's patent hypocrisy on confirming SCOTUS picks. 8 months before an election was much too soon to hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, but 6 weeks before an election is plenty of time to hold a hearing for Amy Barrett. Republicans seem to think they're above the law.
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  13450. Those who want to fuck up America are getting every dollar or ruble's worth out of those helping them, wittingly or otherwise.
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  13451.  @4T3hM4kr0n  The "getting shot down like crazy" outcome is not usually what happens when the A10 is used in combat situations. What makes you think so?
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  13452. Is there anyone who didn't see this day coming? The same guy whose very words are echoed by mass murderers in the manifestos they leave behind? The guy who's spent more than a decade pushing his hate agenda by twitter and FOXed Noise? If you're surprised by this, you haven't been paying attention.
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  13453. Seeing Mike Pillow title his big-lie package as "The Big Lie" only shows they've gone full circle from Orwellian-style names such as "Stop the Steal".
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  13454. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to overthrow a government without some cover for their members / Brownshirts who are breaking the law.
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  13455.  @michaelbutcher7758  I get news from any factual source, unlike those addled sheeple who only get it from Trump's twitter feed.
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  13456.  @michaelbutcher7758  Oh look, some Patriot Prayer fascists got arrested. Sucks to be stupid, sucks to be a nazi too. https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/21/oregon-legislature-special-session-protests/
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  13457. The only lesson Trump learned is that he has an unlimited supply of Susan Collins' and they're all dumb enough to be easily manipulated.
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  13458. It should be the public apology, repeated every hour for the next month or so, but a huge money settlement. Dominion, a good business, was harmed by this.
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  13459. Starting to think Moscow Mitch actually did America a favor by refusing to seat Garland on SCOTUS. Does he not have any sense of how his failure to indict an obvious criminal will later plunge America into far worse things? A coup that goes unpunished is merely a training exercise.
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  13460. Let's pray the news stays boring.
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  13461. Thankfully, Kari Lake has just Sarah Palin'd herself out of a career in politics by showing off her negative qualities loud and in living color. Instead just conceding gracefully (like Herschel Walker did) she clung to Trumpish election lies, which then got thrown out of court, and now she's just a future bag lady.
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  13462. Republicans believe in states rights only when it's convenient for them. Ditto for federal supremacy issues. After the Dobbs decision, when abortion rights were kicked back to the states, some places immediately enshrined those rights into law after ballot measures affirmed it. And Republicans were suddenly like, "Whoops, we didn't mean that kind of states rights :("
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  13463. This was nothing less than treason.
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  13464. Tucker Carlson: "How many Americans have died shortly after breathing air? Air is bad for you! Don't breathe!"
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  13465. Coming from Dump45, every accusation is secretly a confession. Just check out the look on his face when he delivers a certain punch line at his rallies - "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!"
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  13466. The actions of FOXed Noise make a lot more sense if you understand that they're trying to take down American democracy. Beau of the Fifth Column had a video on that subject recently that was pretty good - basically what the reich-wing media nuttery do was designed to spread division here in the US. The video is titled "Let's talk about what a news outlet should look like if it wants to"
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  13467. For the rest of us, who aren't delusional and don't see the world through rose-tinted glasses, we felt nauseated when Trump insisted on the execution of the Central Park Five despite the lack of evidence against them. They were later exonerated. He took out full-page newspaper ads to lay out his racist nonsense.
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  13468. It's not an act - it's the real thing 😅
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  13469. Also making Joe's kids rhetorically into what Trump's kids did literally in their white house roles. We know which of them tries to be like a mob boss, and it's not Joe.
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  13470. That rainbow flag ring was so perfect!!! Well done! :)
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  13471. "No criminal records"? Sorry, bro, attempted insurrection definitely doesn't look good on the rap sheet. Hope the FBI swoops down on all the traitors.
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  13472. DeSantis (through his board of education) has been pushing the deranged notion that slavery in the US was just another form of unpaid/underpaid internship, and that the lives of slaves were somehow bettered by the institution of slavery. This is but a short stretch from "they came here to steal OUR jobs!" for all the dimwit crackers out there, like the gunman.
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  13473. Go read up on project planning. You get stuff ready BEFORE you need it, not after or during.
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  13474. How quickly these batshit Clump appointees forget that Clump fired someone to make room for them. And now they have the amnesia to claim that it's wrong for a president to do what Clump did for them? Bleating moron sheeple. Put them out to pasture where they belong.
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  13475. Remember how Republicans screeched their tiny heads off when Obama wore a tan suit? They. Are. Nutjobs.
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  13476.  @andrewall411  Bullsht. Show the proof of this or go back to your Hoax News echo chamber.
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  13477.  @briangandee8149  And, to be fair to 45's remaining supporters (a shrinking base) their 'news' media choices somehow neglected to mention that 45 lost all of his court cases challenging the election results. They also didn't hear that all the cases were tossed for the same reason - lack of evidence. This was all public news by Christmas 2020. Ignorance is no excuse for treason.
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  13478. .. and they lived to talk about it? Huh.
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  13479. Analysis of major social gatherings in Feb 2020 shows that the gap between the event and the subsequent peak in coronavirus cases is around 42 days +/- 3 days. Looking back on some of the early spikes in new cases daily per state, it would appear that some of Trump's 2020 rallies were actually the main virus seeding events for those states.
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  13480. Domestic terrorism is one of the few jobs left in America where conservative white men do all the work but poor people and minorities are given all the credit. Usually it's the other way around.
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  13481. Didn't Hitler once say something like that? Worked great for him too, LOL.
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  13482. The last 5 years has revealed that our system of checks and balances is no more integral than the people running it. With the senate leader, the Supreme Corp, the DOJ, and other federal agencies in the back pocket of a greasy president, there's apparently no limit to the damage he can do.
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  13483. Putin's done something pretty remarkable .. he's made the USSR look pretty responsible compared to Russia under him. And that's saying something.
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  13484.  @gundamzing  This is not a peer war, it is simply an inept Lebensraum grab on the part of Putin. If Russia had been fighting the US (or, god forbid, NATO) directly then this would have been over quite a while ago.
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  13485. But, honestly, they should accept 45 as he really is, warts and all. They need to be OK with it when he mispronounces common words, can't keep a train of thought, veers into senile prattle about plumbing and sharks and how the British seized the airports in 1776. That's who he really is.
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  13486.  @junerussell6972  Yes. They don't care. Kind of like how they didn't think out what would happen when they override an election that everyone knows he lost, and when every court in the land upheld his loss. There is no happy ending to that election overriding business.
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  13487. About the US post office .. Donald Trump loves to say how useless it is, but then the US postal service is the #1 choice in terms of price and service for sending out those millions of stimulus checks, census forms, and other government correspondence. It's as if one small part of the government (Trump) hasn't got a clue about the best business practices of the rest of the country.
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  13488. Just asking, but did Trump/Miller have another pipeline arranged to meet America's insatiable demand for illegal narcotics? Perhaps a Russia-Taliban pipeline? Cutting off the Mexico pipeline would have just resulted in the demand being met by other means.
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  13489. Whoops on Kansas taking limits off church gatherings. According to the worldmeters data, in the past 7-day span Kansas went from 165 cases/M to 360 cases/M, an increase of 118%. Perhaps they feel those are "rookie numbers" that need to be "pumped up"? South Dakota had the highest week-over-week case rate increase, jumping 211% from 146/M to 455/M. The Republican governor of South Dakota said she doesn't like the "herd mentality" and won't shut down. SMH :(
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  13490. I was hoping his conversation with president Biden would do some of that. Looks like the payload was delivered.
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  13491.  @nandolopes9897  No no no no. No nuclear. And the west better be prepared to welcome Russia back to the civilized world ASAP when they take care of their mini-Trump back home. As they surely will.
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  13492. Seems as if the White House needs a warning sign telling people that they are entering the Fox News Alternative Universe.
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  13493. And if she was rich and white, she'd be a guest on Fox pretty quickly.
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  13494. How could Lyin' Leningrad Lindsey have known that consequences follow crime? Here's what he had to say about impeachment back in 1999: “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
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  13495. Parent post - correct. One of their own (damaged; childish; narcissistic; vain) finally got elected and they LOVE how he made them feel.
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  13496. Reich wing anti government types at it again, obviously. Funded by the same folks who fund the closure of the Ottawa border.
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  13497. As if his disdain for the rule of law wasn't already complete enough .. :(
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  13498. Yup. Gun owners celebrating their right to do their thing.
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  13499. 45 lost both his popular elections. If we can force the Republicans to carry their nonviable candidate to term (heh) he will lose it for a third time.
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  13500. MAGA is but the menace that moves on tracks that Fox Noise lays down for it. Fox keeps people in fear, thinking tribally, framing everything as us-vs-them. Trump aims the machine. Death threats from angry people are what keep the wannabe defectors in line.
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  13501. @Morlock in Training Err, the US will probably be at 100,000 deaths by around May 17th - May 20th assuming nothing changes the nearly-linear rise in deaths. Let me know if you need some numbers backup on this.
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  13502. One can best see Trump for what he is by observing his effects on others. And his effects are along the lines of those of Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Adolph Hitler.
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  13503. Because the vaccine-induced immunities are not at full levels until at least 2 weeks after the second of two doses. This has been widely covered for months now .. where have you been?
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  13504. AOL is still around??
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  13505. So much for the party of small government and keeping government from interfering with businesses. No doubt the same Republicans would cry foul if the government of China ordered Fakebook and Microsoft to sell their Chinese assets to Huawei.
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  13506. All the whiny thin-skinned crybaby boys in the world must be happy that one of their own is running the USA for a change. Are they tired of all this "winning" yet? Maybe someone should ask the 100K+ dead Americans that question.
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  13507. Folks, stand back and stand by as Saint Darwin does his good work.
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  13508.  @FishinGriffin  Re "seats belts are the cause of many deaths in high speed accidents" << Au contraire, my dense and ignorant friend. Seat belts are 45%/50% effective at preventing death/serious injury in the event of a serious accident. Hint: 45% is still better than 0%.
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  13509. A third of the country is comprised of people with IQs of 92 or under. And when Trump sends his people, he doesn't send the best. Some of them have real problems.
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  13510. Welcome to Trump's idea of America, where telling the truth is a punishable offense. Hannah, that's not the America I grew up in. Let's fix this ASAP.
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  13511.  @jlvandat69  The outcome I particularly fear (if Putin is replaced, if another type of strongman takes his place) is that the new guy would immediately redeploy to prevent Russian losses all over the Federation territory. Thanks to their famously heavy-handed approach, Russian rule is unpopular in former Soviet republics. Methinks this is why the west isn't giving Ukraine enough stuff quickly enough to end the conflict decisively. There is much geopolitical advantage to the west to keep Russia tied down and bleeding longer rather than shorter.
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  13512. To be fair to Tr*mp, he hasn't received enough of the signals that would have normally informed a person that they were making big mistakes. He won the popular vote, though with less than 50% of all votes cast. He did bad things in office, was twice impeached, yet both times Turtle McConnell just lamely said, "We're with him." He did more bad things, and AG Garland wasted a lot of time doing nothing about it. We don't have rules here requiring any honesty in reporting, so there were many media outlets echoing the GOP lies in the run-up to the election. It is as if we have deliberately withheld the price discovery process on one shady company in particular.
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  13513. At first I thought perhaps we lend-leased Ukraine a Seawolf class submarine, but then I realized it's just the usual Russian ineptitude when it comes to maintenance and safety.
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  13514. Out in Flatlandistan, the restless reich-wing natives are taking the DOJ's inaction as a sign that it's OK to commit insurrection.
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  13515.  @fazdoll  Oh dear god. Whoever abused your trust and told you that you had any intelligence? They did you a disservice. Here's the thing: random people can pass covid easily to each other just by breathing near each other. The same cannot be said of pregnancy. Guess which one of the two is spreading faster. Guess which one of those things has testing programs that have been minimized by people like Florida governor DeSatan. Think hard.
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  13516.  @uselesscause6128  Re "I hate to see it get this bad." Same. In spades. I am wearing out keyboards (but not friendships) trying to convince people to get off their misinformation feeds and get with the program, despite their political objections to the vaccine. This is simple science. The more lives we save (even if they are nutballs who suck down the dumbest propaganda that doesn't withstand 10 seconds of fact-checking) the better. Stupid and brainwashed as they are, they're still people.
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  13517. Freaking out couldn't happen to a better bunch of traitors, fascists, and wannabe Axis Sally's.
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  13518.  @BoundariesMaintained  Thank you :)
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  13519. Those dudes are the world's dumbest useful idiots. They got suckered into doing the #1 thing that will cause normal people to look at it and think, Wtf, we need better gun laws. Out in the real world, responsible gun owners use them for target shooting, hunting, or carrying concealed. Not for walking into the coffee shop as if you're under fire in Mogadishu.
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  13520. Once upon a time, they had to deport Typhoid Mary to her own island, because she kept doing things that spread typhoid. We're just going to need a bigger island this time for those who insist on being part of the problem. #FreeDumb
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  13521. Regarding "is that the majority can't vote away the rights of the minority" << There's a flip side to that too: the minority doesn't get to rule the roost. The sorry state of the pandemic in the USA shows us that a minority of anti-mask anti-vax nutters can ruin things for the whole country by continuing to spread the disease.
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  13522. It's OK, Nancy, you're in good company. Leslie Van Houten felt "pressured" by the other Manson Family cult members to engage in crime.
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  13523.  @eclipsehorse8693  45, being a psychotic narcissist, probably cannot understand that being the titular head of a large organization does not necessarily mean that you are the king and lifetime ruler of said organization, and able to call on personal fealty from all its members. This is a guy whose only "employment" has been running his own very-badly-run businesses while losing lots of OPM - other people's money - in the process.
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  13524. Costs too much for Republican tastes. Witness how US corporate farms rely on low-wage migrant/immigrant labor but won't provide PPE for those people (it costs "too much", they say) so those people are dropping like flies.
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  13525.  @alexandradaniele  Oregon has had vote-by-mail for more than 20 years and it has super-low levels of fraud.
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  13526. "Why did the rumor start in the first place?" followed by "Who on god's green earth is dumb enough to believe that?"
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  13527. At this point, Trump's lies about the 2020 election have become a matter of religious orthodoxy among the Confederates, right up there with still being mad that Lincoln freed "their" "farm equipment" :(
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  13528.  @JS-jr1fo  I am of the same mind. So China has got everyone holed up in their apartment complexes? Each of those will be like a mini Diamond Princess, a fertile breeding ground for the virus to spread. The fact that people are infectious even before they show symptoms (including elevated temperature) is what's dooming any containment efforts. In the end, the only groups of people that won't get this are the ones isolated aboard submarines and the space station and boats that have been out for a long time.
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  13529. Clearly Texas has slipped over the whackadoo threshold. Forcing a mother to bear a dead fetus to term, possibly risking her own life? Even Dr Menegele, the famed Nazi medical torturer, didn't do that. Jeez Texas :(
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  13530.  @Ohnanawhatsmynamee  There you go, full of nonsense and making stuff up. Nowhere did I mention defunding the police or getting rid of guns. Is that the best you've got? Really? Try again.
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  13531. Yeah, yeah, tell us again when he caused more than 170,000 Americans to die because he downplayed the severity of a very real public health crisis.
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  13532. There appears to have been no major vote fraud. Instead, some ~10 million otherwise Democrat-voting people just somehow decided that Harris wouldn't be harsh enough on Israel, so they allowed someone into office who will be far, far worse for the indigenous peoples of the middle east. They let perfect be the enemy of better.
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  13533.  @donnacollins1356  It's already being lined up to go full Marshall Plan on Ukraine when this is over. They're going to get modern everything. And I'm sure the US will get an air base somewhere west of Kyiv but not too far away. Meanwhile, across the RU border, there will still be cousins who never see flush toilets or washing machines.
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  13534.  @EE-kt8sh  Not crying. But Putin's little trollbots (that's you, fool) are earning and posting a lot less than before. That's good. The value of the ruble is going to sink even lower.
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  13535. SCOTUS is in a bind over this. On the one hand they want to enable Trump to spew his election lies, and to make sure that no punishment comes to the people who choose to amplify and spread Trump's calls to commit extremist political violence .. but at the same time they want to make it possible to censor anything that could offend Lord Tinyhands.
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  13536. It is much worse than that. They were trying to put a whole different kind of government in place - one that has nothing to do with the will of the people, which, left on its own, would vote them out and they know it.
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  13537.  @suzannalytle2758  I work with someone like that. She's a walking health risk of obesity and bad shape and other conditions. Yet she gets the "news" from the Blaze and natters on about Bill Gates and microchips and mind control.
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  13538. Yah. This is like hotter than the Cold War ever got. Worse than Cuban Missile Crisis hot. This is "active probing of territorial defense measures" hot. Wonder what the defcon number is right now.
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  13539. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to slow or stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for me! DeSantis: You heard the man.
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  13540. The first gravest danger is Trump's tax cuts to the richest. The second greatest danger was two unfunded wars in the middle east, and all the veteran care obligations that followed. The third greatest was the Wall Street bailout of 2008. Republicans broke the budget, then complain that it's broken. Jeez :(
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  13541. Democracy got of the GQP crazy campaign bus awhile back. Stalin would love them as collaborators.
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  13542. Being able to use his cult members to threaten people is how Trump has stayed in the game.
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  13543.  @fionaanderson5796  Intolerance is a cancer in a civil society. Tolerate it, and you won't have said civil society for long.
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  13544.  @fionaanderson5796  I fear we're near there already. Just in the last two days, there was some nutjob action to shut down a vaccination center, then armed nutters started showing up at a hospital.
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  13545. I had to explain to a conservative friend the other day that this is the closest the USA has ever been to the Red Dawn scenario. It would go something like this. Trump loses the election, but wins only in rural counties, so he calls it a rebellion and graciously invites his buddies Putin and Kim Jong Un to help him suppress the "rebellion". The guy already said he believes Putin over the US intelligence agencies.
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  13546. So far in the US, the closed-case survival rate is a tad under 98%. And that's only because we've mostly slowed it to where the hospitals are not completely overwhelmed everywhere. When oxygen therapy is not provided during critical times, the survival rate can drop down to 80%. That's about what's going to happen in many poor nations that cannot vaccinate in time - a decimation :(
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  13547.  @declaninc  Regarding "No need for a vaccine" << It's good to know that you're not in a position to make medical choices for other people, otherwise we might be calling you Dr Mengele's stupid grandchild.
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  13548.  @declaninc  Regarding "statistics will always speak louder" << They're trying to speak to you quite loudly. You're either not listening or not hearing. And if that's the case, save the vaccine dose for someone more deserving of survival.
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  13549.  @declaninc  Re "Is that russian misinformation?" << Why no. You're simply wrong, like all the other idiots or ComBloc trolls who aren't paid enough. I was very clear: the closed-case death ratio is a little over 2% here in the US, and that's only when the spread rate is kept low enough that hospitals everywhere are not overwhelmed at the same time. Then the death rate can rise to up around 20%. Getting oxygen treatment at critical times is essential. Like I said - I have no trouble with idiots going unvaccinated. It's just a convenient way for them to subtract themselves from the gene pool. Plus the bargains on Craigslist.
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  13550.  @declaninc  Regarding "As for the 20% thing that is just some fear mongering" << No again, dummy. If you had been paying attention to the worldometers page on this thing since its very inception in late March last year (as I did) you would have seen how, in NYC and other places, before the therapies were better understood, and in situations where hospitals were completely overwhelmed, the death rate temporarily went up to 16%-21%. So you're either a delusional westerner, a western propagandist, or a really really really inept ComBloc troll working out of mama's basement in Belarus. Take your pick. Yes, they are all bad choices, but that's part of the cost of being dead wrong with almost everything you say.
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  13551. The disease is still spreading. How dumb are you? "Narrative"? Wtf?
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  13552. What the senate did was nothing but a popularity contest along party lines. Without exculpatory evidence (indeed, the Republicans worked hard to block evidence) there could be no acquittal anyway. To the 75%+ Americans who wanted witnesses & evidence introduced, it was an acquittal in name only, and Trumpf is obviously guilty AF.
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  13553. Back in WW2, they had a word for people who helped the Nazis get into power. The term for that kind of person is Nazi.
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  13554. No, Biden will win a second term once Trump cleaves off his Manson-family nutters from the GOP. But let's not tell them that. Let them figure it out too late.
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  13555. As citizens of a country that actually has put people's heads on sticks in the past for public display, those working hard to crash out of the EU -- and thus cause the value of the pound to drop precipitously just as the cost of imports rises drastically (vastly increasing homelessness, joblessness, food security, income security, etc) -- might want to make escape plans sooner rather than later, because the effects will be felt fairly quickly.
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  13556. In a twist of irony that Republicans cannot understand, they are being forced to bear a nonviable candidate to term. There's a lesson for them.
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  13557. You are familiar with how the price discovery process is part of how the market works? Same thing with this. Good people are going to leave, and Portland is going to become an even worse hell hole, before the tide changes and it begins to get better again.
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  13558. She read the wind correctly. Only in hard-right deep-MAGA places does Trump win the R primaries. Everywhere else, not so much.
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  13559.  @jabbermocky4520  With some help from Trump's minions in the House, the country is getting an object lesson in why the R's shouldn't even be trusted to manage a glow stick safely.
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  13560.  @siderealvision  The US economy has never failed to rebound no matter what happened - and the 1918 pandemic messed things up badly. Many wars, economic crashes, earthquake, fire, whatever, we get the market going soon after the problem is resolved. But for now we must save every life.
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  13561. Actually we need the cops just now, since the little rooster boyz gang are getting uppity while carrying weapons, wearing body armor, and using chemical weapons on the police.
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  13562.  @HTownCharlieBrown  Have you got any proof of what the "establishment" wants? Show me the memo/email once it's been vetted by a top level news agency such as AP or Reuters. TIA.
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  13563.  @HTownCharlieBrown  That's because I live in a world of facts, not conspiracy theories. I'm a doubter. Before believing in [whatever] I want to see the proof/evidence for it. And when people make outrageous claims without offering any proof (even when asked) they're just showing off the way they're not very tethered to reality.
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  13564. To be sure, investigations into the Bidens are a lot more palatable to senate Republicans than, say, asking why Trump just spent 2 months gaslighting and denying the scale of the coronavirus emergency coming our way - all while he tried to cut CDC funding. His actions will cost the lives of millions of Americans and trillions of dollars in economic losses. But, hey, Rudy's been busy with OANN ginning up a false narrative about those Bidens.
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  13565. Remember when Moscow-Mitch McConnell told Obama that 8 months before an election was much too close to election time to appoint someone to SCOTUS .. and then turned around and let Trump do the same just 8 weeks before an election? That's what you're going to be most known for, Mitch. Your name is mud.
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  13566. They systematically violated Hague 33.
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  13567.  @Echo81Rumple83  Here's another one from back them. All things being equal, your first instincts are usually the most correct ones. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  13568. But Republicans won't do it, and they're in charge of all branches of government.
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  13569. Cult sheeple who hate their own country with a passion.
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  13570. Biden already told him what would happen - Russia would lose its conventional forces in short order. Everything sunk, shot down, blown up.
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  13571.  @haveanicedave1551  Hey twat. There was once a time when New York had less than 100 deaths too. Are you eager for California to become the next New York type hotspot? Because that's what happens without masks & distancing. You think this virus went away just because you got cabin fever?
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  13572. @Jack Stefan That's because this thing is something that goes "viral", if you get my meaning. Do you know the meaning of the word "viral"?
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  13573. @Jack Stefan Let's do some numbers. At the end of 4/1, Cali had 9,807 confirmed cases and 210 deaths. At the moment it's got 43,703 confirmed cases and 1,720 deaths. Would you say things have gotten better or worse since 4/1?
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  13574. @Jack Stefan If by age and conditions you are trying to imply that some American lives are worth more than others, don't go there. America leads the way in cases and deaths.
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  13575. @Jack Stefan Of course it is not an automatic death sentence. Even you will have noted that the CFR is under 100%. But feel free to prove me wrong .. go lick some convenience store door handles and sanitize them afterwards, or hang out with those loons protesting health measures - get close to them, breathe deeply, and don't wear a mask. If this thing is as minor as you claim it is, there's nothing to worry about. But I doubt you are able to put your money where your mouth is. Your kind never is.
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  13576. @Jack Stefan Call me back in two months, if you're still above ground then and not on a ventilator. Just because you can't see the virus doesn't mean it's not there.
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  13577. @Jack Stefan You seem to act like it's not there, but as far as we know, this whole thing started with just one (1) person in Wuhan being the initial case. So the story in Cali (or wherever you are) isn't over until it's over.
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  13578. @Jack Stefan Who's hiding under a bed? Are you projecting again? Most of the time I go out to the woods, but if I have to be in stores I wear a mask and gloves.
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  13579.  @richard1472  Wrong question. Try this one on: when was the last time any foreign nation declared war on the US?
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  13580. @Ozsportscard Collector 2.5 Things have historically not worked out very well for those who declare war on the US. (BTW I agree with the supposition about how WW3 has already started .. and the proximate opener was Putin's invasion of Ukraine) This one's going to be more complicated. Instead of just a straight-up Axis vs Allies thing (and we know who they are) there will be a number of fence-sitters like India & Turkey trying to play it both ways. The GDP numbers by nation are unfortunately not a good gauge of the potential warmaking capabilities of the various nations. As Julia Ioffe and many others have noted, Russia can play long hard games, as can China, NK, Iran.
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  13581. Judge Beer Bong has been reminded of who he owes his SCOTUS seat to, and acted just like we all thought he would. Wait til it's Amy Handmaid's Tale's turn .. she'll say all kinds of nonsense about how the president can pardon himself and edit the census numbers and voting numbers.
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  13582. The feeling is at least somewhat mutual. The last few times Trump appeared in an actual public crowd (not a press briefing, not his crazy-train rallies) he was loudly booed by the crowd. President snowflake, the loudest bully in the room, also has the thinnest skin. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/opinions/president-donald-trump-deserves-booing-obeidallah/index.html
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  13583.  @allgotterer  Are Trump's supporters done trying to burn America to the ground? No - they will never stop trying. But the forces arrayed against them now are a lot stronger than they were as of just 2 years ago.
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  13584. Vance even admitted to making up stories to highlight things. That's very much like when Goebbels put out "the Criminal Jew", a rag filled with made-up stories about Jewish Germans supposedly doing bad things.
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  13585. The "red wave" was really just another ketchup stain on the wall at Mar a Loser. Fresh ones have no doubt been joining it this week.
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  13586. Hatriotism and angertainment are what bind Trump's followers together.
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  13587.  @karl-niclas_burner  Yup, that's the tingly feeling they get when their Orange Jesus asks them to break the law.
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  13588.  @TruthSeeker1511  If you want more than that, suggest you watch all of the J6 Committee hearing videos which are archived on youtube. You may want to read "Oath and Honor", the new book by Liz Cheney. Lastly, here is how then Senate leader McConnell put it: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation except an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  13589. She was being too damn nice. They are more like "despicables". Wanting to make America about as politically stable as Haiti :(
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  13590. If, as they claim, he never said that it was a hoax .. then why are all his trolls, paid or otherwise Stockholmed into submission, trying so hard to deny it?
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  13591. Remember what Lev Parnas did when Trump tried to DK him? (pretend he didn't know him) It motivated Mr Parnas to go straight to the prosecutors and offer full cooperation. Wonder what dirt he has on Ghouliani? We'll know soon enough.
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  13592. Republicans are taking a page from Orwell - their attempt to overturn an 80million-vs-73million election is being called "stop the steal". Those Trumpers may as well be famous for chanting "2+2=5".
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  13593. If they can't win elections, Republicans won't reject the retrograde agenda that causes them to lose votes. They will just reject democracy instead.
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  13594. Although Trump claims not to know Lev Parnas, the recording shows the US president taking Mr Parnas so seriously that in just 20 seconds he goes from not knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed, all based on one (1) person's point of view - someone he claims not to know.
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  13595.  @roaddog7793  Not only that - look at how the MAGA faithful respond to the notion of civil war, the country on fire, dictatorship, widespread racial violence, prison camps. No sane person would want any of those things. Yet they salivate over those things :(
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  13596. They must have traded a bit of oil to buy it back from North Korea or whatever other place had it.
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  13597. Which fools do you mean? The red states take more federal money than they give; the blue states give more federal money than they receive. Most of the red states would look like District 9 within a decade or less .. with tax revenues falling, the environment falling apart, they'd keep passing laws against abortion.
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  13598.  @jakelong5931  Except they're not. Education, nutrition, life expectancy, access to jobs, access to healthcare etc are all better in cities than out in the sticks.
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  13599. Remember when Trump privately offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, then got rebuffed, then denied ever making the offer? Every time Trump changed his story, the underlings out in the field scurried to change their positions to whatever he had just said. First he denies. Then he says he was just joking. Then he says everyone does it. And so on.
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  13600. Like all other Republicans, DeathSantis can't explain how banning gay people will fix inflation.
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  13601.  @chrisbacos  Keeping the MAGA herd agape with culture war nonsense is not the same as governing effectively. DeathSantis is a manifestation of Barnum's Law.
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  13602.  @JustARandomFio  Russia apparently can't do anything to stop slow-moving Cessnas from delivering very small warheads to refineries and arms manufacturing facilities. Their bad luck will presumably be somewhat worse when instead it's F35s delivering 2000lb bombs. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been summoned and given an office and staff.
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  13603. @wlo6 It took more than just one wrong person. It took a large minority (about the same % backing Hitler had when he seized power) passionately believing his lies - it took the backing of at least one foreign troll army to work social media and use that "both parties are the same" lie to get people to sit out the election - it took one of the two main political powers to turn a blind eye to Trump's abuses and to put their assent to every measure of his, no matter how ruinous to the nation they were. That we have so many traitors among us is a crime, but, thankfully, there are solutions for that.
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  13604. I'm going to re-read "the Stand" just in case that mortality rate is as bad as it looks.
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  13605. Unfortunately you've already got places like Idaho-istan and eastern Oregon salivating at the jackboot to make abortion unavailable ASAP. It seems unlikely that they'll stop with that - a simple perusal of their cult leader's archived tweets implies that in some places, immigrants might get hunted down, Blacks might not get to eat at the same lunch counter again (except on the 5th Sunday of the month), the local Y'all Quaida types will be removing what they deem "inappropriate material" from the school curriculum .. these people want to go back to the Dark Ages with a passion :(
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  13606. Only 13? Surely they'll find more if they look deeper. These people had even more disrespect for the law than Charles Manson, Al Capone, and the Zodiac Killer combined.
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  13607. It's weird, but lots of people don't want to marinate in a sea of covid at their jobs. And lots of people don't want their workplace randomly shut down due to covid outbreaks. Go figure.
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  13608. It should be an incredibly frightening wake-up call that the current Republican idea of "fair and balanced" is for them to be in charge of everything.
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  13609. Republicans: we don't want America to be able to compete with China. We'd rather kill it ourselves by keeping its aging infrastructure firmly stuck in the 1950s. /sarc
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  13610.  @1USA1st  Like I said, the only people who oppose it are the ones who want our grandkids to be living in the future equivalent of a fallen-down nation. That's what you want?
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  13611. And then all of his lemmings will insist it was just a joke, or he meant it for the first day only, or that it's just his usual exaggeration. Kind of like when Hitler told Chamberlain that he wasn't interested in any more invasions after dismembering Czechoslovakia.
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  13612. Even if Republicans lose the vote, they're rigging the election results ahead of time. "Alternative slates of electors"? How has this sh*t not been shut down so hard that it leaves a mark?
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  13613. News flash: the Venn diagram of these book-banners and Trump supporters is like two concentric circles.
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  13614. They're the party of profoundly damaged people more than they are the party of law and order these days :(
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  13615. That was his "taking a dump" music.
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  13616. Truly the GOP wedded themselves to Orange 45. In the 2020 election, they ditched any platform entirely and just filled the space with, "Whatever Trump says".
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  13617. Knowing this makes me want to have a conversation with someone about white balance and upping the brightness right on the camera to fix some of the visual aspects.
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  13618.  @NyreeKrikorian  I'm thinking Sanders' VP choice will be a surprise - possibly Bloomberg?
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  13619. That lady needs a flash convoy to get her the F outta that hell hole place.
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  13620.  Joeneyrd  Bullshit, you fat lying partisan toadie. The video was pretty clear. I look forward to when I no longer need to spend an hour or two every morning pointing out to the Trumpanzees exactly how nutball crazy they have to be to approve of trying to run a campaign organizers' bus off the road during an election. They're way beyond just needing remedial civics education .. by their actions they're more like religious jihadists.
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  13621.  @someonerandom704  Re "Corporate greed. Those workers shouldn't have even been in the plant while there was a 5 am tornado." << To add to that - Amazon has a huge carbon footprint (helping cause climate instability which could have led to the tornado) and was launching tourists into space within 48 hours.
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  13622.  @enturnetrol7869  Awwww did your tender feefees got hut again? Tuck them away before I kick you again. FFS.
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  13623. I like to think of FOXed Noise (and its content) as a sort of voluntary poison that certain people choose to pass around among their associates. Like when people share a jar of gasoline to take drinks from. Avoiding it is easy - the stuff tastes like shit, and anyone with half a brain knows it will kill them. Yet some people are addicted to it, go figure. You may notice there are fewer and fewer of those people around with every passing week.
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  13624. I for one am not counting on any hypothetical fed-up military folks. Fox plays 24/7 at military bases.
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  13625. Sorry, but the guy should be on the hook for what he did - in that case, help bring a new person into the world. Unless you are thinking sperm bank artificial insemination?
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  13626. Funny you should mention that. That document about how to attack Iran is missing.
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  13627.  @patrickjenkins9167  Please feel free to share :)
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  13628. Who could have guessed that a bloviating, misleading, disinformation-disseminating, election-lie-spewing network wouldn't be taken seriously by this administration? /sarc
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  13629. By needlessly succumbing to coronavirus (instead of taking the FREE safe vaccine which is readily available here in the USA) they are making sure someone, anyone, replaces them. Any sane adults will be fine by me.
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  13630. Now is not the time for the leaders of the west to emulate the example of Neville Chamberlain. Appeasement is the act of feeding your neighbors to a hungry alligator, hoping it eats them before you.
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  13631. Source?
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  13632. Remember all those cronies in "acting" capacity, so he could install crazies that even his GOP senate allies could not confirm?
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  13633.  @patbrennan6572  Are you kidding? 45's hold over America's dimwits is impressive. Look at how many of those "we keep guns to defend our freedumbs against tyranny!" types were happy to do 45's bidding to install tyranny here. They've obviously learned well to disregard what "their own lying eyes" are telling them :(
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  13634. Just tell Trump that if he persists in this nuttiness, we're going to use it on him to bring Obama back for his 3rd, 4th, and 5th terms. All we need to do is send in alternate slates of electors. We got this.
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  13635. More important things like Hunter's laptop you mean LOLOLOL
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  13636. Luckily for these conspirators, they are magically off the hook when under the influence of a cult leader. Just like Leslie Van Houten. Not!!!
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  13637. Poor Ben. The total number of citizens killed by police per year is WAY IN EXCESS of any trouble caused at protests / riots. He better distance himself from Wussolini.
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  13638. They said that about Hitler too in the early 30s :(
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  13639. All of this was clear long before he sought the Republican nomination. Did IQ's drop sharply in America the last decade?
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  13640. Moscow Mitch knows that without an assist from Trump's boss Putin, the Republicans won't be winning anything for the next generation or two.
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  13641. He never ever wanted to lead, or even said he would lead. He only wanted to rule.
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  13642. Trump's only way to make a small fortune is to start off with a large fortune in other people's money and then not try to lose it as rapidly as he did before. Sure, sure, put that one in charge of the economy. What could possibly go wrong?
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  13643. It was clear quite a ways back that Trump's bootlickers and fellators need to be removed. Who else remembers this chain of events from the fall of 2019, when Republicans showed their true colors? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Moscow Mitch: The Senate is in total lockstep with Trump on whatever he says. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  13644. In all fairness to the Republicans - if they can point out which of Obama's or Biden's advisers participated in an insurrection to overturn legitimate voting results, it would be much appreciated. crickets
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  13645. It also means that party secretary Trumpski's fanboys will be attempting to troll nonsense here. They'd make Neville Chamberlain proud.
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  13646. Does Hawley already forget that commie-like fist pump he gave to the DC insurrectionists before they launched their attack? That picture of him doing that should make great fodder.
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  13647. Like the way fictional FBI agent Mulder desperately "wanted to believe" in flying saucers, Wussolini is very desperate to believe even complete lies as long as they can weave into his narrative of poor people bad, activists bad, rich white men good.
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  13648. Stockholm Syndrome - like a battered girlfriend, they think he loves them. He says all the right racist, ignorant things to make them feel he's one of them.
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  13649. There is apparently already a resistance working in Russia to hinder Putin's ability to conduct offensive warfare. There may soon be many more 'unexplained' fires.
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  13650. Living independently on an island might work, or if you're in a well-provisioned submarine that left port prior to maybe Christmas. Otherwise it is a dice roll, first for government incompetence, then for whether you get sick, then for how seriously sick you get. If you can, prepare for disruptions to whatever systems bring food to the stores. Keep up on sleep, exercise, vitamins, hydration.
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  13651. Tonight on Fox Noise - a long loop of firemen rescuing kittens from trees.
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  13652. Pretending that Trump's very public disdain for brown people (and for the law) has nothing to do with the cruel & inhumane treatment meted out by uniformed ICE/CBP people (and their 3% brethren) is like pretending that there's no connection between "Mein Kampf" and the treatment meted out by the SS in the camps and death camps. What other secret FB groups like this are there? And shame, shame, shame on FB (and any other social media platform) for enabling this kind of insane nonsense. How long will it be before the administration decides that there are too many walking talking witnesses to its many violations of human rights?
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  13653. No doubt Thomas & Kavanaugh are busy trying to figure out how to give Trump full immunity for life without also giving the same to Biden. And Trump is an ex-president just as Obama is one too - they are on equal standing at this point.
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  13654. Sometime tonight, when the ketchup is running down the walls, Dump will be doing his best to incite his cult followers to some not-so-civil unrest. So stand back and stand by.
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  13655. Every day in America it's like this: Fauci: “Donald, more than 12,000 people have died from coronavirus in the US as of yesterday.” Trump: “That's a nasty question. I haven’t heard about anyone dying from this. Who ever heard of such a thing?”
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  13656.  CJoe 1111  Oh really. Maybe you should watch Trump's daily press briefings then, so you can see for yourself how he continually lies, deflects, blames, denies, etc. Sounds like you're completely unfamiliar with the facts.
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  13657.  CJoe 1111  Here, listen to the president's very own words with the virus timeline superimposed. Then tell us which parts of it (if any) were fabricated. Go on, I dare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHK-weecnLM
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  13658. @Swanzo Who wants to hear from Trumptards anyway? In case y'all haven't figured it out, you're like the prom date who shows up with shit smeared all over his pants and smelling of whiskey.
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  13659. It was beautiful. First the Republicans complained about closed hearings, so they were opened and then Republicans didn't want people to hear that material. Then Republicans complained about lack of firsthand witnesses to the call, so witnesses came forward and spoke. Let's see where the Republicans move the goalposts to this week.
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  13660.  @nonyabizness.original  Err, except when Matt PizzaGaetz stormed in, guns blazing based on some internet conspiracy theory.
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  13661. All "woke" has ever meant, honestly, is that you're aware of American history complete with warts and all, and not just the whitewashed, sanitized version taught in Klan homeschooling.
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  13662. In retrospect, we should perhaps thank Trump for moving through society like a big litmus test and illuminating which so-called Americans are most easily turned into willing fifth columnists. And if we run out of jail space for them, build some camps. But they don't belong in general circulation. They are the firebugs looking for the original copies of the constitution.
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  13663. Here in the "great United States of America", the confirmed case counts will probably always be something like 1% or less of the actual cases out there. Why? Because in this sorry corporations-are-first-citizens place, not only do you get charged for the test but you get charged for your quarantine later. Poor people will not be tested. Workers who can't afford to miss any work won't be tested (that's most everyone in food service, by the way). Homeless people won't be tested. I assume the true scope of this disaster won't be known until enough people are found dead in their homes or other places.
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  13664. If he can get his pet lawyer to argue that anything he does to stay in power is legal (because it's in the interest of the country, haha) then it's only a short step to argue that the 2020 elections aren't needed, or that any adverse returns can be disregarded.
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  13665. For those of you who like Beau of the Fifth Column, here's the video he put out about the situation in Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q68nIHKPOw
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  13666. Actually they live in the Trump-verse BECAUSE they care more about feelings than facts. Plus they're mentally shallow enough to both-sides anything.
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  13667.  @rhonda6791  Glad to hear! But you can live so normally only because your government really does shut things down when 2 new cases are found. Over here in the US, there were never any controls on people traveling from place to place, state to state, flying on planes, spending the year road-tripping all over, etc. Evidence seems to indicate that Trump wanted everyone else to get it quickly so as to develop herd immunity - even as he had everyone around himself constantly tested so that he could avoid getting it himself.
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  13668.  @rhonda6791  I doubt it was eugenics. If so, he's been killing off the people most likely to watch FOXed Noise and vote Republican, which would be entirely in line with his clumsy, inept ways of doing anything outside propagandizing. He's good at that.
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  13669. Kind of the same way the Republicans simultaneously referred to Obama as both "a weak, ineffectual leader" and "a total dictator".
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  13670. @An Trinh FYI Comments that consist only of a link, with no text, are more spam than comments. Cat got your tongue?
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  13671.  Kenny King  She was running a chain of breakfast restaurants at that rate :(
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  13672. So far down the rabbit hole, they'll pass right through the core and come up somewhere west-southwest of Perth.
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  13673. How interesting. Remember how Jeff Bezos was front-and-center right behind Cheeto at the coronation? No doubt he got the same offer Zuckerburg did - a chance to help "reform" America but on Cheeto's terms.
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  13674.  @VentureBot1  I called you out on your flaming ignorance of not bothering to search the news, and that's all you got to say? Go back to sleep, little one.
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  13675.  @VentureBot1  You had no point to make, beyond the fact that you're ignorant and cannot acknowledge it. Watching you try to ignore that one is like watching you try to scratch a part of your own back that you can't reach. Thank you for the morning entertainment.
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  13676. Hitler: No, I said I hate JUICE! Not Jews!
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  13677. Tinfoil protects you! Time for a couple extra layers.
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  13678.  @sleepingbeauty3239  Well that's YOUR opinion.
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  13679.  @sleepingbeauty3239  Alternative facts, you mean. Kellyanne coined the perfect phrase to describe the outgoing administration.
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  13680. Makes you wonder how much contact Tuberville's people have with Putin's people and with Trump's people. He has been serving them both, at the expense of our military readiness.
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  13681. They're just giving future defendant Mike Pillow an opportunity to let his own big mouth incriminate him. On camera, too.
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  13682. With a population of ~340 million, the US has at least 170 million lower-IQ historically-illiterate citizens. Some of them voted for this.
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  13683. The main difference between Donald Trump and Benedict Arnold is that the latter didn't get 72 million people to vote for fascism and didn't induce his nutjob base to threaten the lives of the people processing the election results. It's time for Benedict Arnold to move down to the #2 spot.
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  13684. With more than 176,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus (and a lot more on the way) those Q-Anonsense whackadoodles are all he's got left for a secure base. No adults anywhere support his dismantling of the Postal Service or the way there's no federal effort to stop the virus from spreading. Pretty soon the Q-Anonsense reporters will get front row seats in the white house press room.
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  13685.  @kustomkode  No no no. The fact that the disease is spreading means that someone there has not been adhering to the rules. All it takes is a few percent of the population (like those nutball anti-mask people who've been whining all year) to keep the virus in circulation. That's how easily it spreads. If you want someone to blame for the fact that the disease is still circulating, look in the mirror.
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  13686. Scary to hear that so many in the US "intelligence" community basically watch FOXed Noise and believe crazy stuff even though they have no proof of those things. Conspiracy theorists are not a good fit for that kind of job.
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  13687. I used to be afraid that Putin would teach 45 how to be a dictator, but instead, 45 doesn't listen to anyone at all, and it seems he was the one who taught Putin how to put that reverse midas touch into overdrive.
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  13688.  @marilynmisner2245  I don't care - do U?
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  13689. The Sanders/Trump polling numbers were the same in 2016, then the DNC decided that Trump was a lesser evil than Bernie Sanders, and look what happened. Sigh. Let's hope the DNC doesn't repeat the same mistake.
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  13690. Sondland didn't want to be the new meat at Club Fed wearing a t-shirt that says, "I gave $1 million to the lying schmuck so I could cosplay at being an ambassador, but all I got was 3 to 5 for perjury and this lousy t-shirt".
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  13691. You gotta love the way Republicans cannot agree to this. Fine, let them show their true stripes. They'll join the Whigs in the woodshed of history if they can't get it straight what patriotism really is.
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  13692. These Trump culties need to know the hard way that no, the world will not be tolerant of their wish to install a racist thin-skinned criminal narcissist as president against the will of the American people!
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  13693. Note that the law does not say "Unless he's your favorite cult-leader con-man who could tell you to murder your own children and you'd do it."
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  13694. What DeSantis and Abbott are really saying is that they don't want any Hispanic votes.
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  13695. Notice how Pence isn't saying anything about Trump's false claims about election fraud. He's trying to appeal to traditional conservatism without repudiating the same Trump he served with.
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  13696. Looks like we need to put Clyde in front of a big screen where the footage from the insurrection tape gets played in detail. Televise it widely, with some nice closeups so it's obvious that he knows he's lying to Congress.
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  13697.  @lorebay2593  Wuss (a chicken) + Mussolini (a fascist) = Wussolini, a chicken fascist. Hides in the basement and shuts the outside lights off, like someone too cheap to leave candy out at halloween.
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  13698. Bad decisions like that happen when you live in a disinformation bubble and are told only what you want to hear. Which usually happens to most dictators.
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  13699.  @Nic1Moreno  Re "are you aware what will happen if" << There are many among us who are unfamiliar with the history of how these things work, or how evil certain people can be under the wrong circumstances. Take for instance just the trickery of how the Nazis seized power in 1932/1933 Germany. That's about where we are headed next if we fail to stop this cancer. And the next stage after that is a nation of prison camps for those who don't toe the line of whatever Trump blathered that day. And it's easier to fight this before Trump's evil again has the power of government behind it. Sophie Scholl and her friends? They waited too long.
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  13700.  @Nic1Moreno  Really great book you may want to check out. I have a first edition copy of it. Published in mid 1942, well before the outcome of the war could be seen. "Last Train From Berlin" by Howard K Smith. He talks a lot about this kind of thing.
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  13701. Fixing things that aren't problems is how Republicans cover for the fact that they're getting very well paid to ignore the actual problems.
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  13702. Seems like Trump's famous Reverse Midas Touch wore off on Putin.
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  13703. Actually, most of us cannot be turned into Trump fans. He's lost every popular election so far, and the gap grew a lot wider the second time. He has about as much appeal as a smelly hunk of greasy radioactive material fished up from the bottom of the river.
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  13704. "Dark MAGA" is for people who find it too warm-and-fuzzy to overthrow democracy and the rule of law in America and install Trump as the greatest thing since Pol Pot. That's not "dark" enough for them apparently :(
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  13705. This news piece aged well.
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  13706.  Lancemus Blanco  That's possibly the stupidest false equivalence I've ever seen from a Trumptard. He's not qualified to be the town dog catcher, let alone wash dishes. He was bought years ago with Russian money. Having him in power just means more Americans will die from the virus. You must be some strange kind of traitor if you want to see lots more Americans die.
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  13707.  @tbtb196  Thanks for the laundry basket of false equivalences and outright lies. That is probably all you've got. If you've been paying attention to the news, you may have seen Trump freaking out that several white house staffers have tested positive. Now he's having everyone around him tested constantly. Ask yourself this (if you have any capacity introspection, which it sounds like you don't) - are those the means by which someone would respond to a hoax or to a virulent disease that can kill people? Thanks for the chuckles.
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  13708.  Lancemus Blanco  Gosh, if I'd known how easily you Trumptard death cultists were triggered, I'd have gone looking for you earlier. More fun than a box of mewling kittens! Look, I am all for you fools gathering in a room and infecting each other, but DO NOT return to your homes & families & communities after that. You have the right to subtract yourself from the electorate. but you don't have the right to take others with you just because you're sore losers and stupid to boot.
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  13709.  Mr Man  Given that the government ordered mortgage holders and utilities to cool their jets while folks are out of work .. and given that vehicle payments and insurance premiums can be deferred or greatly reduced .. and given that taxpayers get stimulus money and some even get unemployment, and business owners can get loans to cover their payroll -- what expenses are burning giant holes in this guy's wallet? Did he borrow money from the mob? Or he wasn't paying taxes before? Something is fishy.
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  13710. Trump was both, but claims to have been neither. In fairness, though, he never wanted to be a leader .. he only wanted to be a ruler, like Putin or KJU or Xi.
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  13711.  @ronmartin1375  Wow. Good snapshot of the stew of vague generalities swirling around in your brain this morning. I'd ask how you make sense of it all, except it's painfully clear that you don't and can't :(
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  13712.  @ronmartin1375  "How are they not the same ideology?" Oh brother. That's as oversimplified as saying that all people are the same if they have two hands with five fingers apiece. Are you honestly that simpleminded? If so, don't bother responding. (BTW the Taliban ENFORCE religiosity not PERSECUTE it. Nuance, buddy.)
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  13713. Like W famously said - you gotta dance with the one that brung you.
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  13714. Sinclair Lewis was party correct. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, it had the full knowing cooperation of America's conservatives, who were enthralled by the thought of political violence in service of one butthurt loser.
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  13715. Thank you for reminding me of the outrageous lie Trump pulled during the debate, with that question about which of them had done what during their time in politics. It was apples vs oranges. Only one of them has been in a position to issue executive orders, stack the supreme corp with flawed judges, or act in the capacity of US president, and when he did, it was a total shit show.
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  13716. Here in the USA, we are so obsessed with the minutiae of "free speech" that we allow complete fakery to be called "news" - even when it tells people that the virus is a hoax, that it's no worse than a cold, that everyone except the president and Q-Anonsense are lying to the people, that cases are dropping rapidly, that you have nothing to worry about, etc. I hope not all other countries do similar things. It's destroyed the ability for the US to have any kind of coherent messaging :(
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  13717. Shame on the people telling Biden to step down. Those voices are Putin's useful idiots at this point :(
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  13718.  @James-to7pi  You probably "find it strange" too that no major news outlet has followed up on why the Jewish space lasers allegedly manipulated the voting machines. Thanks for the free amusement.
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  13719. Traitors are unfortunately fairly common. What's not common is when they have so many helpers - who are properly called "collaborators"
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  13720. Sounds like Republicans should be paying much higher premiums for medical insurance. Party of personal responsibility and all that.
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  13721. Even worse, by now he must know that the fabled 'Ukraine takeover' scenario is not going to happen, but he bet the farm on it hard that doing a 180 would mean instant political suicide for him personally .. so for the sake of his ego he's keeping this horrific war going. Kinda like Trump bet his all on lies about the election, and how conceding his 2020 loss would be his political end, so he'd rather trash the country than admit doing wrong.
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  13722. They come to us, slurring and blinking, straight from the Q-Anonsense rabbit hole.
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  13723.  @jeffreyklima7612  You might want to get in touch with the Muskrat on that, because he just valued it at $20B not too many days ago. "nice try"?
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  13724. Let the record remind everyone that when WROL began, it started with the Republicans deliberately breaking laws, ignoring precedent, ignoring subpoenas, subverting the power of congressional inquiry, etc, all so they could temporarily protect Trump. What's that saying about a permanent solution to a temporary problem?
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  13725. Trump seems to imagine he could have done something like this with each and every prospective juror: "We can't have this one. They're from New York. New York didn't vote for me. They're Trump haters and biased libruls!! :("
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  13726. The USA stands proudly with Ukraine. Keep an eye out for the "special batch" HIMARS missiles coming your way. Something extra extra hot for the orcs. We got your six.
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  13727. Face it. The only "ability" she was chosen for was being able to model dictator-chic clothing and shoes.
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  13728. Biden missed some opportunities. One of the biggest lies Trump floated was, "What have you done in 50 years in power?" Of those two (Biden and Trump) only one of them has ever been president, and he totally f*cked it up.
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  13729. Happy Impeachment Day everyone! And by this time next year, January will have two new holidays: Insurrection Day, a day that shall live in infamy, and Impeachment Day. Pearl Harbor Day can now move down to second place.
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  13730. Dear Republicans, You all had 4 years to call him out. To stand up for the people you represent. To separate yourselves from his policies and beliefs. To restrain him from pillorying our closest allies and trading partners. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To keep him from embarrassing the US by withdrawing from treaties willy-nilly. Most of what Tяump has done wasn't even grounded in Republican tradition. But you were weak, cowardly, and greedy. And now when you lose, you become the snowflake. Cry me a river. You will be out of power for a generation or more.
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  13731.  @thenov1944  Little did they realize, it was a promise to go full Bluri Lake on the election results and election workers.
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  13732.  @gutstompenrocker  You have it reversed: Russians and Republicans bond over ending democracy in the US. Also they both don't like gays.
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  13733. It's a good thing these crazies weren't around when polio was a problem, otherwise there would have been more millions of dead and crippled Americans from the last outbreak.
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  13734. The death rate is around 3.6% as explained on all of the major data sources. One is linked below. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. So if it were to run wild throughout America (as looks likely now) projected death toll could be around 11.9 million. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  13735. Conservatives have been insisting it was Antifa doing all the rioting. Why would they want to blur the faces?
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  13736. Liz Cheney's new book was pretty good too - "Oath and Honor".
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  13737. I honestly thought that was Sasha Baron Cohen doing some deep trolling of the Trumpanzees at first. She was just too over-the-top.
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  13738. Clearly someone is used to adding random phone numbers to the chat. I would not be surprised if this is how Dump's people coordinate the treats being called in against judges and other public employees who don't bend the knee.
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  13739. Send 'em some Apaches next. Heh
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  13740. To be sure, FOXed Noise viewers would be shocked if you told them black people could vote.
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  13741. There are some counties in the NYC area that have absolutely unbelievable penetration rates. For reference Spain has 3137/M at the moment, while NY state has 7258/M, NYC has 9105/M, Nassau County has 12244/M, and Rockland County has 18506/M. So the penetration potential of this virus is quite high. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronavirus-cases.html
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  13742. About "They are wild, volatile and love chaos." << That's part of why they would always support Orange no matter what. Unfortunately, the kind of chaos Orange wants to bring to America is not something they would enjoy. Bosnian civil war .. Somalia .. a failed place like Haiti .. that is what it would be like here after a successful coup by the election loser.
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  13743. Superseding today's outrage with tomorrow's outrage is how he gets people to forget yesterday's offenses and the outrage they caused. Remember when he secretly offered to buy Greenland, then denied it, then insulted the PM of Denmark, then canceled a planned meeting, then only weeks later admitted the buy offer was real?
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  13744. As of the onset of the current hotter hostilities (Feb-2022) Russia had still not recovered from the demographic dislocations of WW2 and of the time after the collapse of the USSR, when lifespans shrank quickly and many essentially passed of poverty. Putin's idiotic war is costing Russia its future in so many ways. The population decline there will be even more stark in 20 years.
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  13745.  @tomnguyen9931  Wishing Russia would move some of its few remaining AWACS planes closer to the front.
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  13746. Watching these utter nobodies humiliate themselves by trying to work for Trump is fine entertainment. Seems none of them read "Animal Farm" before going to the white house.
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  13747. Usually when a president leaves office, s/he takes their favorite pincushion with them. And that's all the Republican party is for Trump anyway.
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  13748. Here in the US, our political system has barely been modified since inception. Out in the rest of the world, other countries are running more advanced forms of democracy, and they have some important improvements over our early-1800s design. None of that "electoral college" nonsense. Separation of the roles of president and prime minister. Votes of no confidence. Snap elections. Etc. Meanwhile, we're still using the Flintstones era version of democracy, and it's apparently all too easy to hack :(
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  13749.  @anarchisttechsupport6644  Are your poor little feefees hurt already? Have a lollipop. You burned out another projector bulb.
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  13750.  @EWKification  Nah, they're committing sedition at this point, and it's time they got treated as such. Ignorance of the facts and the laws is not an excuse. Grump lost the election. Their failure to accept his loss does not excuse their illegal actions.
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  13751.  @NOYB6930  After Trump's fine people tried to run that campaign bus off the road, Trump lost a whole lot of votes. When he opens the air scoop and talks about using SCOTUS to rig the election, he loses even more votes.
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  13752.  R Perez  " because if he loses"? It's game over, man, game over.
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  13753. Even worse, those alt-Reich states have no compunctions about spying on womens' shopping habits to note the timing of their periods, what products they buy, and whether or not they might be on the potential pregnancy watch list.
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  13754. Let's spend less time worrying about what Republican whackjobs want to blame Biden for, and more time fixing the problems that America faces. It is not as if vast swaths of otherwise neutral Americans are going to vote for the party of disorder after the mess that El Trumpolini made.
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  13755.  @Sleepy_Apocalypse  Clearly you missed the point of what I wrote. ONCE AGAIN note how it is the US that insists on having forward military bases all over the world. Hundreds of them. That's on us. We're choosing to do that. It's expensive. It's our choice so it's our expense. Nobody else chooses to do that so nobody else has those enormous expenses for forward military bases all over the world. Do you need me to use smaller words and shorter sentences?
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  13756.  @Sleepy_Apocalypse  The surety with which you say that almost completely means the truth is the opposite. Like when Trump claims he has a very, very large brain and knows better than everyone else. Once again, the US of its own volition chooses to maintain an incredibly expensive array of some 800+ US military bases all around the world. We're essentially asking the host countries to bear more of the cost of our occupation there .. and, ironically, the quartering of British troops in the (then) Colonies during peacetime was one of the original grievances listed on the declaration of independence. So you're not just full of yourself and none too bright, but you're ignorant of history as well. Fitting for an anonymous fool who I'll probably never encounter again and certainly won't remember.
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  13757.  @margaretadam2222  Best of luck to you too. Waving hi to my distant Scottish ancestors! :)
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  13758. That's Fox Entertainment for you. Peddling in lies & disinformation.
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  13759. Minnesota just reopened and has already got the fastest acceleration in case rates as measured over the last 7 days. If they are not very careful (mandatory mask wearing, distancing, hygiene) the Minneapolis-St.Paul area will be another NYC style out of control pandemic.
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  13760. Ignoring the public health authorities isn't a civil liberty -- and if you think it is, you should be living alone on an island somewhere.
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  13761. Shame, shame, shame on Dan for portraying this as a lifestyle choice (as in, "Dammit I really miss going out for burgers!") instead of the third-largest mass casualty event in US history.
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  13762. Fools and their money don't belong together anyway.
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  13763. * insert Jedi hand wave * Those aren't the flying privileges you're looking for. You don't need to be on planes again ever.
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  13764. Something tells me the current crop of wannabe insurrectionists isn't going to wait until November 8th. They already know the election will be a loss for Team Crazy.
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  13765. Oh look. Another MAGA cultie going after the wannabe Caligula. Because when 45 sends his people, he's not sending the best.
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  13766.  @captain2ahab  There's still time for them to get hustled down to the basement. But why pass up on an opportunity to earn money to help restore the America-that-was before Trump? His forcible rapturing would be the biggest pay per view ever.
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  13767. Trump reassured everyone yesterday that it's safe to fly .. but someone who now tests positive for covid-19 was able to visit the hotspot in Kirkland WA then hop on a jet to North Carolina, potentially exposing hundreds along the way. (How many others visited the hotspot then traveled elsewhere?) Trump went on to say that the WHO's death rate numbers are fake news, implied that it's just like a cold, implied it's OK to go to work etc etc.
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  13768. It's more like an evil spiritual trinity, with father Putin encouraging them to make chaos in the west. Witness the way Musk just caused the largest-ever race riots in Britain by deliberately misinforming his followers.
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  13769.  @rickarnold6704  Especially since the drones can use AI image recognition to home in on it.
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  13770.  @bonnierussell9798  Trump can't even operate a shredder (too complicated) much less a fax machine. I assume he just snapped cell pictures and messaged them to his handlers. Funny how everyone else's hypersonic cruise missile programs advanced a lot recently.
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  13771. In some places, the local politics are like a river -- the lightest stuff always floats to the top.
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  13772. In the same video, Trump repeated his lies about the election, thereby throwing more gasoline on the fire. Those deluded dipf*cks won't begin to heal until they hear him say how he lied to them and to the nation.
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  13773. "Neither side"? Are you aware that deep-blue states don't force people to have abortions?
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  13774.  @TobiasC-mg4zk  It's more the look of just getting smacked in the face with a shovel. Funny too how Haw-Haw Tucker was given all the footage of the J6 insurrection and still failed to find the bits that supported his narrative.
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  13775. Given the GOP stance on these matters, we should insist that they bear their unviable man-baby to term.
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  13776. Wait, wait, I have an even better wrinkle: they somehow log into the alien ship using an Apple product, which somehow mysteriously uses the same TCP/IP that us earthlings invented back in the 1960s.
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  13777. Those two appear to have some of the comorbidities associated with coronavirus. Maybe they'll continue to do their show in the afterlife.
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  13778. Knowing the Russians, they probably shelled another apartment bloc and claimed it was really an S-300 system.
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  13779. He STILL cannot admit that he said what he openly said on TV last week. His only choice now is to apologize and resign, but he's not adult enough to do either, which is why he's banned from my screens and devices. A nobody and a nothing, like the Christchurch shooter whose name isn't even mentioned.
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  13780.  @RP_Williams  Oh no, it was stupid in the extreme to think that anything as complicated as a country could be reduced to the simplicity of falling dominoes. In the end, after the US left Viet Nam and the country went communist, guess what, the rest of southeast Asia did not fall like the dominoes of that dumb theory. I hope people are properly scandalized that they ever believed such hogwash in the first place.
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  13781.  @RP_Williams  Eastern Europe did not "fall" during/after - it was overrun by Soviet military might. No such happened in southeast Asia. Try a different comparison.
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  13782.  @RP_Williams  To be fair, I wasn't around then to smell the fresh propaganda in the news at the time. At the opening of the early-00s thing though I felt like the only sane person in the room, surrounded by gibbering idiots who said we had to go to war. They were as moved by propaganda as soap bubbles are by the breeze.
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  13783.  @RP_Williams  Unfortunately I was sarcastic and questioning almost as soon as I could talk. My dad had copies of all the letters he'd written to the draft board, explaining why he shouldn't go to fight - yet he supported sending other people there to die. Needless to say he's glued to FOXed Noise and Trump these days :(
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  13784.  @RP_Williams  Being able to contribute better from the safety of his desk, of course.
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  13785.  @llc1976  The entire world would be grateful. He's a human tick.
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  13786.  @larryross1819  Sure. And Donald Trump, a US president, made the claim that windmills cause cancer. Just because you say stuff doesn't automatically make that stuff true. Duh.
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  13787.  @abelis644  The king of falsely aggrieved victimhood.
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  13788.  Brian  I've been collecting all the nutty things they say. Some of them claim that doctors are being paid $40K per faked death certificate to make it look worse to make Trump look bad (he does that well enough on his own). Some refer to the masks as "slave muzzles" mandated by the "new world order". You can basically summarize it by saying that a lot of people are in dire need of psychiatric care.
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  13789. Until most Americans stop thinking of themselves as temporarily-embarrassed potential rich people (instead of regular working folks) the Republicans will be able to shape the thinking of these fools to their bidding. Sigh :(
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  13790.  @krisniznik3953  Waiting to see the same thing. Trump & Moscow Mitch are acting as if they are immune to being voted out. Perhaps they are :(
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  13791.  @cybertoe1221  Since they don't seem to comprehend what living under a dictatorial regime is really like, perhaps the diehard Trumpies could go live in North Korea for awhile to see how "great" it supposedly is. Or if they think political violence is so great, perhaps they could live in Haiti for awhile to experience firsthand the incessant terror into which they'd like to plunge our entire nation.
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  13792. Neville Chamberlain was more like a Trump. Back in 2019, what Trump claimed about the Crimea (which Putin violently "annexed") was that because some people there spoke Russian, the place belongs to Russia. Thank God that sh*twit isn't in the white house anymore.
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  13793. Yah :( There seems to be no limit to how the Russians delude themselves in that department. As if you are "liberating" your neighbor's house when you break in and kill everyone there.
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  13794. @DA That "2016 corruption scandal" thing doesn't exist. Many parties, including the US, were pressuring Ukraine to remove Viktor Shokin because he wasn't working hard enough against corruption - not because he did or didn't investigate any Bidens. Betcha FOXed Noise conveniently neglected to mention that Shokin's removal was pushed by the IMF, the EU, the ECRB, and others. Back at you friend.
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  13795. "Mia copa" was probably the closest he'll get to saying "Mea culpa" .. you can tell the wires were definitely getting crossed in that direction.
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  13796. There have been some interesting articles about this phenom. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201904/what-makes-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories
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  13797. .. on less than a PBR budget too.
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  13798. The 1/6 traitors got further into the capitol complex than the invading British troops did in the War of 1812. In today's dollars, the War of 1812 would have cost $1.6 billion. Your point?
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  13799. In the USA, the lockdown time will have to be longer than the 9 weeks that Wuhan did. The whole country is like Wuhan - it spread all over the place while mad king Donald didn't want to hear about it. Large swaths of the USA have not yet been locked down. Domestic air travel has been continuing, so people have been fleeing the hotspots in droves and heading out to the hinterlands - and some are carrying a viral payload. As of yesterday the USA has tested only 0.17% of the population.
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  13800. No doubt he bought a few (using taxpayer money) with that 3-years-late aid package to Puerto Rico.
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  13801. Fox has already called itself "entertainment" in court as opposed to "news". In reality it's the TASS of the American right wing.
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  13802. Given that people can be emitting virus for more than a week before they test positive, there's hope for a nation weary of this administration's complete incompetence.
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  13803.  @johnward43  Look who said, "Russia, if you're listening, do whatever you want"
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  13804. Not sure on that cult just dissolving, even if their orange fuhrer should suddenly depart this plane of existence. Like a plague that sometimes exists in spore form, they'll hang around waiting for the next hate-spewing traitor to rally around. Trump showed the way for every other 2-bit grifter to exploit America's most gullible, who had hitherto not much been part of our politics.
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  13805. Every 22 days, the number of coronavirus cases in Ohio doubles. Requiring everyone to wear masks slows down the transmission a lot. New York requires masks, and that's how they've pushed the doubling time out to 48 days.
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  13806.  @thedevilsadvocate5210  When everyone wears masks, person-to-person droplet transmission is much reduced. And droplet is the primary means of spread. Do me a favor please and research your nonsense /before/ posting it.
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  13807.  @ccrider3435  You won the internet today with that one! 👍❤ Love your handle BTW. Someone else remembers Joe Namath's acting career.
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  13808. To the rest of us, the mountain of people that Trump has F'd and chucked shows us precisely why no one should have anything to do with him.
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  13809. It makes sense that so many of them don't wear helmets - there's nothing to protect anyway.
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  13810.  @matthewdievendorf9609  Sturgis is an event of the same scale and duration as Mardi Gras New Orleans 2020. There was a gap of about 40 days between the event and the peak of positive cases. That was February. By now the virus is much much more prevalent. Buzz me up in 40 days if you want to revisit this subject.
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  13811.  @matthewdievendorf9609  Sounds like you shouldn't bother wearing a helmet either. Nothing to protect anyway. Look, if you want to be the next Herman Cain (thinks covid is a hoax, doesn't wear a mask, attends a superspreading event, then dies of covid) GO RIGHT AHEAD - but for f*ck's sake don't take anyone else down with you. Don't share it with others.
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  13812. Is this the same Republican party whose general Party secretary, comrade Trump, referred to Putin as "a genius" and "smart" for invading Ukraine?
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  13813. That recent chemical train crash (months ago) added a whole lot of strange gunk to the water supply. Wiki lists 29 EPA superfund sites in Ohio as of awhile back.
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  13814. Unfortunately for the world, Putin is a profoundly damaged person. He may need to feel the kind of "love" that only fifth-gen NATO aircraft can deliver.
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  13815. It wasn't any malfeasance on Biden's part that narrowed student loan forgiveness programs, but Republican intransigence. Example - if some wanker destroys the tires on fire trucks as they're attempting to respond, you don't blame the fire department when they're late.
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  13816. Most people here in the USA have no idea how much Agent Orange has feces-smeared the US in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here's what some of them will likely say to the US after our Mango Mussolini is removed from office .. .. every nation we've ever had agreements, alliances, arrangements, transactions, business, whatever with is going to send us a politely-worded letter along these lines: Dear America, Congratulations on selecting a new leader who we all hope will do things more like how past US presidents have done since the end of WW2. While we would like to restore relations to what they were before your very own Agent Orange trashed everything, there are some questions we would like to put to you: 1. If your good arrangements with the rest of the world (your closest allies and trading partners in particular) were so important to you, why did it take you four long years to remove someone who was obviously a danger to the stable relations of the western world and indeed of the whole world? Removing an inappropriate leader from high office, and forming a new government, is a swift and efficient procedure in most western democracies. Some nations can do this in less than 48 hours, and have done so repeatedly in the past. What's your excuse for letting this charade of an administration keep inflicting harm on the world for four years in a row? You were too busy clicking on things on Facebook? 2. We would like to restore normal relationships with the United States of America, perhaps to as they were before January 2017. However, for the sake of our own economies and alliances, we cannot take this step until America first takes some other steps to clean house. We would like to know, what are you going to do to prevent another crazy leader from getting into office and upending all past normal business that America had with us and with the rest of the world? Are you going to update your antiquated governmental structure to put strict limits on the power of a president? Are you going to remove that electoral college which, as we have all seen, has no problems putting a habitual liar into the highest public office in your nation, even one who lost the popular election by millions of votes? Are you going to require that your president gets important information from official channels instead of from crank conspiracy theorists? Are you going to look more closely into the public and private lives of all government employees, appointees, anyone who holds office, anyone among your judicial branch, etc, to first make sure that they are not infected with racist, nationalistic, bigoted, authoritarian-supportive tendencies? (all of this can be learned by going through their social media posts, their emails, their text messages, etc. No doubt your NSA has detailed metadata available.) Are you going to modernize your educational system so that it doesn't produce whole generations of anti-science fools who, say, refuse to get vaccinated and thus spread easily-preventable diseases throughout the world? (maybe we should require 14 days medical quarantine before letting Americans visit our countries) Are you going to restore standards to broadcasting, so that a few rogue propaganda networks (FOX, Infowars, Q-Anon, 8chan, 4chan, Facebook) do not have the opportunity to radicalize whole swaths of your population? What steps will you take to minimize economic inequality in your country and prevent it from warping your democracy? 3. During the course of Trump's time in office, his personal sentiments of deep and abiding animosity towards Muslims, immigrants, people from Central America, etc were put into practice by various branches of government, most notably ICE and CBP. The United States of America systematically violated the Hague Convention on Refugees, specifically Hague 33, Article 27 by separating children from their parents and putting them up for adoption. If you wish to restore the world's faith in the United States as a nation of laws, show it by bringing the guilty parties before the International Criminal Court. Good luck with this. Get in touch with us after you've taken those steps. In the meantime, we won't be doing business with you and we won't be honoring any agreements we had with you. You had four long years to stop the continuing nonsense, and all you did was shrug and say "wait for the next election" while tens of millions of our citizens suffered economic troubles as a result of the foolishness of your president. It's going to take many years of hard work to restore the world's faith in the people of the USA. Best regards,
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  13817.  @yaaghobrahmani4928  Are you trying to say that Hunter Biden is driving all those Russian tanks in Ukraine and firing all those Russian artillery shells at Ukraine?
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  13818.  @wellyforpm  "he can barely make it through a sentence with being drugged" Awww poor baby, looks like you're still drinking the Fool-Aide being pumped out by Americans RWNJ media. Keep telling yourself that while you keep being surprised by the way Joe keeps getting stuff done. Kind of the same way sheep and chickens are surprised by the rising sun every morning. Your boy Trump couldn't even speak at a 4th grade level. Biden is waaaaaaay above that. If you miss Trump's whining so much, just go to Swamp-a-Lago and hang out with him and listen to the broken record of his grievances.
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  13819.  @TVeldhorst  "And thats why GOP will make sure Biden's and Democrat plans fail." << Huh? Trump is busy sinking the Republican future. And that's a good thing for our nation. The GOP wants to revert to 1950 (or 1850 in some ways) while the rest of the world moves ahead.
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  13820.  Bill Ckole  Leading outwards from whoever first infected the school employee on Feb 12th, there's been time for 3-4+ generations of further spread of the virus. If those models from northern Italy are any indication (and if our authorities are on the ball) then we've got only a matter of weeks before strict controls are placed on public interaction with each other - meaning quarantining at the town & neighborhood level as well as the closure of public venues at which the virus could more easily spread. But I do not know that the authorities here are on the ball. Stay safe :)
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  13821.  @patricia-leas22  95% of the population of Oregon lives right along the I-5 and I-84 corridors. It's already here :( Judging from how events in Italy unfolded (and they were lucky because they've already found their patient zero) we have at best weeks (in the Portland metro area) before the deaths start to show.
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  13822. One imagines there was a shit-ton of collusion between the insurrectionists and FOX Noise to amplify the baseless claims of election fraud.
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  13823.  @auntiejen5376  I find it most interesting that, right on cue, the FOX Noise staff of nodding idiots was in to-the-minute sync with those pardon-seekers in blaming Antifa/BLM for the insurrection. One supposes they already had a patsy lined up for (if the coup was successful) taking the blame, passing through a warp speed trial, then going on to a speedy execution before too many questions could be asked. It's already been covered elsewhere how Trump and Hannity discussed which news bits to create so Trump could see them on FOXed and retweet them as news - even when he had a hand in making up those same items.
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  13824. Bannon is a perfect example of the sort of American Boomer type who wants to turn their own country into the next North Korea -- even though he's never lived in NK and would no doubt fare similar to most Americans there.
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  13825. @The Wraith That's the point, silly. The HS shooting survivor did not randomly interrogate Marjorie Nutball as to whether or not she had a gun; she told it to him in an entirely unsolicited manner. Kind of like when a big guy comes over to a domestic abuse survivor and tells her he's gone to jail for rape.
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  13826. @The Wraith She told him something personal that he did not need to know, something that could endanger the lives of him and others if she had a bad-hair moment and totally lost it. It was bad, and tasteless, and wrong of her to do that. It shows a complete lack of empathy and morals. She's a horrible human being. She could have addressed the issue in any number of ways besides "I'm carrying a gun with me now". That she didn't is her own bad judgement.
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  13827. @The Wraith No. That's like the person who's sodomized children coming up to a former abuse victim, now an adult pushing for tougher sentencing and mental treatment, and saying that you've raped a child or two now and then. Completely and totally inappropriate. Walking up to someone on the street and saying this stuff with no context is NOT acceptable. He was just a dude going somewhere at the time. She got into his space. Kind of like how if he had issues with her policy, the time to take it up with her is not by ambushing her on the street but by sending a note to her office.
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  13828.  Jay Swinger  Explain to me the downside of having a less polluted environment. Go on, I'll wait.
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  13829. It was widely reported in 2017-2018 that Trump himself engaged in birth tourism, charging expectant Russian mothers to stay at his resorts and give birth there so the child would have US citizenship.
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  13830. I've seen lots of Russian video. That word 'blyat' appears so often, it seems almost like a greeting between people. Seems like an OK name for a pet, right?
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  13831. Not only that, but cult-member Ornato was likely in charge of that "final destination" limo ride on 1/6 that Pence refused to go along with. Probably they were going to circle the block then deliver Pence to the crowd. The same crowd with the gallows.
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  13832. No need to. Anyone with half a brain, who follows the news, can see for themselves what it's like in places like Haiti or Somalia or Eritrea or Syria when there's a civil war brewing - or Bosnia, for them old enough to remember the news from back then. Wasn't pretty. Whole families forced to kneel at the roadside while the commander made the kids drink motor oil as the parents watched. Anyone who says they want civil war has no idea what the F they're talking about.
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  13833. Although Republicans will spend the next generation pretending otherwise, just remember: Trump did not get into or stay in the white house all by himself. Just flip back to this 2019 series of events for reference: Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  13834. A drunk clown who just crashed his clown car into a dumpster fire.
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  13835. You could say that, to many people anyway, things that are faraway look very small. Also, many seem to be thinking that because they personally don't have epithantic eye folds, they needn't worry a bit about this. Unbelievable :(
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  13836. People better be reading Project 2025 and Agenda 47. Probably worse things will follow.
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  13837.  @dreinhard52  LOL do they get an extra serving of salami if they flog that "Ukraine nazis" myth again? The bots sure love this channel. Oh, wait, it's coming up on the end of the month. Russian quota time for production.
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  13838. When you hear anyone sane-washing the Cheeto and his brand of crazy, that's time to walk away from whoever it is.
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  13839. Keep flapping your pie hole, Sweet Potato Hitler, because you lose more votes every time you open your mouth.
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  13840.  @dianebannister4591  We can do this. All we need to do is keep defeating all the inconveniences the GQP Republicans try to put up to discourage people from voting. Because when the turnout is higher, the results are bluer. Let's do this, people :)
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  13841. There you go - the same script conservatives used after Paul Pelosi was attacked in his home.
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  13842.  @rosemarie20  Beer bong Kavanaugh & Amy Handmaids Tale too.
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  13843. Mildly powerful. But even that is enough to trigger the snowflake-in-chief.
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  13844. You did your part to save democracy. Others, well, they heard a bunch of stupid lies (the kind your cat could see through) about egg prices and trans kids and inflation, and instead handed the country to someone who said he wants to be a dictator.
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  13845. Lifelong prison sentences work fine on cultists. Why, even old Leslie Van Houten (former Manson Family murderer) finally acknowledges that she may have done something wrong.
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  13846. Well, some of Trump's people might get uppity, but there are a lot more of us who will just dogpile them and call the cops. And then they can be cellmates with the Q shaman and Elmer Stewart Rhodes and the Oaf Tweakers. And Trump won't be paying their legal bills.
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  13847.  @life_with_dogs_2025  That seems to be the claim you're saying to everyone else on this thread, too, but (as with all things you say) it hasn't got a shred of supporting evidence accompanying it. That serves only to make you fodder for humor that other folks enjoy, and, as such, I hope you are appreciated. I'm certainly enjoying the laughs over seeing you strangely compelled to speak from your nether parts. Do continue. The scam that you fall for, and which was conceived by lower life forms, is surely your cable bill 😅
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  13848.  @life_with_dogs_2025  Forgot to add - you can tell how laughable and how insignificant your oft-repeated claims are here (such as "you're falling for scams that I can't tell you about") by the fact that no one's asking you what you mean. It honestly doesn't matter what you mean. You're obviously like a cuckoo clock that goes up to 13. Good job providing humor for everyone (albeit at your own expense) during these cold holiday weeks.
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  13849. Don't feel bad, because when they have evil among them they mostly choose to remain silent. If the whole of the GOP repudiated Dump and his methods, that would be something, but they won't do that. They prefer to remain silent and hope he goes away.
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  13850.  @rogerbennett9641  Well, no. Canada does not depend on Europe for energy, food, medicine, labor markets, capital markets -- whereas the UK depends on Europe for all of those things and more. Do you want to try that again?
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  13851.  @kevindiver9382  That's the new Klan way of thinking, apparently. Since my family is all immigrants, I'm going full Negan on anyone I see doing that kind of racist harassment. Can't see any better way to improve the breed.
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  13852. I've been modeling in cases/million, but same thing. All 50 states in the US are showing some form of exponential spread .. from the fastest (South Dakota, doubling every 0.628 weeks by yesterday's numbers) to the slowest (Montana, doubling every 3.28 weeks). One county in NY has an infection rate of 25,750 per million and it keeps going up.
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  13853.  @Translucent73  What numbers are you seeing? I use worldometers. From yesterday's numbers, NY state has a case rate of 10354/M and a death rate of 552/M, whereas Italy has a case rate of 2687/M and a death rate of 348/M. Spain is at 3723 and 390 respectively. NY state at 20M population is closer in size to Italy & Spain than either of those are to the USA, a huge nation with giant rural areas.
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  13854.  @Translucent73  Don't look at the absolute numbers, look at the rates per million or per capita. That's where you can see the relative effects on populations.
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  13855.  @Translucent73  Also, mitigation efforts make a huge difference. Consider the states of Montana and South Dakota, which have got very nearly the same (very low) population density. One is locked down, the other is not. As of April 1st, they were at 203 and 146 cases/M respectively. Yesterday they were at 383 and 1143 cases/M respectively.
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  13856.  @Translucent73  If you are talking about the CFR (case fatality rate) than that's a whole nother story. NY was at 5.33% yesterday vs Italy at 12.97% and Spain at 10.49%. It's just that NY has so many more cases per million of general population that our death numbers are higher. Again, as of yesterday, NY state had 10,354 cases per million population whereas Italy had 2,687 cases per million population. Fewer people (as a percentage of total infected) are dying in US healthcare (so far anyway) but there are a lot more of them per million in NY than in Italy.
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  13857.  @Translucent73  If we are seeing mass scale under-reporting in the US (for disease spread) then I would worry greatly. Worldwide the case fatality rate is at 6.34% as of yesterday, up from 5.05% at the beginning of the month. Err and I'm going to assume you meant "annualized" and not "analized" .. not in the mood today for the latter.
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  13858.  @Translucent73  About hospitals turning away covid19 patients - may we safely assume that the result was the same as seen in NYC? Emergency services were finding 200+ people per day dead in their own homes (above a norm of perhaps 20-25 people per day from otherwise natural causes) and NY state has since revised their death numbers up by around 4000 as a result.
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  13859. Bwahahaha. He voted for the convicted felon, the serial real estate swindler, the known con man, the known serial liar, the world's fattest golf cheater, and he actually expected things to get better? I have a swamp bridge to sell you, buddy.
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  13860. Retired judge Luttig was entirely clear about how Republicans need to stop their war on democracy. But if it's a choice between losing votes versus continuing Trump's lies and thus burning down our nation, well, they're clearly choosing the latter. They make Nixon look like a patriot. At least he was able to put the nation above party.
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  13861. The narcissistic windbag's trolls are similarly mentally-underequipped for that kind of struggle .. or kampf. Yeah. Their kampf.
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  13862.  @theinnocentturtle1236 You are replying to a comment from four years ago.
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  13863.  @taragnor  I would expect him to try inciting a civil war at home. He has already well explored the causal links between his words and stochiastic terror. Right after he loses the election, I expect him to tweet stuff to the effect that Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants are going on a looting/raping/killing spree against white people to celebrate the election results. He has already amply demonstrated his ability to generate discord of a racial nature, and an abundance of willingness to turn the country into an expression of his personal hate.
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  13864. Nice to know that El Trompo is now turning his famous Reverse Midas Touch on the Republican party, as he did on America and on his many failed business ventures. It is his most enduring characteristic.
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  13865. 45 was a megalomaniacal POS by the time he posted that full-page rant calling for the execution of the Central Park Five .. who were later found to be innocent of the charges. That aspect of him hasn't changed one bit. He is not, and never was, suitable for public office of any kind.
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  13866. Make Accountability Great Again, just saying.
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  13867. If Putler doesn't like it when slow unmanned Cessnas are slipping through the skies unnoticed and delivering pretty small warheads to industrial complexes deep inside Russia, for sure he won't like it when the F35s bring much bigger stuff that goes boom.
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  13868. Seriously. The clock starts when you get the drivers license in your new state and get registered as a voter.
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  13869. Pretty sure that if we wait a week or two, there will be plenty o' footage of darling Ivanka screeching at the crowd and telling them they've got to fight or they'll lose their country - footage from multiple times and places - in complete contradiction of what she said under oath before the J6 committee.
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  13870. Unless you have a matching stack of death certificates and signed ballots, with all of it notarized as authentic, there simply wasn't a problem with dead people voting. I keep asking the Trump nutters for proof on their claims, but the best they've got is grainy video of some jackhole waving papers around. Understand something about proof. When you go into a bank to set up a new account, and they ask for ID, are you allowed to simply show them a video of you holding up a piece of plastic and claiming it's your drivers license or passport? No. They need to see the real thing, and verify that it's authentic, before opening the account. The same is true for other forms of proof, such as with the claims of election fraud, and, so far, the people claiming fraud there haven't been able to produce a shred of proof.
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  13871. Thankfully the governors are in charge. And none of them are going to wave the all-OK flag until cases are trending back down to nothing. And that's not going to happen anytime soon. Quite the opposite, the US is now showing more than 10,000 new cases per day. Today it will probably be above 12K new cases per day. And it will keep increasing in that manner until the fire is starved of fuel (new people to infect) by social distancing measures.
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  13872. Long-range AI drone swarms bring capabilities hitherto available only via cruise missiles, bomber aircraft, or ICBMs. Russia will have many many such targets, and nowhere near enough interdiction capacity to protect them all.
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  13873. Predictably, Trump's first response was to pull a few strings and try to order the cancellation of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper, which has been in print since 1861. No slight is too small for him to simmer on and seek retribution.
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  13874. That's kind of a dark opinion. The truth is that Trump made possible the Democrat takeover of the House, then the Senate and the presidency. I hope someone in the DNC sends him thank-you cards.
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  13875. With all sincere hilarity, they imagine they're fleeing "oppression" and "tyranny" and "communism", even though the current Democrat platform is roughly where Nixon's platform was.
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  13876.  @j2simpso  To which I would add - who f*cking cares about which grade of approval these vaccines have from the FDA? For many months it's already been cleared to use in the USA, otherwise it would not even be available, and definitely not available everywhere for free. It requires no rocket science to understand that this is a very communicable, nasty disease that's killed a lot of people in a fairly short time, and that vaccines are freely available to many people. Edit - past a certain point, watching Delta take out the anti-vaxxers is like watching St Darwin go after people who drink and drive while not wearing their seat belts. It's not as if they haven't been abundantly warned already.
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  13877. Well, one of these fine days Dump45 is going to tell his remaining cult sheeple to launch the race war. He always did fantasize about leaving our country a flaming, bloody ruin behind him.
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  13878. Let's see how quickly AG Garland does anything. In the case of Biden, only 4 days elapsed between the breaking of the story and the AG's appointment of special prosecutor Robert Hur. In the case of Trump, months went by. The clock is running for Pence.
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  13879. Umm .. the future will probably be planes like that each with their own drone swarm that can do the same speed plus much higher g's .. that's a whole nother game.
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  13880. As for Putin, hmm, all's well that ends.
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  13881. Relax. The Republicans did not stop yet to ask Trump if he commits to respecting the results of the primary election .. whoops, a small oversight.
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  13882. This is an open-and-shut case of "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/20/us-protests-lockdown-coronavirus-cases-surge-warning https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-wisconsin-protests-test-positive-department-of-health-services-a9509486.html
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  13883. THANK YOU for using the word "when" and not "if". As of 4/1, the USA had 650 cases per million. As of yesterday it was 1,416 per million. It's still going up. The death rate will keep climbing as long as the case rate keeps climbing, and won't let off until maybe 3-5 weeks after the case rate stops going up. We didn't flatten the curve, we delayed the tsunami.
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  13884. MAGA Cory Mills doesn't want to be your representative, he wants to be your ruler.
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  13885. Can just imagine the texts going back and forth. * Trump pings Lindsey Graham * Lindsey: Call off your hogs, it's getting hot in here Trump: Hey, uh, word is that my guys, my beautiful people, have almost got Pence. It's almost finished. Gonna be a whole new world by tomorrow morning Lindsey: Don't say that Trump: And the reason I'm calling is to give you a chance to be a part of it. But we have to be clear. What can you do for me? How can you be helpful to me?
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  13886. We don't know yet what Junior is feeling guilty about, but we will.
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  13887. The country had enough of it when Trump's nominees, who wouldn't pass Senate approval, instead worked in "acting" capacity for 90 days before being replaced.
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  13888. So what they're saying is that Trump could shoot someone dead on 5th ave, then go scot-free just because no one heard the word "murder" mentioned? SMH
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  13889. Trump has burned out his projector bulb so many times.
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  13890. It was probably headed the way of the Axios interview (him looking like a deranged fool, convinced only of his own obvious lies) and that triggered the poor little snowflake.
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  13891. Good luck ever holding a job again after playing a part in this shit show of an administration. That would be like saying you were on Hilter's staff.
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  13892.  @TheAlyconaria  There are some people (admittedly whackjobs, people whose brains are wired wrong) who see conspiracy in EVERYTHING. As if they've reduced the complexity of the real world down to the simplicity of the social interactions in the one small sandlot where they spent time with the other neighborhood kids before they were 10.
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  13893. Thankfully, the people will remember how much Moscow Mitch and Miss Lindsey Graham have done to help Sweet Potato Hitler. Both of those little Quislings are eligible for recall in 2020. Less time if you've got pitchforks.
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  13894. Now? For the record, Rafael Eduardo Cruz (his real name) is the Canadian-born immigrant son of a Cuban refugee, and he came to America to reinvent himself as an immigrant-hating southern white conservative.
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  13895. Trump cultists don't require any evidence to believe Maximum Orange Leader anyway. This is right on schedule for his pattern of deceit .. by August-2020 he was telling his sheeple that the only way he could lose the election would be if the other side cheated.
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  13896. 1. Get MAGA Mikey to refuse to certify they election results when 45 loses again. 2. Supremes swoop in, saying votes don't matter, 45 forever! 3. Haiti scenario.
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  13897. Yes.
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  13898. Obama was inaugurated as president January 20, 2009, but it's apparent now that he's been living rent-free in Trump's head for a long time now.
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  13899. "I don't recall saying those things that you show me on video as saying".
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  13900. What are the demographics & politics of the people mentioned in the FISA ruling? At whose behest did the FBI research as many as 7K US citizens in a single day? What particular sets of data did they seek? Fourth estate, you know what to do.
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  13901.  @clray123  Apparently it's being renamed "Cloud Strife" or "Clown Strife" here.
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  13902. Funny, sad, frightening, and dangerous all at the same time. Just because they're dead wrong and they enjoy being lied to doesn't mean they wouldn't happily torch the constitution.
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  13903. "McDonalds just confirmed that" is just like the whopper "The FBI cleared me of any wrongdoing".
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  13904. One wonders what Trumpublicans would say now about Reagan, who famously told Mr Gorbachev to tear down that wall. No, today's Trump party would have reinforced our side with razor wire and the Texas national guard, to keep those undocumented people from fleeing persecution in their home countries.
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  13905.  @thewolf4079  Trump's the one who let those people out from under their rocks .. and that's why they love him. They're not normal Americans.
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  13906. Jail? He almost made America as internally violent as Haiti - which is what would have followed if Eastman's plan had succeeded in overturning Trump's second popular vote loss. Jail is much too nice for those who were willing to torch America just because one old fool couldn't take losing an election.
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  13907. The same place where Mothra's eggs get laid?
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  13908. Trump: "Waaah! I won't be able to interrupt and won't be able to infect Biden. Waaah!"
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  13909. In other words (paraphrasing) - "Just continue to believe in me, regardless of the facts, and let me and the Republican congressmen do the rest."
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  13910. What Barr really said the other day: "These tweets coming from the president are making it impossible for me to do the president's bidding in secrecy. Every time I secretly try to hide his criminal activities, he tweets about it to the world. How can I do my job of covering up his messes, helping to silence and punish witnesses, and circumventing the rule of law to reduce sentences for the president's cronies if he keeps tweeting to everyone. At this rate, I might be looking at a prison sentence myself, just like so many other of Trump's associates. It really sucks!"
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  13911.  @donquixote8092  No parody; it's what he meant. Trump (through Barr) is misusing the DOJ to reward friends and punish enemies, just like any other leader of a shithole nation would do.
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  13912. Relax, people, this has NOTHING to do with the way Wastebook (or Fakebook) is so friendly to whackjob kkkonservative conspiracy-theory nutters, anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, border agents who want to go full Auschwitz on Hispanic people, etc.
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  13913. Correct. Considering how Trump's chosen propaganda outlets were already blaming the chaos on Antifa/BLM, they were probably going to off the 2nd/3rd/4th in line of succession, then blame it on a patsy who'd conveniently get killed during a "rescue attempt". Then use that as excuse for martial law. They would have had to do a quick clean-up job to remove evidence - like the kind of surveillance footage the J6 committee has about "tours" the day before.
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  13914. The only poisoning going on here is in your mind and the minds of other simpleton people. Surely, back before your brain got poisoned, you learned in school that the tetanus vaccine keeps you from getting tetanus, the measles vaccine keeps you from getting measles, and so on. It is the same with the covid vaccine, yet somehow fools like you have gotten convinced that it'll make you magnetic, or cause you to grow a third arm.
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  13915. Sorry, but the Republicans have had almost 3 years to do something about this. To stand up for the people they represent. To uphold traditional Republican values of fiscal conservancy and being tough on crime. To separate themselves from his policies, his beliefs, his racism. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To prevent him from waging stochiastic terror on minorities here in the US. To prevent him from trashing our closest allies and trading partners. To keep him from trashing international goodwill by withdrawing willy-nilly from any treaty that angered him. To remake the party into a foil on an insane despot of a president. To hold him accountable when he ran off the rails. To laugh to his face when he tweeted some illogical falsehood, and to take him to the woodshed when his implied or overt racism emerged. Instead, they were weak, cowardly, greedy, afraid he might tweet something mean at them. I have zero sympathy for Republicans and how they will be losing big in elections for more than a generation to come. They own this mess.
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  13916. Wonder who these militias will go after. The postman? Their mayor? The police? The national guard? Army troops? No need to wonder, just look at what the stochiastic brownshirts has already been doing. Most likely they will take it out on nonwhites, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, visible minorities, all of whom have experienced increased violence since the Nov-2016 election thanks to Agent Orange and his loose mouth. People, you know what to do: if you witness them acting up, make sure they have their day - in court.
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  13917. There is a wound that won't heal down at Mar-a-Lago. There is a darkness from there, reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here, and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. Trumpism is a disease that thrives in darkness, and it is never more alive than when we sleep.
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  13918. Trump: Coronavirus makes jail too dangerous for my criminal pal Roger Stone. also Trump: About Ghiselaine Maxwell .. I wish her well while she breathes deeply in jail. also Trump: Coronavirus makes the RNC meeting too dangerous. also Trump: If schoolchildren infect their parents by the millions .. I don't care do U?
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  13919. That's funny that Ron Johnson should be involved. Everyone remembers he was one of the Moscow Mules, the Red Square Republicans who picked an odd place to celebrate July 4th. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senators-tell-contradictory-stories-about-moscow-trip
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  13920. Apparently Big Orangey is right back on his long-running task of destroying American democracy as we know it. No surprises there.
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  13921. I get it (OP) - why don't you just send them a truckload of thoughts and prayers instead of the money which you'd rather hoard in your butt crack? Those thoughts and prayers will be of fine help to Ukraine when missiles are raining down on them and enemy troops are killing their people. For your words here, you deserve the Neville Chamberlain award of the week! :) Merry Xmas
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  13922.  @patdoyle2003  Correct. The ones screeching for civil war don't seem to imagine that not everyone wants the country burned down just to appease the hurt feelings of the 2020 election loser.
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  13923. All those right wing nutters screeching all day that Democrats eat babies. This is another Comet Pizza type stoch terror attack.
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  13924. Strange rules. You can't take their god's name in vain, but you're free to discuss treason and overthrowing democracy. Hope the FBI owns their hosting company.
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  13925. Never forget, Republicans have/had far more outrage for Obama wearing a tan suit, or Jill Biden having an advanced degree, than they do over Trump very openly trying to commit felony election fraud.
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  13926.  @J-kd2qc  Trump has 91 charges against him at the current time, but it sounds like you're referring more to the 14th amendment, section 3, which is about eligibility to be president. The three main requirements are to be at least 35 years old, be a native-born US citizen, and not to have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the US or given aid or comfort to those who did. No charges need be levied to enforce this.
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  13927.  @J-kd2qc  Here's the text of 14.3 .. let's start there: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." The two houses of congress must approve, by 2/3, the removal of that disability. Clearly the disability does not specify requiring conviction, indictment, or even accusation, otherwise it would say so. It authors could have easily included those provisions and did not.
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  13928.  @J-kd2qc  From where did you get the notion that Congress must pass additional legislation to enforce presidential qualifications that are already laid out plainly in section 3? Section 3 adjudications against former Confederates were rare in the aftermath of the Civil War. That is because it was widely understood that former Confederates who took an oath to support the Constitution before the Civil War were disqualified under Section 3 and therefore many likely did not seek office in the first place. In fact, ex-Confederates flooded Congress with thousands of amnesty requests to “remove” their Section 3 disqualification, demonstrating that they understood themselves to be disqualified even without a formal adjudication. In addition, the window for disqualifying ex-Confederates was small: the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, and Congress removed the Section 3 disqualification for most ex-Confederates less than four years later in the Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 (that statute withheld amnesty from Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis). So while only eight officials have been formally ruled to be disqualified under Section 3, thousands more were understood to be disqualified in the period between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification in 1868 and Congress’s passage of the Amnesty Act in 1872 that applied to former Confederates. Historical precedent also confirms that a criminal conviction is not required for an individual to be disqualified under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. No one who has been formally disqualified under Section 3 was charged under the criminal “rebellion or insurrection” statute (18 U.S.C. § 2383) or its predecessors. This fact is consistent with Section 3’s text, legislative history, and precedent, all of which make clear that a criminal conviction for any offense is not required for disqualification. Section 3 is not a criminal penalty, but rather is a qualification for holding public office in the United States that can be and has been enforced through civil lawsuits in state courts, among other means.
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  13929. I only came here to read the comments by right-wing douches who titter about the barricades & security while glossing over the fact that their right-wing brethren nationally have committed some 30+ vehicle and/or firearm attacks on protests since the George Floyd protests began.
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  13930.  @francesmeyer8478  And if anyone asks the mango Mussolini, he'll claim (without evidence, as usual) that all the other presidents were criminals like him, only they somehow escaped prosecution. Or even leaving a trail of evidence.
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  13931. Putin is certainly getting every ruble's worth out of his investments in Rupert Murdoch's propaganda enterprises.
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  13932. Remember how Trump kept trying to find a way to charge former president Obama with something after he had left office? In fact, Trump kept trying to find ways to impeach Obama after Obama had left office.
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  13933.  Troy Onan  Are you kidding me? They lost all of their friends. They broke the law by encouraging 8yo's to secretly distribute anti-abortion literature at school without the parents knowing. Everyone in the fam stopped visiting them decades ago. Face it, they went down a cult rabbit hole.
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  13934.  Troy Onan  No. They got sucked down a racist hate rabbit hole. If you quiz them on the subject, it doesn't take long to discern that they're complaining only about white babies getting aborted. With almost no prodding, they'll screech about how white people will be outnumbered in however many years and how the only way to stop that is to stop abortion.
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  13935.  Troy Onan  They were like this by the early 70s and haven't changed since. Complete loons. Their vehicle has two bumper stickers, one the praying hands and the other an NRA sticker. Everyone mocks them by asking if it means, "Save the unborn today so we can shoot them for trespassing tomorrow."
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  13936.  Troy Onan  Err, what does that have to do with anti-abortionists being racists at heart? Especially when those same so-called right-to-lifers belong to groups that bomb clinics and shoot doctors?
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  13937.  @blubblurb  Dude, the only time I listen to what Trump says is to note down his lies or when I need humor material. That guy is more disconnected from reality than Weird Al Yankovic on an 8-way dose of LSD.
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  13938.  @Froggy77100  So far, the two main means of TDS-suffering cultists getting awoken are a) losing a whole lot of money because Trump doesn't pay them, or b) fines and/or jail time for crimes committed at Trump's behest and/or on Trump's behalf. America may not have enough inpatient mental hospital space, but we do have a lot of prison space, and if there's some future overflow issue we can contract with the Chinese to take them as prison labor - where perhaps they will be sewing Trump flags in China 😅😅
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  13939. Interesting that Trump could pronounce "Mein Kampf" correctly but not "Yosemite".
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  13940.  @CMoore8539  Same. I haven't been anywhere in public without mask & gloves for awhile now. Totally letting my hair go. It's going to have a broad skunk stripe down the part where the roots aren't getting dyed anymore.
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  13941. Just tell them that American astronauts are happy for this unexpected opportunity to eclipse the Russian record for staying in space. Zing 'em where it hurts.
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  13942. Jim Jones, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Donald Trump - causing your own followers to lose their lives is a cult leader thing.
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  13943. They would have called you conspiracy theorists anyway because you go looking for them on the bottom of every leaf. Folks like you tend to hear about chemtrails, then the next day you're out there spraying vinegar at the sky. Can't fix stupid.
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  13944.  @jahualhaq9853  Sounds like you missed your calling writing Turner Diaries knockoffs. Nope, sorry, Trump's a criminal and is the worst threat currently facing the USA other than his case officer, Vladimir Putin.
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  13945. Help is on the way? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it :(
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  13946. Republicans are clearly in need of some harsh wake-up medicine, maybe like the kind that loyal Nazis got during the winter of 1945-1946, when it became clear that their fanatical loyalty to a lying, conniving, corrupt leader is what helped their Fuhrer visit such ruin upon Germany.
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  13947. To be fair, Adolph Hitler has never appeared on local ballots. In fact no one has appeared on local ballots saying that they're going to forcibly incarcerate all homeless people and put them in camps out in the desert.
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  13948. To be fair, it's a small percentage of vocal nutters (generally racists if you peel off enough layers; they worry about a future lack of white babies leading to some replacement theory) who refer to abortion as murder. Anytime the issue is put to public referendum, the electorate will almost always vote to preserve a woman's bodily autonomy.
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  13949. One of these days, they'll go back to drinking disinfectants just like Hair Fuhrer suggested. For most of them, bleach will be the perfect choice. They can celebrate their whiteness inside and out.
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  13950. Trans people are 0.5% of the population and 0.002% of NCAA athletes. Interestingly, Jewish people were 0.75% of German population when the funny mustache guy blamed them for destroying the country.
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  13951. Poor Chris Wallace .. he's making more sense than FOXed usually wants to make to its viewers. Probably he'll get pushed out soon too :(
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  13952.  @lindas.7083  Stupid people love his lies. Tuberville and others rely on it.
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  13953. You're right, it's not being taken very seriously here by the powers that be. Usually when stuff like this happens, governments start finding the backbone to do public executions.
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  13954. The platform needs to be renamed 64chan or 128chan. A safe space for white separatists to discuss implementing the Turner Diaries plan :(
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  13955. Nothing to worry about! Our Mango Mussolini has another law firm in his swamp, the one formerly known as the Supreme Court.
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  13956. Here's some of Trump's recent champion salad: "Over the seas and it comes right over our land. And then they want us to have clean. I said wait a minute, we’re gonna have clean but it’s all flying. Just remember that. Does that make sense? In other words, it’s all coming through the currents through the air. It all comes. You can, they can name it, they can say exactly where it’s going to be and when. We’re .. going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your — you know, your political beliefs, what they do. They want to debank you, and we’re going to debank — think of this. They want to take away your rights. They want to take away your country. The things they’re doing. All electric cars. When the magnetic elevators — think of it — magnets. Now, all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Biden is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead and…now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war… Under Biden, we would be in World War Two.”
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  13957. The single best thing about the UFO myth is that it sucks in the weak-minded and keeps them occupied with nonsense. Kind of like those biter pits from Walking Dead season 3, the ones that Woodbury uses to collect biters. Shiny things wave around in the air, making weird noises, and of course the undead clump towards them. So you say UFO's are real? Hand me a piece of a crashed one, or STFU.
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  13958. This is the sort of fire that people should have been feeling back when Trump first turned his ugly mug towards politics. Everything we know now about him was clear about him decades ago to those who were paying attention. He cares for NO ONE and NOTHING but himself.
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  13959. His father probably listened to all the wrong people for medical advice .. Bob Enyart, Tucker Carlson, Phil Valentine, Dick Farrel, Marc Bernier, etc .. most of which have already been inhumed.
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  13960. Something that the western press doesn't emphasize much is that those Iranian ballistic missiles went right through whatever air defenses those US bases have got for protection. That was the real message. They could have lobbed in 200kg containers of corn to make their point. As usual the orange doofus completely missed the point.
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  13961.  @user-jm4cd5sd1x  Thankfully you have not yet 'evolved' to the same-day catch-and-release program in Portland, OR. It is so advanced that some criminals commit multiple same-day crimes with processing in between them :(
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  13962. He's still being useful to Putin, sadly. Making a mockery of our justice system, and leaving a politically-Balkanized America behind him, may be his last deeds in service of Russia.
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  13963. There's a book you might like .. "Secondhand Time: the Last of the Soviets" by Svetlana Alexievich. In interviews, people talk a lot about their feelings towards the former Soviet Union.
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  13964.  @newlibertarian139  Agreed! Russian troll got to put food on table you know.
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  13965. Could someone please mention to Peter Navarro that it took only a month for the USA to go from 400 cases to 400,000 cases? And that the 1000x increase would have happened in even less time had not most states locked down halfway through that period?
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  13966. The Republicans don't learn. It's hard to add anything to a porta-pottie that's already overflowing. They just double down on the crazy when the crazy doesn't work. Like someone trying to drag their oversized 5th wheel through the McDonalds drive-through.
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  13967. Those African bullfrogs have the perfect poker-face stare.
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  13968. Attention Georgia conservatives: those Dominion voting machines are more hacked than Sidney Powell was allowed to say on TV. Venezuela threatened her with assassination if she told the whole truth, which is that your phone will be silently hacked if you even get near one, allowing China to see your texts and social media posts and where you live. And if you even touch one of those machines, they give off microdot chips (too small to be seen) that make you as trackable as the Bill Gates vaccine. Don't do it!
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  13969. And apparently there are, what, 60 million damaged voters who feel otherwise - as long as it applies to Trump, and only Trump. Biden and Obama, sure, they'd gladly try to prosecute them on any day that ends in 'Y'.
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  13970. Looks like a clear case of Partisan Derangement Syndrome - hat tip to LP for clarifying the name.
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  13971.  @MFiction60  Would love to see the messages between the corrupt 6, 45 - and Putin.
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  13972. Re "Is everyone just afraid to use the word?" << No. In fact, a great many of us recognize the peril in waiting to do things about the ugly bloom of fascism taking place in the fertile soil of Republican cult craziness.
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  13973. Heard Mitch McConnell was begging Canadians not to take these steps. Funny how Mitch never thought that there might be consequences for letting the orange man-baby stack the Supreme Corp, or for abdicating the responsibilities of the Senate to punish an impeached president who'd clearly broken the law.
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  13974. In every year since 1988, with the exception of 2004, the Republicans have lost the popular vote. Seems like America is trying to send them a message, but they're not listening.
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  13975. "Darker than me" was the reason for the beating by these Proud Boys wannabes.
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  13976. How long before Trump's brownshirt irregulars start doing the same with other citizens who they imagine are "poisoning the blood"?  @nas84payne 
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  13977.  @martinelespes1706  Do you have any numbers for how much Russian & Ukrainian ag production has been offlined (or otherwise kept from market) due to the conflict?
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  13978.  @martinelespes1706  Ahh, Russia would be attempting to do to Africa with food staples what China attempts to do to Africa with their Belt & Road project.
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  13979.  Rob Arthur  Fantastic non-sequitur. Almost the definition of it. Bravo ;)
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  13980. I often think the same of all the lookalike people covered in tats. Some paid more for their ink than I did for my car.
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  13981. As an American, we all know that. All good. And I'm begging you to keep up the "FU Trump" business and posting it on media. Keep referring to us as the 11th province too. Invite the west coast to join. All of that will just piss him off. He's a thin-skinned idiot & traitor anyway. I'd kick him if they let me.
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  13982. Looks like Trump has had a pretty bad week! And remember, kids, a horrible week for Trump is a good week for America. Wouldn't it be such a shame if his golf courses and other tacky stuff were to burn down tonight.
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  13983.  @onemustlivefree  Wannabe tyrants/dictators are pretty common throughout history. What's scary is how Fox keeps the gullible sheeple mired in fear & tribal thinking, which Trump exploits and turns into his death threat brigade. That's how he keeps 'his' congresspeople and judges in line.
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  13984. It's about where his supposedly fantastic healthcare program was. And the supposed evidence of election fraud in 2020. And his infrastructure plan. And that universal conceal carry.
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  13985.  @johnbriggs3916  Can't wait for the rest of the insurrectionists to point out that 'loophole' - by that I mean the many who refused to certify the legitimate election winner of 2020. Some are still in office - for now.
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  13986. That is the only thing he was hired to do. Probably the only thing he's qualified to do as well.
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  13987. Another thing for the to-do list: get justice beerbong off the bench.
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  13988. Appeasement is feeding your friends to a hungry alligator, thinking that's less evil than seeing the alligator's hunger pangs go unanswered.
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  13989.  @kevinbibb3893  No, 45 debated like a pigeon playing chess: knocking over the pieces, making noise, crapping all over, then flying away squawking that he won. His repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth, that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned, that there were no terror attacks during his presidency, that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency, that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has, that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,” that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes, that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries, that Europe accepts no American cars, that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress, and that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election. He also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China. (Both records actually occurred under Trump.)
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  13990. Along came Rupert Murdoch .. :(
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  13991. Run for election if you think you can do any better.
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  13992. They need to modify the rules a little - since this virus can spread through touching surfaces, it could be dangerous for people from different households to toss a frisbee / baseball / football / whatever between each other.
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  13993. Are you referring to Trump spying on teenagers at the pageant, claiming it was his right because he owned it? And his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein?
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  13994.  @OregunAdventure  Funny you should mention that, because according to the official numbers the excess deaths in 2020 were around 400K-500K higher than the year before. If anything, the official covid deaths number of 383,461 is understated.
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  13995. It's worse than that. Trump could probably sexually abuse their children and they'd still support him. That's the kind of special place a cult leader occupies in the minds of his sheeple.
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  13996. "Please, governor, just let us run our plague-spreading operations during a pandemic." thonk If you could theoretically get everyone to wear their masks and get vaccinated, that would be great, but Oregon seems to have a few people who'd rather help spread the virus.
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  13997.  @carolgladfelder272  Oh looky, didn't take long for the knuckle-draggers to show up. America's at war with the virus - and some folks just want to be enemy collaborators.
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  13998.  @jacobmiller2454  How's this for "hardship"? Overwhelmed cemeteries in India, all because they thought they could reopen without first getting vaccinated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGABOKo-Sfw
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  13999.  @adams115  Dipshit - I don't want anyone to be miserable. I want as many people as possible to live through this thing and not suffer death or covid aftereffects. If you want this thing over soonest, get vaccinated, get everyone else vaccinated, and keep following the recommendations until we get the all-clear. That is the way out.
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  14000.  @TrueDuckFan  Re "Why don’t you just stay at home" I can still go to work while observing the recommended precautions and getting vaccinated and avoiding people. Unless your job involves blowing random truckers through a gloryhole, you too should be able to do all those things, if you even hold a job that is.
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  14001.  @TrueDuckFan  Regarding "Why don’t you just stay at home if you think it’s a problem? You don’t need to shut everyone else down, stay home!!!" People like you are the modern equivalent of someone saying, in 1943, something like this: "Dammit, I hate serving in the army, and my Dad's ice cream shop has been closed while he's building Liberty ships. This darn war has gone on too long. Why don't we just surrender to Germany and Japan so we can reopen that ice cream shop? It's our right! So what if lots of people die like in India now."
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  14002.  EL CHUPA KNIEBRE  Oh look, the shitbirds came out for a plateful of shit. Whoop it up, you frigging moron plague spreaders. I'll buy your stuff at auction after you've passed or you're stuck with long covid medical effects and cannot work.
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  14003.  @blackwindsignomancy8429  Plague-spreading idiot. Collaborating with the virus, how patriotic. What a moron.
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  14004.  @blackwindsignomancy8429  You didn't want a response? Or you weren't expecting one?
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  14005. They're mad that covid is real and Trump isn't president anymore. BA2 is going to take them next.
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  14006.  @vtran1082  Still as valid now as then. Did you have a point?
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  14007.  @iamthegreatcornholio7836  Here's a snippet of one of 45's speeches from earlier in the year. Let's see if that helps jog your awareness: "Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like — Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?"
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  14008. Raise a glass to Sinclair Lewis. He got it mostly right. Because when fascism came to America, humping a flag and brandishing an upside-down bible, conservatives tripped all over each other trying to normalize political violence in the service of one butthurt old loudmouth loser.
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  14009. The last openly white nationalist president was actually a high chancellor, and people tried appeasing him too for awhile, until they learned better.
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  14010. If the office of the presidency was so sacred .. where were these people when Obama was president? Oh, that's right, they were out there barking at the moon, wailing about how Obama was allegedly about to put them into FEMA camps for saying "merry christmas". These self-styled "patriots" are happy to be the handmaidens of fascism in America :(
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  14011. @@Aelwyd10 Sorry, man, shot from the hip on that one. Apologies on the keyboard.
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  14012. Jess - no, you are not too aggressive. Trump is a criminal who violated his oath of office and broke the law in many ways. I can't improve on what Mitt Romney said, the night of the DC insurrection, after the building had been cleared: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning,” Romney said. “What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. “They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history,” Romney continued. “That will be their legacy.”
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  14013.  @BD-uw1kq  This is why I'm not complaining that the noisy crazies of the GOP insist on nominating their orange deity to be their pick for the presidential contest. He's absolutely toxic in the general election. Biden should send the GOP a nice thank-you card.
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  14014. I remain hopeful that some laws will be changed as a result of that coup that almost succeeded. Already the electoral counting process has been changed to make it harder to challenge the legit election results .. perhaps all of the people who could be in place to roadblock it (such as MAGA Mikey and his ilk are probably planning not) will need to make a public process to abide by the results of the election .. and so on.
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  14015.  Bliss And Wellbeing  Until they are all rooted out through the violence they've discussed in chat rooms, the rest of us will have to keep an eye out for Trump's little Brownshirts and what they might do.
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  14016. For aiding and abetting Trump's treason and his reign of crime, Republicans need to wear that shame like a brand for at least a generation or two.
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  14017.  @Kiki-en9vm  That's why I can't vote for any conservative anymore - with few exceptions, they do nothing to denounce the crazies among them who spout hateful lies in the hopes that one of them will commit a vile act like this.
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  14018.  @Earthbound369  Motivating your enemy's Quislings to action (through lies that wouldn't fool a cat) is way cheaper than sending aircraft carriers. It's a shame America has so many Comet Pizza type nutters :(
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  14019. Any good sheep farmer knows you don't tell the sheep anything about the shearing schedule. Same thing here. Keeping those sheeple in the dark is how FOXed Noise makes money.
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  14020. You gotta love the way his Million MAGA Moron army does not show up anymore for his self-promotional events. Not even when he's whining about being arrested.
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  14021. Trump is still able to gaslight his supporters into thinking they live in the imaginary hellscape he portrays. The rest of us have moved along.
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  14022. For Germany, it was Hitler. For Norway, it was Quisling. For America, when it comes to traitors, Benedict Arnold is about to move down into second place.
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  14023. Their frantic invention of crazy stories is the only thing keeping them from getting sent to the front to be turned into sunflower fertilizer.
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  14024.  @makoosh3448  There isn't a single person on the stage in American politics who's advocating the abolishment of large scale personal property, or putting the state in charge of the means of production, and that categorically means that no one in American politics is further left than somewhere near the center. Even by European standards, Bernie Sanders is barely left of center.
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  14025.  @ShadeoftheEvening  You sound like you never get out of your small trailer park in rural Ohio - or even out of your bedroom, where FOXed Noise blares 24/7, feeding you the dumbest propaganda ever.
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  14026.  @jayadams6910  Sadly, I've worn out 3 keyboards in the past 4 years doing that sort of thing.
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  14027.  @thrillho4209  Correct. Over here in the US, someone is considered to be "not conservative enough" if they don't endorse belief in some secret Jewish space laser, or if they don't believe they should have to accept election results that go the other way. Along with all the standard conservative stuff like making abortion illegal and disenfranchising as many non-white non-hetero non-xtian people as possible.
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  14028.  mal'ak emeth  Shapiro would get along fine with Hitler, I suppose, as long as you didn't tell Hitler that little Ben was Jewish. After that; all bets would be off.
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  14029.  mal'ak emeth  Ben Shapiro is quicker than Hitler? I doubt we'll ever see that verified. One of them ran a nation for a little while, and the other one seems to have been on T-blockers for too long.
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  14030.  mal'ak emeth  We will probably be stuck disagreeing on this subject. I am of the opinion that the former Fuhrer would have wiped the floor with young Ben, who, despite his alleged verbal prowess, still has not enjoyed the upward arc of prestige and power that came to the young Austrian upstart, back in the 1920s, based almost entirely on his skills as an orator. Ben is shrill and has only a narrow appeal even among conservatives. Ben couldn't even handle his own in a BBC interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
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  14031.  mal'ak emeth  Is there some reason you're explaining all these wonderful things about yourself while still attempting to slip in the notion that Ben could hold his own in a debate with Hitler? Since we can't perform that experiment (unless you've got access to a time machine) the only yardstick we can use is the comparison of what they were doing at equivalent ages.
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  14032.  mal'ak emeth  Farewell, inept troll. Go back to the shallow waters that you're used to.
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  14033.  @mileskay7566  Spotting fake information and calling out, as such, doesn't make a person conspiratorial or delusional.
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  14034.  @mileskay7566  I posted a parent comment; there was a thread beneath it; you responded to that thread. It is not as if I was addressing anyone in particular with the parent comment. If you want to do that, you reply to someone else's comment.
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  14035.  @michaelh878  Thanks for the clarification hint :)
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  14036.  @rudistorm3348  .. and even when I do, lots of them just don't want to hear it.
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  14037. If Trump is the dogsh8t flavored rat poison the GOP just can't get enough of .. yeah, let them try to blame that on someone else.
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  14038. And yet, somehow, that bad behavior makes the smelly angry old man seem like a living god to certain folks. A mental health crisis to be sure.
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  14039. So far I'm not feeling optimistic about people in the US doing the right thing. The president calls the WHO CFR numbers "fake news", implies you can go to work, implies it's just like a cold. Ordinary people were visiting the disease hotspot in Kirkland, WA then flying home by regular passenger jet. People flew back from Italy and resumed their normal ways. Same for people returning from cruise ships. And looming in the background is this strange unwillingness (or inability) to do the widespread screening that would help reveal how widespread it really is. Community transmission has been happening in the US since at least early January, if not even earlier.
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  14040. If you chart the relationship between the peak attendance at Louisiana's last major super-spreading event (Mardi Gras in New Orleans) then the peak in new daily cases in Louisiana, you'll see they are 40 days apart. We're just coming up now on the 40-day anniversary of the beginning of the anti-lockdown protests in the USA. The numbers may be getting spiky soon. I can mail you the Mardi Gras chart if you want.
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  14041. What you're seeing is a phenom like the Charles Manson cult, or the Reverend Jim Jones cult, or Heaven's Gate, but on a much larger scale.
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  14042. How crazy do you have to be for Mark Meadows to push back? He's so far out in right field that you can't even see him.
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  14043. What Trump is doing now is something that the Romans would have referred to as "salting the fields". To them, it was something especially heinous that they would do to an enemy, Takes a very long time to recover from. To Trump, however, it's something you do to your own country. Putin must be very happy.
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  14044. What a way to go, though, feeding the wildlife.
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  14045. Yup. A judge that we would now tag as belonging to the insurrectionist party.
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  14046. Sadly, MAGAts can't see Trump's lies any more than goldfish can see water. They're immersed in his lies, they live and breathe in them.
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  14047. Biden is still doing policy (though not very well) but Trump, through his flying monkeys in congress, is withholding.
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  14048. Don't those office minions know better than to bother him while he's plotting to overthrow the constitution with help from the Republican senate?
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  14049. The Bundeswehr doesn't operate there currently. Other folks might be using some of their donated stuff. Not the same thing.
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  14050. Correct. They are going to break the government, then point to the broken government as an excuse for why things must be changed. A slower-moving version of the Reischtag Fire scenario.
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  14051.  @David-dv6yv  Wrong again. Go check out the Pravda Social post. If you can't find it, here's what he said: “[insert imaginary excuse] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in Dec-2022.
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  14052.  @David-dv6yv  "Pravda Social" is the correct Russian name for Trump's platform. You do have a penchant for being 180 degrees wrong about things, don't you.
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  14053. That's what I find beautiful about this. People are voting with their wallets. Even if Trump promises to behave, and not violate the USMCA (he can't promise; he has less self-control than a mewling newborn kitten with its eyes not yet open) and even if Canada were to un-tariff, the US goods would just sit there collecting dust on the shelf. Stable genius, huh, Trump?
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  14054. One imagines some WH staffer caught cellphone video of Trump watching the January 6th violence live on the big screen, while gloating out loud about how "his people" were going to put him in power forever. Huh. Maybe that's the high standard of proof for the AG to become aware that some lawbreaking may have taken place.
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  14055. Maybe the NRA will provide the perp with a lawyer. The defense would be something like this: "I'm a responsible pipe bomb owner and would never actually use one to kill anyone. I use the explosives to protect my property, and I explode pipe bombs in my back yard for fun. I can't help it if some nut gets their hands on a bomb. They would have just found another way to kill, say with a gun or something else. Pipe bombs don't kill people. People kill people."
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  14056. The proud little boyz heard the message so clearly, they even changed their logo within a matter of hours.
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  14057.  @vickiwilliams8379  These upstanding citizens? Let them have their day - in court. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/proud-boy-donald-trump-charged-assault-guns-white-supremacist-debate-biden-alan-swinney-b723887.html
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  14058. I am pretty sure that nations all over the middle east are thinking this might be a good time to acquire a few S-400 air defense systems, which make easy work of those US drones and pretty much anything that flies.
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  14059.  @EconLessons  Speaking of our era's Lord Haw-Haw, his latest money-earning venture is to claim that Lyme disease escaped from a lab somewhere.
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  14060.  @Dstrbrdgrnd  They'd stomp it flatter than week dead road kill.
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  14061. Looks like Republicans are following Orban's script to the T.
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  14062. The only meaningful thing to say about senator Rafael Eduardo Cruz is that his daddy didn't flee all the way from Cuba to Canada, and send his son to America, just so that tender young Eduardo ("Ted") could see the nation overrun by immigrants from Latin America.
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  14063. Muskrat probably needs every Tesla dealership in the country to catch fire for him to realize how universally loathed he is.
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  14064. Noise. Putin was already told what the result would be: immediate overwhelming conventional attack from all Allied forces. The kind of attack for which the late general Stormin' Norman was known. Russia can't even deal with an autopiloted Cessna coming in from Ukraine .. and they certainly can't deal with a couple thousand incoming cruise missiles that take out every military installation, dam, power plant, pipeline, bridge, railroad yard, etc.
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  14065. Here's all you need to know - Trump can't go anywhere in public without hearing boos and chants of "lock him up!" Ambassador Yovanovich can't go anywhere in public without hearing a standing ovation. Guess which one goes on twitter/FOX Nooz/whatever to badmouth and intimidate the other?
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  14066.  @thomasjackson2223  Her lack of positive personality traits is what would doom her in those places. She obviously cannot speak a word of truth.
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  14067. Trump directs government resources to his own private businesses, then whines about some mythical "deep state" that's ruining everything. When is his projector bulb going to burn out?
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  14068. The Cheeto is going to burn down the country mostly because the adults in the room decided that stopping him was somehow not ethical.
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  14069. Those Russian butchers shriek that everyone in Ukraine is a Nazi, then use that as an excuse to kill babushki, pregnant women, their unborn babies. Someone needs to whack those uppity cockroaches.
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  14070. "Things that I saw on both sides" << oh wow. That's like saying "The stage 4 liver cancer was very aggressive, true, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were very aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides. Both sides are essentially the same."
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  14071. Wrong, it doesn't say much about the Republican party, that they could be taken in by a narcissistic freak of a shallow con man like 45. He's rat poison to their future.
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  14072. India is also part of the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation, which encompasses about half of the global human population and 60% of the area of the Eurasian continent. The USA is the 4% of the world's population trying to have its way with the other 96% .. and that scam isn't working too well these days.
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  14073. Russia is like the toxic ex-husband beating on Ukraine, saying, "I love you so much, why do you make me hurt you?"
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  14074.  @AlexD889  Yup. While he's beating the children and pointing a pistol at the lady who just called 911.
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  14075. Except only the people who want to turn America into Somalia go along with it. Looking at you, MAGAts.
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  14076. Unfortunately, the business model at Fox means that they will spend another 4 years trying to spark domestic discontent over Trump's 2024 election loss. They will keep bleating about wholly-fictional "election irregularities". A certain number of gullible Americans will be drive around the bend by their incendiary lies. That is how Fox makes money, not by reporting the news factually.
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  14077. President Biden continues to exceed my best expectations. I love that story of what happened when his people got back to him and said they'd gotten the vaccinations up to 1 million per day .. without losing a beat, he said, good, now I want 2 million per day. Get going. Day and night difference between him and that fool who did little but whine.
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  14078. That was an awful mournful tune he played on the air accordion.
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  14079. The funny part is that FOX will keep telling their deluded viewers that everything is rosy even as those same viewers lose their shirts, their jobs, their benefits.
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  14080.  @starter0951  That's the lamest attempt ever to put words into my mouth that I did not say. Is that your sole troll tactic, simpleton? I got stuff smarter than you floating around in the morning cereal.
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  14081. If those whacktards want to get out and work, nobody is stopping them from being front-line workers at hospitals, Amazon, the grocery store, working security, etc. Funny, though, when you put it to them that way they're less certain that they want to work.
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  14082.  @pc4mlc451  Not everyone's brains are wired that badly. Sounds like you have never had a close relationship with a kind person in a position of power. You should get out more.
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  14083. Two years? You're being way too kind. Had those people succeeded in their part of the scheme that 45 orchestrated, our country would have been plunged into bloody internal conflict.
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  14084. Pretty soon, Fox is going to be saying they won't have her on again.
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  14085.  @thunberbolttwo3953  Why are you cranky old Boomers always about fearing some faroff imaginary enemy (Greta) while ignoring the 800lb monster in your living room (Trump)?
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  14086.  @thunberbolttwo3953  Nothing to fear from Trump? Well, no, as long as you are rich, white, xtian, hetero. Everyone else, though, seems to be fair game for the MAGA hat brownshirt irregulars :(
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  14087.  @thunberbolttwo3953  Are you saying Antifa represents the far right? Because that's where the violence is, according to the numbers. https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  14088.  @thunberbolttwo3953  She has no power over US legislation, while the fat flying orange man certainly does. Wanna argue that part about which of them has more power here?
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  14089. Susan Collins helped teach Trump that crime pays, so it's going to take the whole village to fix the idiot.
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  14090.  @darlenelarochelle4011  Who else recalls the wave of bias crimes following the 2016 election? (Reveal News has a piece on it - title is they spewed hate then they punctuated it with the president's name) Even grade school kids got in on it. For some weird reason, it does not attract the notice of about 1/3 of the country when their own crazy-hate buttons are being massaged by a cult leader.
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  14091. The people working with this data had been vetted and security-checked. Muskrat and his incels have close ties to Russian online piracy, and none of them would pass a background check.
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  14092. It's coming. AH took only 57 days to consolidate power. These ones are moving a bit faster than that.
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  14093. Mind you, when people fantasize about 4 more years of Trump, they're mostly thinking of guaranteed election results in Trump's favor. State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed.
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  14094. Many of us have been roasting "the Donald" since well before Obama did at the WH correspondents dinner.
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  14095. He's telling the RNC that primary votes don't matter.
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  14096. Not to worry. In the month before the election, social media will get them all distracted by the thought that there might be a trans kid somewhere in rural New Mexico.
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  14097. This doesn't even cover the international laws that Trump's administration broke. Here's one: While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  14098. When you look at the high numbers for covid deaths and illnesses in the USA, and at the overwhelmed health care systems, take a moment to thank the political party that's worked to minimize the danger and to cause opportunities for the virus to spread more freely. Even now, some states still don't have mask mandates even as they get thousands of new cases per day.
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  14099.  @conshvili6335  Is that a figure of speech?
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  14100. FOXed Noise is reaping the results of spewing nonsense like this since 1996: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do."
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  14101.    Perfect! May I copy & share your comment?
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  14102. When Trump & Pence are wheezing away on ventilators, Pelosi can be there to take charge. In the meantime, let her mock those fools all she wants. On some level they are both seething about hearing it from a woman.
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  14103. Good point. Trump knew as far back as the summer of 2019 (right after Biden became the DNC nominee) that he would lose the election. We can be sure of this because that's when he started pawing through the white house rolodex to find someone he could shake down to make up some dirt on the Bidens. Wonder how many turned him down.
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  14104.  @idres6862  There's always business for those who are more .. enterprising.
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  14105. As always - when Republicans complain, they are projecting. Always.
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  14106. PM Trudeau is a real leader. Possibly even the leader of the free world now. As for Cheeto, he ran only to stay out of jail, and he's only wanted to be a ruler. He's never been any kind of leader except maybe the kind that leads the lemmings to a cliff.
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  14107. And this is the guy who makes Republican voters swoon and almost pass out from joy? Did they all get dropped on their heads as children??
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  14108. It's extremely sad. There is no happy ending following their intended coup to put the election loser into office. Down that road lies only things like Haiti, Somalia, Eritrea, or the Bosnian civil war. He lost the election by a lot. The rest of us (those who don't feel like she does) will not sit back and let that happen. All because one butthurt old narcissist couldn't face that the lost the election.
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  14109.  @muckle8 Thankfully smarter heads prevail. Putin has been warned what will happen if he uses anything nuclear.
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  14110.  @muckle8  They've been trying to move west from those positions for the past 10 years. You could send them some vodka to celebrate, but they'd probably take their part in the mountain of corpses by then. The only monument Putin will ever leave.
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  14111.  @markmartin5248  I know, right? If you want to be hands-off with the insurrectionists, LRAD them until they're bleeding and unconscious.
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  14112. Goes to show you that if Biden had put forward another Brock Turner type, a rapey fratboy without the sense to make a good SC justice, Republicans would have been thrilled to pieces.
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  14113. If you were to map these people in Venn diagram method, there would be a lot of overlapping in the white supremacist / misogynist / mens rights activism / pro-rape culture / far-right politics groupings. To them, folks like Andrew Tate and Donald Trump are heroes, and the Turner Diaries is practically their bible.
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  14114. Looks like the midterm elections will determine whether America is a democratic republic for much longer. The cult crazies are truly off their meds :(
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  14115.  @VladimirPutin-p3t Bingo. Only totally ignorant people would consider investing their fortunes into anything with the Trump name on it. The list of his fcked and chked fraud victims goes back decades.
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  14116. They do not realize what awaits them and their children if democracy ends. It would be like Somalia on steroids with a helping of Ukraine thrown in :(
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  14117. Let's see. Running out of money - check. All reasonable members quit or resigned or dead - check. Slavishly in service to one especially-flawed man - check. Letting a clique of extreme loonies steer the party - check. Did no one explain to Republicans that Trump kills everything he touches?
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  14118. Trump has always been about this. Remember that full-page attack he put out against the Central Park Five, calling for their execution? They were later exonerated of the wild claims against them.
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  14119.  @jayannakelley9051  Like Hitler's people leaving the bunker .. ;)
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  14120. There is no "managing this" for the assclowns at FOXed Noise. It's right out in the open now that they called Trump and asked HIM to call off HIS PEOPLE. They didn't call or text Antifa, BLM, imaginary evil leftists, little green men, whoever .. no, they called the guy who had just whipped the crowd into a frenzy with "You have to fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore!"
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  14121. Felon 45 does NOT support law enforcement officers. Just ask the Capitol police about it.
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  14122. Leeches have been around far longer than ivermectin, and, unlike ivermectin, have been used on humans for centuries. /sarcasm
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  14123.  @theopelgrave5842  It would be nice if the anti-vac pro-ivermectin people could get clear about the subject of FDA approval. In some instances they wave it about as proof of whatever, then in other instances they claim it's proof of some giant big-pharma conspiracy. But then, thinking straight is not their strong suit.
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  14124.  @harbselectronicslab3551  Correct. Getting vaccinated, staying masked, keeping hands clean, following the guidance etc are the only way out of this mess. Those things slow the spread to where hospitals can manage it, and give us time to get the population sufficiently vaccinated. That is the only way out of this now that Delta has changed the picture.
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  14125.  @katherinegray5086  All of that Trump talk about being a dictator on day one, and using the military against Americans whose politics he doesn't like .. only a cult member could cheer for stuff like that :( It's straight out of Pol Pot's toolbox.
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  14126. It's about time.
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  14127. It's a sad fact that America's most prolific serial liar is also the beloved man-god to millions of the most easily-gaslit Americans .. some of whom are calling in bomb threats to a city in Ohio.
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  14128. Sorry, sounds like you just had an encounter with one of those clueless, propagandized dolts who say things like, "No, no, it was Obama separating all the families. Trump has been trying to get them back together. Saw it on FOXed Noise!"
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  14129. Somehow, they got behind the semi-rich guy who does to them precisely what they say they're all enraged over "elites" doing to them - moving jobs overseas, putting mom-and-pop shops out of business, and not paying his fair share of taxes. As the saying goes - the forest kept getting smaller, yet the trees kept voting for the axe, since they thought it was one of them because its handle was made of wood.
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  14130. Does Trump know they can't vote when they're dead or unconscious, hooked to a ventilator? (never mind, his grifter clan bought into the right healthcare stocks, so even if he loses the election the family can still make lots of money off the pandemic he helped worsen)
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  14131. Elect a failed reality-TV president, get a failed reality-TV administration. Lie with dogs, get bitten by fleas. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  14132. Clearly the ownership class does not like it when us slaves are off the treadmill for a few weeks. Aww, are they going to have to sell off one of their dozen-plus jets or yachts? Poor babies.
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  14133. Putin, no matter what precautions he takes, will end up like every other Russian leader who failed grotesquely in his primary responsibilities of office. There's going to be an ice pick involved. Only question is, will his replacement continue to prosecute this illegal unprovoked failing war on Ukraine?
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  14134. Fox still doesn't mention that Trump lost all of his court cases challenging the 2020 election results. Fox still doesn't mention that covid death rates were sharply lower in counties that voted blue and where people followed CDC recommendations on vaccines and masks. Fox plays only for the audience of sleepers who don't notice being misinformed.
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  14135. I think what Barr meant to say was that Trump's tweets unnecessarily expose his illegal & partisan activities at DOJ to public scrutiny, and that it would be easier to carry out Trump's dirty work if Trump didn't air it so publicly.
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  14136. America is the place where many folks conveniently ignore the "well regulated" part of the phrase "well regulated militia". And if that was typical militia behavior in the parking lot, you're talking about some organization like the Not So Proud Boys or the Taliban.
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  14137. At the rate infections are ramping up, the US is only a couple months away from 3,000 or 4,000+ covid deaths per day.
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  14138.  @donsumner9268  Re "I agree, but remember that the court system is like a giant beast that moves very slowly" << Correct. The machine is going slowly now only because it's been set to extra-fine grinding. Got popcorn? ;)
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  14139. Poor Putin. His little Quisling Donny-boy Trump isn't around to provide cover for Russia.
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  14140. Not when reich-wingers do it, apparently. Remember when the Bundy insurrectionists were pointing guns at law officers while calling themselves "patriots"? And Obama was soft on them because he didn't want another Ruby Ridge? Instead they took it as permission to do worse.
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  14141.  @pdoylemi  People say Trump hijacked the Republican party, but honestly, he didn't take anything that didn't want to be taken, and then by the most obvious grifter since it was all the rage to sell bridges down in the swamp.
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  14142. Pieces keep getting moved over to the board. A-10s are already there .. and they are very hungry at this time of year.
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  14143. Bwahaha. Is this the same Dershowitz whose contribution to the shit-show first impeachment of Trump consisted of saying, basically, "Sure, he extorted Ukraine, but it didn't matter because he was the president" - ?
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  14144. Ahh, more baseless speculation. Dr John is a bright light. You're a moth.
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  14145.  @kjell1087  Err, that doesn't apply when the so-called "evidence" is nothing that can stand up in court, and nothing that can pass peer review. At that point it's just propaganda. And it seems America has a very large supply of idiots who buy into the dumbest propaganda (things that cannot be objectively proved in any way, shape, or form and that do not have any connection to objective reality) that wouldn't fool a cat. These things are called "feel facts". You feel they must be true, but they are not. Examples: Democrats murder babies and drink their blood. The vaccines are a secret attempt of Bill Gates to spy on you. The moon is actually made of cheese, and the landings were all faked.
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  14146.  @bigpatman7846  Obama didn't start those. Jeez.
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  14147.  @bigpatman7846  Stop it, you're making me wish there was a laugh emoticon here. Do you honestly think that Obama started wars that GWB began?
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  14148. Knowing his penchant for exploitation and personal aggrandizement, if Treasury goes along with this he'll just use it as precedent for arguing that his signature should be on all paper bills too. And at that point, Monopoly money will be better respected.
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  14149. The way he uses them like toilet paper (discard after one use) it's pretty obvious he has nothing but the coarsest disdain for his own flying monkeys.
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  14150. Considering how hopping mad China seems over this, we apparently took the course of action that would cost them the most. By approaching it with a stealth aircraft, we got around whatever self destruct mechanism it could have had. And by examining the remains later, we'll learn exactly what they wanted to find and how they were going about it. Intelligence bonanza. Joke's on them now.
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  14151. So, in addition to having something on your resume that automatically disqualifies you from any employment other than as David Duke's secretary, and in addition to never knowing when Interpol is going to whisk you off to the Hague to answer questions about your role in Trump decisions that violated international laws (forcibly sterilizing people, separating refugee families, etc), you also face being contaminated by your boss, and maybe dying and/or infecting your loved ones. Hmm. Sounds like Karma is making the first of many down payments for being on Sweet Potato Hitler's staff.
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  14152. Team Crazy is making no secret of its agenda: minority white far-right rule by any means, extralegal or otherwise. They've embraced the idea of a Rhodesia-style apartheid regime where elections no longer matter. That is what you are feeling, and you're correct to fear that outcome.
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  14153. Remember that video from Cheeto's coronation? Right behind him were the CEO's of every major social media platform or IT platform. Monitoring, censorship, control.
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  14154. May Trump have many more horrible, no good, awful, very bad weeks.
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  14155.  @grantsmythe8625  Sadly, the racist nutters and the reich-wing anti-government types will be present among us until we have a long process to root them out. Kudos to Canada for not tolerating that type blocking their border crossings. Wish we had some spine here for dealing with that stuff.
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  14156. It's pretty obvious that he will destroy the country. He says it all the time. He tried to do it. What I don't get are all the strange people who find some good in that. Maybe they need to spend a couple of months in Haiti to get an understanding of why political violence and failed democracies are bad things to live through. They lust for something very dark :(
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  14157. Let's assume that the Republicans have planned out several (very illegal) backstops for their coming election loss. House speaker MAGA Mikey Johnson is probably already drafting the verbiage for his move to refuse to certify a Harris victory .. Harlan Crow's "hire court" (the supremes) are probably already writing their opinions on why 45 should be coronated king despite losing the election .. the anti-democracy militias surely haven't stopped training for their next attempt to overthrow our democratic republic .. and so on.
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  14158. This is his attempt to upstage a few things that happened, things that are bigger than him .. Republicans asked for open hearings, then the hearings were opened, and Republicans suddenly didn't want that. Republicans asked for firsthand witnesses, then the witnesses stepped forwards, and Republicans suddenly didn't want that. They've painted themselves into a corner.
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  14159. Speaking of Texas - how long before the religious extremists there get the state to set up hotlines and bounties for turning in people suspected of being LGBTQ?
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  14160. OP: You're not missing anything.
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  14161.  @williamzame3708  Trump's fellow party members felt the same way too. Here is what two different sitting US senators said that day: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.” -- Mitt Romney, 1/6/21 "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation except an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  14162.  @schopen-hauer  There are many different kinds of court processes, and not all of them require a jury. Next question please.
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  14163. You'd think the whitehouse would have the sense to take down their own pages about Sondland before they try these stunts. Check out their May-2018 page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-appoint-personnel-key-administration-posts-8/
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  14164. We just won't have nice things here. And our money will be worth a whole lot less.
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  14165. "Protect the unborn today so we can shoot them for trespassing tomorrow" is the Republican sentiment.
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  14166. Whenever that orange fool talks about China and trade, someone needs to remind him that China was the largest US export market for agricultural products before he f*cked up everything and pissed off a #1 customer. Moron.
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  14167.  @TrustNJesusChrist  If it's so safe outside, why and how did virus get into the most-guarded place in the country, the white house?
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  14168. Been talking with a couple radical Trumpers of that stripe. They seem like the kind of meth-head roommates who would rather shoot the TV than let anyone else take their turn with the remote.
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  14169. @tradde11 Agree on "highly doubtful". Republicans seem indelibly banded to their strategy of getting the chickens to vote for Colonel Sanders by means of convincing them that the PETA people are actually running a child sex slave ring in the basement of the pizza place. Some of the chickens have begun fact-checking. Finally.
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  14170. Just like the supposed voting fraud and the supposed "caravans" .. :(
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  14171. Fun fact: when you render "the Base" in Arabic, it's "Al Qaida".
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  14172. Surely deliberate on Trump's part .. he's parading his until-recently former opposition as his new "property". Like war trophies.
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  14173. “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016. In retrospect, it seems this fair-skinned southern doormat was merely raising his asking price when satan came looking to buy his soul.
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  14174. How many other trump-and-whoever conversation transcripts got moved to that secret server? And can the House intelligence committee access it? (please say yes)
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  14175.  @DavidJohnson-tv2nn  To be fair, there are a lot of business owners who are staring at financial armageddon and haven't got too many choices. Unfortunately we're passing through another inflection zone when things are getting worse, not better.
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  14176.  @kristinaswenson2435  If anyone could turn Idaho blue, it would be Trump and his militia of horribles.
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  14177. All negativity aside -- the weather is brutally cold this next week, and people will be dying if we don't get them in. And that is not acceptable.
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  14178. How about the deaths caused by his wanton cutting of air traffic controllers, whose workplaces were already understaffed? How about the children who died when their USAID funded food shipments stopped? How about the people who died when extreme weather hit them, after the muskrat man decimated NOAA? "I haven't harmed anyone" is an insane thing for him to say.
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  14179. Thanks to uncle Pooty for letting every free world nation test out its hardware in the field. Russia's pyrrhic sacrifices are helping other nations improve their arms and combat vehicles.
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  14180. Is she by chance related to Paula White, Trump's former spiritual advisor? (see the Paula White cat meme featuring Eminem & Snoop Dog)
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  14181. Apparently neither are many of those jacked-pickup gun-toting militia folks who claim they're armed to the teeth to prevent tyranny in America. A whole bunch of them participated in the J6 insurrection.
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  14182. Happy Impeachment Day everyone. Farron, keep up the great work. Next year we'll have a new holiday, January 6th, Insurrection Day, a day that shall live in infamy. Pearl Harbor Day can now move down to second place.
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  14183. Ivanka was a mostly-failing, second-rate handbag designer and sweatshop manufacturer of tacky junk. She has no more political future than nutjob Martha McSally, who was there only by appointment, and removed as soon as there was an election.
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  14184.  @Helliott1218  Great points. This is why I have so much hope for AOC and all the others who will follow in her footsteps .. because the generation that's shuffling off to shuffleboard (or living in their car and eating cat food) has pretty badly failed in their management of America and its future.
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  14185. Losing Florida citizens to the corona virus is a high price to pay just so DeSantis can avoid getting nasty tweets from Trumpolini .. but it's a price he's willing to pay.
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  14186.  @wwiiinplastic4712  Sounds like you lackj the ability to work with data. Suggest you go look at the numbers before showing off hw misinformed you are. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  14187.  @wwiiinplastic4712  More Americans have died from this disease in just 5 months than were killed in the Vietnam, Korean, and Gulf Wars added together. No spike in deaths, you say? SMH.
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  14188. Mind you, this is the same McConnell who blocked 82 of Obama's nominees (84 had been blocked thusly in all US history prior to that) only to hold those slots open for Dump to appoint whack jobs & incompetents. Presumably they want all top military appointments to be beholden to Don the Con.
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  14189. The only other reporter I've seen call Trump on his lies, during an interview, was Jonathon Swan of Axios.
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  14190. More country-on-city violence is what he's trying to encourage.
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  14191. Nice to see that not all Americans have fallen under the spell of the vile racist anti-immigrant anti-Hispanic propaganda emanating from the White House (more like the White Supremacist House these days) and FOXed Noise. Scott Warren is a hero for his humanitarian work.
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  14192.  @billbillerton6122  Twitter is simply coming to assume its actual value as Elon decides to apply a tag to news services that don't say what the Proud Boys want them to say. And that's fine by me. I hope more news organizations unplug from Twitter. Serves Elon right.
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  14193. This is why Trump is adored only by mentally defective people. The rest of us see him clearly for what he is: a wannabe Mussolini.
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  14194. On the plus side, the penetration test that American politics is getting now may someday lead to changes being made so that, acting in concert, a wayward president and senate leader (as well as a few other appointed goons) can't subvert the will of the people.
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  14195.  Jesse A.  I said nothing in my post above about abortion. But since you brought up the topic .. I don't care what you believe in, God, Muhammed, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whatever. Understand this: your beliefs end where mine begin, and mine end where yours begin. You don't get to force my beliefs on me any more than I get to enforce my beliefs on you. So if you want to argue that your whackadoodle faith requires you to ban all Americans from [whatever], then I'll work hard to make sure the reverse happens to you so that you can get a crude lesson in consent - and presumably crude lessons are the only kind you can understand. For example, banning pork meat across the US because it's against the faith of some.
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  14196.  @derekosgood3230  See my reply to that other fool, Jesse, for a better understanding of what's going on. Are you not an adult? Usually I don't have to explain this to anyone over age 8. They get the notion of responsibility in protecting others from harm. You, on the other hand, are obviously struggling with the concept.
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  14197.  @derekosgood3230  What you wrote is so unbelievably not true. You can do your part to protect others by consistently wearing a mask, practicing distance, practicing hand hygiene, and following all the rules. Yes, some will inevitably get sick, but these measures will lessen the impact. A generation of selfish morons, espousing the attitudes you've echoed here, is a large part of why America is failing so badly in the fight against covid.
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  14198.  @derekosgood3230  Shouldn't you inbreds be over on Parler? I paid good seed money to set up a deluxe sheeple pen for y'all so you can bleat about how 79 million Americans hurt your tender feelings by voting for Biden.
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  14199.  @derekosgood3230  Again, that's where you are utterly and completely wrong. In fact, the entire point of wearing these masks is to keep the gunk that you breathe out from getting to other people. Did no one explain this to you?
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  14200. From how the MAGA party has comported itself since (especially senator Ron Johnson, who was one of the hateful eight) we may guess that they asked Russia for advice on how to seize and hold onto power in the USA.
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  14201. It's good to see that the American people are making their displeasure known. A president serves only on the approval of the people.
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  14202. Sounds like he's going to begin using the codephrase "liberation day" to refer to the next uprising of the billybobs.
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  14203. Watching the far-Reich nutters whine that the Hunter-laptop nothingburger agitprop got suppressed is like watching the FOX News talking heads whining that the Turner Diaries (another work of fiction) don't get taught in history class at school.
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  14204. I'm all for making a landlocked 51st state somewhere (perhaps called Flatlandistan) where the MAGAts can show off the supposed superiority of their ways. It would be like an open air asylum basically.
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  14205. Both Orwell and Stalin would have approved of referring to an election-overturning effort as "stop the steal". All kidding aside, America needs to have a conversation about the ready availability of "rhetorical hyperbole" specifically designed to make you do things like, oh, issue death threats to parents whose children died in a school shooting all because you were misled into thinking it was a hoax to rob you of your gun rights.
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  14206. Not all. Plenty saw Trump's faults, and he's lost every single popular election so far. It is quite distressing, however, that so many went along with his little plan to end American democracy.
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  14207. Those sanctions aren't very effective if Ingraham is still drawing a salary from RT.
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  14208. And it's actually ironic if MAGA thought only blue districts would feel the pain. 70% of the nation's GDP comes from the counties that voted for Biden in 2020. Half the nation's population lives in urban areas of 1million or larger. Prosperous blue states will be fine.
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  14209. As the saying goes - rich and poor alike are exempt from taxes on their private planes. What could be more fair? /sarcasm
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  14210. Were these people somehow not following the news back in Feb/March when the funeral homes in Wuhan had to run the incinerators 24/7 for awhile?
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  14211. Trump's followers are the same types who cheered in 1930s Germany when Jewish businesses were burned down and looted. The dumbest of the dumb.
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  14212.  @dp5475  Well, for starters, he and his lackeys tried to take away the voting rights of the 81,283,501 Americans who voted for Biden. Trump openly brags about having ended Roe v Wade, which (in the states that banned abortion immediately) has gone from about a quarter million reported rapes and around 70K+ resulting unwanted pregnancies. And of course those dystopian "right to life" places don't provide housing/healthcare/nutrition/education/maternity leave assistance once the baby is born -- basically they're setting themselves up for a massive increase in the rate of juvi crime in a decade or so. Need more?
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  14213. This is awesome. But I watched it 3x and still didn't see anything about now-president Biden that you could claim to be "communism". Maybe the word doesn't mean what they think it means.
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  14214. So this Arizona whack job wants to "cancel" the federal government? She's another neo confederate.
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  14215. Michael Cohen talks a lot about this .. he says it keeps him up at night wondering what was wrong with him, what was missing in him, etc, to make him fall for such an obviously unhinged criminal like Trump.
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  14216. This is the president Biden I've been patiently waiting for. Take off the gloves, Joe, there's some stuff you need to be bare-fisted for.
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  14217. Did you not watch the clip they played here? In it, Clump said he wanted black because it would make it too hot to climb. You were so busy pretending to say that Clump was misquoted, you missed the part where he said what he said. Sad.
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  14218.  @moogynaura4163  What's the big deal? So much derp in your post. It's about this simple: You're asleep in bed when a flaming vehicle rams into your house. You try to get your family out safely. Folks from another vehicle start shooting at you. In desperation, you run to your neighbor's home seeking safety and refuge. How would you like your neighbor to be under those circumstances? a) Shoot at you and tell you to get lost. b) Put up pointy hot sticks so that you can't get shelter when you most need it because someone's trying to kill your fam. c) Help you out.
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  14219. All this thrashing about and trying to deny the inevitable is kind of amusing. Like watching people tar and feather themselves. Got popcorn?
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  14220. Until Trump came along, I didn't know we had so many gullible ones among us, people who could be gaslit into supporting political violence, who could be misled into wanting to end our democracy. Quislings among us.
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  14221. I've often wondered what kind of therapy it will take to bring those people back to normalcy, if it's even possible. Remember, these are the same broken and propagandized people who can go in a heartbeat from "Fetus lives are precious!" to "Those refugee children should die in the desert after we shoot their parents at the wall!"
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  14222. They will whine and cry and screech, and their "dank MAGA" crowd may get uppity, but America's got lots of prison space. Be humane to the guilty, sure, but make sure they're in no position to hurt America.
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  14223. Wonder what the Heritage Foundation is going to do with, say, the list of trans kids that Musk and his team of creeps copied out for them? (shudder) Also anyone who's gay.
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  14224. Most guys just get a giant pickup truck when they feel the need to compensate. Did Maddie get plastic surgery to look like one of Hitler's elite bodyguards?
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  14225. Just imagine China's premier Xi ordering FakeBook and Google to sell off their China-side businesses to Huawei and for the China government to get a cut of the sale. That's about what Trump is doing, even though he keeps scrapping regulations because it's bad when government interferes in business.
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  14226. Mr former Dade agent is practically a caricature of himself.
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  14227. It's becoming clear that Mikey has little experience speaking outside whatever RWNJ echo chamber he lives in.
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  14228.  Mistare Anonymouse  Can't take credit for it, but the person I got it from said to use it freely. Beats the other nicknames I used before that.
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  14229. The best way to think of Trump's people is that they would rather make America as internally violent as Haiti or Somalia (shudder) rather than face the fact that their cult leader lost the 2020 election by a wide margin. This is their time to go back under the rocks.
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  14230.  @michaelhammond7115  Oh, so it's "fake news" when it tells you an unwelcome truth? That's so Trump :(
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  14231.  @manuel0578  Re "This is entirely Biden’s fault." << Sorry man, all Biden's doing is cleaning up the mess that the former moron-in-chief left behind. Glad we have an actual adult in charge now, not a teen drama queen trapped in a fat 74yo's body.
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  14232.  @manuel0578  Reported for reporting the news? For telling you facts? Your poor hurt feelings. Rub some copium on that.
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  14233.  @manuel0578  Your poor hurt feelings again. What did you spend your $1400 Biden Bucks stimulus on? Just curious.
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  14234. Kari Lake is welcome to whine (totally without proof) about Jewish space lasers, mules, bamboo fibers, vast conspiracies to keep crazy people out of power. 😅
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  14235. Most likely ransomware + copies of everything for the Heritage Foundation and who knows who else. Heritage would LOVE to have lists of exactly who any nonwhite / non-cis / non-straight people are, where they live, and their private data.
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  14236.  Rodzilla  Loyal Republicans seem to have internalized the Party line - that is, they could witness with their own eyes Trump shooting someone on 5th ave, then they'd claim later that he didn't do it, or that if he did it's not illegal anyway, or that if it was illegal, everyone else does it anyway.
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  14237.  Rodzilla  On the plus side .. no need to go abroad anymore to fight fascists. They're right here :(
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  14238.  @rickylee1980  The many damaged, insecure, bullying, narcissistic people of America love Trump because he's doing exactly what they would if they could get away with it. That is a large part of his pull over the shallow-minded.
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  14239.  Mistare Anonymouse  Here is the news story to which I referred. https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-venezuela-backchannel-nicolas-maduro-defy-john-bolton-report-2019-12
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  14240. Trump is the serial arsonist saying to the townsfolk (and the DOJ) essentially "What can you do for me so that I don't light so many fires?"
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  14241. Our legislative branch, however, will long be considered full of people who either sucked up to fascism or who spent their time writing strongly-worded letters to the people who'd already burned the polite rule book.
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  14242. Praying is nice. But this is just a special operation to send excess missiles and other equipment to Ukraine. The inventories of the west were getting too full anyway. Plus they are only getting the older stuff anyway.
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  14243. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose. So vote them all out! #OperationBlueTsunami
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  14244. Hmm .. well my state has just one Republican representative, and I see that's one too many. Don't need this, lost my job awhile back and I'm broke. They may as well start packing.
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  14245.  Matthew Allen  There ya go again. Assuming that redress of long-running wrongs isn't the focus, but "burning or looting".
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  14246.  Matthew Allen  Well, one way we could find out who actually did all that burning and looting was to see whose flags they were flying. Surely the manager of Antifa gave some big speech that included the verbiage about how they have to fight, about how they have to fight like hell or they won't have a country anymore. Right?
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  14247.  Matthew Allen  I was quoting former resident Dump for what he said January 6th. Not the manager of Antifa. Oops ;)
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  14248.  Matthew Allen  Surely you have the power to look up the transcript yourself.
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  14249.  Matthew Allen  "You got the Trump quote from somewhere." << Straight from his 1/6 speech in fact. The transcript is easy enough to find. Good luck trying to get me to do the googling that you should have been doing along, because, if you had, maybe by now you'd be aware of what went down January 6th. Keep telling us how evil the Dems are, LOL.
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  14250.  BlueOysterCult  Re " there's no point arguing with them". Correct. They exhibit the same no-logic no-remorse characteristics seen in Hitler's brownshirts as they ran about burning synagogues and smashing windows and burning books, falsely convinced (through propaganda that shouldn't even fool a cat) that Jews were the enemy, that the press was the enemy, that even knowledge itself was the enemy.
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  14251. @rebeccapascall695 Those who worship evil aren't much better either.
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  14252.  @bavery6957  Speak for yourself, captain incel. Those rocks are going to be a little rough 😆😅 Oh and I approve of you not breeding.
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  14253. If every idiot in the phone book has to learn the hard way that Clump and FOXed Noise lied to them about the seriousness of the disease and the science of the vaccines, this pandemic is going to go on for a long time. The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that the former is limited whereas the latter is infinite.
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  14254. She needs to find a better place to live. Clearly Texas is whackadoo :(
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  14255. Trump is also feeling cheesed by how Putin easily eliminates his troublesome generals (like Prigozhin) whereas he, Trump, can only send nasty social messages.
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  14256. At this point, to suggest that conservatives are prone to authoritarian fascism is like saying that water is prone to being wet.
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  14257. In his panic, he will react the only way he knows how to: keep working to put more Americans at each other's throats; keep lying about everything, especially the economic situation and the spread of the virus; keep militarizing DC and building walls around the white house.
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  14258.  @puckutubesux7356  Speak for yourself on not knowing how to read. My example (of this anti-science insanity) was quite clear. Possibly it was far over your head, like the moon is high over some bovine animal chewing the cud. Do you need it in shorter sentences, with smaller words, to help you digest it more easily?
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  14259. Considering that Trump's supporters burned plenty of flags during Obama's time, and then harshed on flag-burning during Trump's time, they're the wrong people to be asking any questions to. In fact, the only questions those people should be asking are along the lines of, "Would you like fries with that?"
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  14260. Approximately 14% of the US population is immigrant. As of 2019, approx 38 million US citizens (12% of the population) were native-born with at least one immigrant parent.
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  14261.  Randy Sanders  I'm sorry, but what do any of those things have to do with the coronavirus problem? Nothing. Hope you escape from the alt-right rabbit hole someday.
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  14262.  Randy Sanders  Actually I've been following this thing since late December. Got all prepped up with masks and cleaners (and toilet paper, canned food) months before everyone else. I can mail you detailed spreadsheets about this thing. Tell me again what you think I don't know?
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  14263.  Randy Sanders  Here's one for you. It took the USA only a month to go from 400 cases to 400,000 cases. This 1000x increase would have happened in even less time had not almost every state locked down halfway through that period. Did you know that?
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  14264.  Randy Sanders  If you say the numbers are wrong, then by all means show us the high-quality sources you claim are better. Dare ya.
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  14265.  Randy Sanders  I'm not glad that you're presuming a great deal out of a study that has not been peer-reviewed yet. If you're as smart as you seem to think you are, you would know better.
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  14266.  Randy Sanders  Well, he did say he'd make America #1 (didn't say at what, but it appears to be virus cases & deaths), he did say he'd run America like one of his own businesses (most of them went bankrupt, and then went down in flames), and he did say we'd get tired of "winning". I count that as at least 3 promises he's kept. Do you concur?
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  14267.  Randy Sanders  You're mentioning things that don't exist outside of the rabbit hole of right wing nut job alt facts. Try again. But then you probably live down the rabbit hole and that's all you see or know. Sad.
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  14268. In similar vein, Trump is a politician for people who know nothing about how the real world works.
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  14269. There will be a lot more deaths before this is over. A note for those who read history: it took this administration less than 3 days to enter the boxcar phase, that is, when people are being snatched for political reasons and taken away by government goons.
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  14270. Well, if we are going to speak of the dead, let me congratulate Ashli Babbit, Kevin Greeson, Rosanne Boyland and Ricky Schiffer for saving our Republic the costs of their trial and incarceration. They've been off their FOXed Noise misinformation feeds for 645 days so far. When's your clock going to start racking up the days?
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  14271. Can't improve on this quote from a few years ago: Looking out at Cryin’ Chuck and Lyin’ Ted, Crazy Bernie and Pocahontas, Dicky Durbin and Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flakey and Liddle Bob Corker, President Tяump calls for unity.
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  14272. This is a "document storage dispute" the same way Nicole Simpson's murder was a "glove size dispute".
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  14273.  @pharag4886  The guy is going to be in serious trouble. Apparently he was just driving by, but then when he stopped to argue with people he disagreed with, his truck began to be a target. Then he escalated things even further by going back to the truck to retrieve a weapon. It's a good thing the protesters weren't CC'ing, because he had just handed any of them an excuse for escalating to use of lethal force in self-defense.
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  14274.  @Ryan-jc6hi  Sorry, wasn't me there, so your threats are kind of pointless. My usual style is to be a bit removed from the action, if you know what I mean.
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  14275. Putin must be so happy .. his helper here would honestly rather leave America a flaming, bloody, Balkanized mess than simply admit he lost the 2020 election - all because he can't stand "looking weak".
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  14276. A simple perusal of the news, and a little searching, is all it takes to get the necessary facts. In the state with the highest percentage of road-registered electric vehicles (California, at around 3.9% of the passenger fleet) the authorities already must sometimes tell EV owners not to recharge during certain hours when the grid is getting dangerously overloaded.
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  14277. Doll hands Donnie must be upset that polls show the public trusts Fauci & Cuomo more than him .. but that doesn't keep him from lying every day and thus making it impossible for people to trust him. He's stupid and he just can't help it.
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  14278. When you keep certain kinds of people mired in fear (as Fox Noise does, and as Trump does) then they can be induced to think in purely tribal ways. This has the unfortunate side effect of Balkanizing our politics, however :( Fear of "the caravans", fear of "replacement theory", whatever. Fox keeps its sheeple in terror.
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  14279. Weimar Republic USA, here we come :(
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  14280. @Terry Summers Studies have found that racists of every culture have got the lowest IQ, if that helps answer the question.
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  14281. Remember, Trump likes to use his time to golf and rage-tweet, and it is not likely that his disposition has been improved by 4 years of election denial and mental sunsetting. There are no plans. There may be a few concepts of plans.
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  14282. At this point it's worth asking if DeathSantis is even going to be re-running for governor after his term ends. By then, his pro-covid policies will have cost enough lives as to make him unable to win any kind of election.
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  14283. Those dudes are the world's dumbest useful idiots. They got suckered into doing the #1 thing that will cause normal people to look at it and think, Wtf, we need better gun laws. Out in the real world, responsible gun owners use them for target shooting, hunting, or carrying concealed. Not for walking into the coffee shop as if you're under fire in Mogadishu.
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  14284.  @Funkcoma  "Almost inconceivable for an ex-president to act like this" - to a serial grifter like Trump, that kind of thing smells like a major opportunity to exploit a previously-unexploited weakness in the system. His term for people who behave honorably for the common good is "suckers".
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  14285. What was it that W said? You gotta dance with the one that brung you.
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  14286.  @barbarabanana9661  Go back and read what I said if the meaning eludes you. Repeat as necessary.
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  14287.  @ArchitectOfSound01  Oh really. Betcha you wouldn't say the same if AOC appeared in your community toting an AR-15. She's not a good gun owner.
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  14288. At least they're doing fact reporting. Tucker Carlson is probably telling his zombie lemmings that it came from all the NYC gays making the angels cry.
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  14289. Was that maybe an attempt to be more like FOXed?
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  14290. Or just the fact that he did nothing to promote unity, and everything to promote discord and chaos, even down to dividing the country into those places that voted for him and those that did not, and then withholding disaster relief funding from the places that did not.
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  14291.  @vforwombat9915  Beautiful :)
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  14292. Both sides - jeez - 95%+ of the politically-motivated violence comes from one side of the aisle, which also happens to be the same one that tried an insurrection a couple years back. Both sides my a**
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  14293. The no-deal Brexit is how Brexit was always going to turn out anyway. Some residents of the UK want the privilege of doing business with the EU without all the responsibilities of being in the EU, such as sharing the north sea fishing grounds.
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  14294. What is Trump doing today? Looking over the remainder of his stolen classified documents and wondering if he can still sell India's secrets to Pakistan or the other way around.
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  14295. Putler must be the only one who takes this horseshit seriously.
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  14296. Makes you wonder, how blitheringly stupid does a person have to assume that 600,000-plus dead people, all the news coverage, the vaccines being rolled out all over the country, announcements from the office of the president, etc, were just an elaborate hoax?
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  14297. Trump cultists lie. It's one of their distinguishing features. Their word isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot thrown at the wall.
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  14298. He could re-open his rallies (aka the traveling political freak show) and be in a big room with all those people, shaking hands with them, meeting some of them face to face. It's funny how he canceled all that .. it's as if he's afraid of some potentially deadly virus going around.
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  14299. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  14300. Small enough to fit into every woman's private bits. And the Venn diagram of conservatives and those who support child marriage and rapist rights looks like an archery target.
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  14301. Hello to Sweden! Our laws were changed awhile back to allow propaganda to call itself "news".
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  14302. The nice thing about those tweets from El Trumpo is that they only serve to help mayor Wheeler get re-elected. Being a thorn in Sweet Potato Hitler's side is a badge of honor.
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  14303.  @nanettesnowden6513  Part of it is that those Republicans don't want to countenance any facts that don't line up with their agenda. And they get all offended when they run into someone who has the facts, as Pete does.
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  14304. What a coincidence. A pro-Clump partisan, who committed actual election fraud, is being sheltered by the same guy who's frantically selling stuff to pay his legal bills as the Dominion/Smartmatic cases move forward.
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  14305. It was always going to be this way with the Republicans, who will conveniently forget how Ivanka Trump had 41 trademark names fast-tracked in China as a favor to her daddy, all while she worked as a white house special counselor and took secret service protection along on her business trips there.
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  14306. Sounds like Trump's brownshirts need to slip on the jackboots and start goose-stepping.
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  14307. About those previous Chinese spy balloon intrusions on Trump's wash - I just want to know how much he charged them per visit. Or maybe it was quid pro quo for greenlighting Ivanka's many trademark applications.
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  14308. If Republicans had their way, we would turn into a banana republic dictatorship overnight.
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  14309. Financial Darwinism at its finest. Stupid people and their money were lucky to get together in the first place - and easily parted.
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  14310. Trump's defenders were PATHETIC. "He didn't do it. If he said he did it, well, he was just joking. And if he did it, well, it's not illegal. And if it's illegal, well, everyone does it anyway. And look at how the stock market is higher than under Obama. And look at how they just don't like him. And look at that big beautiful Goodyear blimp." LAMEST. EXCUSES. EVER. It's like they're all channeling Trump's narcissist prayer.
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  14311. It's almost as if their business model doesn't work when visiting foreigners can't book whole floors of empty rooms just to get face time with Hair Fuhrer.
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  14312. Been saying the same thing awhile .. Trump is basically cosplaying at being a president.
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  14313. Note this is exactly why Republicans pal around with authoritarians in general and Putin in particular. They want to rule, not lead.
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  14314. Trump promised to respect the election results /if/ he won. From the way he tried to subvert them and from the way he's been the world's biggest crybaby, it's pretty clear he knows he lost. But he'll fight this to the last Trump cultist.
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  14315.  @vitalii2146  How did Biden do any rigging? He's not even in power. Trump, on the other hand, has had the powers of the presidency behind his rigging efforts, a third of the supreme court, his handpicked USPS head who's been degrading service and hiding some 300K ballots. You're a perfect example of why friends don't let friends consume right wing nutjob "news".
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  14316. Thankfully the Trumpsters are mostly inept. Probably they were counting on having full control afterwards in order to hide the evidence of their part in the coup. Loebert was probably carrying a revolver in that purse, ready to use on the house speaker.
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  14317. This is like when the Tuck or Hannity won't fess up to being vaccinated. Yes, they are, but not saying so is important to maintain their position by slinging anti-science nonsense to their shit-brained base.
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  14318. Please understand, NOTHING stops 45 from lying to his culties. They don't watch any actual news. He will spent the next week telling his culties that he tried to speak in his own defense and was gagged by the judge.
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  14319.  @jerrylong381  Correct, just as the J6 insurrectionists are still being found and brought to justice. Plenty of prison space for them all.
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  14320.  @a5cent  Yeah, that "political and economic turmoil" you imagine to be right around the corner in Russia is about as likely as them suddenly becoming a democratic country. Most Russians are but a few generations removed from serfdom. Russia is a large third-world country with pretensions to first-world grandeur. It will never again be organized as well as the Soviets did it.
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  14321.  @marytomlinson4270  I guess now they can undo Bill Clinton's impeachment too. And if 45 should shoot someone on 5th avenue in broad daylight, we know which Supreme decision he'll base the "immunity" on.
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  14322. And yet, the Republican ^H^H oops, the Manchurian party is just fine with this stupidity, even though it hurts us all. Good little Quislings they are, or Vichy Republicans getting their calls from Moscow.
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  14323.  @smallfry4now461  OK Putler.
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  14324.  @brettlarch8050  Bingo, because in Norway, it's forbidden to use private money in election campaigns. There are many other things they do right there too.
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  14325.  @brettlarch8050  This is a great time to do it. A lot of Americans just got a close look at the kind of dark future the GQP/Trump types would drag us into, and it's not pretty.
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  14326. Also look up the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997. In none of those treaties was there any promise whatsoever to refuse to allow former USSR satellite nations to join NATO if they wanted. And wow have they wanted to. Guess no one misses the heavy, crude Russian boot on their necks.
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  14327. The one constant about Trump is that he can not be counted on to do the responsible thing - ever! So we may expect him to keep motivating his Brownshirt irregulars as long as it's not made superabundantly clear to all just what his guilt is. He could have just conceded his election loss, but no, he'd rather burn down the country. Says it all.
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  14328. With any luck, 45 will soon be saying on camera that he has "every right" to inferfere with the 2024 election.
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  14329.  tony e  Looking around the world, you can see that the countries that dealt with the virus the best are already back in normal business. Not us. Thanksto covidiots like yourself not wearing masks, we've got the most raging country-sized outbreak on the planet.
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  14330.  tony e  I didn't mention Spain and Germany, you unhinged wingnut who got dropped on your head a lot as a child. Look to New Zealand, South Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, etc. You are so scathingly ignorant that the only way you could make Oregon better is by your departure.
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  14331. @Mikel DeHart This list? Look at the cases-per-million numbers for the nations I mentioned then get back to me about the horrible numbers in the US. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  14332. @Mikel DeHart Since reading isn't your strong suit (nor is comprehension) I'll point out that Taiwan has had 26 cases per million population whereas the US has had 36,385 per million. Vietnam, 13 per million. That's what you'd know if you'd bother to research the list ..
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  14333. So .. the only parents sending their kids to school this fall will be the dumber ones who watch FOXed Noise and/or the Trump tinfoil brigade?
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  14334. ".. who don't understand our mission" to amplify odious white separatist viewpoints, she meant.
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  14335. Not to worry, Trump can just claim that his medical advice was "rhetorical hyperbole" and that it was their fault for not being able to discern that.
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  14336. Some good news: the USA must be developing herd immunity even faster than Sweden. Both countries have got case rates going up in almost straight lines, but it's steeper for the USA. America is on track to have 100,000 dead from the virus by around May 17th. And considering how much higher the USA case rate is than Sweden, the actual virus deaths in the USA are probably 10% or more higher than the official number.
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  14337. If you think Trump and his co-conspirators have been bad so far - you haven't seen anything yet. This administration is more crooked than a barrel full of snakes. I expect that when everything finally comes out, we'll find that thousands of refugees/migrants/immigrants have simply disappeared from custody. We'll never know if they're ashes, fish food, or just buried in the desert somewhere.
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  14338. Perhaps the judge was suggesting that the president is neither a military nor a civil officer, but a king?
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  14339. Conspiracies like that don't work .. pharma companies large and small all compete against one another .. and collectively they don't leave any money on the table.
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  14340. MTG is awfully good at helping Putin realize his wish to destabilize the USA.
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  14341. There used to be more of them, but covid has been flattening them. In all fairness, though, the world did try to warn them of the dangers of a new virus going around. They chose not to listen.
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  14342. This is why Republicans are busy destroying the office of election integrity.
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  14343. Oh, Republicans (sigh). They lost whatever minds they had back when black man got elected twice as president, winning both the popular vote and the EC vote. They spent 8 long years frothing at the mouth. Even yesterday, poor deluded Barry Loudermilk tried to imply that Jesus would have never been a martyr if he'd been criminal enough to resist Roman subpoenas and refuse to turn over incriminating evidence to the Romans.
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  14344. Somehow, I don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote about "free speech" in our laws. Here is what those fine militia people hear from any number of RWNJ sources: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  14345.  @ged6975  The "they" is the same "they" used by everyone else in this thread so far, which was expressed in the parent comment as "The same people who cry they against socialism & communism (stupid people think it's the same) are the same people impeding on the rights of women's reproductive organs."
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  14346. Not that any court judgment would stop him from saying "Crooked Hillary", or stop his dimwit sheeple from believing it :(
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  14347. Yeah, but the hate and ignorance are being peddled by a few people who wish to enrich themselves off the treasures of a nation (much like Putin's oligarchs got former Soviet assets on the cheap), plus there were too many gullible folks who fell for the lies.
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  14348. Republicans, if they could, would gladly ram through a new federal law prohibiting presidential candidates older than 80 years (just to keep president Biden from a second term) then gladly remove it just in time for Trump to later sail through it. "Rules for thee, not for me" is their motto :(
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  14349. You know how male peacocks preen and strut and show off their pretty feathers? Imagine a lumpy old walrus doing the same. 😅😅 And that's Trump in a nutshell.
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  14350.  @TheNicki2020  Somehow they skip over Donald's grandpa being a draft-dodging immigrant who ran a brothel.
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  14351. Apparently 45 has been greasing palms as usual :(
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  14352. Correct. He was aware that he had lost the election and with it the powers of the presidency.
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  14353.  @QuantumOfSolace1  Expecting a bunch of deranged Trump cultists to vote for her, after she worked hard to expose his coup, would have been highly unlikely anyway.
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  14354. Even worse, Trump's dipsht followers don't listen to the election results either. So stand back and stand by, people, because our lives and the future of our country are on the line.
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  14355. Also, the people of Russia have been trained since Soviet days to think of the west as corrupt satanist capitalists whose coalition was about to collapse under its own weight any day now.
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  14356. Umm, presumably they see some happy ending in making America as violent as Haiti? They think they'll all get Raptured after putting Trump into lifetime dictator powers? They don't make sense. There isn't any happy ending there.
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  14357. Condolences for your loss :( So far I have lost my friend Andy, his dad, and my friend Mike. Another two friends survived, but they have lasting medical issues from it.
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  14358. Republicans will have to pay a price for embracing covid.
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  14359. I suggest you all read the book, "It Can't Happen Here", by Sinclair Lewis. That shows how badly it could end.
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  14360. Even better, the USA is only 4.2% of the world's population (not the 40% that Donny Two Dolls thinks it is) and China's middle class is larger than the whole population of the USA. At this point it makes sense for large manufacturers to flee the USA due to the erratic nitwit in charge now.
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  14361. The practice of "not doing business with Amazon" is here already.
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  14362. In most countries, there are active military forces stationed right at the national capitol to prevent exactly what we saw on 1/6. Belt fed 50s are an appropriate response to traitors and insurrectionists.
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  14363. There's no understanding cult nutters.
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  14364. Putin seems to have many requests for his apprentice Donald :(
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  14365. Clump's famous Reverse Midas Touch is probably the best-known aspect of him. With all the "success" it gave him in the business world, he couldn't resist applying it to politics too.
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  14366. And yet, that very same characteristic is how he won the hearts and minds of so many low-information Republican voters. It's probably a good thing that Republicans haven't cloned Hitler and taught American English to the clone.
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  14367. It's sad and funny at the same time to read the comments where right-wingers are whining about what the Colorado SC just did. They complain it's because folks don't like Trump, or because they're afraid of Trump. As if they're not even aware that he committed crimes that no US president has ever done before.
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  14368. Cheeto's tax cuts to the richest were a big part of that deficit.
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  14369. Severe brain rot? Trump said the FBI planted those documents - but then he said they were "his" and he wanted them back.
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  14370. OP: A whole nother problem now is that Trump's culties are probably not going to go back under their rocks when Trump disappears. They would be looking for another angry wannabe-dictator to deliver them the dark circus that Trump provides. It stirs something in their souls, and they yearn for it when it's not around.
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  14371. Wonder how much Ramaswamy and Haley got.
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  14372. We're going to get a harsh lesson in the idiocy of completely unrestrained free speech when a Trump supporter smuggles a bomb into a ballot counting center.
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  14373. It's nice to hear some actual American presidents chiming in. They are totally unlike the narcissistic orange toddler currently rage-ruling the USA.
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  14374.  @lisachaput2952  Sadly, like we are finding out, our corrupt president has lots of corrupt help in high places. Our founding fathers didn't reckon with this happening :(
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  14375.  @SonsOfLorgar  R's care only about the rule of law when it's their own safety. For anyone else, they're looking the other way.
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  14376.  @chrisjenkins203  So apparently the 405,399 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2 had Hitler Derangement Syndrome? Err OK then.
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  14377. They whined about elected thousandaires and millionaires in government (vetted, elected, sworn in, following the law) and claimed that was "too elitist" .. then they cheer an unelected billionaire putting ransomware and malware into government computer systems?? They are NUTS.
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  14378. Too bad Johnson didn't understand what McConnell said - "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  14379.  @Rtg5637  Who said it had anything to do with scoring points? Let me try to explain this another way - Suppose you (an ordinary person, perhaps not even a boxer) were to go into the ring against the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, and suppose you were to remain on your feet for 9 rounds. At that point, you're doing pretty good, and everyone is questioning why the supposed champion cannot knock you out. His professional prospects look bad after that, whereas you look pretty good. It is much the same thing here. World's second greatest military my ass.
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  14380.  @Rtg5637  So it's taken 638 days and approx 350K Russian casualties to take 17% of Ukraine's territory? You might wish to run the numbers on that. If the rates of everything remain the same (and we know they will not) then perhaps it would take 3,750 days and 1.9 million body bags to complete the special operation. Sh*t or get off the pot.
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  14381.  @ДанисСкорыга  To the best of my knowledge, the US has committed perhaps 4% of its annual military budget to aiding Ukraine, along with many outdated and older battlefield technologies. Given that they were attacked by the [alleged] world's second greatest military, Ukraine has done pretty well actually. The St Petersburg troll farm can only reflect wistfully on the heady days when Russian forces very nearly seized the airfield of Kyiv, eh? According to the numbers put out by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, US military spending is at $877Bn/year (4% of which is $35Bn), Russian military spending is at $86Bn/year, and Ukraine military spending is at $44Bn/year. (2022 numbers)
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  14382. Whoever invented that phrase "the thinning of the herd" clearly didn't imagine a bunch of braindead lemmings deliberately removing themselves from the gene pool out of fear of turning magnetic or growing a third arm.
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  14383.  @commonsense3632  Who ever said that Joe Biden was -- [fill in the blank with whatever nonsense you just said]? Your question is like asking, "Look at how Biden doesn't say anything about UFO's secretly running America. What's he hiding??" You've got to be the lamest propagandist I've encountered yet. Seriously, could you possibly be any more stupid? (hope you don't take that as a challenge)
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  14384. Mind you, they haven't lost their audience because of Clump45's coup attempt, the GQP complicity in the attempt, or anger from how Clump's administration mishandled the covid pandemic. They've lost audience over the way Clump hasn't yet been put back in office.
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  14385. It's like she's auditioning for Nazi Binder Barbie's job, but doesn't realize they're not hiring at the white house just now.
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  14386. On his own platform, Trump's most recent lies got less than 40K likes each? That's hilarious! Good news is, we have plenty of prison space for that many insurrectionists. They can go rot in prison next to notables like the Q Shaman and others.
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  14387. Cult members are going to have to learn the hard way (just like Leslie Van Houten) that just because the orange man flapped his arms and told wild lies and they were dumb enough to believe said baseless lies, it doesn't give them any free pass to commit crimes. In fact they probably need huggy jackets and rubber rooms. Dolts.
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  14388. The name stuck. He's PAB45 forever more.
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  14389. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, GFY.
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  14390. He's finding it very difficult to keep his lies straight.
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  14391.  @joansmit5782  To be fair to 45, he's not used to talking to people who aren't his brainwashed cult zombies.
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  14392. Let me guess - all of a sudden, 45 will be saying that it doesn't matter how old a candidate is ;)
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  14393. In the US, conservatives have been passing laws to let them run over protesters who impede or block traffic. Yet those very same conservatives were morally and financially supporting folks in Canada blocking traffic. In the US, conservatives have been screeching about "caravans" breaking the law at the border, yet those very same conservatives then support exactly that at the northern border. Go figure.
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  14394.  @braing6841  Are you saying that Biden is losing votes these days?
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  14395. Our country won't begin to heal until (one way or another) all of those who were gaslit/misled/misinformed with Trump's lies somehow get the truth shown to them .. and even then, many of them just don't want to countenance it.
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  14396.  @stefansodbinow6300  That's the thing about TDS sufferers (especially when their meds get lost in the mail) .. every bad thing that the Mango Mussolini did, they somehow attribute to president Biden. As if they forgot that Trump magnified the deficit greatly and raised the debt ceiling 3x, ignored a pandemic, etc.
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  14397.  @stefansodbinow6300  Umm, what would you replace the federal government with? For all of its faults, it does a certain amount of work that benefits us all. It even benefits people like Rafael Eduardo Cruz, the Canadian-born descendant of a Cuban refugee (who Canada took in), apparently so he can pretend to be an American-born southern white conservative who hates immigrants.
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  14398. Yet if you suggest that we should let VP Kamala Harris pick the next election winner (like Trump's "fine people" tried to do after the 2020 election) they screech bloody murder, as if such a thing is wrong and bad and illegal, yet still, they would do it themselves if they could get away from it. Seems that conservatives got dropped on their heads as children. Quite often, too.
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  14399. Couldn't Dump's culties just move to Haiti if they want to live in a place where armed gangs have displaced the rule of law? You don't want to live in a place like that. It's a mystery why they want to turn America into something like that. Do they think there's any happy ending to a dictatorship that does away with the rule of law??
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  14400. More like, any explosion inside it will necessarily be much more intense due to the blast being contained inside.
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  14401.  @markwilson9652  These people: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/17/south-dakota-nurse-jodi-doering-covid-19-patients-denial/6330791002/
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  14402. The difference between Kristi Noem and Michele Bachmann is that Bachmann never imagined or pretended that she was some kind of smart person. Noem's foolish insistence on holding the Sturgis rally is what set of the raging outbreak in the Dakotas.
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  14403. If you can convince the chickens that PETA runs a child sex slave ring in the pizza restaurant basement, you can get them to vote for Colonel Sanders easily enough.
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  14404. Apparently only one party these days is impeaching out of spite, whereas the other does it to make someone answer for their crimes and/or misdeeds.
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  14405. The way it turned out this time, fascism slouched into the white house dry-humping the flag and brandishing a bible upside-down. And Republicans swooned at his feet to help him put an end to American democracy. Well, most of them.
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  14406.  @RKade22  Ahh, thanks for answering my question. You aren't getting your info from any accredited sources. So any fool can make their own video saying [whatever] and you'd believe it over actual accredited sources and journalism.
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  14407. What deal went on behind the scenes? Sounds like Trump needed something from China, and this was part of the price for it. Next up on the auction block is Taiwan, of course, and I hope they're paying attention.
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  14408. In a just world, Fox would be completely underwater from day 1 from lawsuits over their lies.
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  14409. The stain is going to stay on the Republicans for decades.
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  14410. If you think we should let the Republicans overturn an 8 million vote difference in the election just this once to assuage their butthurt .. just remember what Winston Churchill said: "Appeasement is feeding a hungry crocodile, hoping it eats you last."
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  14411.  @gibbyrex522  It's nice of you to try explaining things to the kool aid drinkers.
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  14412. Best humor post I've seen so far. Had me rolling on the floor at "deplete our military resources". Put it this way: what the US spends on sending older gear to Ukraine is a whole lot less than what the US spends on corporate welfare.
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  14413. What a shame it would be if someone forgot to set the parking brakes on their bulldozer and it went straight through a Trump property, dragging the ripper the whole way?
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  14414.  @lesmoore3638  You may wish to do some research yourself, since the pace of "regularly" has stepped up considerably as of late.
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  14415.  @RobertMJohnson  "wow, Christi. who endowed you with the power" << Possibly the same entities who robbed you of any ability to follow the news.
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  14416.  @lesmoore3638  Considering that I never mentioned any diety, orthodoxy, tract, or religion, why don't you just have another drink? It's not as if you have any brain cells to lose.
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  14417. Correct. Ukrainians and Russians are the single largest ethnic minorities in each other's countries. Too many people know too many people across what was a fairly porous border. It became impossible to hide how one of those two nations was becoming a prosperous democracy while the other was turning into North Korea 2.0. Not enough lipstick in Pravda to cover that pig.
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  14418. Those recordings just go to prove the obvious: 45's campaign is just another barking mad carnival setting.
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  14419. If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide. And Trump is trying to hide practically everything.
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  14420. Mitt Romney is another one who's drunk the orange kool-aid since the days when he said these words .. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  14421. Hate to say this to the people around Trump, but he was clinging to delusions and conspiracy theories decades ago when, even after they'd been exonerated, he kept calling for the deaths of the Central Park Five. That was way back in the 1990s, and Trump has only gotten more whacky/racist since then.
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  14422.  @chrislimnios9180  Seriously, someone needs to explain to those grumpies that everyone has their own deal with life. And some folks got their squares all lined up right.
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  14423. By the time 1947 rolled around, and times were bad, and the occupation troops were there to stay, it was hard to find a German who could admit to ever having supported the funny mustache guy. I suspect it will be the same by the time the books and mini-series come out. The same people who cheer Trump's obvious deficiencies today, who go to jail for him, will be telling their kids they secretly fought the good fight within the Republican party.
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  14424. The irony of Trump explaining that people have to pay their bills, or else.
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  14425. You can tell Putin's little helpers by how they weren't offended when Trump Republicans raised the debt ceiling 3x during his reign of error, and added to the debt immensely by that $2 TRILLION tax giveaway to the very richest. But a few billion for Ukraine? Outrage! Oh the humanity
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  14426. What would happen? There would be some heads on sticks still wearing their MAGAt caps.
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  14427. NY went from 83,901 cases (evening of 4/1) to 142,384 cases by yesterday evening. When cases double in 8 days it's not cause for hope. Stop the case increases and you'll stop the disease - but not until then.
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  14428.  @carollund8251  Speaking of guns .. convicted felon 45 is now prohibited from owning or touching them. Funny how the billybobs somehow think he represents them.
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  14429. The perp committed treason. At the behest of the cult leader who lost the election. Throw the book at this one.
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  14430. .. and it's not as if then-president Carter steered some big no-bid government contracts to his former peanut farm either.
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  14431. For months we've been speculating over who had it, and whether it was hidden/deleted by the wrong people, but now we know that the J6 committee has got possession of the internal security videos of the Capitol complex - and the video is clear enough to show faces. This is the committee's way of shaking the anchor chain to see which rats jump off Trump's sinking ship.
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  14432.  @kjtj397  With enough hokey bibles, gold-sprayed sneakers, NFTs, and donations from the gullible ones, maybe 45 can keep the cable TV on a MAGA Lardo. Lotta donated Boomer insulin money going into supporting that one.
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  14433. The part that worries me about the Russia-NK thing is that there appears to be some basis for military trading .. there is something that NK wants badly and Russia has lots of (short and medium range nuclear missiles) and Russia cannot use in Europe/Ukraine now without risking much bigger things. So what can NK offer Russia in trade?
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  14434. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  14435. So when Republicans pushed 13x to impeach Obama (none of the attempts got very far) those 'fine people' from the party of law-and-order were actually violating the constitution? Huh, who'd have guessed?
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  14436. Agree 900%. Drive people to the polls if you have to. Everyone who can vote must vote, especially young people. For the first time in my life I voted a straight blue ticket. It's not enough to just send the Republicans a message - we must send them all packing, from every post and at every level. They're toxic to American democracy.
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  14437.  @TranquilFaith4me  Could you please tell me which Republicans lost it over Reagan? I hadn't heard that one before. Also what is the crazy librul world of which you speak?
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  14438. Sounds like another Putler troll saying that the west should just stay home and pretend not to notice Russia gobbling up foreign countries.
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  14439. We ought to be looking into how Germany fixed (or, rather, how it was fixed for them) the problem of having a large minority of citizens whose political interests in maintaining Nazism were clearly at odds with the welfare of the nation and its people. Obviously we're not going to have much of a functioning democracy with those types infesting the government and voting for obviously corrupt politicians. The basic choices for handling them are exile, death, or re-education.
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  14440. Hmm. What's not to like about doing that job? All the same job politics as a municipal transit service, only worse. Constant oversight from politicians who don't, won't, and probably can't understand the job function and what it entails. Wearing so much gear that your connectives get permanent damage. A whole bunch of different kinds of PTSD from the work itself. Oh, and covid exposure.
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  14441.  @conniestone6251  I don't think she should be in there either, but that's not for me to say, and the wheels of justice (in this case, investigations) proceed at their own pace.
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  14442.  @jaynook4980  They have WMDs and oil. Deal me in. As a plus we can bring them democracy.
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  14443. He's going to sic his followers on .. DC? Do they even know who to call to issue threats to? (Nikki is already under protection due to the flak coming from Trump's brownshirt irregulars)
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  14444.  @georgiafain3747  Oh and so much for the "rape hardly ever causes pregnancy" propaganda. Guess conservatives think immaculate conception is happening all the time?
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  14445. There's an election coming up. I take comfort in knowing that in the 1974 election (the first one to follow Nixon's near-impeachment) every single Republican who'd tried to cover up Nixon's obvious guilt got voted out of office. EVERY SINGLE ONE. People, you know what to do.
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  14446. If, as Trump claims, it's safe to resume normal operations, perhaps he can show it by resuming his rallies. He canceled them back in the first half of March because of the virus danger. It's rather telling that he hasn't scheduled any new rallies, where he could shake hands with normal Americans etc. Is he afraid of some dangerous virus?
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  14447. The US senate just passed LendLease unanimously. They dropped the 5-year provision and rolled the calendar back to pre-Crimea for Ukraine's boundaries. Better do some fine whining, Putin.
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  14448. It's called "Orwellian humor". Republicans calling themselves "the party of law and order". Trump claiming his lost election was "stolen". (and sometimes he mentioned a tasty confection called Stollen) Howling Trump fans trying to prevent vote certification while chanting "stop the steal".
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  14449. It's a violation of federal law to falsify a National Weather Service broadcast and pass it off as official. 18 US CODE 2074. Prediction: 0 (zero) ranking Republicans will care. You would find far more outraged Republicans if, perhaps, Obama had worn a tan suit.
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  14450. The market is going to get worse .. Trump just gagged all the federal healthcare agencies. Now that have to go through the office of Mike "let's pray the gay away" Pence first. Hopefully agency heads are not going to go along with this Soviet information control scheme. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html
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  14451. I doubt that bridge is going to survive much love from newer HE rounds.
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  14452. Turning America into a turd world country was Putin's best wish, and Trump's errand.
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  14453. Pushing back against the "overreach" of the US electorate, they mean. How dare the will of the people try to "trump" the wishes of Hair Fuhrer?
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  14454. He just makes up stuff. Just like when he claimed in 2020 that "millions" of dead people/illegals voted. Even though there's no proof of it. And his brain dead base keep clapping.
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  14455. Now that the lake bottom is visible, the authorities have belatedly told people to stop watering their green lawns in desert locations. About 40 years too late.
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  14456. Of course they will. Republicans turned traitor awhile back. They don't care if they plunge the country into fascism.
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  14457. Right. Their "Hunter laptop expose" was made-up nonsense to begin with - and no one is taking it seriously. They're just mad it didn't get the eyeball share they were expecting.
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  14458. American here. Trump and his people are busy gutting election security, making it harder to vote, everything. They're going to work hard to make sure there's no meaningful 2026 election.
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  14459.  @timedmonds3  You're going to need a lot more wishful thinking for the orange guy to win anything, especially after he talked about concentration camps, martial law, and putting his political opponents in jail. And if you think those are good things, go move to Russia.
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  14460. Sounds a lot like Rove is just echoing what lady Lindsay accurately predicted back in 2016.
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  14461.  @asmallwhitedog0479  Clearly our country has a lot more damaged & hateful people than most of us knew. They are easy fodder for the manipulations (lies) from the likes of Trump, Fox, Alex Jones, etc.
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  14462. The guy lies just like Trump. For example, he says at 1:29 that DC was the first rally where stuff like that happened. Not true. After Trump told his "fine people" to LIBERATE Michigan, they stormed the state capitol with military style rifles and threatened legislators. Less than 48 hours after that LIBERATE tweet, his followers began making plans to kidnap and execute the governor.
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  14463.  @nicholaslake5937  Who says a year or two? China did 90 days. Read the news. If you can read that is.
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  14464.  @coiledsteel8344  What's with the false dichotomies by the whackjobs of the right? You say you're going to be sensible, which they misconstrue to mean "I'm going to stay in my house forever and ever and never come out."
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  14465.  @Gryph01  True, but the party at least theoretically did it in the name of the workers collectives. That they never realized it speaks more to the cussedness of human nature than anything else. You can't say they didn't try. Same with Cuba.
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  14466. As we're learning the hard way, a system of checks and balances is useless when the people running it can't or won't follow the rules. Trump, McConnell, and the rest of the Republican party are showing their true Quisling colors, their willingness to harm Americans.
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  14467. Insurrectionists of a feather need to hang together. Or they can hang separately. Don't care.
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  14468. The Republicans have tried a lot of things to get their nutjob base to vote them out: Forcibly sterilizing refugees at the border, in complete violation of international laws? Tried that. Forcibly separating refugee families at the border, in complete violation of treaties we signed? Tried that. Trashing our longstanding allies? Tried that. Lying to the American people about a deadly disease, then killing hundreds of thousands through those lies and inaction? Tried that. Destroyed the export economy through "trade wars" that he thought were easy to win? Tried that. Rapidly increasing homelessness all over the country? Tried that. A whammy as bad as the 1918 Pandemic and the Great Depression all at once? Tried that. But now Trump is waking people up to how bad he really is. His reverse Midas touch is still working.
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  14469.  @ellisjames7192  One of the best books you can find on WW2 Germany is "Last Train from Berlin", 1942, by Howard K Smith. Top notch journalism & analysis.
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  14470. Three things. 1. He can't go to public sports events without getting booed, hence these private vetted ceremonies. 2. He wasn't complaining about the kneeling during the anthem, but about something more intrinsic to them. (hint: are they darker than his golf pants?) 3. You gotta forgive him for celebrating how Moscow Mitch just affirmed to the world that article 2 of the constitution really does mean he can do whatever he wants. One of these weeks we'll be reading about Democratic and opposition Republican candidates mysteriously disappearing :(
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  14471. All of the Republican focus on the whistleblower is a distractionary move. The whistleblower was just the delivery boy for some information. The real focus of this should be the actual transcript of the call, which we can be sure is much more juicy than anything in the phonecall notes or anything the whistleblower could say on the stand. Let's not fall for this distractionary move please.
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  14472. Well, it's good that SOMEONE is helping fund Jeff Bezos' next attempt to cosplay as an astronaut. No billionaire left behind! 😅
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  14473. @Jason Rollins I know. We oughta rebrand the whole "we are all Negan" line as a snarky "We are all Brandon".
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  14474.  @khv.repair4347  My fave thing about Russia is they seem to imagine no one else has cruise missiles. Russia is like a pretty girl who's acting irresponsibly. No one wants to give her the face punch she desperately needs. It would just cost more to rebuild the place after the war ends and its regime has been replaced with something more humane.
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  14475.  @staylowdubz  Apparently they've lost a third of their conventional military power already. Let's see how long they want to keep sticking their own limbs into the wood chipper.
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  14476. This is so simple. 1. Effective contact tracing apps - these can be rolled out way faster than contact tracers can be trained and fielded. 2. Put on the big-girl pants and make mask wearing mandatory in public settings. 3. Increase the state testing capacity to at least 1% of the population per day. Every time you find a new case, have all of their contacts self-isolate for 21 days.
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  14477. On the plus side, we can now see that many of our fellow Americans are pretty despicable too, given their worship of him.
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  14478. No doubt it's some 5-D chess on Putler's behalf that he's not succeeding in Ukraine. Taking someplace and holding someplace are two different things. The attrition losses are deep.
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  14479.  @edmaphis9805  Florida is pro-Confederate too, but that doesn't mean they get to exit the USA. Try again.
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  14480.  @hdesquare  If by "kicking ass" you mean losing an unprecedented number of men and vehicles in a fairly short time, then, yes, Putler is "winning". Kind of how Trump "wins". Seems Putler caught that reverse Midas touch from Trumpski.
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  14481.  @edmaphis9805  Actually I didn't even mention parental responsibility. You did. If your fighting is as bad as your trolling no wonder Ivans are having issues. Putler is more like the abusive ex-husband who violates a restraining order, shows up drunk, points a loaded gun at the children, and beats the ex, screeching stuff like, "I love you so much! Why are you making me hurt you?"
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  14482.  @hdesquare  Forgot to add. In the realm of losing vehicles, Putler can now accept a special medal for the loss of the Moskva. The next-in-line flagship (the aircraft carrier that needs to be towed everywhere) is sitting safely in port now just like the USS Cole used to do. So for the love of Putler's tender feelings, please, everyone, leave the aircraft carrier alone. Russia has plenty of problems now and doesn't need another big loss like the sinking of the Moskva.
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  14483.  @hdesquare  Most rapists say exactly that about their victims - "she brought it on herself".
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  14484.  @hdesquare  You may thinks Putler is going to win, or you do, I don't really care which. Generally a thing doesn't care whether you believe in it or not. So if you want to be like the flat earth rocket guy, be my guest. No better way to improve the breed.
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  14485.  @forrestfey  Correct, he has them hooked and he knows it. Why, 45 can even tell them to their faces, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in!!"
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  14486. So - when the president threatens to withhold money/supplies in exchange for them doing something he wants (keeping quiet about how inept he is) - let me guess, it's another "perfect" phone call like the one with Ukraine?
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  14487. Why is the word "unexpectedly" used so often with this type of news? America has by far the worst covid outbreak on the planet. Pretending it's not real (such as Trump is exhorting everyone to do through their actions) isn't making anything better, it's making everything worse. China has already recovered their economy to be something like 10%-20% bigger than from a whole year ago. Unemployment here (and subsequent homelessness) will be a problem until the US government (hopefully soon to be under new management) flexes its muscles.
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  14488. I confess to having trolled the Republicans more than a little on this subject. It's hard not to. Like crackheads roaming the parks at night looking for fallen needles to recycle, they'll seize upon any dumb thing, no matter how dirty, to keep keep their hopium high going for another day or so.
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  14489. This matter has already been studied. According to the linked table, Italy's normal death rate from seasonal flu is 8.15 per 100K, or 81.5 per million. Italy's coronavirus deaths are 243 per million and still rising (worldmeters data). https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza-pneumonia/by-country/
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  14490.  @justsayin3600  The US rate is 149.1 per million for the regular flu (same table) and the covid-19 deaths per million rate has gone 15, 18, 22, 26 over the last 4 days. (worldmeters data) thanks
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  14491.  @justsayin3600  Yes. I believe that we in the US are due for a worse outcome than Italy or Spain. They went into this with much higher-quality healthcare systems, and still their death rates per million from covid-19 are 263 and 268 respectively vs case per million rates of 2133 and 2799 respectively. Over the past 4 days, the US case rate per million has gone 650, 740, 837, 941. As you can see it's accelerating upwards.
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  14492.  @AsG_4_  Not the way we do it in the US it isn't. The first-world parts of Europe are closer to that goal, but then, they have dense fast electrified rail to move people and goods quickly. In the US we're still gung-ho on suburbia/exurbia, SUVs for everyone, and bigger highways.
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  14493. Where was this version of Bill Barr (perhaps only pretending now to have a spine) when we saw him misrepresenting the results of the Mueller probe?
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  14494. Sounds like she's going to argue that the people who got sick did not have immune systems.
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  14495. Seems like most of those people forgot about there being some kind of potentially deadly disease going around just now. By this time next week, some of them will be reporting to the ER with this weird dry cough and a fever :(
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  14496. Well, Tina, it seems you forgot an important lesson they teach to children all over the world. It goes something like this: A jibber-jabbering stranger shows up one day, spins these crazy visions, takes you up to a high place to show you some sights, and says you can have a part of his future if only you do this one little thing for him, something that's usually illegal or immoral or both. That's how you know you're speaking with Satan.
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  14497. Looks like she's heading to the Gargoyle Salon that did such a fine job on the others.
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  14498. I used to wonder how nations fall to fascism. Not wondering anymore :(
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  14499. Every day in America it's like this: Dr Fauci: "Donald, there are still hundreds of millions of Americans who haven't been tested." Trump: "I never heard that anybody couldn't get a test. Who ever heard of such a thing??"
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  14500. He thinks? A case could be made that he reacts.
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  14501. Funny how the GOP doesn't want to start with the US state of South Dakota, which has never been locked down. As a result of that, South Dakota now has the fastest rate of case growth among US states, doubling every 4-5 days. At their rate of increase, the hospitals will be overwhelmed in 3-4 weeks and the whole state will be infected in 8-10 weeks. Funny how Republicans don't mention the one state that took their dimwitted advice to heart.
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  14502. Given that we finally have a judge who's not taking Trump's delays anymore, he's going to be in court Monday and, if he testifies and doesn't take the fifth, will stupidly incriminate himself on the stand. So between now and maybe the end of January 2025, we're going to see how many of his followers are still prone to violence in service of his lies. Stand back and stand by.
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  14503. Trump flags: the number-one choice of banner for when you need to invade the DC capitol, beat policemen to death, break glass, and commit acts of insurrection that land you in prison. Accept no substitutes. Nothing says, "I'm a quisling!" like flying a Trump flag.
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  14504. Betting it's expensive.
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  14505. Oregon is 47th as sorted by cases per million. The states that implemented mask laws and/or shutdowns the earliest are the ones that have kept those rates the lowest.
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  14506. Australia has their share, sadly. Been following the travel videos of folks who've gone around the country evading lockdowns.
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  14507. I had been assuming that Republicans looked on Trump, his long history of disregarding the law, his long history of losing other people's money, the way a wave of bias crimes followed every Trump rally, the way he said he'd honor the election results only if he won .. they looked upon all that and thought, "Yeah, he's the best of us."
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  14508. Like a giant litmus test being applied to our society, Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  14509.  @elizabethraji3352  Trump is going to be doing his best-ever Baghdad Bob impressions today and tomorrow. With coronavirus deaths and cases surging all over the nation, he'll be congratulating himself on defeating the virus. He'll give himself a 10 out of 10 score. Use this as an opportunity to note which fools agree with everything he says. They need interventional mental health help.
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  14510. All they're thinking about is "owning the libs" - even if it means torching their own country.
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  14511. The question facing the rest of the world is this: if we allow Putin to continue his assault on the people of Ukraine, when will he get hungry again for more territory? Which people will be next on the chopping block? Appeasement is not a good idea. The world tried that with Hitler.
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  14512. Face it, we have a substantial minority of idiots among us, people for whom laws and constant PSA's to wear seatbelts, or not drive drunk, barely move the needle. They might not believe in covid, but covid doesn't care and will infect them nevertheless - which is what's happening now with covid spreading rapidly through communities of science deniers. A year from now, let's hoist a drink in their memory .. but first, be ready to buy their stuff cheap at estate auctions. St Darwin is having a busy year.
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  14513.  @paulwhetstone0473  Oh OK. So if someone fails to do medicare-for-all and UBI, they're just as evil as Trump? Is that what you are attempting to claim?
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  14514. We can probably count the hours until he tries to get the E Jean Carroll defamation case overturned too.
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  14515. Partisan Derangement Syndrome is a bad thing :(
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  14516. Republicans clearly don't want to represent the people anymore. They want to represent Putin, and they want to be our rulers, not subject to recall via election.
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  14517. Poor little Trumpie. Obviously he forgot all the times he retweeted hateful memes suggesting that she was a gorilla or a man in heels or a criminal.
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  14518. He looks exactly like the kind of 30something loser guy, still stuck on himself of course, who dates high school girls.
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  14519. Why yes. The Soviets, for all their many faults, did at least manage to extend job / education / housing / medical / pension rights to the vast majority of the citizens of their territories. Since the dissolution of the USSR, inequality there has vastly risen, and that has dire consequences in what is essentially a large poor nation with first-world ambitions.
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  14520. "Big strong men, with tears in their eyes, maybe the biggest guys anyone has ever seen, probably veterans, have come up to me and said, Sir, that's the best Presidential Records Act anyone has ever seen."
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  14521. Putin will threaten to pull out tactical nukes. President Biden already told Putin what will happen if any nukes get used: overwhelming conventional attack.
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  14522. So when are today's Republicans going to vilify Reagan for saying, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" - ? Today's Republicans would have reinforced it on our side with razor wire.
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  14523.  @sdfasdfadfasdfadfasd  Do you mean to say that when people flee injustice & state violence & lack of democracy, it matters whether they are from south of the US or from the other side of the Iron Curtain? Please explain yourself.
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  14524.  @CraftyGrandmaDem  About as far to the right as Hitler or Pat Robertson, take your pick.
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  14525.  @NYx3  Russia lost its right to any easy way out when it engaged in war crimes and atrocities. The next exit ramp for Putin is in his Fuhrerbunker. You don't get to save face after stuff like that. You get regime change.
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  14526. Fun fact, early in his abortion of a single term, Trump attempted to get Obama's secret service protection canceled.
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  14527.  @SiliconCurtain  Still laughing over how Putin fcked himself with that comment about Poland allegedly starting WW2 by not being nice enough to Hitler. Set off alarm bells all over Europe, encouraged his US lackey to say he'd let Russia take NATO territories that don't pay their dues. They could not have done a better job of dipping themselves in sht.
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  14528. Ivan is just sober enough to line up all those vehicles, evenly spaced, to make good targets. Switchblades are hungry at this time of year.
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  14529.  @jonathanfarley2023  You got a bad case of TDS alright. You may wish to read the news now and then.
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  14530.  Robert Fisher  Oh, but they won't say that. They squirm when you try to make them answer the question directly. Are those behaviors what honest people do?
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  14531.  Robert Fisher  Face it .. anyone who meets him now could be testing positive just 48 hours later, and they won't want to risk their lies coming unraveled so quickly. Nor do they have any test results to wave about - which you know they would be doing if they had them.
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  14532.  Robert Fisher  That's gotta be the lamest attempt at deflection I've ever seen from you. Face it: your Mango Mussolini can't prove he's covid-free, nor can he guarantee that you won't get sick if you meet with him.
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  14533.  Robert Fisher  You really ARE wholly unfamiliar with the facts - not that I expected otherwise from a nitwit, which is the only sort of person who could still support Trump. Actual death rate is around 4%, as he admitted in the Bob Woodward interview: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  14534. It wasn't a one-man crime spree. It was a criminal at the head of that enterprise, with the help of a lot of other fellow criminals in the government, in private society, and in the reich-wing media echo chamber. Especially the way he would tell Hannity what news to mention that day (even if it was just something they made up) before he'd comment on it.
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  14535. .. except we know that 45 would do no such thing. In typical beta fashion, he'd crawl to the dictator to admire him.
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  14536. Let's see how many Scaramucci's this fool lasts 😅😅 Any bets?
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  14537.  @oupahens9219  That disgusting walrus, with his many chins and that giant frozen suet waterfall hanging over his belt? You might want to get your vision checked. Oh, and he's a wannabe fascist dictator too.
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  14538. Peril was actually a bit lame. "I Alone Can Fix This" was much better IMHO.
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  14539.  @mackjrbell7828  Trump did in fact tell his people to go vote more than once. Hope that excuse doesn't work for them any more than Leslie Van Houten's did for her.
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  14540. "A lie is halfway around the world by the time the truth gets its boots on." -- Mark Twain
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  14541.  @johnf3442  One wonders if blacks and gays were part of the numbers Grump hoped to edit out of the census results, along with immigrants and refugees and anyone else he doesn't like.
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  14542. @Attila The Pub It's not horrible. It's gorgeous. The trouble is getting the inbred retrograde types (like that sheeple I encountered) to move back to the supply districts.
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  14543. @Attila The Pub Put it this way: those losers are such mushroom farm dwellers (kept in the dark; fed BS; grown to like the taste of BS) that if a pandemic happened during Obama's time, and he told everyone not to wear masks, they'd be wearing them all the time just out of spite.
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  14544. @Attila The Pub Clearly you seem to have missed the news that people with no discernible symptoms are able to pass on the disease to others. In fact they have no way to know if they're carrying it.
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  14545. @Attila The Pub Before we go any further with this line of dialogue -- just how disconnected are you from objective reality?
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  14546. @Attila The Pub You stopped making sense awhile back. I'll return to this thread in about a week to see if you have anything intelligent (or even intelligible) to say. So far, you're an empty carrier signal on this score. The keyboard is still clicking but there's no one home.
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  14547. After taking millions from the crazies, to find the imaginary fraud that they insist exists, the least he could have done was reprint a few ballots on bamboo-fiber paper (maybe with a watermark saying the operation was directed via Italian space lasers) just to "prove" there was at least some doubt about the election.
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  14548. It's not hard to imagine. One of these days, Trump will tell his followers to quit their jobs, stay home, and make molotov cocktails.
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  14549.  @KevinWendigo63  Read it again. Are you unfamiliar with the difference between saying what might happen vs what did happen?
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  14550.  @KevinWendigo63  Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! 😅 (and yes, Trump will continue to discover new lows within his own behavior)
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  14551. On the plus side, we now know exactly which people are cultists, which people can easily be turned against democracy and against their own nation and against the rule of law. We remember who had 45 signs on their lawns. We remember who wanted to tear all this down and make America like Haiti or Somalia :(
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  14552. Konstantin has occasionally touched on these aspects of the Soviet mentality in his videos, but you'd have to go through all the comments to find it. What a guy. Love his videos also.
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  14553. Taiwan's government has been in existence longer than the current government of China.
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  14554. Putin has convinced himself that being an old-fashioned colonial power is necessary for the survival of Russia. It's like a root bad decision that he seems unable to back up to.
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  14555.  @pamtewes5276  He sabotaged a pretty good border bill (thus fcking over the country) just to have an opportunity complain about things being messed up! That shows his priorities :(
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  14556. It's those lifts worn in the shoes to make an obese, inept golf club Jabba-the-Hut type fool look taller.
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  14557. Jacques Cousteau hid them someplace, they've never been found :(
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  14558.  @claraj.751  Unfortunately, Fox & others will be spreading fear, uncertainty, doubt (it's how they keep the lights on) and there will be some unmoored types who take the bait.
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  14559. Considering that the Republicans got far more vocal & upset over Obama wearing a tan suit than they did about Trump suggesting delaying the election - I'd say the answer is yes :(
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  14560. I fear for the worst for those imprisoned Hispanics. In every society that's got rhetoric so strong that random people engage in political violence (like the link I'm sharing in this post), you'll find some official part of the government incinerating the bodies, or making kids drink motor oil at gunpoint as their parents are forced to watch. The number of politically imprisoned Hispanics is above 100,000 now. There has been no accounting made of the origin, name, status, history, and whereabouts of each. Anyway here's what a modern Brownshirt looks like: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2019/12/26/trump-words-racism-nicole-poole-franklin-hit-run-hate-crime/2739588001/
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  14561.  @Kimberly-dt4ko  And they wouldn't even remember yabbering about "Obamacare death panels" just a few years before :(
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  14562. Republicans been trying for decades to breed an easily-misled, low-IQ kind of American who works hard for low wages and then dies quickly before needing medical resources. Mitch probably got the idea way back when free government care kept him from dying of polio as a child.
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  14563.  @juergenheinricher-gc4bq  Bingo. 45 doesn't care about anyone or anything else besides himself. He'll say any lie to get votes or sympathy or money from other people.
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  14564.  @mark-ish  And then it's time for MAGA, as in Many Are Getting Arrested. Plenty of jail space for cult nutters who break the law.
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  14565. Sounds like house speaker Pelosi is living for free in Boebert's small mental condo upstairs.
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  14566.  @JSkyGemini  The rest of us will get to watch his most unmoored followers take it out on minorities, news reporters, and power substations.
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  14567. What most of us see as negative qualities, damaged and/or delusional people see as gold-plated lustre on their living god Trump.
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  14568.  @TheUMIA  The difference between polls and voting is a lot like the difference between who you want to date vs who you want to marry. And nobody wants Jeffrey Epstein's buddy Trump who stands near underage girls talking about golden showers and how great Putin is.
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  14569. I'm not going to thumbs-up that comment. But I will reply with something to show what's been happening: Republicans at the roadside: "Officer, that radar speeding ticket you're trying to give me is invalid because you're not of the same political party as me. That just proves your bias. So I'm going to rip it up and drive away." Republicans in court later: "Since the judge didn't personally witness this alleged speeding incident, he's not qualified to make that judgement." Republicans after losing in court: "Nobody got hurt by the speeding car so the laws don't apply!"
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  14570.  @mginoulhac  Exactly! Trump hiding all documents, preventing witnesses, preventing testimony, etc - these are not the actions of an innocent person.
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  14571.  @mginoulhac  There's no point in answering??? You mean like when Al Capone, after enduring years of investigation of his criminal enterprise by IRS agents, concluded that the agents were biased and therefore he didn't have to show them his secret books? The president broke the law. Get over it.
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  14572.  Thrunabulax  Bingo. Because if obstructing congressional investigation, extorting another nation to interfere in our elections, emoluments violations, lying about reasons for firing Comey, etc are not impeachable, then they may as well admit there is no law.
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  14573. What's wrong with them? They're Trump cultists.
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  14574. You know who REALLY won't like her as the president of the USA? That gnome of the Kremlin.
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  14575. Trump's policies work fine only if there's some unlimited supply of OPM (other people's money)to borrow from. Call it Daddynomics. He learned it by other people giving him money which he then misspent before asking for more.
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  14576. The kraken has been released .. from Trump's service.
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  14577. To be fair, many Boomers have got thought processes like Swiss cheese anyway. If they had chastised Trump for his misdeeds they way they went after Obama for his horrible, tyrannical, unconstitutional crimes such as wearing a tan suit and using mustard, things wouldn't have gotten so bad. But no, he gave hope to all the loons who can say "All fetus lives are precious!" and in the next breath say "Those immigrant children should die in the desert after we shoot their parents at the border!"
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  14578. There is a lot of money to be made off stupids. Fox, Trump, hell, Rush Limabugh and Tucker Carlson grow bumper crops in those otherwise-empty minds.
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  14579. Oh no, it's not hopeless. Some of the unvaccinated will survive Delta, although the chances are approx 20% that they'll have some kind of lasting medical condition as a result, plus they will almost certainly infect their own loved ones. Like cigarettes, lotto tickets, it's just another form of voluntary tax.
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  14580. Who?
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  14581.  @funtictoc1660  Do your homework, please, Russia is near the bottom of the list (extremely corrupt) and not getting any better, whereas Ukraine is more in the middle of the list (far less corrupt than Russia) and improving. And if your trolling doesn't improve, perhaps you could better serve your masters by going to the front line.
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  14582. A comment from the USA. Using data snapshots from worldmeters, you can figure the week-over-week case rate increases in different parts of the country. And the state with the highest rate of change (South Dakota, which went from 146 cases/M to 455 cases/M, a 211% increase) is one of those places where the governor disparages "herd mentality" and refuses to lock the state down. Perhaps the governor (guess the party affiliation) will be eligible for the Tony Spell award?
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  14583. These are the people who are so "patriotic" that if the hospitals and morgues were full of car accident victims, they'd be violently protesting seat belts and airbags.
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  14584. Honestly, I expected him to fight harder to illegally hold onto power after losing the election. Now the plan is more like to burn it all down if it can't be his.
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  14585.  @mkaustralia7136  Bingo. Apparently the Obama administration worried overmuch about escalation, even as Russia took over Crimea, the Donbas, and poured military assets into them.
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  14586.  @JohnPenn77  Sure, sure, tell me again about my own lying eyes ;)
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  14587.  @hebronharvester1487  Nice try, but now 45 is of an age that, back in 2020, he said was too old to run when he was talking about Biden.
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  14588.  @hebronharvester1487  As to one thing, I will settle for president Biden's administration's good handling of the country to show how he's better at it than 45 ever could be. As to the other thing .. because election cycles are 4 years apart and their ages are only 3.5 years apart, 45 is older now than the age at which he claimed (back in the 2020 election cycle) that Biden was too old.
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  14589.  @hebronharvester1487  Don't care what tests Biden took or didn't. 45 still hasn't released his taxes, just like he never released any infrastructure plan or healthcare plan, despite all the promises on all of this. He didn't get Mexico or China to pay for a wall, and for that matter he never built the wall aside from a few flimsy sections that are easily defeated. I'm content with the proof being in the pudding, so to speak, so I haven't had to fret about our president insulting our longstanding allies, or lying to our allies, or telling nonstop lies to us, or sucking up to foreign dictators who can't stand America. I'd vote for a rock painted blue before I'd vote for 45.
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  14590. Jeffrey Clark's files and devices were seized awhile back. Wonder what plans he had to help Trump purge the US if their little coup had succeeded. Someone by then would have written up long lists of people to be seized, killed, disappeared, put on ice, deported immediately, and so on.
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  14591. And yet, millions of the most gullible Americans look at him and think, he's the one to be president.
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  14592. Sadly, the Republicans have been making up total nonsense (like "Obama is coming to take mah guns!") for years, then believing whatever nonsense they just made up.
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  14593. It's worse than that. Jet, bus, plane, train, and cars are still carrying people (and virus) all over America from place to place. It's like we don't get that there's a dangerous pandemic raging.
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  14594. Well, thanks to the influence of 2x-impeached 4x-indicted 91-charged former president Trump, who passed by US society like a magnet passing by a bin of metal shavings, we now know which kinds of people (and which people specifically) respond to his messages of hate, spite, anger, bile, chaos, lawlessness, cultism, etc. Not everyone is bad, but we do have a coterie of ignorant wannabe fifth columnists here :(
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  14595. He's so sad as a comedian. One of the requirements of communism is worker seizing the enterprises they work at, or the state doing the same in their name. And Winco supermarkets, the third largest employee-owned company in America, didn't seize anything from anyone - they started it up themselves.
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  14596. Republicans - they say they're the party of law and order, the party of respect of the law. Just like their boy Cesar Sayoc, apparently :( https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  14597. The people who run the Hague can have him after we get through with his crimes here. Then again, considering that his people have committed crimes against humanity under his supervision, they might get him first.
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  14598. Put it in perspective: as of yesterday, Italy had a case rate of 1829 cases per million. NY state had a case rate of 4313 cases per million. Pretty soon NY is going to be a whole lot worse than Italy has gotten :(
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  14599. @Tracy Lynn Both my parents got sucked down the FOXed Noise rabbit hole decades ago, so I know the mental pathology all too well :(
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  14600.  @RictusHolloweye  It's so sad :( Peoplpe in India are dying by the thousands every day, bodies just tossed in the river, and all my coworker can do is whine about how this is a "plandemic" and that it's all just a political ploy. Refuses to get vaccinated even though she tells everyone otherwise.
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  14601. You don't need that law license. In fact, you don't ever need to work again.
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  14602. Germany tests 600,000 per week .. while the USA has tested 1 million so far, which is 0.3% of the population of 327 million. Someone reboot the president, he's malfunctioning again.
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  14603.  @lsemenov  If Russia has it all, they would be getting invaded, but instead it's them invading other places to take their children, Russify the place names, ban the Ukrainian language, etc. Russia has outhouses, Ukraine has flush toilets. No one wants Russia's cold country, what with 7% arable land and a declining population. The Chinese could certainly manage it more profitably.
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  14604.  @milas5547  Correct. It won't happen. It would be their political suicide. Some conservatives saw this day coming: “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12, 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  14605.  @dohc16vturbo4g63  Here is the link AGAIN for anyone too dimwitted to be able to scroll. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  14606. The fictional character Aldo Raines got a few things right .. and one of them is that yachtzees need to have something they can't take off. People need to know which among us mean to harm all of us.
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  14607. Funny how Republicans didn't call for any such slaughter when armed men (with military style weapons) terrorized the Michigan state capitol, threatened the lives of legislators, caused some to flee, caused some to get bulletproof vests, caused some to get their own bodyguards? In fact, the Republican leader egged them on and tweeted "Liberate!" But when they're darker than his golf pants, it's a whole nother story.
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  14608.  @bnap3221  If you want to play apples-and-apples .. did any of the protesters act in such a way that business owners felt compelled to buy bulletproof vests?
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  14609.  @bnap3221  Did the ones you're referring to come wearing bulletproof vests and carrying assault weapons? Because if you think that's not scary or threatening, just ask some people on the receiving end how they feel when the local paramilitary death squad shows up. Property can be replaced - lives can't.
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  14610.  @bnap3221  Even you should be able to tell that there may be one or two bad eggs hiding in the crowd. How many people died, you say? Just for your reference, here's some numbers on the people who caused the reason to protest: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
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  14611.  @bnap3221  May the thousands of victims of extrajudicial police killing rest in peace too.
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  14612. If Trump is pictured wearing a mask, it makes it harder for him to keep his foamer base aligned with his messages about how this thing is all just a hoax.
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  14613. To be fair to the dumbest people in America, the internet and FOXed Noise have no trouble at all telling them that up is down, war is peace, and a Trump dictatorship is democracy.
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  14614. Rest assured, the Manchurian Republicans are just fine with it.
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  14615.  @moniquelestine8855  Are you referring to "Dr" Oz when you say "my doctor"? Because the entire [accredited] medical establishment is in agreement about how this is a virulent pandemic that's infected millions. What have you been smoking?
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  14616. @COVID-19 Seattle Bingo. I was watching the news out of China from late December onward. And the stories induced me to stockpile heavily on food and other supplies. So I picked up masks and gloves and sanitizing stuff way before they got hard to find. It wasn't hard to figure out that the virus would be here in months :(
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  14617.  @dawnmarie28  Now that 1.4 million Americans are infected and 83,000+ Americans have died from it, yes, in fact it is about our health. What crack are you smoking?
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  14618.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  Thank you for putting your ignorance down in such clear English .. I had to snap a screenshot to use for showing people the meaning of cognitive dissonance. By providing high-quality education and teaching our students to think critically and creatively, why, we could end up being like those countries that have higher rates of F500 companies per capita, lower pollution, less crime, longer life expectancy, better healthcare, lower infant mortality rates, lower teen pregnancy rates, lower incarceration rates, more effective democracies, etc .. just like in most of the OECD countries. But our whackjob fringe self-annointed political/moral police (of which you seem to be a very junior member) don't much like that idea, do you?
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  14619.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  Your arguments are so lame. The USA had fine "national identity" just fine in 1890 when the US population had its record share of immigrants @ 14.8% of the population. Try again.
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  14620.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  Once again you do us the favor of showing off your ignorance. Back in1890, there were all kinds of immigrant communities where many people spoke no American english. The difference between then and now is that FOXed Noise wasn't around to whip up the sort of stupid xenophobia you're still displaying. You are no American, because if you were, you would realize that America is and always has been home to all races, all creeds, all people. Go find an adult nearby who can explain this to you. And if you don't like the fact that people who are not exactly like you keep coming to America for better lives, move the F away. No one wants racist trash here.
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  14621.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  Oh puh-leaze. By your comments above (unless you edited or deleted them) you are racist and xenophobic. Go take a long walk off a short pier. America is and always has been a home to people of any color, race, religion, creed, origin, whatever. If you don't like that, go back to wherever your ancestors came from. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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  14622.  @ChristoverMarxfortheWin  You really do sound like the sort of person (gender uncertain) who would confront people in public for not speaking english. Hope you get repeatedly clocked if you try doing that. Intolerance has no place in a tolerant society. Places like Germany learned that the hard way.
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  14623. He and his supporters are way out on a limb. Thankfully so many of them wear their traitor merch loud and proud.
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  14624.  @josephreber43  It is great that the good people of Ohio remembered that time when a 10yo rape victim had to travel out of state to avoid a "criminal abortion". So much for the RWNJ myth that rape "hardly ever" causes pregnancy - and what kind of sick fvck would want to force a child to carry to term?
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  14625. @M G Who said the people even want their kids to be educated at all? Seems like they have no interest in that.
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  14626. @M G Re "It seems part of the discussion has been deleted" << Prbably some nutball reich-winger got offended at something you said.
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  14627. Satan's handmaiden :(
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  14628. Oh yeah, Tommy Tumblerville tried that nonsense too ..
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  14629. Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Republicans: GFY, Americans.
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  14630. Russia seems to be using Hitler's playbook for the Gleiwitz incident - where the Nazis staged an attack on the radio stations of the German enclave of Poland in order to get an excuse to attack Poland.
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  14631. 681 days elapsed between the J6 insurrection and the appointment of special prosecutor Smith. In other places, the coup perps are usually arrested the same day and tried the day after. Some kinds of justice need to swift and unavoidable.
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  14632.  @mrmark8603  Sound like s/he's hearing Russian voices.
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  14633.  Pitbull Romans 5:8  By all means copy & repost! There's more where that came from :)
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  14634. It was Thursday, October 9, 1941. Howard Smith covers this pretty thoroughly in "Last Train from Berlin", AA Knopf, published in 1942. I have a first edition copy. That day, the Nazi propagandists outdid themselves saying that every last gun, every last man, every last piece of war equipment was being put into the final blow that was supposed to destroy Soviet forces once and for all. After that, Dr. Deitrich was never the same, and everything just kept going downhill for the Nazis. See the chapter, "Dr Deitrich Goes to Town".
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  14635. Must we still live in the fear of having another Ruby Ridge? The fear of repeating that mistake is what led up to the Bundy insurrection, then the armed invasions of state capitols (where Trump egged anti-maskers into "liberating"), then the 1/6 assault on the capitol in DC.
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  14636.  @RobinDale50  Mmm, thanks, but I prefer to believe actual scientists and data over some nobody on the internet voicing her/his opinion.
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  14637.  @RobinDale50  I'm sorry that you seemed to have missed the import of the material you were reading, but Delta has the potential to sicken people at a rate beyond that of the hospitals to process them - and with worse symptoms, and the result of that would look something like what we saw in Mumbai recently. When hospital care is completely unavailable, the covid death rate can go up into the 15%+ range. When there is plenty of hospital capacity, the death rate can be kept down to around 2%. Only someone willfully ignorant would not bother to educate themselves on these facts.
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  14638. Fostering that same sickness is how Fox makes its money, misinforming America's most gullible.
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  14639. John Wayne once famously said that while life is rough, it's rougher when you're stupid. Trump's efforts in demonstrating this have exceeded even Nixon's.
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  14640. 153 days until the November election. Bunker Boy is only going to get much worse. Then he's going to burn the place down in the 2.5 months between the election and the inauguration of the next president.
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  14641.  @zach4832  Nope, it's no joke. Racist idiots just want to be racist idiots.
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  14642. Right. This lets him try to claim even more victimhood than normal.
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  14643. To be sure, the Democrats are vastly aided by Trump being essentially a vacuum of power outside of his efforts to roll back most pieces of useful legislation rolled out post-1945. Civil rights, environmental protections, the system of grand western alliances designed to prevent WW3 from happening. The Republicans are not fielding any challengers, so they've essentially ceded the field to the Democrats. And with Trump's poll numbers, any functioning adult looks better than him.
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  14644. As long as Republicans/conservatives are the sort of people who look with envy at Hitler's Germany and how the place was run, dangerous propaganda like this will sell very well to them.
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  14645. From the sudden speed with which SCOTUS is trying to turn the calendar back to the 1850s (soon they'll be making interracial marriage illegal, probably) it seems all too likely that the evidence taken at Jeffrey Clark's place includes material damning to Trump's three SCOTUS appointees.
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  14646.  GEORGIA PECAN!  By then I assume the Republicans would have done further deep, lasting damage to the long term interests of the United States. This would include seating a third supreme court justice; further stacking the appeals courts with unqualified yes-men; allowing Trump to continue working against the US (Moscow Mitch could just delay indefinitely, as he does on so many other things). Between SCOTUS, the senate, and the presidency, their little coup has sewn up much power. They would probably do anything to protect it, up to and including not having a 2020 election.
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  14647. Observe this trend. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes. @framazz7575 
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  14648. I got a better idea. The invaders can flee now, leaving their stuff behind, and they will be allowed to keep their lives.
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  14649. "Vulnerable Trump supporters"?? Are they the kind that need to wear hockey armor everywhere and live in plastic bubbles? They let them vote and drive?
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  14650. Surveys of Republicans keep showing that under Dump's bad influence they've become comfortable with the notion of political violence in America. Wondering how they're feeling about that now when it's them issuing and receiving death threats to each other? Isn't that the kind of ugly, Haiti-like situation they wanted to bring about here? Because that's exactly where it leads.
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  14651. The Republicans are at the bottom of a hole and they just keep digging. Somebody robbed a bank. A suspect has been named and the investigation is ongoing. The DA is asking for the CCTV camera recordings and other evidence to prove or disprove that the suspect is indeed guilty. The defense attorney claims that he will easily win the trial, but he and the defendant frantically oppose the release of the CCTV recordings. He also wants to keep to witnesses and the bank teller from testifying. The judge and many of the jurors have said that they will act in total lockstep with the defendant's attorney. People are asking "Wtf?"
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  14652.  @ironseabeelost1140  Notice how Moscow Mitch has to wait a week to get an industrial capacity shredder installed to handle all the evidence?
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  14653.  @julieannmyers8714  You knew him in person?? (if so I am in awe)
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  14654. Michael Cohen went on MSNBC recently to talk about why people become Trump's cult sheeple. The video can be found under the title "Michael Cohen issues URGENT WARNING to Trump's Jan 6 Co-Conspirators". The good parts start around 2:45 into the video. He said, "What is it about him? [Trump] There's clearly something on our side, I don't have the answer to that, but it's something internal within ourselves that we're lacking, that he [Trump] has the ability to capture like a cult leader, and you don't want to lose your job. Why Eastman did what he did, why Jeffrey Clark did what he did .. look, for Jeffrey Clark, it makes sense, what was he, an environmental lawyer could possibly become the attorney general of the United States? You know, Eastman really doesn't make as much sense. You're talking about a guy who actually orchestrated the way within which Donald Trump could hold onto power in the United States against the will of the people. Why do people do it? Why I did it? Again, there's something that must be lacking within ourselves, whether it's at the moment or, you know, from birth .. I don't know the answer. But we definitely have something lacking, and we were looking to Donald, whether it's the celebrity appeal, whether it's the power that went along, whether it's the relevance, the importance .. it's a multitude of things and I wish I could put my finger on it, because it keeps me up at night all the time."
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  14655. More than 75% of Americans wanted witnesses & evidence at the senate trial. Apparently the administration had no exculpatory evidence. Moscow Mitch may have arranged to keep the evidence & witnesses out, but at the cost of leaving those 75%+ Americans knowing that the senate proceedings were a complete sham, and that there was no actual exoneration such as could have been done with witnesses and evidence.
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  14656. Just from reading the news, many of us ordinary Americans were following this story by around mid-January and started our panic buying after that first case emerged in Washington State and after hearing news about supply problems in China. So the people running the country were waiting for more official notice than that?
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  14657.  @dakotaflower5926  The OP mentioned the maggots (sorry, MAGAts) by name. Arizona is taking action against them this morning.
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  14658. Show me where on the doll your government hurt you - and don't point to your head. FFS
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  14659. Who can ever forget the way Trump pooh-poohed the pandemic in public, but took it seriously behind the scenes, and got vaccinated himself while bad-mouthing the vaccines? Or the way a wave of bias crimes happened after every [Nuremburg] rally? Trump cannot make anything better in the same way that you can't improve anything by smearing fresh poop onto it. Trump is the poop.
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  14660. Seriously, if FOXed Noise was around during the summer of 1944, they would have referred to D-Day as that infamous time when a bunch of Antifa out-of-towners violently interrupted a free-speech gathering of some nice young Aryan men.
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  14661. OK, folks, we are in a weird place when the 3rd in line for presidential succession is openly being an accessory to crime after the fact.
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  14662.  @dorisbellard5301  Usually the things dictators do include these - make it difficult/impossible for them to be voted out - get rid of any possible checks on their power - get rid of political opposition - set up a new judiciary to carry out the domestic political agenda - indoctrinate the young - etc. One wonders if Jeffrey Clark had gone far with the coup plans .. his papers, devices etc got seized early on.
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  14663. @Suicidal Gopher We have a lot of people here like that. I sometimes wonder if they'll ever be able to climb up out of the rabbit hole that they're stuck in.
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  14664. FOX & Facebook (the primary "news" sources for America's population of Dunning Kreuger folks) told them otherwise. Who are they going to believe, "elitists" (translation: people who know anything) or the friendly-sounding liars?
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  14665. The Republicans will have plenty of time to think about this while they spend the next 40 years in the woodshed.
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  14666. Trump knew at least as far back as mid-March that tens of millions would be voting by mail -- because that's when he started looking for someone to wreck the post office from within. By May he had DeJoy already working on that. And he knew by the summer of 2019 that he wouldn't win a fair election against Biden, which is why he tried to get Ukraine to gin up a fake investigation.
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  14667. Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes!”
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  14668.  @nochancewithoutpasta7637  Would require Garland to step outside his meter maid familiar routine :(
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  14669.  @101perspective  Correct. It is a joke. Trump's lawyers tried to argue recently that his oath didn't say anything about "supporting" the Constitution. This was a way of insinuating that MAGA Mikey is taking the same approach. Mike essentially said, "We can't show the tape unredacted because some of our people would get prosecuted for their crimes, even though we keep calling it a peaceful family outing that day."
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  14670. They seem to check off the boxes .. they have oil and they don't have democracy.
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  14671. You couldn't tell inflation was a real problem when the Trump faithful were tripping over each other to purchase those godawful NFT images.
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  14672. Sounds like you're mad that they won't let you be a plague spreader.
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  14673.  @CH-ze6by  Nah. If you don't want to vaccinate, you should really wear a contamination suit everywhere - the kind designed to keep everything in. We don't want the dumbest among us going around infecting random people because they're so shortsighted, so dense, as to avoid preventative measures.
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  14674. Weird. Yah I couldn't sleep that night either.
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  14675. If the Republicans insist on telling their sheeple that elections that don't go their way don't count -- yup, we're in a strange place.
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  14676. But that oath didn't specifically mention "supporting" the Constitution, did it?
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  14677. We just received our ballots here today. Trump is getting 5 cancellations from the household. May he have 20+ million more.
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  14678. Remember how "doc Ronnie Johnson" was the one who wrote that 45 could live to 200?
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  14679. It's like watching Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and hit an iceberg.
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  14680. Many of us are surprised to see that a subset of Americans actually have some hunger for authoritarianism.
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  14681. Who would have thought.
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  14682.  @doctorthirteen5727  Oddly enough, FOXed Noise always refers to Raphael Eduardo Cruz as "Ted Cruz" yet always refers to Barack Obama as "Barack HUSSEIN Obama".
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  14683. Ironically, it was probably Dimwit Don-the-Con who slipped them some hints on how to build these things.
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  14684.  @sheritownsend7525  She's pretty dumb, auditioning for Nazi Binder Barbie's job, blissfully unaware that Trump's not hiring just now.
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  14685. When Dump 45 sends his people into the Capitol, he doesn't send the best. Many are criminals, many are extremists, many are violent, many of them nourish their mental illnesses, and a few, we suppose, might be good people.
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  14686. Another instance of Trump's thinnest skin ever .. the Stanley Sloan incident: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3041175/nato-seminar-cancelled-us-objects-inclusion-anti-trump-academic
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  14687. Crank up the pain until Putin gets the message. He's not listening? Crank it up further. Rinse and repeat as necessary. And as a nod to the SAS guys - Russia doesn't need that nice cosmodrome anymore as they've vowed to leave the ISS. Be a shame if it were to burn down.
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  14688. There's a whole fleet of buses waiting for Republicans getting booted from office. But then, they backed a criminally incompetent racist fool, and they're going to have to dance with the one that brung them.
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  14689. Thank you sir/ma'am for your consistent prayer.
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  14690. Pretty sure it was Putin that invaded Ukraine, in direct violation of a number of treaties that Russia had signed. Not only did Russia violate the Minsk 2 agreement, but it violated others too. There's the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which Russia agreed to not to use economic or military force against Ukraine, in exchange for the return of the Soviet nuclear arsenal remaining there. There's the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, in which Russia agreed that the now-independent nations of the former USSR were free to choose their own path, east, west, whatever. Russia also violated the Minsk Agreement of 1991, in which it agreed to respect the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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  14691. Put it this way - Trump would rather jet away to mother Russia, leaving a flaming, bloody, war-torn, Balkanized America behind him, than admit he lost the 2020 election - all because he thinks it makes him look weak. He cares not a whit for anyone or anything besides his momentary whim and sense of spite.
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  14692. If voting was mandatory and voter registration was automatic upon 18th bday, the Republican party would by now have ceased to exist, except maybe as a social club where the Archie Bunker types go to cry about the changing world.
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  14693. Not that Ron Johnson would ever say these things out loud at a GQP rally - which is precisely where it needs to be said - or on FOXed Noise.
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  14694. Putin whining about NATO expansion/encroachment is like a serial arsonist whining about more homeowners buying automatic sprinkler systems.
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  14695.  @wandajochandler5248  And the ones who voted for him will be remembered as the easily-gaslit wannabe cult member types.
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  14696.  @alricthered226  Dump has a way of reaching out to the most gullible Americans and massaging their feelgood-hate buttons. He's absolutely repellent to the rest of us, thankfully. And now he's campaigning on the promise to set up concentration camps.
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  14697. AKA man who peddled bad advice to other people (and likely got a number of them killed in the process) merely to gain audience share now suffers from the same malady he pooh-poohed. Cry me a river, build a bridge over it, and jump off the bridge.
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  14698. They're not Americans, they're broken or brain-damaged wannabe fifth columnists.
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  14699.  @florafurioso9197  What Trump really meant was, on day 1 he might shut down the free press, dissolve both chambers of congress, have the supreme court shot, and maybe the next morning he might decide to remain dictator indefinitely.
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  14700.  @catlady443  Wannabe dictators need those apologists when they're trying to get into power. Usually they get rid of them afterwards.
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  14701. What about the COVID-45 risks posed to friends and family of the rally-goers who did not themselves attend the rally? And everyone else they come in contact with? Seems Wussolini is making an attempt to put his own base into the ICU or the morgue.
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  14702. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating. He needs to practice what he's preaching.
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  14703. We will never know how many died because they took Phil Valentine's anti-vax nonsense seriously. Maybe it will be possible for some of those families to sue Phil Valentine's estate later for damages.
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  14704. Moscow Mitch McConnell spent years refusing to hear Obama's appointees, only so Trump could fill seats with party hacks later. Watching the people of America refuse to see this as a coup is like watching Neville Chamberlain try again and again to appease Adolph Hitler, thinking that someday he'll be satisfied with what he's taken by force. These Republicans won't be happy until we have a full on police state here with them in charge of everything.
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  14705. No. But to give a vent to the evil feelgood among his cultists, they will set up a deportation hotline whereby ordinary citizens can report suspected immigrants to the authorities, who then do the work of swooping in with a white van. There will be another hotline for reporting suspected pregnancies. And so on.
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  14706.  @lindaschmidt1940  Re "your not" << You're too far down the food chain to make that determination .. or to know "your" vs "you're" apparently ;)
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  14707. @InfiniteGamingHD Here's a snort from the past: for his attempted insurrection, younger Adolph Hitler got a slap on the wrist, 9 months in prison. He used the time to write a pretty awful book that at first no publisher would touch. He whined that he was being silenced, but in truth his book spoke about killing the Jews, putting the country on a war footing, and invading lots of other places. We know how that story turned out :(
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  14708. Bingo. And the forces that attempted insurrection are still very active and hoping to try again. Guessing an August or October surprise. They're not going to wait for the election which they're going to lose anyway.
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  14709. We did know about it in advance. By August of 2021 (some 5 months before the SMO) the factory making Javelins switched up to 3 shifts production.
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  14710. This has got to be a whole new, very spiteful chapter in the history of war. Does Russia think they are endearing themselves to anyone by these actions?
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  14711.  @mikemahoney6840  Their BS detectors are broken, too, or just plain missing. Another part of the Trumpanzee spec.
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  14712.  @msnbcfullofshit282  Oh look, a Trumpanzee completely divorced from factual reality. Here are what Trump's two impeachments were about: 1) extorting Ukraine to make up dirt on the Bidens 2) inciting a mob to commit insurrection
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  14713.  Howard Bueker  Sorry, bud, president Biden is well-spoken (unlike that carrot-type Jabba the Hut type before him) and delivered yet another good speaking event. Looking forward to many more. Have you got anything to offer but your continued denial of the obvious? Probably not. You cling to it like Trump to a mostly-finished Happy Meal. Thank you for your continuing work at making the rest of us laugh.
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  14714.  Howard Bueker  Aww. I'm always here to offer copium. The people who deluded themselves into thinking of Biden as feeble and Trump as smart are still trying to mash that big old fat square peg into the round hole. You're just slow and it's going to take you awhile to figure out that your compass was 180 degrees off.
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  14715. To be fair, no one who's lived through a dictatorship anywhere else is fighting to have a dictatorship here in the USA. On the contrary, it's only those who've lived their lives in the protected bosom of America who now want to end America. Ship the bunch of them to Somalia if that's what they want.
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  14716. He'll be sipping drinks at Swamp-a-Lago soon enough. It's going to take a bit of cleaning to get those greasy orange fingerprints off the scale of justice.
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  14717.  uncle Ricky  You know the economy isn't doing so great when the numbers of homeless people are rapidly increasing all across the nation. But to the rich people who stay at Swamp-a-Lago, everything is fine.
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  14718.  Cool Beans  No one's successful when they keep going bankrupt with other people's money that many times. It would be more accurate to call him a successful swindler than a successful businessman.
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  14719.  uncle Ricky  Facts don't have bias, citizen.
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  14720. It's no big deal if there's a week- or month-long delay in the Iowa numbers, since Iowa is about as relevant to politics as a groundhog is to weather forecasting. Let the more important primaries come first.
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  14721. Apparently Dump will be on the witness stand this week in NYC. Get your popcorn ready. He can't open his mouth without incriminating himself.
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  14722. We haven't seen anything yet in terms of economic pain. The roller coaster is just beginning to move. We're going to be in deep depression territory when the reality of these changes is fully felt. And to think, unlike during the depression of the 1930s, this time the government (or at least Republicans, who are in charge of it now) is actively working to make things much worse by dismantling weather prediction services, power grid safety, infectious diseases monitoring, cancer research, departments to monitor food and air and water, healthcare, retirement, benefits for tens of millions of our nation's most vulnerable people.
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  14723. I'm grateful that the people running the USA were not the same ones as we have now. If so, they'd be calling the Pearl Harbor attack "fake news" and tweeting about the "beautiful" letters they'd gotten from emperor Hirohito.
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  14724. Arizona is in trouble. So far their max acceleration rate has been 659 cases per M per day. For reference, NY state was 631 cases/M/day.
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  14725. Do you still live in the eastern area? Just curious.
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  14726. Fox successfully got their average viewer to consider the Democrats to be "too elitist". So instead it is kind of funny that they could vote for a guy who lives in a golden tower with his name all over it .. who uses a golden toilet .. who appoints dodgy tax-cheating billionaires to his cabinet. A regular working guy, right? ;)
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  14727. Not admitting to it is what keeps her position with that brain-dead whackjob base of hers.
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  14728. Counting down the seconds until the usual bad actors start screeching about imaginary election irregularities to explain their loss.
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  14729.  @stevenduvall2549  Mitch McConnell and others just proved that no system of checks and balances is any better than the people running it :(
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  14730.  El Capitano Guillermo dodo  I am not so sure. The way the impeachment inquiry suddenly decided to go fully public implies that they found conduct so egregious that for anyone to stand with Mango Mussolini will be tantamount to political suicide, even for the likes of Moscow Mitch and Lyin' Lindsey. And once he has no support from them he is finished. Also, criminally-vain thin-skinned types like him are unable to function outside of their court of yes-men.
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  14731.  El Capitano Guillermo dodo  Just make sure they get their day in court, under the bright lights, in front of a judge and cameras. And protect whoever those nutbags are trying to harm.
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  14732.  @jstaversky  Governor Inslee too, who Trump referred to as "a snake" moments after calling for unity.
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  14733.  @shschesschamp  I don't think you have to worry about that possibility, humorous though it would be.
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  14734. @Citizen De Watts Hitler had some who stood by him until the end. That didn't mean anything good about him.
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  14735. For a guy who's been getting away with saying completely stupid shit all his life, this recent turn of events must be a puzzling aberration for our Mango Mussolini.
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  14736. @Heinrich Hertz Haw haw. Putler just announced a pause in advancement. Translation: the west is sending additional advanced missile systems against which the invaders have no defenses. Even better is the way Putler keeps losing million-dollar combat vehicles to thousand-dollar missiles which the west provides in abundance. If Putler had any knowledge of business, he might realize what a losing proposition that is.
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  14737.  Peter S  I'd love to hear your thoughts on the pluses and minuses of that. Especially considering how the people of Puerto Rico have fared lately.
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  14738.  Peter S  The downside with being part of the US, or even with being allied with the US (as many of our formerly close allies have learned, to their consternation) is that America's separation-of-powers measures don't work right, and in fact there's nothing in our system that prevents a complete fool from being put in the president's chair and going on to trash alliances and trading partners and the world order that the US formerly led. Our system won't even prevent Putin from installing an obedient lackey of his as US president. Whatever the value of an alliance with the US used to be, Trump has given it an 80% discount.
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  14739.  Peter S  It's not working anywhere near enough. Check out how the coronavirus is using the USA as its new launch pad.
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  14740. This too will make Putin happy.
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  14741. In his very first SOTU address, Trump painted a picture of America on fire. He hasn't stopped wanting (or working) to leave America a smoking ruin behind him when he goes.
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  14742. Fakebook is the #1 source of misinformation for anti-vaxxers and other kinds of anti-science nonsense. For example, the 2019 measles outbreak in Washington State cost the state above $1 million to deal with. Considering that the people who caused the problem got their anti-science nuttery from Fakebook, perhaps the state should sue to claw back some $$$$.
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  14743.  @emm_arr  Agree. This will not start a civil war. A few of his nutters may get uppity, but America's got lots of jail space.
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  14744. Good on whoever warned folks about the Gestapo.
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  14745.  @pxelcss  Correct. Few listen to Putin, Lavrov, or Medvedev because they are crazy. No one wants their huge poor country, as it would be a truly enormous expense to make anything useful out of it. You'd have to add modern infrastructure, educate the people up to some normal level. There are many places in Russia so economically unproductive that there isn't the money to build roads there. Only 7% of that huge country is arable land. Population is in decline. Putin and his class of oligarchs will never admit it, but Russia and the Russian empire will probably never be as efficient (and I can't even say the word in this context without choking of laughter) at putting resources in the service of the state as was the USSR.
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  14746. She's going full Baghdad Bob. You never go full Baghdad Bob.
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  14747. Saying "We have all this very real evidence - we just can't show it in court!" is a lot like telling people to treat you like a billionaire, except you can't show them any actual money or even proof that you're not in fact totally broke.
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  14748. Sadly, whoever knew it was this easy to take over the US? :( This is the sort of stuff for which the book "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is a cautionary tale and not a how-to manual. Oh, sure, all the signs of it are already there .. the many unconfirmed appointees .. the concentration camps .. people chosen for loyalty rather than adherence to the law .. etc. Hope it doesn't take invasion by foreign powers, and the subsequent de-Nazification of America, to fix this.
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  14749.  @CarolynDeerlamb  I support you in your economic blackout of the USA. If only you guys would accept us in the 3 west coast states .. wishful thinking I know. Sigh. We're more like you than the rest of the country.
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  14750.  @anntodd1233  If the people vote against Trump by even greater numbers than in 2020, and the electoral college and/or nutty House Republicans override it or try to stage another coup, then yes, that could happen.
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  14751. It's just like when you see pregnant women drinking beer, smoking cigs, but telling you they're not going to pollute their blood with some damn vaccine.
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  14752. Oh look. Another "Whitefish Energy" scam. Which of his buddies' kids/buddies owns it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefish_Energy
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  14753. Surveys repeatedly tell us that conservatives are frighteningly likely to approve of political violence in the US. Is this what they meant?
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  14754. Notice how coward Pence won't appear before the J6 committee, no matter how much evidence he may have of Trump's crimes.
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  14755. Seems less than fair in at least one regard. Russians are welcome to flee, leaving their stuff behind, and in turn they will be allowed to keep their lives.
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  14756.  @CM-dw2xr  I didn't disagree with your point above about reparations, I just wanted to add that they must leave all combat material behind when they leave. It is part of the very high price they must pay. Allowing them to take home their weapons systems, which will then get used on the people of Georgia or some other places, seems not like a good idea.
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  14757.  @chioma3100  Love it! :)
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  14758. Horror is what a remorseful person would feel. Alex Jones has already demonstrated that he is incapable of remorse for harmful actions towards others. A textbook psychopath, in other words.
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  14759. Especially when POTUS and someone at Fox discussed the material to be reported the next day as "news" so that POTUS could exaggerate it.
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  14760. In 1942, folks like Abbott (them who help America's enemies) were called Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, or Lord Haw-Haw.
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  14761. It was only a matter of time before Trump's bumptiousness led to a situation in which he'd be compelled to hide the facts.
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  14762. About the ground being laid to enable Putin .. uggh, I am but one of the many many who hoped that Russia would become something different and better after the USSR dissolved. At the time I did not appreciate the true nature of Russia. The past two years have been eye-opening :( I understand now that Russian leaders & their politics are the result of longstanding deeply-held sentiments there, and not outliers taking them in directions they don't like.
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  14763. Dear Republicans, You all had 3+ years to call him out. To stand up for the people you represent. To separate yourselves from his policies and beliefs. To restrain him from pillorying our closest allies and trading partners. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To keep him from embarrassing the US by withdrawing from treaties willy-nilly. To keep him from inciting his nutball base to violence. Most of what Tяump has done wasn't even grounded in Republican tradition. But you were weak, cowardly, and greedy. And now when you lose, you become the snowflake. Cry me a river, build a bridge over it, and jump off. You will not have the house or the senate back for a generation or more. That is how bad you f*cked up.
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  14764. @Pablo .. Y'know, I went searching for data on how Bigfoot hacked Apple and Google records to make it look like Trump actually won the election by more than 6 million votes, and couldn't find any such proof. Go figure.
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  14765. If not doomed, well, it's an improvement for America if there are fewer conservative votes in the next election.
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  14766. He promised to be the most horrible American possible, and he's certainly delivering on that promise. Shame on those who helped put the monster into office.
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  14767. Sorry to hear this sad news. So how long before Tucker Carlson says this cameraman shouldn't have been there as part of the "illegal western invasion of Russia's backyard"?
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  14768.  Raptor 60  Texas was all about states rights until suddenly it wasn't.
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  14769. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway, and the French people who helped the Nazis. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  14770. Trump's people are lucky this isn't WW2 - because back then, supporting America's enemies had quite the penalty attached to it. Trump is Lord Haw-Haw and Tucker is Axis Sally.
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  14771. Maybe he can talk to Siri and she can make him feel better? His poor hurt tender feefees.
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  14772. Spoke with a friend recently who's been lost to 45 cultism. It's pretty sad. Seems 45 will never let them down gently (or roughly) from the lies they love hearing. Neither will the RWNJ media outlets. There is plenty of money to be made selling lies, and that's a major problem going forward.
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  14773. @Hattie Lankford "Imploding the country"? You need to get out of your basement once in awhile. I go to work every day and my 401K is looking golden these days. Get vaccinated, then go about your business. The only pandemic left is the one that mostly afflicts the unvaccinated. So I keep checking Craigslist for sweet deals.
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  14774. @Hattie Lankford Well, to be sure, it /is/ distasteful that the fully-vaxxed staff of FOXed ooze takes to the airwaves to push vaccine hesitancy, and, in doing so, leads many down a dark path that ends in a quiet room with a ventilator. There's no law against it. You don't even have to wait 3 years to know how history is going to look back on this time. The people who deliberately and unnecessary made the pandemic far worse left a huge digital trail behind them.
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  14775. Somehow he didn't mention that he and Ginni Thomas paid for a lot of them to get there. Probably paid for their body armor and chemical weapons too. Quite possibly that gallows for Pence was paid for with money from Trump too.
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  14776. How ironic, the same people who say Americans don't need testing before returning to work won't let anyone work around them unless they get tested daily.
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  14777.  @endintiers  Barry at Cross Training Enduro is the one who mentioned them. But he's been known to joke from time to time. Still ..
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  14778. About her claim of American democracy being better under trump .. look up the article "They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president's name"
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  14779.  @VeronicaGorositoMusic  Wonder what Karl Marx would have thought about iPhones being manufactured in China, with Foxconn execs driving their own Teslas.
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  14780. Most likely they are going to take it out on visible minorities. That's who's been feeling the brunt of Trump's stochiastic Brownshirt irregulars. And the second they start shooting at other Americans over perceived political differences, it becomes a police matter that will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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  14781.  @actual_nonsense  And both of those are part of why Trump wants nothing to do with her. Even though he looks like a dead walrus on a slab, he insists on the gals around him being pretty.
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  14782. To be fair, Trump did promise to run the USA like one of his own businesses. Most of them started with a lot of OPM then went bankrupt. Seems it's a promise he's keeping :(
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  14783. It could take months for all the unvaccinated people in the US to each get covid.
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  14784. If the fighting lasts that long. What's going to keep happening is that the west is going to send them relatively-cheap missiles/drones/artillery and they'll be wiping out much more expensive Russian junk. The longer Russia keeps sticking its own limbs into the wood chipper, the worse off they'll be.
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  14785. Never has it been wise to say on your resume that you worked in the Trump administration .. but finally it's obvious why. As if Sean Spicer's futile job search wasn't a clue. In the future, saying that you worked in this administration might be like meaning that they want you at the Hague to answer questions about Trump's crimes against humanity.
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  14786. Who can forget his complete mischaracterization of the Mueller report?
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  14787. Soon to be followed by, "Why don't they teach the Turner Diaries in American History classes at school?"
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  14788. "Too controversial". Huh. That's exactly what members of the judiciary would think about overturning an election just because someone's feelings got hurt by losing.
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  14789.  @4doorsmorewhores651  Happy holidays to you and your family as well, but we've got this separation here between church and state and we're keeping it. It's part of our very American system. Oh, and allow me to mention that athiests and immigrants are both very under-represented among the prison population (relative to their share of the overall society) while small-c christians and native-born people are over-represented. Cheers.
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  14790. In their present pushing of this "Biden's too old/sleepy" thing, you can finally see the whole reach of Russian propaganda in the USA. It's quite vast :(
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  14791. Electric airplanes will be a thing as soon as you can buy a bigger version of that Mr. Fusion device seen in "Back to the Future". https://backtothepredictions.com/mr-fusion/
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  14792. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating.
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  14793. 37K flu deaths in all of last year vs 56K coronavirus deaths in just 2 months? Doesn't sound like a fair comparison.
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  14794.  @sononi4798  In other words -- you cannot answer my very-specific question. As I thought.
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  14795.  @sononi4798  So .. let me get this straight .. you were telling me to learn history, yet you cannot name even a single instance of when a pandemic, that affected all people (not just those of a certain race/class/whatever) equally, forced governments to take proactive public health measures that later resulted in a durable authoritarian government that persisted long after the emergency itself? Why, it's almost as if you need to learn your history. No offense, but being the smartest person in your corner of the trailer park is not the same thing as actually being smart. It just means you need to get out more. The world is a bigger place than just your corner of that trailer park in north central Ohio.
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  14796.  @deathmachineusa2689  Because .. but but but but MAH FREEDUMBS!
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  14797.  @sononi4798  Regarding "Oh I forgot to add surveillance, censorship, propaganda" << All of that was around long before covid. All of that will be around long after covid is gone. Covid has zero effect on that picture. You sound like you've misconstrued the movie "Songbird" to be a documentary.
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  14798. Trump's reverse Midas touch continues to work its "magic" on the Republican / conservative / grand-old-pedo / gaslight-obstruct-project party.
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  14799.  @elmSTREETnasty  Probably the nutjobs who made it necessary for that 10yo rape victim to travel outside Ohio to avoid a "criminal abortion". Those nutjobs are welcome to pump out all the babies they want, but forcing everyone else to do the same is ludicrous.
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  14800. Makes you wonder how many of those nut jobs are descendants of WW2 vets who fought and bled to defeat that same Nazism.
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  14801. Probably every country has its subset of folks who would gladly have a lawbreaking wannabe-strongman guy in office, as long as gas prices are low and the streets are clean and the trains run on time. There's a saying about folks like that - those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither.
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  14802.  @VMonkies  Have you by chance read "Empire of Debt" by Wiggin & Bonner? The chapter entitled "MacNamara's War" is a work of art.
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  14803. Pretty sure the GQP playbook now officially states that they simply don't lose any elections anymore - and if they did, the results are going to be ignored.
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  14804.  @luie92114  We had that problem in Oregon too. Pretty much everyplace did. People crowded the parks and basketball courts and baseball fields and beaches in dense crowds (no masks or distancing) so everything had to be closed. Now we've got armed protesters spreading the virus by gathering in groups without masks. (What could possibly go wrong with that?) I fear the actions of the stupid few will negatively affect the many for a long time.
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  14805. 45 isn't the only one trapped in that toxic bubble of misinformation. Although, lately, it does seem as if a lot of his former cult members have been quietly defecting back to reality. Look at the pathetic "we spent all our insulin money to come here" few who protest outside the courthouse. Many of 45's more-prone-to-violence flying monkeys are now behind bars, and no, he's not coming to rescue them.
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  14806.  @rhorizon  So you're saying you want the muffin made of broken glass. You don't need to say anything more than that. Thankfully more people will vote than will fall for that "both parties are the same" nonsense. Did I see you at a recent protest, screeching something from Q-Anonsense?
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  14807.  @raff23able  Aww, did those facts hurt your tender little feefees? (hint: don't put that nutsack where I can kick it)
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  14808.  @raff23able  That "Raf" part of your name would be better spelled as "Rat". Hate to break the news to you, but there's a pandemic going on, and it's been killing people for more than a year, and it's not done yet. So you'll have to pardon me if I don't try to sweep it under the rug like sheeple-like-you keep suggesting we do.
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  14809. Finland and Sweden say a big thank you to Russia for staying longer in the meat grinder.
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  14810. The kind of movie you don't want to watch. Seriously, the people trying to destroy democracy in America seem to have no clue what it's like to live without it. There's no happy ending. They ought to visit failed places like Somalia or Ethiopia or Haiti before they try to turn America into something like that :(
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  14811. Votes matter.
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  14812. Trump knows how to reach out to his dunning kreuger voters. It is the only use he has for them. His policies hurt them worse than they hurt prosperous city areas.
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  14813. That'll teach them. Heh.
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  14814. This is all so unfair. How can the Brownshirts succeed in creating a climate of fear if they don't have some immunity from the law? Even Hitler knew enough to tell the police to cool it when his thugs killed Jews and burned down their shops, homes, synagogues.
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  14815. Just think, he has blown a gaping hole in what we previously considered to be normal & acceptable behavior from presidential candidates and from presidents. His followers love him all the harder the worse he gets. The USA and everyplace else will be dealing with his copycats for decades to come. :(
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  14816. The ghost of Stormin' Norman has been given an office and a staff.
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  14817. If that crazy chick is this insane over a vaccine that can save your life, what's she going to be like when something more serious happens? And it will happen. She's proving herself to be devoid of responsibility, and subject to the dumbest propaganda that any 10yo could debunk in under 30 seconds using peer-reviewed facts. This is god's way of telling you to find a better girlfriend.
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  14818. Not only was ambassador Yovanovich spied on, with the options to turn it into a hit, but that activity was conducted by one Robert Hyde, an American, a military veteran, a Trump donor, a wannabe congress person. Doesn't offering to arrange a hit on a United States ambassador violate his oath of service?
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  14819. Target for years pretended to be hip and inclusive .. then they ran the other way as soon as Dementia Donnie told people to cut the DEI. Not setting foot in Target again ever.
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  14820.  @DevilbyMoonlight  It's definitely not a joke. But you get these utter lunkheads who say that they just had the sniffles, and didn't die, so therefore the 600K+ deaths in this country "must be" a lie. Gah :(
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  14821.  @joycejnn  Regarding "Your claims are not backed up by any definitive research or evidence " << It sounds as if you have never seen what goes on in hospitals. For well over a century, doctors and nurses have been wearing MASKS around patients to avoid infecting them and being infected by them. How dumb are you? Rhetorical question. Really really really dumb obviously :(
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  14822.  @Chaggy1978  Regarding "Like a piece of cloth will stop a virus particle entering" << your continued ignorance is simultaneously hilarious and sad. What did your ancestors do to "gift" you with such a pitifully bad excuse of a brain? I mean, you're being dumber than dirt on this one. Even during the last big pandemic about a century ago, they knew that wearing cloth coverings over the face slowed/inhibited the spread of the virus. You're really so daft it's funny. No awareness of history or what goes on in hospitals.
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  14823.  @joycejnn  Once again, all you're accomplishing is showing off how well-developed your ignorance is. Numerous studies covered this during the pandemic. Even a plain multi-layer cloth face mask is better than nothing at slowing the spread of the virus.You've been suckered into believing the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat, so, thanks for the laughs. To say it more bluntly - my kids won't be hiring your kids.
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  14824.  @TranceTrousers  Re "and don't fall for the propaganda and fear mongering" << Gee, genius, why don't you try asking some of America's 621,161 dead-from-covid citizens how they feel about your blithe answer? Let's see what they say.
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  14825.  @PaulaXism  Dear lordy, where do y'all get your misinformation from? The numbers you're quoting aren't backed up by any actual source. Official US deaths are above 600K, and potentially up in the 900K range going by the excess deaths numbers for 2020. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  14826. Ironically, it is Trump's overbearing pique and intense, unreasonable spitefulness that makes him seem like an irresistible living god to conservatives.
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  14827. Gym Jordan is more like a criminal who went into politics than a politician who committed some crimes. 45 is about the same.
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  14828. Sounds a lot like living in far rural Russia -- minus all the bits of support system that still exist from before the end of the communistic times. But then, anyplace that crows endlessly about being the "land of the free, home of the brave" is usually trying to wallpaper over some shortcomings :(
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  14829. Republicans are like the armed carjackers who you successfully resisted and who now are calling for "unity" now that the police have arrived on scene. They're saying how "divisive" it would be to prosecute them for their attempted crime.
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  14830. Those low-IQ Trump fans even had the gall to submit their fake-elector documents to the National Archives. They are guilty of nothing less than treason.
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  14831. As before, we can count on Rupert Murdoch's disinformation services to carry 45's every lie. These lies will motivate the gullible ones to cause trouble. Stand back and stand by. Hopefully by March 2025 things will have cooled down.
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  14832. The nicest thing about governor DeathSantis is that he hasn't been showing his face much lately. Miami-Dade has one of the highest rates of new cases in the country.
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  14833.  @Scout-bt3mo  "They haven't even charged him yet. They are investigating." << Apparently he was released without charges. There ya go.
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  14834.  @bobs3354  Correction: his truck first got attacked after he pulled over to exchange words. HE didn't. Putting your property into harm's way, then using the harm to your property as an excuse to draw a weapon, was stupid.
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  14835.  @Scout-bt3mo  "As it should be." << I dated a prosecutor for awhile. He clued me in on looking at things through a certain lens.
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  14836.  @bobs3354  If you want to know the answer about "Do I support antifa?" then you'll have to read up on the sad story of Sophie Scholl and her friends, and how they were too little too late.
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  14837.  @Scout-bt3mo  Dummy-boy in the video wasn't in danger of being dead. His feelings got hurt and his truck collected some hits, however. There's a difference. Learn it.
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  14838.  Admiral Snackbar  At least say your example right. For instance, if I were to park my car next to a bunch of bikers and then scream at them how awful and stupid and wrong they are, how much bikers suck, etc, and if I come back 2 hours later to find some glass broken, it's somehow not my fault?
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  14839.  @WBKimmons  What a funny coincidence - Antifa wasn't blocking the streets. Jeez, are there any of you that aren't mush-brained yoyos?
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  14840.  @windfallindiana1031  Aww, did you get butthurt that someone spoke at higher than your level of understanding?
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  14841.  @GhostlyGhille  That's an excellent tactic. One might ask this guy why he brought a vehicle to a shouting match. Couldn't he park somewhere, walk over on foot, and engage in discourse? No. He brought a vehicle and a gun.
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  14842. You know darn well that many times every day, he poses in front of the mirror, looks over that enormous frozen-suet-waterfall of his gut, and tells himself how sexy he is :( ewwww :(
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  14843.  Orphan Annie  Better than Wastebook and with a fraction of the drama :)
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  14844. Russia has already admitted that their own stuff spontaneously catches fire. It's be a big shame if the Kremlin were to catch fire on May Day.
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  14845.  @christopherrobinson7541  Umm, you could have saved yourself the typing, it's obvious to anyone with half a brain (who's been following this story all along) what's going on. The US states of Florida, Missouri, Arkansas, and a few others are showing us where their naturally-acquired immunities and low vaccination rates are failing to protect them from a Delta surge. Are you into numbers? Pull down yesterday's table from worldometers (the one by state) into a spreadsheet, and you'll see that while hairbrained inbred places like AR & MO are enjoying rates of 2.3 and 2.1 new cases per hundred per day, well-vaccinated and more-careful places have got daily new-case rates 50x lower. From the numbers, it looks pretty clear that naturally-acquired immunities aren't anywhere near as good as what the mRNA vaccines provide.
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  14846. But what they don't do is fill hospitals (and morgues) the way the unvaccinated do. Like Benjamin Franklin always said - "Experience keeps a mean school, but fools will learn in no other."
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  14847.  @HappyCamper1992  Oh my gosh, the "DO YuOR ReSEArCh!!1" nonsense. Already did. I'm sorry that actual facts irritate you. Might want to get that looked at. Perhaps they have a medication that cures your tendency to prefer delusion over truth.
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  14848. "Vote for us, you lazy moochers, and we want you to die quickly as soon as you get sick so healthcare costs are lower. Oh, and please work long hours/years at low wages because it's better for the stock market. We're going to work to keep you stupid so you don't notice us doing these things." << That's the unvarnished Republican platform.
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  14849.  @danmoore3660  I did, but apparently it went as far over your head as the m-o-o-n. See the OP's comment and see mind. Could the thread be any more obvious?
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  14850.  @danmoore3660  No. The point that the OP made (and then I gave a working example of) is that the stupidity factor is exponentially increased with the size of the cabal. See? You missed the point. From now on, just ask people to use smaller words and shorter sentences when you're having trouble following things. (you probably missed the Tom Cullen reference too)
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  14851. Just wait until he uses mustard or tries to seat a SCOTUS judge 18+ months before an election, which, McConnell will tell us, is much too soon for such divisive actions.
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  14852. Great. So we have a few days of waiting to find out of the US continues its trajectory toward becoming a third world country.
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  14853.  @stevenbartolini  New governmental tourism slogans practically suggest themselves. Afghanistan: come for the poppies, stay for the bump to your military industrial complex.
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  14854. You can safely use his old tweets as projection or backhand sarcasm about his plans.
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  14855. RELAX guys. The President said this is just like a cold, that it will go away on its own, that you can keep going to work and going on cruises. //sarc
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  14856. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it! Trump: I give myself a 10/10 score for handling this bigly.
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  14857. When you deny doing & saying things that you were caught on video doing & saying, then a job corralling the carts at WalMart would perhaps be more appropriate.
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  14858. The Nazis did start out with concentration camps. Only later did they take up the wholesale unaliving business.
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  14859.  rose bud  Well, Bud, if you can provide some links in which KGW allegedly tells people to go out and riot, you'd certainly have a basis for making the claim, but it appears you do not.
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  14860.  @digitalSixer  In other words .. you too cannot prove what you're saying. No specific examples of KGW encouraging rioters. I expected nothing less of inbred morons of your particular political persuasion.
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  14861. David, these people have probably always been closet anti-Semites. El Trompo made no secret of his racist/Klan/white-supremacist leanings, and those things make for a big tent that's always been home to Nazis and other reich-wing nutters.
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  14862. Perhaps we can hope that the way he flippantly talked about tossing out the ballots to prevent any transfer of power, or the way his game plan is to declare the election results invalid so that a rushed-through SCOTUS judge can help make the decision, has forced some of his followers to realize that these are the tactics of tin-pot third-world dictators.
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  14863.  @carylhalfwassen8555  Sure, because Obama sucked up to dictators and bashed our allies. Oh wait, that was 45.
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  14864. Mewling, newborn kittens, with their eyes not yet open, have more self-control than our mango Mussolini.
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  14865. Oh I'm sure Trump knows the meaning. Look at the sly grin on his face when he delivers the punch line, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!" He's talking about himself, while reveling in how the rallygoers don't realize it.
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  14866. Sweet Potato Hitler installed DeJoy months ago .. he knew this day was coming. This is how coups happen. Oh and all those subpoenas that the current administration has ignored.
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  14867. Trump did that well enough on his own. And now Marjorie Green is picking up where he left off. I hope she gets lots of airtime .. every dumb incendiary thing she says, every whacktard old media post that gets uncovered, is a gift to the other party and an embarrassment to her own party.
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  14868. Trump would be the first to take credit for a vaccine he didn't invent or discover, and the first to disavow responsibility if anything goes wrong with the vaccine.
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  14869. @noahroth2992 Thankfully the Glenn Jackson bridge is built close to modern seismic standards. They still predict moderate damage. The bad news is that the Broadway, Hawthorne, Interstate, Ross Island, and Steel bridges will likely collapse. The St Johns, Morrison, Burnside bridges are predicted to suffer extensive damage.
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  14870. Is there some reason that we didn't roll out contact tracing apps months ago? Some countries had them out within weeks of the virus first appearing. With that, we can turn the health restrictions (which are a very coarse tool) into a surgical quarantine that applies onto to those who've been around people who've tested positive.
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  14871.  @peacefuljourney4994  Oh no, not at all. What makes a conspiracy theory a conspiracy theory is that there is never any actual smoking gun, but the theory has twisted people around to think that there SHOULD be one, and, for many, that's all the encouragement they require to believe it to be fact. Face it, the unproven (and in all likelihood unprovable) notion that evil scientists created covid is a lot easier for some people to make sense of than the way the forces of evolution often cough up surprising new things in the bio-lab. Stories are easier for those poor sods to understand if the characters all have faces and hands and names. Good conspiracy-theory writers are like good Onion writers - they make up something that /sounds/ plausible (at least to a certain set) and run with it. Naturally their BS doesn't withstand the "do you have evidence of this?" test, but, again, being connected with factual reality is not what those people do normally anyway.
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  14872.  @jazura2  You could say the same about gravity, which only goes to prove how simple your mind is. Sigh. On the plus side, there will be fewer science deniers left after this simmers down.
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  14873. When an "American" has slipped so far down the Republican rabbit hole as to call for killing folks they don't agree with, just do the humane thing and put them in a camp for some re-education. It's kinder than the alternatives. And they probably have relatives who are embarrassed by them.
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  14874. @Total Water Do you feel the same way when the data shows that all of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 were related to white extremism? Just checking. We must be "fair and balanced". Let me know please if you need a link to the ADL study.
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  14875.  @mindyschocolate  What's Trump going to do? Exhort his culties to commit mass crimes. They're already working themselves into a lather about death threats (to judges, prosecutors, court workers, whoever) and calls for civil war.
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  14876. Check out the first trial of Leslie Van Houten, a Charles Manson cultie who participated in murder. At that first trial she was screeching all kinds of cult nonsense. It took her awhile to realize that the jail thing was real, the charges were real, and that she'd participated in something quite evil. Shallow-minded folks are easy prey for the likes of Trump.
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  14877.  @ripwednesdayadams  Yes. And the FBI is still hauling them in. Hope they hunt them all to the end of their days. Got no use for traitors.
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  14878. Cultie echo chambers is where you can find that kind.
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  14879. This time the confederacy is a lot poorer and less well-armed and less organized than before. They're everywhere, but their yard signs and red hats and nonstandard flags have told everyone exactly who they are and where they live. Best they behave themselves.
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  14880. Lotta whiners here who don't seem to appreciate that Oregon is one of only 5 states that still have cases-per-million rates down in 3 digits. The others are WV, AK, HI, MT. People seem not to realize that the low case penetration here is BECAUSE of the lockdown - not because Oregonians are magically immune to covid-45 (we're not) and not because the virus isn't here (it is).
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  14881. The Tea Party is still around. By that I mean the people who spent 8 long years filling our feeds with nonsense about chemtrails, Jade Helm, Agenda 21, Benghazi, gay vegetables, the president being a secret Muslim from Kenya with a tribal mentality and a socialist agenda who had his birth cert questioned, etc. They have merely donned red caps. They are as unmoored as always.
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  14882. It's like when the pod people ask you to lie down and sleep.
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  14883. It's like Republicans these days are trying to demonstrate to the Taliban just how "hard right" they are :( Couldn't they just move to Afghanistan?
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  14884. Show the proof of what someone else "would have done" and I'll believe you. Got any? Go ahead, I'll wait.
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  14885. Your honesty in differentiating between opinion and fact is most welcome. Best wishes to you for the new year :)
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  14886. Worse than 1940s Nazis.
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  14887. For every evil action, there is an equal and opposite good reaction .. so .. to borrow his own words .. if Mitt Romney were to shoot Trump on 5th avenue, he'd automatically win the election by a landslide.
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  14888. Well what did we expect? An impotent Russia, unable to win on the battlefield, could only go full terrorist on the people of Ukraine. And the Ukrainians, bless them, said "This stops here. You go no further"
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  14889. No doubt Republicans felt differently about this topic back when they were doing everything possible to obstruct (and protest) president Obama. Oh wait, that was different. /sarc
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  14890.  @chefboyardee1260  Masks and distancing will let us run a lot of things. Forget about bars,clubs, sit down restaurants, offices, churches, etc - anytime people are gathered indoors for more than 10 minutes is a risk. But construction, industrial, farming, resource extraction, repair, and many other business sectors can be run safely - and many of them have done so throughout the pandemic without spreading virus among their people. Running 70% of the economy would be a lot better than running 5% of the economy, don't you agree?
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  14891. @TravelerPat The way out of this is pretty clear. Stores can function on limited capacity and everyone wearing masks and no one being in the store for more than 10 minutes tops and anyone who coughs or sneezes gets ushered out ASAP. Restaurants can be take out only. Forget about any activity that has people together indoors for longer than 10 minutes. Yes this is life-changing and means that some sectors of the economy are out of biz for awhile, but running 70% of the economy right now is better than either alternative - one would just keep the economy closed longer (which we cannot afford) and the other would cause a massive second wave of infections and deaths (which would be unacceptable). Industrial settings can function with masks and distancing and temperature checks and lots of ventilation. Outdoors resource extraction is good too. And so on.
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  14892. She is spot on with the Trump era Republicans too. It's long been axiomatic that many of them actively mean harm to their own nation, but it was a surprise to see how many would be the willing fifth columnists of a Russian leader.
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  14893. So sad that he waited until ND was the worst covid outbreak state before mandating masks. Like trying to lock the barn door after the horses have all escaped and the barn is fully engulfed in flame. Trump has revealed three distinct classes of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  14894.  @oskartang9797  As an American who's been wearing an Asian-designed plain black mask for months now .. I have really come to like the look of it.
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  14895.  @chattycathy8089  Go watch the videos and get back to me on that, eh? :)
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  14896. Some portion of the more violence-prone Trump cultists are already behind bars. Trump's remaining base knows there's plenty more space in jail.
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  14897. They're scared of him, yes, yet paradoxically that makes them admire him on some level.
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  14898. Iraquis watch the news too .. besides the way they know the WMDs and yellowcake were never found, they now know that the war has been a not-funny joke from the get-go, that the US has remained there for the flimsiest of made-up reasons. Escalating it now by sending more troops is only going to give Hezbollah (and Iran) some really good recruitment material.
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  14899. "These people are SO MEAN to ME! Prosecuting me for the things I did!" 45's theme
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  14900. It turns out that the laws have no more integrity than the people in certain positions, such as when a supine Supreme Corp decides to ignore the 14th amendment, section 3, or when the legislative branch, instead of doing its constitutionally-defined duty, just goes "Whatever he says".
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  14901. Well, America is indeed special. Only in the US would we still be using an 18th century design for our democracy and boasting about that separation-of-powers thing. Over in some European countries, they would have had a president or PM gone by the following morning for less than what Trump has done here, with an election held shortly after. But since none of our political systems work any faster now than they did circa 1789 ... sigh :(
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  14902. Generally innocent people do not go to great lengths to hide all of the evidence that would exonerate them .. unless they are actually guilty as fck and would be in a great deal more trouble if evidence was made public. What was that Mulvaney said? "We do it all the time. Get over it!"
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  14903. What a coincidence! Trump didn't want any foreigners in the USA anyway. Pretty soon no one will want to come to the covid capitol of the world anyway, or use its money, or buy its debt and its food products.
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  14904. This from the same dolt who claims without proof that windmills cause cancer, or claims without evidence that he didn't sharpie-edit that weather forecast.
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  14905. Trump's culties have the majority in all three branches of government. Err, do yourselves a favor, don't let Rupert Murdoch run his disinformation channels there. That's basically how Trump's cult got this far.
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  14906. Funny how what Moscow Mitch and the Republicans did during Obama's time were not called a coup or an attempt to roll back an election, even though they vowed openly to obstruct everything he did, tried to impeach him many times, conducted endless investigations that found nothing, and even rewrote the rules. And Obama won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote - twice. So now when an investigation of Trump's doings finds many people guilty, all they can do is bleat that it was unfairly started. Those poor babies need to cry us a river, build a bridge over it, then jump off the bridge. Total losers.
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  14907.  @rappinron1384  I'm glad you like his policies. I sure don't. I especially dislike the systematic violations of the Hague Convention on Refugees. Viz: While it may not be precisely genocide to forcibly separate parents and children at the border for political reasons then hand the children to a for-profit DeVos institution to be adopted out (for a fee), it’s also simply not possible and any adoption made under such circumstances would have no standing. The threatened action (telling the parents they must give up any legal claim to their own children) clearly contravenes the IAA and Hague 33, which the US has ratified, which means that unless Congress specifically enacts a law amending the IAA, reserving Hague 33 and making these seizures of children, termination of parental rights and adoption legal (which won’t happen this side of hell freezing over) AND the country of the parents’ residency agrees that all the due process rights of their citizens and the parents have been followed OR Congress enacts a law designating these children to have been “habitually resident” in the US when they were taken (which amounts to granting their parents’ request for legal status here, and which will also never happen this side of hell freezing over) these “adoptions” are invalid, have no standing, and could be nullified by courts in potentially multiple countries, including our own, as well as give various people and governments the right to sue the US, the State Dept, DHS, DeVos or whoever runs these “agencies,” the fake adoptive parents and probably other people to boot. Any parent stupid enough to buy a child with that sort of ambiguity over their heads would be setting themselves up for a world of trouble. This is a nonstarter, and it’s not going to happen. Any admin official suggesting otherwise is simply asserting their incompetence. Ok.. looked it up.. this would pretty much violate virtually every article of Hague 33, unless Congress first moves to enact legislation specifically allowing the adoption of the seized children of political prisoners or immigration detainees or deportees or however their parents are being classified. “Hague 33, Article 27 (1) Where an adoption granted in the State of origin does not have the effect of terminating a pre-existing legal parent-child relationship, it may, in the receiving State which recognises the adoption under the Convention, be converted into an adoption having such an effect - a) if the law of the receiving State so permits; and b) if the consents referred to in Article 4, sub-paragraphs c and d, have been or are given for the purpose of such an adoption. (2) Article 23 applies to the decision converting the adoption.” Article 23 means the country of the child’s citizenship would have to have specifically allowed such an adoption of their children under whatever circumstances apply now, which is an impossible standard to meet here. Article 4 are all of the normal requirements for an adoption, where all parties and applicable countries have freely consented to an adoption. Thus, without Congress specifically authorizing the seizure and adoption of these children AND the requirements of due process consent are met, it looks like any such adoption could be illegal and thus can be nullified by courts in what looks to me like any “contracting state..”. So yea, any such child you might buy through her Betsy’s agencies wouldn’t really be yours or would be only for so long as the birth parents take to get to the nearest court of jurisdiction. Plus, my recollection is that there are actual criminal and civil penalties in the IAA... So to be absolutely clear, this is a nonstarter and anyone taking taking part in it is in for a giant heap of trouble in multiple countries down the road.
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  14908.  @rappinron1384  That's the kind of stuff that has people in handcuff at the Hague asking some pointy questions, then folks getting charged with crimes against humanity. Think hard before you support that kind of stuff.
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  14909.  @He_certified  No, but Biden signed it before the 2020 election and has reportedly signed it again for the 2024 election. Trump won't or can't, however. Every state should make that pledge mandatory.
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  14910. The Sturgis bike rally was attended by some 365K people, many of whom didn't wear masks or practice distancing, and who went on to more than 60% of America's 3100ish counties. It was only a matter of time before the upper midwest led the country in coronavirus cases.
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  14911.  @elroythegreat1590  America it was nice knowing ye
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  14912. Well, it seems likely he will peel off his fringe base and form something like the new American nazi party, which is good because it'll keep both them and the Republicans from winning too many elections. Then again, some parts of the country are A-OK with reactionary, Y'all Qaida type politicians.
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  14913.  @amberandrews6842  Correct. One of the immediate tasks, after a coup, is to prevent your helpers from changing their minds after the fact once they see what bad stuff the dictator is going to do to the country. Although part of me likes to imagine the schadenfreude of Trump supporters getting their weapons confiscated at gunpoint soon after they supported Trump's coup. We all did try to warn them.
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  14914. A question about how the death numbers in China are counted. By now we have all seen and heard the news of bodies being left outside for collection. Here's the question - do the official death numbers consist only of people who died while under medical care and people who died after testing positive for Covid-19? We can safely assume that China is not wasting test kits on dead people. What would the CFR look like when people found dead at home (or outside the building) are included?
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  14915. Watching those loons protest, without wearing masks and without keeping distance, is a reminder that Nature has her own ways of letting the trash take itself out. In a week or two, when most of them have developed a fever and dry cough, will any of them even remember this moment?
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  14916. As a distraction from the wheels of justice slowly getting to the 1/6 insurrectionists, this lamebrained attempt was a complete failure.
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  14917.  @jerryvida2137  The squad is larger now. Jamaal Bowman won; Cori Bush won; AOC, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib all won by double-digit leads. Plus the indictments you're hinting at don't even exist. Well, maybe there are some right-wing terrorists planning on kidnapping them and putting them on trial, but that doesn't count.
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  14918.  john choo  What you said was pretty pathetic "What turn me off was defund the police." since Biden never took that position. Nice false dichotomy. So the RNC still has a little troll money to spread around.
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  14919. Types like 45 are common enough in every country and every age. What's not normal, however, is a whole major political party getting on board with the push for power even if it means destroying the country in the process.
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  14920.  @GailButcher-dw5fi  In some of those countries, the guilty ones (who in this case were very obvious) would have been picked up within 24 hours and told to go find a really good defense attorney.
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  14921.  @goodun2974  No, seriously, that's how Trumpanzees think of Trump. In their minds, he's cut like young Rambo, riding a velociraptor, wielding a bible on one hand and a M134 in the other, slaying all the unbelievers.
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  14922. You don't have to be sophisticated to pass off the dumbest, most shallow lies to Republicans as truth. The proof of this is Trump. They already "want to believe" (like Mulder for flying saucers) that hate makes the world a better place somehow.
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  14923.  @Jimunitedse  Re "Wondering what Russia people are going to do with Putin after his 'failure' in Ukraine" << Traditionally, Russian leaders who F up this badly get the ice pick.
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  14924.  @michelehemlokhexwhite4310  Here's what the Q shaman had to say for himself at his sentencing hearing back in November 2021: For more than 30 minutes, Chansley spoke to judge Lamberth about the impact jail has had on him, and the guilt he feels for breaking the law. He said he was wrong to enter the Capitol on January 6, and that he is not an insurrectionist or domestic terrorist, but rather a “good man who broke the law.” His sprawling speech held the attention of the judge, as Chansley quoted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and “The Shawshank Redemption,” and described wanting to live his life like Jesus Christ and Gandhi. “The hardest part about this is to know that I’m to blame. To have to look in the mirror and know, you really messed up. Royally,” Chansley said. “I was in solitary confinement because of me. Because of my decision. I broke the law … I should do what Gandhi would do and take responsibility,” he says. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, that’s what men of honor do.” He promised to never have to be jailed again.
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  14925.  @danaagenbroad  Didn't he once refer to that Chinatown as a "no go" zone for white people? ;) Yah he can't keep his lies straight.
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  14926. Republicans could impeach. Heck, they came close to impeaching Obama once just because he dared to wear a tan suit. It's not like he crashed the economy, trashed all our longstanding alliances, and gave nuclear secrets to Russia or anything like that. Just the tan suit.
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  14927.  @marblesthecat3861  There ya go, repeating stuff that they made up at FOXed Noise. Tell me again about all of Ivanka's patents and trade deals over there. Did you forget about that already?
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  14928. LOL @ Bloomberg's comment about how healthy banks supposedly make for a healthy economy. Everyone in the USA knows that during the Great Depression, the banks were very healthy - they repossessed a great many homes and farms, and they put millions of people out on the street. Even now, while homelessness in the USA is rising fast, the banks hold tight to many empty properties that could house those people. Seems Bloomberg is afflicted with the Mar-a-Lago perspective disease :(
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  14929. Wait until Big Orangey fires Musk - on twitter. Then the circle of humiliation will be complete, and he will just be another discarded object on the large pile of discarded objects.
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  14930. She's the reincarnation of Axis Sally.
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  14931. Licking Trump's [whatever] actually NEVER works anyway! Just look how many Trump has F'd and chucked.
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  14932. Well, when the conspiracy theories and election lies start bubbling over again, we know which side of the aisle it's coming from :(
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  14933. Trump was endorsed by David Duke in February 2016, and hasn't changed his position since. Do the math on that one.
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  14934.  @fauziahmohddinmohddin7988  Yeah :( No one apparently had the situation awareness to tell those first-world-troubles passengers that their want to get off the boat in no way outweighs the health of the population of Cambodia, the people they came in contact with before being put in quarantine further down the line.
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  14935. Sorry these facts hurt your feelings. You might feel more at home over at the CIA factbook site.
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  14936.  @majobr100  What's the best price you've ever gotten for those jumbo rolls of tinfoil? You are hilarious.
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  14937. Go Brett Baer! Shut down those lies from the orange mofo TO HIS FACE!
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  14938. Now his game is to be saying, "Dindu nuffin!" in court while continuing to push the Big Lie.
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  14939.  @PDXTundra  To be fair to Dannys Book, s/he probably can't tell that everything on FOXed Noise or Trumpolini's twitter feed is what could be called "rhetorical hyperbole", not factual information. Portland is still standing.
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  14940.  Dannys Book  Could you translate that to English? Your frustrated rant tone comes through loud and clear, but you have the intellect of a squirrel or even something smaller.
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  14941.  Dannys Book  They're not even remotely correct. They're ignorant racists. There's a place for people like that, probably a locked shipping container that gets pushed overboard in deep water.
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  14942.  Dannys Book  People who haven't done anything wrong have nothing to fear. And where did you get "mindless"? I got stuff smarter than you in my cereal every morning, mister.
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  14943.  Dannys Book  You're not quoting an actual news source. Sadly, you don't even realize that. Seriously, when did you right wing fruitcakes get so addicted to most transparently made-up propaganda, stuff that wouldn't fool any 8yo European kid? Did you get dropped on your head a lot as a child?
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  14944.  Dannys Book  Above you wrote "Are you saying that people pointing out the truth of Marxist blm and their pedophile foot soldiers who burning people and animals alive torturing raccoons" -- meth does bad things to a person, buddy, and you are the living proof of it. This thread is proving you to be another Q meth head with nothing but cotton and empty air between your ears.
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  14945.  Dannys Book  Here you go, inept turd brains. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  14946.  Dannys Book  Are you too flipped out on meth to realize what you're doing by spreading false information?
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  14947. Does Cali have some ability to raise its state and local fuel taxes? Because that would be the logical response to some Californians (the kind with red hats) going all rolling coal on the rest of the state just because they can.
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  14948. Yah. A smelly and odious personality if there ever was one. Not a single redeeming quality in him.
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  14949.  @dougbritton3239  You can draw clear lines between what Trump said about journalists being "enemies of the people" (words that should have never been circulated) and Cesar Sayoc, who mailed pipe bombs to CNN folks.
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  14950. Don't worry, Doll Hands Donnie (or just Dimwit Don), you'll be removed with or without your consent. So just spend the remaining time sulking and telling lies. Those are the only things you're good at anyway.
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  14951. And if fetuses are people .. why were they complaining about Obama? He was conceived here in the US. Oh, wait, they were probably complaining about something else about him.
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  14952. See the famous quote about how a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. That explains it perfectly.
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  14953. Err, the third is a subset of the second. Apparently a large subset :(
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  14954.  @wolfgangjr74  Love it! They are bewildered.
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  14955. Didn't conservatives vacillate between calling it "a peaceful family outing" and "Antifa did all the rioting!" So why blur the faces?
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  14956. I'm sorry to say this (exploration romanticism notwithstanding) but we lack the abilities to put a self-sustaining base even on Antarctica, where the air has oxygen & water & correct pressure, where abundant water is nearby, where we are protected from harsh radiation and smaller meteor strikes, and where per-tonne transit to the mainland is much much much cheaper than to the moon. Send robots instead.
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  14957. Hopefully some hero has been copying the actual transcripts off the codeword system. All of that is going to be valuable public information when it's time to line up Trump, Moscow Mitch, Pompeo, Bolton, and others for a public hanging.
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  14958. Allegedly, he keeps his own teens/20s son in London, safely away from Russian military recruiters.
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  14959. Gone are the days when you can hop off a plane from someplace else, crash the night on a friend's couch, swing by Dunkin's on the way in to your flex-space shared office, leave a box of donuts for everyone after nibbling one or two on the way in. That kind of business-as-usual is how thousands of individuals seeded every country around the world with coronavirus.
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  14960. He honestly doesn't get that he's about as welcome as a child molester with the plague.
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  14961. MAGA Mike clearly isn't used to speaking in front of people who don't dwell in his echo chamber. Clearly he was expecting to get cheered for announcing his obstruction of justice.
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  14962.  @markmac1907  Yah, now they're going to switch to complaining out loud that Biden has, what, 2-3 houses, after being perfectly A-OK with Trump owning how many properties plus a gold toilet seat? Seriously, those people make a box of hammers look intelligent.
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  14963. Apparently, to most people in government, faraway things look very tiny, and very tiny things are not worth worrying about. Or maybe they think bad things only happen to foreigners. It's maddening. We have to repeat every dumb mistake that others have already made and corrected. Even now they're setting in motion a repeat of the Diamond Princess disaster by telling everyone to stay where they are for 2 weeks. Only 60 tests were made available for the thousands aboard.
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  14964.  @Crow44195  Have you perchance forgotten what happened aboard the Diamond Princess? The passenger cabins turned out to be not isolated enough from each other in terms of air, water, sewage. The cabin doors are not airtight. The virus is airborne. What started off as one case that disembarked 1/25 mushroomed into many more cases before the authorities finally realized that keeping the people aboard was more dangerous than putting them in quarantine on land. We need not repeat this experiment.
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  14965.  @Crow44195  I'm hoping the professionals take over that case. Otherwise that ship will become another floating petri dish like the Diamond Princess was.
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  14966.  @Senseisystem  Cope harder.
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  14967. They were shocked in the same way that some SovCit morons are shocked when they nice police officer pulls them over after seeing a homemade cardboard license plate, then bashes the window in when they insist that they were "traveling", not driving.
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  14968. Saving democracy one death threat at a time? They are gonzo :(
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  14969. Prediction - Wussolini will replace the head of the FBI with someone more compliant to his wishes.
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  14970. Ahh, Trump's poor little European mini-me took him a little too literally about that balance between lockdowns and economy. Smarter countries (Vietnam, China, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and more) lock the stuff down totally, isolate, test-and-trace, and do localized lockdowns as necessary. Here in the western countries, we will have neither good economies nor low virus incidence.
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  14971. Trump has been treating the political capital of the USA, accumulated over many decades, as just gasoline to throw on the bonfire of his vanity. Even if he is replaced with a sane, rational, responsible adult in the next election, I somehow think the rest of the world might be reluctant to trust the US again. Especially if no changes are made to its archaic political processes so that fools like Trump don't get put in charge of anything.
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  14972.  YouTube Moderator  Thank you for illustrating how far down the rabbit hole of right wing nonsense a person can be. Go post the official communist party membership cards of WHO personnel if you are so sure of what you say. If you cannot, just say so. Right wing bloviation is hardly a unique affliction.
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  14973.  YouTube Moderator  Considering that China warned the world on Jan 9 and published the sequence of the virus by January 11 through multiple sources -- yeah, just keep flapping your jaws.
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  14974. He said he was nice to Michelle Obama? He spent his term retweeting memes calling her a gorilla in heels. Wtf.
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  14975.  @tomlund4951  I can't take credit for "meal team six". It was somewhere in the comments on a Vice special about militias, a video that showed some very overweight wannabe-soldier types cosplaying in the woods.
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  14976.  @comradetaco3003  And on every YT video about it, the Russian bots are out in force and not being muted. I think we know why all the alphabet CEOs were standing behind Cheeto at his coronation :(
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  14977. 45 has made no secret of his desire to do away with democracy and the rule of law. How do these shambolic cult members of his see an upside in that? Do none of them watch the news out of Haiti? Do none of them remember "interesting times" in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia?
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  14978. Right-wing hate is the gay wedding cake that Republicans both do and don't want to force a private company to do for them.
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  14979. Trump fans tend to be messed-up people who want to have it both ways. They applaud Trump's racism, then say you're "divisive" when you call him out on it. They cheer him on when he says it's just a hoax that will go away soon, but they go hoard supplies that should be spread among many people. They love his lies about how he'll fix everything, then call you "partisan" when you point out that people still can't get those millions of "beautiful" tests, or that GM is in fact not making ventilators now. Trump fans are damaged goods.
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  14980.  @possumverde  Cranking up the heat has always been his goal. He's not above declaring martial law and suspending elections in the same way the sea isn't above the sky.
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  14981. It's funny how certain types of really messed-up people enjoy being lulled into false anger by Cheeto's voice. Just goes to show what a mental health crisis we have here.
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  14982. So Trump "doesn't know" Lev Parnas, yet here we hear Trump taking political advice from Lev Parnas, and making policy decision (to fire ambassador Yovanovich) based on the advice from Lev Parnas???
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  14983.  @alexc4300  Cult leaders can do such things. Like when Jim Jones floats the idea of having a 'special drink' for his followers, or when Hitler says they need to do something about all these Jews.
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  14984.  @rickbart1  You wrote: "but fortunatly the popular vote doesn't count" Here's what a high ranking Republican said one day: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation except an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021 Saying that the popular vote doesn't matter is like saying "hello, dictatorship" :(
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  14985. So Republicans are totally against vaccine passports (because my body is my choice and because FREEDOM) but they're perfectly OK with abortion passports?
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  14986. The T-14s were just prototypes built out of plywood.
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  14987. Or MAGA Mike Johnson refusing to certify the election after 45 loses it again, then taking the matter to a hire court (SCOTUS) which rubberstamps the one-time position of installing the election loser. (and, yes, "a hire court" was spelled deliberately)
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  14988. If Trump had unlimited powers over the people of America, he would be a lot more like an Idi Amin or Pol Pot than a Hitler or a Mussolini. He's disorganized, impulsive, has no control over his raging ego, and is obviously enamored with the notion of being a bloodthirsty dictator.
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  14989.  @EEX97623  Like Beau says .. if the jackboot fits, they better slip it on and start goose-stepping.
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  14990. Communities in the US that will be disproportionally affected are a) elderly people crammed into nursing homes, with many people suffering from pre existing conditions; b) students going to classes; c) homeless people living in unsanitary conditions and without medical care; d) immigrants and poor people who live in tight quarters and don't have access to medical help.
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  14991. With enough money, maybe cancer could be cured. And that would be a lot more likely than pouring money into "proving" that 2+2=5.
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  14992. You can't fix their kind of stupid.
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  14993. Oh wow he owned them in the best possible way.
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  14994.  Biden Ukrainepuppet  Re "How do their boots taste?" << You tell me, you're the one giving tongue- and lips action to the boots. Guess you enjoy being the eager foot soldier for bad actors who care nothing for you.
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  14995. Funny how all those lies of "massive election fraud" just disappeared, having served their purpose. Don't worry, new lies are coming down the pipe soon.
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  14996.  @alexpnw  That is why I work in rates and not actual numbers. Cases per million for example. In fact, just so you seem to be in the mood for it, I might combine the stats for two US states (to achieve the same population, population density, and workforce numbers to be close to SK's) and then compare that group with SK and post the numbers here just to show you myself how badly wrong you have it.
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  14997.  @alexpnw  I'm going to have to go with CT, DE, MA, ME, IN, NJ, NY, RI combined. That's the closest match I've found yet. The group has 53.661M to SK's 51.64M population and 300,335 sq. KM to SK's 223,170 sq KM. Unless you have a better grouping?
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  14998. It's like telling people about an imaginary child sex crime in a pizza place then waiting to see who's dumb enough to show up with an AR and start shooting.
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  14999. The whinings of these swamp-dwellers notwithstanding, things are clear: Using the power of the presidential office to investigate your political rival (and then trying to cover it up) is what got Nixon impeached. Trump is merely doing the same thing by means of getting Ukraine to do the investigation by means of withholding US government aid to Ukraine.
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  15000. Hosting one of the superspreader-in-chief's events these days isn't the brightest thing in the world. All he's doing is ensuring that a lot of his potential voters could be hooked to ventilators by November 3rd.
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  15001.  @gmjent5671  Since you apparently don't follow the news or even know how to, let me save you the trouble of some rocket-science googling. https://www.complex.com/life/2020/10/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-covid-19-spread https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/16/trump-campaign-rallies-leave-a-trail-of-community-outbreaks/
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  15002.  @gmjent5671  Sorry, forgot this one. Kind of belongs with the others. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/covid-coronavirus-infections-tied-to-trump-minnesota-rallies.html
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  15003. When most states have lockdown but a few don't, the virus is provided with a convenient way for it to spread. This is like having a peeing section at the swimming pool but expecting the water to be clean in the rest of the pool.
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  15004. For me, Trump crossed the line back when he kept calling for the deaths of the central park 5 even after they'd been exonerated. His racist, authoritarian tendencies have been out in the public for well over a decade.
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  15005. Over in Indonesia they figured out a great way to cure the people who deny covid .. they put them to work digging graves and putting covid corpses into the ground. By the end of two weeks, 100% of the doubters are cured. For some of them, of course, the "cure" comes in the form of a nasty cough that gets them hooked to a ventilator a few weeks later. Some don't recover. But, hey, it's a small price to pay for letting the trash take itself out.
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  15006.  @Peace-lr7mt  Chapter 8 of Stephen King's "The Stand" says it all :(
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  15007. This was just a test Rapture. Heard iguana tastes just like chicken anyway.
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  15008.  @riverebec1  Just ask Putin what used to be in those now-empty classified folders. And now we know why Trump didn't want any witnesses to his meetings with Putin :(
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  15009.  @riverebec1  You know what's got nothing? Those empty folders. Know who had them? Trump. Know who met with Putin privately without witnesses? Trump. Are those dots big enough for you or do you need glasses?
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  15010. Rest assured, the other males on the cell block will find a way to curb Trump's behavior.
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  15011. Should & must cost them the midterms. You don't get to embrace the worst wannabe-authoritarian to ever sit in the white house, then pretend it never happened.
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  15012. So you are thinking that the Bidens must have done something really horrible, otherwise why would Trump have violated the Impoundment Control Act, then tried to cover it up, then tried to obstruct the investigation of it, right? And there was some reason why no charges have ever been pressed against the Bidens here in US court?
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  15013.  @crustycobs2669  Sigh. The OAN people are sending messages from the depths of the rabbit hole :( and they still don't realize that they make no sense in the factual world. If it rhymes with "My lord and savior, Donald Trump, did something wrong" those mushroom people can't even countenance it.
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  15014.  @michaeleenhernandez7530  Nah. This guy: March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: “The United States .. has, as of now, only 129 cases .. and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down .. a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful .. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: “It’s going to go away .. The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point .. when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all.” March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  15015. Watching those two kooks 'Wesley Mouch' their way through this task will be hilarious. Hope you have popcorn to spare. They couldn't find snow during a blizzard.
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  15016. This is a subject that I wish Jared Diamond had covered more deeply in his book "Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed". This problem is as old as history. Somewhere along the continuum between the extremes of paying everyone the same (on one end) or letting the market determine the wage (on the other end - AKA pure Dickensian living) there must be a comfortable medium. No clue how it would be defined. One place that has done much real-life experimentation on this subject is the commune (forgive the lack of the current term) called Twin Oaks down in Louisa, Virginia, USA. It has existed since the late 1960s. They have experimented with a great many labor-credit systems.
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  15017.  @adrianalexandrov7730  Currently the richest:poorest wealth ratio in the USA is beyond what it was during feudal existence, meaning the USA needs to return to high marginal tax rates and plowing that tax money back into infrastructure, which would necessarily include social programs such as education and more readily-available healthcare. As far as reducing regulations .. right now there's an enormous chemical spill in eastern Ohio that came about precisely because of that.
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  15018.  @adrianalexandrov7730  Oh no. The railroad company quite deliberately lobbied to be allowed to place fewer operators on the trail - in order to increase profits. In former times, a caboose rider could look at one side of the train every time it took a big sweeping turn. Had that operator been aboard, the axles on fire could have been spotted many miles before the derailment. Are you checking in from a country where these aspects of it are not being covered at all in the news?
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  15019.  @RealMash  I'm not happy with presenting people with a falsely-represented choice, sorry, which is why I can't call the virus "experimental" except perhaps in the sense that it was only recently coughed up by Nature's lab.
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  15020. That picture of him is such a lie, because he hates letting people touch him. Total germophobe. Especially "certain kinds of people" and we know his dislikes very well by now :(
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  15021. Mewling newly-born kittens, their eyes not yet open even, have more self-control than Donald Trump.
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  15022. Observe Rafael Eduardo Cruz (calls himself "Ted Cruz") .. his father didn't flee all the way from Cuba to Canada, then send his own son down here to the USA, just to see the place overrun by immigrants. That's the mentality.
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  15023.  @winger468  Boris, go back to your cubicle. Worst deflection ever. Try again.
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  15024. The US will probably have above 65K new corona cases per day, today or tomorrow, but all the orange toddler will do is rage-tweet about this and infecting the nation's children by forcing everyone to return to school most unsafely during a pandemic.
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  15025. A couple years back, his pill-mill doctor Ron said he could live to 200. That one's right up there with the thousand year reich.
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  15026.  @stasiaspade1169  Bingo. Inflation is everywhere, and we've got it much easier than many other nations.
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  15027. Here's what the Q shaman had to say for himself at his sentencing hearing back in November 2021: For more than 30 minutes, Chansley spoke to judge Lamberth about the impact jail has had on him, and the guilt he feels for breaking the law. He said he was wrong to enter the Capitol on January 6, and that he is not an insurrectionist or domestic terrorist, but rather a “good man who broke the law.” His sprawling speech held the attention of the judge, as Chansley quoted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and “The Shawshank Redemption,” and described wanting to live his life like Jesus Christ and Gandhi. “The hardest part about this is to know that I’m to blame. To have to look in the mirror and know, you really messed up. Royally,” Chansley said. “I was in solitary confinement because of me. Because of my decision. I broke the law … I should do what Gandhi would do and take responsibility,” he says. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, that’s what men of honor do.” He promised to never have to be jailed again.
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  15028. From what we know: the first LO patient began showing symptoms on 2/19, meaning they were likely infected around 2/12 and have been spreading the virus since around 2/14. So if you start the clock at 2/12 and figure it's made 3-4+ generations of reproduction since then, there may be a few thousand active cases (as yet unrealized) in the Portland metro area and along the 5 corridor.
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  15029. No foreign nation has control over the main problem of drugs in the USA, which is the insatiable market demand here for illegal narcotics. Drugs would not be crossing the borders if no one here wanted them.
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  15030. Drumpf would be perfectly happy if his good buddies Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un were to send soldiers to help with this. He's always wanted to be a ruler, but he's never wanted to be a leader.
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  15031. And we may rest assured that all kinds of regional players are wanting to step into any kind of power vacuum.
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  15032. Can't improve on the words that senator Mitt Romney said on the night of January 6th, after security had cleared out the insurrectionists and checked the place for bombs (yeah, we're at that stage of civil unrest): “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning,” Romney said. “What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. “They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history,” Romney continued. “That will be their legacy.”
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  15033.  @DonoVideoProductions  And hopefully someone will inform the Muskrat that no one will be buying Teslas or space ride tickets if the country is in the middle of a hot civil war.
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  15034. She will go away alright - to MAGA Lardo, where 45 will recharge her lie machine and she'll go at it again.
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  15035. Ukraine is the 55th largest economy in the world. Russia obviously can't project force anywhere. Time for Georgia and Moldova and every other former SSR to kick out the invaders who've carved off chunks by force. There's some islands out east that Japan would administer better. Etc.
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  15036.  @stanleyball2615  Please deal with you own mental slowness, you inability to perceive things, before calling other people slow. Russia was supposed to be done with Ukraine in a week. Instead, they're slowly being beaten back to their starting positions. And they're not smart enough to realize that the longer they stay in the quagmire, the less future ability they'll have to resist Georgians and Moldovans from doing the same as Ukraine has.
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  15037. Trump once called for George W Bush to be impeached over the war in Iraq, then years later he called for Obama to be impeached. He said some pretty nasty things about Obama and his family. So now he's trying to claim that impeachment is a horrible thing that should never happen, and that it's wrong to attack a president? Trump really needs to cry us a river, build a bridge over it, and throw himself in. A total zero.
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  15038. Yah :( The "no Brock Turner left behind" people :(
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  15039.  @ryshellso526 Wrong on all counts, as usual for people who are accustomed to only hearing straw voices in their heads ;)
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  15040. Egg prices. Plus Hoax News spent a whole year claiming that a handful of Trans people were destroying America. (hint: there are approx 510K NCAA athletes .. 10 of them are trans .. 0.0019%)
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  15041.  @tonyawerner3812  That's just his way of showing that he can ignore a big fat downvote from American citizens.
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  15042.  @TheChopf26  Hate to break the news to True Believers, but the guy talking about vast prison camps and golden showers already jumped the shark. Doesn't help that he rather transparently calls for ending the constitution, or gets around Senate approval (of his clearly-unfit nominees) by appointing them in 'acting' status. Those things might work on 3yo's with no attention span, but on real Americans they leave a decidedly negative impression.
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  15043. The Allies need to get their shit together and understand that the only two choices now are to stop Putin before he has destroyed Ukraine, or stop him after.
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  15044. I wouldn't bother trying to use reason on people who've renounced the use of reason and logic. Just gently bypass them, nod at them maybe, but keep walking. Eventually they may come to the realization that they swallowed a whole lot of really dumb lies.
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  15045.  @epic103  Re "Almost every major news story during Trump's term" << How quickly you forget - if you even knew in the first place. Do you remember any of these? The firing of James Comey. The resignation of Michael Flynn. Dissolving the Office of Government Ethics. Firing the Global Pandemic Response Team set up by Obama. None of that based on "fake news". As usual, you're just another Trumptard nitwit.
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  15046.  @epic103  Repeating your shopworn nonsense, in the face of the greatest criminal to chair-warm at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, is not a very good look on you, but it is one you richly deserve as someone who defends a criminal regime that worked only to destroy America and its future interests. No doubt he made boss Putin happy, but that's about it.
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  15047. Ahh, figured it would be just hours before 45 told the culties that the judge blocked him from speaking at his own trial. His culties don't watch the news anyway. Most of them still don't know that 45 lost all of his lawsuits challenging the election results - and lost them due to lack of evidence.
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  15048. 45 will almost certainly lose the 2024 popular vote, but that doesn't mean his culties won't do anything possible (legally or otherwise) to put him into power again. They may not even wait for the election to happen, given how much Nikki has been getting in primary votes. Most likely, president Biden will win again, MAGA Mikey will refuse to certify the win, the Supremes will suddenly & belatedly overturn the 2020 election and try to put 45 back into power. They are that fully owned :(
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  15049. According to publicly available data (worldometers) the US has been unable to move above doing, on average, 150K tests per day. (clear daily diffs data available starting 4/5) At this rate it will take approx 2,100 days to test the whole population. We're in trouble :(
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  15050.  @kennypool  BTW it's "you're" not "your", so obviously you're the most ignorant piece of stupidity to ever try calling someone else less informed. You should try changing your name to "Mr Dunning Kruger" .. would be a much better fit. Considering that the US wasn't getting any of its oil through that same pipeline and those same recently-opened federal lands, and considering that fuel demand has gone down since then (not up) your points are, again, and as usual, completely without merit.
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  15051.  @jimmyjames6487  You and that other dolt were talking about policies .. and the only policies that president Biden implemented so far on these were the two things I mentioned. Could you possibly be any less ignorant on cause and effect? Or were you blaming president Biden for what Greta said at COP26 and which hasn't yet been implemented?
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  15052. A lot of our people failed the stress test. And now we know that around 30% of our so-called adults are so mentally ill that all it takes is a few shallow, easily-debunked lies to get them to want to murder democracy. We even know which ones they are - look for the Clump flags, the MAGA hats. Hitler would have LOVED to have that many fifth columnists here during the war.
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  15053. To be fair to poor Brett, the people who usually watch Fox wouldn't notice their own living room on fire if Trump told them it was soaking wet.
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  15054. Clump45 makes Manson look like a mere disgruntled employee by comparison.
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  15055.  @CRWM987  The thought processes of those anti-maskers are more shallow than the depth of ink on a laser-printed page. That their very own shallow thinking has further spread the disease is incomprehensible to them.
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  15056. Glad to hear Colorado is on board with it! In Oregon we've had it for over 20 years. No mass fraud. Too many drop boxes for the Not So Proud Boys / Patriot Front / whatever to try intimidating - and doing so will get them in the back of a squad car very quickly.
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  15057. You never go full Ceausescu .. unless maybe you want the story to end with a one-way trip to the basement.
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  15058. Remember when we put Charles Manson away for inciting crime (even though he himself didn't do it) while we put away his cult followers who did? They were just doing what the cult leader told them to do. Same now for Trump, FOXed, and their wannabe Brownshirts committing domestic terrorism. When did our standards slip?
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  15059. Perhaps people there should start calling it "the American virus" to get the orange turd's attention. Then he'll levy sanctions and tariffs against Australia :(
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  15060. Republicans go for misinformation the way crackheads go for that $100 bill blowing across the interstate; and Republicans avoid the cold hard truth of unwelcome facts in the same way that crackheads don't see any upside in cleaning up and getting jobs.
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  15061. Correct, @Hidden Dragon, the damage to America is far more serious than we can see now. For decades, the American way of life, as we know it, has been bankrolled by the benefits of American soft power. Trump took a flame thrower to all of that. When the world sees that our democracy is a sham and that it takes only a corrupt senate leader working with a corrupt president to defeat the separation of powers .. when the world decides it doesn't want or need the 800 or so US military bases on their soil .. when the world decides that the word of the USA on a treaty isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot .. when the world decides they want to use something other than the US petrodollar for international commerce .. then we're going to see the full impact of the damage Trump did with the full blessing and cooperation of the Republican party.
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  15062. A key part of the notes was Clump saying "There must have been fraud". Later he shortened this to "There was fraud!"
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  15063. Hahaha, I've met cats smarter than that one particular Newsmax anchor. Is that how lowbrow they are? Who's his partner, Karen Alcohol?
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  15064. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it!
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  15065. Now that Republican senators have gone ahead and "proved" (at least to the Party apparatchiks) that Trump was the wronged party, and that the law doesn't apply to him, how long do we have before we hear that folks like Bolton were suddenly "discovered" to have coronavirus and put into "quarantine" at some military base? Trump and his people aren't going to let a good crisis go to waste, trust me :(
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  15066. Trump has decided that if the jackboot fits, he's going to pull it on and start goose-stepping. Seen that movie before, don't like it.
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  15067. If you're concerned, just send them a big box of thoughts & prayers. COD of course.
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  15068. To be fair, the intellectually lazy/obtuse people have an easier time blaming Joe Biden (who they simply don't like) than they do realizing what covid (which Trump downplayed/ignored) did to global supply chains.
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  15069.  @guitarmanmusic5233 No war? It's not as if the Russians paused their takeover activities in Crimea and Donbas during that time .. and surely it helped them to have the acting (pretending?) US president on Putin's leash at the time.
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  15070. Heck, I'd message it to the cultists phones. Not like we can't find out exactly who they all are. F'ing Quislings.
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  15071. The longer you leave people stuck aboard that giant floating petri dish called the Grand Princess, the more will get infected. They tried this already with the Diamond Princess and by the time they finally decided to offload the people to quarantine on land, more than 700 had gotten infected. Do the people in charge not watch the news?
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  15072. Don't fall for it .. make sure you vote like your life depends on it, because it does.
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  15073. I assume we'll learn more about Trump's betrayals when, for instance, evidence emerges that he was OK with Russian bounties paid to the Taliban for dead US soldiers, all because Putin gave him a 10% cut of the business.
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  15074. Oh my gosh. The best of their best so far.
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  15075.  @pm6550  There ya go, making bullshit up ("you trust the corporations") and believing it as fact. Your brain doesn't function right. Try again, without making stuff up or putting words in other folks mouths that they didn't say. FFS.
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  15076.  @pm6550  You wrote "you all keep doing that to everyone else to fit your narrative and" .. what kind of drugs are you on? Are you f'ing schizophrenic? You're not even remotely making any sense.
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  15077. And apparently he charged them for it just as he charged foreign nationals for copies of documents.
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  15078.  @nil981  "The logic behind plandemic was solid" << only if your mind has been poisoned to think of all official info as lies, and a nobody in his dark basement telling you the truth. Nah, I'll stick with Dr Fauci.
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  15079. Twatter -> X -> what's next? 128chan? It's on the way to being a money-losing entity where no one wants their ads for jeans or detergent or cars appearing among points of Nazi / Klan orthodoxy. And eventually it will be sued over some right-winger using it to discuss and plan a mass shooting.
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  15080. Ignore the rosy news, just get out and vote. Who would have thought that by blindly supporting a wannabe-dictator who only wants to trash America's future while breaking as many laws and conventions as possible, who'd let a virus ravage the nation, who represents only the nuttiest of his own base instead of all Americans, etc, would have come back to bite Republicans in the ass? Maybe there is a god after all.
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  15081. Ms Collins slowed down Trump like some old bumper stickers slow down a car driven by meth heads :(
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  15082. I disagree with the notion that no one would benefit from a trade war in north America. One benefit would be Canada and Mexico finding other trading partners that are not simply unreasonable. Another benefit would be Caligula's voters absolutely losing their shirts (and maybe a lot more) due to his failed policies. They clearly need to learn the hard way why you hire the domain experts for specific tasks, not the mouthy idiot who keeps losing other people's money.
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  15083. Funny, but lord Cheeto is merely displaying the same "competence" he had during the covid pandemic, during the negotiations to give Afghanistan to the Taliban, during his extortion of Zelenskyy to withhold Javelins in exchange for complicity in a fake investigation into Hunter Biden, etc. All of this was easily accessible in the news all along.
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  15084. Republicans have had almost 3 years to do something about this. To stand up for the people they represent. To uphold traditional Republican values of fiscal conservancy and being tough on crime. To separate themselves from his policies, his beliefs, his racism. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To prevent him from waging stochiastic terror on minorities here in the US. To prevent him from trashing our closest allies and trading partners. To keep him from trashing international goodwill by withdrawing willy-nilly from any treaty that angered him. To remake the party into a foil on an insane despot of a president. To hold him accountable when he ran off the rails. To laugh to his face when he tweeted some illogical falsehood, and to take him to the woodshed when his implied or overt racism emerged. Instead, they were weak, cowardly, greedy, afraid he might tweet something mean at them. I have zero sympathy for Republicans and how they will be losing big in elections for more than a generation to come. They own this mess.
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  15085.  Field of Stone  Unfortunately I know his type all too well .. I've had relatives and bosses who are that type of psychopath. Even if he could set the whole nation on fire, and watch it burn, it would go only a small way towards alleviating the gross unfairness Trump feels the world-at-large has done to him. The mentality has some elements in common with those incel shooters, like Elliott Rodger, who gun down a bunch of female strangers because he feels so wronged.
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  15086. It's happening alright :( so let's all vote out this American-Taliban nuttery
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  15087. Trump has always wanted to rule, not to lead. The latter requires the consent of the people; the former does not. He's making that distinction clear.
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  15088. Too bad the KKKonservative-minded among the English couldn't find a less economically destructive way to say, "Waaaaah, we wish all the brown people would just go away."
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  15089.  @Paulie-276  This will be incredibly destructive economically for the UK. And it definitely won't magically turn the calendar back to when England had its own far-flung empire and all the economic benefits derived therefrom.
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  15090. Wilbur Ross is behaving just like anyone else Trump has appointed, confirmed or otherwise, and it seems that Senate confirmation isn't much better than those magic decoding rings included in cereal boxes. Any information coming out of any agency headed by any Trump appointee ought to be highly suspect, particularly anything about the state of the economy, diplomatic relations, human rights, immigration, and so on.
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  15091. In all fairness to cult leader Trump, cult leader Manson's followers too believed they were untouchable. In fact some were still in disbelief even as they were being tried in court. Such is the power of a cult leader over his sheeple :(
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  15092. The reich-wing crazies (even in their current violent form) predate Trump's most recent political experience .. for that you need to look back to the Tea Party nutters and the way they aligned with the insurrectionist Bundy clan. Like a child- and constitution-molesting zombie, they function without Trump.
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  15093. Not to worry! She and David Duke and Hawley/Cruz/Qbert can always think up another way to disguise Nazism as patriotism.
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  15094. The only running that one will be doing is from prosecutors, and it won't be very long. He's definitely not the sharpest egg in the carton either.
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  15095. Being a cult member makes people do crazy, batsh things.
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  15096. Most of them are like the late Phyllis Schafley - she hired nannies to raise her own children, so that she could travel the country preaching at other women to stay at home with their own children. Total hypocrite.
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  15097. I for one welcome candidate Michael Bloomberg to the fray. Being a very successful businessman (unlike that bankruptcy-addicted orange fuzzball) he can speak to the rational centrists that swung Trump's way in 2016. He can afford to outspend Trump and not even notice it. He gets under Trump's skin in a bigly way. And if he doesn't make it to be the chosen DNC candidate, we don't know who he'll endorse. Basically, he is peeling off a lot of Trump's base, and that's a good thing.
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  15098. So for 6 months he got to be a part of the same government he tried to overthrow? (there's a term for that: traitor) Quite possibly those armed extremists wanted to do to governor Brown what others of their ilk plotted to do to the governor of Michigan - kidnap and execute. What was his plan? To proclaim Oregon a christofascist republic with him in charge after they did away with members of the other party?
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  15099. Good luck, Moscow Mitch. You welcomed the crazy when it helped you. Do you remember your role in this law-breaking last year? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  15100. With free-speech rights come some important responsibilities - such as not attempting to plunge the country into civil war all to please the butthurt pique of the guy who lost the election and is too vaingloriously proud to face that fact.
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  15101. Gonna be spontaneous block parties across the country. The only thing Trump is good at is making the case as to why he shouldn't even be trusted with a glow stick, let alone anything important.
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  15102. One imagines Trump is still leveraging the potential possibility of inciting his MAGA mob to commit terror on a scale the nation hasn't previously seen. He keeps the mob on 'simmer'.
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  15103.  @Rick_Riff Sure, Ricky. If you have trouble telling 30K+ lies, rule by tweet, insurrection attempt, stealing classified documents type activity from playing by the rules, maybe your political eyesight ought to be checked.
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  15104. Same. Been following the news daily since I was shorter than the dishwasher.
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  15105. They are "triggered" ;)
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  15106. Considering that there seems to be no bottom to the well of Republican willingness to destroy America and the rule of law, all to please the Mango Mussolini who wants to rule at any cost to the nation .. it's time to drop a containerload of D-Con down the hole.
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  15107.  @dikhurtz2406  Mr Richard Hertz (heh) .. you really need to go back and watch the videos from J6 to help ward off whatever ignorance is afflicting you. And go ask a prosecutor what Elmer Stewart Rhodes was just charged with. Or any competent adult for that matter.
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  15108.  @dikhurtz2406  "It was all political"?? So, like, if McCarthy drives at 100mph through an active school zone, it's "political" when an officer pulls him over? You have to do better than that. What happened was nothing less than insurrection.
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  15109. Letting him near a microphone is asking for word salad and poor-me nonsense. Just ask the wedding parties he keeps crashing. All he does is sail into total non sequiturs about how wronged he feels.
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  15110.  @Pete_R63  Ask that to the people who tried to end democracy over Trump's lies. They're the ones looking at the tattoo gun or the branding iron.
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  15111. The failure to fact-check 45, or to mute his mic when he lies, or to choose not to air his incendiary lies, is almost like watching those outlets air a rosy documentary called "Mein Kampf" as if all the material therein is factual.
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  15112. History will long remember that when a fascist traitor came to power in the USA, so many conservatives swooned and sacrificed themselves to aid his crimes.
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  15113.  @CorinnaD  You beat me to it! Someone give Trump a big backhoe. Maybe he'll dig up that cache of whatever was buried at Ivana's grave.
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  15114. Trump has got his LED projector bulb cranked up again. What he's saying is that the country will not survive HIM and his misinformation. If he can't have America, he'll happily get his people to split off the red states, then get appointed president/dictator for life, then he'd make war on what's left of the USA.
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  15115.  @rudeboyjohn3483  When Trump sends his people, he's not sending the best. He sends people that have lots of problems, and they bring those problems to us. They're bringing fascism. They're bringing treason and insurrection. They're pro-rape. And some of them, we assume, are good people.
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  15116.  @Smile-mk7wg  If you want to pump out babies, go ahead, but don't force everyone else to. Especially not if they're in medical danger, or got raped, or can't support a family. Like that 10yo rape victim who had to travel out of state to avoid a "criminal" abortion under crazy GOP rules.
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  15117. He's the arsonist who complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  15118. Fox snooze makes them think that there are many millions of them (calling themselves "patriots" of course) just waiting to overthrow the government. I don't think they understand what the consequences of trying it could be like, or what the reaction of the American public might be like. It was a matter of public record that 45 lost the 2020 election .. then lost every single court case challenging the election results. All were tossed out for lack of evidence. And now the whole nation has seen for itself that 45 is a convicted felon. It's not going to go well for his flying monkeys if they try again.
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  15119. Just two days late, Trump's birthday gift to the nation later today will be 3 million covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, even as he claims that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who are you going to believe, him or your own lying calculator? (case fatality rate: 4.43%)
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  15120. Good luck getting people in Aus to take this thing seriously. I know some do, but if you follow some people on youtube, it's clear from their nearly-real-time videos that to them this whole thing is a distant farce, and no way in hell are their going to either get vaccinated (they call it the "green needle") or wear masks or observe precautions.
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  15121. Pretty sure this is the first time in US history when one of the major political parties has fallen head-over-heels for an obvious wannabe fascist dictator, and mostly because they agree with his racism and bigotry on a tribal-minded level :( He will have imitators following soon, and in every country around the world.
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  15122. Going by this thing we're now calling "the Cohen factor", as well as the begging/pleading of the insurrectionists in court, it would seem that America just needs to charge them for any Trump-related crimes they may have committed, let them serve their time, and hopefully they will come to learn that they were just f'd and chucked by the orange grifter.
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  15123.  @philster6383  Re "You can see in this comment section some of his cultists posting support for him" << For a long time, the story of two major political parties in America has been like the pilot and the copilot trading seats during a long flight across the Pacific. Works out to be 50/50 over the long term. What's new is the Republicans deciding to crash the plane into a mountainside because they can't be the pilot 100% of the time.
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  15124. If every journalist had been saying, "No, Mr. Trump, that's a lie" all along at his many and oft-repeated falsehoods, history might have taken a better course. Instead, Hannity channelled his inner Dr. Goebbels.
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  15125. No one was going to let him near live TV again anyway, not until he stops telling people to do things that any 10-year-old knows are dangerous or fatal, like injecting or ingesting disinfectants. And will we have another "press secretary" who never makes any actual appearances but somehow earns around $180K per year?
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  15126. Jim Jone's kool aid had poison that killed those who drank it .. but Trump's kool aid seems to contain hallucinogens. Once this guy recovers from it he'll probably be fine.
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  15127. Can't have a Ron DeFascist takeover without breaking a few laws .. Hitler did the same.
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  15128.  @master_shifu4208  Putler's sputniks can't understand anything but top-down command. Don't even try to explain it to them.
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  15129. Let's send more of those GPS guided rounds. From America with love of course ;)
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  15130. Err, this thing has barely got going. Only a little over 1% of the US population has tested positive. That "low death number" may be a bit higher by the time, say, 20% of the population has tested positive at some point. Then 60%.
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  15131. So what Trump is saying is that he wants to disregard the primary voting entirely. Well that's about normal for him, not wanting to face the electorate.
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  15132. It's cute that Trump's nutjob fans still talk about "Russia hoax collusion", even though 34 people were indicted, 5 of whom were Trump officials who pleaded guilty, and 26 were Russian nationals.
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  15133. Trump isn't dealing with his first two days of being held as accountable as the rest of us. Thoughts and prayers, little man.
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  15134. Bingo. The same dunce who believes without proof that windmills cause cancer.
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  15135.  @hddun  This could have gone down very differently. In most places where this kind of coup happens (the loser not willing to accept election loss), the wannabe-strongman leads his mob in assaulting the capitol and seizing power. We're just lucky that, for once, Trump's bone spurs acted up at the right time. Because the capitol police wouldn't have resisted the president .. and they would have gotten inside much sooner .. and they would have likely killed the next three people in line of succession as well as anyone else who Trump told them to hate. And there are many. It would have been a bloodbath.
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  15136. Unfortunately for the people of the US, Trump is a laughingstock with too many collaborators in the Senate and Congress and other places. Their little coup began back when Moscow Mitch denied so many court appointments by Obama, holding them open just so Trump could stuff them with party hacks later.
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  15137. It's right up there with "Mike Pence can choose the 2020 election winner, but Kamala Harris can't do the same in 2024 and Biden couldn't do the same in 2016." Their brains are wormy mush inside.
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  15138. What else has he been asking everyone for? And how long has it been going on? Was that the main reason he upended so many diplomatic, military, and trading alliances, just so he could run games like this behind the scenes? "Do XXXX for me, and I'll stop saying that you're not contributing enough to NATO".
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  15139. Be careful of those funny-looking showers, just saying.
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  15140.  @axiom21  If you thought the Trump administration made anything better, then you were simply asleep at the wheel for four years. Lights on but no one home. So you missed the way he became Putin's enabler for marching on Ukraine .. trashed our allies, sucked up to our adversaries .. shipped Senate confirmation of important spots by appointing "acting" ministers .. worked in cahoots with Fox to have his rumors turned into news so he could quote them as facts .. said the constitution was a hindrance to what he wanted to do. If you thought all that was fine, how come you're not living in North Korea? They've kept the "one fuhrer, one people, one reich" dream alive there, eh?
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  15141.  @cmreel  Freedumb to infect others isn't just dumb, but should be criminalized. I'm all for letting the unvaccinated walk among us - providing that they wear hazmat suits and keep their germs to themselves. Go turn on the news for India and see what we're trying to avoid happening here, dimwit.
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  15142.  @danialhillmann5374  Feel free to wear a spacesuit everywhere if you want to avoid the vaccine. At least then you're not going to thoughtlessly, carelessly infect other people around you or their family friends etc.
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  15143.  @dm4859  "We have people here still saying it's all hype. It's angering." << Bingo. All they need to do is turn on the news about India. At this point their ignorance has no legitimate excuse.
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  15144.  JJ West  "leave the rest of us alone" << As soon as you get vaccinated.
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  15145.  @danialhillmann5374  "I WILL NOT USE my medical knowledge to violate human rights" << You don't have to worry about that. Not only do you not have any medical knowledge, you apparently don't have any other kind of knowledge as well. Huh. Maybe it's better that the stupidest people in America skip the vaccine. It'll raise the IQ of the survivors if the dumbest purge themselves out of the gene pool. Plus the rest of us can get 2nd and 3rd vacation homes on the cheap.
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  15146.  JJ West  "If you get the vaccine why do you care what we do? This vaccine is for suckers, you fit that bill." << Unfortunately your choice to abstain from masks/distancing/vaccine does not only affect you. Pay attention to what's happening now in India, because that is the result of your type behavior. Why do you hate your own nation so much that you want even more Americans to sicken and die? This is already the third largest mass casualty event in US history.
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  15147.  @danialhillmann5374  "did you do any research" << Oh noes, it's the "do your research!!" screechers who get their "facts" from OANN and the Blaze. Did you do yours? The vaccines are near-100% effective at keeping you from seriously-sickening and dying from covid. A third of covid survivors (asymptomatic or not) suffer long-term medical complications. For some this renders them unable to work. Maybe it's a blessing that America's dumbest will end up jobless by that route. There are plenty of sensible people, and immigrants, who'd be happy to take their places.
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  15148.  @danialhillmann5374  Regarding "but no one wants to talk about naturally boosting your immune system" .. how well did that work out for the people of India? Apparently self-help potions and over-the-counter cures are big there.
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  15149.  @danialhillmann5374  Regarding "I'm sure if your not eating your not boosting your immune system" - have you got some English translation of what you meant to say?
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  15150.  @MichaelSpeirs-vd2kc  Perhaps s/he is "successful" like Rubio? Has a title now, and probably a nice income, but no soul left.
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  15151. In future years, we may look back on Trump as the giant litmus test that passed through our society, revealing to everyone which of our fellow Americans are most gullible for the dumbest propaganda, most likely to vote for fascist authoritarianism when it shows up on the ballot. For that I thank him and the Republicans.
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  15152. Trump's behavior makes sense if you imagine Putin pays him a bounty for every hundred or thousand Americans who get needlessly infected with covid.
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  15153.  @dandansen571  Re "Send two planes of MAGAs the other way" << I'd go further. Surely Massachusetts has got some homegrown white-supremacist wannabe-terrorist nutters who support Trump. Offer them a free ride to Florida. Losing racists and gaining refugees is a win for anyplace. Let Florida Man deal with the crime, drugs, and violence that will follow.
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  15154. It would be a shame if there were some catchy provision in the law, something that sounded like the "second amendment", which was all about solutions to those times when you find your country succumbing to tyranny.
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  15155. Weirdly enough, the GOP is unable to furnish a list of examples of non-citizens successfully voting in the US. This is just another of their many attempts to make it harder those without upgraded drivers licenses / passports from voting.
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  15156. He's probably more like a Vikdun Quisling, a Norwegian politician who served as prime minister 1942-1945 only with the backing of Nazi Germany. Without foreign intervention (see the Mueller report and other subsequent revelations) Trump would probably still be that loudmouth tweeting birtherism and echoing Q-Anonsense. Sad to see he's got ~30% of the country convinced that there's nothing wrong with him being Putin's sockpuppet.
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  15157. Good on this guy for admitting that when he voted for something different, what he got is not what he had in mind. Trump promised 6% GDP growth, we got less than 2%. He promised to wipe out the debt, but then he added $4 trillion to it. Farm bankruptcies are up 24% year over year. US manufacturing is dead in the water. Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others are all moving ahead with new advanced weapons programs. 70+ years of US postwar diplomacy has been destroyed. The US is now seen as weak and ineffectual militarily for running away from Russia and Turkey. Japan and South Korea are at it again, and Japan is re-arming. So much winning :(
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  15158. Hmm. There are only 630 billionaires in America. Truly we are living under worse-than-feudal maldistributions of wealth and power :( Thanks Manchin :( fool :(
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  15159. Love that "pandumbic". I like Indonesia's approach to the people who think it's a scam. Some folks are just plain dumb, and, like with training a puppy not to poop in the house, you have to rub their faces in it for them to get a frigging clue. https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/anti-maskers-in-indonesia-are-being-forced-to-dig-graves-for-covid-19-victims/
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  15160.  @crimescene25  Are you by chance GTOger?
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  15161.  @crimescene25  You did it yet AGAIN with the faulty assumptions - are you even capable of having an argument without making stuff up? Damn that's criminally lazy thinking. I haven't got netflix or streaming or online games or any of that crap. So I'm not thanking you for keeping stuff running for America's legions of couch-dwellers.
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  15162. Apparently the proof for something like that already exists. Even while the Trump made sure to use rapid testing to keep infected people away from him, he pushed for "herd immunity" which he knew would expose millions to disease and some of them to death. Like running a dangerous amusement park that you know kills people, but keeping your own family members out of it.
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  15163. Surely Republicans would agree with this, since they set the precedent.
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  15164.  @Bdub1952  Maybe they mean, thank you Trump for helping end democracy and the rule of law? Normally folks would just move to Somalia of they want to live under strife and bloodshed.
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  15165. He's modeled after a character in "the Stand" - Randall Flagg I think :(
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  15166. Funny how Clinton's impeachment trial lasted a month, with no limits on witnesses and documents, all for a BJ and a stained dress. But when a president is violating the Impoundment Control Act, extorting another nation into interfering with our elections, covering it up, then obstructing the investigation, they want no witnesses/evidence and a speedy coverup. This isn't the America I was born in! :(
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  15167. The Republican version of Helter Skelter :(
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  15168. Sadly, the US has no extradition treaty with Ukraine.
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  15169. Well, to be fair, this time it's the Russians doing the goose-stepping and looking for Lebensraum in other countries.
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  15170. Actually that was Trump, who decided not to protest Russia's seizure of the Crimean peninsula. Heck, he probably wouldn't have protested Russia seizing Florida. No balls, no spine, no brain.
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  15171. Look at who was right behind Cheeto at the coronation - the heads of social media & news organizations.
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  15172. I like presidents who don't threaten journalists.
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  15173. Ahh, this could be that tipping point where there aren't enough functioning adults left on the ship.
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  15174. Same. Living in the Blue Wall has its privileges.
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  15175. It's nice that the banks and Wall Street can go have a big expensive circle jerk while 100+ million now-unemployed Americans are scrambling to pay their bills. Hint: you can't hose down a raging stock market fire with paper money.
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  15176.  @JusMeandMehSelf  Except when someone in a suit does it with the press of a button, as in "claim denied", right? Just imagine, people paid every week for medical coverage they'd someday need, and when crunch time came, the healthcare company denied coverage. That's a scam that kills people.
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  15177. Trump doesn't hit bottom and start using a shovel .. this time he had an excavator machine 😅
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  15178. If only Nunes had thought to forbid his phone records from testifying, like Trump has forbidden his close associates & staff from testifying, like Al Capone wished his secret set of books wouldn't be brought to light. Sigh. Crooks will be crooks.
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  15179. I feel for this twat business owner. I too have been without income for 45 days. No relief money yet. The car won't get repo'd because the lender is working with people who've lost all their income. Ditto with the other creditors. Eviction won't happen. Between savings and help from friends, I won't starve. Yes this is a little boring and yes I'm going broke, but for f*ck's sake, this is a public f*cking health emergency that kills people by the hundreds of thousands. Be an adult and suck up your first world problems already. Jeez. You can recover from being broke but you can't recover from being dead from the virus.
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  15180. Bingo. He was a president only to his nutty sheeple base. To the rest of us he was a disaster, an irritant, a danger.
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  15181. The launch videos say it all .. like they're getting kicked skyward by an angry god.
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  15182.  @sparkymcspark8446  If you look at coronavirus cases and deaths per county all across the US (around 3200 counties showing covid actrivity) and sort the data in a spreadsheet, you'll see the potential of this disease. In NYC county (population 1.6 million) one in 7 has been infected, and one in 70 has died. And that's with everyone working overtime to stop it. And now there's no one left in NYC who thinks this thing is a hoax. There probably used to be, but those people have either learned better or died of it.
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  15183. The problem stems from the way Russians don't feel there's any security unless they've occupied their neighboring nations and fortified the outside borders of /those/ nations too. Kind of like how they can't understand the concept of friendly cooperation between peers, as in, having good relations with your nearest neighbors and agreeing where the border is. They are all sticks, no carrots.
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  15184. Yeah, they had, like, 30 new cases yesterday.
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  15185. The quickly-increasing numbers of homeless people everywhere tell more truth about the real economy than anything Trump or his mouthpieces might say. In the Trump economy, the wealth gap is widening quickly, and if you're not of the top 10% you're being pushed towards the bottom :(
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  15186. Why should they? As of December 2021, the numbers (by branch) of active military members charged for J6 insurrection crimes were: Marines 1, Army 5. Thankfully no Navy personnel sullied their oaths by rebelling on behalf of the 2020 election loser. Can't improve on how the former Senate majority leader put it: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer on this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation except an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  15187. MAGAts claimed that elected thousandaires (who get elected, vetted, and who must follow rules) were somehow "too elitist". Now we've got unelected billionaires mining out the Treasury, but they're somehow OK with that. They are dain bramaged.
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  15188.  @dianabarahona2233  If you need any proof of what I've said, go read the manifesto the El Paso shooter left behind, and see for yourself how he used the same racist rhetoric that your dear Mango Mussolini did. Word for word it's the same. You know what liberals would do if they came to your community? They'd make sure you all had good healthcare and education, and that the air and water are clean. You know what happens when out-of-state conservatives come to my city? They drive through it in giant pickup trucks, waving Trunp flags, try to run over protesters, and spray people with chemicals from inside their trucks.
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  15189. Hate to break the news to a weary nation, but the same Republicans who can believe without evidence that Trump won the election can also believe without evidence that Joe Biden's son is guilty. Once the burden of proof is removed, the sky is the limit.
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  15190.  @kriss3d  The absolute GQP standard.
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  15191. So sad to see the pipelines (through which Russia earns what little hard currency it gets) suffering some damage. But Europe is in the process of weaning itself off Russian fuel anyway .. and Putin merely hastened the change.
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  15192. Sinclair Lewis was party correct. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, it had the full knowing cooperation of America's conservatives, who were enthralled by the thought of political violence in service of one butthurt loser.
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  15193.  @Nick_Lamb Go back to Mad Magazine, it's way more your speed than reality.
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  15194.  @michellemorin8759  America had a lot of political capital built up over a long time. Maintaining it, or slightly increasing it, is the president's job. Trump, instead, treats it like a bag of money you find lying in the road. He's burning through it like a coke head parked outside his dealer's house.
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  15195. The crazy is strong with those Trumpanzees. Who knew that electing a clown would lead to such a circus?
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  15196. He's rehearsed his lines already .. pretty soon he'll be saying he doesn't know who Sondland is, never heard of him, he might have been in a few pictures with him but then he's in a lot of pictures with a lot of people and they're very fine pictures, the best pictures indeed, and people say they've never seen better presidential pictures.
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  15197. Why would Trump give up the power of having his Brownshirt Irregulars apply death threats to specific people in order to get them to do what he wants them to? He's been abusing that power ever since he appeared on social media.
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  15198. The Trump cancer is only at stage 3 now. Wait until it's stage 4.
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  15199. Trump ran under the Reform Party in 2000 (not the Democrat Party) and dropped out of the race early.
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  15200. It's a skill you need if you are to keep your cult sheeple aligned the right way. And he never attempted to be president to anyone but his own personal mob.
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  15201.  @erincoco612  Fox Disinformation has been nattering in their ears for decades now that Democrats are supposedly evil, and drinking the blood of babies.
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  15202. He's more like Trump than I thought - he's failing so soon and in so many ways. The lesson of the day: Don't go full Trump. You never go full Trump. His so-called plan to get a "great deal" from leaving the EU is as much vaporware as Trump's so-called plans to eliminate the deficit and defeat ISIS.
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  15203. Thanks to Faux / OAN / Sinclair near-100% share in poor rural areas (GOP propaganda outlets, basically) millions of Americans will continue to vote (R)everse for illogical reasons.
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  15204. I cannot give Trump any credit for partially fixing problems he caused himself. Had he not been so committed to undoing everything Obama worked on, we would now have been operating under the TPP, which would have given us advantages far better than any Trump "agreements" with China.
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  15205. One wonders if any off-duty capitol police were in the crowd that surged inside. Seeing as how active & retired military/police took part in it, I wouldn't be surprised. Helping the thugs get inside, then showing them the way to certain offices.
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  15206.  @Justaguy0420  My comments are no disingenuous - they are simply facts you don't like. You can't even tell the difference. Suck it up, snowflake.
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  15207. Favorite episodes? And did you see the remastered blu-ray version? The original was shot on 35mm film. The same company that did cleanup + AI upscale on Star Wars has also done the X-Files. Seeing the 90s in HD is so trippy.
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  15208.  @swunt10  Unfortunately not. Was visiting a friend who had it on. But wow, it was beautiful. You can see all the original nice camera work done to modern standards. Much much much better than what the TV sets of the era could show, and nicely improved over the at-best-480p DVD editions that came out later. Also everything is in proper 16:9 aspect ratio. Someone may have posted a sample somewhere on youtube. Some of my favorites were "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha" from season 3.
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  15209. No, true national shame is when one of our two major political parties threw itself behind a serial liar, a serial adulterer, a con man, who later turned into the only US president to have tried to use violence to retain his grip on power after being voted out.
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  15210. Is that in the USA? Love to see a legit source for those numbers.
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  15211. Oh no, they didn't stop. See the continued insurrection talk from the reich wing, the propaganda still coming from Clump and FOXed Noise, the Arizona election fraudit, the various Republican attempts to keep minorities from voting in the next election, and so on.
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  15212. Well, to be fair to CNN, there was something pretty serious going on then in the form of a coup attempt. And they probably didn't want to spend the day covering storied of firemen rescuing kittens from trees, which is basically what FOXed Noise does when reich-wing terrorists act up. Suddenly all their cameras point somewhere else.
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  15213.  @AJ-fe8om  Re " when the BLM riots were burning cities across the country" << What cities? None of them burned to the ground. Even Portland, OR didn't burn to the ground. Whole blocks did not burn down, as they did in the 1960s riots. Tucker Carlson sure knows how to get you to disregard the evidence coming from your own lying eyes :(
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  15214.  @AJ-fe8om  Re "So you’re deliberately misquoting me" << There's a difference between quoting someone and deliberately misquoting them. I quoted you. You talked about cities fictitiously burning to the ground. None did. You may as well be working yourself into a lather over the Bowling Green Massacre.
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  15215.  @AJ-fe8om  Umm, no, unless you deleted your comment above, it was YOU who talked about cities burning to the ground. I merely called you out on your nonsense, and all you can do is whine that you're being misunderstood. Go home and polish your jackboots.
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  15216. Let's change the Senate while we're at it. It will limit the political damage Republicans can do if they become a disappearing minority in every branch of government.
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  15217. The MQ-9 that Russian jets dumped fuel on? Software wiped while it was still gliding. The Russians probably brought up pieces of it from ~1500 meters deep.
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  15218. It SHOULD show them, but they won't take the hint. They are convinced that if enough gays are shot, enough rape/incest victims are forced into motherhood, enough trans kids are bullied into suicide, enough elections are overridden, the country will somehow be a better place. Kind of like "improving" your home by driving a bulldozer through it :(
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  15219.  @johnpirie4804  Parents are always like that when the kids try to move back in. 😅 So eat your oatmeal, grandpa
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  15220.  @sharcon3891  If the US had a popular vote of no confidence, Republicans would be thrown out. It's only through extreme gerrymandering and vote suppression that they get anything at all. And as much as the rural people whine that their livestock and their land should be able to vote, 70% of America's GDP comes from the counties that voted for Biden in the 2020 election.
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  15221. Thoughts & tariffs for Cheeto.
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  15222. Also Republicans - "States rights matter!" * people vote to protect reproductive rights * "The federal government overrules all!" * the ACA gets put into law * "States rights are supreme!" * states exclude Trump from the ballot * "States don't have rights!"
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  15223. Georgia's testing rate (tests per million people) is a third of that of NY .. so how do they reasonably expect to catch the results of this failed reopening policy? Wait until they show up at the ER in a couple weeks with breathing difficulties?
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  15224. You can have great fun with conservatives in just this manner. When they screech about "millions" allegedly "pouring across the border" just ask them to get in the car and find you some. They've been screeching that "millions" lie for decades, and, if true, every 10th person you run into should be an illegal alien. Should be so easy to spot them, right?
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  15225. Lots of costs associated with using Windoze .. the licensing, the services, and the time that IT staff need to spend constantly fixing stuff. One of my ex workplaces did the right thing back in the 00s and moved entirely to Linux.
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  15226. Europe may be rising to the occasion, but America's Vichy Republicans are hurrying to join the Axis powers.
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  15227. Caravans, open borders, trans kids destroying the country, UFOs .. living in panic over nonexistent things is a way of life for Hoax News watchers.
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  15228. Remember when that sniveling fool Murakowski said that Trump had "learned his lesson"? Yeah, well, the only lesson he learned is that Republicans are as spineless to him as he is to Putin, and that he can do anything he wants and they'll just beg, please, sir, may I have another? They paved the way to him being the way he is now. Too late for them to say they didn't know how bad he would get. They're the ones who voted not to have witnesses at the impeachment hearing.
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  15229. As to the "corrosive" effects of Trump & Co - Trump had no intention of letting American democracy remain standing any longer than he could.
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  15230. Governor DeSantis tried hard to paint the perp as a bad guy, but, honestly, he and the perp apparently have the same feelings towards Black people. DeSantis merely prefers to use words instead of bullets. Slavery was just an unpaid internship? Really?
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  15231.  @carlthor91  Where are those brave NRA & militia people now? They're happy that black people and folks of another party are feeling Trump's boot on their neck. I would have more respect for them if they started peacefully detaining the goons, disarming them, and escorting them to the state line.
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  15232. America has lots and lots of prison space. Dogpile them when you see them, and have someone call the police. Let them have their time in court, where they can explain their treason and face the maximum penalty for it.
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  15233.  @larrynix4977  It's the only workplace in America where they do testing and contact tracing. Yet they want the rest of us to go back to work without testing.
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  15234. I sometimes worry that Republicans will never be able to return to respectable John McCain / Mitt Romney / Liz Cheney type candidates. Not after they've had a taste of that demon partisanship and that willingness to destroy America (even to the extent of working with America's enemies) before conceding an election loss.
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  15235. Their denial about fascism is shallower than the ink on newsprint.
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  15236. Obviously WW2 wouldn't have gone so well for America if the president had been encouraging everyone to defy the blackout orders, refuse to recycle metal, ignore the "totalitarian" rationing system, and help the enemy by weakening public health in America. That's about the level of stupidity the Republicans are showing these days.
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  15237.  @mikecolorado6073  No doubt DD was hoping Trump would basically outlaw/deport African Americans .. then disappointed when Trump didn't.
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  15238.  @shaystern2453  Aww did a little truth hurt your tender feefees, MAGAt?
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  15239. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  15240. He never did. This was clear decades ago.
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  15241. You don't have to imagine him doing that. Also, you don't have to imagine Rethuglicans just shrugging and saying nothing, even the same ones who repeatedly went batsh*t when Obama did so much worse by wearing a tan suit and/or using mustard. That's how far down the rabbit hole they are :(
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  15242. Just as surely, they will know he told the truth the first time because of his sudden 180 on that topic.
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  15243. Please get everyone in Australia vaccinated ASAFP, because covid keeps evolving in the direction of being a lot more contagious than previous versions. Something even worse than Delta may soon be knocking on your door. Past a certain point, mass vaccination is the only way out of the trap.
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  15244.  @36AccountsBlockedRIP  Re "under totalitarian rule" << You should try living in Somalia. It should be a paradise. No taxes or regulations, hardly any government at all. A paradise, right?
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  15245.  @36AccountsBlockedRIP  "It could have a lot of potential if there were a lot fewer Somalians" << Wrong. It's not the number or density of people that's the problem there, it's that free-range libertarianism is a completely batshit philosophy. Which Somalians are doing a fine job proving. When there's no government or very little government, regional warlords emerge to run areas like their own little fiefdoms. And when the regulatory burden (on businesses) is light to nonexistent, you get a lot of Hooker Chemical Company type businesses that produce Love Canal type disasters that they walk away from because it's cheaper than fixing the mess they made. Laissez-faire libertarianism, Somalia-style, makes Soviet-style communism look organized, long-lasting, and productive by comparison.
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  15246.  @36AccountsBlockedRIP  Re "Did you really just take Somalia" << Yes. Look at the place. Hardly any taxes or regulations. Almost zero government interference in the rights of free people to manage their affairs. Guns everywhere. Ayn Rand would have gotten wet over how much of a Galt's Gulch that place should be. As we now know from the odious experience of having Trump take a turn in the big chair, at least 30% of the population is psycho, unstable, prone to violence, susceptible to the dumbest propaganda that wouldn't fool a cat, etc, and would behave very badly in the absence of laws. It's probably the same everywhere. I don't think the people of Somalia are much different from the people of Texas or Alabama in that regard.
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  15247. Immigrants are ~14% of the US population yet only ~3% of the prison population .. in other words, they commit crimes at about a quarter the rate of the native-born. We need more immigrants, not fewer. The six workers who died on that Baltimore bridge all were immigrants from Mexico and Latin America, doing the hard jobs and making money for their families.
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  15248. The single best thing about this traitorous fool is that he's going to be locked up for awhile. Seriously, if people are so delusional and violence-prone that they'll go commit crimes based on the obvious lies of an obvious flim-flam man, they shouldn't be walking around among the rest of us.
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  15249. Look at that Goodyear blimp over there!
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  15250. OP - like chickens voting for colonel Sanders :(
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  15251. Back during Trump's failed term, we were all afraid that Putin would teach Trump how to hang onto power, how to be a dictator. Turns out, Trump can't learn anything - the toilet bowl is already overflowing. Instead, Trump taught Putin how to be a self-deluded loser 🤣
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  15252. You can safely figure a third of the population is <92IQ. To them, his third-grade language sounds genius. To them, his constant crybabying sounds strong and manly.
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  15253. A modest proposal - couldn't we just let convicted felon and current GOP candidate '45' appoint his "acting VP" people as he wishes? That way, he can change out his VP's at the drop of a hat whenever they say or do anything that displeases him.
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  15254. We saw what his "substantial relief" was for Puerto Rico. Take a hint, people. He's going to fly in for a brief photo op and toss bottles of hand sanitizer into the crowd - then fly home and whine out loud that those places shouldn't be getting federal relief money because they didn't vote for him.
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  15255.  @monaliza3334  Traveling is more fun. My General Dynamics stock is doing very well these days, thank you!
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  15256.  Mr Perfect  Look. Putin would be incredibly butthurt even if he hadn't moved on Ukraine at all. The world does not revolve around his butthurt. That's between him and Bog.
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  15257. About Trump's so-called charisma - it is short-range, it is temporary, and it only works on certain kinds of people. Most of us can hear his [awful, whining] voice over the radio and think instantly, my God, what an ass that man is. What a whiny crybaby, pandering to the worst in people. That is what most of us hear when we hear Trump speak.
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  15258. The trouble with that Indian variant is that it spreads a lot more easily than the previous versions. I fear it will blow through the prior level of precautions all too easily. Is Australia widely vaccinated already? Hope so.
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  15259.  @misenplace8442  Sorry to hear .. I've got friends in Oz and now I am pretty worried about them. From their videos I can see that lots of people there have not been observing precautions all along - business as usual with restaurants, stores, social gatherings, not a mask to be seen. Where I live (the county is 67.2% fully vaccinated for 16yo+ people, 54K covid cases per million overall) the Indian variant is here already but not spreading very quickly. Mostly it will affect the people who are vaccine averse and who don't observe precautions - usually they are the same people anyway. I am closely following the numbers for counties where vaccination rates are lower, and from what I'm seeing, the protection from prior community exposure is not as good as the protection from vaccines. For example, we've got a county where 48.8% of the 16yo+ population is fully vaccinated, where over 10% of the population has at one point contracted covid, yet the new-cases number has been going up steadily for 8 weeks in a row. I fear that the double whammy of a) low prior community exposure and b) new variants on scene will cause bad outbreaks in places that until now had been doing fairly well.
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  15260. Didn't conservatives bounce between "Antifa did it!" and "It was a peaceful family outing!" Now it's "We gotta blur the faces so the guilty parties can't be charged for crimes they committed on camera."
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  15261. The Republicans? They've been his biggest enablers so far.
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  15262. Republicans showed their truest colors back in 2019. Who else remembers this? Investigators: We require witnesses & evidence for this Ukraine setup thing. Trump: I'm telling everyone involved to NOT cooperate with the investigation. Republicans: You heard the man. * months go by while subpoenas & document requests are ignored * Republicans: Look! Those Democrats didn't even do a proper investigation! They couldn't find witnesses or evidence! FOX News: This is all just a coup by the lunatic left and their violent mobs to remove our lord and savior. Moscow Mitch: My position on all this is in lockstep with Trump. Trump at Davos: I'm holding all the incriminating evidence against me, nya nya nya. Bolton: It's true, Trump has committed many crimes. I personally witnessed it. FOX News: Bolton is just a deepstate liberal never-Trumper secret agent. His testimony is not needed. Moscow Mitch: I see no evidence of wrongdoing. I wish for no witnesses and a speedy acquittal. American citizens: We want a real trial, with witnesses and evidence - not a cover up. Dershowitz: OK, he extorted Ukraine and covered it up and obstructed, but it doesn't matter because he's president. Republicans: You heard the man. Americans, go f*ck yourselves and the concept of rule of law too.
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  15263. That creep Jeffrey Clark (who wanted to step in mid-coup as Trump's acting AG) needs to be next.
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  15264. Saw your friend on another thread, and yes I saved their words .. "It's like you and your friends having strong evidence your boyfriend cheated, but before you can kick him out you have to convince his best friends and frat bros (who were there cheating with him) that your boyfriend was cheating." That's what it's like trying to communicate Tяump's lawbreaking to Republicans.
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  15265.  @Distimmer  Germans used to get arrested for helping Jews back during Nazi times. Same fascism, different century :(
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  15266.  @marcelobrozovic9872  And he encourages them to wear his tacky merch, and that makes them easy to spot. Someday the MAGA hats will be gone, but those ready-to-go wannabe Quislings will still be around. Remember who they are.
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  15267. Looks like it's in process now. There will be that hearing (not a trial, a hearing) Tuesday on violations of the gag order. By Tuesday morning EST, dolt45 will have made numerous additional violations that will be used as evidence against him. There is so much of that type of evidence that the hearing will result in a summary judgment. So hopefully sometime next week he'll have a cell to sleep in.
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  15268. Putin is what you might refer to as an amoral murderous bad-actor.
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  15269. There you go with the stupid sauce again. Are you attempting to claim that there are not laws against rioting, that people don't get arrested for rioting?
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  15270.  @linedawgs9673  And what have you done to change that, if it offends you so much? Crickets.
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  15271.  @linedawgs9673  I don't have any problems with the way the prosecutor has handled things, so I personally don't need to do anything. You, however, seem to have a beef with the way charges against some were dismissed, so your remedies are to a) work to get that person removed from office, or b) run for that office yourself, or c) work to have someone put in that office who you feel will do a better job. As I expected, the couch got more of you than any of those three courses of action.
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  15272.  @linedawgs9673  I did not say that I found them to be (in the words you attempted to put into my mouth) peaceful protesters who did nothing wrong. Nice try though. Then again, if you're the sort who goes around putting words into other folks' mouths, who knows what you imagine is real or not. It almost depends on what your definition of "is" is.
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  15273.  @linedawgs9673  Happy Thanksgiving then. Catch ya on the flip side.
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  15274. Face it, Republicans already made up their minds to carry out this putsch attempt by any means possible. Our inescapable duty must now be to treat them as such. Be strong, people, you're going to need it.
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  15275. They should make sure he's in DC for the inauguration. Probably the only way to keep Putin from trying to nuke the place.
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  15276. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Shumer, and AOC should all appear together in a public service announcement advising all Americans to do these things. Get vaccinated. Make sure everyone else gets vaccinated. Wear a mask around other people. Look both ways before crossing the street. Wear seat belts when you're in a moving vehicle. Continue breathing. Etc. Then we just sit back and watch the trash take itself out in order to "own the libs".
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  15277. Whoops, this guy was nominated by Hair Fuhrer. The same guy who forbade federal agencies to use words and phrases such as "climate change".
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  15278.  Lord Mask  Funny how those tinfoil-hat wearing mama's-basement types see the CIA and Israel behind every shrub. What projectionists.
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  15279.  Lord Mask  He's a hoot. Remember that movie "Conspiracy Theory", starring Mel Gibson? Does he sit at home and churn out a crazy newsletter to mail to his nutball brethren? This is funny. I'm passing the thread off to a documentary filmmaker.
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  15280. Not to worry. With a compliant MAGA senate (to make sure the impeachment has no punishment) and a compliant Supreme Corp (to refuse to uphold the law) lord Cheeto will break the law again and again.
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  15281. Only because pubs hairdressers cafes bars were closed during that time. Reopen them prematurely and all you've succeeded in doing is to provide more avenues for the virus to spread.
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  15282. The Senate leader who abdicated his constitutionally-defined role and said, "Whatever the criminal wants, we stand with him" when it came time for the sentencing phase of the impeachment. The House leader who abdicated the role of the House as the keeper of the purse strings of the nation, and just said "Whatever Cheeto and Musk's goons want to do is fine with me". The most Vichy Republicans ever.
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  15283.  @cantecleer  LOL you just showed why you are completely nucking futs: you lack the capacity to tell information from misinformation. Somewhere along the way, your hamster-sized brain got frustrated from the effort, and you've gone the ultra-simple route of deciding that ALL information is equally correct or incorrect.
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  15284.  @cantecleer  Lordy, you are a funny one! Anyone with half a brain or more probably has a fun time mocking you, most likely by saying "DO YuOR ReSEArCh!!" The fact that you cannot tell fact from fiction is why FOXed Ooze has the delusional following that it enjoys, and why the former president enjoys a large nutty following too. Hint: it's not "thinking for yourself" when all you do is parrot the nonsense that Tucker Carlson spews.
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  15285.  @colliecoform4854  Regarding "It is unfortunate that many people do not pay attention" << I would say it's an even greater problem that so many people drink from the poisoned well of misinformation, which is designed to appeal to the shallow prejudices of even shallower minds. Those people are still filling the hospitals, and morgues, in places where the vaccine is readily available for free just by asking. I wasn't there to witness it, nor were any of my friends, or anyone I've ever spoken with, or anyone they've ever spoken with, but I am pretty sure that back in April 1912 the Titanic really did sink in the north Atlantic.
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  15286.  @cantecleer  Thanks for the long reply, but you are still pandering to those who, for reasons of disinformation, fear to get a vaccine which vastly improves their disease resistance. Feeding them things that help reinforce their fears ("Dear lord, ANYTHING but the vaccine!") is not helping anyone. Regarding "can't stand if people stand back and look at situations with an air of skepticism" << That's exactly the nonsense quoted by vaccine skeptics and election integrity skeptics. Usually they're the same people, in the US at least :(
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  15287.  @tomdurkins  Regarding "If only we still had journalists that actually reported the facts instead of being an organization controlled by .." << Oh that's rich, especially coming from those who watch little but the official Republican disinformation channels, better known as FOXed Noise, OANN, Newsmax, Sinclair.
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  15288.  @SpectatorAlius  Bingo. Had they been allowed to, there would have no doubt been unscrupulous "news" outlets of the time that would have loved to monkeywrench our nation's attempt to fight for survival. Tucker Carlson would have been there "explaining" how Germany and Japan are our natural allies, how Pearl Harbor was "fake news", how we should just cope with the times by learning how to speak German and Japanese, you know, by letting everything happen organically instead of trying to fight it.
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  15289.  @tomdurkins  Well, for starters, the obvious troll I'm speaking with presently keeps forgetting which username s/he's logged in under. And for finishers, they're essentially echoing everything Tucker Carlson says.
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  15290. Guess president Biden rattled Putin's cage .. just like I was hoping he would.
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  15291. A completely dry dick.
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  15292.  @biokido575  Is that like the Ben Shapiro style of marriage?
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  15293. I suppose the good thing about Trump's recent actions is that no other nation will want to do military adventurism over there in partnership with the USA, at least not while the orange rodeo clown is running the show.
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  15294.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Knew it wouldn't be long before someone would try to equate the risks of a bunch of badly-aging Boomers, cavorting indoors in bars, completely eschewing masks & distancing & hygiene, etc with the risks of a bunch of young, fit, healthy people staying outdoors, wearing masks, and mostly practicing distancing.
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  15295. Once again due to lack of meaningful evidence. Wanting to have evidence, expecting there to be evidence, wishing there was some evidence .. these are not the same as actually having it and presenting it to the court. See Mike Lindell's antics.
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  15296.  @michaelpetrovich5353  I think what you're telling me is that the west saw him clearly when they told him "no" on NATO and the EU. Mr Putin is proving that they judged him astutely.
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  15297. If the governor can exercise line-item veto over the educational curriculum .. what else might they do? Ban the teaching of slavery and the sorry history of the Confederacy? Ban health class content that deals with viruses and vaccines? Sounds like Ron DeFascist has been wearing his klan robes to work lately :(
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  15298. Sondland has 3 basic choices: 1. Tell the truth. This won't work because then he'll be in jail and he'll implicate Trump. << this is what adults do 2. Tell the same lie the president does, keep changing it when he does, and get in trouble for it. << this is what stupidly loyal people do 3. Tell a whole different lie, except that he has to keep changing it as new evidence emerges. << this is what stupid people do
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  15299. Everyone stand back and stand by as all the Dylan Roof / George Zimmerman types show off their notion of what a "well-regulated militia" really is :(
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  15300. Aww, who'd have thought that all the openly and closed KKKlan-minded reich-wingers wouldn't like this? Their BS outrage is most telling.
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  15301. He was incapable of those responsibilities even before he took office. Does anyone else remember this December-2016 article about his lack of preparation for taking office? https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-intelligence-briefings-skip-2016-12
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  15302.  @somethingelseentirely8948  That was an epic takedown. The guy wiped the floor with Ben without raising a sweat. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF3r3zUGqk
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  15303. I'm saddened by the election results, but folks are going to have to learn the hard way what happens when you hand the city keys to the whiny, bullying serial arsonist who complains that there are fires all over the place and tells you that only he can fix it.
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  15304. While it's distressing to learn how many terrorists we have living among us, it's great to know that they failed and that they're now being rounded up like rabid dogs. For their own safety they definitely belong behind bars. It's the right place for people who hate everything that America stands for.
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  15305. They will go lower still before they shuffle off to the dustbin of history. Guessing Trump has plans for that designation of Judaism is a nationality .. perhaps they're next for what he's done to Hispanics?
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  15306. They're about to get their wealth confiscated anyway.
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  15307. The ones who support Trump are doing Putin's bidding to leave America a fractured mess. It's part of Putin's plan to resurrect the neo USSR.
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  15308. Trump's personal characteristics were on full public display for decades before he sought office. What's with her feigned surprise that Trump is not a good person?
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  15309.  @Lily.Fern.1107  Regarding "Republicans lost, again" << To be fair, their "all elections are bad" nonsense would play better in a place like Russia. Huh. It's as if Putin handed them the playbook for how to steal elections.
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  15310. Censorship? No one's keeping Trump from calling all the news networks to his office. No one will censor his words. It's just that most of us don't want to hear any of his lies anymore.
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  15311.  @ringtail99  Guessing the Trumpanzees aren't going to wait until after the election - which senior management already realizes they're going to lose. Guessing August or October for the next coup attempt.
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  15312. Someday it will be nice to have a president who doesn't use the "14 characteristics of fascism" as a stuff-to-do list.
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  15313. Giving Trump a platform to spread his lies is like giving an unlimited Chevron gas card to a serial arsonist.
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  15314.  @brookeweatherly  There's still a lot of time left to blame a handful of trans athletes for everything. Look at all the mileage 1930s/1940s Germany got out of blaming all its troubles on Jews, who were 0.75% of the population prior to the troubles.
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  15315. Since when did ICE get to spend taxpayer money shilling for Trump by "sanctary policies are a real danger"?? What the everlasting f*ck? Paging pastor Niemoller.
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  15316. On some of those threads, the militia people are complaining that they've been lumped in with the white supremacist movement. I almost fell off my chair laughing when I read that. Take a good look at the violence done in Charlottesville by armed right wing militias. Some of them "offered" to usurp the role of the police. Some of them shot at unarmed left leaning protestors. Many of them came armed from other states. One of them drove a car into a crowd.
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  15317.  yellow dog  I have gone to some of those right-wing threads to talk with those people about it, but they totally clam up, mostly, or call me names. That crowd cannot fess up to the danger of their armed antigovernment attitudes .. hence the recent legislation in Virginia.
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  15318. Supporting Trump is a lot like people spending money on cigarettes and lotto tickets - sort of a voluntary tax on stupidity. Fools and their money never did belong together anyway.
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  15319. One possible scenario - president Biden wins re-election, and House speaker Mike Johnson decides to put the business of the House on hold rather than certify the win. By now we have a fair idea of just how deep partisan whackjobbery runs on the R side of the aisle.
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  15320. As much as it would be karmic justice for those Quislings, I still can't go along with what you said, because at the end of the day we're all still in the same boat.
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  15321. Switchblade drones are very hungry at this time of year. The A10's are getting hungry too.
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  15322. Thankfully this isn't Biden's first time to the rodeo, so he won't leave hundreds of positions unfilled for years like Trump did.
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  15323. Is there space to tattoo "I am allergic to evidence" on Trump's forehead?
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  15324. Anyone who's helped Trump in any way, like everyone else who's tried working for Trump (no matter how intelligent they purport to be), failed to understand beforehand that Trump will use anyone and anything the same way a moonshot rocket uses then discards a first-stage booster module to get where it's going. Just another consumable, of which there's an endless supply for the right snake oil salesman. He's always drowning, and they're always the people he's going to push under.
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  15325. That Australian dude said it all very truthfully .. so Orange Adolph will probably get revenge by selling Australia's military secrets to the Chinese.
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  15326. Millions of Americans live in places where Fox Disinformation doesn't show much truth at all. They don't know about the J6 insurrection, they don't know how all 60+ of his court challenges (to the 2020 vote results) were tossed for lack of evidence, and they don't hear much beyond (R) party gaslighting.
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  15327. Knowing how much this administration lies, obscures, denies, blames, covers up, and floats test balloons, I'd guess this means they know how f*cked we are from this thing -- and that it's going to be worse than what they're saying. Knowing how much they lie, this means the truth will be closer to 6K deaths per day. Those idiot MAGAt protesters are out there doing super-spreading work.
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  15328. Hahaha, Nunes is trying that dumb trick of pretending not to know Parnas by virtue of mispronouncing his last name. Bring forth Nunes' WhatsApp messages. Obviously that was a preferred backchannel for comrade Tяump's little gang of criminals.
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  15329. Trump has got serious simmering rage about how "sleepy Joe" is living in the white house now, using AF1 for travel, sitting at the president's desk, speaking in whole & cogent sentences, and so on.
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  15330. You mean people aren't lining up to be the next Cassidy Hutchinson, answering questions truthfully before a congressional committee, getting threatened by the MAGA faithful?
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  15331.  @junsu21  No doubt part of Putin's 5D chess was to get everyone to go green and lessen any dependence on Russian fossil fuels. His 5D chess is going spectacularly.
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  15332.  @coachandreas5214  Also, why is Russian stuff mysteriously catching fire on its own? Stuff in Russia, then the Moskva, chemical plants here and there, a train derailed, and now a power plant in the far east is on fire. Not sure how much of this "winning" they want.
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  15333. Even better - they were brought over by chain migration that began when a certain itinerant stripper illegally overstayed her visa. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregion/melania-trumps-parents-become-us-citizens.html
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  15334. Now she gets to see what it's like to have no career again ever. But then, when you sign up to be Satan's doormat, you gotta know bad things are coming.
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  15335. Manic personality disorder + alcoholism + drug addiction.
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  15336. 82 tweets in one day? Those are rookie numbers. People, for the good of the nation, do whatever you can to ratchet up that dumb fool's blood pressure.
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  15337. They will wait to say "yes" on presidential immunity until after 45's flying monkeys are halfway through their next insurrection attempt .. and that attempt is likely taking place before the election :(
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  15338. If only the legislation had been modified so that the thousand richest Americans could be given $1 billion each, no strings attached, then the GQP Republicans would have approved it overnight.
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  15339. Watching DeSantis pretend to be reasonable (as he must, to run for president) is like watching former Trump aide Stephen Miller pretend to say that he welcomes immigrants and refugees to America, and that he doesn't want to put them into gas chambers.
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  15340. I've had camping trips that lasted longer. Meanwhile, in China they reopen slowly, everyone wears masks everywhere (no exceptions), and travel is limited. Maybe Americans think "it's different here".
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  15341.  @robertglancy4474  Everyone likes to think it's different where they are, but this virus has shown it doesn't care what your politics or your skin color are.
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  15342. File this under "the Faces of TDS". Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, folks. Many of us have lost our parents and older relatives to the thrashing madness of blind loyalty to Trump and his lies.
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  15343. @OP It is not that the nation is divided. Rather it is that one of America's two major political parties has decided that a) they want a full divorce, and b) they consider it fair recompense if they burn the house down while everyone is still sleeping in it. The other party is saying "F**k no, not on our shift you whack jobs".
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  15344. The House Republicans are living up to their potential to be perfectly useless and somewhat harmful. Never interrupt your enemy ..
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  15345. To be fair, if you want covid to spread among pretty much any group of people, all you have to do is put them together in the same building at this time of year. The heating system, constantly circulating everyone's aerosolized output to every other person, will do the work of spreading it from one person to a whole bunch of people. This PSA brought to you by: March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”
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  15346. "White like me, let him be" is the rule there.
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  15347.  @macconmara7252  I've steered those people to a video from Nov 9, 2016 (less than a week after the election) where Trump called himself the president-elect. But logic is as wasted on them as medicine is on corpses :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHpM_s9knI
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  15348. Pretty sure that's the intended result. These guys are the American Taliban.
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  15349. True Trumpanzees are as immune to facts and logic as a corpse is to medicine. Just shovel them into a hole and leave some thoughts and prayers. They've checked out.
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  15350. The delusional ones aren't going to just go away when Trump loses the election, when he's in prison, or when he finally shuffles off to hell. The oppositional defiance disorder of his followers has been cranked high and might need some help coming back down to normal.
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  15351.  @netherkevin  It was just like when you see a goat or a cow stuck in the top of a tree, and you ask, how did that thing get up there? Such was Trump's time in the white house. He could never pass a HS level civics test.
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  15352. Trump had already made clear his intent to spread the disease far and wide (among regular people, that is, not among his inner circle) in order to achieve "herd mentality" (his words, LOL) .. this is him doing what he said he would do. Pay attention, people, sheesh.
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  15353. Sad that a propagandist news host is the one telling the press secretary to do the job that the white house chief of staff was supposed to be doing.
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  15354. The Carlson/Trump thing was like watching Lord Haw-Haw interview Hitler :(
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  15355. All they're going to do anyway is lie and/or take the fifth. The word of Trump's cultists isn't worth a festering bowl of dog snot thrown at the wall.
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  15356. And yet - this is the same guy who makes Republican voters feel weak in the knees about the thought of him setting up a fascist dictatorship here.
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  15357. Fascists always forget that after they've had their fun comes the Nuremburg season ender. Don't want to give the plot away, but it always leaves them hanging ..
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  15358. Good thing the governors are (mostly) smarter than Fatty Tweety. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/17/us/covid-19-mothers-day-church-exposure/index.html
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  15359. History shows that the use of terms such as "vermin", "filth", "animals" etc (towards the scapegoat class) means the camps soon follow.
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  15360. Let's face it, the Venn diagram of morons, nitwits, malcontents, and Trump supporters looks like an archery target.
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  15361. So Zeldin is essentially saying that if Trump shot someone on 5th ave, he's off the hook because the transcripts don't show him talking about it explicitly? Huh, that's going to set off quite the crime wave if everyone adopts that way of thinking.
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  15362. No way is the laptop admissible as evidence .. the chain-of-custody has been completely f'ed up.
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  15363. 45 will be long gone, someday, yet the dishonor of having slavishly cooperated with him (if not serving his entire whim) will still be on them.
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  15364. I'm just glad that politically-unviable Trump is doing it (he'll never be in office again) and not an even worse fascist creature like DeSatan of Florida. Shades of "It Can't Happen Here".
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  15365. The Democrats will nominate who they want .. and a vote that way is a vote against Trump. Nice try though.
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  15366. Also not going to live under a dictatorship, or a president who lost the election but got some partisan dimwits to install him anyway.
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  15367. I never knew of him prior to his disgusting racist editorial calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, haven't liked him one bit - and he's as slimy now as he was then.
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  15368.  @ttmallard  Besides the antiviral masks (and lots of gloves) the one thing we need is the antibody test. People who are confirmed to be immune to it will be urgently needed in healthcare, food delivery, emergency services, any customer-facing position.
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  15369. Not sure you can reach those people. Too many of them follow the path of Louie Gohmert. Some people learn only through personal experience, without which the suffering and death of other people is meaningless to them.
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  15370. @Banjo Shamen Seems like you're unfamiliar with the story of Louie Gohmert who, through his persistent denial of the reality of the virus, not only contracted it himself but likely spread it to others. Smart people can learn from the experiences of others, but the rest learn only from having it happen to them personally.
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  15371. That's more entertainment than news.
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  15372.  @barnabyrobert2564  Bingo. What did he do? What did his kids do?
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  15373.  @carolbynum705  Tune to a different video if you want that stuff, this is clearly local news and not national news. Duh.
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  15374.  steve crawford  I'm echoing what the sleeping masses say to each other in the US and in most mainstream US news. Most people I know personally are not even dimly aware of covid-19, let alone the implications of what will happen if it "goes viral" here in the US. You'd think they'd notice that the world's most totalitarian nations can't keep this thing from spreading, but nooooooo.
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  15375.  @iTube22100  McGregor does guest appearances on Russia Today, which is about where his loyalties lie.
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  15376.  @iTube22100  That's got to be the lamest attempt possible to put words into someone else's mouth. Sounds like you got a bad case of Putin Derangement Syndrome.
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  15377. Put it this way .. Fox News is the electrolytes they crave.
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  15378.  @jaktam8765  Err, the disease will affect everyone equally regardless of race or political affiliation, so no, it's not an excuse for conservatives to gun down whoever they don't like.
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  15379.  @Danette1959  Bingo. People test positive AFTER getting released back into the general public. Guess Japan and Cambodia are next up to the party :(
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  15380.  @Danette1959  Trust me, I'm not at all happy with the situation :( this is looking to be like the 1918 pandemic :(
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  15381.  @Danette1959  Show me the proof. Otherwise it sounds like you're just repeating Q-Anonsense here.
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  15382.  @Danette1959  "Look it up" on FOXed Noise, Q-Anonsense, Alex Jones, FakeBook? Those are all purveyors of misleading information. What you say is just not true. It belongs in those grocery-store checkout-line newspapers that talk about two-headed alien babies being born to ordinary housewives.
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  15383. Not only that, but he probably told Putin, please, sir, I'd like another. Jeez what a spineless draft dodging idiot coward.
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  15384.  @projectedone  So, making it illegal to speak Ukrainian, changing the names of everything to Russian names, making Russian cities assume the rebuilding costs of sister cities in the conquered territories, taking large numbers of children away to Russify them - these things are not integrating those places into Russia? Err ok.
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  15385. And this makes Putin very happy. Just what he wanted Republicans to do.
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  15386. And look at his followers, who believe his every lie. There's a mental health crisis right out in the open.
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  15387. Correct. This is water that would have been used only for irrigation later during the year. Cheeto likes to mete out punishment. He enjoys cruelty.
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  15388. The transcripts of Gym Jordan's calls with Chump45 that day ought to be interesting. The folks at DOJ are more than capable of getting those items.
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  15389. On the plus side, Musk is starting to make many historical traitors & criminals seem better by comparison.
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  15390. About Israel - any bets that Trump sold some of their defense secrets?
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  15391.  @raepettymathre  Elon always was an insane, batsht liar. It is just more obvious now to more people.
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  15392. No. That thing pulls crazy gees getting to target.
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  15393. Nothing like a massive emergency to flush out the trolls who fan the fires of hate .. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  15394. I assume a speedy release is coming soon for the homeless crazy meth head who torched Reo's Ribs in Portland.
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  15395. It's like going to an NRA meeting, sneaking into the parking lot, plastering Biden/Harris stickers on a third of the cars, then retreating to a safe distance as nature takes its course. Pop pop pop.
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  15396. Still winning? The Conquest-o-Meter has been stuck at around 19% for months now. What do they need, another 750+ days to push it up to 20% territory taken? Some great military. And, aside from the battle of Kasham, Ivan hasn't yet experienced a dustup with a first rate military.
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  15397. Exactly. The local public library keeps better track of their stuff.
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  15398.  @desireesalas5820  Mike Pence displayed some some combined spiritual + medical talent during his "pray the gay away" thing in Indiana to combat HIV, so maybe he can do the same for coronavirus.
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  15399. The Republicans are the US version of the Taliban. They need to go away and I'm not caring how.
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  15400. Funny mustache guy (Germany) shook down the industrialists after he took over .. 45 is asking for advance payments to fund the next takeover attempt. Stand back and stand by, friends.
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  15401. Without Fox Gaslighting keeping the sheeple misled, I doubt 45 would get more than 5% share of the votes. He's like David Duke with orange make-up and delusions of grandeur.
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  15402. Obviously, standing in front of an appreciative crowd and telling enormous lies is one of the things Trump is addicted to.
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  15403. Republicans - please save a few of yourselves for Hannibal Lecter. All lives matter, right? ;)
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  15404. You can't blame this on anyone except Trump and the GOP. Trump's got 11 secret service people and 3 white house staffers who've tested positive, so he makes everyone wear masks and has them tested daily. Yet hundreds of millions of Americans still can't get tests. He won't let anyone work near him without getting tested daily, yet he tells everyone else to go back to work and don't worry about it. Obviously he knows there's a potentially fatal virus out there - he just doesn't care if ordinary Americans die from it.
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  15405. @OP It is a difficult job to convey to Cheeto culties just how much this long-running stability depends on a number of agreements being kept .. treaties being maintained .. military garrisons being kept .. posting the right ambassadors .. etc. They're like the 3yo kids who, after inheriting a property, decide that they don't need to pay taxes or upkeep on the building.
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  15406. About the children whose immigrant/refugee parents can't be found .. considering that Trump's administration broke several international laws by separating the families and by forcibly sterilizing women (both of these things are part of what landed the Nazis in the Nuremburg courts) it's not unreasonable to expect that the administration also broke other laws. The missing parents are probably buried in a pit out in the desert somewhere. As a human being, I am livid. Historically, whenever you have a populist wannabe-strongman guy calling certain people "scum", "vermin", "future criminals", "animals", "filth", there are parents and children being separated, there are people being held in camps, there are forced sterilizations, and there are bodies buried in pits somewhere. Time and time again the same sort of psychopaths get hauled to the Hague.
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  15407. Washington State started with one case on January 15th. Now it's up to 10,910. You can do certain kinds of work and business, you just have to make sure you can't breathe the same air as other people or touch the same stuff that other people touch.
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  15408. As George W Bush's administration said .. if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
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  15409. You don't understand. Wussolini HAD TO hold back on the coronavirus response long enough for him and his cronies to sell off stocks before the market crashed.
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  15410. OP: Try explaining that to the dedicated Z-bots! ;) They are pretty slow to understand. Let's consider some timeline from WW2 .. start the clock 22/6/1941 at the launch of Barbarossa. At the 590-day mark, the Soviets began turning it around by defeating the Nazis at Stalingrad, and on the 1417-day mark the Soviets ended it in Berlin. And right now the Russians are at day 807 of the Three Day SMO.
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  15411. The only time the orange chicken squawks and flaps this much is when he's in trouble. A good day for America.
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  15412. Yes. He bragged to the Axios reporter that the USA is ahead of the world. In #1 for cases and #1 for dead citizens, he obviously meant.
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  15413.  @cynicalskeptic838  Got it from combining a mis-translated line (from a Hitler rant parody) and the old Mr Feynman line. Tks
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  15414. Those states don't need schools anyway, or hospitals, or elder care homes. City kids will be just fine. That's where all the GDP is anyway .. and 70% of the nation's GDP comes from the counties that voted for Biden in 2020. 50% of the nation's population lives in urban areas of 1million or greater. Hope the folks with a modicum of sense can move out of Gilead.
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  15415. Hint: it's not an act :(
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  15416.  @el_chavez  You say "company town", I say "people farm" :(
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  15417.  @MistedMind  Can we honestly expect 45 to remember, as he was banging hookers during that time span?
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  15418. Makes you wonder if Tom Cotton was this much a piece of shit way back in high school, or did he become that way later?
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  15419.  @larrybrown1864  Yeah OK Mr Oaf Tweaker. Except all Antifa ever did was go after fascists. They never tried to overthrow the election results at the behest of the guy who lost the election. Republicans are saying that the VP has the right to pick the election winner by casting aside votes that s/he doesn't like. So they are OK with Kamala Harris deciding the 2024 election results?
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  15420. In the same way that you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs, you also can't carry out a coup without breaking a few laws in the process. Just vote them all out. They have no regard for the law anyway, as you can see by the way McConnell once claimed that 8 months before an election was much, much, much too close to the election to seat a SCOTUS judge.
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  15421. That's not even remotely plausible, since everyone knows the maga types spend their waking hours insisting that Obama was violating the constitution only they can't explain exactly how or even when.
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  15422. Basically the same way Charles Manson's followers didn't notice that he was just a crazy, longhair hippy with murderous intentions.
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  15423. Trump can't resist showing off his criminality and incompetence .. part of his wannabe-gangster swagger :(
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  15424. You may recall when Trump broke numerous other laws. One of the more egregious examples was when he ordered border agencies to separate refugee children at the southern border and put them out for blind adoption. This was in violation of a number of international treaties to which the US is a signatory, particularly Hague 33. Everyone who had a hand in it needs to be in the Hague in handcuffs. Where's that rat Stephen Miller?
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  15425. I like presidents who don't return calls to hangry felons.
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  15426. So Trump probably wants the schoolbooks to read something like, "Blacks in Africa were rescued from their primitive ignorance by white American philanthropists, who escorted them to America, gave them nice jobs, and showed them the wisdom of Christianity. They were perfectly happy until those evil commie Democrats came along and tried to make things look bad."
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  15427.  @ldark1773  Oh no. When you see the PB's lining up for something shady, call the police and let those mfers find out what law and order is all about.
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  15428.  Alec Wren  My own grandfather? Yes. And I'm happy to borrow his M1A if it comes time to continue fighting the foot soldiers of that depraved maniac.
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  15429. Actually Mike Pence IS in fact a lawyer .. he earned a law degree from Indiana University before entering private practice.
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  15430. Wow, Cheeto's culties havee gone full Lenin in terms of the crazy.
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  15431. I remain convinced that Moscow Mitch McConnell will squash the trial just as he did to Obama's supreme court pick, many of Obama's other appointments, and the nearly-300 pieces of House-passed legislation. Our founding fathers didn't anticipate a crooked Senate president acting in conjunction with a crooked president and a crooked media arm to disinform swaths of Americans prone to ethnonationalist sentiments.
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  15432. But that's not going to stop them from shoveling the coal even harder on a runaway train, is it? Instead they are forcing themselves to carry a nonviable candidate to term.
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  15433. The same draft-dodger bully who cowered in the white house basement came out from under his rock to tell everyone else to "dominate".
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  15434. Very nice use of the phrase "peace in our time". Popularized by Neville Chamberlain when he believed Hitler's lies. Wow did he get rolled.
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  15435. It was incredibly irresponsible of Trump to announce his own immanent arrest. What's he trying to do, cause the largest liquor store run in US history?
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  15436. 45's viewpoint is from the Upside Down.
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  15437.  @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing  Correct. Being totally embarrassing is like being stupid or being dead - it primarily affects the people around you.
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  15438. Slavery "benefited" African-Americans the same way those thick blankets of volcanic ash "benefited" Pompeii.
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  15439.  @lewiskazzamo230  Re "the libs fall for it and let it be a talking point" << Sort of like the way the Treasury Dept foolishly let Al Capone's tax evasions become a "talking point", right, and live rent-free in their brains?
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  15440.  @lewiskazzamo230  Ah, OK, I misunderstood, sorry.
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  15441.  Charles Anthony  Back during & before the Great Depression (when wealth+income inequality were about as bad as they are now) the rich had to deal with a fair amount of bombing and shooting incidents. If that's already ramping up here, the news doesn't seem to cover it.
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  15442. Fringe snake-oil "cures" for fringe people.
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  15443. Nostalgia has a funny way of blurring people's memories. Most people remember their childhood as "simpler times".
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  15444. How ironic, the same people who say Americans don't need testing before returning to work won't let anyone work around them unless they get tested daily.
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  15445. 45 is a genius only to dullards .. a successful businessman only to clock-punchers .. a rich person only to poor folk. To the rest of us, he's just a con man and a stinky one at that.
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  15446. It's scary, and it continues to get worse. There's barely a single frayed shoelace connecting those people to any kind of objective reality .. what happens when it breaks completely?
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  15447. Trump's negative characteristics were on full public display long before he sought office. Weirdly enough, some Americans looked upon Trump, his racism, his narcissism, his inability to refrain from constantly lying .. and they thought, yeah, I'll vote for him. Wtf?
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  15448. Did he reminisce about that time the American revolutionary army seized the airports back in the 1770s?
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  15449. Yah. It's almost not fair to send in those kinds.
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  15450.  @SWTmel  Especially when McConnell blocked 82 of Obama's appointments (for reference, a total of 86 presidential appointments had been blocked for all of American history combined) only so Trump could fill seats with partisan hacks. Remember when Mitch said 9 months before an election was much too soon?
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  15451. The only question is - when will the nationwide block parties be?
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  15452.  @robertvanruyssevelt7159  Well, he has few enough supporters to win him the general election, but still way too many to put into prisons and mental hospitals. With every indictment, with every judgement against him, with every hateful thing he says, Trump continues to lose more of his cult sheeple. This is the "gentle, slow" option.
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  15453. Fine. We can only imagine the slave ad they would write for her. "Atrociously dumb blonde with whiny voice. Trade for gaming computer OBO."
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  15454. Trump is like Charles Manson on steroids. By their words and deeds, you can see which dummies get sucked into the cult following.
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  15455. This makes me want to open a copium clinic full of Trump merch, his speeches on screens inside, some really good coffee, no masks, etc - and just let them infect each other with covid. Turning blue at home is probably the kindest way for them to purge off the voter rolls.
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  15456. Pretty sure the GOP is going to try saying that the election results are invalid because they were influenced by the impeachment. They've floated portions of the test balloon repeatedly.
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  15457. Economy, inflation, and the border are not safe topics for 45. The stock market has been much better under Biden, 45 added a record level of government debt, and 45 torpedoed the best border security overhaul in decades.
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  15458.  @leduck1000  Re "What we're doing is strange." << No, what we're doing this time is not at all strange. You seem to have lived a sheltered life so far, seeing as how you apparently have never been in the same room as a history book. Try again after you've done a couple decades of reading history. Maybe some of the rubles you earn here can buy you some books.
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  15459.  @leduck1000  " I don't know what your argument is" << The roots of that lie in your inability to contemplate ideas outside of the extremely narrow cone of what you accept as reality. If you think that Moscow, after carving off pieces of Ukraine by force, is somehow going to make Ukraine welcome them by surrounding them with force again, you seem to not understand much of how the world works. It is a lesson in consent which you will understand better once you're on the receiving end of it. And I know people who can help you get through that lesson. Oh, and nitwits are fair game for attacks. Why else would they put their stupidity on full public display?
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  15460. Ratfcked actually. But but but but Hunter's laptop!
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  15461. Trump at 15 cases: Within a couple of days, it'll be close to zero. 9,000 cases: It's a war. I'm a wartime president! 80,000 cases: We're safe. Let's reopen America! 250,000 cases: I'm not responsible! 644,000 cases: I believe the USA has passed the peak in infections. 925,000 cases: Can we look into injecting disinfectant to make it go away?
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  15462. It is kind of spooky that Drumpf and his bloc of senators are acting as if there won't be any 2020 elections :(
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  15463. She has all the content of a cheap plastic bottle partly full of bleach - which happens to be what all good white supremacists should drink to prove their whiteness inside and out.
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  15464. Bizzarely enough, Repubs are fine with 45 using military resources to take out political opponents, but somehow not OK with the notion of those same powers being misused against them. What gives? Did they get dropped on their heads a lot as children?
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  15465. They deserve to be out of power for a couple generations over what they've done. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of traitor-loving fascists.
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  15466.  @federalreservebrown2507  Those would go under group B, with Israel being their single-issue thing that lets them overlook all the other harm Trump and the Republicans are committing. Good comment though.
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  15467. Meantime, his deluded cult nutters will call it 5D chess to insult the judge and threaten the jury.
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  15468. And this is why covid spread so thoroughly here in the US while most other nations had initially stopped it better. Also why we can't have nice things :(
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  15469. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. Sad! Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it! Trump: I give myself a 10/10 score for handling this tremendously.
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  15470.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  That's "former Republican vice president Pence" not Pence-the-citizen as you seem to have some trouble with. What Republicans support him? According to the numbers, the Trump-Pence ticket got 74,223,975 votes. So about that many.
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  15471.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  So you're prognosticating about future election outcomes which haven't yet taken place. Lunacy. Go take your meds.
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  15472.  @silver3149  I am just wondering how long it will take.
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  15473.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  Fascist? Speak for yourself. Shill for the same party that rejects election results and embraces political violence. That's fascism. That's you.
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  15474.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  Well, the lack of evidence speaks for itself. At least for those whose minds are not wired for conspiracy theories uber alles.
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  15475.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  Oh, there's plenty unsourced, unsubstantiated rumor to the effect of what you're saying. It's just not actual news when someone makes it up because it gets them more clickshare in Q-tip land.
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  15476.  @ecurewitz  Here's exactly what Trump said on this very subject: "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now." Donald Trump 9/26/2019
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  15477. A pocket constitution? Wipes? Compass? Phone?
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  15478. In fact, the cultists may not even wait for Trump to lose the election.
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  15479. Do you know what's sad, pathetic, and scary all together? It's the prospect that the thing that MUST happen almost surely will not happen. Enraged by violent rhetoric and by false claims of election malfeasance, a mob committed acts of terror and insurrection in the nation's capitol. This has placed the Republicans in a very tough decision place that's entirely of their own making. What they MUST do is get in front of all the cameras on all the stations, and explain to the public their role in spreading, amplifying, going along with Trump's lies about the integrity and the results of the election. But they won't, because they're craven, and because it would destroy them as a political party. Unfortunately there is no other way of releasing all the inflamed passions and anger that they just ginned up. Nations tear themselves apart for lesser lies than the ones that Trump has told and that the Republicans have gone along with. What the GOP will probably do next is go along with the election results (since they can no longer avoid that) while still pretending that they have not participated in the gross lies about the election. Their 74 million falsely aggrieved morons are the base that the GOP cannot afford to lose. So I doubt they will put more than the bare minimum amount of lip service into disavowing current and future pro-Trump terrorists. So that's what America is facing next: a domestic insurgent class of enraged Trumpanzees who might not be behaving very well at all. With a little help, they seem to have reached a critical mass of self-sustaining idiocy. There's absolutely nothing in our laws that will keep the Alex Joneses and the Rush Limbaughs and the Josh Hawleys from spinning bogus yarns about how the DC insurrectionists were just Antifa in disguise running a false-flag operation; how the librul deep state has secretly and successfully forced all but a few brave conservatives (Trump, Cruz, Hawley) to tell a complete lie about the integrity and the results of the election .. and so on. They fiction outlets are already busy throwing out new lies to keep the sheeple angry, misinformed, and allergic to the truth.
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  15480. Did he mean to say that "barely winning" is not actually winning? That 11,780 is not greater than 11,779 (since it's "barely winning") and therefore should be called fraudulent?
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  15481.  @andrew_owens7680  Thank you. Stay safe :)
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  15482. His botched covid19 response cost us hundreds of thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.
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  15483. Just 2 days ago I was in a certain Oregon coastal town, and stopped at an open restaurant. The waitress assured me that people were being good about masks. In the half hour that I was there, unfortunately, three different parties of 2-4 people wandered in without wearing masks, and no one from the restaurant did anything to correct their behavior.
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  15484. You think they'd have the basic sense to recognize a scam when they're being told to break the law, but nooooo .. definitely not the sharpest eggs in the carton.
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  15485. There are no corona family viruses (the flu; the common cold; H1N1; covid-19; etc) that humanity has ever developed herd immunity to. AIDS has been around 40 years and still there's no herd immunity. The idea is a fantasy and no more.
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  15486. It's not a quarantine, it's a staycation. Perhaps others from CPAC will follow suit.
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  15487. Err, allow me to present a more reasonable question .. would the United States be any more reasonable if every nation on earth had nuclear arms? (rhetorical question)
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  15488. "Nikki's rising the polls? Who ever heard of such a thing? I never heard of such a thing." 😅
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  15489. Nothing like a whole bunch of 155mm howitzers and a couple pallets of guided rounds to tell Ivan to get going while he still can.
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  15490. Schoolchildren can't buy elections.
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  15491. To be sure, that 44% has had a couple decades of brain rot (gaslighting) via Rupert Murdoch's disinformation services. DO NOT let them set up shop in your own country.
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  15492. I want to hear his conversations with other states. Ought to make for excellent evidence - against him, in court.
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  15493. Sounds like she needs some social awareness re-education. Those weren't criminals who attacked her home .. those were misunderstood people. Nothing to see, just move along.
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  15494. Those who can be convinced of absurdities are easily-motivated to commit atrocities.
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  15495.  @williams8953  As Liz Cheney details in her new book "Oath and Honor", certain individuals (like Mike Johnson, Rudy Guliani, and others) are strangely vulnerable to Trump's lies & gaslighting. When they get suckered in, they'll do anything for him.
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  15496. Someone close to Trump must be making lots of $$$$$$$ off his serial pumping-and-dumping. If you know the inflections 3 hours in advance, you could make a killing.
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  15497. Here in Oregon, the numbers tell us that a given county needs to have 60% or more of their 16+ yo population vaccinated in order to generate continuous week-over-week decreases in the rates of new cases. Unfortunately some rural counties here are hundreds of days away from achieving even 60% vaccination at current rates of progress. New variants will be upon those places well before they get vaccinated enough. A ticking time bomb :(
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  15498. Correction, Trump is earning money for himself by selling it to Russia.
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  15499.  @jstreets1983  Regarding "we need to split the nation in two" << No. We do not. Having a two-party state worked for the 240+ years right up until that absolute shitbag Chump45 couldn't accept that he lost an election, and lied his base into committing insurrection. This is a mental health crisis, not a political crisis.
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  15500.  @jstreets1983  Why do you disagree? It's a plain fact that Chump lied about the integrity and results of the election. We don't break up America based on one man's lies, even if his name does end with "ump".
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  15501.  @jstreets1983  Would you care to give some examples of the "problems" you're attempting to solve by ripping the nation assunder?
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  15502. First Trump needs to find an effective way to manipulate some foreign country into manufacturing low-grade political dirt on Bernie's adult son, Levi Sanders. That's essentially what Pompeo and Ghouliani have been running around the world doing lately.
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  15503.  @leifcatt  You gotta understand that, to Trumpsters, a tape of Sidney Powell screeching at the camera is "proof". Look, if they could be swayed by facts and reason, they wouldn't be Trumpsters.
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  15504.  @Vycious2  Show the "proof". I like some morning giggles.
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  15505.  @philo3407  No, you elicited the laughter and derision that's worthy of anyone who points up at the sky and says "that direction is downward".
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  15506.  @philo3407  No. I'm just able to discern between whackjob propaganda and actual news. What you're trying to sell is the former, so, clearly, you're either delusional or lying. What you say is not supported by any of the top tier factual news services, which are AP, Reuters, Bloomberg.
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  15507.  @philo3407  No doubt it is "magic" to folks like you that some people are able to see propaganda that to your eye is invisible. That is because you are either uneducated in these things or just not very bright.
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  15508. We're now in the position of waiting for criminals to stop doing their crimes after the judge told them not to. They have already demonstrated their contempt for the law by breaking the law in the first place. These judges need sharper teeth and claws at their disposal.
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  15509. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain speaks again! 😅
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  15510. Is that the same "evidence" that's so invisible that every suit is being tossed out? You haven't got a single shred of it to share with us.
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  15511. By your logic, we shouldn't even bother with seat belts, traffic laws, airbags etc because lots of people survive driving motor vehicles.
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  15512.  @tbz1551  Bingo. Estimates are that 10-20% of covid survivors (even the ones with minor or asymptomatic cases) have lasting negative impacts on their health.
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  15513. More racist republican drivel. Sad thing is, there are still places in our country where people like her can pass as normal :(
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  15514.  @THECROWNROYALSHollywoodFashion  And look at how many fell for his completely-obvious snake oil, the main ingredient of which is a burning desire to end democracy as we know it.
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  15515. Is nothing to worry about, comrades, as leader Putin already said that Russian stuff catches fire all the time, Maybe some sailors or whoever were smoking carelessly.
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  15516. The Republican party has embraced institutional cruelty. This is the inevitable result.
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  15517. And, yet, it says many bad things about our society (indeed, about our government) that such a person could have ever gotten into office. The true measure of his four-year crime spree may not be known for years. A great many classified documents are still missing.
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  15518. The difference between Dr Anthony Fauci and someone's drunk uncle, Trump, is that one of them has a long history of public service, is experienced, is accredited, etc, and the other isn't fit to be the town dog catcher.
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  15519. It's more than that. It will require the Insurrection Party (formerly Republican) nutters going before crowds and cameras, all over the country, and fessing up that they went along with the Big Lie just to gain votes and win elections - that they'd rather burn down America than admit they did wrong.
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  15520.  @SunnyGirlFlorida  Michael Cohen came out the other day telling the remaining cultists that Trump will throw them away like a used condom. He talked about how many there was something wrong or missing in him (and them) that they would look to such a shady guy as their "savior" or "leader". Wow has he made progress understanding what he was a part of.
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  15521. In other words .. just say that it was McConnell, and let me and the Republican congressmen do the rest.
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  15522. Saint Darwin is having a field day, obviously.
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  15523.  @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER  What was Trump the greatest at? Losing? His first popular vote loss was 3M. Four years later that loss had widened to 8M votes. This works out to an annualized growth of 27% increase per year in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump. At that rate, his 2024 loss could be above 20M votes. He'll be in jail by then anyway and unable to hold any further office due to his crimes. So you may as well drink tequila and cry into your MyPillow.
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  15524.  @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER  No no no no re "margin of victory". Trump lost. It's that simple. He got way fewer votes than the other guy. You may as well be walking around screeching that Nazi Germany won WW2, when the only swastikas in sight are the ones worn by Trump's inbred followers.
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  15525. As of today, there are more than 216,000 Americans for whom covid wasn't a blessing from god, and they didn't get the same expensive treatment that he got, that he refused to pay his taxes for. What a disgusting loser tool :(
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  15526. If fascism comes to the United States, it will only be from the Republicans opening the doors and ushering it into our halls of power. Their current foundation of lies has no other outcome.
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  15527. Even Republicans admit that facts have a liberal bias, so it's only in the best interests of America to give the courts a liberal majority.
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  15528. Trump's America wants all the rights of the title "leader of the free world" but absolutely none of the responsibilities of it. That's Trump for you :(
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  15529.  @hoapres  He just wants the right to tell everyone what to do, unless they're a dictator he sucks up to.
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  15530.  @hoapres  Turning it into a backwards-looking, insular place is not in anyone's best interests, except perhaps those of his lord and master, Putin.
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  15531. Notice how the ranking Republicans are not stepping forward and telling their voters not to do these illegal things. Huh. Total silence from them.
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  15532. Watching the unvaccinated fill the hospitals and the morgues .. it reminds you that Saint Darwin works in a variety of ways.
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  15533.  @toneyingram732  When you meet the flim flam man, your first instinct is always the correct one.
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  15534.  @georgedennison3338  Here's what the Q shaman had to say for himself at his sentencing hearing back in November 2021. Was it just a bunch of fake tears for the sake of the court? For more than 30 minutes, Chansley spoke to judge Lamberth about the impact jail has had on him, and the guilt he feels for breaking the law. He said he was wrong to enter the Capitol on January 6, and that he is not an insurrectionist or domestic terrorist, but rather a “good man who broke the law.” His sprawling speech held the attention of the judge, as Chansley quoted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and “The Shawshank Redemption,” and described wanting to live his life like Jesus Christ and Gandhi. “The hardest part about this is to know that I’m to blame. To have to look in the mirror and know, you really messed up. Royally,” Chansley said. “I was in solitary confinement because of me. Because of my decision. I broke the law … I should do what Gandhi would do and take responsibility,” he says. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, that’s what men of honor do.” He promised to never have to be jailed again.
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  15535. Trump's traveling road show is a dark circus .. it stirs something in the dark hearts of his followers, and they ache for it when it is absent.
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  15536. Remember how the feds took the kid glove approach with the Bundy klan (wannabe insurrectionists) in order to avoid another Waco? Some of those same graduates of the Bundy School of Insurrection later graduated to armed invasions of state capitols during the pandemic (back when 45 kept telling them to resist health measures) and then graduated to invasion of the capitol in DC. Other countries rightfully squash this kind of nonsense much sooner in the process.
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  15537. Love that movie.
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  15538.  @jeffreyexposito3803  Begging for helicopter engines from all over the middle east and Africa too.
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  15539. It was not an act. Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth, that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned, that there were no terror attacks during his presidency, that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency, that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has, that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,” that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes, that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries, that Europe accepts no American cars, that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress, and that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election. He also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China. (Both records actually occurred under Trump.)
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  15540. On the plus side, Trump wasn't president when the Pearl Harbor attack took place. We've seen enough of him to know what he would have done: tweet about how the Emperor is a really swell guy, blame it on the Deomcrats, blame it on Obama, reminisce about his huge electoral college victory, go on FOXed to tell Hannity how these reports of the attack are just a hoax and fake news from Democrats.
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  15541. Trump was impeached twice for crimes he committed in full view. Those who voted to acquit are at best accomplices and at worst traitors. They own this. It's all over their hands.
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  15542. At every genuinely public appearance, from the 5th World Series game (Washington DC) and onward (including the NYC Veterans Day parade) he's heard boos and chants of "lock him up". History says rulers hearing that stuff typically go the way of the Ceausescu family soon after, that is if they don't flee the country ahead of an angry mob.
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  15543. I'm waiting to find out which off-duty capitol cops were among the insurrectionists. They would have had keys, passes, and intimate knowledge of the layout of the building.
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  15544. A corollary: US citizens belatedly fleeing the Tяump regime probably won't be welcome in too many places.
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  15545.  @VidarrKerr  In that respect, comrade Tяump is doing a fantastic job turning the USA into the world's biggest leper colony. No one wants to enter into new alliances with a nation that asked to buy Greenland, then said it was just a joke, then cancelled the meeting with Denmark over some cheesy reason, denied it had anything to do with Greenland, then only 2 weeks later said it was because the Greenland buy offer had been rejected. Who'd want to have anything to do with (take your pick) a lunatic nation or an idiot nation?
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  15546.  @VidarrKerr  Then there is the matter of violating a number of important treaties. So far he's violated the following: a) the 1947 UN-US Treaty, when he wouldn't issue a visa to an Iranian diplomat who wanted to come to the UN; b) the Geneva Convention, when he let Gallagher go despite mountains of evidence of his war crimes; c) the Geneva Convention, when he ordered the assassination of both Soleimani & Shahlai without provocation or evidence, and in other nations' territory without their knowledge or permission; d) the IAA and Hague 33, when he separated families at the border and detained them without due process as refugees.
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  15547. It would be funny watching them try that. Perhaps Putler isn't aware that civilians in the US can own .50BMG rifles? Griz is gonna smell the blood and come looking for food.
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  15548. What's happening in Florida is a good example of why covid isn't anything like the common flu. If the DeathSantis (or is it DeSatan?) approach were correct, Florida would have long ago reached herd immunity. Their no-masks keep-everything-open approach would spread it all over. Instead, the virus is still infecting and killing and spreading.
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  15549.  @karenmbbaxter  Roseanne went MAGA toxic cray-cray a long ways back. But then, Trump's greatest influence is over the weak-minded folks. Not only does it not work on the rest of us, it's repelling and it's very obvious, like a fresh turd in an elevator.
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  15550. Trump certainly picked his chosen minority - trans people, at 0.5% of the population. Hitler's chosen minority (the Jewish people) were 0.75% of the pre-war German population.
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  15551. If the GQP insists on re-running the numbers to try to prove that 2+2=5 .. why are they asking for public money instead of using Forrest Trump's money?
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  15552. The same way they're concerned about whether or not other people have access to feminine healthcare services. Mind you, these are the same people who called it "gub'mint overreach" when they were told to wear masks while a dangerous new disease was making the rounds.
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  15553. Sharing this gem of a comment posted recently by AC, a few days before the election: As a German this is my take: you have roundabout 50% of your voting society openly embracing fascism. If Biden really wins you will leave this battle fighting for democracy with a cracked skull, broken bones and missing teeth. This should have been a no-brainer. But yes.... America showed that 50% of those who even bothered showing up for a vote have no brain and openly embrace anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-constitutional tendencies. As much as your comment can serve as a band-aid for the terrorized souls of the other 50%: make no mistake, you will have to cut this cancer out or otherwise it will just continue to grow. What I have seen so far this year exactly mirrors German history 1933-1939. Be warned! And my heartfelt condolences to a possible loss of your democratic Republic!
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  15554. Daniel - sorry to post a second comment, but you are spot on. I have been trying to wake people up to this for the last few years. America's soft power depended on the rest of the world seeing us as a guarantor of peace, a reliable ally, the stewards of a global trading currency, the standard-bearer of democracy, and so on. Trump trashed all that. The whole world now knows that we're never more than 1 election away from having a crooked senate leader working in tandem with a crooked president to gum up the workings of democracy. And with the loss of all that, America will inevitably decline. The Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch types must be very proud of what they've accomplished :(
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  15555.  @saintnash1  These are some of the best books I've seen on that subject: William Shirer - Berlin Diary William Shirer - End of a Berlin Diary Harry Flannery - Assignment to Berlin Howard Smith - Last Train from Berlin
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  15556.  @riseoftheravensl.l.c.7898  Not looking for the Democrats to do much either. Chuck Schumer just went on his book tour. A book tour! Does he know that there may not be a democracy anymore in that time? Our legislative branch is either A) bought and paid for, or B) already assured of their place in the new order. Guessing B :(
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  15557.  @snaggalfrash9013  I've seen them in person. (Portland resident) You may wish to peruse youtube if you cannot get near them due to mobility issues.
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  15558. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Rafael Eduardo Cruz, May 3 2016.
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  15559. Makes you wonder if the US would these days be a lot more like western Europe without the massive drag effect of stuff like this going on.
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  15560.  @MacLuckyPTP  Err, you misinterpreted my concern for science-denying rural folk as "panic". On the contrary, I hope to pick up all kinds of stuff on the cheap at their estate sales. Saint Darwin is having a busy year with those idiots.
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  15561.  @MacLuckyPTP  Well, it helps to be attached to objective reality. All things being equal, that results in having capital available at your disposal and the senses to detect a bargain. So if those inbred science-denying yahoos want to die off, meh, the IQ of the state will only rise because of it.
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  15562. Just steer us all to the peer-reviewed studies on these things so we can see what you're talking about. Err, you DO have those peer-reviewed long-term studies, right? Because if not you'd just be bloviating.
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  15563. Putin's little sputniks aren't happy. They'd have better luck on PRAVDA Social, or whatever is the name of that new sucky platform.
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  15564. Won't see mirrors there. And some of them might not be visible in mirrors anyway. No, they won't do a thing to reflect on the way no Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote since 2004.
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  15565. Sounds like she didn't get the memo about how only 45 can say out loud that the cruelty is the point.
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  15566. And yet, a sizeable minority of Americans look at all his threats and bluster and lust for power at all costs, even if it means destroying America in the process .. and they think, yeah, he's the one. :(
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  15567.  @robsquared2  Instead, conservatives prefer to tell each other outrageous lies, hoping that one of their number commits a hammer attack or worse. That's why hardly any GOP leaders denounce the lies that keep their base misled and angry :( And that's why for the first time in my life I voted a straight D ticket.
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  15568. Even if Trump is sounding a lot like a fascist dictator, the nice thing is that he's never won a popular election and doesn't seem likely to ever again. Also, fascism has a pretty short lifespan .. by 1947, no one in Germany would have admitted to ever having supported the funny mustache guy. His appeal lies solely with the <92IQ crowd, the strongman-worship crowd, and the wannabe-fifth-columnist crowd.
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  15569. And yet, some of those same ignorant people probably bet on horse races enough to know that "who's the winner?" can change from moment to moment along the racetrack. Sigh.
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  15570.  @quantitativedemonstrations6799  It Trump can name his own people to run an agency or department, or if president Musk can have his little doge rats destroy its infrastructure, then it won't be around much longer.
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  15571. US cases are now over 7300 .. and by the time this comment is 6 hours old it will be even higher :( Considering that the virus has been silently circulating here since early January, and that no serious social distancing measures were implemented until 2 months later, the US will be at the top of the chart in weeks.
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  15572. Irrational especially.
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  15573.  @justinokraski3796  Re "there are strangers taking their places" << It's like the invasion of the pod people. Older Americans, who've lived all their lives in a relatively comfy democracy by world standards, suddenly decide it's time to upend democracy and install a dictator. All because he strokes their racism like no politician ever has. What the absolute F? We need large scale deprogramming efforts ASAP.
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  15574. I'd like to see them spending this kind of effort on the denial of coverage that people have paid for.
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  15575. Trump will do anything to keep his grift going. He may very well decide to hold a mock "inauguration ceremony" in Florida on March 4th on his own property or a public place - because there's no law forbidding an ex-president from doing that sort of thing, right? And yes, if the mock inauguration doesn't happen then, they'll just kick the can down the road and say it's been postponed until June 4th (or whatever). And at every step down, the Republican party will be losing voters, donors, politicians.
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  15576. One would expect that someone's told Putin that if he can invite other nations into the fray, so can Ukraine. Which wouldn't go well for Russia.
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  15577. Dr. Birx sat there fidgeting her hands when Trump asked her to look into injecting disinfectant. She stood next to him, silent, while he told America that covid-19 would just go away like a miracle, sometimes it goes away when the weather gets warmer, but it goes away. This is a little late for her to worry about losing credibility. Being the devil's doormat is dirty business.
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  15578.  Helen R  Re "Same as Putler did Hitler.. London blitzkrieg.. and made Brits more resilient" << Correct. Putler is manufacturing more Ukrainian patriots - angry ones that will not rest until Putler's head is on a stick.
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  15579. Republicans tend to put their OWN children in private schools that have metal detectors and better security. When it comes to other folks' children, however, they obviously don't give a shyte.
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  15580.  @wreckinbal  Funny how there isn't even a single Democrat doing now what you claim they're doing - but that's probably because the only "facts" in your feed are the alternate kind made up by nutballs. You just like the flavor of a comfy lie in your mouth, is all.
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  15581.  @jillionairess  Bingo. Republican politicians don't give a shyte if ordinary kids get gunned down in public schools. But their own kids are in private schools with good security.
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  15582.  @digitalnow3697  You do a pretty job pretending that nothing's changed since the late 70s.
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  15583. Wow. History of the 1918 pandemic doesn't seem to mention any Americans being so nutty, so stupid, so misled that they conflated necessary public health measures with totalitarianism. How about we provide these Trumptards with a separate enclosed area where they can congregate all day long and whine about how unfair it is that the authorities are behaving responsibly? Surely we can GoFundMe this and provide them with free covfefe - err, free coffee too. Let the trash take itself out.
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  15584. Why not? He's F'd up the world economy quite a lot, and no one makes any money off that. What little his properties & Ivanka's Chinese patents have made is far offset by how much everyone else has lost.
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  15585. Another one who Trump has f'd and ch'd. New applicants walk past the enormous pile of them and think, nah, it won't happen to me, I'm special.
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  15586. She'll do well at OANN.
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  15587.  @mzkarmageddon2  Absolutely!!
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  15588.  @volfi123  Putin would be most pleased with that.
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  15589. The 81,283,495 people who voted for Biden and those who support the rule of law in the USA are looking good enough. The dimwits who voted for a guy who checks off every single box on the "characteristics of fascism" list, and the Republicans supporting his attempt to overturn the election, are looking like they should call themselves the Benedict Arnold party.
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  15590. Trumpers before 1/6: “We’re gonna invade the Capitol!” Trumpers on 1/6: “We’re invading the Capitol!” Trumper’s after 1/7: “It was Antifa! Really! Those pictures of me there are deep fakes! I thought I deleted them all! :(”
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  15591. Another expensive nothingburger investigation. Like the 10 Benghazi investigations. Like the investigation into how many laws Obama broke by wearing a tan suit.
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  15592. Dump's inner cabal know damn well they're guilt AF. When asked if Kamala Harris would be allowed to pick Joe Biden's successor via the same machinations that he tried, John Eastman said "hell no".
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  15593. His biography should be called, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in."
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  15594. Bunker Boy is so vain, there could be a crowd of 1 million outside the white house calling for his head on a stick, and he'd be tweeting about the big crowd he's drawn. Maybe Carly Simon really did write that song about him after all.
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  15595. Good morning from a hypothetical country! Yesterday I was most incensed that too many people weren't wearing masks when they went into stores. Don't even get me started about how the governor refuses to consider making masks mandatory. The official responses can be called a sh!t show. People must themselves figure out how best to survive, since the government is next to useless in terms of help.
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  15596. This is what used to be called fraud back in the days before Trump normalized it.
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  15597. If the GOP want to make a circus out of themselves, why should Biden stop them?
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  15598. "Doctor" OZ the cranky nutball. Trump sure knows how to pick losers.
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  15599. Old Sparky is being dusted off as we speak, and the guillotine blades are being sharpened. Being nice to traitors is a waste of good kindness.
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  15600.  @Userhasbeenbanned0  Correct. We have barely seen an inkling of what the orange cult leader can spin his flying monkeys to do. It will almost certainly get much, much worse. Thankfully we've got lots of prison space for that type.
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  15601. That is precisely the same demographic that FOX 'news' is most aimed at. Easily-misled angry sundowners.
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  15602. Can't wait to hear Trump's supportniks whining that EVERYONE commits mail fraud, so why focus on Trump? And of course they will be unable to prove that everyone does such, but to the cult mind, that hardly matters.
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  15603. Dr John - sorry to say this, but the USA is to the rest of the world what Florida is to the USA. The thing with the gun giveaway is true. Any bets on whether the gun ends up being used in a mass shooting? :(
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  15604. Hint: the cancellation is a feature, not a bug, and it's the coronavirus that's calling the shots. "It will all go away .. like a miracle"
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  15605. Obviously Trump and his people are envisioning a different kind of America. One with lots of barbed wire, concentration camps, and people just disappearing :(
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  15606.  @avalon4445  One thing Putin has got in common with Hitler is that he claims to be "saving" the same people he's bombing to death. With "help" like that, who needs enemies?
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  15607. Can just imagine the texts going back and forth. * Trump pings Lindsey Graham * Lindsey: Call off your hogs, it's getting hot in here Trump: Hey, uh, word is that my guys, my beautiful people, have almost got Pence. It's almost finished. Gonna be a whole new world by tomorrow morning Lindsey: Don't say that Trump: And the reason I'm calling is to give you a chance to be a part of it. But we have to be clear, very clear. What can you do for me? How can you be helpful to me?
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  15608. Sorry, but the Republicans have had almost 3 years to do something about this. To stand up for the people they represent. To uphold traditional Republican values of fiscal conservancy and being tough on crime. To separate themselves from his policies, his beliefs, his racism. To keep his racism from infecting the nation. To prevent him from waging stochiastic terror on minorities here in the US. To prevent him from trashing our closest allies and trading partners. To keep him from trashing international goodwill by withdrawing willy-nilly from any treaty that angered him. To remake the party into a foil on an insane despot of a president. To hold him accountable when he ran off the rails. To laugh to his face when he tweeted some illogical falsehood, and to take him to the woodshed when his implied or overt racism emerged. Instead, they were weak, cowardly, greedy, afraid he might tweet something mean at them. I have zero sympathy for Republicans and how they will be losing big in elections for more than a generation to come. They own this mess.
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  15609. This is off topic, but .. local Portland newspeople have already picked up on how the armed barricaded folks at the Red House Occupation Zone assaulted a member of the press. That's something that right-wingers do all the time (Trump has been calling journalists "enemies of the people" all along) but left-wingers hardly ever do if at all. What are the odds that in the city that Trump would most like to smear, an apparent armed left-wing group emerges just when Trump most needs an excuse to declare martial law?
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  15610. Our household has 5 ballots and they're all voting full blue slate. Time to show the MAGA nutters we mean business.
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  15611.  @pickledragonrebel  Most of the rest of America is going to have to get their heads in the game and go into "stand back and stand by" mode as angry Trump cultists act out. I do not think the cult leader will exit the stage gracefully .. most likely he'll try to burn everything down if he cannot get his way.
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  15612. Funny how those GOP weirdo politicians are in shock when they step out of the RWNJ echo chambers they exist in.
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  15613. In his previous abortion of an administration, Trump already did send some "lite" versions of military into at least once city in particular - a place that said "FU" to him, Portland, Oregon. He sent an allied force that normally operate just over the border. They did some person-snatching and beating-up out of white vans.
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  15614. Since Obama still lives rent-free in Trump's mind, I hope he trolls the bejeebus out of Trump by releasing PSA's about how Xi and Putin let themselves have third terms .. then sit back and make some popcorn.
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  15615. Correct. This is the warmup for another coup, only more widespread and more violent than before. Let's make sure it's just an attempt, if that's how they want to roll.
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  15616. Interestingly, those were the same people who whined that the ACA meant "government death panels". As with everything else - wrong stuff is magically OK when Republicans do it.
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  15617. So many MAGA tears, all the cars will be clean.
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  15618.  @portiawilcox3120  Scared of inbreds who can't spell and who've got delusions of grandeur? Nah, that's not scary, just funny and sad.
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  15619. Republicans are finally getting their wish - a drag queen is being prosecuted. They're just unhappy that it's one of their own 😅👍
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  15620. What the Republican party says with that stunt is that they don't need or want Hispanic votes.
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  15621. Trumpism doesn't exist in a vacuum - like a virus, it needs live hosts to infect. Unfortunately a lot of Americans vote for Trumpism like good little chickens voting for Colonel Sanders :(
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  15622.  @AbsoluteNut1  Sure, but couldn't they find a way to do it without destroying the nation? Makes folks miss the good old days when the only "community" the crazies had was World Weekly News, with its screaming headlines like "NJ Housewife Gives Birth to Two-Headed Alien Baby - That's Already Pregnant!"
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  15623. Madame DeFarge has been paged and is on the way.
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  15624. And that's what happens when you try to ignore the prevalence of the virus during a raging pandemic. Pretty soon every classroom will be closed. Just like the summer camp and the cruise learned the hard way - the virus is all over the place right now. This is the time to hunker down and avoid people and crowds as much as possible.
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  15625. You can get rid of #1, because, by the strangest coincidence, most of those who referred to the George Floyd murder protests as "traumatizing" were perfectly OK with the 2020 election loser trying to overthrow the government. You can get rid of #2, because the same exists all up and down the west coast. You can also get rid of #3, as the Portland Police Bureau is currently enjoying its highest level of funding ever.
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  15626.  @ad_astra468  When the British tried to retake the USA in the War of 1812, they too referred to American forces as the aggressors. It is part of how aggressors try to avoid acknowledging that they are the baddies.
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  15627. And knowing Drumpf, he wouldn't mind it if his buddies (Xi, Putin, KJU) sent some troops to help pacify the streets.
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  15628. FOXed Noise has gone the way of the communist party apparatchiks who had much private luxury for themselves while preaching the joys of "less is more" to everyone else.
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  15629. There is no other way for some people to learn. So let's help them.
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  15630. In the end, all he could do was get those Proud Boys / Oaf Tweakers / 3% misfits to try to enact his plan: "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Donald Trump 9/23/2020
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  15631. Truly, the crazy is strong with these people.
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  15632. Ukraine did not sink the Russian warship. A lit cigarette accidentally touched off the ship's enormous reserves of vodka, and now the ship is operating in submarine mode.
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  15633. You mean like the way Democrats pushed Al Franken out over accusations against him, whereas Republicans ignore Gym Jordan's history or Trump's insurrection attempt? Not all teams are the same.
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  15634. Portland 1, Trump goons 0. You could have predicted this from the way no one wanted to stand near then attorney-general Jeff Sessions (AKA the little Nazi keebler elf) who in fact left quickly with his tail between his legs.
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  15635. This explains the simultaneous duckface/horseface thing. Excellent.
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  15636. Right. Those are sources that a) haven't been charged yet or b) have completely turned states witness in exchange for a deal.
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  15637. Sometimes it takes a higher power to help defenestrate the fascists.
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  15638.  @DoctorProph3t  Weirdly enough, Republicans are OK with adult men marrying 12yo girls, but then they freak out over trans people merely existing. Never heard of this Dylan person until now.
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  15639. What Putler is doing to Russia is absolutely horrible. Russia had still not recovered from the demographic damages done in WW2. Sending off 2-3 generations of men to die in Ukraine is not going to help. The West will continue to provide ever more sophisticated (and deadly) weapons to Ukraine the longer this continues.
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  15640. Zelinskyy will be forever famous for, "I don't need a ride out - I need ammo!" Talk about stepping up to the plate. They'll still be naming high schools after him a century from now.
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  15641. Huh, they didn't think Trump was a problem back when he was trashing our best allies, sucking up to dictators, extorting our allies, minimizing a pandemic, and spending almost all his time either golfing or rage-tweeting. Wonder what woke them up to this.
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  15642. Jeez, all she has to do is wait a few weeks. At the rate that RI's cases-per-million rate is doubling (up 175.1% in a week) they're about 7 weeks away from 100% of the population being infected.
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  15643. Dump has already made it clear he has no compunctions about blurting anything to anyone.
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  15644. Let's take comfort in Trump's complete lack of self control. He would rather let Biden be president for a thousand years than see DeSatan be president for 5 seconds.
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  15645.  @davidlafleche1142  Explain why you're saying that Trump in charge is socialism. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
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  15646.  @douglashoward4206  Was president Obama in office when the coronavirus came to the US? You may as well complain that Carter or Reagan didn't do anything to fix coronavirus. Stay on subject if you can.
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  15647. Ahh, I see Trump still plays the air accordion when doing his weirdest lies. One of his many tells.
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  15648. Remember the Greenland purchase kerfluffle from a few years back? Trump made a private offer to Denmark to buy Greenland; the PM of Denmark publicly rejected it; Trump denied having made the offer; Trump called her nasty names and backed out of a planned meeting; and only weeks later did he admit that the Greenland purchase offer had in fact happened. He's doing the same thing now, admitting long after the fact that he did ask Mike Pence to overturn a legit election. It's something he does once he feels confident that newer scandals are pushing the older ones off the radar screen.
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  15649. We can all be grateful that Trump never got a chance to realize the dictatorial powers he clearly lusted after. He would have probably made Stalin and Idi Amin look like cub scouts in comparison.
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  15650. Not a trial. A hearing. And almost assuredly there's going to be a summary judgement at the end of that hearing.
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  15651. Let me guess - this is when Russia is suddenly not at all cool with the idea of the enemy coming in and attacking stuff? Tell 'em to shut their pie holes if that's the sort of whining they're going to do.
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  15652. We're still in the early stages of the first wave. Even when every state in the country has 5-digit case rates per million, the first wave will just be getting warmed up. Just think, many of these future corona victims will leave behind good jobs, nice homes, nice trucks, etc for the survivors. We might have to peel off a few MAGA stickers but oh well. I'll drink a Corona in their memory, and thank them for making America smarter through their untimely departure.
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  15653.  @doncastillo7813  Is that a hunch you just pulled out of your butt? Or have you got a time machine? Your comment is so unbased in fact that it's not even worth taking a screen shot and saying I told you so later on.
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  15654.  @doncastillo7813  Unfortunately we will. I wish daily new cases would go down to nothing, but this virus spreads (albeit more slowly) even under lockdown conditions. It appears in isolated populations like on ships and in prisons.
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  15655. There are lots of people who could have jobs at this moment where people are vitally needed, and by that I mean the presumable millions of Americans who by now may have experienced a very mild case and who have developed natural immunity in the form of their own antibodies. But without having a widely available antibody test, we'll never know.
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  15656.  @waynemartin3990  Try explaining that one to Putin and to Tucker Carlson, because that's now how they see it.
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  15657. I enjoy the sweet irony of the Republicans being forced to carry their failed candidate to term.
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  15658. What the everloving F is happening now in DC? Oh, and what is the Heritage Foundation going to do with the list of trans / nonwhite kids they just downloaded?
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  15659. There are a lot of people addicted to "angertainment", the speech form that Rush Limbaugh marketed and that Trump markets now. Makes certain people feel good about hating other people. Without that, Trump wouldn't have many voters at all, and he knows it.
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  15660. They keep screeching for a civil war as if they imagine no one else in America would be opposed to the idea of burning down the whole country just to appease the hurt feelings of the 2020 election loser.
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  15661.  @jonknestrick5219  Exactly so. More than 1.3% of Russians identify as ethnic Ukrainian; and more than 17.2% of Ukrainians identify as ethnic Russian. They are very large subsets of each other's population. Would be really difficult for people not to notice that one side is a thriving democracy, a place where good things are happening, and that the other side looks like rehashed Cold War nonsense.
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  15662.  @gholland5840  What is this "who the media slandered" nonsense? Both Rittenhouse and Zimmerman are the same types of criminals. Self-styled vigilantes. The fact of it has nothing to do with their hurt feelings over being exposed for what they are.
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  15663.  @gholland5840  You are a perfect example of why friends don't let friends get their "news" from right-wing nutjob sites that make stuff up to please their racist viewers. Go read the evidence put forth at the trial. Zimmy boy stalked his victim.
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  15664.  @morphman21  S/he (Corey) obviously needs time to adjust to the fact that the racist/sexist Trump train is coming to a stop and being taken off the tracks. If they want to be like that Japanese guy who remained alone on his island garrison for years after WW2 ended, let them. Eventually social services will come along to look in on them.
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  15665. Between this and the masks war that Cheetolini is fighting (and losing) with every functioning adult, he could hardly pick better hills to die on.
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  15666.  @brandonsmith9860  Hundreds of millions of flies think fresh dogshit is the best stuff in the world, but that doesn't mean dogshit makes for tasty eating. It only means the FOXed Noise watching sheeple are the dumbest losers this side of a box of hammers.
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  15667.  @DavidKroff  If you voted for Caligula, hope you enjoy the broken economy he'll inevitably make. It'll be like watching a chimp try to fly a 747 on full manual control. Zero understanding of what keeps it in the air.
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  15668.  @jimzorn3853  Does Trump have any past successes that you could point to? The last time he was president, he increased the government debt massively, mismanaged a pandemic (causing much loss of life here), and presided over a net job loss. Oh and he lied about everything, as he is now.
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  15669. Yes. These are the same people who spent 8 long years screeching about Obama supposedly violating the constitution (even if none of them could say how or when exactly) and supposedly being a dictator .. then they turn around and cheer Trump for wanting to do just that. Trump let them out from under their rocks.
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  15670.  @latp9567  Some folks' brains are wired in such a way as to unerringly seek out the least likely explanation for [whatever]. Giving them rote work is a kindness.
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  15671. @tradde11 Same, and for the first time in my life. In good conscience I cannot vote for ANY Republican until they ALL denounce their own crazies, especially the ones threatening voters in Arizona or the ones planning to rig elections. If they can't win elections honestly, they need to shuffle off to the dustbin of history.
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  15672.  @daisyelmir1289  Is this news to you or something? DeJoy was appointed by Trump back when he was looking for someone to sabotage the USPS from within. He's still there, but rendered largely ineffective at his tampering.
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  15673. We're going to have to ask a bunch of MAGA hat wearing folks why they're not doing exactly that. Especially if migrant farm workers start getting deported and food prices start rising.
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  15674. You have to remember, Trump-type people are mostly served by Sinclair media and FOXed Noise, so they hear this stuff constantly: "Whites are now a small, downtrodden, persecuted minority in America, but the liberals are hiding that info so that minorities can take your homes, your land, your jobs, your businesses. "Covid is just a liberal media hoax designed to make Trump look bad. "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  15675. Whacked culties .. like attracts like.
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  15676.  @katherinejones850  Considering that "the party of personal responsibility and family values" is home to nearly all pedophiles in the USA, perhaps you should be glad the FBI isn't going after your leaders like they should.
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  15677. He must be stewing that Xi, Kim Jong Un, Putin, Duterte (his buddies) never need to rebuke anyone in public.
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  15678.  @BudFudlacker  Depends on what you call better. Trashing our allies .. sucking up to dictators .. selling our secrets to adversaries .. leaving a wake of bias incidents (and unpaid bills) behind at every rally .. using many temporary "acting" appointments to bring in people who even a R-controlled senate could not approve .. that's a very strange notion of "better".
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  15679.  @devegas4910  It's sad and horrifying to see how many traitors there are among us - people with zero regard for the rule of law, the constitution, democracy. As the saying goes - the tree of liberty is getting thirsty for that kind.
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  15680.  @NormanSilv  Make more money faster by killing something and selling its assets than by running it to make profit. This is what vulture-capitalist operations do.
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  15681. Since crimes shouldn't impinge on fitness for office - Republicans are essentially going full "Epstein for president!"
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  15682. Well, how's this tyranny-by-the-minority of rural FOXed Noise-watching blue-hairs working out for the USA? They got one of their own in office finally, and he's like that unhappy drunk racist uncle you try to avoid at family gatherings. The only good to come out of his mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis is that more people are seeing how incompetent he really is.
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  15683. The Eric Swalwell ad was glorious. Ketchup running down the walls awesome.
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  15684.  @neb3757  Beautiful example of a nonsensical question. Turns out the only fraud was the small number of Trump voters voting twice using their dead relatives' votes. Try again, Charlie ;)
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  15685.  @maple8859  I think the Putin fixation is more than just envy for the GQP .. it's likely that back in 2018, a bunch of Republicans asked Putin for his advice on how to accomplish similar goals here: guaranteed election results and the silencing of dissidents, minorities, opposition, and journalists. Knowing Putin, he kept records of the ask.
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  15686. ALlow me to repost this oldie-but-goodie 2017 article. In the years ahead, we will have plenty of time to discuss the results of letting someone like this run the country into the ground: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-study-liars-ive-never-seen-one-like-president-trump/2017/12/07/4e529efe-da3f-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
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  15687. It's OK. You mentioned the older Fiesta which pretty much was a box of crap.
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  15688. Don't try to make sense of them .. their brains are full of worms.
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  15689.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  Watching some other Americans go sheer barking mad isn't pretty, but someone's got to do it.
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  15690. Depends on whether you made it to a lifeboat after the first sinking, then went on to repeat your initial mistake.
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  15691. What something is worth and what someone once paid for it are two very different things.
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  15692. White small-c christian fascism is something they are fine with. Perhaps life in Russia would be more to their liking.
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  15693. Shit-birds of a feather flock together.
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  15694. By the publicly available numbers (worldometers) the US is failing at the testing game. Last week averaged 145K tests per day .. but Monday this week was 111.7K tests, and yesterday was 121K tests. On the plus side, the US has now managed to test almost 1% of the population.
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  15695. Nope, he still looks ugly, stupid, and cheap with a mask on. On a scale of male attractiveness he's a zero.
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  15696. Possibly there was a final stash of documents that Trump hadn't yet gotten to Putin. Presumably his errand boy just took care of that. There's a whole lot of classified documents still missing.
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  15697. It appears hard to get Amy Handmaid's Tale (her real name) to comment on the president pardoning himself, the president suspending elections, the president unilaterally editing the census numbers, etc, when those are the specific things Trump asked her to rule on (in his favor, of course) as a SCOTUS judge.
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  15698.  @highyadoin  Because, in this case, these people are going after the ones who are lighting the fires. That would be all the Republicans who won't denounce Trump for calling to suspend the rule of law -- which happens to be the same fire you're complaining about. And no, the fire is not gay wedding websites.
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  15699. And now we learn that Nunes had some involvement in the project to surveil ambassador Yovanovich, with options for a hit on her. Pretty sure that totally violated his oath of office.
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  15700. Pretty sure any of the current Republican contenders would do a lot of pardoning for J6 offenders and a lot of obstructing of any investigations of wrongdoing on the part of their tribe. It's not just that they would reflexively protect their own criminals (as they have been doing since J6) but that Fox & Trump would point the MAGA goon squad their way if they didn't.
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  15701. Putin started this one, don't you read the news, Justin?
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  15702. "Kids need to study harder!" -- says the party trying to close libraries, trying to put creationism in the schools, and trying to gut the Department of Education.
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  15703. There were some really spineless morons in Michigan who fell for it IIRC. A quick visit to the white house, the cult leader in chief pressing their palms, and voila! instant fraud allegations. Where did that shitbag Melissa Carone anyway?
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  15704.  @muaythai8467  Got any proof of that? Yeah, thought so, troll.
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  15705. @Sir Snowy Correct. Here's the chart where you can see that the US has rolled the calendar way back in terms of tests per thousand people. But it's worse than that, because the testing has dropped the most in states with the worst outbreaks (like Florida) and least in places that have it more under control (like New York). All to wallpaper Trump's little potempkin village :( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  15706.  @karenheringer9397  Do you remember the Greenland thing? Trump gave Denmark an offer to buy Greenland. They flatly refused. He denied having made the offer, then called their PM nasty names, and canceled a planned meeting. Then weeks later he admitted that he had in fact offered to buy Greenland. Everything you need to know about Trump can be learned in the Dec-2017 news article entitled "I study liars. I've never seen one like president Trump" His specialty is hurtful lies that accomplish multiple lines of harm at the same time. In this case, the harm included making Denmark distrust the US, making Greenland wonder if Denmark had issues with them, making the US look bad, and weakening western alliances. No wonder Putin loved him.
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  15707. You never go full Lindell.
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  15708.  @GeorgeCasal  Sadly, I don't think Trump stole anything that didn't want to be stolen. Seems a lot of people in America had a certain emptiness in them that only a serial-lying narcissistic con man could fill.
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  15709. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of ass-kissing propagandists. Like George W famously said - you gotta dance with the one that brung you.
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  15710. Casting doubt and uncertainty on the election results is the only game the Republicans have got left in the absence of any evidence that the election was "stolen".
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  15711.  @takeoUup115  That's up to YOU to find and ingest the unwelcome facts. I'm not your f'ing nanny.
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  15712.  @takeoUup115  I watched the surveillance video and read the accompanying news article. I just wanted to see if you would challenge your factually-incorrect view of what happened, and, like a true cult45 member, you didn't. Color me surprised, not.
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  15713. Perhaps Trump should triple the dose - just to be sure.
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  15714.  @lifestyleshomes4977  Dump's cultists can't help themselves at this stage. They're the kind who would happily burn down their own houses if Maximum Orange told them to. And then they'd blame it on liberals! 😅 They are gonzo
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  15715. Let's see if the Muskrat lets Trump do his thing and burn down democracy, using lies as the match and gullible people as the tinder :(
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  15716. Using the power of the presidential office to investigate your political rival is what got Nixon impeached. Trump is merely doing the same thing by means of getting Ukraine to do the investigation by means of withholding US government aid to Ukraine.
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  15717. Sounds like the student is confusing Biden with Trump, you know, the same one who launched an insurrection on the nation's capitol to prevent certification of the election.
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  15718. As an American - I would appreciate everyone in the world withdrawing from cooperation/business with the US until we've had a regime change here. Trump is pure pusillanimous evil of the most banal kind. Time to break the glass.
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  15719. Some people have come a long ways since they criticized China for under-reporting infections and deaths from the pandemic .. they've come around to thinking it's a very good thing to hide the numbers! :(
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  15720. The demographic damage to Russia will far outlive Putin, all of Putin's cabal, the war, and Russia's reparations to Ukraine after the war. While the combat losses themselves are horrible, a much larger number of people fled abroad and will not be returning. All because the gnome in the Kremlin missed his glory days as a KGB officer in East Germany back before the Wall fell.
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  15721. Rolling Hitler has gone missing? One collaborator down, more to follow.
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  15722. And now we know, from experience, why most national capitols have got active military protection. When a wave of traitors comes in to hang the vice president, they just set up the belt fed 50s.
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  15723.  @keirfarnum6811  Trump apparently can't be in the same room as Nancy Pelosi without spitting insults at her - and it's not as if she did anything as severe as run over one of his Beavises or Buttheads and then flee the law. Like the Mooch said, he doesn't see people as people, but as objects in his field of vision :(
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  15724. Whoever funded Trump's insurrection attempt has got to be removing as many loose ends from the board as possible. They'll try again some other time :(
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  15725. I kind of like the way Trump has induced some of America's crazies to out themselves publicly. The Trump lawn signs are mostly down, but I remember where they used to be. Good to know which of your fellow Americans are actually Quislings, or simply crazy.
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  15726. There hasn't been a better batch of willing dolts ever since in the 1930s Hitler convinced some "patriotic" Germans of some "Jewish menace" that there was no proof of. You know the rest of that story.
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  15727. It is "incompetence" when one whole political party (along with its nutty whackjob media) is telling people not to mask up or vaccinate? Nah, it's sabotage by one side.
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  15728. OP, your optimism is impressive. I am taking stock of who (and how many of them) are opposing our Petulant Pinochet wannabe, and it's not good. The legislative branch of our government (congress) seems to have taken a holiday from their senses. The senate opposition (Chuck Schumer) just left on a book tour. Our institutions are mostly asleep at the wheel.
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  15729. Now that Pennsy has called it for Biden .. hope everyone has popcorn! There's going to be some epic tweeting later. Anyone want to bet that a) Trump will make no public appearances from now on, and b) he'll still be sulking in the White House when Biden is sworn in?
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  15730. Better get going with that civil court claim before Russia declares bankruptcy.
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  15731. Sorry but Australia is not as well sealed-up as one might think. Been following the adventures of some people traveling around the country and evading the lockdowns in place after place. Naturally they're anti-mask anti-vax people too :(
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  15732. For Russians, the end of the USSR was basically an end to their exploitation of the human, material, political, and economic resources of other nations. They were accustomed to decades of being able to take money, people (the best and brightest), whole companies, basically anything they wanted from "their" empire. The dissolution of the USSR caused a drop in living standards and life expectations in Russia .. but the experience was the other way for the peoples that regained their independence. And they seem to have no interest in returning to life under the Russian boot.
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  15733. Yup, they made their choice between almost-dictator Trump on one hand, and on the other hand democracy and the rule of law. At this point they are his Quislings. Treat them accordingly.
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  15734. Republicans are all shocked-pikachu-face over the idea that a president would hire anyone but a binder-reading Nazi-lie-spewing Barbie to be the press secretary.
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  15735. Every other country in the world does the covid-19 test for free, but here in America they charge you $3500+ for it and/or they charge you for your quarantine too. Brought to you by incompetent governance that at all levels accepts lobbying $$$$ from the health"care" industry.
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  15736.  @jameskelly8294  Pretty soon those "quarantine locations" are going to have chain link fence and barbed wire strung up outside them.
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  15737. He promised 6% GDP growth, we got less than 2%. He promised to wipe out the debt, but then he added $4 trillion to it. Farm bankruptcies are up 24% year over year. US manufacturing is dead in the water. Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others are all moving ahead with new advanced weapons programs. US postwar diplomacy has been destroyed. The US is now seen as weak and ineffectual militarily for running away from Russia and Turkey. Japan and South Korea are at it again, and Japan is re-arming. Trump's fans said they wanted something different. Is this what they had in mind?
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  15738. Strip club customers who utter those words during lapdances get thrown out.
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  15739.  @ali6ism  Wait until poultry workers are getting deported and bird flu is raging. Egg prices will be through the roof. So many nincompoops were swayed over the nonsense that a half percent of the population (trans kids) could be destroying school athletics and that Democrats were pushing it everywhere - they weren't, but the lie worked well on gullible people :(
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  15740.  @blondegirlsezthis8798  Weirdly enough, there's a whole class of people who hate on governor Brown because her choices helped keep our covid spread among the lowest among the 50 states. They're probably the same ones mad about seat belt laws or being told not to drive drunk.
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  15741.  @turbokid8719  So much to unpack in one delusional run-on sentence. First off, nobody wants to murder y'all. The rest of us would just prefer it if you could bother to act like responsible citizens and adults more often. Second, governor did a lot that the Y'all Qaida people got hopping mad about. There were the recall petitions. There's the nonsense about joining Lesser Montana to the east. There was that toad Mike Nearman letting armed extremists into the state house. There were the constant cries to reopen, even when it was obvious to anyone above amoeba-level intelligence that opening would merely produce a flood of cases and deaths. And despite you folks being mad, and whining that it was nanny-state socialism, the moves Oregon took under her direction kept us among the lowest 3 states for virus spread. Hope you're not one of the people that call her "commie Kate", because if you are, I'd remind you that the two signature characteristics of communism are a) the state seizing any enterprise it wants to, and b) the abolition of large-scale personal property. And neither of those two conditions exist here, nor is anyone here advocating for them.
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  15742. These moves weren't to save money, but to answer Putin's wish list about America in ruins.
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  15743.  @pimphandduke8447  Which is why the very first thing most new dictators do is get rid of those who helped them overthrow the government, then get rid of any potential challengers. 45 would have no more need for a vice-dictator than he would for the other branches of government, including the Supremes. He might bring in Kristi Noem to run a gravel pit operation for awhile.
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  15744.  @michaelbrinkers1145  Let's not forget Elena Ceausescu. Perhaps 45's family will someday follow a similar plot arc.
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  15745. Being a horrible person has been a de facto requirement for Republican personalities for awhile now. Being the savvy marketers and opportunists that they are, it took them very little time to realize that Trump did so well with the nutty elements of their base precisely BECAUSE of his venality, his cruelty, his indifference to the plight of anyone or anything else. To those with any sense of reality, this of course means that our nation has got a widespread mental health problem.
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  15746. Those doctors don't understand .. DeSatan WANTS more people to sicken and/or die.
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  15747. Property can be insured, rebuilt, replaced. People can't be.
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  15748.  @SIGSEGV1337  An eye for an eye makes the world blind and toothless. And you are too dumb to realize that. Hope you don't learn the hard way that things are more replaceable than people.
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  15749.  @SIGSEGV1337  If you foolishly imagine that taking someone else's life, cruelly & unnecessarily, won't inspire their relatives to leaving a smoking crater where you're standing, then you don't get out much. It's not worth getting into it. The only way to win that game is not to play.
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  15750.  @SIGSEGV1337  And in doing so, you are becoming one of those evil people. Well, maybe you are a useful fool of the firearms manufacturing industry and the NRA too. And the kind of administration that values the trains running on time even if it means breaking laws.
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  15751. Like agent Mulder for flying saucers and little green men, the conservatards desperately “want to believe™” that they're uncovering some massive Democrat guilt, some child sex slave thing in the pizzaria basement, etc, when in fact there is none. They just can't help themselves. Too many of them are like Robert Dear or like the Comet Pizza shooter :(
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  15752. You can say that Trump is the president .. but that depends on what your meaning of 'is' is.
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  15753. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  15754. He doesn't just revert to the schoolyard bully persona all the time .. more like he seldom strays far from it. Oh well, maybe Santa (or Ded Moroz) will gift Tehran with a few sets of S-400 air defense equipment.
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  15755. If they are anything like new Russian troops, they won't live long enough to get much experience.
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  15756.  @joeratley1062  Fascism burns EVERYONE eventually. Ask the lily-white patriotic xtian cis hetero Germans who felt benefited by Hitler's rule (at first anyway) and later lost everything.
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  15757. Here in the US, the closed case death ratio has worked out to be around 2.07%. So applied to our population of 330 million that would be a measley 6.831 million, Dr Kevorkian. /s
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  15758. Thankfully, this is one of those problems that in time will solve itself. The Phil Valentine's of the world have a way of silencing their own voices, and sometimes they even keep themselves from voting in the next election.
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  15759. "Phony claims"? Barr totally lost me on that one.
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  15760.  @antondovydaitis2261  And I have to add that it won't be over for a long time. As before, Fox will fly the nutty flag and whinge 24/7 about fictional "election irregularities" .. some House Republicans will, out of spite, refuse to certify Trump's loss .. Trump, Alex Jones, and the rest of the fringe will be whipping up their base to make them practically froth at the mouth .. and the Cold Civil War will continue for another four years.
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  15761. He finally made America #1 in something. Are we tired of all this winning yet?
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  15762. His projector bulb is running hot again. Remember, the closest Trump has ever come to being a "warrior" was when he got 5 draft deferments. He is only too happy to let others die.
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  15763. Notice how he won't risk his own kid going to school. But he's happy to risk everyone else's kids.
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  15764. I like the way Trump continues to bring out those among us who have disdain for democracy and who want to take down our nation. We've got lots of prison space for those Quislings. Let him talk.
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  15765. The GOP died awhile back. It's just the Trump Party now.
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  15766. Recently the Arizona Republican party, on twitter, asked people if they are ready to die to overturn the election results. I'm assuming this is GOP-speak for "are you willing to kill to carry out a coup" :( citation https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-republican-party-overturn-election-results-death/
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  15767. Oh, look, an AG who is quite familiar with Republican excesses of power. Who'd have thought. So there is a God after all :)
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  15768.  @labethspain7936  Err there's some misplaced focus there. Pete Buttigieg isn't applying for a job teaching at school, he's in the running to be vice president of the USA. The job of the VP doesn't have much to do with convincing anyone about normalcy in sexual relations.
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  15769. Seems anyone who thinks VP Harris is "too woke" are the same ones who watch Fox and who think covid wasn't real.
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  15770. Didn't take Kristi Noem long to slip on some jack boots and do a gleeful goose step :(
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  15771. Try explaining that to Merrick Garland, whose personal prime directive to appear apolitical at all costs has resulted in high crimes being ignored for so long that the guilty ones are emboldened to keep trying. 681 days (43% of president Biden's term) went by before AG Garland appointed special prosecutor Smith.
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  15772. They'll say all kinds of nonsense. We're not listening.
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  15773. Trump has done more than any other US politican to advance NK's nuclear program. NK is a poor place, and Trump helped out NK by suspending the joint SK-US military exercises - which apparently freed up quite a bit of money for NK, which promptly suffled the funding into its rocketry program.
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  15774. Put it this way - those radical Trumpers are so stupid that Trump could blow up the social security administration right in front of them, with lots of dynamite and theatrics and a big plunger detonator, then tell them that Obama did it, and they'd believe him.
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  15775. If Charles Manson is any measure, Trump's cult-leader status will be much diminished after he's at Club Fed.
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  15776. We can all make fun of 45's bizarre comments on cats & dogs in Springfield, but, sadly, the Comet Pizza brigade is probably on the way already, AR's in their greasy fingers, looking to save some animals from fictional troubles.
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  15777. The online army of youtube comment trolls also seems to be suffering some form of decimation, probably because Putin doesn't like throwing money down a swampy hole that just wants more money.
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  15778. Omfg I'm on the floor listening to the house minority whip froth at the mouth. To summarize - "63 million flies can't be wrong! Dog shit tastes great!"
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  15779. 1936 called, Nazi Germany is looking for some extra Brownshirts :(
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  15780.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  Jail is too dangerous for Roger Stone, of course, but not for Ghiselaine Maxwell. Trump is making use of the coronavirus. She'll never live to testify.
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  15781. America's Greatest Generation might have done a fine job fighting fascism (with some 400K of them giving their lives defeating it) but some of their Boomer kids are certainly trying to atone for it somehow by going full fash.
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  15782. What are Republicans worried about anyway? Back in 2018, Trump clearly announced his right to pardon himself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  15783. To be fair to Nancy Pelosi, the impeachment is still incomplete and thus cannot be passed to the senate yet anyway. The process was missing the documents, evidence, witnesses, testimony etc that Trumpy ordered withheld.
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  15784. Beautiful. Just two days late, Trump's birthday gift to the nation later today will be 3 million covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, even as he claims that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who are you going to believe, him, or your own lying calculator? (case fatality rate 4.43%, closed case fatality rate 9%)
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  15785. There's still time. Remember, from the last administration, that Hannity's role was a) having late-night convos with Big Orangey then b) presenting "stories" the next day that the two of them had fabricated from thin air so that c) Big Orangey could point to them as examples in the news of things he claimed were happening but were not.
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  15786. There's that special moment in every Trump sycophant's life when s/he finally comes to realize that Trump used them like a cheap disposable doormat and only cares for himself, first, second, third, and fourth.
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  15787. Donald could have just remained a failed businessman and the drunk Fox Noise uncle of his family (shouting at the TV every time there was some truth that offended his tiny feelings) but nooooo, he had to put his loserhood onto the big stage.
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  15788. Biden is leftie? Sure, but only if you're basically Pat Buchanan or Adolph Hitler. To the rest of us he's pretty centrist.
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  15789. It's getting closer to the day when Putler is trying to reach Steiner's 9th army on the phone. But first, he's going to destroy his country economically and demographically.
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  15790. Vlad, you seem worse than usual.
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  15791. Personally I'm waiting for Mango Musso to start a war (maybe Iran, maybe Venezuala, who knows) then use that war as a pretext for suspending elections. Between when the R's know for sure that they're going to lose the presidency, the senate, and even more of the house, to the time when Mango Musso is escorted to a vehicle waiting to take him into custody, will be the dangerous time. Keep sharpie people ;)
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  15792. American citizens cheering at the thought of Dump45 being able to kick out whichever American citizens he feels like. The derp is strong with those ones :(
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  15793. Ahh, that fruitcake know-nothing low-IQ Eastman is finally beginning to get what he deserves. Couldn't happen to a more deserving Quisling.
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  15794. The history books are going to be interesting on this episode .. but we have to survive it first.
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  15795. Lt. Aldo Raines has been summoned.
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  15796. For decades now, certain Americans have been addicted to angertainment. They would gladly pay by the hour to watch events inside the El Salvador gulag. They get off on cruelty. They are broken people :(
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  15797. Aww, are you butthurt that lives are being saved when people do the right thing? You may want to ask yourself when you chose to belong to a death cult.
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  15798.  Frank P.  Are you humming a few bars of that "both parties are the same" tune? Because that is what Trump wants you to do. It's a tactic for discouraging people from participating. Go look up the last few party line votes on election security, equal pay for women, etc if you think both parties are the same.
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  15799. Also sick of those fricking Quislings who want to go along with Trump's "blood and fire" plan.
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  15800. Sometimes I think he realizes what his chances are in November (a corpse with AIDS would get more votes than him) and this is just his way of taking as many with him as he can :(
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  15801. It may be awhile. And surely Matt Gaetz will help him ghostwrite a catchy "my struggle" title while he's in jail.
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  15802.  @bootmii98  It's Biden, and no, his word to Biden was that a) he wouldn't put the government in jeopardy of shutdown, and b) he wouldn't endanger the Ukraine monies. McCarthy failed on both counts. Another used Trump doormat.
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  15803.  @michaelcoward1902  Do you have trouble with the concept of murder and attempted murder both being crimes? That's kind of what's at play here. McCarthy did not, for examples, announce that under no circumstances would he entertain the notion of a government shutdown - which would have been good - but instead he gave in to the crazies. Same thing with insurrection and attempted insurrection.
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  15804. It's worse than that. He inherited a great country and a great economy, and he's treating them both like a crack house he won at auction for $5. Nothing but endless parties (taxpayer paid golfing) and totally trashing the place just for kicks.
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  15805. What is Trump worried about anyway? Who else remembers his 2018 claim that he has the right to pardon himself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-absolute-right-to-pardon-himself-of-federal-crimes-but-denies-any-wrongdoing/2018/06/04/3d78348c-67dd-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
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  15806. If Trump thinks it's OK to re-open the country, then why isn't he holding rallies anymore? He refuses to do that, or shake hands with ordinary Americans off the street like he used to do. It's as if he's afraid of some dangerous disease or something.
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  15807. The comments here from Pooty's little sputniks are hilarious. Keep the comedy fodder coming, boys, just like you keep sending targets to Ukraine. You're even funnier than Baghdad Bob ;)
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  15808. No need to. If just one of his trials is televised, there will be plenty of video snippets available to remind his cult nutters. (of course they will just claim it's Obama in a Trump suit, but it's a start)
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  15809.  The Reluctant Hierophant  Can I please club it a little more first? It's not a proper morning until I've bashed some troll heads.
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  15810. These days our leaders issue happytalk based on hospital occupancy rates. They don't talk much about the wave of people found dead at home. Nonetheless, there is no state in the USA that is not showing some kind of virus doubling rate, ranging from 4-5 days for South Dakota out to 14+ days for places like Montana & Maine. On testing, the USA is a joke and hasn't been able yet to go above around 150K tests per day on average.
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  15811. Food for thought: based on mere allegations alone (there was never any proof of what they claimed) that TT was being used for spying, congress took steps on this, and Cheeto's two best broligarchs (Zuck & Musk) both wanted TT neutralized since it's a competitor to their platforms. They just played "Simon says" on congress. So don't be surprised if baseless allegations will be laid against BlueSky and others next.
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  15812. It wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. Incoming AG Merrick Garland won't have any of that nonsense.
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  15813. Could you point to the map where Dr Campbell removed Sweden? (Sweden was not the only nation not included in that random list of nations that also included the USA, which was not in Europe either)
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  15814. @Southern Belle Are you the same one whose page used to be called Voting Female Speaks?
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  15815. Short answer? They're gullible enough to fall for strawman nonsense at 8yo levels of simplicity. Lies like "Democrats want to rip out babies just before birth!" or "Democrats EAT babies!"
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  15816. A question about the official death rate. Does that cover only the people who die while under medical care and/or who died after testing positive? If so, the official death rate will be higher, since by now we have all heard the news about large numbers of people dying at home.
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  15817.  @Trikipum  .. which is why we're hearing stories about the crematories getting hundreds of bodies per day, yet not all of that traffic is included in the official CFR.
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  15818. Re "gas prices have doubled" .. just think, if we ignored the fascist coup and let them do the real thing next time, the damage of the ensuing Civil War 2.0 would leave the survivors siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles, when they were lucky not to be under sniper fire that is. But hey, think of the gas prices and not the way Trump wanted to destroy America. h/t Trae Crowder
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  15819. He needs rotten vegetables thrown at him, not just harsh words. The guy's a total crumbum. After what he did, he shouldn't try showing his face in public.
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  15820.  D. w  Only you could draw a connection that doesn't exist.
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  15821.  @jdee8407  Oh, so you think that cherrypicking a few examples constitutes an evaluation of a whole field? Do you distrust all engineers because some of them once called the Titanic unsinkable? (rhetorical question .. every day you trust your life to vehicles and equipment designed by engineers)
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  15822. Some of 45's more uppity wannabe-brownshirts are already behind bars (low 4 digits of them) and no doubt they've already told their friends and relatives how 45 did nothing whatsoever to help them in court .. to him they were just disposable props.
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  15823. The next thing you know, Trump will be claiming that HE was just joking about the alligators and the moat, and that instead it was Obama who wasn't joking about it. Agent Orange is putting the Onion out of business :(
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  15824. Trump's whiny-bitch voice would be perfect for exusing the excesses of the SS against the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw during WW2. "There was aggression on both sides" etc.
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  15825. Sad and broken people, people who feel the world has been unfair to them, are the devil's silly putty for cult leaders like Trump. They are most easily manipulated.
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  15826. That's how it works. General Dymanics & Raytheon ought to send Uncle Pooty a thank-you note. No doubt engineers are in the field collecting performance data already.
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  15827.  @mannylugz5872  Sorry but the peak is going to come much later, possibly June/July. This thing is just getting started. Americans continue to fly domestically, drive about domestically, socialize as they want behind closed doors. As they say, the virus will continue to administer beatings until morale improves.
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  15828.  @mannylugz5872  Apologies! NP :)
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  15829.  @jackmountain8503  Are you by chance referring to Trump calling the pandemic a hoax? Go watch the video of him saying that if you need to do any homework. Watch the whole thing.
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  15830.  honey bun  Surely you've noticed Trump's lies and his history of lying. Remember Greenland? First he offered to buy it. Then he lied and said it was just a joke. Then he cancelled the meeting with the PM of Denmark and lied about why. Then only weeks later he admitted the meeting cancellation was because they didn't want to sell Greenland. If you like Trump, go seek psychiatric help.
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  15831.  @TrueMohax  I think you'd agree that Trump is in charge of America and Xi is in charge of China. Explain again why the 7+ weeks that Trump ignored this problem doesn't have anything to do with how the USA is now #1 in virus cases.
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  15832.  honey bun  No he did not. Quit your persistent ignorance please. Have some facts for a change. This is how bad your orange god f*cked up: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-all-the-times-trump-was-warned-about-pandemic-2020-3
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  15833.  honey bun  Have some more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/23/apparently-trump-ignored-early-coronavirus-warnings-that-has-consequences/
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  15834.  honey bun  I am not blaming Trump for the virus. Like many others I am blaming him for lying, deflecting, misleading, procrastinating. Had we gotten on the ball earlier, US deaths might have been kept down to maybe 60K total. Instead he lied, deflected, etc for well over 2 months while the virus spread throughout the USA. THAT is what I blame him for. Is your head jammed far up your behind or something?
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  15835.  honey bun  Here is exactly what I mean. He was warned back in January. But what did he do? Issue lies and happytalk about how it will go away on its own, how you can keep going to work, how it's just like a cold, yada yada yada. Read the article and get back to me with questions. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-intelligence-warned-trump-of-pandemic-in-january-2020-3
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  15836.  honey bun  It was by no means bogus. Your orange god, Trump, extorted an ally into doing him a personal political favor for an upcoming election. He did it using the threat of withholding money that congress had already approved. All of those are crimes. If you are suggesting that crimes shouldn't be prosecuted then you're essentially saying that some people are above the law. And if you read the constitution, NOBODY HERE IS ABOVE THE LAW. Your boy is a crook. Get used to it. Next.
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  15837.  honey bun  He did NOT close off borders. He said that Chinese nationals couldn't come directly from China to the US. I don't know if you have noticed this, but the virus doesn't care what your skin color is or what political system you come from. Even after he eliminated that one segment of travel, there were still more than 10,000 people per day flying from China to the US. Are you trying to claim that none of those people brought virus with them? Ha, pull the other one.
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  15838.  honey bun  Face it, your orange god is a liar and incompetent to boot! At every step along the way he's f*cked it up. And the people defending him (you and others) aren't any brighter. Go take your meds.
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  15839.  honey bun  Here ya go. February news article explaining how passenger traffic from China kept right on going. Chinese nationals were filtered out, but that didn't keep Americans from bringing the virus home. Why are you addicted to believing things that are patently false? https://www.vaxbeforetravel.com/arriving-passengers-china-could-be-quarantined-14-days-cdc
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  15840.  honey bun  Figures you have no answer for that link I sent you. Here it is again. People kept bringing virus from China after Trump stopped Chinese people from coming here. https://www.vaxbeforetravel.com/arriving-passengers-china-could-be-quarantined-14-days-cdc
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  15841.  honey bun  He's allowed to be a nominee because what you're claiming is imaginary. You just seem not to realize how misled you really are.
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  15842.  honey bun  You keep not answering me when I point out how air travel from China to the US continued after the Chinese people were filtered out. https://www.vaxbeforetravel.com/arriving-passengers-china-could-be-quarantined-14-days-cdc
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  15843.  honey bun  It's imaginary because it did not happen. Like when you and the other Tea Party nutters were screeching about Obama seizing everyone's guns and melting them down into Korans. You people have something wrong with you. You believe things that have no basis in factual reality. And you keep ignoring how air travel from China kept right on going, just without Chinese people. No answer as usual. Taht's about all I should expect from you in the end.
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  15844.  @innervisions1828  Seems like that Canadian family, the Feenstras, had to learn that the hard way.
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  15845. Knowing Tяump, this means that Ghouliani just got sent back to Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Levi Sanders (Bernie's son), who, we will soon hear on OANN and FOXed, was involved in some corruption coverup there.
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  15846. Amazingly, almost no one outside of China / South Korea seems to realize that the extreme measures being applied in those places are a necessary response to limit the spread of the disease. We could learn from them, and quarantine everything for a month or so, but nooooooooooo :(
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  15847. .. and the SCOTUS problem is entirely Mitch's fault. Remember when 8 months before an election was much too late for Obama to name someone to the court, but then, Mitch was OK with Trump ramming someone through just 8 weeks before an election?
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  15848.  @user-wv8rd2om3f  Who else remembers this now prescient survey from a few years ago? A 'Scary' Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary By Tom Gjelten February 11, 2021
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  15849. Disagree. They're Americans too. All lives matter - even if they voted for that fascist Clump.
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  15850. You see that phenom acutely in the right-wing mass killers who, somehow, against all reason and history, are utterly convinced that their rando attack on Black shoppers or Black worshippers is going to ignite some mythical "race war" that exists only in their imaginations. And they're deeply shocked when, instead, the cops pick them up and take them to jail, where they end up explaining their nonsense in front of the court. Race nonsense is all those people think about. They couldn't conceive of people not giving a flying F about it.
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  15851. The little Nazi keebler elf is disliked by all. Maybe if he had a time machine to take him back to the Third Reich he could find a place.
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  15852. She's only 33, that's what meth does to a person :(
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  15853.  @stefangeschke7604  Bingo - all the psychotic narcissistic types in America are thrilled that one of their own kind could become president.
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  15854.  @socomply5963  Also funny every time the Russians try to claim it's A-OK for them to attack another country, but when they get attacked back it's soooo evil, right?
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  15855. Books will be written about how the effect of Cult Leader Trump works on different kinds of people. Barr is one of them. Elise Stefanik is another whose descent into flying monkey status has been well-documented.
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  15856.  @catalinacleoferohm6405  Probably the same way the would answer the question of how getting rid of all the drag queen story time events will fix inflation and reduce school shootings 😅
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  15857. Next time, use concrete jersey barriers to keep the mental defectives from driving through a parade route. Jeez :(
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  15858. Here's another bit of truth from one of his own. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Rafael Eduardo Cruz, May 3 2016.
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  15859. Gotta love the way those 16.4K likes are, what, 0.005% of the population.
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  15860.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  Are you answering some other person's comment - or just the voices in your pointy little head? Because No one in this thread mentioned young people.
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  15861.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  Not in the little subcomment thing we have here. "You're welcome" LOL. Tweaker.
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  15862.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  Oh and it's "you're welcome" not "your welcome". You Russian trolls don't get much language instruction, do you, comrade?
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  15863.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  The little voices in your head are yapping again. Keep amusing me.
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  15864.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  You're bragging about a scoreboard that exists wholly in you own imagination. Thanks again for the laughs.
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  15865.  @jewswhoswingssnakes923  Then folks need to develop their sense of humor. No, seriously, it's entirely possibly that the Trumptanic could get another term. But his excesses will be bad enough (like, waking up one morning then twitter-decreeing that all Black people must be forcibly sterilized) that the rest of the world will eventually form a coalition and drag his sorry ass to the Hague and they'll reinstate democracy here. Or he'll be executed by an ungrateful America. The endings of the story all go one way from now on, some just take longer than others is all.
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  15866. It's easier to fail to protect freedoms when you don't really know what they are. And the task that she's being rushed through for is to restrict freedoms.
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  15867.  @beedebawng2556  Haw haw haw. I'm the one that's healthy now, and you're the one that Delta can make worm food out of. Let me know how that works out for you, dummy.
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  15868.  @rodpanhard  Regarding "Have you ever heard of Mareks disease" << Do you have any peer-reviewed studies [know what that is?] showing that covid vaccines do that? Because if not, you're basically talking out your ass or repeating someone else who talked out their ass. Come back to me when you actually have a story, not just a rumor of a story. One kind stands up to scrutiny, the other doesn't, and what you're saying does not.
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  15869.  @rodpanhard  Let me quote a few news articles for you here, since you seem to be woefully out-of-touch with how diseases, vaccines, and infected or uninfected hosts all interact. And, to reiterate, it is the UNVACCINATED who are filling the hospitals (soon the morgues) and not the UNVACCINATED. I'm sure you learned that in school, back before your mind got poisoned. https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/alabama-hospitals-report-94-percent-of-covid-patients-are-unvaccinated.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/many-in-missouri-are-unvaccinated-hospitals-are-paying-the-price-as-delta-variant-spreads You saying otherwise is like you trying to say that 2+2=5. It doesn't. Repeating it won't make it true. I hope you can recover from being brainwashed by the dumbest propaganda that most any 10yo with a browser can debunk in less than half a minute.
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  15870. Can't believe she traded in governor Newsom for first son Uday.
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  15871. If Biden had cured cancer, Trump would rescind the cure purely out of spite.
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  15872.  @meafrenchie7143  Exactly where are you standing, politically, when to you Biden is just as bad as Trump?
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  15873.  @meafrenchie7143  No answer? No surprise. You'd have to be pretty daft to call one as bad as the other.
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  15874. No matter how many former Trump supporters (flying monkeys) end up in jail, there seems to be an endless supply of new minions for him to fck and chuck.
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  15875. If Trump wants to reopen the country, he should take the lead and show us by resuming his rallies and shaking hands with his fans and meeting regular Americans. He canceled all those things. It's as if he knows there's a potentially deadly disease circulating.
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  15876. It's very telling that Trump obviously asked to be presented (in the fable) as a king and not as a president.
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  15877. That was the dumbest, lamest excuse he could have possible offered. History will not remember "president" Trump kindly at all - he will be a cautionary tale for future generations about how hate, bigotry and divisiveness can and will tear a nation apart.
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  15878. Susan Collins said she thought Trump had learned his lesson and that she hoped that he will change. Isn't that a little too "hopey changey" for a nation grown weary of his lawbreaking, his incessant rage-tweeting, his bullying?
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  15879. Sounds like they need their own country at this point. Maybe they will call it "New Trumpistan". Formed out of privately-owned land in Montana or some other place like that. Put a fence around it. Make it a tourist attraction, America's largest free-range insane asylum. It would be so much more entertaining than Wall Drug. Use the proceeds to pay for their mental rehabilitation.
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  15880. Pretty sure Felon45 doesn't have any other kind of associate. All the way from Walt Nauta to Vladimir Putin, from Sidney Powell to the J6 helpers now serving time, that's the main thing they all have in common - disdain for the rule of law.
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  15881. Everyone forgets it now, but Trump promised to run the nation like one of his own businesses. With the help of the Republicans, that's the one promise he's keeping. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  15882. "Became inhuman"????? That's like hearing SS officers complain that partisans are handling them roughly.
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  15883. 80% of the 30-39yo's seen inside certain restaurants/stores Friday & Saturday weren't wearing masks .. yet the data shows that only 33.7% of that age group is fully vaccinated. Oh yeah, this is going go well :(
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  15884. Agree: don't seat those who've committed sedition. The air accordion player reached into their shallow souls (in a fashion reminiscent of what Charles Manson, Jim Jones, or Adolph Hitler were able to do) and found something he could easily manipulate. Who knows what else they might do in office?
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  15885. I live here and I can't argue that. Every day I have it out with fools who don't believe it's a problem or who believe they shouldn't have to wear masks.
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  15886. It will be easy to tell when justice is finally coming for those "fine people" (Trump's co-conspirators) .. and it's when they're jumping out of windows and otherwise committing suicide to escape the inevitable.
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  15887. Isn't that the district that Bobo is trying to take?
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  15888. Now that he has conceived this feud against Disney, Ron DeSantis should be forced to bear it to term. Ron likes the notion of people being forced to bear to term.
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  15889. Huh. The Nazi takeover of Germany was undertaken by people in the Reischtag and the Chancellor's office too.
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  15890. Like a centipede, the insurrection attempt had many legs. Keep breaking them.
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  15891. Russia checks off some boxes .. a) regime that's repressive to its own people .. b) doesn't have democracy .. c) has some oil and other resources.
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  15892. Putin is re-enacting Hannibal salting Carthage. One way or the other, Putin's going to be gone in a few years. Yet he is choosing a permanent solution to a temporary problem (his ego).
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  15893. Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito thought they could handle the US too. NATO minus the US could still hand Putin his own ass.
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  15894. Covid-19 is part of a family of coronaviruses such as the common cold, the seasonal flu, H1N1, bird flu, swine flu, etc. Humanity has never developed herd immunity to any of them. Heck, AIDS has been around 40 years and there's no herd immunity to that either. Who misled you so egregiously?
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  15895.  @b.t.1632  We may rest assured that a Great Depression 2 is already baked into the cake at this point. So is hunger. The US food production industry relies heavily on low-wage migrant labor. Those people are dropping like flies presently due to cheap-ass businesses not providing PPE. You may safely use South Dakota as an example of what Trump's open-the-gates policy would look like. As of yesterday their case rate (per million) is doubling every 4.5 days - and that's a low-density place like Montana. In a high-density place like NYC the doubling rate would be more like every 2 days. So if you want to march many millions of Americans into the wood chipper, by all means reopen the economy, forget about ramping up testing, forget about making enough PPE or medical equipment needed, etc. Funny how Trump won't restart his rallies and shaking hands with people from the crowd. It's as if he knows there's a dangerous disease going around.
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  15896.  @b.t.1632  Forgot to add: thanks to mandatory masks and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, super-dense New York has pushed its doubling time out to 14.4 days. Montana (almost exactly as urban/rural as South Dakota) with measures has pushed its doubling time down 30.8 days. Washington 36.2 days. Where are you writing from?
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  15897. Just like Al Capone explaining to the IRS that the dog ate his secret ledger book :(
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  15898. It's not a collapse. It's a deliberate wrecking from within.
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  15899. In the super-white Pacific northwest, the wannabe Proud Little Boys / Army of Trump gathering had (wait for it) only a few hundred show up. Who knows, maybe some of them were paying attention the other day when Trump said that he could just toss the ballots and prevent a transfer of power. Even dummies know that only third-world tin-pot despots do that sort of nonsense.
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  15900. Republicans need to wear a mark on them for what they did, supporting an open traitor to America. A mark that won't come off for a generation or more. That's how bad they F'd up.
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  15901.  @brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Newborns breathe and can get SS numbers. Embryos can't.
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  15902. Good question. The earliest known case of coronavirus was Nov 17th 2019 (in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China) and the phone call that spawned the impeachment happened on August 12th 2019. Does that clear anything up?
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  15903.  @botabob  According to the transcript, he shook down a foreign government in exchange for personal political favors in an upcoming election - all of which is against the law. If you want to have a point of any kind, try again.
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  15904. It's like that scene from the Axios interview where Mr Swan points out that the US has the most covid cases & deaths, and Trump blurts out, "that means we're the best!" with that dumb deer-in-headlights look that he momentarily borrowed from the Tuck.
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  15905. Spoken like a true fan of one-party rule. How about you and your cousins go live in North Korea or China for awhile if you think a one-party state is such a hot idea.
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  15906.  @charleyfolkes  Are you one of the few mom's basement dwellers from the former Oregonian comments section? You're clones of Archie Bunker that got dropped on your heads a lot as kids. Wake up, fool, the world is a-changing while you're trying to dial the calendar back to 1950.
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  15907.  Lick Tasty  To be honest, you don't sound intelligent enough to spend the time convincing of anything. But then, that pretty much goes hand-in-hand with the retrogressive sentiments you're displaying here. Just like on an automatic transmission, (D) is for forward and (R) is for backwards. Thank you for being an exponent (albeit an unwitting one) of the point I was making.
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  15908.  Lick Tasty  Thanks for the laugh. Do you want to start out by denying that the world is changing? I've got a truckload of sh for that one. All I did was point out that, when faced with the reality that they don't by any stretch of the imagination represent the will of the people, the first instinct of Republicans / conservatives is to try to physically eliminate ballots that don't go their way. You never answered that one, but then, you never tried to.
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  15909.  Lick Tasty  Great answers. But you began with the deflection that it was a joke. Consider the fake ballot harvesting boxes that the Cali GOP is putting up, in defiance of court orders. Or consider the way Harris County, TX, a county of 4 million people has just one (1) ballot drop box. The ethnic makeup of the county is 40.8% Hispanic, 19.5% Black, 7% Asian. Sounds like even the GOP knows that its agenda doesn't represent the will of the people, and, like just the Taliban did, they probably feel that they need not follow the letter or the intent of the law anymore. That is what I mean by the GOP being against change.
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  15910. Bingo. And as long as he never heard of [whatever], he thinks no one else has ever heard of it.
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  15911. Counting down the seconds until Republicans fire up the noise machine .. "Judge David Briones was appointed by president Bill Clinton, therefore this was a biased decision and it needs to be redone in a higher court." BTW look for Republicans to put TWO more on the supreme court in less than 12 months. That's what they'll need to rule the 2020 election results (in which they'll lose badly) invalid due to the political bias caused by Trump's impeachment.
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  15912. It's so much worse. They are doing this as agents of the Heritage Foundation, who will want to get their mitts on the database of who's related to who, who's married to who, who's changed their name or gender markers, what race group people are classed as in government info, what mixed-race or same-sex couples exist, and lots more than that.
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  15913. The Cheeto feels he alone is the only expert in any field, even if he can't spell or pronounce the name of the field.
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  15914. AKA "Last year Obama said he was 54. This year he says he's 55. STOP LYING OBAMA!"
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  15915. Ditto. I've been thinking for awhile that he wants millions of dead on his watch. He's hardly done a thing that hasn't helped spread covid-45 even further.
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  15916. The full lesson is years away from deliverance, perhaps when WW3 is raging and Big Orangey has been selling off national assets to Russian and Chinese oligarchs.
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  15917. You can't say Manchin isn't working hard to earn a Trump endorsement.
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  15918.  @sergedechantigny3756  I think it's more like a "stealth plan" because no one has seen that either.
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  15919. We already had one instance of that, back in 2019. The evidence of Trump's guilt (in extorting Ukraine to make up dirt on Biden) was overwhelming, yet what Dershowitz said was that it didn't matter because he's the president, and then Moscow Mitch completely abdicated his responsibilities by saying that he would be chained at the hip to whatever position Trump took. The senate was supposed to be a separate branch of government, but McConnell negated that.
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  15920. When his approval dips to 20% in the polls .. that will be the "emergency". That or he attacks Iran for an excuse to grope for those war powers.
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  15921. At this point, we have a bunch of Quislings among us who are working for Putin via his secret-document-filching errand boy 45. It's past time to summon the ghost of McCarthy and the HUAC to deal with them.
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  15922.  @Bdigital9482  Because NATO gave them conventional weapons. Ukraine is the world's 55th largest economy. We haven't even given them proper cruise missiles yet.
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  15923. Every time Trump opens his air scoop, more self-incriminating tidbits come out. It's the sole upside in letting him continue to mislead the public. Perhaps another upside is letting him shake out America to see which unhinged nuts roll out and attempt to commit violence in his name - and we have plenty of jail space for those.
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  15924. Former guy would only be too happy to see America plunged into decades of violence, division, death, chaos. If you don't realize that yet, you simply haven't been paying attention. Putin never had a better servant here.
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  15925. She really needs to re-think that "aging porn star, overstayed visa illegally, found the right sugar daddy, brought the card-carrying-commie parents over by chain immigration, married to the guy who hates immigrants and chain migration" look. It is definitely not working for her.
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  15926. No, it isn't. Text of 14.3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  15927. This virus is sort of like a fire. Throwing more fuel on it (giving it more new people to infect) merely makes it burn for longer. Gotta snuff the fire out (deprive it of fuel) before you can restart things.
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  15928.  @jayedwards6713  Those returning Americans, who slipped through the Chinese filter that Trump set up, obviously seeded the disease throughout America. Keeping out only the Chinese obviously didn't work.
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  15929. Vote with your feet, and let X complete its transition to the next 4chan. Can't think of a finer way for Space Karen to lose $44Bn, much of which was rented money.
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  15930. Bingo. That's right up there with eliminating the national debt (instead he added $4 trillion to it), the wall that Mexico was going to pay for, great affordable healthcare for everyone, ISIS gone in 30 days, the Middle East peace problems solved, North Korea giving up WMDs, being so busy that he wouldn't take time off or go golfing, etc. The ultimate flim flam man. As a conservative put it .. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  15931. Makes you wonder if any of those MAGA fools ever got within 10 paces of a history book, and learned that for much of WW2 our president was an old man in a wheelchair, who frequently felt tired, who definitely had medical issues. These things didn't stop Franklin Delano Roosevelt from overseeing the US victory in WW2, the Manhattan project, and many many other things.
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  15932. Hmm, perhaps now the authorities are finally ready to crank up the heat on the orange cult leader. Good. Needless to say, everyone, just stand back and stand by in case his culties try to do stupid things. Make sure they get a long stay at the Graybar Hotel later on for whatever they choose to do.
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  15933. Jesse, please tell us what's really on your mind. Stop holding back. ;)
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  15934. Correct on resetting the framing, because we (as a nation) need to do the things that we cannot not do - and this includes modernizing to now catch up with the rest of the civilized world. Left to their own base instincts, Republicans would freeze some aspects of the country at 1950s levels (and some at 1850s levels) thus leaving our grandchildren to their fate as indentured servants to the foreign interests that use America as a supply province :(
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  15935. Poor Moscow Mitch. How is he ever supposed to acquit the obviously-guilty president under these conditions? Terrible!
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  15936. Do these callers not know that nearly everything they hear on FOX ooze is nonsense? It's surprising that more of them don't call asking why Democrats eat babies.
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  15937. In some recordings, you can hear him mentioning aid being withheld to the northern triangle countries - which are Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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  15938.  @PatriciaReyes-tf2mq  Why yes. He's too much of a blowhard to resist bragging, in small and large ways, about his crimes.
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  15939. Counting down the minutes until El Trompo says this doesn't affect his trust and deep personal good feelings towards the Taliban.
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  15940. Negotiating with Republicans in good faith is like trying to pick up a fresh steaming turd by the clean end. They have no interest in any power that they themselves do not control to the exclusion of all others. Clump gave them a taste of that forbidden fruit, and now they won't have anything else.
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  15941. With enough spineless cowards in government, even the dumbest wannabe-autocrat could dismantle our democracy from within.
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  15942.  @mike89128  Some Germans settled there too back in the 1800s, which is where part of my family came from.
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  15943. Those damn vaccines are ineffective at giving you superpowers. I'm very disappointed. Still can't levitate cars (magnetism would have been cool) and my 5G signal hasn't improved a bit. Sooooo disappointed :(
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  15944. Just like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Republicans of the USA have apparently decided that since they don't represent the will of the majority of Americans anyway there's no point in following the law any longer, because if they did, they'd lose.
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  15945.  @VivP887  They call landlines, and these days mostly only bluehairs have those.
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  15946.  @kevinthomes1046  So, according to your logic, I could claim without evidence that a 100-foot-tall Darth Vader destroyed the parking garage, and the city would have to put everything else on hold while they investigate? She can't even show any evidence. Like, duh. I know you're mad about Sweet Potato Hitler losing the election, but he did lose it. He knew even as far back as last summer that he couldn't win a fair election against Biden, which is why he extorted Ukraine into making up dirt.
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  15947. It's interesting hearing the president of the United States taking policy from someone he claims not to know -- the recording shows Trump taking just 20 seconds to go from not even knowing who decorated US ambassador Yovanovich is to demanding that she be removed.
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  15948. You know what this means, right? It means that Pompeo and Ghouliani are being dispatched with new orders to prove that Levi Sanders (the adult son of Bernie Sanders) has somehow been doing corrupt stuff abroad. So now poor Rudy needs to find new people to play the roles of Lev Parnas, Devin Nunes, Robert Hyde, etc/ Maybe they can make use of some of the same foreign assets they used to monitor US ambassador Yovanovich and offer a hit on her .. it would save the trouble of rebuilding a whole new group.
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  15949. No. They think the rest of the world is a vast conspiracy put on to deny the "truth" of whatever their cult nuttiness happens to be.
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  15950. He's so white, he could be the poster boy for Vanilla ISIS - aka Y'all Qaida. And now he'll be sitting in jail while Trump is out golfing.
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  15951. As any German could tell you, going full Nazi is not a good thing. Too bad conservatives seem to have decided that their sole path to continued political existence is by disenfranchising the people least likely to vote for their regressive agenda.
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  15952. During WW2 there were people who said the same thing about the blackout wardens too, but I think they all got whacked over the head or fined for noncompliance, as is befitting during a time of grave national emergency. Choosing to go unvaccinated and unmasked now is like choosing to leave all your lights on during the London Blitz.
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  15953. Funny how tours of the Texas governors mansion are closed to the public for (wait for it) covid risk.
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  15954.  @robertking2980  Who's laughing? OK, well, I am laughing a bit at the morons who choose to get infected. Some die. 2nd homes will be cheap next year thanks to America's dumbest deciding to clock out early.
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  15955. And the ones who still run around screeching for political violence to install Dump as dictator.
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  15956. He's got better things to do. You, however, apparently don't. By all means go volunteer.
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  15957. "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed - and we will deserve it." -- Lindsey Graham, 2016.
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  15958.  @funkenstien1155  Well, given all that, it may turn out to be more a cosplay civil war than an actual civil war. Most of those wannabe pro-Trump militia guys are more like Meal Team Six or the Gravy Seals; they couldn't guard a plate of donuts if their lives depended on it. I don't think they look forward to getting their food and fuel from abandoned vehicles while keeping an eye out for MQ9 drones.
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  15959. Trump lost the popular vote twice nationally. America doesn't like losers.
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  15960. Maybe every town needs to set up a little reservation, with 12ft high walls made of haybales, for the Trumpanzees to gather within and try to salvage what's left of their alternate reality. Sort of like a little commune for them. Cut them off from their propaganda feeds. Eventually some of them will get hungry and come back to the real world. Put cameras all over the place so the rest of us can enjoy a laugh.
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  15961. Ironically, if he had just done the one thing no one would expect him to do [concede the election gracefully, be helpful and supportive of the new administration, then fade out and not comment on the new president] his worth would have been a lot higher. But he never did have any control over his own overarching petulance.
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  15962. Sorry but that's not enough. We'd still have Alex Jones (and the rest of his type) spouting incendiary lies designed to make the country ungovernable. Right now, people are issuing death threats to weather reporters, and refusing FEMA aid, over those lies.
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  15963. Hey Mitch - no one's forgotten when you told Obama that 8 months before an election was much much too late in the election cycle for him to appoint someone to SCOTUS .. and when you turned around and let 45 do the same in less than 8 weeks. Classic case of Partisan Derangement Syndrome.
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  15964. I for one welcome the sight of whacktard conservatives gathering without masks or distancing during a deadly pandemic. I just wish they would do it in stuffy enclosed places out of the way, without endangering others. While society may bear the brunt of their medical costs, burial, and raising their children, in the end the IQ of society in general will rise due to the departure of the dumbest. I lift a cup of coffee in their honor.
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  15965. @Jack Stefan It's not so much wishing death on them as not standing in the way of the trash taking itself out. Like if you took the safety labels off everything and let nature weed out the dummies. Oh and what magical thinking tells you that none of those protesters who got too close and weren't wearing masks are going to die?
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  15966. Russia is knocking everywhere now, looking for a little Lebensraum and empire.
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  15967. His affiliation with conservatives always was just another "pump and Trump" scheme to use them for something. Suuuuuuuckers.
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  15968. Does this mean the inbred wingnut brigade will stop calling for governor Brown to be put in jail? Naturally they can't say what laws she supposedly broke.
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  15969. Funny how she complains about the border but doesn't complain about her constituents having such a strong market desire for illegal drugs.
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  15970. Moscow Mitch would have said that with the next election 3 years away, the seat needs to be held open for the next president to decide.
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  15971. Why would Republicans even consider doing anything about the by-products of their plan to make life worse for more people? They look upon the horrors of Dickensian squalor as sort of a golden age :(
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  15972.  @garywebb5927  Of course he couldn't say no. I hope you picked his brain to find the line where he thinks ordinary citizens shouldn't have [whatever]. S-400 anti-aircraft defense system for your ranch? No problem. Edit: Another fun thing to ask the NRA people is if they feel guns should be distributed to all citizens, like in Switzerland.
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  15973. Identical political parties is a fantasy for the simpleminded. Even identical twins aren't identical.
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  15974. Pepper-spraying anti-mask fools is too gentle. Over in Indonesia, they solved that problem by having the anti-maskers and the covid-deniers dig holes for the covid victims and help bury them. Apparently the cure rate is 100% within 2 weeks, although for some, the "cure" is in the form of this weird cough that gets them a date with the ventilator. Ah, well, they say you can't fix stupid, but it appears that the Indonesian government has figured out a way to.
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  15975.  @JohnDoe-nz6bk  "Just like you get your dis-" << Oh really, monkey brain? Try this one on for size: "The advanced stage 4 cancer was aggressive, sure, but the chemotherapy and radiation treatments were aggressive too. So there was aggression on both sides." Not all opposed forces are equally evil, numb nuts. You lack a moral compass if you think that information and misinformation are just equal opposites.
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  15976. @ernie mckracken Re "that's because they don't live in an alternate reality" << The nonsense that Trump people swallow is demonstrably false. What you're saying is that your ignorance is as good as someone else's knowledge - and you are paraphrasing something Carl Sagan once said as an example of why stupid people are easily sucked into disinformation.
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  15977. @ernie mckracken Re "the disinformation is in plain site" << For starters, the phrase is "plain sight" (not that Belarus mom's basement bots know English very well) and no, things are either demonstrably true or demonstrably false. It is not as if lies and truth cancel each other out. Dolt.
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  15978. @ernie mckracken "over the past 5 years how psychotic you" << Who's a leftie? If you live in Scotland you're under more socialism than the USA will ever have. How bereft of perspective and ignorant of reality can you be? (don't answer, it's obvious)
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  15979. Trump likes to continue to grift his gullible base. It's what pays the bills at Mar-a-Loser and keeps that jet flying. I just wonder when he's going to tell his base to stay home and make molotov cocktails and not go to work anymore.
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  15980. Watching conservatives trying to square every round thing they find, all to make it fit whatever delusional fable they've got rattling around their noggins that day, is most amusing.
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  15981.  Joe Deus  You are so wrong on all this, it sounds like you watch FOXed and OANN exclusively. Here's the difference between the two parties: When conservatives come to my city, they're driving giant pickup trucks with out of state plates, trying to run over crowds of protesters while spraying them with mace from inside the truck. When liberals come to your town, it's to make sure you've got clean air & water, safe food, and access to healthcare and education.
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  15982.  Joe Deus  You wrote "Is this the America you want to live in, where people are attacked in the streets for supporting their candidate?" <<< Considering that it was Trump supporters that tried the run the Biden bus off the street, and considering that conservatives are responsible for nearly all political violence in the USA, that's a question you should ask yourself when you're looking in a mirror. https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds
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  15983.  Joe Deus  Note how I didn't assume that; my position is informed by news and facts. Here are some more. Do facts hurt your feelings? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/domestic-terrorist-groups.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020 https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-groups-cited-in-domestic-terror-attacks-11603367633
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  15984.  @barbarahendricks2967  Did you ever see the clip of that nutbird Boomer chick who stood up, took the microphone, and said how she wanted to have Trump as dictator? Betcha never in her life did she live under a dictatorship -- because if she had, she wouldn't be asking for it. Same thing for all the dipsh*t conservatives who claim they want civil war. None of them have ever lived through that horror.
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  15985. The last time he promised "wild", there was an insurrection in DC, and now more than a thousand have been arrested for their treason, with more coming every week.
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  15986. If this was a trial run, the main idea is probably some odd MAGA coping mechanism through use of explosives.
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  15987.  Daniel Morse  Links or further explanation would be most helpful. TIA.
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  15988.  Daniel Morse  If you're going to believe entirely without evidence that the FBI has been given a demand already .. yeah, I'm just going to go back to what I was doing. Some of us prefer to have the actual proof of [whatever] before we start believing in it. Otherwise, you end up down a rabbit hole with the cranks that believe in flying saucers, bigfoot, whatever.
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  15989.  Daniel Morse  Your link-free (and therefore possibly fact-free) spree continues!
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  15990. This is classic David vs vodka-drunk Goliath.
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  15991. Sure, sure, everyone else just stay home and mind their own business while Putin takes one province after another? Neville Chamberlain tried that. Disastrous results.
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  15992. Thanks to the inaction of the El Paso police (ie, "he's just a nice white guy with weapons, nothing we can do, sorry folks") this fellow later said in a news interview that he's on the way to Portland OR. Hopefully the cockroach gets stomped along the way. https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/08/09/26944904/armed-man-arrested-outside-of-el-paso-immigrant-center-on-his-way-to-portland
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  15993. We can do this, people! Here's how. Make sure everyone is registered to vote, particularly the citizens who've just turned 18 or will have by the time of the next election. Make sure everyone has the ID's necessary for voting - this varies from place to place. Make sure everyone knows where the polling places or ballot drop boxes are. Make sure they've got transportation to those places. Make sure they have the comforts needed for a potentially long wait in line - food, water, shelter, wifi, whatever. Because defeating fascism at the ballot box works a lot better than fighting it after it's taken power. Just ask Sophie Scholl and her friends :(
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  15994. If he hated democracy, the rule of law, and America so deeply, perhaps Mr Bannon could have made this clear to everyone earlier in life? Perhaps while he was serving in the US navy? They would have wanted to know about that.
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  15995. Rest assured, the Republicans are probably already working out dozens of excuses for why they should refuse to certify a Harris win. They've talked themselves into believing that it's a "woke deep state" disaster when in fact their election loss is just another day ending in the letter Y.
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  15996. These election-denying people are as whacked as the Manson Family members. Treat them accordingly.
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  15997. These modern Republicans (call them the Trump Party or the Julius & Ethel Rosenburg Party, take your pick) have for awhile been focused on burning down the nation to spite the Democrats, not on doing anything for America.
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  15998. Remember when 45 encouraged armed protesters to invade state capitols back during the pandemic, egging them on with his calls to "liberate"? Sick.
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  15999. And social media will be his eyes and ears, which is why he's tight with Zuckerberg and the Muskrat. Remember, Big Orangey will see the information freedoms of his previous term as one of the few things keeping him from permanent power.
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  16000.  Tim Smith  Well, then the crying-while-laughing emoji is perfect, because the joke's on you.
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  16001. Russia is led right now by a guy who won't even use a computer. Large swaths of the country still look like WW2 was fought just 3 years ago. And next it's all going to get a lot worse.
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  16002. March 2: -“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” March 2: -“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5: -“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6: -“We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ” March 6: -“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6: -“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6: -“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: -“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: -“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.” March 9: -“This blindsided the world.” March 9: -“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of Corona Virus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” March 9: -"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the Corona Virus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” March 10: -"It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 12: -“It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.” March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 13: Trump declares state of emergency. March 13: -“I don't take responsibility at all.” March 15: -"TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" March 16: -"I give myself a 10 out of 10"
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  16003. Maybe David is from Portland, OR, where people are famously grungy still.
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  16004.  @gerryhouska2859  But not infinite. So lately they are giving female prisoners the option to go to the front, meaning they've run low of male prisoners. The provinces got tapped out to the point where it was necessary to start drawing from Moscow & St Pete's. Most likely Putin will keep his foot on the gas until they run out of Russian soldiers of any age group and either gender.
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  16005.  @sherrihall700  Caligula did away with NAFTA previously and replaced it with his own godawful equivalent, the USMCA, which he's threatening to violate already.
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  16006.  @jamesdanton9033  Your comment reminds me of the legal defense that Alex Jones tried in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit. Basically he argued that what he said was not a lie per se, but "rhetorical hyperbole". The things he said induced some of his followers to issue death threats to people who'd lost their children in the Sandy Hook massacre. Words have consequences.
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  16007. Nobody f*cks with babushkas.
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  16008. Anyone dumb enough to go to the superspreader-in-chief's covidchella events is probably not needed in the gene pool anyway, and the last time I checked, there wasn't enough chlorine in the water.
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  16009. This is like watching Team Trump try to explain the sinking of the Titanic by saying that the water entered it illegally, not that the captain was stupid and ran into an iceberg.
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  16010. The Trump coronavirus outbreak and the Trump depression (both of 2020) have opened a sinkhole the size of Florida and Texas combined. There isn't enough money in the world to keep the Trump campaign from falling into the abyss.
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  16011. Actually he's the president-elect, not the president. The changeover doesn't happen until January 20th at noon eastern time. Is this your first time following an election and seeing how things actually work? I've occasionally had to explain this to a child, but never to an adult.
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  16012.  @Sharky165  Unfortunately, naturally-acquired herd immunity is just another term for lots of people getting infected, and some of them dying. Artificially-acquired herd immunity is what the vaccines are about.
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  16013. Yeah. It's like something Louie Gohmert would say.
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  16014. One of the many differences between Dr. Fauci and Trump is that one has a long history of accomplishments and public service - Dr. Fauci. The other one isn't suited to be the town dog catcher.
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  16015. Bald, thanks for the encouragement to go learn the vocabulary first. I'm just embarrassed by how long it took me to figure out that "boyno" is essentially a contraction of "ya ponimio" :(
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  16016. Republicans knew months ago that the tide of the will of the people would be running strongly against them. Their response? Sabotage the apparatus of voting.
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  16017. Re "Can’t say Humanity doesn’t deserve its own self-extinction" - That's what's referred to as blaming everyone for the sins of a few or just some.
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  16018. Also make sure people are ready to take video as needed. So when Trumpies break the law, they can be assured of some time in front of the judge then a long stay at Graybar Hotel.
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  16019. Let's not forget that Rostov was historically Ukrainian land long before those smelly upstart Muskovites stole it. Its return to Ukraine should be part of the reparations that Moscow will be forced pay.
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  16020. Figured it wouldn't take long :( America is in that place where democracies sometimes die :(
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  16021. And with just one phone call to their propaganda outlet, FOX Noise, those lies were amplified. You can almost tell who was in on the coup because, in lockstep, over the course of half an hour or so, they all switched to that narrative.
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  16022. Plus there's this neat side effect, it gives you some protection against getting and spreading covid. Oh, wait. That was the whole reason for the vaccine.
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  16023. By now, EVERYONE should know that Trump is the kind of kid who'd take all the toys and burn down the playground if he can't be king of it.
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  16024. If you took the lies out of everything Republicans say, it would be pretty quiet.
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  16025. Correct. Their argument is a little like those in Germany who said, "So what if Hitler seized power illegally? The streets are clean and the trains are running on time. Who cares about the rest? It's just a few Jews going missing." Etc
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  16026. The only movement in the polls, since then, was away from Putin's pet felon.
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  16027.  @jamesdenny4734  As covered elsewhere in the news, it says right on the top of the first page that it's not a verbatim transcript. Who do you believe, him or your own lying eyes? (1984 ref)
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  16028. Surely Putin is happy with his MAGA helpers here, who are both a) making the US government dysfunctional and b) stalling aid to Ukraine.
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  16029. Watching the Republicans thrash about in the hearings was pretty entertaining. Not sure why they are so worried anyway, since Moscow Mitch will make sure Trump is declared innocent in the Senate trial (he's already said as much), then Trump can pardon Roger Stone and the others, and then Russia will make sure that the 2020 election results show Republicans winning by a landslide. What crap are they planning for Trump's hypothetical second term?
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  16030.  @bc1969214  Maybe they'll finally find a judge who says it's OK to postpone elections indefinitely .. :(
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  16031. Bingo. If he ever returns to power, Trump would try hard (like all dictators do) to make it a crime to criticize him. And the spineless Republicans would probably go right along with it :(
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  16032. They don't care. They are cult zombies, like Charles Manson's followers were.
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  16033. Trump is a cheerleader for America? Ha. Cheerleaders are sexy and have moves. He's just a 70something fat sulky child still.
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  16034. Conservatives seem to be unaware of some basics .. all things being equal, your first impressions are usually the more correct ones: “You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this.” -- Marco Rubio, March 12 2016 “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz, May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham, Feb 17 2016.
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  16035. The thing that cult leaders (like Trump) specialize in is reaching out to the shallow ones and separating them from any sense of history, community, morals, law, society, etc. In that tenderized state, they'll believe that down is up and war is peace. Whether any of them regain their senses is something we'll have to see.
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  16036. Let's not hope that; they're Americans too, delusional though they may be. I just wouldn't discourage them overmuch from waiting on Hair Fuhrer.
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  16037. Considering that Florida and NY have roughly similar size populations (20 million range) it seems likely that Florida can see the daily highs that NY did - at peak, nearly 13,000 new cases per day.
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  16038. Funny, Putin loves it when FOX noise works to destabilize America, but if they tried that ish in Russia he'd have them all shot.
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  16039.  @hkuiper100  And Europe basically said, "Meh, we might be chilly for a winter or two, but we were going to quit that Russian energy addiction anyway" and got some sweaters and extra blankets.
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  16040. Presidents (or their imported, skipping-like-a-dipsht lackeys) don't have the authority to interrupt spending authorized by Congress. No doubt they waved some fancy looking paper in front of some easily confused people and gained entrance to the building that way.
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  16041. Don't make Republicans choose between common sense and tribalistic dogma.
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  16042. The involvement of Ron Johnson in this is interesting. If people recall, he was one of 8 prominent US politicians who chose to celebrate their "patriotism" by spending July 4th, 2018 in Moscow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html
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  16043. Trump's reverse Midas touch continues to exert its special influence on the body politic. Being affiliated with Trump is like sleeping with a big hunk of strontium-90 under your bed. Let's see how long it takes them to realize that he's guaranteed that they continue to lose elections for the next couple decades.
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  16044. 682 days elapsed between the J6 insurrection and AG Garland's appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith. Ignoring incipient fascism in your home country is like ignoring stage 3 cancer in your digestive system. In roughly the same time window, Germany uncovered a plot for a coup, and Brazil endured Balsonaro trying to behave like 45. Both of them dealt with it swiftly - the guilty ones were arrested almost immediately - yet they both still have their democracies, and a black hole didn't suddenly appear to swallow the earth.
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  16045.  @robertmiskey5502  It's like Garland watches Fox noise and keeps telling himself, "both sides are the same, both sides are the same, let's just let this slide and maybe it will all go away." And that's part of how democracies die :(
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  16046. Italy - looking for patient zero now is like looking for the arsonist's cigarette lighter while your house is rapidly catching afire. With the long incubation of covid-19, what you're seeing now is the result of things that happened weeks ago.
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  16047. None of us are the same as we were in 2012, unless perhaps you've got a time machine.
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  16048. Bingo. Tuberville is in on Coup 2.
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  16049. How fitting that they chose the spot right between a crematorium and a porn shop for Rudy to make an ass of himself yet again.
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  16050.  @lessoufi  I know what Putin must have on Trump and other Republicans: translators notes from their conversations. From their actions, it is clear that either Republicans asked for, or Putin offered, or both, his advice in how to remake America: State control over all media outlets. A strong police state. Minorities, dissident journalists, and people who vote the other way ruthlessly repressed. Guaranteed election results in his favor.
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  16051.  @birdsndog5819  Look for the training materials to change ASAP.
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  16052. "Trump hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay." -Anand Giridharadas.
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  16053. There's no place in a free and just America for f'ing deranged cultists eager to break the law. Give them a choice between NK, Siberia, or the wall.
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  16054.  @rickkey4226  Goes right with that PRAVDA news service they have over there, which is famous for its use as birdcage liner.
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  16055. What's unchanged over the millennia, of course, is the propensity of the stupidest people to believe the dumbest lies, stuff that wouldn't fool a cat. That being said, the Fairness Doctrine was an attempt to put some limits on the lying.
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  16056.  @coloneloftruth9621  Aww, is that the best you got when I call you out on being a low information mushroom sheeple, kept in the dark, fed only BS, and coming to like the taste of BS?
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  16057.  @coloneloftruth9621  Actually it was Joe Rogan himself who told a number of news outlets that he had covid (at the time) and had used ivermectin, which is a livestock de-wormer. The story is widely available and came out Sept 1 2021. Again, you're serving as a fine example of why friends don't let friends get their "news" from InfoWars and the Blaze.
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  16058. I like your thinking. What could be more emblematic of a conservative household than guns and bombs and some code violations? Oh, wait, let me guess, some incest-fueled pregnancies and home schooling? Someday there will be a museum of Q people. They're like the People of Walmart but not as classy or intelligent.
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  16059.  @TreasureDeal  I'm just going to stand back and watch the leopards feast. Of course it will be the worst in the red states. The counties that voted for Biden in 2020 make up 70% of the nation's GDP. They will probably be fine. The folks who believe Caligula's nonsense? They won't be faring so well.
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  16060. Ambulance rides and vitamin supplements. That's what dummy is providing? Some will die over this, some will suffer permanent disabilities.
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  16061. Plenty of stupid, ignorant, easily-misled people everywhere. Worse, there's no shortage of social media platforms who make lots of money off those people interacting digitally, even though the things they share are killing them.
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  16062. Unless they evacuate the hotel and put everyone into isolated quarantine, I'm afraid that hotel in Tenerife will simply become the next Diamond Princess, a place that offers the virus plenty of fresh host in an environment where it can spread. Already, the situation is that anyone who's left the hotel since the sick person checked in will be a potential vector leading back to wherever they call home - with new clusters emerging in a few weeks :(
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  16063. US Navy has entered the chat.
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  16064. Hearing the same thing in Portland :(
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  16065.  Alaska Pirates  A voluntary tax on stupidity.
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  16066. Catchy material. I'm sure it plays well to folks who've got their own history books showing a T-Rex handing a confederate flag to Jesus. (SNL ref)
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  16067. The death rate is around 3.6% as explained on all of the major data sources. One is linked below. Scroll down to the "closed cases" box. So if it were to run wild throughout America (as looks likely now) projected death toll could be around 11.9 million. Your concern for the welfare of others is duly noted :( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  16068.  @bemabulldog3790  Death rate of TB is 0.2 per 100K population. Vaccines and treatment for it have been around for awhile. It's not as communicable as covid, which is only slightly less communicable than measles. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6531349/#:~:text=Americans%20still%20die%20of%20tuberculosis,changed%20since%202003%20(2).
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  16069.  @bemabulldog3790  Is this your first time attempting to engage in thought, or do you just regurgitate the nonsense that you saw in some FB post? Did you even make it out of high school? You're displaying an alarming inability to think critically or even get basic facts right before opening the air scoop on your supercharged hamster brain.
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  16070. If you want $5B for the border wall, just ask Trump why he gave $2T per year in tax cuts to the richest. Betcha you didn't complain about that.
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  16071.  @JoeyBaby47  I'm against US states making foreign policy on their own, which is what those zeroes in Arizona did by obscuring the border. Oh, and since you seem to lack the situational awareness to understand WHY people come from south of the border, let me add this: If you want to keep people inside a burning building, you need a border wall sort of like the one that used to be in Berlin and along the DDR's borders with the west, and even that didn't succeed in keeping people in a shitty place.
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  16072.  @JoeyBaby47  Inflation is running high in every country now, even all the ones that Biden isn't in charge of. But we can't expect you to be aware of things that everyone knows, can we.
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  16073.  @JoeyBaby47  Once again you demonstrate your lack of understanding. Try building a fence to keep people in a burning building (or in a really horrible, shitty situation) and see why that approach doesn't work. Fix the shitty situation south of the border and you'll fix the migration problem.
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  16074.  @JoeyBaby47  Y'know, your whole asinine attitude towards people south of the border should make you ask why the western nations didn't collectively demonize the poor wretches who were trying to flee communism and seek better lives in the west. Thankfully better minds prevailed, and we didn't have your kind of lower life form bitching that those folks fleeing communism were here to steal our jobs or speak different languages or offend us by having slightly different skin tones.
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  16075.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  You still can't explain why the West didn't demonize the people fleeing communism. Surely some of them spoke with accents or took jobs away from people already in the west. Again, I'm glad people like you aren't in charge of anything important. Your lack of compassion for other people fleeing danger is indicative of psychopathic tendencies. You might want to get that checked out.
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  16076.  @JoeyBaby47  You don't need me to read the news to you. Go read it yourself. Most of the people fleeing places south of the border are fleeing a lot worse than the communist refuseniks who kept climbing over the Berlin wall.
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  16077.  @JoeyBaby47  If your only "search" is on FOXed Noise, you won't find much. Apparently you can't find anything except that which feeds the same confirmation bias that so blinds you. If ignorance is bliss, you must be the Buddha buddy 😀
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  16078.  @JoeyBaby47  The fact that every nation on earth is experiencing the same inflation (because, out of necessity, they all did similar things during the pandemic) seems not to have penetrated your thick head. No matter. I got drum magazines full of sh for the dumbest people that flop up on my beach.
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  16079.  @JoeyBaby47  Communists did pretty bad things to people living behind the Iron Curtain (including limiting their ability to save up to buy a car) and we welcomed them, even though they probably took the jobs that xenophobes imagined were "theirs". People fleeing here from south of the border are escaping much worse than that.
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  16080.  @whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306  Unless any of the PB/OK's were secretly recording if/when Trump told them to plan to storm the capitol, it might not be worth getting any of them to flip. Most likely Miller or Bannon or someone else was the in-between.
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  16081.  @wilbertjohnson9289  It's why I fully support folks grifting off the MAGA nutters. Financial darwinism at its finest. They were lucky to get together with their money in the first place.
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  16082. The first Great Depression was probably better, because, unlike this time, the president wasn't actively working (for Russia) to dissolve emergency response funding, fire funding, disease prevention, retirement, healthcare, environmental stewardship, power grid safety, air traffic safety, the postal service, etc. He's burning the nation, and his own party (Manchurian Republicans) are letting him.
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  16083.  @obviouslytrollmster1532  Sorry, but "both sides" didn't invade the capitol at the behest of the election loser, who spent months lying about the election results. "Both sides" didn't do the worst attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812.
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  16084. America will be lucky to avoid what happened to Germany when their cult leader's lies caught up with him: the country in ruins, invaded by a coalition of other nations. Sadly his MAGA Faithful quislings would happily burn down their own nation.
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  16085. Republicans look at Putin's Russia, or Afghanistan under the Taliban, and think, wow, how can we do the same stuff here?
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  16086. Funny how not a single Republican/conservative reached out to BLM, to Antifa, etc asking them to call off the insurgents. No, they all called Trump.
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  16087.  jbdelaney  To be sure, the high marginal tax rates (for the super ultra mega rich) were quite high on the portions of income above a large amount - which most people then did not quality for. For example, the average family income in the USA in 1956 was $4,800, which qualified them for the 26% tax rate after the usual deductions. But to qualify for the highest rates you would have had to earn $200K per year or more, which, in today's dollars, is around $1.9 million per year. References: https://www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1956 https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1958/demo/p60-027.html#:~:text=Average%20(median)%20family%20income%20in,percent%20higher%20than%20in%201955.
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  16088.  @currysues  Here's how shutdowns only slowed the NY rise in daily cases, but mandatory masks (even simple cloth ones) crushed the curve: https://imgur.com/aZawM9i
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  16089.  @Blackstar-cf7gm  I live in Oregon you abject, inbred moron. Go crawl back to mama's basement while the adults talk.
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  16090.  @Blackstar-cf7gm  NY and Oregon have a lot in common, mental midget. Vast rural areas, one large metro area that contains a huge chunk of the population, a state capitol that's halfway out to the hinterlands. From your inept observations it sounds like you have learned nothing from your time in either state, if you've ever been to them.
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  16091.  @FEARISLIAR  Hahahaha.Walk into any hospital surgery room. All the people there wear MASKS so they don't get GERMS into a patient's wounds. Hahaha you're so stupid it's funny.
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  16092. This is why America and the west need to send precision long-range missiles to Ukraine. Especially cruise missiles with range over 300km. Send the nazi invaders to the hot place.
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  16093.  @ZaireRH  Trump is refusing to cooperate for the same reason that mobsters hide their books from the law - a rational fear of persecution over getting caught breaking the law. Every time new witnesses/evidence come forth (like the recently released emails showing the white house trying to cover up the fact that it was breaking the Impoundment Control Act) everything points the same direction: Trump is guilty.
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  16094. @godfreycarmichael Absolutely.
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  16095. Isn't this the same Dickus Trump who just a day ago was tweeting for states to "liberate" from shutdown?
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  16096. They should switch over to Fox like the other ring-kissers.
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  16097.  @michaelshigetani433  Correct. No way would they let potential future slave workers just leave. The for-profit prisons massively bankrolled Tr*mp's campaign. They'll get rich off the barbed wire alone.
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  16098. Back during the cold war, we in the USA had a derisive term for lamebrained hacks who stuck to the party line regardless of the facts: apparatchik. Time to bring back that word, because that's what Trump's flying monkeys are. All they do is lie and dissemble. Trump doesn't want "his" virus numbers to look bad, so tests are deliberately harder to get here than in other countries, where they offer drive-through testing for free.
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  16099.  @redmed10  We have some MAGA types here! Let's show them a little love.
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  16100.  @christopherbarrett7633  Here's a great list of all of our Mango Mussolini's lies about coronavirus.We could have stopped this thing by catching it early, but noooooooo, Hair Fuhrer just did not want to hear about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/trumps-lies-about-coronavirus/608647/
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  16101.  @bobbiemanning2181  Thanks - and stay safe my friend.
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  16102. One of the few nice things about Trump is that, like a vacuum, he's been going through the ranks of conservative bureaucrats and causing the weak-minded ones to go on camera to tell us easily-disproven lies. Like Skeletor Chick and Sean Spicer, they'll never be allowed to hold any kind of job that requires any integrity. They totally wasted it for a buffoon of a guy who doesn't give 2 shtts about them.
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  16103. Poor little Kay Lie. She went full Michele Bachmann. You never go full Michele Bachmann.
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  16104. America is so great! Where else could an immigrant drag queen reinvent themselves as a white, conservative anti-immigrant American? Someone finally upped Rafael Eduardo Cruz, who is merely the Canadian-born descendant of a Cuban refugee who's reinvented himself as a white, southern, immigrant-bashing conservative. 😅
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  16105. Sounds like some of the Trumptard loons I've been hearing comments from. Whoever's feeding their little sheeple food troughs seems to have been dumping in more lead paint chips lately. Some of them have been pushing the idea that they'd rather plunge the country into civil war rather than have viewpoints other than theirs running the show.
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  16106. Heck, she should totally hold off on sending this weak-tea impeachment to Senate. The job hasn't yet been fully done, thanks to all the evidence/witnesses/documents that Don-the-con has been holding onto like an angry constipated huckster. When it's done she can send it to Senate. The testimony of John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and others should shed a lot of light on these matters.
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  16107. The character of the nation has not changed - it is the character of Republicans/conservatives which has changed. Dump45 took them along on a ride to Crazytown. Now they embrace dictatorship, political violence, ending the constitution. The rest of us are not like that.
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  16108. Remember when Trump encouraged/condoned state-capitol insurrections back during the pandemic, telling the angry white dudes with guns to "liberate"? Some of them took him literally and plotted to kidnap and kill the governor of Michigan. Makes you wish they'd just move to Haiti or Somalia if they think living amongst political violence is so cool and desirable.
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  16109. While I'm sorry to see this lack of faith in the justice system, I think we can all agree on the fact that every single insurrectionist should be locked up for their own safety.
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  16110. Manchurian candidate or Muscovite incumbent? Split the difference, aim for the red hat.
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  16111. Although it would be poetic justice for Trump's rally-going FOXed-Noise-slurping delusional elderly lemmings to finally get over Hillary's emails for the very last time .. they're still Americans. Let's not go there.
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  16112. Once the dictator tries to run the front personally, it all goes downhill very quickly. Putin is in his vainglorious "I alone can fix this" phase.
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  16113. When you confront Trumpanzees about how they don't have any proof of vote fraud (nor does Trump or any of his lawyers) and they insist otherwise, it's a lot like trying to explain to them that 2 + 2 = 4 when they are absolutely convinced that the sum of 2 and 2 is 5. All you can do is stand back and thank them for the free humor, basically.
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  16114. One insurrectionist was a veteran. One was a WV politician who just took his oath of office, Derrick Evans, now being asked to resign. America deserves to know who else was in that crowd - current or former politicians, service members, police, politicians, any kind of public servant - they all need to lose their benefits and positions and clearances ASAP for what they just did. You don't get to take up arms against America and just walk away.
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  16115. So .. these same Republicans use their covid passport just to get into this thing then go home and rail about how covid passports must be banned?
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  16116.  @tombarrett2524  Regarding "CNN is a really" << Well, I'm glad you feel that way, but the quality of the CNN coverage has nothing to do with the reality or the severity of the pandemic. The pandemic is defined by positive tests, by hospitalizations, by deaths, and all that exists regardless of how CNN does or doesn't cover it.
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  16117.  @tombarrett2524  Smart people are welcome in high-vax places. The rest, well, their houses will be for sale next year. No great loss.
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  16118. Yeah. I'm a pretty OK dirt/enduro rider, but wow, doing that stuff on a full dress police bike is just nuts.
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  16119.  Kiera Shepard  Facts are useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
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  16120. Face it, Tucker Carlson probably orgasmed when he heard his own themes echoed in the Buffalo shooter's manifesto.
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  16121. Getting the wannabe-Brownshirts familiar with going door-to-door and taking the law into their own hands (even though they are authorized to do neither) is just another bit of encroaching fascism. The next step is to show up looking for immigrants and trans kids.
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  16122.  @Christdeliverme  Do you neither follow nor remember the news? Pay attention, please.
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  16123.  @johnkelly9046  All 45 knows is that Putin told him to push NATO down.
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  16124. Same. How do you forgive people who would have gladly turned our country into a violent hell hole, like Haiti, ruled by warring gunlords in the wake of coup after coup to seize power illegally? There isn't any way back from that kind of political balkanization.
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  16125. This virus is sort of like a fire. Throwing more fuel on it (giving it more new people to infect) merely makes it burn for longer. Gotta snuff the fire out (deprive it of fuel by social distancing above all else) before you can restart things.
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  16126. Funny how Clinton's impeachment trial lasted a month, with no limits on witnesses and documents, all for a BJ and a stained dress. But when a president is violating the Impoundment Control Act, extorting another nation into interfering with our elections, covering it up, then obstructing the investigation, they want no witnesses/evidence and a speedy coverup. That's not very American of them :(
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  16127. Look at all those Antifa people! /sarcasm
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  16128. Funny you should mention that .. the Supreme Corp is arguing the notion of "faithless electors" presently.
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  16129.  @pclay5022  If you want a hint of things to come for #3 (see above) .. just consider that the most likely reason the US is so against Huawei technologies that Huawei (unlike IBM, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Netflix, Fakebook, you name it) did not build the US government any top-level backdoors into everything. I trust you can figure out the rest.
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  16130.  @pclay5022  For those of us not on Fakebook/Wastebook, is that content available elsewhere? TIA
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  16131.  @triciac1019  You want even MORE irony? Look up this article from 2021. Title, author, date. A 'Scary' Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary By Tom Gjelten February 11, 2021 Looks like one of them finally delivered.
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  16132. Trump: Laws don't apply to ME! Conservatives: He's our savior!
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  16133. Pretty sure SCOTUS realizes there's no happy ending in it for them if they somehow help Dump have a second term. He'd have no need (and definitely no want) for the other two major branches of government.
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  16134. So .. to assuage Trump's butthurt and "cover" for his lie about 5K dead people voting, Georgia was supposed to magically "find" 11,779 votes for Trump that didn't actually exist?
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  16135. As far back as July 2019, Trump knew he would lose a fair election against Biden, which is why he withheld aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to make up some dirt on the Bidens. And by sometime in March 2020 he began hunting for someone to sabotage the USPS from within, when he realized that lying about the coronavirus hadn't made it go away, and tens of millions of people would be voting by mail in the fall. By their actions, the Republicans are showing that they occupy a position that doesn't belong on the political spectrum in any country: being willing to break any law to deny other parties any shot at power. That's how Communist Russia, Communist China, and Nazi Germany all do or did business.
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  16136.  @gunner5059  Here's some info to refresh your memory. Let's talk about the relationship between smoke and fire, shall we? No Obama investigations. No Obama Special Counsel investigations. No Obama administration indictments. No drama... Obama. Hillary Clinton Benghazi "Investigation" 4 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Hillary Clinton Email "Investigation" 2 years 0 indictments 0 convictions Tяump-Russia Investigation 15 months 34 Indictments/Charges (Individuals) (and counting) 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) 5 GUILTY pleas (and counting) 5 CONVICTIONS (and counting) Indicted: Roger Stone, guilty on all 7 counts, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Paul Manafort, serving 7.5 years in prison Indicted: Rick Gates, getting 45 days in jail & 3 years probation Indicted: George Papadopoulos, 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours community service Indicted: Michael Flynn, awaiting sentencing Indicted: Michael Cohen, serving 3 years in prison Indicted: Richard Pinedo, 6 months in prison, 6 months home confinement Indicted: Alex van der Zwaan, 30 days in prison, 2 months supervised release Indicted: Konstantin Kilimnik Indicted: 12 Russian GRU officers Indicted: Yevgeny Prigozhin Indicted: Mikhail Burchik Indicted: Aleksandra Krylova Indicted: Anna Bogacheva Indicted: Sergey Polozov Indicted: Maria Bovda Indicted: Dzheykhun Aslanov Indicted: Vadim Podkopaev Indicted: Irina Kaverzina Indicted: Gleb Vasilchenko Indicted: Internet Research Agency Indicted: Concord Management Guilty Plea: Michael Flynn Guilty Plea: Michael Cohen Guilty Plea: George Papadopolous Guilty Plea: Richard Pinedo Guilty Plea: Alex van der Zwaan Guilty Plea: Rick Gates Over 191 Criminal Charges (and counting): Conspiracy against the USA (2 counts) Conspiracy to launder money (2 counts) Bank fraud (8 counts) Bank fraud conspiracy (10 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Making false statements (6 counts) Failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts (14 counts) Unregistered agent of a foreign principal (2 counts) False FARA statements (2 counts) Subscribing to false tax returns (10 counts) Assisting in preparation of false tax documents (5 counts) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (13 counts) Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (2 counts) Aggravated identity theft (24 counts)
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  16137. The one silver lining in the cloud is that the people who refuse to wear masks and practice distancing (the ones who think it's a hoax, the ones who say it's no worse than a cold/flu) are by their actions subtracting themselves from the voting rolls. Heck, did they even notice our Mango Mussolini freaking out that some of his staff are infected, or that he won't let them anywhere near him unless they get tested every day?
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  16138. It does make all those "Red Dawn" themed movies make more sense, though. In most of those, an American president (for reasons never clearly explained) invites Russian/NK/Chinese troops onto US soil to repress US citizens. After this, we can all see how a Republican would side with America's adversaries and try to put an end to democracy. They already did it twice. Last time was Nixon. This time was Trump. Who's next, DeSantis?
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  16139. And that's why friends don't let friends watch Fox "news" - which is basically the conservative version of the Onion.
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  16140. Those participating in this destruction of the rule of law in the US are better known as Putin's little helpers.
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  16141. If Trump thinks a president can do whatever he wants, and the Republicans agree with that .. then why did they waste so much energy investigating Obama for anything and everything? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/30/impeachment-trump-forgets-republicans-investigated-obama-column/3813132002/
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  16142. He must be soooooo jealous. All his best authoritarian buds (Kim Jong Un, Duterte, Putin, MBS) are able to just disappear anyone who dares criticize them.
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  16143.  @AM-fs1je  Yes, and Trump's rehabilitation of the Tate brothers is another such threat. He and Musk rode to office on the approval of young men who want money and girls. Add the Heritage Foundation spin to it and you get something like the Taliban.
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  16144. At this point, it's on the rest of us to stand back, stand by, and call the police when we see Dump45's flying monkeys try to do harm. Or just dogpile them and call the police. They can get their time in court and then in jail. America doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
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  16145. It's funny how Murdoch can think differently about the truth when it cost him $787million (the Dominion lawsuit) to push Trump's election lies.
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  16146. To that end, Mitch McConnell blocked 82 of Obama's appointments. In all prior US history (more than 200 years) a grand total of 84 had been blocked. All so Trump could later fill the seats with spineless yes-men.
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  16147.  @alanakafang6143  So in your eyes it's "fascist" to stop traitors from trying to overthrow our democracy? Cope harder.
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  16148. Probably the reason the UK is going so well is that they haven't got a provincial governor like Ron DeSatan doing everything possible to make the pandemic worse.
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  16149.  @ianthesoccerref  Putin has the idea that the USA should be as broken & dysfunctional as Russia is. Apprentice Trump is helping him make it so.
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  16150. Norway had its Quislings; invaded France had its Nazi collaborators; and the USA has its Trumpanzee nutjobs. Never knew we had so many eager to throw democracy under the bus, end our American experiment, and install Putin's sockpuppet as a dictator. They deserve the same treatment those other enemy collaborators got.
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  16151.  @yeyeman6569  Funny how Russia is careful not to roll into NATO countries .. they'd get kicked back to Vladivostok.
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  16152. Mewling, newborn kittens, with their eyes not yet open, have more self-control than DOLTUS.
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  16153. Saw on FB that there's a convoy of pickup trucks coming from Idaho to ram holes in that barricade.
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  16154. Sinclair Lewis was party correct. When fascism came to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, it had the full knowing cooperation of America's conservatives, who were enthralled by the thought of political violence in service of one butthurt loser.
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  16155. Nunes' oath of office is worth about as much as comrade Tяump's .. which is to say about the same as a degree from Tяump university.
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  16156.  @jvoet123  After four years of Trump's reign of error, we no longer have a president who's breaking the law on a regular basis, telling lies by the thousands, trashing our longstanding allies, sucking up to our enemies, throwing the US intelligence agencies under the bus, and being ruler instead of leader. I hope you're not one of those people who would happily sacrifice a little liberty for the security of a Party strongman-wannabe in office just to have the streets clean and the trains running on time. Those people deserve neither.
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  16157. A war crimes prosecutor is exactly what Trump needs - Trump, who apparently hates his own nation so much that he desires to turn it into a strife-torn failed state such as Somalia, Haiti, Ethiopia, Eritrea.
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  16158.  @bc-guy852 If Ukraine is already putting F-16s into use and it's not yet being advertised, I totally approve. Sun Tsu rules.
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  16159. Springfield is now feeling what Portland has been getting from Fox & 45 for awhile now. At the height of those troubles, there were convoys of rolling-coal pickups coming in from Montana/Idaho to show off their jackboot type loyalty to the cult leader.
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  16160. In most parts of the US, sadly, you can follow all the guidelines and still get the virus. Why? Because governments in the US, at all levels, respond primarily to the cries of businesses and rich people and not to the needs of ordinary people. Most of us are on our own in this regard. So - avoid people, be in stores for as short a time as possible, wear a mask, and avoid people who don't wear masks.
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  16161. Technically, we are in deep trouble when a certain percentage of our population throws its lot in with an obvious cult leader, an obvious liar, an obvious con man, etc, who has zero respect for the rule of law and for the same constitution he took an oath to protect against all enemies, foreign or domestic.
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  16162. Betcha this is the last time Fox gets to interview Trump.
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  16163. When Trump sends his people, he's not sending the best. He sends people that have lots of problems, and they bring those problems to us. They're bringing fascism. They're bringing treason and insurrection. They're pro-rape. And some of them, we assume, are good people.
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  16164. Bingo. Their denials are about as watertight as Ron Johnson's - and his is like a fishnet.
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  16165. He's not the only one. All kinds of conservative-leaning folks are somehow trying to pretend that they had NOTHING to do with Trump and his reign of error.
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  16166. The portion of hardcore Trump supporters among the American electorate is similar to the portion of Nazi voters in Germany's 1932 elections - a bit less than a third. They don't care about the law, or about democracy, or about justice. They just want the dictator who strokes their fear/hate buttons like no one else ever has.
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  16167. That was back in his old days, before V Roosh, Trump, and the Proud Boys showed him how to be more of a Nazi.
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  16168.  @bridgettjohnson7437  Oh my gosh, wonder how loudly you would have whined during WW2. Not only would they have made you wear a uniform, they would have made you serve in duty somehow. Oh, the horrors! Government telling you what to do! Oh, the horror! (that's sarcasm, in case you really are too stupid to see what's going on) Oh, and yes, they did make people get shots back then before serving in the military. Oh, the horror!
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  16169.  @bridgettjohnson7437  Oh, hey, "Bridgett" - I'm just glad for you that your ancestors had more common sense and more civic duty than you're displaying now. Otherwise you wouldn't even be alive to go full Karen.
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  16170.  @bridgettjohnson7437  You heard me. See above. It means that there are sometimes bigger things going on than your momentary Karen feelings about not being the center of the universe. In this case, it means snuffing out this frigging disease so it doesn't kill even more people. So that we can get back to normal faster.
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  16171.  @mathew2378  Aww, show me where on the doll you got hurt by science and evidence. I got stuff smarter than you floating around in my cereal, buddy.
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  16172.  @mathew2378  On it 👍👍
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  16173. Trump had one of the rapid testing machines installed at the white supremacist house. Anyone coming in is required to be tested. His attitude is about what you would expect from someone who lives in a castle but tells everyone else they don't need walls, gates, or a moat.
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  16174.  @marcusmayne3831  In just months it's already killed 4x as many people as the flu kills in a year .. and to make it apples-to-apples, by the time the first year of covid is over it will have probably killed 20x as many people as the flu does.
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  16175. Trump would be the one to go in front of the cameras and tell his people that he lost the 2020 election and lied about it only because he likes being in power. But he won't. No, he'd rather see his supporters machine-gunned in a trench and America on fire rather than admit he lost. My only question is, why did so many in America identify with a malignant narcissist who's got strong Quisling tendencies?
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  16176. Clump has made the repeating of his lies into a purity test for party inclusion.
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  16177. Some of Putin's trolls do other things, like stage a Free Dumb trucker convoy. Or help spread the virus.
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  16178.  @justanamerican9024  Correct - the MAGAts are thugs first and foremost. It is 45's violence-laden commentary that attracted them to him.
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  16179. Saint Darwin -- thank you :)
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  16180. Doubtful. Cult followers have no idea what spells they're under .. they can't see it any more than fish can see water.
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  16181. Better stock up on popcorn. Space Karen is just getting started.
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  16182. And, miracle of miracles, the Republicans are showing off how utterly horrible they are just in time for the citizens of Georgia to decide two senate runoff races.
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  16183.  @ItsJustAGuy  Thanks, and you are welcome to borrow it freely.
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  16184. He's open to denying the results even before the election! :(
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  16185. I like presidents who can speak in complete sentences and don't violate the espionage act.
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  16186.  @asiong1013  Let me get this straight. For your analogy to hold water (and not be the fishnet it looks like) the US would have had to say, hey, folks in Vietnam (and the other countries you named) speak English so those places should belong to America. Then we invaded, carted off civilians by the millions, offered US passports to everyone (sometimes at gunpoint), then made them vote in sham referenda to join the USA? You will have to provide some news links over when the US supposedly did all that to those places.
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  16187.  @Robert53area  Umm,not sure which 'news' you are reading, but it was Russia that seized territory from Ukraine in 2014, not the USA.
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  16188. Police: We don't care if just one person in 1000 threw a rock - we're going to teargas and beat them ALL! also police: Wait, wait, wait, it's not fair for you to hate on all of us just because one officer killed your brother by kneeling on his neck. That's just one bad apple, it's not all of us.
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  16189. Heck, all you have to do is look at their social media feed to see if they're into toxic masculinity or whackjob incel propaganda. Most of them scream it from the treetops prior to these incidents.
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  16190. It's hard to care about the letter or the intent of the law when you're busy engineering a slow-moving coup to produce a one-party state.
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  16191. What the F is it with that weird, sing-song mode of speech that El Trumpo seems to have developed during his time keeping president Obama's chair warm?
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  16192.  @not-so-smartaleck8987  It's now happening in more places. With masks and other measures, NYC is sort of under control, but FL/AL/TX/AZ/CA/NC etc are all now feeling the covfefe.
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  16193.  @stephenroldan5107  No, Trump learned that no matter how bad he gets, Republicans will always cover for him, or at least remain silent while he incites his mob to issue threats. Republicans taught him that :(
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  16194. Same thing that's wrong with the wannabe judge with the 7 children. Same thing that was wrong with Frau Goebbels, who killed her own 6 children out of blind loyalty to Hitler. That's what cults do :(
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  16195.  @krusher74  And we're all going to have to become therapists for the friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, whoever got sucked into the orange cult and hasn't yet recovered. Some of them may go to their graves muttering about that so-called stolen election of which there was never any evidence.
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  16196.  @jenniferjean  He will also be remembered for unwittingly showing the nation just how many wannabe Quislings there are among us :( .. also the first president to have both new crimes and new mental diseases named after him.
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  16197.  @FakingANerve  There will probably be a spontaneous outbreak of block parties everywhere.
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  16198. "More communism"? Why, we don't even have the tiniest bit of communism here. We haven't seen the state seizing enterprises in the name of the workers' councils, nor have we seen the state making large scale private property illegal. Caller is dipped in sh*t.
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  16199. Why does a place in Russia have the sign, "Crocus City Hall" in English?
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  16200. Solicitation to commit election fraud, and it's on tape. How many other states did he call?
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  16201. America will recover from Dump, but the Republican party may not. He ran the party just like one of his own businesses - right into the ground. Who else remembers these prescient quotes? “If we nominate Tяump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Tяump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  16202. Republicans have come a long ways since, not too long ago during Obama's time, they used to screech about government death panels. Now they're happy to swing the hammer themselves :(
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  16203. It's almost as if the only thing keeping Republicans here in the USA (when it's clear they'd rather live in a lawless place, like perhaps Somalia) is that Putin hired them to destroy American democracy.
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  16204. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America.
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  16205. Space Karen is the kind of critter that should be in the history books as an example of how not to do things.
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  16206. Wussolini's ego is so fragile that if he's told bad news even once, he goes ballistic. He's like that 16yo girl who got a brand new car for her birthday, but it was the wrong color, so she gets all pouty and treats it liked the worst thing ever. Goes on twitter & insta to whine about how she's the most wronged person in the history of everything.
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  16207. One imagines America will later get some good things out of this deal. Perhaps an airbase somewhere in the western side of the country. No-visa visiting for US tourists. Etc.
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  16208. What a smug Nazi. I look forward to the day when he appears before the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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  16209.  @Boomer5150  For a guy who supposedly was going along with the flow, he sure did a fine job boosting the numbers of detained immigrants far above anything Obama ever did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#/media/File:ADP_Detained_Immigrants_1994-2018.png
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  16210. Conservatives are STILL mad that (as they see it) liberals freed "their" farm equipment. That is all you need to know about the south. Oh, and the gardener failed to return after torching the place, and the noxious weeds were the first things to grow back. Suggest returning every 10 years or more often to keep the weeds down. There's a place for confederate sentiments. Like, a locked shipping container that's been pushed off a barge in deep water.
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  16211.  @jamesflaherty9250  Scare tactics? Is that like when the government said that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor? Pull your head out, FFS.
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  16212.  @bwilliams572  Re "Is that why PCR are being stopped ?" << I'm getting one today. What's this absolute hogwash about them getting stopped? Is there nothing so stupid that you're finally awakened into realizing it's BS? For fuck's sake, grow a brain.
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  16213. How do you like that "show us your papers, please" thingie when voting or trying to get a passport or an airline ticket? Oh, the oppression! /s
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  16214.  @victorguzman146  In case you haven't been paying attention, making threats to others is not covered by free speech. And those occasions are not marked by suppression of "truth" but by protecting others from the ravings of a nutter who would like nothing better than to make America as violent as Haiti.
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  16215.  @jamesdouthat3999  "Be there, will be wild!" There's the match.
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  16216. I started off the day not liking Sondland, but his performance yesterday was beautiful. Not only did Sondland throw the entire Trump administration under the bus, he DROVE the bus, then backed it up and parked it on top of them. Outstanding! I'm starting to like Sondland :)
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  16217. I had to pinch myself. Whole sentences and clauses. Meanwhile, all the orange dipfcuk can do is send angry, infantile tweets. Biden knocked it out of the park.
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  16218.  @samanthab1923  Then he was calling for his dimwit followers to boycott Goodyear, an American company that employs thousands, during the deepest layoffs in history, during a raging pandemic, all because his tender littleboy feelings got hurt.
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  16219. I had thought the same with the coverage of the 60+ election results challenges that Dump45 lost in court, but no, Fox/OAN don't even mention these things. Millions of simpletons are unaware of these things.
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  16220.  @wheretohide  Perfect! Thanks for sharing.
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  16221. Musk is a wrecking ball appointed by a wrecking ball. I lay all of this at the feet of those who helped put Caligula back in power, either by voting for him or protest-voting for anyone but Harris.
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  16222. 681 days elapsed between the J6 insurrection and AG Garland's appointment of a special prosecutor. 1 day elapsed between the discovery of classified materials at Biden's home and the appointment of a special prosecutor. Sounds like AG Garland and Mitch McConnell see eye to eye on many things.
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  16223.  @sharonharris9782  I've come to appreciate those ugly red hats. Kind of like when Vikdun Quisling's people went about Norway with their swastika armbands on. Same thing in Austria just before the invasion. Good to know exactly who's willing to betray their own nation. What they drive. Where they live. Who their friends are.
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  16224. I'm kind of surprised that the new law didn't set up "rape victim birth prisons" where they would forcibly detain pregnant women to keep them from going out of state for abortions. Maybe that will be in a forthcoming piece of legislation.
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  16225.  @coudgeb  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy
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  16226. Hitler at least had the grace to shoot himself in his bunker when he knew he wouldn't be ruling Germany for much longer. But Trump? He wants to take out as many as possible, even if they're the ones who support him and work for him.
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  16227. And a big thank-you to uncle Pooty for making NATO membership more popular than ever. Also thanks to his little sputniks who post the most hilarious, Baghdad-Bob type comments here! So many nothingburgers, even Trump could finally satisfy his appetite.
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  16228. To be fair to Republicans, it's hard to care about the letter or the intent of the law when you're busy engineering a slow-moving coup to produce a one-party state. Their idea of "fair and balanced" is a one-party state, with them in charge.
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  16229. One of the really obvious manipulations (and I feel bad that I know people so shallow-minded that they fell for it) was to use a tiny minority, half a percent of the population, as a means to claim that Democrats were supporting very bad things happening everywhere. (by this I mean trans kids in school athletic programs) It triggered easy rage in certain types of Boomers.
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  16230. Probably not. Trumplethinskin is waning.
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  16231. It's sad, but the authorities in the USA seem to think that the worst outcome of letting insurrectionist Trump roam free is just more ketchup on the walls of his house. It's so much worse than that :( he would happily burn down the country if he can't have it
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  16232. Thanks to Trump, we now know there are 3 basic types of Americans: A) People who stand up to bullies and authoritarians, and who try to defend the rule of law. B) People who know that a bully is doing bad/illegal stuff, but go along anyway because it serves some single interest (abortion, racism, taxes, etc) C) People who shamelessly suck up to and defend the bully/authoritarian.
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  16233. The sort of person who can gaze upon a lying con man, a habitual asshole, a horrible human being, a comforter to America's enemies, and think - "Yeah, he's got my vote".
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  16234. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in June: We need to slow or stop testing so the numbers don't look so bad for ME! (fun fact: there are fewer teen pregnancies when you don't test for them) /sarc
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  16235.  @kathysmith6413  S/he has been spamming the comment with non-sequiturs like that. Pay no attention to them.
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  16236. Trump knows well that the white majority in the US, who holds the vast majority of the country's wealth (above 95%), who has nearly all of America's political power, etc, likes to feel like they're a poor persecuted downtrodden minority. Wiki has articles on the Persecution Complex.
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  16237. The last time around, he did more than that. More than a year before the election, he knew he would lose bigly, so he rifled through the White House rolodex looking for an ally to shake down to make up some dirt on the Bidens. He was all the way down in the U's before we heard about it via his call to Zelinskyy. And by March before the election, he was looking for someone to sabotage the USPS from within.
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  16238. Trump is probably one of the leading causes of death for his own culties.
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  16239. About teaching history - Trump probably wants the schoolbooks to read something like, "Blacks in Africa were rescued from their primitive ignorance by white American philanthropists, who escorted them to America, gave them nice jobs, and showed them the wisdom of Christianity. They were perfectly happy until those evil commie Democrats came along and tried to make things look bad."
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  16240. Dr. Birx sat there fidgeting her hands when Trump asked her to look into injecting disinfectant. She stood next to him, silent, while he told America that covid-19 would just go away like a miracle, sometimes it goes away when the weather gets warmer, but it goes away. This is a little late for her to worry about losing credibility. Being the devil's doormat is dirty business.
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  16241. That LYING NARCISSISTIC MORON. He says he doesn't know anything about it. Says it's "nasty" to ask why he did what he did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/
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  16242. Face it: a cabal of fascists, operating at the highest level of government, tried to illegally take over the US by violence right in the capitol. That same cabal is still trying to overturn elections that were certified 9+ months ago. Stop playing so nice with them. Treating them as just another political party, after all they have done, is the same mistake Germany made in the early 1930s. Our failure to treat them appropriately would result in us looking backwards, as Sophie Scholl and her nice friends did, wondering what the hell just happened to their country. If we ever find ourselves in the position of Sophie Scholl and her friends, lets not play nice. The time of niceness is already past us.
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  16243. Elon Muskovite should run for political office soon, if only (just like Donald) to be able to claim he's being politically persecuted.
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  16244.  @deborahbarnes6741  Bingo. Kind of like having a tape of Hitler saying something like, "Well, maybe we did make up all that stuff about the Jews .. but nobody liked them anyway."
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  16245. Wrong, saving human lives from covid is the entire goal. At least for the people who don't work for Sauron, that is - those people seem intent on causing the most deaths and suffering.
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  16246.  @warrendonaldson4144  "Perfectly accurate"? When someone claims that, I know I'm dealing with another 14yo. Try a better approach. You're missing the forest for the trees if you think the jab is the end goal. Saving the most lives is the end goal. Your "perfect" (LOLz) statement is a bit like some Yank claiming mid-1942 that "putting every human into uniform is the entire goal".
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  16247.  @warrendonaldson4144  Nope, buddy, I got you on your badly-stated comment. It's clear you're the smartest kid in your corner of whatever rural trailer park you live in .. but it's just as clear that you don't get out often enough to know you're not as bright as you think you are.
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  16248.  @warrendonaldson4144  Regarding "It's all about $$$ now." << No it is not. It is about saving lives. Lordy, you really are too stupid to tell the battle plan from the war goals, or to see the forest from the trees. Then again, there are lots of people whose brains are mis-wired to see conspiracies behind every bush, cloud, parked car, and mailbox. You sound like one of them.
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  16249. How many other places did Trump do this kind of thing? Most every state, except for perhaps the Dakotas, has some large urban area that does not vote for Trump. Harris Co, TX .. Maricopa Co, AZ .. and so on.
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  16250. KGB colonel, expert handler of foreign assets, has no trouble with US Republicans. They're easy fodder for manipulation. Obama and Biden? Putin doesn't like them. They see him for what he is.
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  16251. Only losers and nobodies get covid. I don't care, do U?
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  16252. I disapprove strongly. Instead, send them a nice thank-you note explaining that people in India and Pakistan gratefully accept the vaccines they're skipping in order to Rapture themselves faster on a ventilator.
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  16253. This aircraft has been converted to silent ground mode operations, courtesy of the armed forces of Ukraine. Kind of like how the Moskva was converted to silent undersea operations. It's been so quiet and stealthy, no one has heard from it since it went under.
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  16254. Facts don't care about his feelings, thankfully. LOCK HIM UP!
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  16255.  @SpectatorAlius  Oh, I am well aware that many are in that 1%, including children and immunocompromised and others. But unfortunately no political will exists, or seems likely to exist, that would make it possible for the pro-covid folks to be the sole ones to experience the hell they are intent on sharing with the rest of us. They should really be deported to their own private island (much as Typhoid Mary was) so that they do not affect the rest of us, who want this pandemic to be over more quickly and with less pain. You just revealed something stupid about yourself, which is that you easily leap to the wrong conclusions about other people. Sigh. For the sake of your ego I should tell you how special and unique that makes you, but in all honesty it means you're just another dolt. One of gazillions.
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  16256.  @SpectatorAlius  And you're still showing the bad character judgement from your earlier post. But then, some are incapable of learning from their mistakes (let alone accepting that they made a mistake in the first place) and, as such, I wish you the best in life with your faulty ways of understanding others.
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  16257. I'm also going to blame those who voted third party for president merely as a protest vote. Democrats aren't rough enough on Israel? Now they get someone who will help Gaza get flattened so he can build a hotel there. Democrats wouldn't do enough for student debt relief? Now they get someone who will actively make life worse for borrowers. Democrats are too elitist? Now they get they guy living in the golden tower and hiring dodgy tax-cheating billionaires for cabinet seats.
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  16258. Surely there are whole new investigations spawning over that missing Russia intelligence binder. What other important documents haven't been found yet?
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  16259. Conservatives are acting like the armed gang that tried to carjck you, failed because you successfully resisted, and are suddenly calling for "unity" now that the police have arrived on scene. They're wanting everyone to come together and sing Kumbaya. They're saying how "divisive" it would be to prosecute the wannabe carjackers.
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  16260. I live in a state (Oregon) where masks are required in public spaces. Yet this morning at a supermarket, I kept running into the same woman who wasn't wearing a mask, and who ignored all the evil eyes she was getting. Finally I looked at her pointedly and tapped the mask. She shouted out that some people are exempt (they're not) and that some people are smart. Huh. "Smart" like Herman Cain, she obviously meant. I moved away from her quickly after that. At least she didn't shoot me.
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  16261. Trump's time in office was basically a nonstop crime spree. At this time the dimensions of it are not widely known. Trump may be the first US president to have both new crimes and new mental diseases named after him 😅
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  16262. Mori Sorry you racist freaks lost your echo chamber over at O-live.
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  16263.  @brianmashin777  And there's the rub - it's not a fact. Not that that stops really stupid, biased people (like racists) from believing it. There's a place in the world for racists. Probably a locked shipping container that gets pushed overboard in the middle of the ocean. No good ever came out of racism or ever will.
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  16264.  @brianmashin777  Re "lol.sooooooooo are your policies working?" << What policies do you foolishly imagine I enunciated here? Care to repeat them? Because I didn't say any. Most likely it's those yibber-yabbering voices in your head that you're hearing. Take your frigging meds.
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  16265.  @brianmashin777  Just putting on the therapist hat to deal with the absolutely batsh*t crazies here. I liked the internet better when they kept mostly to the O-live comments.
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  16266. Trump's power these days depends on his Brownshirt Irregulars being able to send out threats by wire/internet/whatever. Let's see how quickly the FBI gets on it this time.
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  16267. I'm waiting for Tr*mp to say that he never keeps any of his promises anyway, so they don't really matter.
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  16268. Need to politely disagree with your numbers. Worldometers, Johns Hopkins, and the other sources substantially agree that the closed case ratios for the USA are presently around 97% survival / 3% death. (3.2585903% to be exact). Applied to the whole of the present US population (331,806,864) this gives a potential of 10.8 million deaths. Factors that increase the death rate substantially include overwhelmed medical resources (such as happened in NYC in the spring) and people simply dying at home. Factors that substantially change the math downward are if you accept that the ratio of untested positive asymptomatic cases to known cases is in the range of 2:1 to 10:1 or higher.
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  16269. The Muskrat likes to claim he's a shrewd businessman, but the guy who sold it to him for $44Bn is WAY smarter.
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  16270. Vote blue, no matter who. We may not be perfect, but the other side is batsht insane.
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  16271. @God help Us I assume what's going to happen is that anything wearing a MAGA hat or flying a Trump flag is going to have a really bad day.
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  16272.  @Martin-df4xk  Who's censoring mention of Ivermectin or Vit D? Not you and me. Take it up with whoever is.
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  16273. Looks like yet another Russian tank has been de-Nazified and left for the scrap metal industries of Ukraine. The Russians still have not run the numbers on this conflict, so they don't yet realize that whatever mines or missiles the West provides to UA are far cheaper/faster to manufacture than the tanks (and crews) fielded by Moscow.
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  16274. Trump is a joke. The "Afghan peace deal" was made without consulting some of the major parties (the people of Afghanistan and the Afghanistan national government) in much the same way that the "Middle East peace plan" was made without consulting the Palestinians. He can't make a "deal" that doesn't screw over lots of people .. and now his "great deal" has already fallen apart with fresh US airstrikes. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  16275. Now that their failed insurrection attempt is over, and they will be arrested by the hundreds or thousands for their capital crimes, they suddenly want a "let's meet in the middle" Kumbaya moment with the rest of us? Yeah, sure, maybe in 10-20 years after you've served your time in Club Fed.
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  16276. To be fair to Uncle Pooty - revealing Russia to be a third-rate fighting force is noble work indeed. And forget about joining the G7, they'd be lucky to join the G30.
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  16277.  NBA  Go home Ivan. Putin has just taken Russia to new depths. So deep, in fact, the fish have no eyes.
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  16278.  @angussoutter7824  This is the legacy he will be known for - that and the war in Ukraine.
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  16279. Funny how Republicans whine about "the heavy hand of government" when it comes to vaccine requirements, yet they can't wait to put that same hand on every woman's uterus.
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  16280. Lit cigarettes and enormous reserves of vodka. Let's hope nothing happens to the next in line flagship, that aircraft carrier that needs to be towed everywhere. It's safely in port just like the USS Cole used to be safely in port .. <wink>
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  16281.  SweetandSour  Nah. You represent the shitheads who want to destroy the US of A. Not on my shift f*cktard.
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  16282. Election interference, huh? Does Trump mean that his business of sales/viewing of classified documents was helping finance his campaign?
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  16283.  @SS-xl6lo  The Republicans voted to retain the tax breaks on corporations that move their jobs overseas; the Democrats tried to end those tax breaks. Fixed that "both parties are the same" nonsense for you.
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  16284.  @sheshe7j93  Trump's fanbase is exactly the same people who spent 8 long years filling our feeds with the worst, patently-made-up-5-seconds-ago nonsense about Obama. Guessing they were trailed to be that way (listen to what nonsense FOXed Noise tells you, ignore everything else) even before Obama came along, but I'm not sure exactly when or how. Those people are absolutely convinced they survived Obama by the skin of their teeth, with him supposedly banning "merry christmas" and wanting to force everyone to live under sharia law.
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  16285.  @sheshe7j93  Thanks for the fresh report from flyover / Jesusland. My last trip was a couple years ago. Hoping to go coast to coast on the ground again this coming summer. I want to hear what people are saying out there.
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  16286. There is a wound that won't heal down at Mar-a-Lago. There is a darkness from there, reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here, and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. Trumpism is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep.
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  16287. These house & senate members still supporting the Trump coup .. what are the legal procedures for removing them? Can their states recall/replace them? They made their bed with the enemies of America.
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  16288. The way the Sturgis people do it, the correct word is "freedumbs".
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  16289. Look on the plus side. If she skips town, it saves us the cost of trying then imprisoning her .. and she automatically loses her court case .. and if she ever tries re-entering the US she'll be detained on the spot by officers. I won't complain if the trash takes itself out.
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  16290. Like they say, you never go full Sarah Palin.
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  16291. I'm frankly surprised those two nobodies didn't use the N-word. You could hear they wanted to.
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  16292. The arsonist complains about the fire he started himself, then plays the hero when someone else puts it out, while whining that it was not his responsibility. And then he gets mad that it wasn't a bigger fire.
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  16293. Trump is a genius, but only to dullards .. a brave man, but only to cowards .. a hero, but only to lumpenfolk who've never done anything .. a rich man, but only to the desperately poor who think that spray-painting everything in gold makes it look "classy".
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  16294. Did no one learn anything from the Diamond Princess disaster? When you quarantine a cruise ship with thousands aboard and some of them infected, you create a virus factory that will eventually cause many hundreds of cases. The only safe option is to bring the people on land and put them in secure quarantine where they cannot spread it to each other.
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  16295. Notice how they kept the content very moderate, and didn't explain in detail the level of death that will follow? More than any other network (except maybe OANN) FOXed Noise has been responsible for echoing the lies and happytalk emanating from the lying fool keeping the president's chair warm while we wait to elect a functioning adult. Their relationship with truth is like that of snails to table salt.
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  16296. Remember, Republicans referred to it as "tyranny" and "government overreach" when they were asked to wear masks during a pandemic.
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  16297. Seen some pretty sweet deals on Craigslist too, but they go quickly. More jobs, opportunities, businesses, homes for the survivors.
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  16298. She's worth trashing merely over her election results denialism absent any proof.
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  16299.  @mryagami8448  Care to revisit this topic after Nov 9th next year? I'll be waiting.
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  16300.  @DBF-wh4mo  If there's a baby inside you, it's your call. Not to force your beliefs onto other citizens however. Your freedoms end where theirs begin, and vice versa.
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  16301. There are better ways to make MagaTurds aware of how they're about as welcome as serial pedophiles at a grade school camping trip.
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  16302. The Republicans needs some of the same medicine they've been giving to others .. so they should be forced to bear their nonviable candidate to term.
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  16303.  @aliceroberts1980  Also there are the remaining R house members who may well be planning to refuse to certify the legit election results that don't agree with what their angry orange fuhrer is expecting.
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  16304. It's about f*cking time this happened. Every organization should do the same.
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  16305. AG Garland has been asleep at the wheel. Almost half of president Biden's term went by before Jack Smith was appointed special prosecutor.
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  16306. Funny how the same Republicans who whine about "the heavy hand of government" basically can't wait to get put that same hand on every woman's body by trying to control her reproduction.
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  16307. "Well, Trump did say he'd put in big tariffs (chicken feed can be imported) and said he'd deport migrant workers (some poultry workers are migrants) so guess what happens to prices?" Ignorance is expensive but the first lesson is free.
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  16308. If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament, and it would be available everywhere.
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  16309. To be fair to Republicans, they would be happier with a nominee that's more like the adult form of Brock Turner, AKA someone like Brett "Beer Bong" Kavanaugh.
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  16310. Trusting a Trump-aligned conservative to respond to logic or to follow the law is a lot like trusting a corpse to respond to medicine or laws. Just shovel them into a hole and leave some thoughts & prayers.
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  16311. Exactly - Trump and his people will show the "evidence" as soon as they can make it up.
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  16312. Alright, people, you know what to do. Somebody please start tweeting Trump snippets from the Declaration of Independence. With any luck he'll misinterpret that to mean there's an angry mob headed his way. It'll be even better than the Bowling Green Massacre. Covfefe all over everything.
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  16313. Probably a killdozer couldn't get into that place, and he tried it with a light passenger vehicle? Counting down the days until Trump is calling him a patriot and a political prisoner.
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  16314.  @vincentokafor7282  Apparently the 405,399 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2 had Hitler Derangement Syndrome. Right? Did you miss the Unavision interview where Dump talked about imprisoning his political opposition?
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  16315.  @TheChopf26  Get used to it, emergency health regulations are a thing while there's a major new disease making the rounds. Fact - the US is 4% of the world's population but had 20% of the world's covid fatalities. But, freedumb, right?
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  16316. That's exactly what they will try to do - pretend they had nothing to do with Trump, his reign of error, his attempts to subvert our elections. They will have nothing to say to explain why they behaved like Manson cultists whenever Maximum Orange said "boo".
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  16317. Because Republicans want America to be as violence-ridden as Haiti or Somalia :(
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  16318.  @bwenluck9812  Listen, 45 would gladly leave our whole country a bloodied, smoking, glassed crater if he could only earn himself a percentage of the action. He cares for no one and nothing but his own whim of the moment.
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  16319. This reminds me of that time in late 1941, when president Roosevelt (D) declared war on Japan, and all those red-state governors decided not to go along with the war effort, even though it had already killed tens of thousands of their own red-state citizens. Sigh.
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  16320. @James Mason That was satire. Your comment is pretty funny. Japan had by then just attacked Pearl Harbor, and German submarines were sinking US shipping. Both those nations had already declared war on the US.
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  16321.  @kukulroukul4698  Wrong. If Russians overthrew Sputin and left Ukraine ASAP they would be welcome back to the world community. Sanctions would go away overnight.
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  16322. Like a lot of richer white racist-minded business owners, Trump no doubt gets off on the notion of people he /owns/ and doesn't need to pay wages & benefits to.
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  16323. How many more algorithms are there with biases built into them for racism, sexism, bigotry, etc? Would love to see a public audit of all algorithms that affect the public.
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  16324. Trump's culties are grasping at straws ;)
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  16325. Was it not already superabundantly clear to everyone that "pizza Gaetz" is a total snake?
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  16326. Putin is a lot like those fools that are made fun of with that old saying about how some people can make a small fortune only by starting with a large fortune. It is the same way with Putin and Russia. Russia is going to be a lot less, in the future, thanks to the invasion of Ukraine. He's not a businessman. A smarter leader would realize that sacrificing hard-to-replace million-dollar combat vehicles to thousand-dollar missiles/drones is a losing game.
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  16327. Some of the money went to a videographer who DeSatan sent with the refugees, presumably to get video of Mass residents being upset. Didn't quite work out that way.
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  16328.  @Canadaforprez  They can't learn, except as the Jim Jones culties do, when they're gasping after drinking the fruit punch.
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  16329.  @storm2000808  It's entirely possible that Dump and his allies look across the water to Haiti, and would like to change America so that we live under the same type of political dysfunction/chaos/violence. At least that's what their actions say. There isn't any kind of warm fuzzy ending when you terminate the constitution and declare yourself dictator for life.
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  16330. Trump: This virus is no problem, send the kids back to school. Trump: The virus makes jail too dangerous for Roger Stone, but I wish Ghiselaine Maxwell all the best. Heh ;) Trump: All you losers need to get back to work. Now!! Trump: The virus makes even showing up to vote briefly just too dangerous. So I'll have to stay in power.
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  16331. Did Cat turd spin Trump again? 😅
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  16332. We have hundreds of thousands of people here and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras please and show what’s really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer. They’re not going to take it any longer. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Over the past several weeks, we’ve amassed overwhelming evidence about a fake election. This is the presidential election. Last night was a little bit better because of the fact that we had a lot of eyes watching one specific state, but they cheated like hell anyway. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore. (quotes from the transcript of his insurrection incitement speech at https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot )
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  16333. Trump's idea of "healing the nation" means giving him all the military parades he wants, plus letting him have two more terms of office just because he feels everyone and everything has been so unfair to him. He's the real victim in all this, remember. /s
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  16334. "Food is like dark humor - not everyone gets it." -- meme Stalin
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  16335. Trump was always going to bring this kind of chaos to America. There is no happy ending awaiting the MAGA faithful - at least not happy for them.
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  16336. This is a small part of the high price of letting FOXed Noise screech all day long that Democrats eat babies.
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  16337.  @esqueejy  If Trump supporters go on a rampage with firearms, rest assured, it will be more of what they've been doing the past 3 years: attacking visible minorities. And for that they must face consequences.
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  16338. To me the funniest part was watching his minions reverse their position constantly to keep up with 45's latest turn of denial. They kept having to scurry from "he didn't say that" to "he didn't mean that" to "he positively did not say that, let me give you my word" to "he was just kidding" to "everyone does it" and so on.
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  16339. When he mentions the money spent on those stupid illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is trying to lay the grounds for later seeking financial reparations from those countries. We saw a hint of this back when Iraq's parliament voted to tell the US to leave, and his administration made some comment to the effect that they owed us money for having been invaded and occupied by us.
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  16340. Tom Cotton is just working with what he has. On his part, his brain is full of worms, and on the part of the public, the only people left who support Trump are those whackjob types who believe any inane conspiracy theory and who eschew established fact. They'll be parody fodder for decades to come.
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  16341. In dark times like this, it's worth hearing words of encouragement from another nation that's already had its experience with a Trump type leader .. this is the video "We Are Germany" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY
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  16342. By now it should be clear to everyone that Trump would rather see America become a flaming bloody mess (like Haiti or Syria, or Rwanda during the genocide) rather than face justice for his crimes. He really does care that little for the country.
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  16343. They were hired to wear uniforms and do what they've always wanted to do: violate the rights of nonwhite folks.
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  16344. How far away?
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  16345. Grifters gotta grift. How else can they survive? You don't expect them to work like the rest of us, do you?
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  16346. @American Lost Remember that meme showing a reaper drone in flight, with the caption, "From your cold, dead hands, you say? Challenge accepted"
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  16347. Has the USA had enough of this experiment of having someone with no redeeming human qualities cosplay at being president?
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  16348. The Taliban are unwittingly paving the way for ISIS and worse things to follow. Whatever part of a normal society is remaining after the Taliban have "edited out" all the people they feel don't belong there (similar to what Pol Pot did in Cambodia) will be easy takeover fodder for ISIS later on. If the Taliban truly wanted to help Afghanistan, they would have moved far away.
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  16349. There are several requirements for a candidate to be eligible to be (or run for) the president of the US. This is but one of them. What other requirements would the Republicans want to evade if we let them do this one? Might they put a 30yo Russian-born friend of Putin forward as a candidate?
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  16350.  @rider3859  Aww did some information hurt your tender white feelings? Poor baby.
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  16351.  @Smokesalot179  You want elaboration? Try this on for size: traitors and insurrectionists shouldn't be walking around free.
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  16352. Rest assured, he's spending the time phoning as many of them as possible to get them to bend the law in his favor -- just like he did with justices Cavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch, just like he did with the Michigan crew whose results he hoped to overturn. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly.
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  16353. Trump didn't ruin anything that didn't gleefully want to be ruined.
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  16354. Well, if they had done such a thing, then president Biden might have had a good excuse to fulfill his oath to defend America against all enemies foreign or domestic. And 45 is very much a domestic terrorist.
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  16355. Sounds like trump is complaining about the lack of cruelty. Kids in cages. Families ripped apart. People missing in the desert. Women being forcibly sterilized. Trump and Ratko Mladic have more in common than most people know.
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  16356. If CHAZ wants to be safe from Wussolini, all they need is some press describing them as armed right-wing yahoos threatening Washington political figures and protesting the public health restrictions. When it's that kind of armed revolt, they can count on Trump to support it and tell them to "Liberate!"
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  16357. American politics, from day one, has been about one party being the pilot, the other being the copilot, and the two of them switching roles now and then. Works out to 50/50 over the long term. One party just recently decided to crash the plane into a mountainside because they're so mad that they can't be the pilot 100% of the time instead of just 50%. That's where the GQP is these days.
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  16358. Trump and Putin dusted off the old Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement, changed a few names, and are now going to divide and plunder Ukraine just as Germany and the USSR did to Poland.
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  16359. Statistically speaking, half of the population lives under the other side of Bellcurve Bridge.
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  16360. In how many other states did these shtstains try overruling the vote of the people????
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  16361. They were complaining about something else about Obama.
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  16362. Isn't this the guy who left a written death threat for Pence? Let's see if Trump tries to pardon him.
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  16363. Well, Dave Waldon, rest assured that the conditions of a future civil war (which Republicans think of as a lesser evil than telling Trump he lost and to shut up) would make those food and fuel prices (or whatever else you claim to be concerned with) a whole lot worse. It would look like something out of TWD. Scrounging canned food from looted stores while dodging sniper fire. So get your priorities straight.
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  16364. I never did agree with their policies, but Trump and his crazies have actually made me miss the old-fashioned kind of patriotic conservatives we used to have. Trump has shoved them all out. These were the kind who, if you suggesting working with Russia and trashing our best allies of many decades, would shove you into a wood chipper merely for suggesting such blasphemy.
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  16365. Zelinskyy will be famous for what he said - "I don't need a ride out, I need ammo!" They will be naming high schools after him for the next century. Talk about rising to the occasion. He's giving Putin a harsh lesson in how you do it.
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  16366. The Mitt Romney's and Liz Cheney's of the party stood their ground while the rest of the party boarded the kkklown kar and drove it over a cliff. They'll still be around long after 45 is gone.
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  16367. To be fair to Arizona, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia also canceled any election results that weren't in their favor. North Korea and China still do the same thing.
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  16368. All this time, I thought we were living in the United States. Instead, it turns out we're living in sleepy Mayberry, where the law looks the other way if you're rich, and where you can just walk into Fort Knox after bamboozling the security guards with some fancy letter.
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  16369. In the face of overwhelming evidence that Trump has corruptly used the powers of office for personal gain, all the Republicans can do is smear and question the loyalty of purple heart recipients? The Republicans are asking to get flamed down to the bedrock in the next election.
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  16370.  lesleywall4186  I am guessing a surprise in either August or October. They know their nonsense is unpopular, they know Trump is going to lose the general, they are losing their more legitimate members, they don't have the donor cash they used to -- but they just don't care. They are going to for broke next by whatever means. Stand back, stand by.
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  16371. Funny how MTG isn't using the correct restroom.
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  16372. Most of the questions are being asked by Republicans. Most of the people answering the questions are Republicans. You have a problem with Republicans getting all the airtime at these hearings?
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  16373. To be fair to the mayor, Nevada has gone from 415 cases/million on April 1st to a mere measly 1396 cases/million as of today. Nothing to worry about! I guess they're going to have to change the tourism model so they can hustle visitors out before they start to develop covid symptoms.
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  16374. Hey Josh, remember when you gave that raised-fist signal to the people you knew were about to assault the capitol and attempt to prevent certifying the votes for the election that Trump lost? This is for you.
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  16375.  @positivecynik  This is how nations die .. eventually some power-hungry d-bag comes along and his followers are so enthralled that they'd happily burn down the nation just to please his whim. Why we let this happen is beyond me.
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  16376.  @hannahmurray3782  They have no answer for that. Guess they want to live outside of the rule of law.
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  16377. Someone please get a list of whoever signs up to support Dump's nutso plans.
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  16378. It only took 3 years, but Wussolini has finally got the crowds and the wall he wanted. Erich Honeker would approve of the wall around the White House bunker.
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  16379. Trump and his people are like a minority faction among the owners of a giant thousand-unit condo complex. They're so mad that their guy lost the election to the condo board that they are willing to burn down the whole building (in which we all live) to satisfy his butthurt pique.
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  16380. IRS agents are hired for their talents, vetted, security checked, background checked. Musk and his rats are just a bunch of pirates. They didn't get security clearances because they would have never passed background checks. Some of them do ransomware for Russia.
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  16381. Glad to see masks finally being made mandatory. Here's a graphic showing how NY state crushed the curve that way: https://imgur.com/aZawM9i
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  16382.  @awildcanadianappears9885  Let's not tell them about it .. let it be an unwelcome reality for them. Like practically everything else is, LOL.
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  16383.  @stephaniemercer9321  Cope harder, cultie.
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  16384.  @catherinekasmer9905  I have long suspected that when Trump finally cannot get his way, he'll tell his cult sheeple to go out and burn down everything they see. His time in the public eye was always going to end this way once he got a taste for power and was then voted out.
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  16385. Former guy suffered the same affliction. DeSatan is simply aping him again. Viz: March 4: -"Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: -“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 4: -“Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.” March 5: -“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
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  16386. Mmm, yeah, this is going to "save" DeSatan in the same way that a lifejacket made of lead will "save" a drowning person.
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  16387. Trump's panic isn't about the election .. it's about going to jail for his crimes.
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  16388.  @caveman-zd5yv  If Russia is so mighty, why is the Conquest-o-Meter still pegged at 19% after 2+ years? Their performance in Ukraine is only slightly less miserable than their time in Afghanistan. Only now the US is handing out more than just stinger AA missiles.
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  16389.  @Алексей-ч2ф9л  Things happen when property is reclaimed by its rightful owners. Some will not be happy, but there won't be much they can do about it.
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  16390. The Kansas anti-abortion nutters are certainly borrowing a chapter from the Book of Trump. Don't like the election results? Scream that they're rigged, then demand recount after recount, never noticing that every recount confirms the win that you just don't like.
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  16391. All along, if every reporter/journalist had simply said "No, Mr Trump, that's a total lie" every time, we wouldn't be in this bad place. By reporting him verbatim, they normalized outrageous lying.
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  16392. Also why Fox Disinformation works 24/7 to tell the gullible ones that left is right, up is down, and Democrats drink the blood of babies.
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  16393. Military base housing allotment too.
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  16394. Supposedly the sub had 7 ways of rescuing itself. Did they all depend on battery power being sufficient?
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  16395. On the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show, February 22 2022, Trump said it was "wonderful," "so smart," and even "genius" for Putin to "declare a big portion of the Ukraine ... as independent." He claimed Putin will now "go in" and "be a peacekeeper." While Putin has said he's sending troops to the breakaway regions as part of a "peacekeeping" mission. Trump also declared that Putin has "the strongest peace force I've ever seen," with "more army tanks than I've ever seen," and "we could use that on our southern border." Putin is "savvy," Trump continued.
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  16396.  @MonikaBardell  Bingo. "I don't understand someone else's humor, therefore, they must be stupid" is what the OP is saying.
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  16397.  @itsgoatzy3305  Thanks for the laugh! What a sad hoot it is to see you and the rest of the Republicans saying "but but but Obama!!!" when confronted with the fact that Trump deliberately downplayed a disease that's killed more than 193,000 Americans. Heck, Republicans spent 3 days in a tizzy back when Obama wore a tan suit! So get your ass back on the reality bus the next time it passes through your little burg, pal.
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  16398. Nah, 45 will end up in a special wing somewhere staffed by SS. Once the particulars of his violations of the Espionage Act become more clear, he won't be allowed much contact at all.
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  16399.  @johneasler9967  Who just lost the election? You just burned out another projector bulb, twirp.
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  16400. Everything that Trump touches dies.
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  16401. His big Republican family is the one who made him into the brat he is. At any time, they could have told the administration to respond to subpoenas or else, but no, they were supine.
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  16402. This is awesome. Like watching Kari Lake burn any possible political future just by clinging to election-fraud lies that completely lack any evidentiary basis.
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  16403. Essentially the Republicans are accusing Biden's kids of doing the influence-peddling that Trump's kids did while they worked in the white house.
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  16404. The easing of Stay-At-Home measures does NOT mean the pandemic is over. It just means there are now some empty beds in the ICU. When they run out of space in the ICU, you get to die at home. Freedumb!
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  16405.  @mercysalvation2489  Thanks for chiming in. I am so glad for you that your local ICU was never overwhelmed. For that you can thank the heavy hand of the state, which had no other tools available (treatment, vaccine, contact tracing) to halt the spread. You sound ungrateful that your place did not have a NYC type disaster -- that or you think the people of [wherever you are] are magically immune to covid-45. Which is it?
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  16406. We're mostly in trouble because a portion of the country is aligned with an obvious traitor. Otherwise the presence of wannabe-autocrat types like Trump is pretty commonplace historically.
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  16407. The Republicans are incurring a cost by defending that which is indefensible - a sort of cost that has Biblical effects. Like the earth opening and swallowing them. What's numbing them from seeing the horribleness?
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  16408. There doesn't seem to be any upper limit on the number of public & private organizations that could sue FOXed noise over this. Surely it caused emotional stress and lost business for many of us that some of the dumbest and most gullible Americans got caught up in Trump's lies, which FOXed chose to spread.
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  16409.  @TheSpicyLeg  Err, no, we despise Trump because he tried to do away with the results of a vote that he didn't like. Most folks on the blue side of the aisle read history and can cite places where viting didn't matter (Nazi Germany, Stalin's USSR, Kim Jong Un's North Korea) and don't want America to be turned into that kind of authoritarian hell-hole, no matter how much orange stain you got on you.
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  16410.  @TheSpicyLeg  Guess you forgot this, huh. "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be mightily rewarded by our press." Trump 7/27/2016 Asking foreign governments to engage in investigations of your political opponent (or any other American) is a crime.
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  16411.  @TheSpicyLeg  Hahaha, so are you trying to say that openly asking Russia to spy on your domestic political opponents is not the same as the Russia collusion which you feigned ignorance of above? Oh that's ripe.
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  16412. They can't get all that isolated anyway. Eventually they'll have to go on Alibaba to get chips if they want to manufacture any electronics in quantity.
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  16413. I would like to personally thank the Republicans for insisting on public hearings. And especially I would like to thank Gym Jordan for behaving exactly as I hoped he would, and painting the Republicans the way he is.
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  16414. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him, or when he lets Rudy get the same super-special covid treatment that he got and that the rest of us cannot get. No doubt Trump spent all last night calling various electors personally to try to get them to bend/break the law in his favor. Just like he did with all of the conservative Supreme Court justices last week. Just like he did with the Michigan delegation in charge of certifying the votes. Just like he did with Ukraine last summer.
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  16415. He burned out another projector bulb talking about people becoming corrupt.
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  16416.  @melmorrison1400  The "fail" is in you referring to the shots as "unsafe". Good grief. No one has been able to prove that it caused them to become magnetic, or grow a third arm, or improve their 5G signal, or track them for Bill Gates. Could you possibly be any more clueless? Good fricking grief.
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  16417.  @kbc1883  Regarding "I have responded to you twice and both times my comment has been censored via deletion" << Normally people take this as a hint to stop posting nonsensical crap that's not even remotely based in reality. But to you, it's "censorship".
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  16418.  @kbc1883  Sorry, dummy, I didn't "report" anything of yours. Youtube probably flagged it as information on their own. As to Sherry Childs who also posted information, she too had conjecture that preys upon weak minds. Which means it works fine on your own weak mind. The old "waaaaah, we don't know what the effects will be in 20 years" type of nonsense. This is like arguing that the passengers aboard the sinking Titanic should have gone down with the ship because those canvas-hulled lifeboats were new technology at the time. "It's new technology so we must be fearful of it". FFS :( Lordy you people got dropped on your heads a lot.
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  16419.  @kbc1883  Regarding "many instances when the government and doctors/healthcare experts have touted something as totally safe and good for community health and then it’s turned out later to be a total health disaster" << Let me try to explain this to you again. I'm practically made of time anyway. Name some specific instances. You seem to not be aware that what you're talking about is well under one hundredth of a percent of the total number of medications / treatments / procedures in use at any point in history.
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  16420. Possibly the $787million that FOX lost (by supporting Trump's election lies) "woke" them up.
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  16421. Are there any documented instances of that actually happening in the USA? Just asking.
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  16422.  @1828tolstoy  Already happening - he's gone back to shaking down Ukraine already for dirt on the Bidens.
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  16423. The Defense department already investigated those allegations against the Bidens. So did the Ukranians. They found squat. The people screeching about the Bidens sound like they're trying to play "Benghazi" again - you know, an endless series of investigations that never find anything because there's nothing to be found.
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  16424. Who could have suspected that a disease that spreads via human contact would spread more when economies cluelessly reopen the wrong way?
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  16425.  @caridehome  Sounds like you don't like protests. But do you remember this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/14/wisconsin-bars-reopen-evers/
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  16426.  @alyxxhogue3976  Prisons are also full of none-too-bright people who somehow thought they had conceived of "the perfect crime".
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  16427.  @snozcocram  Hinky operations like that are the only kind Trump ever runs - they are designed primarily to burn through a lot of Other People's Money.
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  16428. Not for nothing. It's clear from street interviews of ordinary Russians that too many of them feel Ukraine is "theirs". Not a single one of Putin's opposition candidates, even the late Alexy Navalny, repudiated Russian imperialism. It's going to take them awhile to get it through their heads that they're not in a position to empire anymore.
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  16429. Mr Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America - except cancer isn't getting paid to do it.
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  16430. A reporter already cornered John Eastman on that one, asking if, should the 2024 election be close, VP Harris could choose the election winner. He snapped, "Of course not!" So he meant it only as a one-time thing. Here is what Mitch McConnell said in a moment of clarity: "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  16431. I love it when they put Trump in front of cameras and microphones. His disjointed word salads, his anger, his persecution complex, his hostility, etc are precisely what lose him the most votes. If he wanted to win the election in a landslide, all he needs to do is hop in the time machine, warp back to 2016, and tell his younger self to stop lying all the time, to stop breaking laws all the time, to work hard at being a decent and compassionate person, and for fcck's sake not to ignore the virus that comes along in 2020.
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  16432.  @Justin-ti5cc  Trump communicates only through negative emotions.
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  16433. Blue state governors will fight for their people. But red state governors? They're in for some learning.
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  16434.  @thaisstone5192  That's how I feel too. Trump is just doing to the gullible what the forces of nature used to do. Which is why there aren't many people around who'd say, "Gee, that grizzly bear chasing us doesn't really want to eat us. He's just lonely and wants to be friends"
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  16435. She was hired solely for her low level of brain activity and morals. Near total ignorance of history too.
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  16436.  @juliemissick4206  A bunch of misled well-armed dolts also went to the border to look for "the invasion" and also could not find any such thing. They are the Comet Pizza type voters - easily aroused with the dumbest lies a cat could see through.
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  16437. There's a good chance that part of the Department of Education will be dissolved by the time anyone sends them a return letter.
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  16438. Somebody please cue up the Republicans talking about the free market and gay wedding cakes. Maybe they're suddenly into government control over the affairs of private businesses .. maybe Republicans wish they could mandate that every American purchase a MyFascistPillow to make poor Mikey feel better.
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  16439. Did you forget what a famous conservative had to say? Tsk tsk. More likely, you never even knew. "The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a National Board of Elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever. This election, actually, was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. [If] this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost." -- Mitch McConnell, January 6th 2021
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  16440. Usually guys need to go to a lot of clubs to learn that one 😅
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  16441.  @edwardwilliams3452  It used to be G-8, then without Russia it was G-7, so without Russia's new suptnik the USA it will probably be G-6.
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  16442. One of the few times Republicans show any creativity is when trying to find new and unusual ways to say that they don't like black people.
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  16443. Most interestingly, the Spanish Civil War began all because the right-center party refused to accept the 1936 election results that put a more left-oriented government in power.
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  16444. Well, I am besides myself. In the news last night was a video out of Washington state showing restaurants that have reopened for in-person dining in defiance of the governor's orders. Like George Carlin once said -- "When you're born into the world you get a ticket to the freak show. If you're in America you get a front row seat."
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  16445. Brownshirts are just the hired and deluded muscle. The fish like Eastman are collaborators or full traitors in their own right.
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  16446. Democrats are allegedly "too elitist" .. so they vote for the guy who lives in a gold tower with his name all over it, uses a gold toilet, and appoints a cabinet full of dodgy billionaires who cheat on their taxes? A hero to the common man! ;)
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  16447. That didn't take long.
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  16448.  @hypsyzygy506  The receiving country has to agree to take them. Pretty sure no one's going to play ball with Team Crazy on that score. So, yes, they may get disappeared. Thousands are still missing from the previous family separations at the border.
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  16449. He definitely shouldn't be seeing any security briefs unless they are complete fiction .. lordy knows, he's been giving them to Sucker Carlson or Viktor Orban to ferry back to Daddy Putin, or just sending snapshots of them by Signal.
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  16450. After the genius "successes" of his Israel-Palestine peace plan and his Afghanistan peace plan, what could possibly go wrong? I'm ordering more popcorn.
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  16451.  andre brewer  Trump's people have gone full dark ages. Any criticism of him is heresy! :( Maybe they'll crowd the churches on Easter and take the slow-boat Rapture over the next month or so.
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  16452.  @haroldmoore8385  Exactly. Gene is inbred, stays in the basement, only watches Hannity. We need to treat them with compassion while we seek psychiatric care options for their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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  16453. Because Fox keeps Ohio's mushroom people still believing a whole lot of lies. One truth Fox does tell, however, is that the R's are offering America a fascist white xtrian dominion.
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  16454.  @ln8116  Mostly because the Fox mushroom sheeple of Ohio are "convinced" of lies such as "the election was stolen", "Biden is using the DOJ to go after criminals", "but but but Democrats eat babies! And no I haven't seen this happen, but it seems likely!" :(
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  16455.  @Chunda8  Republicans have made their bed (they'd rather end democracy than admit Trump lied about the election) and shat in it. They deserve what's coming.
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  16456. Next the GOP will try to block this type of vote from happening in other places.
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  16457. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now." Donald Trump 9/26/2019 You heard the man. Let's do as he suggested. Traitors should go through some things.
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  16458. Trump's people are getting pretty agitated by the fact of his impeachment (with more articles possibly coming) and the spectre of his removal from power or loss in the 2020 election. Anyone want to take a $500 bet that the perpetrator in this case is not just a right winger, but a Trump fan who imbibes nothing but right wing nutjob media?
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  16459.  @mrslibertas3977  Whenever they show something like this, I wish the press would include a picture of the back of the perp's car. Betcha a lot of them have bumper sticker collections that make them look like another Cesar Sayoc type. Like this woman for instance: https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/12/26/white-iowa-woman-who-ran-over-girl-because-she-was-mexican-charg.html
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  16460. Sounds like he needs better "friends" anyway.
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  16461. You have to remember, Trump-type people are mostly served by Sinclair media and FOXed Noise, so they hear this 24/7/365: "Liberals despise you and think that people like you are 'deplorables.' "Democrats are trying to steal the election. They are ruthless and care about nothing but power. "Joe Biden and his son Hunter are both corrupt and everyone knows it, but the media is conspiring to keep it under wraps. "Biden is basically senile. If he wins, he’ll be a pawn of AOC and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. "Democrats encouraged Black rioters throughout the summer as a way of making Donald Trump look bad. "Democrats will raise your taxes and use it to buy health insurance for . . . the urban poor. "Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh to assuage their extremist base, slandering a decent man who did nothing wrong. They did the same thing to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "Democrats will take your guns away. "Maybe climate change is real, but Democrats are just hyping it because it’s a useful facade to promote their agenda of economy-killing regulation. "Democrats think rural white people are all racists. "If Biden wins, he’ll tear down the wall and welcome hordes of poor Mexican and Latin Americans into the United States. "Democrats have been cynically politicizing the coronavirus solely to make Trump look bad. "Donald Trump stands up for America. Democrats will cave in to threats from China, Iran, Russia, and other countries. "Democrats will ruin the economy. They always do." I'm not saying Trump people are crazy, but when they swallow the dumbest propaganda in the world and then run with it, hook/line/sinker like a crackhead who just found a $100 bill, you sometimes want to wake them up to get them to reflect on what they're doing and why. And they generally don't like having the wool pulled off their eyes.
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  16462. Hair Fuhrer is right about something: we'll have to fight like hell or his whackjob sheeple crazies will take over.
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  16463. If only the people of Umatilla had listened to Trump and drank bleach, this would have never happened. Fun fact - if you drink a pint of bleach, by the next day you'll never again be told to wear a mask.
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  16464. Oddly enough, there are people in Wyoming who will scream bloody murder over the thought of having the same level of representation as, say, the people of California. As if you are somehow less of a citizen when your closest neighbors are within shouting distance. As if your vote is supposed to count for more when your neighbors are further away.
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  16465. At a social gathering I attended recently, only one person was openly repeating Trump's lies - and only one person nodded along with it. The rest of us looked at the clouds and wondered when dawn will come to marble head. The therapy that some of the cult sheeple need is to see Trump facing justice.
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  16466. Huh, strange how Republicans don't have any trouble putting "the heavy hand of government" onto every woman's uterus.
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  16467. Let's see how long before Putin asks NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
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  16468. I had to deal with some fool from Florida earlier today who was claiming that covid has only a .07% death rate .. here is what I posted back: Florida total cases 291,629 minus Florida active cases 253,460 = 38,169 closed cases Florida deaths from coronavirus 4,409 4,409 divided by 38,169 = 11.55% death rate
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  16469. Good to know which people among us are complete fools and wannabe traitors.
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  16470. Don't trust the polls and other news, go vote!! I for one am not going to rest until he's led away in tiny handcuffs; until everyone who cooperated with him is voted out; until all the political hacks he appointed or has serving in "acting" capacities are dismissed.
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  16471. Whatever gave it away? Was it Trump's tweet on Dec 19th 2020 saying "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" - ?
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  16472. Who else remembers his moment of clarity? “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  16473.  @gemanscombe4985  Correct. To the sub-92IQ crowd, his third-grader way of speaking sounds "genius" and his evidence-free claims become orthodox to his culties. "Of course" the election was stolen, even if they can't prove how. "Of course" Biden must be impeached, even if they can't prove why.
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  16474.  @debbiekay6036  Well, he thinks no one could possibly know more than him or outsmart him.
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  16475. So, basically, the US just lost all its foreign tourism business .. who wants to visit a diseased-ravaged shithole country anyway? We lost the international college/university student business too. Americans are now not allowed into many other nations, including Canada. Who's going to want to buy our food exports, now that the world knows everything here is processed in low-wage settings where outbreaks keep happening? Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  16476.  @limyrob1383 Brutal and ugly. Look up the Russian childrens game, "blind cat". Almost all their games are like that. Funny how the people of almost every ex-Soviet possession don't want to ever be under the Russian boot again. Big thanks to Putin for being the best salesman NATO ever had.
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  16477. @Gorgeous George How was public health related to the economy in Dickensian London? Or the roaring 20s in NYC?
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  16478.  @silverhost9782  Are you referring to any of these? (take your own advice about lying, BTW) 1. ⁠He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Tяump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.” 2. ⁠He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect. 3. ⁠He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole. 4. ⁠He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized. 5. ⁠He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful,” including “insurance for everybody.” You bought it. But he didn’t repeal and he didn’t replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 24 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, he’s doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about 4 million Americans have lost health insurance in the last two years. 6. ⁠He told you he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You bought it. But now he’s planning such cuts in order to deal with the ballooning deficit created, in part, by the new tax law for corporations and the rich. 7. ⁠He promised to protect anyone with pre-existing conditions. You bought it. But in June, his Justice Department told a federal court it would no longer defend provisions of Obamacare that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the decision was made with Tяump’s approval. 8. ⁠He said he’d build a “wall” across the southern border.You believed him. But there’s no wall. 9. ⁠He told you he’d invest $1 trillion in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, there’s no money left for infrastructure. 10. ⁠He said he’d drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 11. ⁠He promised to re-institute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government.” You bought it. But the five-year ban he signed applies only to lobbying one’s former agency, not the government as a whole, and it doesn’t stop former officials from becoming lobbyists. 12. ⁠He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he has created the most dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, and has already fired and replaced so many assistants that people there barely know who’s in charge of what. 13. ⁠He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by negotiating “like crazy” with drug companies. You bought it. But he hasn’t. 14. ⁠He told you he’d “stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for American elections.” You bought it. But foreign lobbyists are still raising money for American elections. 15. ⁠He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.” You bought it. But the giant tax cut for corporations and the rich doesn’t leave any money for this. 16. ⁠He said he’d create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for younger and elderly dependents, and have the government match contributions low-income families put into their savings accounts. You bought it. He’s done neither. 17. ⁠He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. But then he declared China is not a currency manipulator. 18. ⁠He said he “won’t bomb Syria.” You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 19. ⁠After pulling out of the Paris accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment. You bought it. There have been no negotiations. 20. ⁠He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.” You bought it. He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out. 21. ⁠He said he would not be a president who took vacations, and criticized Barack Obama for taking too many vacations. You bought it. But since becoming President, he has spent a quarter of his days at one of his golf properties. 22. ⁠He vowed to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” You believed him. But he hasn’t. Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit college to defraud students. 23. ⁠He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad, especially government contractors. You believed him. Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas. There have been no consequences. 24. ⁠He promised to end DACA. Then in January 2018 promised that “DACA recipients should not to be concerned… We’re going to solve the problem,” then he reversed himself again and vowed to end the program by March, 2018. Currently, the federal courts have stayed any action on it. 25. ⁠He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. You bought it. But coal is still losing customers as utilities turn to natural gas and renewable power. 26. ⁠He promised to protect American steel jobs. You bought it. His tariffs on steel have protected some steel jobs. But industries that use steel – like automakers and construction – now have to pay more for the steel they use, with the result that their jobs are threatened. The Trade Partnership projects that 400,000 jobs will be lost among steel and aluminum users. 27. ⁠He said he’d make America safer. You believed him. But mass shootings keep rising, and Tяump has failed to pass effective gun control legislation. After 17 died in Parkland, Florida, Tяump promised “immediate action” on gun safety in schools, but has done nothing. 28. ⁠He promised to make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. You bought it. But Tяump’s most recent budget contains deep cuts in aid for low-income and first-generation college students, reduces Federal Work Study, and eliminates the 50-year-old Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, which goes to more than a million poor college kids each year. 29. ⁠He promised to eliminate the federal deficit and bring down the debt. You bought it. Yet due to his massive tax cut mostly for corporations and the rich, and his military spending, the deficit is set to rise to $1 trillion, and the debt has ballooned to more than $21 trillion. 30. ⁠He said he’d release his taxes. “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released,” he promised during the campaign. You bought it. He still hasn’t released his taxes.
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  16479.  @silverhost9782  Guess that's why you don't know of Trump breaking all those promises.
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  16480.  @silverhost9782  Did you actually read that? BTW the prison population is around 4% immigrants and the general population is around 13% immigrants .. so having more immigrants here would mean less crime.
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  16481.  @silverhost9782  Did you know that while atheists account for around 30% of the US population, they account for less than 1% of the prison population? I am happy to give you lessons in how demographics work. Perhaps in time your beliefs will become informed by facts and not vice versa.
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  16482.  @silverhost9782  I'm fine thanks. Just trying to show you things you don't know. Being a Trumpist, you seem to think that your feelings override the facts. I'm showing you some facts that, if you are a thinking person, will get your attention. But perhaps you are not that kind of person.
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  16483.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Real numbers would increase but rates would go down, yes. But if would deport Trumpists and replace them with hardworking immigrants who follow the laws and sent their kids to school, it would be a net improvement.
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  16484. Same. F them, F Bezos, and F the goat he rode to town on. Not going to help him cosplay as astronaut.
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  16485.  @doloresreynolds8145  If I may add to what you mentioned about extremism .. all domestic US extremist killings in 2018 had links to right wing extremism. https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  16486.  @The1980Philip  Nowhere did I say that right wing Xtians are bad. Along those same lines, I also haven't previously pointed out that while immigrants are some 13% of the US population, they comprise only 4% of the US prison population, which basically indicates that they commit crimes at a rate approximately a quarter of that of native-born citizens. I'm sorry, did you have some kind of point?
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  16487.  @The1980Philip  The rightwing vs leftwing thing isn't the issue here - the islamophobia is. And along those lines .. could you tell me why the three most crime-ridden countries in the world (in order: Venezuela, Papua New Guinea, South Africa) are each Christian-majority by 80% or better? Your 2nd paragraph was like, oooooh, lookout for all those mosques, things are gonna get violent.
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  16488. Republicans know this saying very well - it's why they've been systematically defunding education for decades now.
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  16489. He's been coached not to answer "nasty" questions like that - and, rather obviously, he did it in order to put a hot mess into Biden's lap, just like the way he made a withdrawal deal with the Taliban then sat on it and did nothing to make it happen.
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  16490. Cheeto is like a chimp trying to fly a 747 after mauling the pilots. He is so clueless and doesn't know it.
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  16491. If Indies want to define "the middle" as the midpoint between opposites, and one of those opposites has gone full fash, then yes, the Indie position is going to be skewed to one side. If Hitler were still around, those types would define the midpoint as "OK, he can kill Jews, but no more than a thousand per year".
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  16492. Trump: Obama f*cked up the H1N1 thing that happened just 3 months into his presidency. 93 Americans died from it. Sad! also Trump: Coronavirus happened THREE YEARS after I became president, and I take no responsibility for it!
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  16493. So .. he's gone from live-tweeting FOXed Noise to live tweeting [i]Q-Anon. Feh :(
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  16494. Huh. Trump is using the same failed playbook with evidence as Nixon used back in the early 1970s. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes#Saturday_Night_Massacre
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  16495.  @ChiDraconis  You might want to watch this video again if you failed to understand its import. Feel free to come back in a month to tell everyone what a "flash in the pan" this is.
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  16496.  @ChiDraconis  "I am resistant and have actually slept with .. " Thanks for providing some much-needed levity.
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  16497. Nice clips of all those traitors lining up to support Trump's lies about election fraud.
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  16498. If you look at the peak attendance for Louisiana's most recent biggest super-spreading event (Mardi Gras in New Orleans) and then at the daily new cases seen per day in Louisiana, you'll see that the peaks are 40 days apart. Right around now we are coming up on the 40-day anniversary of the beginning of all those stay-at-home protests, so I'm not surprised that the numbers are getting awfully spiky just now.
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  16499.  @intelex691  I've got a dear friend who's coming up on 3 months of continuing symptoms. It didn't kill him (it nearly did) but it won't let him go either. And he was super-buff, worked out all the time, etc.
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  16500. Hopefully the Oregon capitol and governor's mansion are getting protected like the Washington state capitol. Although maybe there will be a lot fewer little rooster boyz running loose once they catch all the DC insurrectionists. MAGA = many are getting arrested.
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  16501.  @RuthB51  That's a good question, and I'm not sure of the answer. Probably those people are so far down the rabbit hole of senseless irrationality that the only way to get it through to them would be the same way you train a puppy not to poop in the house - you jam their face into the mess and tell them "bad dog!" For a lot of these people, the notion that they did something wrong won't occur until after they're serving 10 to 20 in federal penitentiary for insurrection.
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  16502.  @OregunAdventure  You've had 24 hours to present an example of what you mean by all of the most accredited news agencies having it wrong and only the whacktard fringe conspiracy theorists having it right, and you couldn't toss me a single example to pick apart? You are even lamer than I thought. Hope you ride better than you think. It's slick out there.
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  16503. Dr John et al .. last night I ran the new cases per M per week for the whole USA down to county level. It would appear that the new variant may already be in at least 15 states in the USA. San Diego county already appears to be undergoing its new-variant runup, but at roughly 2-3 weeks behind the LA curve. The California counties are the hardest hit at the current time of course. Data source was the NYT csv file. Edit: that new variant appears to have been here at least since around week 45.
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  16504. Fantastic! But those are rookie numbers! We want 100% down. Show that f'ing yachtzee what you think of him and his fash ways. (American here)
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  16505. Hint: it's not theft when the thing-in-question wants to be stolen. FOXed Noise claims of Democrats eating babies notwithstanding, of course.
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  16506. @Ground Master Let's not let perfect become the enemy of good, please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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  16507. @Ground Master Not at all. It's just that most in America are late to realizing how much damage Trump has done to America in the short term and the long term. With his willy-nilly "because Obama signed it" withdrawal from treaties that the US had signed in good faith, the rest of the world now thinks of us as an unreliable partner in anything, since we have no laws on the books preventing some fool from winning the EC vote and then walking away from things the United States had promised to do. Much of what we used to think of as our pre-2016 "prosperity" depended on the rest of the world seeing us as a guarantor of peace, a reliable ally, the stewards of a global trading currency, the standard-bearer of democracy, and so on. Trump trashed all that. The whole world now knows that we're never more than 1 election away from having a crooked senate leader working in tandem with a crooked president to gum up the workings of democracy. Within 5 years you're going to see the impacts of that. Remember how things in the UK went downhill when they stopped being an empire and reverted to being just another ordinary nation? We're due for that now. But, hey, if you want to criticize the Democrats for faults that are much, much more minor than the damage Trump did, go right ahead.
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  16508. @Ground Master Most Americans don't realize how badly Trump screwed the pooch in the rest of the world. Here's one of the many things he did to make the US look bad - First he made a secret offer to buy Greenland. Then the PM of Denmark (of which Greenland is a protectorate, sort of like PR is to the US) went public with her repudiation of the idea, calling it "absurd". Then Trump denied having made the offer, and called her "nasty", his usual term for women who stand up to his bullying. Then Trump canceled a planned visit with her, but denied it had anything to do with the Greenland thing. Then only weeks later did he admit he canceled the meeting because she refused his offer to buy Greenland. And now the whole world knows that until the US makes some serious internal reforms, there's nothing stopping another fool from being put into office and invalidating all prior agreements made. Democrats in the US are somewhat to the right by world standards. Even Bernie Sanders is something of a centrist by world standards. Americans largely don't know this, however :(
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  16509.  @annagran1423  And it will have no expiration date.
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  16510. Trumpanzees are so gullible that Trump could, during the time of a dangerous pandemic (when thousands are dying every day) tell them without proof that it's no big deal and that masks aren't needed, and they'd still believe him even when they're gasping their last or being hooked to ventilators. Oh wait.
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  16511. "Nepotism turned up to 11" is a good description of how Trump's unqualified, flaky adult children got to where they are.
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  16512. Watching the dumbest/shallowest people get sucked into Trump's obvious lies has given me some sympathy (previously lacking) for what the people of Germany went through in the 1930s. A great many people here lack the basic capacity to understand when they are being gaslit by an extremely obvious liar.
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  16513. Republicans are NOT done. Listen to them. They are talking themselves into severing any link from voting results that don't go their way. So get every possible new voter registered, and, as always, stand back and stand by.
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  16514. Someone should have told him it was groups of FakeBook users who pranked him by reserving tickets for Trump's superspreading event in Tulsa then not showing up. He's been seething for a whole month about this.
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  16515. Trump hasn't been seen in public now for days. Seems to be sulking in the white house. He might still be there January 20th while the new president is being sworn in. Thankfully, the transition is an established process, and Trump's total lack of cooperation and grace will in no way hinder the transfer of power. Here is the letter that president Obama left on the desk back in January 2017: Dear Mr. President - Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure. This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I don't know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful. Still, let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years. First, we've both been blessed, in different ways, with great good fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It's up to us to do everything we can (to) build more ladders of success for every child and family that's willing to work hard. Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It's up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international order that's expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and upon which our own wealth and safety depend. Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions -- like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties -- that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it's up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them. And finally, take time, in the rush of events and responsibilities, for friends and family. They'll get you through the inevitable rough patches. Michelle and I wish you and Melania the very best as you embark on this great adventure, and know that we stand ready to help in any ways which we can. Good luck and Godspeed, BO
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  16516. One of the best comments this week. Multiple thumbs up. May I borrow some of that imagery?
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  16517. He finally went full Baghdad Bob. You never go full Baghdad Bob! ;)
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  16518. Bingo. The only use a dictator has for other branches of government is to rubberstamp whatever he says, to give the imprimatur of legality.
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  16519. Aww, he's a little depressed. Thanks to his ineptness, at least 134,000 Americans so far have lost their lives in the pandemic. Who knows, maybe Putin pays him $1 for every American that dies of covid .. it would go a long way towards explaining his behavior especially on the topic of reopening schools.
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  16520. Or just give Russia a taste of its own medicine. Use a wave of missiles to destroy every bit of infrastructure 50km deep into their territory. They need their face rubbed in it.
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  16521.  @cbeaucrawford  Thanks for the good news from New Mexico! Sounds like your governor could give lessons to the rest in how to do things. I can only imagine the frosty note that got sent to insurers telling them that they can't scalp people in need of medical services.
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  16522. Trump is like what you would expect if Timothy McVeigh had been president :(
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  16523.  @jspringer86  The video you're blithely disregarding as 'fake news' is interviews of covid-19 survivors. Dayum, you're like people but with all the IQ sucked out.
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  16524.  @jspringer86  You're hardly unique in your brand of stupidity. Just search the news. Plenty of covid-19 deniers get sick from it. Some die of it. Usually the experience of being hooked to a ventilator changes their opinion on how real this thing is. What's that saying? Smart people learn from other folks' experiences .. normal people learn everything the hard way .. and stupid people never learn.
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  16525.  @jspringer86  That "0.7% to catch it" is an entirely fallacious metric. The disease has not spread everywhere yet (no doubt that ratio was very tiny back when it was "only one person coming in from China"). The number you should be looking at is the closed cases death ratio, which is now around 10% in the USA. You are still sort of like a person, but minus any IQ. Edit: scroll down a bit to the "closed cases" box, cases in which there was an outcome. That's the Russian roulette I'm talking about, only with a LeMat revolver: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  16526.  Quotius X  You're the one getting fake news and calling everything else fake even when it's real. How does it feel being the dumbest fifth columnist ever? Putin's little puppet, who doesn't even know it?
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  16527.  @jspringer86  Using your completely bogus way of figuring things, when there was only 1 person coming in from China, the chances of anyone getting it from him were 1 in 330 million, or 0.0000003%. Yet here we are now, 6 months later with nearly 3 million cases. Your metric is completely bogus, but you seem too stupid to realize it.
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  16528.  @jspringer86  Did you not read my post? Go back and read it again, then read your supposed math post again.
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  16529.  @jspringer86  You showed you "ability" to mansplain above in gory detail. Just keep smiling and pretend you know what the F you're talking about.
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  16530.  @jspringer86  Go back and read your own frigging comments, idiot. You equated the prevalence of the virus in general society with a person's chances of catching it. Nothing could be a more fallacious metric. Did you lose the ability to scroll up and read what you said earlier in the thread?
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  16531.  @jspringer86  Once again, your math is wrong because you keep moving the decimal point two places to the left. 1/25 = 4% which you are misrepresenting as .04%.
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  16532.  @jspringer86  For the 6th or 7th time you are mistakenly equating "chances of catching the virus" with "prevalence of virus". Even more hilariously, it's totally escaped your feeble attention that the viral prevalence could go from 1/300M to 2.9M/300M in just a matter of months. On the plus side, ignorance such as yours seems to be curable. There's no one left in NYC who doubts the virus, now than 1 in 7 NYC'ers has been infected, and 1 in 71 NYC'ers has died from it. I hope the lesson comes to your community less painfully. At first only one 1 American in every 330 million was infected .. now it's down to 1 American in every 110. Soon that denominator will be down in double digits. Using the latest numbers of course. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  16533.  @jspringer86  I see you cannot refute me on the points we were discussing. Guess that makes you the troll. Just two days late, Trump's birthday gift to the nation later today will be 3 million covid cases and 133,000 covid deaths, even as he claims that 99% of the cases are harmless. Who are you going to believe, him, or your own lying calculator? (case fatality rate 4.43%, closed case fatality rate 9%)
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  16534.  @jspringer86  You still cannot read fractions correctly after all this time I have spent on remedial education for you! For the 20th time or so, I'm going to have to ask you to get you scattered thoughts together, if you even can. I'm using the "NYC county" dataset off github (see their county level data too) that gives 1,603,418 for their recent population number and 220,567 cases as of end-of-day 7/2 and 22,593 deaths for the same. You want to run the division again? For that set, 1 in 7 got infected and 1 in 71 died.
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  16535.  @jspringer86  Since you need practice with numbers and understanding what they mean in the real world (which, I hope, you will someday be a part of) let's use that 7/2 dataset and Rockland county, NY, population 304,493. As of 7/2 end-of-day they had 13,612 cases and 469 deaths. So if you can follow the math, that means 1 in 22 of them has gotten infected, and of the infected ones, 1 in 29 has died.
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  16536.  @jspringer86  Didn't take much to get to the bottom of your keg. Heh.
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  16537.  @jspringer86  Not much in your keg. Bwahaha. Next.
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  16538. Conservative America loves their guns and fetuses .. living breathing children not so much.
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  16539. As Winston Churchill famously said (I'm paraphrasing) Americans often won't do the right thing until circumstances force them to. And that's the most accurate picture I've ever seen of the anti-vax nutters.
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  16540. Someone needs to train Trump not to lie the same way you would train a puppy not to poop in the house - you rub their face in the poop repeatedly until they make the connection. Good people of the press, rub him harder. Every fricking day for the rest of his sorry, stupid life.
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  16541. Text of 14.3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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  16542.  @stevemack7110  Pretty sure you're right. The US has an extradition treaty with Argentina but not with Russia.
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  16543. Looks like Dump burned out another projector bulb: "Everyone can get tested" = only me and other really rich people can get tested all the time "Everyone can get the treatment I did" = it was available only to me and a handful of other people "It will be armageddon if Biden wins" = I'll be really upset if I can't be America's king forever
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  16544. Well, some other things will happen too if that happens. Of his cult followers who are prone to violence over lies my cat could see through, a bunch more of them will do things that land them a lengthy stay at the Graybar Hotel, which is about where traitors belong. And the Republican party will be busy denying that they ever had anything to do with Trump, might have posed with him for a few pictures, but they don't know who he is. And Trump's base will still exist but in smaller form.
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  16545. The funny part is that the Trump klan members STILL do not understand the degree to which they have become toxic radioactive waste.
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  16546. Remember that secret server on which were held the contents of many of Trump's conversations with foreign leaders and other notable people? Remember the official white house visitor logs that Trump shielded? The Biden team has access to ALL of that and it is probably very interesting to the investigators.
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  16547. Since this discussion desperately needs some levity, let me share this holiday PSA put out by the Swiss police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmhHyyzh9o
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  16548.  @johnriggs4929  Err, was that sarcasm when you seemed to be equating a largely-efficacious vaccine as a 'final solution'?
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  16549.  @Upper-cr1kh  Trump broke the law and lied almost nonstop during his reign of error, then tried to overthrow the government after losing the 2020 election. His serious crimes eclipse and negate everything else. Benjamin Franklin said something about types like you. Those who would give up freedoms (in your case, having our votes count) for security deserve neither.
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  16550.  @Upper-cr1kh  About that "chanting Russia Russia Russia". 34 people and 3 companies were indicted in the course of the Trump-Russia investigation. Of the 34, five were Trump officials, and all 5 pleaded guilty. 26 of the individuals are Russian nationals.
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  16551.  @Upper-cr1kh  And the criminals pleaded guilty because -- ? You are demonstrating the mentally corrosive effects of harboring conspiracy nonsense between your ears.
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  16552.  @JamieGuzmam  You're saying word-salad can't-remain-on-topic Trump is smarter? Lay down that crack pipe, boy.
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  16553.  @swampt.6898  Re "because every point you made is exactly what" << At least be honest enough to admit that if you hadn't been brainwashed by the dumbest propaganda that doesn't fool any 8yo German kid, you wouldn't think that. Not my fault you're addicted to misinformation. Lots of low-IQ people in America currently are. But at least be honest enough to realize you're one of them. And if you can't do that, well, then I'll just have to keep reminding you at every turn.
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  16554. I use videos for it, since you can roll through them frame by frame and count mask-wearers and unmasked. Here's a video from the Sturgis motorcycle rally that started yesterday. Very few masks in sight. Without actually counting, it looks like under 1%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ
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  16555.  @dont-want-no-wrench  Yes. People universally remember "simpler times" when they were children.
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  16556. Graham's oath of office is worth as much as a degree from Trump University - which is to say worth nothing.
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  16557. Even though they may have begun to turn against Trump, Fox Noise still pushes the interests of racists and billionaires - who are sometimes the same people.
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  16558. Miss Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch are both up for re-election in 2020. And the current Senate oath of office is as follows: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
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  16559.  @haifutter4166  Notice how the godless liberal elitist in this video didn't mention a single thing about going to church? Can you even imagine a church without a parking lot? In America??? Jesus would have driven the biggest Ford Excursion he could lease, all to remind us of how we tamed the dinosaurs 5,000 years ago and turned 'em into oil. 😂😂🤣😅
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  16560. Eh, the history books don't mention a whole lot of street protest when Hitler got his hate machine rolling back in the 1930s - and if there was any such, it didn't hinder his ursurpation of a democracy. Not expecting it here either, even when Cheetolini brazenly threatens members of the legislature and ignores the courts.
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  16561. Huh. Is there any chance that Cat turd is also the internally-decapitated, time-traveling ghost that so trolled Sidney Powell?
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  16562. Actually, the fact that Russians are staying firmly in their quagmire (Ukraine) is just part of the big favor they're doing to Finland and Sweden right now. Obviously it's part of Putin's 5D chess that we can't understand - getting bogged down to where they have no spare forces to siphon off for threatening Finland. Georgia should be about to take back what Russia stole from them. And maybe they should be in NATO too.
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  16563. Those places were barely livable in the first place. Adding more people and more green lawns didn't help. It worked for a little while, until it didn't work anymore.
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  16564. Guess she either forgot to lock her phone or her actions didn't slow the police down much. What a loser :(
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  16565.  @klaytonkent5203  That too :(
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  16566.  Tiguar Jagger  Do the honors? Did you already forget how Trump, spiteful and childish to the very end, dismissed the white house staff early on Jan 20th so no one would be there to meet the Bidens? And how he churlishly refused to hang his predecessor's portrait? There's no bottom to Trump's spite.
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  16567. So were the Cyber 'Ninjas' (can't say that without sniggering; those guys were at best fools dipped in idiocy) who also couldn't find any evidence of the imaginary fraud Trump insisted was there. They'll get their turn in court.
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  16568. On an industrial scale, that's an easy problem.
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  16569. Is Ben Shapiro on T-blockers? That high soft voice, that face that's obviously never known a razor -- and he's 36. Wtf?
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  16570. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016.
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  16571.  @dwreal  Re "remember when Twitter" << Such a strawman. I don't run Twitter, you don't run Twitter, and neither of us is Dave Rubin. Try again.
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  16572. Correct. More than a year too late, that was him admitting that he lost the 2020 election.
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  16573. One thing's for sure - if the Republican party still exists then, anyone who was involved presently will be lying to their grandkids about how they knew Trump was trouble and tried to fight it from within the party.
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  16574. Hmm. Stalin & Orwell would have both approved of naming an election-stealing effort as "stop the steal". Some people just don't understand that Orwell's books are cautionary tales, not how-to manuals.
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  16575. Why shouldn't Poland have nuclear weapons if it wants them? Putin will understand the message when he's told that Moscow & St Pete can be reduced to smoking glass.
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  16576. Hopefully some have recordings of their contacts with Trump and his flying monkeys, who would have coached them in how to break the laws to steal the election for Trump.
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  16577. Clearly DeSatan is out to usurp what federal rights he doesn't like. If he would do this, what else might he do? Give aid and succor to America's enemies? Would he fly foreign terrorists into other states just to "own the libs"?
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  16578. The biggest goof these days is to think of Republicans as reasonable or even rational people. Trump steals documents, lies about it, hides the WH visitors logs? That's OK with them. Biden makes a mistake, admits it, undertakes corrective measures right away? They're all "traitor!!"
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  16579. Remember how they had to do a little purging after Biden's inauguration? Seems they didn't get all the Trump cult members.
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  16580. It's going to get much much worse before it gets any better. For example, if lord Tinyhands and the ketamine addict visit Ft Knox, they'll go with a small fleet of trucks, and the drivers may have Russian accents.
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  16581. Poor Elon, just like James T. Kirk, can't hear anything over the sound of how awesome he is. ;)
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  16582. What a coincidence. America isn't going to invite those losers back to the white house anyway, not now, not ever.
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  16583. Sadly, Russia is the Idaho of Asia :(
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  16584. Most cultures have a cautionary myth about selling your soul to the devil. She is suffering from the same thing all Trump apologists do. You almost gotta admire the way Trump is separating his enablers, molecule by molecule, from any shred of self-respect they may have once had. And when he's done with them, he fires them on Twitter. But not until he's made them use up their credibility.
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  16585.  @LLL-zt3fz  A great many conservatives also need to be charged for attempting to incite violence in the name of the butthurt grifter who lost the 2020 election.
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  16586. To be fair, the governor seems to have a preference to a certain propaganda outlet that for months peddled the lie that the virus was just another Democrat impeachment hoax. I will defend the right of anyone to believe whatever garbage they want to believe (in the privacy of their own home) but when it affects other people it's time to get on the "grounded in common reality" bus.
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  16587. I prefer presidents who don't try to be the next Wesley Mouch.
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  16588. Don't knock the power of complete-whackjob types to get elected. In the last free election of 1930s Germany (1932 to be specific) Hitler's party got 37.27% of the vote, while the remainder of the votes were split among some 60ish other parties. It was a well-attended election, with 84% of the electorate participating in the vote. Hitler's party didn't like existing at the whim of the voters, so subsequent elections were rigged in their favor - just as Republicans are trying to do now in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and other places :(
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  16589. If he keeps doing this so well (sabotaging 45) it won't be long before the ultra-MAGA are convinced he's a democratic plant.
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  16590. He's that dumb and he JUST CAN'T HELP IT. Oh, and if you think he's insufferable now while publicly crowing that he's hanging onto all the evidence that would incriminate him in any court, you haven't seen anything yet. If Moscow Mitch succeeds in getting their little kangaroo court to let Trump off scot-free, we're going to see a far less restrained version of Trump than the world has seen so far.
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  16591. Easier just to laugh at Bunker Boy. He's probably going to need to spend the next few days sedated anyway.
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  16592.  Darlene Sjostrom  Can't say that would be a bad thing.
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  16593. It's interesting seeing how many of those Red Square Republicans are involved in the impeachment process in one way or another - spouting the same whackamole conspiracy theories that they helped develop, of course. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senators-tell-contradictory-stories-about-moscow-trip
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  16594. As Glenn Kirschner puts it, a tyrant & dictator has no use for courts. Eliminating the judiciary would be his second step after first eliminating the legislative branches of government. Similar to the way the Taliban operate, he would have Oaf Tweakers and Proud Boyz riding around in pickup trucks with machine guns basically exercising his social agenda of the moment.
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  16595. Who didn't see this coming? His "genius" "peace plan" for Palestine was to completely shut one side out of it (the Palestinians) .. same as how his "genius" "peace plan" for Af'stan was to include only the Taliban and the US military and completely shut out the Af'stan government and people. When he said the other day that the stockpile is "not for the states" (his words) you could tell that the US population just got left out of his "deal".
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  16596. Trump held campaign rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21, & Feb 28. He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7, Mar 8. And at some of those rallies he talked about how the virus would go away, or how it was a hoax, or how it was supposedly under control.
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  16597. Felix, about new daily cases (supposedly) going down in the USA .. the daily testing rate per thousand has been declining precipitously since July 29. This chart is on Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart
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  16598.  @alquinn8576  It's precipitous because the testing rate went down faster than it ever went up - which you might know from looking at the chart. You should see it today. It's just as if (wait for it) some wannabe dictator told his HHS lackeys to cut the CDC out of the data loop.
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  16599.  @alquinn8576  It sounds like you neglected to read the news the other week when HHS doormat Azar instructed hospitals to keep the CDC out of the loop, and how the results of the new data dashboard are not public. But do keep up with the "you didn't answer my questions" line. LOLz :(
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  16600.  @alquinn8576  Have you not been paying ANY attention over the last few years? Lots of things in America that are not legal are being done by this administration. In particular the IAA and Hague 33 have been systematically violated for going on several years now. Wake up.
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  16601.  @alquinn8576  Not necessary to do all that. Just need the HHS doormats doing what Trumpty Dumpty says.
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  16602.  @alquinn8576  Listen, moron cubed, it's similar to the way Putin doesn't need to buy off every politician in the US to do his agenda here -- just Trump. Lordy but you got a mean case of stupid. Ever consider fixing that?
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  16603.  @alquinn8576  He doesn't need to, fool, he ordered all of those entities to report to his butt-kisser at HHS and not to CDC. JHFC, are you completely unable to understand how organizations work?
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  16604. Not only that, but cult-leader-Trump finds it cakewalk to induce his idiot sheeple followers to lie for him. He had already subverted the secret service .. see Pence not wanting to get into the limo on 1/6, as he knew full well it would be a ride to his final resting place.
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  16605. One of these days the Democrats will remember that we, the people gave them a mandate through our votes. It's not random luck that Trump's gone and what's left of his flying monkeys are in the minority now. Thank God for that :)
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  16606.  @ralphm6901  The bad news is, the country still has a substantial minority of nutters who believe Trump's nonsense. The good news is, only some of them can get away from their oxygen tanks and their "get your government hands off my Medicare"-provided mobility scooters, and, of those prone to violence, the good news is that their future incarceration (should they get uppity in service of their cult leader) will provide some much-needed jobs while taking them out of the voting pool and making sure they can no longer own guns.
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  16607. It's not an "act" on Trump's part, it's the real thing :(
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  16608.  @maniac2079  So, by your "TDS" logic, those 405K American GI's who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2 suffered from Hitler Derangement Syndrome?
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  16609. There isn't any American civil war, thankfully. What we have instead is one side that's thrown in with a cancer on the body politic (Trumpism) and another side that's administering chemotherapy. Trump's nutters will continue to fill jail cells, and, thankfully, we've got lots of space available for them. So much kinder than what we used to do to traitors.
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  16610. If conservatives whine about president Biden's picks, Biden should just appoint them "acting", as Trump has been doing for four years now. Republicans didn't say "boo" to Trump over that practice. Time for them to sit down and STFU.
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  16611. The summary judgement already happened. This hearing is only to determine the amount of the damages.
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  16612. Yeah. In China, after a 90-day lockdown, people are very cautiously moving towards re-opening. Everyone's wearing masks everywhere, no exceptions. Folks must be ready to provide their health information at any time and register everywhere they go. Travel is limited. But over here in the USA it's more like, Waaaaah, I've been staycationing for FIVE WHOLE WEEKS ALREADY and I'm SO DAMN BORED! Waaaaaah!
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  16613. Looks like the Lord of Mar-a-Lardo knew damn well that "lock her up" was just a sarcastic taunt handed to his dummy cultists.
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  16614.  @lostinkansasonasunnyday305  You got any proof of what you say? Crickets. You dumbazz trolls ought to crawl back under rocks - or just move to Idaho. As the saying goes - when a white supremacist moves from California to Idaho, the IQ of both places goes up.
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  16615. Too little too late. Fakebook has been allowing Trump's disinformation all the way back to his birther conspiracy nonsense against president Obama.
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  16616. Trump's been hearing boos and chants of "lock him up" at every public event since the world series game in Washington DC, up to and including the NYC Veterans Day parade. Things are moving along at warp speed. 70% of the nation now feels he did something wrong. If any Republicans are awake and noticing what's happening, look for them to monkeywrench the 2020 elections once they realize they'll be out of power for a generation or more.
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  16617. Universities and colleges all over the US are learning this the hard way. Pretending it's not a problem doesn't seem to slow down the virus, go figure.
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  16618. President Dotard, please tell us this has nothing to do with the way you coddle wannabe-Nazis, or the way you were recently heard fuming about Jewish lawmakers in the house, or the way you've been hinting that American Jews have got questionable loyalties. Oh, and how soon will you have the government collecting this data? What do you plan to do with it?
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  16619. "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains." - Vladimir Putin, 2000
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  16620. Instead of MS13 shooting up the streets, we've got the brownshirt irregulars like Kyle Rittenhouse (and other militia types) committing armed terrorism in the USA. But Trump's OK with that because they're supporting his brand of ethnofascism.
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  16621.  @mp40submachinegun81  They constantly probe the US pacific northwest. They never stopped doing that. But lofting incoming gear over the north pole is a new thing.
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  16622. You hit on why the Russian bots are so obtuse in the comments. They somehow imagine (apparently since it's the only way Russia does things) that the US president threatened Finland to join NATO or else. It betrays colonialist thinking on Russia's part.
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  16623. A question about how the death numbers in China are counted. By now we have all seen and heard the news of bodies being left outside for collection. Here's the question - do the official death numbers consist only of people who died while under medical care and people who died after testing positive for Covid-19? We can safely assume that China is not wasting test kits and x-rays on dead people. What would the fatality look like when people found dead at home (or left outside the building) are included?
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  16624. Been wondering that. I watched the J6 troubles live, and it was pretty disturbing stuff. Our basic right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness etc is much infringed upon when some culties try to overthrow the government in order to keep the election loser in power.
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  16625. Joe the plumber? He died finally. A simple man in a complicated world, he had a hard time.
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  16626. OP - Ukraine will be rebuilt to modern western standards after this. A plan has already been worked out. Russia, however, will remain the land of outhouses and dirt roads, and it will look like the war was fought only last month.
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  16627. Fox did it constantly too. Funny how they never did the same for Rafael Eduardo Cruz, Canadian-born son of a Cuban refugee who's reinvented himself as a southern white immigrant-hating conservative.
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  16628.  @stevenparks6700  See, the problem is, you're mentioning things that didn't happen. Try again when you can name actual facts, not the kind that Kellyanne Conway or FOXed Noise makes up on their own.
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  16629.  @stevenparks6700  Thanks for the laughs re "strippers care about you they're my friends as long as I give them money" << Yup, the only friends you can have are the kind you pay, and then only as long as you keep paying by the hour. Pretty much explains how and why you're completely misinformed.
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  16630.  @stevenparks6700  As much as I wish I could say I'm so sorry that I hurt your obviously-tender feefees so much just with words .. that's the state of affairs. You're just suffering the same things misinformed idiots always do. Now go have a drink and whine about it privately .. you've done that thousands of times already, another one won't hurt you. If you want to keep sticking your head up so I can keep playing whack-a-mole, by all means have at it.
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  16631. Correct @Martin McNickle .. Comrade Putin claims Ukraine is Russia, then he attacks "his" own country. Not very patriotic is he. No wonder he and Trump were buddies :(
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  16632. We all know how Trump brazenly checked off all 14 items on the "characteristics of fascism" list in just four years. No doubt his actions inspired the whole Kemp / DeSantis set to try following suit.
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  16633. Oh, wow. Feeling for you. I came of age during a shtty economic time too. Sending love. And if you're in the Portland metro area there are folks who will help.
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  16634. Correct. DeSatan hired a videographer to accompany the refugees. Apparently he wanted video of Mass residents being visibly upset about the refugees.
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  16635. What a coincidence, Trump fires the people helping make sure our grid is safe, then he tells our cyber security people to stop caring what Russia does. Wonder how much Russia paid Trump for a license to hack into our infrastructure?
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  16636. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway, and the French people who helped the Nazis. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  16637. Russia is one of the countries now closed to Americans because of our raging, out of control third world pandemic .. the kind of stuff you see in s-hole countries.
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  16638. Likewise, if Trump claims it was Antifa or BLM behind it - why is he trying to pardon them? He can't remember his own lies.
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  16639. Classic both-sides'ing there. One's old but competent, the other's a complete traitor. Hmm, such a hard choice .. /sarc
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  16640.  @rattle-can-resto5893  Thanks for the chuckles, cultie.
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  16641. GOP are turning out to be so spineless. Either they're Dump cultists or they cut and run, rather than fight within their own party. Their silence (about Dump) is why things have gotten this bad.
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  16642. Considering that they're not even waiting until inauguration to take off the masks, we may be assured that more betrayals are coming down the pike.
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  16643. Reporting from Portland, Oregon, USA. Last night I went past at least 8 restaurants that were completely packed with the 20-50+ yo crowd. Not a mask in sight. This was kind of strange, since Oregon did not open vaccination to the general adult population until 4/19. Even if the entire eligible group had gotten vaccinated then (they didn't, as we know from the numbers) their second shots wouldn't be until around 5/19, and their full immunities would not be until 6/2. Community spread of the B.1.617.2 (Indian) variant has already been found in the Portland metro area. Some stores in Portland are letting people come in without masks based only on the honor system, without actually checking to see if they've been vaccinated, or simply taking people at their word when asked. This will not end well :(
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  16644.  @rallyonceagain1963  Get a brain, you abject waste of ambulatory protoplasm.
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  16645. Trump has reneged on trade deals with China and Mexico before the ink is even dry on the "deal" he just signed. I was hoping governor Brown wouldn't fall for his lies.
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  16646. Aww. You Russian trolls must still be mad that Ukraine didn't cooperate with party secretary Trumpski in getting Ukraine to fabricate dirt against the Bidens. How long are you going to hang onto the stale turd of your mistake?
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  16647. You can tell what kind of a cult leader Trump is by the effect he has on his cultists. None of them become better people, better parents, law-abiding citizens, etc. They all go downhill and commit crimes in his name or even threaten their own children with harm in Trump's name. Or they try to overthrow the government in service of the guy who lost the election. Trump doesn't bring out a single good characteristic in anyone.
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  16648.  @paganbornspiritbear8249  Remember the Comet Pizza shooter? Or Cesar Sayoc? Same thing. This guy is obviously about as imaginative as a doorpost. Some BS propaganda jarred him into radical action.
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  16649. Translation: Putler is running low on prisoners available for conscription. A year from now he'll finally get to rounding up teenagers off the streets of Moscow & St. Pete, if their economy isn't TU by then.
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  16650. Apparently it started awhile back. The Cold Civil War. https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
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  16651. Let's see .. he's going to insult the judge, spout off about how she supposedly isn't real, or just not show up at all. Or maybe we get to see if Hesgeth tells Meal Team Six to remove "the judge problem".
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  16652. Don't be looking for culty Republicans to impeach him, and they own both the house and senate as well as the supreme corp.
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  16653.  @reforest4fertility  You wrote: "Hmmm, what would an actual Antifa look like?" Good question. I've met a few, and they seem like just anyone else, except they're less apathetic than most about the prospect of fascism gaining a foothold here in the US. Everyone remembers what happened when Germany failed to exercise sufficient caution regarding who it put in power.
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  16654. Sounds like Mr. Tacopina is not going to earn any money working for Trump. Another sucker! 😅 Hope he enjoyed torching his career not only for a well-known serial liar but a guy who never pays his bills!
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  16655.  @richb2229  So let's do some numbers. Assuming covid-19 runs loose in the USA (as all indications point to), and 80% of the population is infected within the next 4 months, here's what we're looking at in terms of effects: 327,200,000 people 261,760,000 affected (80% of the number above) 52,352,000 sick enough to require hospitalization (20% of the number above) .. and this is where the poop hits the propellor, becaue clearly we haven't got the means to hospitalize that many people and/or perform oxygen support for them. In fact there are less than a million hospital beds in all of the USA. So of those 52 million severely affected people, many will die, and many more will be out of the workforce for an extended time.
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  16656.  @jimjimgl3  I used to have Republican relatives. Turns out I have no use for people so dense as to support someone who's trying to bathe America in blood to appease the guy who lost the 2020 election.
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  16657. Besides, every Free fighter in the world would volunteer there to go play insurgent. Ivan is intent on receiving pain .. let's not keep him waiting.
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  16658. He probably can't keep himself from tweeting how he expects her to fix the election (after he loses) and then argue that he has the right to pardon himself.
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  16659. Even the infamous Nazi medical torturer, Dr Mengele, didn't stoop so low as to force women to give birth to dead fetuses.
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  16660. I was going to say that Tucker "Lord Haw Haw" Carlson would do well as David Duke's running mate, but in fact Mr Duke is no longer the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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  16661. The GOP has been suffering from acute paranoia for awhile. Most of us will recall how they spent 8+ long years screeching that Obama was about to steal their guns and melt 'em down into Korans, force everyone to live in FEMA camps, get microchipped, Sharia law, Jade Helm, chemtrails, you name it. If Teddy Boy has any proof of what he's saying, then by all means he should show it. Otherwise he's just making shit up the same way Hannity does.
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  16662. Why does it seem that these Republicans are just begging to be torn from their offices by angry mobs, and introduced to some rope and a tree? Please, someone, talk them away from their pro-corporate tunnel vision. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THEIR BOSSES and they must be made to understood this.
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  16663. Even now, Trump still does not understand that the US is a vast enterprise that was running long before he came along and will continue to run long after he's left .. that his job was only to take care of it briefly .. that he cannot use it to reward personal friends and harm personal adversaries - such as when he withheld emergency aid money to states that didn't vote for him.
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  16664. But no, he's busy pardoning turkeys and having meets with Trump to show him where things are in the white house. He's more comfy with the ceremony than with the notion that Trump will burn it all down before 24 months are out. He's got that long to make sure there isn't a 2026 election.
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  16665. “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  16666. He's still failing to turn off the gasoline hose of his prior lies that are still standing. Unless he comes clean, and tells them that he completely lied about the integrity and results of the election .. unless he explains to the idiots that Biden won fair and square because he got a lot more votes .. they will keep their aggrieved BS burning, and some of them will keep committing acts of terror over this. That's where the FBI comes in. Many are getting arrested.
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  16667. Hope you get out before the "dump" stage of the pump-and-dump process. Remember hydroxychloroquine?
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  16668. You gotta wonder if he got his jollies off thinking of what the Taliban would do to the women of Afghanistan. His "peace plan" for Ukraine is just like his one for Afghanistan - give everything to the bad guys (how much did they pay him?) and F everyone else.
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  16669. @hells bells To be fair, those knuckleheads couldn't have pulled off a revolution on a good day anyway. Most of them aren't even competent enough to handle a glow stick safely. Their whining, when Dump disavowed them less than 48 hours later, was pitiful to behold. The slowest kids in every class.
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  16670. I ran the numbers. In just four years (2016 to 2020) Trump's popular election loss widened from 2,868,519 to 7,060,401 votes. If the increase in voter dissatisfaction towards Trump is flat, we can reasonably expect his next election loss to be roughly 11.25 million votes. If calculated as exponential growth rather than flat growth, the rate is 22.5% per year and we could expect his possible 2024 popular election loss to be above 16 million votes. Conclusion - Trump has no legal path to power. What his flying monkeys might do to fix that is a whole nother issue.
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  16671. We should let unvaccinated people be in positions like that in the same way we should let people drive drunk on the highway. Freedumbs are more important than any collateral damage, right? /sarcasm
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  16672. The final days of Wesley Mouch. I've read this story before.
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  16673. Thank God things are going back to normal. After four years of letting Trump do "acting" appointments in order to skip the confirmation hearing process, Republicans will return to normal by blocking lots of Biden appointments. After letting Trump ram through a SCOTUS judge in less than 8 weeks, Republicans will return to normal by telling Biden that even 24 months is much too short a time to appoint a SCOTUS judge. Couldn't possibly be scheduled any sooner. After four years of letting Trump trash every norm, rule, and law, Republicans will return to normal by insisting that Biden do things the way every other president before Trump did them. Can somebody please take the Republicans out to the woodshed? Seems they don't understand what "equal under the law" means.
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  16674. Limbaugh. LMAO. He promised to move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became the law of the land, but then he broke that promise and stayed - which is kind of ironic, since Costa Rica provides universal healthcare to its citizens & residents, so possibly they would have picked up on his condition in time to treat it more effectively. Hope Mr Limbaugh isn't too discomfited by the pain to realize that cancer is merely doing to him what he did to America - except that cancer isn't getting paid to do it.
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  16675. Well, it didn't help the Republicans much that they're the party of insurrectionists and election deniers .. that Republicans will gladly force your raped teenage daughter to carry a rape baby to term, even though they'll get convenience abortions for their own girlfriends .. that Republicans care for voters the same way Colonel Sanders cares about chickens.
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  16676. No shocker that Republicans are willing to step up and lie under oath. F*cking cult sheeple :(
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  16677. Our House and Senate would be grossly derelict in their duties if they did NOT remove Trump after he sent his mob there to cause harm. Even if this is symbolic it matters a great deal.
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  16678.  @_GeneralMechanics_  For farm labor, we may rest assured that private prisons are about to get into the plantation business if they're not already doing it. And since they're snatching up all kinds of people, the prison farms will be well-staffed.
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  16679. Oregon here. We stand with you, Canada, and against the orange traitor. He and his flying monkeys are not welcome here.
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  16680. Bombing and raping civilians seems to be the main "strength" of Russia's forces, if you can even refer to those things as strengths. They will be liabilities in the future.
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  16681. Remember, Gallagher is a "hero" to Trump for getting paid to kill darker-skinned people, presumably Muslims. It was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. Naturally, Trump and his homies will be appropriately offended when pictures appear on the internet showing Russian, or Syrian, or ISIS, or Iranian troops posing on top of dead American civilians and maybe peeing on them too.
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  16682. Been wondering if his confused followers are ever going to wake up from their stupor. I guess only time will tell. Like any cult leader, Trump knows how to push the sugar-candy-high buttons in his sheeple .. to massage and feed their persecution fantasies, their paranoia, their delusions of grandeur, their longing to both-sides everything in order to save them trouble of finding out what's really going on.
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  16683. They should use its proper long-form name - Q-Anonsense. The refuge of the sub-intellectual folks prone to believing nutty conspiracy theories.
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  16684. Face it, companies and workers alike are not going to enjoy Nazi America and they know it.
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  16685. I could use some more Age-of-Aquarius .. damn I miss my crazy hippie neighbors from the 70s. They lived in shacks in the woods, smoked weed, played guitar really good, and were fun to hang with.
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  16686. A cult leader came along, abetted by his Party news outlet (Murdoch's channels) and by some in government who welcome an authoritarian cult figure as a way to advance their unpopular agendas.
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  16687.  @ecurewitz Almost every culture on earth has a cautionary fable for the children. It goes something like this: You meet the Devil in person, except you don't know yet who he is, and he takes you to some high place and spins you some wild visions. He offers you a slice of that glorious future, but only if you do this one little thing for him that happens to be illegal. Just that one thing. Trump somehow has the ability to do that to people :(
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  16688. If you watch the right youtube channels (from folks posting in near real time) you'll see that folks are running away from lockdowns and mingling in large groups, unmasked, in other places. Naturally some of them are the anti-mask anti-vax types who seem unclear on the concept of civic responsibility. These are the ones who would have insisted on keeping all their house lights on during the London blitz :( Edit: if Australia police want to see this thing, they ought to be monitoring cellphone IDs and where they go .. that database of who's been going where ought to be helpful.
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  16689.  Steve Harris  He's that archetypal angry drunk FOXed-Noise watching older relative who you have to put in the corner because otherwise all he does is spout angry nonsense.
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  16690.  @julianmarsh1378  Mutant is a dummy rightwing troll whose only "weapon" is whataboutism.
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  16691.  @SuperMutant2099  Once again, you're repeating right wing nonsense that has nothing to do with what actually happened. Try following the real news. Political violence in the USA is almost exclusively a right wing thing, and little Nazi boys like you are its apologists.
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  16692.  @SuperMutant2099  Like I said, you seem wholly unfamiliar with the facts of the situation. I've posted some actual-news links about how Trump loves, and is beloved by, Nazis, Coup Klux Klan, white nationalists, far right terrorists. You own that.
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  16693.  @SuperMutant2099  Aww, poor baby, you don't like being confronted on your lies. Take a hit of copium. Trump is gone, Trump lost, Joe is your president now.
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  16694. It's like watching the trash take itself out.
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  16695. The official models are a joke, since the US has tested only 1 million people, or 0.3% of the population of 327 million.
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  16696. Poor Fatty Tweety. Sucks to be stupid.
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  16697. Everyone get out and vote, or you'll surely regret it later.
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  16698.  @paulsugarman9753  Sadly true :( Republicans got divorced from reality at least as far back as when they were screeching and howling at the moon, calling Obama and his family a pack of monkeys, saying that the constitution was being shredded (even though, when asked, they couldn't prove why or how or even when), claiming that their guns were being seized and that there was a war on Christmas. Their delusions have fully metastasized over the intervening time. They're so far out in right field now that their attempt to steal the election had the Orwellian name of "stop the steal" :(
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  16699.  @HOGSIDESJTV14BOSSHOGRECORDS  They are properly called Proud Little Boys. Trump's sputniks.
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  16700. Trump's policies are going to make life horrible for many Americans. He talked about this all throughout his campaign. He promised to be the retribution president. He promised to be horrible. Did they not pay attention?
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  16701. A great administration, with many accomplishments, vs 1 shitty debate .. yeah, my attention span isn't that short. Vote blue! :)
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  16702. I expected no less from the same guy who, as a young guy healthy enough to captain a couple sports teams, dodged the draft - and then as a doddering obese fool said he'd charge unarmed into a school shooting. He's like the smallest dick in the history of dicks.
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  16703. The little Nazi Binder Barbie.
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  16704. Perhaps it is good news for the world. Everyone's getting a chance to see for themselves that NOTHING in the US system keeps it from getting taken over by a claque of retrograde criminals.
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  16705.  @markscott5975  And it is clear already that there is no way Putin emerges from this looking good. There is no win for Russia in this. Russia will have less money, fewer friends, sparser demographics, fewer allies, a much smaller military, etc by the time this is over.
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  16706. His look is what stupid people think is "intelligent" .. to the rest of us it looks like the dumb kind of surprise after someone's hit you in the face with a shovel.
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  16707. No doubt we have been gathering its passive acoustic signature (at a whole range of speeds and depths) from every angle. Sort of like when those folks lofted a balloon to spy on us, and instead we scoped out a great deal of information as to their capabilities and methods and the state of their technology.
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  16708. I'll never forget that time Dr Birx just sat there while Trump blathered about introducing bleach and bright light inside the body to kill covid. She looked at the wall and wished she was anyplace else, instead of leaping up and immediately contradicting him. It was like that with everyone. Poisonings from household cleaners rose somewhat after his comments.
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  16709.  @ninyli1  Sweden is definitely not a model North Korea, nor is it likely to ever be one. Russia & NK are as close to Axis powers as we have now.
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  16710. The south has electile dysfunction and isn't going to rise again.
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  16711. Let's hope she was recording her conversations with 45 and will use them as leverage.
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  16712. Mulvaney's treason during the impeachment shall not be forgotten.
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  16713. Two impeachments that went nowhere. Then a number of court cases that got slow-walked to the point of uselessness, then dismissed. A complicit Supreme Corp that refused to enforce the 14th amendment, section 3. Corporate speech and hate speech, both full of lies, being allowed. An electorate dumb enough to be misled or convinced to stay home. That's how we got here.
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  16714. Is compliance the same thing in Nazi Germany as it is in free Switzerland? Just asking. (obviously, it's not) So you might want to bother ascertaining what kind of country you're living in before you automatically decide not to trust the gub'mint.
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  16715.  @embarrassedtobeanamerican.1667  Are you kidding? You sound like the sort of simpleton who's unable to tell truth from fiction and just takes the easy way out and decides that all information is equally untrustworthy. FOXed Noise makes a lot of money of that breed of nutcase.
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  16716. It was effective. Before the election, ordinary people were screeching and pulling their hair out over the thought of trans kids supposedly decimating athletic programs supposedly everywhere. A half a percent of the population, and they're severely under-represented in athletic programs across the board. It was even weirder than seeing 1930s Germans believing AH's dumb lies about Jews supposedly destroying the country, as trans kids are a much much much smaller minority and don't self-segregate.
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  16717. In other words .. it is illegal in Texas to shoot someone with a gun. Therefore, Texas will aggressively prosecute gunshot victims who seek medical treatment, as well as prosecute doctors who may try to help them. And Texas has some vague idea to make shooting go away. Riiiight.
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  16718. Yup. They'd all be screeching about allegedly violent liberals. But when the orange man-god-baby says the same things, it's magically OK with them. Sad!
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  16719. Also the way 45 left the people of Afghanistan and the government of Afghanistan completely out of his giveaway (oh, sorry, "negotiations") with the Taliban. Wonder how much money they funneled to him somehow to pay for his commitment to withdraw US forces. He didn't do anything unless there was some personal benefit to him.
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  16720. Wonder how much the Saudis paid for a copy of the document showing how the US DOD would hypothetically attack Iran .. and then how much the Saudis charged the Israelis & Russians for copies of the same.
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  16721. Leaving office is the sole good thing he's done for the nation.
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  16722. But you have to remember, the DNC would rather lose the election to Trump again than risk offending their "friends" in Big Pharma, Big Prison, Big Healthcare, and Wall Street.
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  16723. Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him, beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc. A lot of the more uppity ones have been arrested.
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  16724. Next up, they'll want to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency then the Equal Rights Amendment. Maybe they can read Nazi history to get a few ideas on how to make the trains run on time? /sarcasm
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  16725. In the same way that you can infer the strength and position of a black hole by its effects on the movement of celestial bodies, and in the same way you can infer the presence of Sauron by his effects on goblins and orcs, you can precisely infer what Trump is by his effect on all the people whose minds are bent towards authoritarianism, racism, spite, fear, hate, fascism, and all manner of ugliness. He was like sugar-coated cocaine to their tongues.
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  16726. I doubt they had a plan for that. Possibly someone in the military might have tried to express to Trump the violence that would follow such an obviously false interpretation of election results. Who knows, maybe the nation would be in a better place now if Trump and his followers had experienced the same sort of exit as Nicolae Ceausescu.
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  16727.  @jannhebrank  He'll be the only former US president to have both new criminal statutes and new mental diseases named after him 😅
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  16728. Trump's new platform should go by its Russian name: Pravda.
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  16729. This is what happens when right wing nutjobs screech all day long, totally without foundation, that Democrats eat babies. This is another Comet Pizza type nut event :(
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  16730. @Veronica Rainone Well, there ya go, starting off with the completely mistaken notion about Pelosi being a crook. This is why friends don't let friends consume whackjob right-wing nonsense as "news".
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  16731. I'm very sorry to report that here in Portland, Oregon USA I've seen examples of people totally ignoring the social distancing rules. On the way home from some solo excursion to the woods the other day (no people around, no risk of virus, right) I saw a few different crowds of teenagers pressed close together playing basketball and other games and milling in crowds. Unbelievable. Then again, there hasn't been any kind of pervasive, all-channels-media effort to blanket the airwaves with constant PSA's telling people to keep apart from each other :(
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  16732. Noem is so much like Trump that she too works to spread the disease.
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  16733. 45's sht stripes obviously haven't gone away, since he told a whopping amount of lies during the debate. And it was good of him to go onstage, of his own free will, and remind Americans that any administration of his would be a shtshow of lies, incompetence, rage tweeting, hate, violence, cruelty, and ineptitude.
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  16734. Let's all take a moment to reflect on the passing of that great hatriot Rush Limbaugh, who did more than anyone else to get (mostly) white male Americans in touch with their racist, classist, sexist, hateful inner feelings. As a bonus, he helped make whites in general (who are 60% of the population and who hold 85% of America's wealth and political power and 95% of America's CEO seats) falsely convinced that they are a small, poor, downtrodden, persecuted, much maligned minority. The great Dr Goebbels could have hardly done it better.
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  16735. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed .. and we will deserve it” -- Lindsey Graham, May 3 2016. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist - a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen." -- Ted Cruz May 3 2016. "Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States." -- Lindsey Graham Feb 17 2016.
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  16736. Isn't that one somewhere in Seattle?
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  16737. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  16738. The people trying to take down democracy in the US, they need to go spend a year or two living in places like Haiti, Somalia, Eritrea. They should experience firsthand exactly what they are trying to do to America - to wreck its government from within.
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  16739.  @phatmantv  Yeah. I can't figure out that one either. Playing nice with someone who'll turn a flamethrower on you is generally not a wise strategy.
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  16740. Regarding "U.S. was effectively trying to cause Joe Rogan harm when they prescribed him Ivermectin" << That was a most ham-handed attempt at propaganda. "The US" doesn't prescribe .. "the US" is not a pharmacist or a doctor. Here in the US you can just buy livestock medicine over the counter, or you can find an individual whackjob doctor who might write a script (and hopefully lose his/her license afterwards).
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  16741. Mike Johnson sounds like he just had a meeting with Dark Brandon in which he learned a whole lot of things not mentioned on Fox Noise.
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  16742. Isn't it some kind of violation when private US citizens fund the lawbreaking activities of a group in Canada? That group didn't protest - they obstructed traffic and closed international borders. What would ISIS have been charged with if they had done the same thing and were funded by private citizens in another country?
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  16743. This was known months ago, at least to people who follow the news. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8094933/How-one-man-spread-coronavirus-NINE-people-bus.html
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  16744. Trump could shoot someone in the Senate and he would still get acquitted 53-47 unless he shot a Republican, and then the votes would be 52-47. And FOX would still be preaching how innocent and victimized Trump is. Give me a break.
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  16745. Agreed, pretty good turn of phrase.
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  16746.  @DanielleGagnon-p8v  Bonjour :) It is an acronym for "f*ck around, find out".
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  16747.  @Turbo999be  OK Vlad ;)
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  16748. If killing off your children is the price of appeasing Dread Lord Clump .. it's a sacrifice that the governors of Florida, Texas, and Mississippi are happy to make.
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  16749. Trump's people went nuts, too, but they are just like him: their minds run on persecution fantasies, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, confusion, anger, spite.
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  16750. Funny how he never mentions John Eastman by name. He must be referring to that rat Stephen Miller.
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  16751. You must be part of Putin's troll army. They call those "collaborators", like Quisling's people in Norway, and the French people who helped the Nazis. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/
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  16752. Trump still doesn't understand that he's not the star of the Truman Show.
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  16753. If men could get pregnant .. abortion would be available on ever street corner. And they'd expect the taxpayer to cover it.
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  16754. Is this his way of apologizing to all the senior citizens who've died from a largely-preventable wave of mass death in the USA on his watch? Not falling for it.
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  16755. Like any cult leader, Trump is able to induce total fools to throw themselves into sharp sticks to serve his lies. Charles Manson too was pretty good at getting his hitherto-normal followers to do things that would put them in jail for life. Such is the hold of a cult leader over his lemmings.
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  16756. Everyone: Coronavirus is out there, we can't resume business-as-usual just yet. College: You delusional, Trump-hating fools, you're just trying to destroy the president's chances of re-election! Fake news!! Coronavirus; Fresh meat! ;) College: Whoops.
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  16757. No both-sides please, because it was only one of the two parties who rejected democracy in the face of their favorite guy losing the election.
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  16758. Think of it more as the Trump junta doing yet another test balloon of a meme. For example, another one like it might be this: the sudden [pure propaganda, of course] DOGE press release that the blue states haven't been paying their share of taxes, so they're being cut off from all federal outlays until they cough up the dough.
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  16759. Republicans are clearly in need of some harsh wake-up medicine, maybe like the kind that loyal Nazis got during the winter of 1945-1946, when it became clear that their fanatical loyalty to a lying, conniving, corrupt leader is what helped their Fuhrer visit such ruin upon Germany.
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  16760. All you have to do is look at how Trump handed Donbass or the Crimea. "Please, Vlad, may I have another"
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  16761. The easiest way to understand Trump is through the effects he has on his followers. They change, yes, but not in any way for the better. Some commit crimes. Some threaten their own children. Some attack FBI field offices. Some threaten election workers. Some commit vote fraud. But none of Trump's followers become better people through admiring him. All Trump does is bring out their worser selves :(
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  16762. Trump did in fact promise that he'd run America like one of his own businesses. This is the crash-and-burn phase. After that he scuttles away with some of the goodies and goes on to the next scam.
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  16763. It's worse than that - apparently the GOP already decided to end the rule of law in America just to soothe the butthurt of one spoiled old trust fund baby who can't face that he lost the 2020 election.
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  16764. One insurrectionist was a veteran. One was a WV politician who just took his oath of office, Derrick Evans, now being asked to resign. America deserves to know who else was in that crowd - current or former politicians, service members, police, politicians, any kind of public servant - they all need to lose their benefits and positions and clearances ASAP for what they just did. You don't get to take up arms against America and just walk away.
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  16765.  @bmoretinker  Not to worry, I didn't say that anyway.
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  16766. They should stop classifying these willful covid deaths as covid deaths. They're more like suicides. These people would have just done it another way eventually, like bringing a toaster into the bathtub with them, or getting hit by a train because they tried to avoid the swing gates. Here's a video of those two stupids yapping nonsense at the camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQ0_-tLo68&ab_channel=VaxxMann
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  16767.  @MonicaLopez-ze3dd  Lies so obvious, any 10yo with a net connection could debunk them in under a minute. Lotta folks never bothered to do any homework, of course :(
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  16768. History must not forget the Republican senators and congressfolk who (with the sole exception of Romney) remained spineless as Trump destroyed American traditions and vahules and left the nation unprepared for coronavirus.
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  16769. Delta is nasty and spreads very easily, so whoever you are, please get vaccinated if you can.
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  16770. Hell, Cheeto promised many times that he would be the ugliest American ever. He's now delivering on that promise. And anyone has the gall to act surprised?
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  16771. Like Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and others, it seems Mr Koch has exited the stage before the full results of his drill-baby-drill burn-it-all-down policies become widely realized. The Amazon is on fire, Siberia and Alaska are on fire, the polar ice packs are melting rapidly, global CO2 is rising rapidly -- and he worked so hard and so long to make it all happen :(
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  16772. Russians don't seem to understand the importance of running the numbers on these things. When their $5M tank (and its crew of 3) gets taken out by a pair of drones costing under $2K each (at no risk to the drone operators) that's a cost advantage of beyond 2000:1 in favor of Ukraine. So to answer your question, Putler is going to keep going this until there isn't a working tank left in Russia and not a person remaining (young, old, male, female, doesn't seem to matter to him) who will don a uniform and go join the mass die-off at the front. Russia is headed for population collapse in 30-50 years.
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  16773. It's hard to answer a question when your getting paid depends on not answering the question.
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  16774. Trump's followers may get uppity as he gets more unhinged and issues more threats and more calls for violence. We're expecting that. Lotta folks are standing back and standing by. The trumpies had best stay under their rocks.
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  16775.  @wayneperry7413  Don't know if you saw this in the news, but a few election cycles ago, in at least one southern state (Georgia, I think) they made it illegal to give people rides to the voting places, or give them water on a hot day, or give them food. "Vote influencing", they called it. Another conservative attempt to lower the participation rate.
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  16776. Perhaps 45 is thinking about keeping a rotation for the office of VP. He could keep appointing "acting VP" folks to get around needing senate confirmation.
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  16777. That's like saying that when Alex Jones said Sandy Hook was a staged incident with paid actors, it was merely "rhetorical hyperbole" on his part and not actual lies. At least that's what he tried to claim in court. It didn't work :)
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  16778. Biden already released his tax info. What does Trump have to hide, aside from his mountain of debt, financial obligations to foreign oligarchs who don't like the USA, and his thousandaire status?
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  16779. Funny how the Trump culties get their undies all twisted when hearing that, by their logic, VP Harris can choose the winner of the 2024 election, yet they still think it would have been OK for VP Pence to do the same after the 2020 election.
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  16780. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Can't see any better way to improve the breed. Hopefully the little ones are paying attention.
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  16781. This was a problem 4 years ago. Where have the Republicans been all this time?
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  16782. And therein lies part of the answer why the orange cult leader is still with us .. people walk away from their party instead of fixing their party. It's like walking away from a house fire in the living room by going into the bedroom. The danger is still very much there.
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  16783.  @antrimlariot2386  Notice how he implied that he profited from connections to Daddy? The exact same accusation that conservatives are levying against Hunter Biden, except that allegedly took place when Biden didn't have a position in government.
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  16784. They did a few other things. In all of prior US history, 84 presidential nominees had been blocked by the Senate. Moscow Mitch blocked 82 of them just within 8 years.
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  16785. Begin the block parties!!
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  16786. The only running El Trumpo will be doing in 2024 is away from his cellmate.
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  16787. Remember Romney before his soul got sold? “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy." -- Mitt Romney, January 6 2021
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  16788.  @beedee9534  You can't say Manchin isn't working hard for a Trump endorsement! :(
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  16789. Trump reached out to America, and the ones who responded to him were the ones most like him, beset with anger, spite, persecution fantasies, delusions of grandeur, confusion, entitlement, narcissism, etc. Fox/OAN help keep them on 'simmer'.
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  16790.  @cindyfavorite195  For some people, sure, church is basically just a social club for like-minded racists :(
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  16791. Tulsi Gabbard's position was a joke. Just because FOXed Noise type propaganda has made Republicans mad and incapable of feeling guilt (even over obvious crimes) does not mean that the president cannot or should not be impeached for crimes he's obviously committed. Those precious little snowflakes will have to be brought back to reality sometime and they'll probably be kicking and screaming all the way. Won't be pretty.
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  16792.  @Ps5GamerUk Nobody's talking about the election now, are they?
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  16793. Lots of broken brains out there. Some examples of the thinking: They say Democrats are too elitist, so they vote for the guy who packs his cabinet with billionaires who cheat on their taxes. They say Democrats are being too cooperative with Israel, so they vote for the guy who will be just fine with their Final Solution. They say Democrats aren't religious enough, so they vote for the guy who keeps marrying immigrants and who cheats on them with porn stars then pays money to cover it up.
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  16794. The sole good thing Trump has done with his time in office is to highlight his own personal moral bankruptcy and that of the Republicans who support him no matter what harmful / dumb / illegal thing he does. Republicans will be out of power for a generation or more after the next two elections, that's how badly they've screwed the pooch.
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  16795.  @williamspell2192  Good news, NC is sort of in the middle of the pack. The case rate is doubling only every 1.805 weeks at current rates. I'm checking in from Oregon. Most people here seem to be behaving. Maybe 80-90%+ mask use in supermarkets, people keeping lots of distance. Toilet paper can be hard to find sometimes.
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  16796. @Major Tom Don't try explaining math to Putin's little sputniks here. $800 million from America works out to $2.42 per American citizen @ 330 million current US population.
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  16797. Ukraine can keep an eye out for some special batch HIMARS missiles. Something extra extra hot for the orcs. With much love from America.
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  16798. Ironically, all the gun-waving "2A is the solution to government overreach" types who spent 8 years screeching about "dictator Obama", wearing camo, stocking up on ammo, etc won't have a single bad thing to say when someone from the same ethnographic segment as them genuinely seizes power and disregards the rule of law. By threatening violence if an obvious traitor is removed from power, that segment is proving worse than useless just now. If they try anything, make sure they have their day - in court.
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  16799.  @WitlessSod  OK then, tell me what is a worse outcome than your entire household dying of the virus? All because Drunk Debbie just could not live without socializing at the bar one more time?
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  16800. There has been some polling on this. One third of Canadians (roughly) support it. Support is higher in BC and lower in Quebec. It would be interesting to see the numbers if they poll it again later in the spring.
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  16801. They have no shame. Their only response to democracy rejecting their angry orange cult leader (patron saint of spite) is to do away with democracy.
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  16802. You can only imagine what his private entreaties to Putin, Orban, Edrogan, Balsonaro, Kim Jong Un, etc have been like in regard to how he can overturn the election results and seize power.
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  16803. Funny how Trumpanzees can both insist that Trump get credit for the vaccine, while also insisting that it's evil, that it spies on them, and that they won't take it.
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  16804. Pretty sure the deep-MAGA types have already moved beyond the notion of letting their takeover of America be subject to voting results ever again.
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  16805. Police: We respect your right to protest peacefully. also police: You're just going to have to be OK with random officers murdering you every now and then.
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  16806. Good news: at the rate Trump and Trumpism are going, there may be no path for them to win the election legally. Bad news: they already don't care about the law. So stand back and stand by, we're not out of this yet.
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  16807. All you need to know about Boebert is that her own constituents have asked her not to be seated in the House, and they want to recall her. https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2021/01/15/rep-lauren-boebert-should-investigated-colorado-officials-say/4175409001/
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  16808.  @Oneness100  I'd gladly trade Trump's self-branded traitors for immigrants/refugees. One of those kinds is known to work hard, form new businesses, keep their noses clean, while the other kind is known best for wanting to burn down their own nation.
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  16809.  @dontbestupid6664  Palestinians weren't even consulted, and it shows, as they're supposed to be "gifted" some arid desert land and give up all of their nicer areas. Oh and live on reservations like native Americans (that worked out so well for them, right). This whole "peace plan" is as if he went to South Africa, talked only with racist white people, and came up with a "plan" to share the country's wealth and property. Give me a break.
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  16810. Back during the cold war, we in the USA had a derisive term for lamebrained hacks who stuck to the party line regardless of the facts: apparatchik. Time to bring back that word, because that's what Trump's flying monkeys are. All they do is lie and dissemble. Trump doesn't want "his" virus numbers to look bad, so tests are deliberately harder to get here than in other countries, where they offer drive-through testing for free.
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  16811. I'm fully expecting Moscow Mitch to make sure that not only is Trump acquitted of all charges, but that the whistleblower is sentenced in absentia to multiple lifetimes for treason, that charges are pressed against the Bidens, and that the 2020 election results should be discarded because they only prove bias against Republicans.
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