Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" channel.

  1. The right to a speedy trial isn't just for the defendant, it's for the people. Justice delayed is justice denied.
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  2. Garland dragged his feet because he was worried about looking too political, proving once abd for all that sometimes trying to appear not to be political is the most consequential political decision of all.
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  3. @Adam Jacobs Her House passed a $15/hour minimum wage in 2019 and 2021, and her first tenure as Speaker was the last time the minimum wage increased.
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  4. McCain wasn't the only one, but he was the deciding vote. He often voted for repeal, but when push came to shove, he realized it was wrong to take away health insurance from 24MM people.
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  5.  @nonyabizness.original  Words have meaning. It wasn't a raid, it was a search. Same number of syllables.
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  6.  @adk46er5203  You mean the withdrawal negotiation that started with Trump where he gave the moon to the Taliban? And which President was it who said that the United States shouldn't be bound by Article Five of NATO? Which President tried to reinstate Russia into the G-7 and make it the G-8 again?
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  7. Especially when that person wants to be a dictator and said so.
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  8. Anyone with a small child knows that the child knows that a threat to do something means absolutely nothing if it's obvious that the person making the threat will never do it.
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  9.  @shawnsimmons4718  You mean when the last Bush budget had a $1.4T deficit and Obama's last budget had a deficit of $665B? Yeah, that deficit went up so much that it was cut in half.
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  10. I wish I had the cash to short that nonsense company.
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  11.  @firebolt352  Nice try, but the exceptions to birthright citizenship are as follows: 1) those governed by Native tribes (due to tribal soverignty), 2) children of diplomats, 3) children of a foreign military. Sorry, no discussion of immigration status, which would be interesting considering that the amendment was ratified in 1868, when there was no such thing as illegal immigrants.
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  12. Even if you haven't read the whole thing, it's one of these stories that is so foundational that you should at last have the gist of it. Even Mama's Family did an episode based on Thelma reading it for night school.
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  13.  @naturelovingguypeoplenotso3039  Well, he has some competition for most corrupt cult leader. If he asks for a mass suicide after he is out of office, then he wins that title.
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  14. It might be Sarah doing a video of him getting dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House.
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  15. Indeed. While there are some anti-Semites who hide behind those who are legitimately critical of the Likud government, there are legitimate criticisms to be made and they should be made.
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  16.  @maureenlaneski2802  They have a right, and I'm not saying they don't, but when you make frivolous motions just for the purposes of delay in hopes that you can use your personal political power to end the trials and have no accountability, you are making a mockery of the system.
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  17.  @jaslinc3371  A lot of it seems to stem from the fact that today's right wing is much more anti-left than anything. Having no positive vision, they went along with this con artist, and now, rather than admit that they were played, they are following him into the abyss.
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  18.  @timothydavis9181  Was it Jimmy Savile?
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  19.  @Lazzil  And he briefly lived on a kibbutz in Israel.
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  20.  @LeeCzere  A term used by stupid people who accuse everyone else of mindlessly repeating talking points... while mindlessly repeating talking points.
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  21. I heard that in Lumbergh's voice.
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  22.  @spiraljumper74  Well, there are degrees. If someone wants to support democracy but has other bad views, when we are dealing with fascists who want to destroy democracy, they are on our side on the thing that counts. I eagerly await the day when the awful of people like Mittens and Liz Cheney represent the worst of the GOP.
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  23.  @mattnaslund8615  They have buttons and stickers with the Bernie silhouette that says "Hindsight 2020."
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  24.  @RobinDale50  [citation needed]
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  25. Stay safe. Love from Pennsylvania in the USA.
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  26.  @bwenluck9812  And that was to complain about the ACA. These people really don't understand what they say.
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  27. "Remember the Nineties?" The dream of the Nineties is alive in Portland.
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  28. "I do want always corruption" is the first time he told the truth sense "I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes."
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  29. @Zach Hogan They run for office saying "government doesn't work" and then spend their terms in office trying to prove the point. Well, they're half right: Republican government doesn't work.
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  30. @Josh White Investigation, laying down the gauntlet on policy by getting Republicans on the record against things that the majority of the American people want, no biggie.
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  31.  @BS_HORSEPOO-L  No, we knew he tested positive three days earlier. Note that there was a press conference with Pence the day before the first debate where he suddenly got a second podium and stood six feet away instead of up his butt.
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  32.  @HaliPuppeh  It also doesn't include the story of the rich young ruler, or that part in Ezekiel 15 where God tells the weirdest prophet that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of how they treated the orphans and widows, or how farmers had to keep the corners of the fields unplowed so the poor could glean from the crops. Their Bible has so many holes that it looks like someone hollowed it out to hide their guns.
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  33. The last time I was this early, Seth was making fun of the big orange dummy at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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  34. ​ @ArtGirl82  Well, those memoirs involved telling lies about his family and the people he grew up with, so no surprise.
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  35. ​ @keithwoodcrest  I don't care. I care about equal treatment under the law.
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  36.  @thomasmaughan4798  So, you prefer 48% getting to boss the other 52% around? Permanent minority rule is called apartheid.
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  37. So true. I worked as hard as I could to help him get elected, but looking now, maybe it was for the best that Bernie could write the bills because I think some people would have sadly refused to go along just to spite him and then say, "See? This doesn't work."
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  38. Well, after he took office. The other honest thing he said was "I could shoot somebody right in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes."
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  39. 3:21 I get the joke, but if you sweat too much, you can deplete your salt. Do it too much and only drink water, and it can be fatal. It happened to me once after a six mile run when I skipped lunch on a hot day, and I literally vomited water afterwards, and my limbs were seizing. It's called hyponatremia.
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  40.  @MH-go9wn  So little self awareness in that quote.
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  41. ​ @erazer5685  By comparison
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  42.  @dannychambers8076  Doesn't absolve the Republicans for their dishonest tactic.
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  43.  @rebeccalynch577  Which party is defending Confederate statues? Which party is fighting voting rights? Which party swooped in to aim for the segregation crowd after the Civil Rights Act? Which party nominated opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act five times?
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  44. ​ @nonyabizness.original  He did.
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  45. *Offer only applies to Republicans. Anyone else can expect to get raked over the coals for no reason.
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  46.  @Cindy.m.R  It is legal for second cousins to marry in all 50 states. Some states prohibit marrying your first cousin, but others do not.
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  47.  @MrLarry  I think you're right. If memory serves me right, on the promos, she says "I'm a writer for Late Night."
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  48.  @duke605  We didn't vote him in. The Electoral College did.
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  49.  @HerrDerpington  As a straight, white man, I would rather not have to deal with any of those things, so I would hardly say it's a "privilege to claim" them. There are definitely people who use a shield to try to ignore the real criticism, but those things are real.
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  50.  @vincentjoubert5514  My response after the election was, "People wanted change in the worst possible way, and that's what we're going to get."
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  51. ​ @toddc1193  Then, why does he keep trying to delay his trial with frivolous motions? If he's so innocent, he should welcome being exonerated.
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  52. What exactly is the middle ground between someone who wants to destroy democracy than someone who wants to keep it?
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  53. Louie Gohmert: Proof that anyone can get elected to Congress, but not everyone should, since 2005
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  54.  @dannychambers8076  First, all caps are shouting. Second, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013 and several states have taken advantage of this to make it harder for certain people to vote while pretending to be neutral.
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  55.  @timothytietz9194  I don't know if Roger Stone has a picture of Nixon on his wall, but he is a giant tattoo of Nixon on his back.
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  56. ​ @00SmileTime00  How many died from the pandemic response he botched?
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  57. The former won't work (if a unified Democratic government expanded it to 13, Republicans would turn right around and expand it to 19), but something I think might help with the latter is to restructure the court so that the actual judges who sit on the Court rotate. Maybe put all of the federal appellate judges in the pool or something, which could be done by legislation rather than Constitutional Amendment.
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  58. ​ @cybbles  It happens in multi-party systems, too.
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  59. They've been incoherent for a long time. Even the Tea Party, for all of their talk about deficits, still wanted to keep their tax cuts and bloated Defense budgets.
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  60. ​ @Corn_Pone_Flicks  "Take time" is one thing, waiting two years to start an investigation is a completely different story.
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  61.  @Vennytube  A lot of them are part of groups and emboldened by having someone in the White House going along with their worldview, even if they think he is incompetent. After all, he can open the door for a competent white nationalist.
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  62.  @paulb47NYC  All a republic means is that there is no monarch. "Republic not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  63.  @AnisAznanKamil  These are the kind of people who would rather suffer than see things get any better for people who they deem unworthy. They aren't right wing as much as anti-left.
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  64.  @dannychambers8076  Well, all caps man, it points to the whataboutism that you are trying to pull while ignoring the party that is actively opposing civil rights today.
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  65. Indeed. Sadly, no one has ever lost money overestimating the ability of Democratic leaders to freak out over any little thing.
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  66.  @chonqmonk  Indeed. When I see Roger Stone, I think either Dick Tracy villain or Batman villain.
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  67. @Haywire D Correction. He has been convicted and sentenced to 7 1/2 years, but Manhattan is now taking their turn. He will never get out of jail as long as he shall live.
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  68. @trollnerd No Iraq War, no Roberts and Alito in exchange for Obama? I would gladly take that trade.
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  69.  @CaBobProductions  It wasn't a hard right crowd, but it wasn't a Bernie crowd, either. Given the survey and the call and response at the end, I think that he won some people over. Don't forget the All In Trump Country town halls with Chris Hayes in McDowell County, WV, and Kenosha, WI. He was on stage with Trump supporters, and he won them over.
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  70.  @countryinnmotel9824  That is so unfair! Ben Carson is actually a competent surgeon.
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  71.  @wbh110  And Elon Musk was never an engineer, let alone a competent one.
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  72.  @stefanhoimes  "Look at that fly. I see it there. I want them to see, too. They'll see. Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly." Seriously, how were there not more Psycho memes from that?
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  73. The Tucker Carlson impression we didn't know we needed, but we were wrong.
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  74.  @themechanic8643  You are aware that Seth is also a writer, aren't you?
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  75. ​ @drfranks1158  Every metric in actual votes suggests a good year for the Big D. We just have to vote and talk to our friends to get them to vote Biden, too.
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  76.  @RubelliteFae  I'm sure they'll probably come up with their own name soon. They tried to call my Generation (Generation X) the "baby bust" until we got that name, and the generation now known as Millennials were known as the echo boom and Generation Y before settling on Millennial. It takes time to figure out the name.
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  77.  @elanahammer1076  Second cousin is legal in all 50 states. Not sure if New York allows first cousin marriage or not.
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  78.  elijah mikle  Well, I did see a story where he tried to talk her into releasing a sex tape. No one can tell me that he didn't do something to her. Marla Maples will always be the best mother of the three because she had the good sense to keep Tiffany far away from him.
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  79.  @mikedown1250  They love their version of God, which has morphed into nothing like what I see when I read the red letters.
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  80.  @keepthatlilsmug  Only we find out more and more about Trump's actual crimes (and new ones he adds to the list), every day.
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  81.  @JustChuck1982  Agreed. I personally compare him to a less likable version of The Todd from Scrubs who is only good at being a surgeon and a total idiot on everything else.
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  82.  @mzunnurain  Except for those who held office and engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Three states tried to do the right thing, but the Supreme Court failed to realize that sometimes "not wanting to be political" is the most political act of all.
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  83.  @LevelofClarity  Well, he's not really a billionaire, but everything else is spot on.
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  84.  @stephenrowley4171  True, but this is the first time he has had to deal with the consequences of that failure. When he was starting to build his own name in real estate and become famous outside of New York, Fred had to cosign on every contract, to the point where once a bank realized that he didn't sign it and they stopped the limo then and there to go back up to get his signature. If New Jersey had followed through with rules about casino ownership, he would have been forced to give up the Taj Mahal in 1990, and he had guaranteed so much of the money at his first bankruptcy that had he actually faced consequences, he would have gone broke and been a super tough trivia question instead of the President.
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  85. "Everybody's laughing at us!" Moscow Donald, 2016 campaign. Who knew he could see the future?
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  86. So much for "original intent" or "no one is above the law."
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  87.  @kenclark9369  Well, what distinguishes Trump's behavior from a dictator? Since you are so smart, why not enlighten us all?
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  88.  @Woozlewuzzleable  I thought that at the time, but in all honesty, I think that Congress would have refused to go along with the stuff that we needed to do in the name of "fighting socialism." Sometimes, the people who lose have a bigger impact than the winners. Henry Clay accomplished more than James Polk (although, to be fair, Polk did finish his to-do list), William Jennings Bryan did more than William McKinley, and look at how much Edward Kennedy accomplished.
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  89.  @CJXalax  That's because he messed things up for them.
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  90. That's the dream.
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  91.  @humangeneric-777  No one's talking about not doing the job. They're talking with outrage that people don't want to be bothered off the clock. 9-5 is the employer's time. The rest is my time.
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  92.  @emilyb.8219  And they both say it was a false flag and complain about them being political prisoners or promise a pardon.
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  93.  @davidfuentes9957  But wouldn't that fall under "the worst"?
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  94.  @LeopardGeckoFry  Second is much closer than sixth.
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  95.  @stephenbrady4352  Saying everyone does it just makes it easier for theist corrupt to get away with it.
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  96.  @hitreset0291  Except if she gets arrested ;-)
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  97. Bring back the Sea Captain!
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  98. @Josh White How is some new AG going to hold the House Judiciary Committee "accountable"? I thought you right wingers were all for the Constitution. It's the other way around. Jerrold Nadler can force the AG to testify in a public hearing. As far as when the right will abandon Moscow Donald, I honestly don't know, but I do know that Republicans supported Nixon until very close to the end. When they see that Moscow Donald is truly toxic and hurting them, and that they are not tied to him forever (after all, every Republican Presidential nominee through 1996 supported Nixon during most of Watergate), they will turn on him. I'm not saying that he'll be forced out (if it was going to happen, timing would have suggested this past August), but the cult will get broken if they see it's their job on the line.
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  99. In all honesty, as a rock fan, I haven't understood the rap obsession with flaunting wealth. We mock songs like "Rock Star." I remember when Chris Rock did a couple of comedy records, and he was being interviewed on MTV, and looking at videos. I still remember his line when they got to Puffy: "People listening and saying, 'You're so right! More money, more problems. Wait a minute! I'm broke."
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  100.  @JustChuck1982  You said "all of our elections are decided by Detroit." Don't get mad when people accurately quote you.
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  101.  @Ryanlexz  "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it is what you say it is, I love it! Especially later in the fall." "I think we're going to find out some very interesting things about the e-mails soon." Doesn't mean that Trump didn't win in 2016 (even though more people chose his opponent), but it does mean that manipulation took place, and Dear Leader even said in 2020 that he would take foreign intelligence to help him win the election... after getting impeached for trying to do that.
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  102. He's probably the best at working with a bad joke since Johnny Carson, who they say was so good at it that he'd insist on throwing a few into his monologue.
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  103.  @Woozlewuzzleable  It was, but sometimes you can use the position you have for good instead of chasing titles.
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  104.  @LD86  He walks? That lump even drives his cart onto the green, he is so lazy.
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  105. ​ @joachimschoder  Indeed. He checks at least 13 of those 14 boxes, if not all 14.
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  106.  @skiman863  Oh, so not only are you horribly misinformed, but you are also horribly dishonest. Well, I guess I know to avoid you.
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  107.  @intersanctum  Why is she better? Her previous support of torture? Her opposition to the Iran nuclear deal? Voting with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Her praise of Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt? Her sucking up to Biden, by defending him on busing and Iraq? Oh, yeah, she is great all right!
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  108.  @Dan-Simms  His term ends at noon on January 20th. Trespassing in the White House is a crime.
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  109.  @SSJR-SSJ  He's always been stupid, but at least he could form coherent sentences in the 1980s.
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  110.  @brunoantony9257  "I need you to find 11,780, uh, votes, which is one more than we need." Donald Trump to Georgia Secretary of State
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  111.  @bpc610  A lot of the time when I try to do Jimmy Carter, it comes out sounding more like Jesse Jackson, so I know his pain.
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  112.  @midnightrun2796  i.e., the worst
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  113. @Carl Quant If we do nothing and tens of millions of people die, who is going to have the money for Third World tourism? Well, if you're talking about sex tourism, that is usually rich people, anyway, so is that really what you are calling for?
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  114.  @WolfeSaber  What is so great about shaking a dictator's hands, anyway?
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  115. If that is his real name.
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  116. For corrections, they move their hands like they're playing an invisible concertina. An accordion has keys.
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  117.  @joehatch1602  And explain how corporate profits, which are at record highs, including oil companies, have nothing to do with it, especially since so many CEOs have been caught on tape bragging about jacking up prices and saying they'll never give them back.
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  118.  @joehatch1602  You said that Democratic policies did it, and yet you've put up so many words and never once listed a single policy. Yeah, I'm going to have to say [citation needed] for Biden bragging about prices going up. How many Republicans voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, which capped prescription drug prices for seniors at $2000/year and insulin at $35?
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  119.  @Keepitreal-r1q  You mean the sanctions that he didn't want and has tried to undercut that only passed because there was a veto-proof majority? What a profile in courage!
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  120.  @BioGoji-zm5ph  Well, they had a filibuster, but it was possible to actually defeat a filibuster by making them do the work to keep talking. The longest single speech filibuster in history was Strom Thurmond speaking for 24 1/2 hours against the Civil Rights Act of 1957... which ultimately passed when LBJ was able to call a vote.
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  121.  @williamsutter8047  If your right to throw a punch ends it my nose, so does your right to spread a fatal disease because you are too stupid to understand the science. Do you think polio vaccine mandates should be abolished?
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  122.  @RubelliteFae  My impression is that there seems to be a placeholder name that is a sequel of sorts until something more defining comes along. Oddly enough, the Greatest Generation didn't get its moniker until the Tom Brokaw book, when the youngest were 70. Before then, they were the GI Generation.
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  123.  @merleenberry2976  I was talking in terms of corrupt or not corrupt. I didn't say good or bad.
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  124. @Chad Maybe He literally hasn't run a positive ad for decades. He only stays in office because he gets people to hate his opponents more than him.
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  125.  @Emiliapocalypse  He hates the same people they hate, so they don't really care. That, or there is a lot of self loathing going on.
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  126.  @FreedomFighter-cr5xg  Be fair! Mussolini actually fought in WWI.
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  127.  @jeffbrossard163  Biden may be many things, but he respects democracy and is not a fascist. That alone is an improvement.
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  128.    Or, here's a thought: maybe employers should stop expecting people to work off the clock for free.
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  129.  @Aur-ki1qu  You seriously think that worms are the same thing as a virus?
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  130.  @skiman863  Who do you think is making money from this Ivermectin push?
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  131.  @Aur-ki1qu  Wrong. It was fully authorized. What a shock. An anti-vaccine person being dishonest or not understanding the world while thinking you know it better than everyone around you.
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  132.  @lukethedrifter9878  Well, Hillary was one of the members of the Watergate counsel before she married Bill, and she was chosen by her student body at Wellesley to give the address at commencement, so she still would have gone up the ranks. Maybe she wouldn't have been a senator or a Cabinet Secretary, but she wouldn't have been a nobody.
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  133.  @Skinnyd4  Back in the day, he had a pretty good Kerry, too.
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  134.  @samuelvimes5770  How silly of me! Looking at what someone has actually done rather than selectively listening to the soothing voice and rhetoric ;-) How could I forget that? Or her being the biggest advocate for Modi, even after what he did as a provincial governor.
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  135.  @palmbeachcitizen  The only person who got more money than Beto? Ted Cruz. The only otter Democrat in the top 20? Heidi Heitkamp.
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  136.  @vonFisch  I have never understood the idea that these people who look like that because of the scalpel are remotely attractive. It never looks right. Melania is just a few years from going full cat face.
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  137.  @shanwyn  Not sure where my comment went, but I'll try again: At least in the United States, where are these moderate conservatives? When they are needed to help the extremists, they always go along. For example, Murkowski opposed Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court and Collins opposed Barrett, but both needed to oppose each in order to keep them off the bench. It is a tactic known as "catch and release." On the other hand, I can think of plenty of times where what Democrats wanted to do was thwarted or watered down by Manchin, Sinema, or both. Maybe the problem is that, quite frankly, a lot of Democrats would be the CDU if they were in places like Germany where that was an option, and there just really isn't anywhere to go. Barack Obama had a record to the right of Nixon, and it wasn't even close. The moderates spent over 30 years constantly moving halfway to the right to the point where a lot of what they propose would make Reagan blush. As far as "working together" goes, it depends on what they're working towards.
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  138.  @spookrockcity  You mean poison like... bleach? That's your side.
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  139. ​ @Eclectic-Harlowe  Several states ban convicted felons, but the federal government does not.
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  140.  @alanai1981  First of all, you don't need to shout to get your point across. Second, there is nothing in the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment that requires conviction either in criminal court or an impeachment trial. It only mentions participation. Now, if he had been convicted in the Senate, they could have voted to disqualify him then and there, but them failing in their duties doesn't preclude any other bodies from doing theirs.
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  141.  @jamesdillon5862  The stock market isn't going up because people are investing. It is going up largely because of stock buybacks... which could have gone to building products and hiring people, so in this case, it actually did hurt working people.
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  142.  @jamesdillon5862  What did Trump do with that month and a half? And if governors had taken his "liberate" advice, there would have been far more cases.
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  143.  @jamesdillon5862  Oh, and the "travel ban" didn't ban travel from China. It only banned Chinese nationals, because apparently germs know nationality when they spread.
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  144.  Golda Dazo  Trump didn't "close all flights to Chiiiii-na," he only banned Chinese nationals. American and European nationals were just fine coming into the United States. Gee, I wonder why.
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  145.  @mojoejojo6675  Manufacturing jobs magically return? You mean like giving Carrier millions of dollars to "save 1100 jobs in Indiana," when it turned out to be 700, and Carrier used that money to speed up the outsourcing of jobs at that plant?
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  146. ​ @edgarcayce2.02  Actually, an accordion has keys. Der Orangefuhrer plays an air concertina. It even looks like his hands are holding it like they're in the straps.
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  147.  @ozkey1558  I know! I kept waiting to see him.
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  148.  @WolfeSaber  What happened since? Where has been the evidence that it did anything other than give Kim a publicity photo or ease the pressure? That was years ago, so where was the follow up?
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  149.  @joehatch1602  What specific policies are causing inflation? Not just that it's a party you don't like, but what specific policies are causing it?
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  150.  @joehatch1602  What "green deal"?
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  151.  @joehatch1602  1) Keystone Pipeline wasn't even dealing with American oil. 2) Oil companies are sitting on literally thousands of permits. What he stopped was giving them new ones because holding drilling permits and not using them leads to an artificial shortage in gasoline. 3) How many coal-fired power plants have actually been shut down in the last 22 months, and weren't just a matter of old plants exhausting supply?
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  152. So, now that you know... leave him alone!
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  153.  @SecularFelinist  Only because Ford pardoned him. Then again, what are the odds that Nixon would have resigned if he didn't get assurances that he would get a pardon.
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  154.  @warmlycalculated390  True, he would have been convicted, but there is also a question of whether or not he would have voluntarily left had he known he would face criminal prosecution once he left office.
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  155.  @jakeladders7461  To fat what?
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  156. It was a lot funnier when Bob Dole did it.
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  157.  @joesmith9616  Apparently, you think that he never contributes anything to the scripts.
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  158.  @chrishansen2409  *Over 50
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  159.  @RobinDale50  Oh, so you have nothing. I figured.
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  160. Charley Pride and Darius Rucker (aka Hootie) hit the country charts.
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  161. ​ @jeromefitzroy  Or at least they don't joke about being dictators. Obama's joke at one of the Correspondents Dinners where he said "whether you're black, white, or whatever color John Boehner is" was pretty good.
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  162. If my company wants me to be available when I'm off the clock, they can pay me for every time they bother me off the clock. Otherwise, when 5 rolls around, if you have something to tell me, it can wait until 9.
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  163.  @Aur-ki1qu  I guess you also missed the part where Pfizer was fully approved this week, and the others are going to have their announcement soon.
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  164.  @PJBubbles  There is no point. It didn't matter if he lost Tennessee by 20 points if he won Florida or New Hampshire.
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  165. "This is the only timeline where Trump made a billion dollars and was elected President." Well, one of those things really happened.
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  166.  @MetalDetroit  So, police, fire fighters, libraries, roads, bridges, sewage, and the military are all failures?
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  167.  @paddleduck5328  I have zero problem with her endorsing after the primary. You know who else did? Bernie. Because they understood that Hillary on her worst day is better than Trump on his best day. Ultimately, one of those two would be President, and she was the less bad choice.
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  168.  @geminigirltwo  It's impossible to have completely nonpartisan judges. They like to pretend that they're apolitical, but there's no way to make it so. After all, who is putting the lower judges there?
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  169.  @shanwyn  My point was that there are some places where compromise is just impossible. If one side is literally running someone who says he wants to be a dictator, what is the middle ground with that? What is the middle ground when one side refuses to admit defeat when they lose? If there is something where common ground can be found, great, but if someone isn't a good faith actor, should everyone wait for the bad faith actor, or do what is possible without that person?
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  170. ​ @bpc610  In fairness, that is a hard voice to pull off.
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  171.  @Blunderful19  Both sides implies that it's both side's faults equally. The bill that the House just passed last week is the exact same one that the Senate passed unanimously last month. Coulter, Limbaugh, and Hannity complained, he said he'd veto it, so Paul Ryan wouldn't bring it up for a vote. If one person stopped the bill, it's not equally the fault of both sides. It's not even the fault of one party (except for in its spinelessness for refusing to bring up the bill they already passed) as it is the fault of one man.
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  172. The idiotic naysayers keep saying that Biden can only talk with a Teleprompter, but Trump can't even talk at all with one.
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  173. Eleven years ago, I was sitting around during downtime at work, and my boss was going on and on about birthright citizenship. I asked him what the standard should be, and he didn't know, so I asked if someone should take the citizenship test. He said that seems fair, so I told him that an old poli sci textbook at my parents' house had a copy of a citizenship test. She sent a copy to me, and I got it a week later. The result? "Get out of my country!" Others in the room took it as well. "Welcome to America."
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  174.  @crazymulgogi  Dishonest people who want to discredit the movement because they don't want their taxes to go up do.
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  175. @Carl Quant Okay, here is some simple math from Johns Hopkins, which has been collecting data: Global deaths: 260,938 Global cases: 3,724,688 Getting out my handy-dandy calculator, and the death rate globally is 7%. I see that happy talk about coronavirus doesn't end at our shores.
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  176.  @WolfeSaber  And what did that actually accomplish?
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  177.  @ryanl4620  He probably didn't invite Shapiro because he's not well known outside of political or YouTube circles. The equivalent in terms of fame would probably be Ana Navarro.
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  178.  @joehatch1602  Actually, it's not specific enough because literally none of those things either affected prices or did what you say they did.
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  179.  @joehatch1602  Show me any industrialized country that hasn't had high inflation. And the United States has lower inflation than the EU average.
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  180.  @meofomi  English translation: "I don't care about democracy; just winning. And if I don't [stomps foot] THIS ISN'T FAIR."
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  181.  @ToniHunterOne  Well, he can do all of that stuff if he outlives his prison sentence ;-)
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  182.  @annkristoff4303  Attitudes line yours make it easier for the corrupt to get away with corruption. After all, if everyone does it, why punish anything?
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  183.  @joelethington4056  That question was yesterday?
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  184.  Axl Dave  Only if you don't understand how mail works, and how "postmarked by" and "received by" are two different things.
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  185.  @thomasmaughan4798  So, you're mad because you think that black people have too much influence. Gee, I wonder what that sounds like. Then again, considering that you are defending a group that has only won one national election in the last eight but still got to control the White House for 12 of those years, I can't say that I'm surprised.
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  186. Oh, my! I got in five minutes late, and it was already 3.1K.
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  187.  @Herehear49  I have heard some say that we should start calling it taking a trump. That way, the Trump name forever will be treated as he left it. We can do it!
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  188.  @humangeneric-777  Apparently, you missed how it has becoming a rising trend, especially with people who work from home in white-collar jobs, to have the employer send e-mails at all hours and expect a prompt response. This is a pushback against that.
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  189.  @frankiebowie6174  And a poor person's idea of a rich person, and a weakling's version of a strongman.
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  190.  @wut3358  They lost billions after they already had several. Not even Forbes had him as a billionaire in 1985, and they have since said that they overestimated what he had.
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  191.  @wut3358  True, but I can't think of any billionaires who lost a billion before making it. That was my point.
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  192.  @curbmassa  I have been saying for years that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  193. Apparently, they think that because they are shameless suck ups who are their to rubber stamp Presidents of their own party that Democrats do the same thing.
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  194.  @bcpr9812  Well, he does call his wife Mother.
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  195.  @littlechange540  What did he do for the two months that he bought in order to ramp up testing? Why is he trying to get states to open up despite cases skyrocketing in localities that opened too soon? Why tear up the pandemic response plan and disband the group whose job it is to get everything in place? I don't blame him for the virus, and few do, but I do blame him for his inept response to it and declaring a premature victory.
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  196.  @mephik  That was under Reagan in the 80s. Carter just did the Olympic boycott.
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  197.  @CaBobProductions  Fair enough. I guess I was trying to counter the spin that it was loaded with Bernie supporters. To their credit, Fox seemed to get a fairly representative audience.
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  198.  @coktoe4487  She also had one on Colbert a while ago where they were telling ridiculous stories about hero dogs to convince people to adopt them. She definitely let the deadpan mask slip then, too.
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  199.  @vonFisch  I mean, there are plenty of examples of aging gracefully and still looking better than cat face. I mean, look at Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island). She is 80, and she looks 50. She still has wrinkles and lips that have clearly lost some collagen, but tell me she hasn't aged well.
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  200.  @debrahelmlinger6256  Look at any multi-party system. Pretty much all of them have two major candidates or parties that have a realistic chance of winning.
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  201. He projects more than a drive-in movie.
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  202. My preference is Jokes Seth Can't Tell.
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  203.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Ask Syria and Yemen whether or not he is a non-interventionist.
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  204.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Of course they didn't: https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/bernie-sanders-override-trump-yemen-veto
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  205.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Sugar, did you see me defend Obama here? I did not. Your accusation is your confession, because you are so wedded to the notion of team that you assumed that I was praising Obama. I'm not. I didn't. My only point was that, after you pretended that Trump was some big peacenik, it turns out that he bombed a Syrian airfield, and he has assisted Saudi Arabia in its war with Yemen. If you are fine with it as long as other people are the ones dying, you do not favor peace, and you have demonstrated to all the difference between isolation and peace.
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  206.  @alexblumberg-long597  You're not missing much. It's basically an infomercial for Peacock.
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  207.  @chrislewis7811  Different states have different rules. Non-elected government workers have stringent qualifications, but much stronger job security. The Fourteenth Amendment bars those who commit insurrection or rebellion from holding office if they had previously held it, but the Supreme Court gutted it because it is basically an arm of Der Orangestraflingfuhrer.
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  208.  @chrislewis7811  Any time. In all honesty, a lot of things that seem goofy in our system seem to be able to be explained by "The people who wrote the Constitution never dreamed that someone so unqualified would get the chance to hold power," or "People will act with honor."
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  209.  Robert Garcia  Indeed. Everyone who has dealt with him in comedic situations says that he has no sense of humor at all.
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  210.  @Blunderful19  If you want it to stop, blaming both sides equally is not the way to do it. One side is internationally trying to sabotage any effort to govern. One side decided that they would unanimously oppose a President of the other party even if he offered them their own ideas. One party held a Supreme Court seat hostage when, if they really believed in divine intervention, God was telling them the seat wasn't theirs. One side is refusing to pass a bill that they passed unanimously a month ago, which would end the entire shutdown. If one party keeps doing it, it is not the other party's fault that the other party is doing it. Am I saying they are perfect? No, but I am saying that they aren't actively trying to destroy government.
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  211.  @Musicanimedork01  This was three years ago. It's made me a little bit paranoid about not having enough salt, but I was better within a day or two. Sadly, not a year goes by when someone doesn't die at a major marathon from hyponatremia. It's almost always someone at the back of the pack who drinks too much water. A lot of novices are told "drink plenty of water" and "if you're thirsty, you waited too long." When you're going that slowly, you really don't need as much as people think, and when they see a water stop at every mile or two, they drink a full cup. I've had problems at the other end of the hydration spectrum and peed blood before, and as bad as it sounds, I'd take that over hyponatremia any day of the week. Balance really is the key.
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  212.  @TopGHippie  You got those last two backwards.
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  213. ​ @mrvlsmrv  He seemed so happy in that video. Maybe he should have stuck to that where he couldn't hurt anyone.
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  214.  @peterjonas4971  It was revoked after his death when the lid came off.
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  215.  @joehatch1602  What specific policy enacted the inflation, keeping in mind that the rest of the industrialized world is also dealing with inflation? Oh, and corporate profits are a record high.
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  216.  @yngstunna101  I'm a Caseworker, and plenty of benefits have limits well over 100% FPL. As far as "nowhere in the country," there are plenty of places in West Virginia where you can get rent for $500/month, which is easily affordable with $31K/year income.
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  217.  @joehatch1602  "that inflation reduction act has nothing that actually helps reduce inflation. His infrastructure act doesn't actually help infrastructure." [Citation needed]
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  218.  @joehatch1602  The Keystone XL Pipeline needed permission from the United States because it wanted to use tribal land and was slated for the international market, so if someone told you it helped us, that person was lying.
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  219.  @joehatch1602  "so everyone should sacrifice their lives" Yes, because having clean air is "sacrificing our lives." I drive a fuel efficient car based on my budget and my needs; and my home electricity and heat comes from windmills, and I've had no problem with either. Just maybe, if people bought more fuel efficient cars, Big Oil wouldn't have us over such a barrel (no pun intended).
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  220.  @jimuicker4731  True. I have seen some insist that the solution is purging Manchin and Sinema (apparently, they don't understand how math works or remember what happened the last time McConnell controlled the calendar), but the answer is obvious: get enough of a margin of error so they are no longer the 49th and 50th votes.
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  221. Happy birthday to you! Today is also my daughter's seventh birthday.
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  222. The cat eyes are what makes the Zoom call even funnier.
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  223.  @TheLemon333  They are like Charles Foster Kane after he loses the gubernatorial race with the dueling front pages that say "Kane Elected" and "Fraud at Polls."
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  224. @Josh White There is a procedure for an acting AG, and that is Rosenstein. Don't be surprised if there is a court challenge.
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  225. Oh, we will enjoy 2-2 while it lasts, Seth. We will enjoy it.
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  226.  C Cato  Fun fact: it has not. If you look at the vote for the Civil Rights Act by region, there were bipartisan majorities for it in the north and against it in the south. However, not one Southern Republican in either House voted for it. Look at a Presidential map for historical context. The Solid South used to be solid blue, and now it's solid red. If you think that people in the South saw the light on civil rights and started voting for the party that opposed them (see: Shelby caee), you are asking everyone else to make quite the logical leap.
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  227.  @Lumby1  He was making fun of that big orange dummy and his recommendation for how to stop forest fires.
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  228. Is she old enough?
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  229.  @drfranks1158  That's your choice. Personally, I want to leave no stone unturned as long as legally, professionally, or ethically permissible.
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  230. 7:27 Another video pointed it out: look up the gossipy rabbi in Seinfeld. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
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  231.  @Wildstar40  No, we didn't. Only 46% voted for that big, orange dummy. He's only there because of an antiquated, anti-democratic system deigned to give slave owners a disproportionate share of the vote.
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  232.  @davidh8924  "I ain't down with that, 'cause silicone toys are made for boys." Sir Mix-a-Lot The plastic surgery mask face does nothing for me at all.
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  233. And his cult will say, "Fake news!"
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  234.  @markmac2206  Hello!
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  235.  @terrencechouinard9178  Stephen Colbert does it, too.
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  236. My favorite thing about "Corn Pop was a bad dude" is that there actually was a gang banger in Wilmington nicknamed Corn Pop who, by all accounts, was a bad dude in his youth. I thought it was a made up story until a coworker suggested that I Google "corn pop obituary." How do you getbthw nickname Corn Pop?
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  237.  John michael  Thank you for proving the point about Trump being a cult leader.
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  238.  @MeetTheSLAYER  How's that wall working out? How about that health plan that would cover everyone for less? Or getting rid of the carried interest deduction?
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  239. Given Moscow Donald's power of projection, did anyone else notice the acronym he uses for the wall? Given the way he makes fun of overweight women, does he really want a BBW? ;-)
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  240.  @jamesdavis6277  Thank you.
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  241.  Christien du Preez  Secret Service don't get to stay in those rooms for free.
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  242.  @Midori_Seabreeze  Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ironically, in the book, Sambo is really the character who is much closer to what people think of when they refer to someone negatively as an Uncle Tom.
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  243.  @marymcnabb4982  Or coke or something. That guy sniffs more than Don Knotts, who at least had a sinus problem that made him do it.
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  244.  @viperswhip  Your post said "original Christians." I can assure you that in the first three centuries of the common era, no one was forced into Christianity. Rodney Stark wrote a very interesting book called "The Rise of Christianity" that shows patterns for religious growth, and based on evidence, Christianity was majority Jewish well into the second century with a substantial Jewish minority until about the fifth (Augustine talks about Jewish converts to Chrsitianity, although to criticize some of their practices, such as a Saturday Sabbath).
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  245.  @viperswhip  You're welcome. It's a readable book (Stark is a sociologist by training), but I used it for about a dozen research papers in grad school it was that informative.
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  246. If there's anything he's a fan of, it's... Blimpy's.
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  247. He is the first President since Hoover to lose the Presidency and both Houses of Congress in one term.
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  248.  @maythesciencebewithyou  My analogy was that you can't reattach a gangrenous arm.
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  249.  @jeffbrossard163  Concentration camps, urging people to storm Congress to overthrow a legitimate democratic election just for starters.
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  250.  @gamepapa1211  Definitely. That is my way of showing that person is lying.
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  251.  markmac  To use an analogy, there is a reason why Barney never became the sheriff. Being a good number two is a good skill to have, but it doesn't necessarily translate.
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  252.  @Bubblebuddy11  Indeed, that is another example. I was just talking about with regards to Peter, that his dream of doing nothing wasn't the same thing.
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  253.  David The wise  Better than a fascist who tried to destroy democracy and ignored a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands? Absolutely.
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  254. @darknightoftroy When I deal with them online, they aren't my real audience, anyway. It is mainly to show people on the fence how awful they are.
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  255. @darknightoftroy Actually, what I was referring to was the fallacy that the national budget is exactly the same as a family budget in terms of why deficit spending is bad, ignoring the fact that people borrow for vital things such as houses all the time. My theory about the MAGA crowd? I think some were radicalized by their cult leader, but I think most of them just saw him as their green light to express the evil they had inside all along.
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  256. @darknightoftroy Indeed. The deficit spending of the New Deal-Great Society era was like buying a house, and the economy grew so much that the debt to GDP ratio shrank from 120% to 33% in 35 years. The Reagan era and beyond was like going into debt to buy a sportscar with nothing to show for it except everything crumbling around it.
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  257. I saw Biden at the Labor Day Parade in Philadelphia. He was wearing a dress suit with no jacket. He is not an obese person lying about his height to make his BMI appear smaller. No way that spare tire has a better body.
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  258. I remember one person a few years ago trying to call it Thanks-taking. Fortunately, that never seemed to catch on. My favorite Thanksgiving joke came from Wanda Sykes: Leave it to white people to make a holiday for the one time they were nice to the Native Americans.
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  259. I would say "Sir" is a tell that he's about to lie, but other than "if she wasn't my daughter, I think I'd be dating her" or "I could shoot someone right in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes," when has he actually told the truth?
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  260. ​ @MikeSwirled  *nearly half
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  261.  @00SmileTime00  I can't find anything with this estimate. I'm not saying that Bush is good. My point is that a body count doesn't make Trump look any better, and once you attempt a violent coup to stay in power, you automatically lose any Presidential ranking.
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  262. The wide shot for C-SPAN exists because Gingrich went to the floor in the middle of the night and said "the other side remains silent" in the face of some accusation. When Tip O'Neill found out the next day, he was so mad that he immediately ordered the camera operator to do a wide shot to show people that Newtie was talking to an empty room.
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  263.  5252rpm  The first time was "I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes."
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  264. @Logan 5 Even before coronavirus, net manufacturing was down. That big package to keep Carrier from outsourcing? They used that money to speed up the process.
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  265.  @lisakida2485  I like Yang, and I'm glad that he qualified for the debates, but he is lacking on several issues that aren't UBI. For example: his counter to Bernie's public school tuition plan is a repayment of loans at 10% of income for ten years, with no talk of deductions for things like the poverty level (even saying that people could use UBI to pay them off) and he said Bernie should include trade schools and vocational training. Here's the thing: Bernie's plan does include trade schools and vocational training.
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  266. ​ @hannahschneyder6651  Indeed. It seemed like Tiffany was going to, but eventually she fell into the orbit, too.
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  267. Or, you have a situation like Israel where they can't get a governing majority. Most multi-party systems require coalitions to govern, but our coalitions get done ahead of time, so it's really six in one hand and half a dozen in the other.
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  268. I have a mask that I can easily pull on and off in case someone is close by.
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  269.  @PennyPennyPennyPennyPenny  Definitely. It seems like there has been a wave of people who really know a lot about one thing and nothing else. I was shocked at a primary debate when Ben Carson proposed dividing the average amount paid per person in Medicaid as a voucher so people can get private insurance. As a Caseworker who doesn't even handle those kinds of cases, I know that nursing home cases are way more expensive than what most people get, so they'd be screwed.
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  270.  @carlrodrigues6919  Definitely. Given his dumb take on Medicaid and vouchers, it's pretty clear that administration was not his wheelhouse at all.
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  271.  @alexblumberg-long597  The joke to infomercial ratio is way off. It's no Soyjoy.
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  272. Speaking of not realizing that thumbs go down, Moscow Donald kept saying that McCain "gave the infamous thumbs up." If he gave thumbs up, Pence would have cast the tiebreaking vote. Maybe he didn't know thumbs down was a thing. Great catch, Seth!
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  273.  Golda Dazo  Was it Democrats who told people that the virus would be magically gone in February? Was it Democrats who dismantled the pandemic response team? Was it Democrats who put states in a bidding war for masks and ventilators? Was it Democrats who gave red state governors more ventilators than they asked for and blue state governors half of their request? Was it Democrats who praised Xi for his response? Tell me, Parsons, what did Trump do with the month that he supposedly bought with his order that exempted American and Eurpoean nationals from the travel ban? A leader leads, and he said to let the governors take control and that he bore both responsibility at all.
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  274.  Golda Dazo  Oh, and Democrats impeached Trump in December. Or, are you one of these people who don't understand basic civics?
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  275.  Golda Dazo  How to end riots? A good place to start would be to starve the unrest of oxygen. Maybe, just maybe, if cops weren't killing innocent people, then people wouldn't be mad about cops killing innocent people. Maybe when police stop with the thin blue line nonsense and treating their cities like a war zone even in good times, suspicion and anger will drop in both sides. In my adopted city, we had a police commissioner who insisted on community policing. While there is some debate over how well he succeeded, the number of people killed by police in this city dropped from 16 when he assumed the job to four in his last year. It sounds to me like at least 12 of those were unnecessary, and the fact that those 12 people aren't getting killed every year makes for less hostility.
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  276.  Golda Dazo  And here's a hint: saying "I'm not left or right" (punctuation corrected) when only spouting right wing talking points is a standard tactic of the right. See: Pool, Tim; Rubin, Dave.
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  277.  Golda Dazo  You're not left or right, but you use right wing talking points, and you forget that Democrat is a noun, and Democratic is an adjective? The saddest lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
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  278.  Golda Dazo  [citation needed] None of that answers the question about saying that it would magically go away in April, shutting down the pandemic response unit, stating a bidding war for masks to stretch states even thinner, and deny needed equipment to Democratic governors. At best, he sent a mixed message. Considering that the newly formed coronavirus task force doesn't even meet any longer and he wants states to reopen despite increases in cases, he was not focused.
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  279.  @kasnitch  Indeed. It's like they each get a bit of the essence.
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  280. Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show.
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  281.  @hawkeye5955  Gerrymandering will only affect the House and legislative races. They can't gerrymander the Presidency.
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  282.  @Musicanimedork01  The problem with straight salt water is that it is too salty to consume. I had a Powerade in the refrigerator. I couldn't drink it too fast because it was pretty woozy, but it definitely helped. Usually, I only really drink them after long runs, but this time, it definitely came in handy.
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  283.  @jamesirwin8917  The way he's going, I doubt he'll make it to 80.
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  284.  @IMSiegfried  Most "independents" always go one way or the other. They just "don't like labels."
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  285.  @katibarrett8779  Baby Boomers were born from 1946-64, Generation X were born from 1965-80. Seth was born in 1973.
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  286.  @katibarrett8779  Get out of here with your "mansplaining." Generations have nothing to do with gender, so I guess you're just someone who uses buzzwords rather than thinking before you type.
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  287. @Carl Quant If we did absolutely nothing to prevent the coronavirus globally, 70-80% of people would get it without such actions being taken, and it has a 5% fatality rate, that works out to well over 10MM people.
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  288.  @Axolotl_Mischief  Indeed. Sometimes, it does wonders to expose the stupidity, though.
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  289.  @dankhill6851  "It's not about the jacket. Wear it to please them, stop wearing it to piss them off. Either way, it's about them, and that's what's weak." Jeff Winger Assuming this is true (and you aren't just a sad Trump voter looking for permission), the idea of someone pointing out stupid and dangerous things someone does and then whining about "trying to make my decision for me" is just ludicrous.
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  290. Too late
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  291.  @erazer5685  Given that he doesn't use a third grade vocabulary, yes.
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  292.  @yngstunna101  So, your response is to not do anything because it's not high enough for your taste? And $15/hour works out to about $31K/year. That's over the poverty level for a household of four ($27,750).
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  293.  @joehatch1602  Inflation is literally almost always a thing to an extent. The last time we had deflation was 2009, and surely you're not asking for that economy.
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  294.  @joehatch1602  You: I'm not defending any companies Also you: It's all the Democrats' fault.
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  295.  @joehatch1602  What specific policy are you saying that did it? When I filled up gas in Pennsylvania, it was $4.10 and down from the spring. You keep saying it's Democratic policies, but which ones?
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  296.  @yngstunna101  Oh, you'd be surprised how many people have said such things.
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  297.  @yngstunna101  Not every place in West Virginia lists online. The older, more rural communities don't even have broadband.
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  298.  @joehatch1602  And the Keystone Pipeline is fully operational. It is the Keystone XL Pipeline that was never built. So, how can something that was never built be causing all this inflation?
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  299.  @joehatch1602  The only specific you gave was charging stations, and vague remarks about the deficit. Yet, when I ask why there would be inflation now when the deficit is down, or about the fact that the federal government has run deficits for decades without high inflation, you just change the subject. You keep saying that the Inflation Reduction Act has nothing to do with inflation, but you can't say why inflation has dropped by two thirds since it was passed when you look at the monthly inflation rate. And then, you complain about charging stations more. So, no, you're not being specific. I keep telling you why you're not being specific, and you keep repeating the same thing over and over again and ignoring the point.
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  300.  @joehatch1602  Tribal land involves questions of national sovereignty and treaties, not just racism. Try learning.
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  301.  @EH23831  Have you seen the painting of Trump's head imposed on Rocky's body? It's disturbing.
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  302.  @HalfDemonInuyasha  That would be nice, but I don't think he's going anywhere. If he does, and Moscow Donald is out before a replacement for Pence can be seated, Pelosi will become POTUS, and there is no way 20 GOP Senators will sign off on that.
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  303.  @xy6845  Agreed that the center is not fixed. My point was that the ideology behind centrism is always demanding that people do a little less. The ideology is a parody of the golden mean that the best option must be somewhere in the middle of every argument. Its practical effect is triangulation.
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  304.  @TheMidwestAtheist  The problem is that you have an entire generation that has Battered Spouse Syndrome and is still afraid that it is the 1980s when America was a much more conservative place. In 2008, it was obvious that this ideology was spent, but rather than acknowledge this and build something new, Obama never rejected the Reagan ideology, so we ended up with a dealigning election instead of a realignment. If you look through American history, the other dealigning elections (1840, 1876, 1968), they show a lot of instability, and bad things usually follow. Part of the problem came from not rising to the challenge.
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  305.  @robertsmith5744  Let us not forget no John Roberts and Samuel Alito gutting voting rights and campaign finance laws.
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  306.  @depressedgaysassyitalianre5748  But how did they get wealthy? I'm not talking about people who worked hard, built something, and didn't step on their employees to get a few million dollars, but the people who have so much money that they can live off it for a thousand lifetimes and then have enough that their children can do the same. Read "Winners Take All," and it will show you the truth about their "generosity."
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  307.  C Cato  Fun fact: the two major parties switched on questions of civil rights in the 1960s, with Strom Thurmond being the first major southern figure to switch to the GOP over outrage that Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and glee that Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who voted against it. The third-party candidacy of Wallace turned out to be the gateway drug of sorts for southern voters, and Reagan (who also opposed the Civil Rights Act) made his first stop as the GOP nominee at the site of the Freedom Summer Murders and proclaimed his support for states rights, while later calling Confederate war dead "patriots," which is something I've never heard an Democratic President say in my 39 years.
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  308.  @PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven  Yeah, how did that work the last time?
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  309. "You're just mad because I'm a better lesbian comedian than you!"
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  310.  @duke605  True. How he went from 63MM to 74MM is one of the great mysteries of life. I still remember Republicans insisting a quarter century ago that the President was supposed to represent the best of our country, and now they pick someone who wants to kill it.
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  311. ​ @andrewstevenson118  There is a stereotype about black people talking back to the screen at the movie theater. In Living Color did a sketch about it where they turned the sound down, and Jim Carrey finally says, "Would everyone be quiet?! I'm trying to watch the film" and gets kicked out.
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  312.  @lisagulick4144  Probably the campaign store.
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  313. As a native of West Virginia, it is extremely baffling when I visit my family and see Confederate flags when I drive down the road... in a state that only exists because we wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy.
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  314.  @couragekarnga8735  They were the better party from their founding in 1854 until 1877. Then, they abandoned Reconstruction in order to steal the 1876 Presidential election from Samuel Tilden, and it has been all downhill ever since.
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  315.  @bookashkin  Well, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz know that they can never leave the country, so at least that's something.
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  316.  @vincentlp115  Really? I thought that he was worried about leaving the country. Maybe he is just worried about going to Europe. I know that there are several former dignitaries who can only go so many places for fear of war crimes arrests, a tradition probably started among American politicians by Henry Kissinger.
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  317.  @bookashkin  As would I, but sometimes you have to accept that this is all you can get.
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  318.  @dianem6951  If you believe in the Constitution, then why are you fine with an elected official using his office for personal gain? The Emoluments Clause is very clear about that. If you care about due process so much, why are you fine with kidnapping children at the border?
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  319.  @CloneDaddy  I truly feel for you. Sometimes, I watch James O'Brien clips, and the thing that is so exasperating is that people say that Brexit needs to happen no matter what "to respect the vote," but when he asks them what Brexit means to point out that there is no consensus on what Brexit means, and no one seems to know (the most ridiculous was that fish and chips will start being wrapped in real newspaper again) what it means, so how can you enact that? Then, when Corbyn actually has a strategy to acknowledge that (have a negotiation, and then say either approve this or we are going to cancel Brexit), he is treated as indecisive. Well, here's hoping that Labour can either get to 326 or build a governing coalition. Speaking of which, I have been trying to figure this out for some time now. Why does Sinn Fein run for Parliament if they refuse to sit when they win?
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  320.  @elsanti4753  Agreed. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is great, but Bojack is just a little bit greater.
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  321.  @mrskynet8800  I am aware of the origin of the term. I am referring to the way the right uses it.
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  322.  @Mr.Smith101  So, we should abandon everything we stand for because of a petty grudge?
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  323.  @Vort_tm  I think that what bothers him is that he was so blatant that he couldn't get away with it. He will go down with Roger Taney as one of the worst Chief Justices we've had.
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  324. YMCA was really on the speaker!?! I thought that was a joke.
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  325.  @RubelliteFae  Our placeholder name was actually "baby bust" because of the sharp decline in childbirth. (Our name stems from a Douglas Coupland novel.) Well, if this current generation gets a handle that lends itself easily to sequels, then we won't have to worry about that happening ;-)
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  326.  @924alana  I remember hearing it in the mid-90s, but Generation Y was the preferred name even then. Millennial did seem to gain steam early in the century.
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  327.  @sophierobinson2738  Second
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  328.  @elanahammer1076  We are not in disagreement about it being gross. They may be saying first, but they are wrong. It's public information and hardly secret.
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  329.  @Annie_Annie__  Indeed. I think they were third cousins.
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  330.  @AJ-yj7fl  You mean QE2? I know Rudy was second, and I know there is something involving Charles or QE2 and third.
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  331.  @AJ-yj7fl  I said second regarding Rudy. Someone pointed to royalty, and I pointed out that the Queen married her third cousin.
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  332.  @AJ-yj7fl  It's all right. It happens to the best of us.
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  333.  @cleverusername9369  Never said it did. Just answered the question about the specific relationship.
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  334.  Sparkling Cyanide.  Indeed. I used to think that if he had ever changed one diaper, that would have gotten rid of that, but then I realized that Big Orange Dummy probably has some diaper fetish and it was probably best for her that he didn't.
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  335.  Sparkling Cyanide.  My favorites is Der Orangefuhrer. When I am emphasizing his idiot followers, he becomes Dear Leader.
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  336.  @ToniHunterOne  I wasn't insulting her. I was only clarifying.
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  337.  @bidmcms3  Okay, let's go credential for credential. Show me yours and I'll show you mine.
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  338.  @annkristoff4303  Okay, if all of them have been, an example for each one 1-44. Put up or shut up.
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  339. Members of Congress are expelled by their House.
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  340. @Djoker Goat After the "show" of the last four years, I would refer wall-to-wall TV of C-SPAN showing committee hearings if it means that I don't have to worry about having a President so incompetent and so cruel that he killed hundreds of thousands rather than make a simple action to keep this disease under control.
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  341. I just noticed the way Dumb Donald has a squeak in his voice on the word "we" when he said, "We can't impeach on this"?
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  342. Watching her take down Dave Rubin made my donation to get her on the debate stage was a dollar well spent.
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  343. Is Herschel Walker following the Trump strategy of putting too much stuff out there for people to notice, like Der Orangefuhrer with scandals?
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  344. Did a dog bite him when he was a child?
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  345. Oh, Trump learned a lesson all right. That he could get away with it.
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  346. Son of Ron talking about humility is like Donald Trump talking about wearing too much makeup.
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  347. And we have literally had an illiterate President.
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  348.  @dulcieparker7425  That is so unfair! Sancho Panza knew that they were windmills.
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  349.  @dulcieparker7425  It's all right. Don Quixote is the one who thought he saw giants.
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  350.  Rick Ton  When he floated running for President on the Reform Party (he backed out because he thought that Buchanan was too bigoted), he admitted to Oprah that he'd use the office to make money. He's getting a lot more for his vacation than his salary is worth.
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  351. @Nineteen Sixty Thank you. I don't think it was stolen per se (he was definitely done wrong by people like Brianna Joy Gray who insisted that he could win with 30% of the vote because the field would never coalesce around one person to stop him), if you look at where we have gone in just a few years, generations will have this great man to thank for it. Playing the Huey Long role suits Bernie well.
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  352.    You mean the woman who calls her show Bad Faith because she insisted that everyone who disagreed with her on Force the Vote didn't want Medicare for All "in a national emergency" even though she admitted that it would not pass even if there was a vote? The woman who managed to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics? That's your "greatest"?
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  353.    I'm sorry. I don't do identity politics. I know an anti-anti-Trump grifter when I see one.
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  354.    It was quite interesting that you didn't have a response to any substantive point, and you just like her because she hates the same people you do. If you think that neoliberals are the equivalent to the fascists or worse, you're doing it wrong.
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  355. I just noticed that she pronounced it "he-jab" instead of "hih-job." Also, she actually said "colon" instead of verse. That is a pretty common thing in religious texts cough The Bible. We've just had the sequel to "Two Corinthians."
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  356. I'd hate to break it to you, but undervaluing his property was tax fraud, so that isn't the defense you think it is.
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  357. I was on a jury once. It was a heroin dealer. He insisted that he didn't sell it, but he was buying because that brand was the best. It took less than an hour to convict, only because we didn't know just how big 18 dimebags were.
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  358. As he started to leave, I finally figured out what his creepy laugh reminded me of: Tom Hulce in Amadeus. Except even more unnerving.
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  359. What does it matter to me, Ron? My mom and my niece can't get the vaccine due to allergies, and my daughter is too young for the vaccine, so you are hurting people like them, jerk.
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  360.  @pyrrhicvictoly  I didn't read it, either. I've read other stuff by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but that wasn't part of my reading list.
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  361. Well, I'm sure he read it when hos yes-men found a positive article about him.
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  362.  @silverpurkat  Jimmy Dore claims to be a pothead, and he's hardly mellow. When my niece was given CBD to treat her autism, it completely backfired.
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  363.  @francesescola4691  That would explain all the flushing.
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  364.  @FreedomFighter-cr5xg  All this is true. That was the joke. I was pointing out that the difference between the two wasn't policy, but physical cowardice of Moscow Donald.
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  365.  @viperswhip  And Jewish
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  366. Cyndi: I know this for a fact. George Sr.: You keep saying, "I know this for a fact." What fact? Cyndi: Faith. George Sr.: Faith is not a fact! [...] You mean I'm going to trial, because you don't know what a blooper reel is? Don't ruin the first three seasons of Arrested Development, Marge!
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  367. I had the off-brand Teddy Ruxpin. It was called Jabbee the Storyteller. I was seven at the time, so I thought it was unique instead of sad. This is life when you grow up in a town where the rich kids had to pay full price for school lunch.
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  368. Did Giuliani dye his remaining hair? I think he was fooling more people with his comb over.
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  369. Hearing about the hamburger milkshake while eating an ice cream bar is not the best combination.
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  370. When I see the signature of Der Orangefuhrer, I think that it looks like an earthquake on a seismograph.
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  371. Too bad Yang doesn't do that. He taxes consumption. He is actually against raising income taxes on the wealthy (using the Republican excuse that tax avoidance is inevitable), wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, or treating capital gains as ordinary income.
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  372.  @MM-vv8mt  *South Carolina. Totally agree on the beard, though.
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  373.  @virginialawler7725  How did you get the exact opposite of my intended meaning from my comment?
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  374. We're getting Blimpie's!
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  375.  @deepabn  The social liberals are just as untrustworthy as the right. If the Democratic Party emphasized issues benefiting working people more, the dead weight would leave.
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  376.  @theultimatereductionist7592  Sore loser laws will stop Bernie from being the Green Party candidate. Being on the ballot in three states is hardly something that would put him in a great position. Some states also require someone to be an "official" write-in. I found this out on two separate occasions in my native state. In 2002, I put up a relative as a write-in candidate for some party position, and never found out how many votes said relative got. In 2006, I ran for thr WV House of Delegates. I called the county clerk's office (the entire district was 2/3 of a county) to ask when they were doing the vote count. The clerk asked me if I voted yet. I said I did, and he said that I already won. I joked about worrying that there might be some write-in that I didn't know about. He said that barring a petition drive to designate someone an official write-in candidate (usually for people who missed the filing deadline), write-in votes don't count in the Mountain State.
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  377.  @charlesbridges3991  I don't think it's about Bernie supporters, but the larger portion who don't vote in the primary who aren't enthusiastic who won't vote. I live in a swing state, so I will suck it up and vote for Biden, but I still don't think he will win. If I still lived in a safe state where Biden either didn't need my vote or couldn't use it, he wouldn't get it.
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  378.  @charlesbridges3991  Well, it could be entirely possible that Biden makes a VP pick shows that he is taking the left seriously instead of taking us for granted. I will not play a part in throwing the election to Trump, but at my age (40 and a single parent with a four-year-old), I'm Not Trump just isn't enough to make me give up my weekends the way I did for Bernie. Given my two options, I will take Biden, but 24% "very enthusiastic" for Biden should make the blood of anyone who wants Trump gone run cold.
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  379.  @jimc4839  They don't even care about the economy. If they did, they would have voted for Bill Clinton both times, Al Gore in 2000, Barack Obama at least in 2008, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. All they really care about is power.
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  380.  @applepear7006  These days, it seems like the only thing that makes something country is the accent of the singer.
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  381.  @2xkiller  Well, I don't think he really has a ten-figure net worth if we saw his finances, but everything else you are spot on.
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  382.  @geekishgir  Almost as much as the rest of us will remember the magical night that America rejected him.
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  383. @Wiels Luk Who bragged about barging in on contestants in the Miss Teen USA changing room in various states of undress again?
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  384.  @nathalie_desrosiers  Yes, the Iraq War was started by Bush. We were talking about a hypothetical Gore Presidency where someone said that if he got to serve, there likely wouldn't have been an Obama Presidency (and I tend to agree that a Republican probably would have won in 2008 after four terms if a Democratic President). I was saying that if we had no Iraq War (i.e., Gore as President), I would take Obama in the Senate (i.e., one of the consequences of a Gore Presidency).
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  385. I remembered that Cool Spot was the 7-Up mascot, but I couldn't remember the name.
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  386. How DARE you call his mother a dog, Seth!
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  387.  @ecamp6360  Not really. Peter just refused to do his job. Now, not answering Lumbergh's call or work unpaid on the weekend were examples of quiet quitting, but not going to the office or doing any work when you're there is totally different.
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  388.    And "quiet quitting," as the bosses are calling it, is the standing up for yourself. These are the same people who coined the phrase "time theft" for what they deem as doing anything that is not work during the shift, such as going to the bathroom. Now that for the first time in decades, some of the power is going back to workers, they don't like it. Employers individually aren't the issue. The issue is that the system is demanding more and more ruthless efficiency. It's the same thing that pushes to a race to the bottom in so many Industries in the name of higher and higher profits to the point where Amazon makes Wal-Mart look like Costco in comparison. There are a lot of things that corporate speak does to try to guilt the worker, and this is one of them.
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  389.    The first time I ever heard it was a CNN story lamenting people who "refuse to take that extra step." If you're talking not working at all, we're in agreement, but considering how toothless NRLB enforcement has often been and the low rates of unionization, everything I've seen suggests that this is a pushback against the last 40 years of treatment by employers.
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  390.    Agreed about forcing work on others, as long as it's not a case of things like employers trying to force people to work on their breaks and then use the people who do work on their breaks as a cudgel against those who don't.
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  391. It should have been you, Al!
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  392.  @yungednoliasquad  Bill Lumbergh from Office Space.
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  393.  @Aur-ki1qu  [citation needed]
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  394.  @Mythraen  You sound like one of these people who don't understand the difference between theory in scientific use and theory in the vernacular.
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  395.  @Norred14322  You seriously think that their leaders don't have any money in Merck?
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  396.  @SeizeMeans69  I like Yang, but his college proposal is sorely lacking. There needs to be something done to deal with student loans, and 10% of income over ten years is a lot to ask for when someone isn't making much money if there are no deductions, and he doesn't support free tuition for public colleges. He is my second choice right now, though.
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  397.  David The wise  Trump literally fits, depending on your count, 13 or all 14 of the 14 traits of Ur-Fascism listed by Umberto Eco, and he has been trying to destroy democracy for years.
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  398.  David The wise  What does that have to do with anything?
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  399.  David The wise  Follow your own advice. I'm not the one throwing up word salad.
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  400.  David The wise  "Leave America when things get worse"? Are you a bot? Are you having a stroke? Do you need to call a doctor?
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  401. Maybe the CPC will vote for the bill if Manchin and Sinema stop messing around and actually support something. Maybe stop the Lucy Van Pelt act and give us something we want in order to get what you want.
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  402. 1:17 His first mistake was going to a tourist place like Pat's. (Larry's all the way!) His second mistake was asking for Swiss instead of provolone.
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  403.  @admnPB  Well, he also didn't point out that Jose Diaz-Ballart was wrong. It isn't everyone getting a thousand bucks a month with no exceptions.
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  404. @darknightoftroy I get that it is hard to see how people can be on the fence, but a lot of people don't really pay much attention, and others are new to learning. Some things like the "family budget scenario" have a superficial sense to it, so it takes some patience to deconstruct it.
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  405. It's the App-a-LATCH-un Trail, not App-a-lay-shun Trail.
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  406. 4:29 Well, the article might have given a bad example, but I'd say that comparing her wedding to Nelson Mandela involves quite an inflated ego to say the least.
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  407. It's Pyramid time: "They may be smart, but they have no sense." "Things stupid people say to feel better about themselves." [Bing]
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  408. How many of Trump's supporters can explain the formula for when Easter falls without looking it up?
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  409.  @MetalDetroit  So, the military and interstate highways aren't run at the federal level? You could save yourself a lot of embarrassment just by admitting that your talking point is wrong.
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  410.  @MetalDetroit  Not perfectly, and the latter would work much better if not for anti-tax ideologues such as yourself, but they both do their job far better than the private sector could do.
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  411.  @MetalDetroit  Then why were revenues so low in the 2000s? Why did so little of the last tax bill go to anything other than stock buybacks? At a certain point, I just start to feel sorry for people who live in their ideological bubbles. Fact: the economy grew faster and more people reaped those benefits in the 35 years after WWII (when the top tax rate was never below 70%) than in the last 38 years (where it was never above 50%). Do you just try to say false things, or are you just that poorly informed?
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  412.  @MetalDetroit  Revenue as a percentage of GDP, and the fact that the Bush tax cuts ended up resulting in a revenue drop of $2.9T over a ten-year total according to the CBO, far more than the $2T they were supposed to cost. I could also point out the fact that the two worst recessions since 1933 both occurred under Presidents who accepted Reaganomics (1982-83, 2008-09), which coincidentally also produced the highest unemployment since the Great Depression (10.8% in 1983 and 10.2% in 2009). You're still failing basic economic history. I almost forgot, re: stock buybacks, just because some companies are doing R&D doesn't mean all of them are. The ones that are ended up doing so in a way that will speed automation, similar to what Carrier did after those jobs were "saved."
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  413.  @MetalDetroit  The Great Recession was caused by deregulating Wall Street and big banks. There was another smaller bailout during the Clinton years, and Reagan had to bailout the S&Ls to the tune of $350B after he deregulated them. Yes, too many Democrats went along, but that deregulating finance was conservative dogma, and still is given all the talk of how Dodd-Frank went too far. You know what else increased in the Bush years? Population, to the tune of about 15%. Did revenue increase by 15%? It did not. It only increased by 5%.
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  414. ​​ @00SmileTime00  Once you send people to the Capitol to overthrow democracy, you are automatically the worst. The only reason Trump didn't start a war is because he didn't have the opportunity.
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  415.  @00SmileTime00  You are just counting Americans, which is closer to 1.4MM who have died from the pandemic. I'm not saying they're all at his feet, but most are. There is also the question of how to quantify those who helped spread the nonsense that it shouldn't have been taken seriously who followed his lead in other countries, and he may be responsible for the deaths of several million, which is way more than the one or two, depending on the estimates you see, who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  416.  @00SmileTime00  That's not what showed up when I typed it. I'll try again. Thank you.
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  417.  @00SmileTime00  Conflict on fear, and it kept showing stuff about fear of conflict.
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  418.  @00SmileTime00  Pro tip: maybe try not to be too cute, and give the actual name of who you're trying to link to.
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  419.  @noxianmind  So, saying that you wish you had the cash to short a company whose value has already gone down by over a third means that we'd lose money? You are aware that a short is a bet against the stock, right? Or are you trying to say that a company with $3MM in revenue against $56MM in expenses is going to turn around?
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  420.  @noxianmind  "Supporting someone who won't make you less poor"? What are you talking about? Give me the President with record job growth over the one who oversaw the worst job growth since WWII any day of the week.
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  421.  @Boobalopbop  Well, not poor, but she certainly wasn't rich. She definitely wasn't a legacy of someone who had too many houses to keep track of (McCain literally didn't know when someone asked him how many houses he owned in 2008).
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  422.  @lenforstell1139  What is?
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  423. Of course, Dear Leader has doing as much as he did when he was in office. How can you do less than nothing?
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  424. I'm suspicious that the "sources" are trying to put the pressure on Mueller to try to speed him up. It's odd timing to stop at Stone when you have Kushner and Trump Jr. also on the hot seat.
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  425. I have seen a person who may be his son or grandson selling Purdue in PA, but he didn't make it down to WV for advertising when I was growing up.
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  426. Whenever the show comes to an end (hopefully quite some time way off in the future), I'd like to see an actual story on migrating tree frogs.
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  427. Growing up in a state that only existed because we wanted nothing to do with Virginia or the Confederacy, my fifth grade history textbook spent more time discussing First Bull Run than Gettysburg, and the Reconstruction chapter talked about how cruel the carpetbaggers were rather than why Reconstruction was necessary and incomplete. Oh, and we had an assignment where we had to give three reasons why slaveholders would prefer having slaves to indentured servants.
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  428. Beto gave non-answers in two languages.
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  429. "Attempted murder! Nobody gets a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry." Sideshow Bob
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  430.  @cmoore6131  I thought that he'd start a nuclear war after someone laughed at his stubby Vienna Sausage fingers.
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  431. Never forget that a majority of Republicans voted against expulsion.
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  432.  @angelamitchinson8439  Hello, hello, hello, how low?
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  433. Maybe he was so shocked that she didn't recognize it that he couldn't come up with a response.
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  434. I got two of Seth's (I knew who John Bobbitt was, but I didn't know what he looked like) and one of Karen's (I recognized Backyard Baseball). This is life when you were born near the end of Generation X.
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  435. The first answer Steyer gave was probably pretty accurate.
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  436. Be fair, Seth! We didn't elect President Nip Slip, the Electoral College did.
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  437. ​ @ernestcruz6316  And he and Eva, I mean Melania, made sure to get as close as possible to Biden to try to infect him.
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  438.  @sniceverything4944  Except John Edwards didn't say that he did it to hide embarrassing information leading up to the election to help his chances. Pretty much everyone involved in this case admitted that's why they did it.
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  439. That 30 for 30 about the USFL is a good one. One of the commentators said that the jury ruled in favor of the USFL because the NFL was clearly guilty, but they only gave a dollar because they couldn't ignore the USFL's own suicide. Because it was an antitrust case, the damages were tripled, so they got three bucks.
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  440.  Felix  He's not nearly as rich as he wants people to think he is, and he has loans of anywhere from $416MM to $1B coming due in the next couple years because he only paid interest on them.
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  441. She doesn't know who Cathy is? Didn't they just stop running those a few years ago?
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  442.  @elijicreaction6525  Wrong. If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, it goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  443.  @elijicreaction6525  The rules specifically require a majority of the Electoral College. The places you mentioned for comparison are almost all parliamentary systems, some of them have proportional representation, and the one that has a Presidential system requires a run-off. Comparing it to other countries with vastly different rules shows a misunderstanding of how the rules affect the behavior.
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  444.  @elijicreaction6525  A multi-party system does not a "healthy" government make (see above comments about Israel and needing to have three elections to get a government). Quite frankly, the bigger problem with American democracy is how Republicans can hold office while having minority support.
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  445.  @elijicreaction6525  Sadly, given the requirements of the amendment process, and people thinking that anti-democratic measures help them, it won't happen any time soon. The best we can hope for is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If enough states agree to it to form a majority of the Electoral College, these states agree to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the state (or Congressional district in Maine and Nebraska). As of right now, states that have joined total 196 electoral votes.
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  446.  @shanwyn  I keep hearing about these moderate conservatives, but when push comes to shove, they always end up working with the extremists when their votes are needed to do extremist things. If it were purely conviction, doesn't it seem odd to you that Murkowski opposed Kavanaugh and Collins opposed Barrett for the Supreme Court when if both had opposed either, they wouldn't be on the bench? And what did the moderate or centrist Democrats just go along with because they're Team Blue? I can point to plenty of things watered down by Manchin, Sinema, or both over the last four years. Otherwise, you risk Enlightened Centrist territory, which is really just about vague ideas of "let's work together." Well, it depends on what we're working together to do.
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  447. I did not want a visual of that big orange dummy in a leotard.
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  448. So, that's what DW stands for!
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  449. I wasn't expecting that ending ;-)
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  450. Michael: I'm not having you turn this mock trial into a... Gob: You were going to say 'mockery,' weren't you? Michael: I was in trouble three words into that sentence. There's always an Arrested Development quote.
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  451.  @lzrd8460  And they even had a chance to cut ties with him once and for all after January 6th. Der Orangefuhrer ended up being a Frankentstein's monster, but anyone who has read the book can tell you that Viktor Frankenstein was the real villain.
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  452. "No one who barebacks porn stars is a germaphobe." Tom Arnold
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  453.  @elconceptodematiz5574  You don't know what I did during the Obama years. Once again, you are making assumptions based on political affiliation, thus proving my point that your accusation is your confession. Considering the way you are cheering on massive slaughter of the Kurds and staying silent on Yemen, you are the one acting like a partisan cheerleader. You have exposed the truth about yourself.
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  454.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Says the person who thought that we had no involvement in Yemen, and the one who insists on a neutral status on Trump and only opposing war. The biggest lies some people tell are too themselves.
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  455.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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  456.  @alexblumberg-long597  The joke to infomercial ratio is way off. It's no Soyjoy.
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  457.  @douglasknoll3500  Says the person hate watching videos to feed the algorithm to send more people to look at videos mocking your hero Tucker Carlson.
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  458.  @JerynToney  They clearly don't care about accusations of hypocrisy given the number of videos of them contradicting themselves.
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  459.  @zacharymarentette5269  Indeed. There is a difference between isolationism and peace.
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  460.  @stevencooley7193  It matters when they affect other people. This is not one of those things where we can LEAVE HIM ALONE.
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  461.  @stevencooley7193  Missing the point. It spreads through people who are infected. If you get the vaccine, you are less likely to get infected. Therefore, if you don't get the vaccine, you are more likely to spread it. Hence, the massive negative correlation between vaccination rates and infection rates. If enough people get the vaccine, the virus won't be able to find a host. As far as "minding your own business," I'm guessing you had your polio and smallpox vaccines, and smallpox vaccine if you were old enough. Because some things do not fall under the category of LEAVE HIM ALONE.
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  462. Even worse about his contracting it, he went to the pool in the Senate gym to take laps the morning that he had his appointment to get tested, knowing that he may have it.
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  463.  Golda Dazo  The impeachment was in December. The trial was in January. Your repetition of talking points might pass for informed discussion at OANN, but if you can't understand the difference between an impeachment and a trial, and you really have no response when someone lists specific examples of the malfeasance of Dear Leader, it doesn't help your argument. So, what did he do with that month that he says he bought?
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  464.  Golda Dazo  And the reason why he was called xenophobic is because he didn't ban travel to China. He only banned Chinese nationals. Here is a story from back in January when he did it. Note the headline: https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/31/u-s-declares-public-health-emergency-over-coronavirus-bans-travel-from-china-by-foreign-nationals/ That doesn't sound like "banning all travel from China" to me. That sounds like banning Chinese people. As Wayne Rooney would say on Special 1 TV, "Maaaate!"
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  465.  @jombilywobbily  Well, her and Chris Hayes and Ari Melber, but point taken.
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  466.  Golda Dazo  Yes, I do want you to run down a list of actions he had taken on coronavirus. That's why I asked. Are you a bot that doesn't understand simple phrases? Ir are you just so used to following a liar that you don't know how to handle it when someone speaks honestly?
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  467. @Paulie Doodle Actually, it's people born from 1981 to either 1996 or 1999. I've heard both. Not sure when the end date is established. Those born after are called Generation Z.
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  468. @Paulie Doodle Oh, okay. I had seen some say the cut off was 1997 and others 2000 and people talking about Generation Z voting patterns, so I wasn't sure which was the final line.
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  469. When we're not averting our eyes for fear of blindness.
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  470. Some mental images just can't be unseen :'(
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  471. Well, in Matthew 4, Satan does quote Psalms to try to convince Jesus to jump off the Temple.
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  472. 2:00 That is so unfair! Ralph Kramden may have been a loudmouth, but he was ultimately a decent and loyal person.
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  473.  @gracehaven5459  That was Elisha.
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  474.  @coolbeans2810  When I was in the military, I took an oath to defend the Constitution and to obey the lawful orders of the President. It didn't say anything about not criticizing the President or making jokes. Last I checked, we are citizens, not subjects.
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  475.  @coolbeans2810  2000-06. There is now no "officer appointed over me." And anyone who actually went to basic training knows that means following lawful orders, so the Nazi excuse never works. There is absolutely nothing in that oath that exempts the President from criticism, especially after enlistment expires. Speaking of traitors, I support democracy, and you support an authoritarian state where we can never criticize the people in office. While we're at it, why not just get rid of elections since in your world no one can criticize the President.
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  476.  @coolbeans2810  A joke is a form of criticism. Are you really policing how people can criticize? Go to basic training, and they will say that you are to obey lawful orders. Go to officer's training, and they explicitly say not that you are to not obey unlawful orders, but you are specifically to disobey unlawful orders. No one is allowed to hide behind "I was following orders" when committing a war crime. Is that really the hill you want to plant your flag on?
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  477.  @knicknevin9975  Considering the repeated confusion between Nancy Pelosi and Nicki Haley for Der Orangestraflingfuhrer, if Biden goes down, he's taking Trump down with him.
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  478.  @kissedbysun2517  I can say much more. My only point here was about those who criticize him for using a Teleprompter, which every other President has since at least Reagan. I saw Biden speak at the 2023 Labor Day event in Philadelphia. I was at an angle where I could see the Teleprompter, and he was riffing rather than just reading. As far as his ability to do the job, he has the greatest legislative record of getting stuff passed than any President since LBJ (despite razor-thin majorities his first two years and opposition majority in the House since), he keeps outmaneuvering the Congressional Republicans who say he doesn't have it, and he spent last month securing support for Ukraine, so he's doing his job just fine.
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  479.  @ishotmyboss  360 is a full circle.
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  480.  @WindsorMason  Perhaps, but if you're an endurance athlete, sugar is the fuel you tend to burn the most. The real problem from a health standpoint is when people who aren't sweating a lot and didn't flush their system drink it thinking it is a replacement for water. Both do different things.
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  481.  @oasisinthestorm1361  Some people can't eat right after a hard workout. And using my example, you spend half an hour vomiting water (I mean literally water, no smell, no color, nothing) and tell me how ready you are to eat solid food.
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  482.  @IMSiegfried  It depends who "us and them" are, but I agree with the basic idea.
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  483.  @IMSiegfried  I would go with citizens as Us and the rich and corporations that screw us over as Them. As far as the two-party system goes, as long as you have first past the voting, there will always be two main parties. Given what Germany has to go through to build its coalition, I don't think a full multi-party system with proportional representation is the answer. I would much prefer Ranked Choice Voting.
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  484.  @IMSiegfried  You may be, but when most people are pressed further, they lean toward one or the other. Not everybody, but most people. I would argue that, based on election results over the last 30 years, there are only about 10% of all voters who are truly independent or Other.
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  485.  @IMSiegfried  True. Well, if 40-50% claim the label, and 10% really are, that isn't nobody ;-)
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  486.  Hulk Smash  Look up the difference between debt and deficit, genius.
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  487.  @shawnsimmons4718  First of all, no, and second, how did you gather that idea from me pointing out that Obama didn't increase the budget deficit.
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  488. Fun fact: the original version of the phrase was "can't eat your cake and have it, too." It was actually the more common usage until the 1930s or so.
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  489. Der Orangestraflingfuhrer: I don't use Teleprompters. Also Der Orangestraflingfuhrer: Literally standing between two Teleprompters.
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  490. I hear a child screaming "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
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  491. Whoa! She doesn't recognize Joey Lawrence? I am old. Wasn't he making a comeback earlier this decade?
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  492. Trump: incestuous president.
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  493. I thought you were going to show a super cut of Der Orangestraflingfuhrer sniffing to sjow him probably being on something.
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  494. His ego is so frail that he keeps saying "for Trump" because he can't bring himself to admit that votes came in for Biden even if it helps his argument.
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  495.  @ProHobbyjogger  Gotta wait them out and appoint new ones when their terms expire.
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  496. @Nohely Devan She sure didn't seem superior when it came to her word salad on why she will or won't keep private insurance.
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  497. 7:10 I love Greta Thunberg, but I always heard that you can't recycle pizza boxes because the oils corrupt the paper.
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  498.  @markusstewart9986  I had another one comment that was based on a quick reading. Once I realized that I misread it, I deleted it. So true about the wishful thinking. And there are some people going back to the hospital, so there are concerns that immunity might not be developing in the way they are hoping due to mutations. I'd almost rather someone be so honest in being so callous as Donald Trump as someone pretending that he/she is endangering people because of concern for others.
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  499.  @unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336  And, given the lack of health care access in the biggest place where it is happening, the numerator might also be low. Also, how many people with other illnesses are dying because the coronavirus is overwhelming the system.
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  500. @Carl Quant I identify more with the populist movement than anything. That being said, if you really think that "every human life has value," you don't argue for killing millions while pretending to care about the poor. And, guess what, if the tourism comes back while the disease is still raging, that is going to kill them, too.
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  501. @Carl Quant Real populists are left wing and support the people. Fake populists are right wing and divide the people. Look up the People's Party in the 1890s and William Jennings Bryan.
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  502. @Carl Quant You didn't say that every human life has value? You didn't try to insist that we are being selfish by quarantining because that means less tourism dollars? Could have fooled me.
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  503. This is how dictatorship starts. That, and the people who'd kill themselves to "own the libs" and people on the dum-dum left (I am a lefty, so I'm talking about a particular strain) who want to be like Officer Barbrady ignoring the threat.
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  504.  @WolfeSaber  You are aware that Trump made those overtures in 2018, right? He had 2.5 years to follow up other than sucking up and talking about love letters.
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  505.  @Axolotl_Mischief  Sadly, you'd be surprised how vulnerable the "peace at all costs" crowd will be to such stupidity. At the time, I said, "if he makes a breakthrough, great, but I am withholding judgment " A lot of people who should have known better didn't.
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  506. And even the BBC ain't what it used to be. Look at the way they participated in bringing down Jeremy Corbyn.
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  507. Come on, Karen! I am 39, and if someone showed a picture of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I would recognize it. That is roughly the equivalent. Would she even know who exclaimed Come On?
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  508. ​ @tomatopie34  They've kept their suckiness out of the public eye, so I'll let it pass.
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  509.  @joehatch1602  Federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in 13 years, so that's clearly not to blame for the inflation now. In fact, the last time the minimum wage did go up, inflation was consistent with the times it didn't go up. Stupid conservatives doing the bidding for the rich.
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  510.  @joehatch1602  Oh, this is funny. You're convinced that Biden did it, but you can't name a single policy that did it. I can think of far more things that his predecessor did that created a ticking time bomb, such as pumping money into Wall Street to avoid a bear market, which just ended up creating a bubble. I can also point to the pent-up demand as more people went out. And I can also look past the reported annual report at the monthly inflation report and know that it has been at 0.9% in the four months since the Inflation Reduction Act passed, which is an annual rate of 2.8%... which is below the post-WWII average of 3%. For someone who opened up by insulting the intelligence of those who disagreed with you, I'm definitely appreciating the irony that only one of us has the receipts.
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  511.  @joehatch1602  Why do you think that charging stations cause inflation?
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  512.  @joehatch1602  Again, Biden stopped giving new permits, because oil companies are sitting on thousands of permits and not drilling. Take it up with them.
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  513.  @joehatch1602  "Gas companies have always made big profits." Not this big. And there were times after the Russia invasion that crude oil prices dropped and prices climbed. So, tell me how that's Biden' fault.
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  514.  @joehatch1602  My point about what? I've made many responses to your endless writing that only boils down to "I hate the environment and I hate when companies oppose discrimination."
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  515.  @joehatch1602  If "government spending causes inflation," why has it been so low for so long? I'm 43, and the only balanced federal budgets in my lifetime have been at the turn of the century. Lower wages leads to lower demand, so stagnant wages since the Reagan years has meant that someone has had to step in to keep the economy going. And Der Orangefuhrer had much higher budget deficits than Biden, so does that mean that you're saying that he left a ticking bomb?
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  516.  @joehatch1602  "What makes you think I wouldn't be saying [the] same thing against Republicans?" Because the instant you say "stupid liberals" to open a conversation, you have laid your cards on the table. And when Biden did something that you are convinced "does nothing," the inflation rate dropped by two thirds. Riddle me this, Batman. If the Inflation Reduction Act did nothing, why do you think it's so much lower? Or did you not bother to look at the monthly rate? As far as what else Biden could have done, a windfall profits tax would have made a big difference, but because the right can only see such nonsense as a gas tax holiday and pretend that oil companies will pass on the 18.4 cents/gallon to the consumer, there simply aren't the votes.
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  517.  @joehatch1602  Well, I do give you credit for seeing three instead of two (because gas prices plummeted because of the shutdowns), but today, it was $4.00, and three years ago, it was about $3.75. Since the oil companies are on tape saying that they are going to exploit the Russian invasion to jack up prices, how exactly is that Biden's fault?
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  518.  @yngstunna101  No. I'm only saying that it's not "literally nowhere." Let's worry about getting the minimum wage to $15/hour and then go from there.
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  519.  @joehatch1602  "Just like a liberal to bring racism to a conversation" Literally said nothing about racism... unless your heart works the same way Hank Williams' cheating heart does.
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  520.  @joehatch1602  And yet you literally can't give any examples of what Biden did to cause inflation.
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  521.  @joehatch1602  "I didn't say charging stations cause inflation" You brought it up several times when I asked what policies are causing inflation. Or are you saying that you don't know how to follow or construct an argument?
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  522.  @joehatch1602  "Reckless spending is causing the inflation" Deficits are down, so nice try. Do you know what would happen if you suddenly went cold turkey and balanced the budget after the Trump deficits? A recession that would make 2008 and 2020 look like hiccups.
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  523.  @tapps1010  Wait til you read the dozen or so replies where he blames inflation on charging stations for electric cars ;-)
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  524.  @joehatch1602  I never said the policies are for racism. I talked about you complaining about Coke and Facebook opposing laws that discriminate. The only political position I've seen Coke take was against a voting restriction bill in Georgia. The only ones I've seen Facebook take that could remotely be considered lefty are against hate speech. So, if you have Coke on the record suddenly wanting to make it easier for workers to organize or to increase corporate taxes, I'm all ears.
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  525.  @joehatch1602  No, my point is that, when you need to buy a new one, factor fuel efficiency into the cost. I've never bought a new car (or paid five digits for one) in my entire life, but I buy a midsize sedan rather than an SUV. The solution for "People are broke!" is not to vote for the party that opposes higher wages, but to do things like organize and vote for candidates that make it easier to do so. My union job was on a four-year contract signed in 2019 with scheduled raises totaling 18% over that time period. When it became obvious that inflation was a more persistent problem than originally thought, we got two retention bonuses this year totaling $1200, and we got our final pay raises for the contract early. So, riddle me this, Batman, what proposals have Republicans actually made to increase wages or fight inflation? In a debate in 2015, Der Orangefuhrer said that "wages are too high in America," and his handpicked FED chair is blaming inflation on worker and expressing dismay that he hasn't killed the job market yet.
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  526.  @joehatch1602  -government overspending And yet you can't answer when I keep asking you why it didn't happen when deficits were higher, and you start sputtering about charging stations -stimulus checks There haven't been any stimulus checks in a year and a half, so nice try. -student loan forgiveness Well, a) this is new, and b) inflation was already dropping before the student loan forgiveness, which was put on hold, so once again, your ignorance is showing. -sending money to Ukraine Are you a Russian troll? If so, your grammar is better than most of the rest I have dealt with. -no drilling contracts And as I keep asking you, why do they need new contracts if they won't drill with the thousands they already have? -shutting down coal plants And when I asked which coal plants have been shut down, you never gave an example.
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  527.  @joehatch1602  "Inflation hasn't gone down because prices are still rising!!!" Tell me you don't understand how the rate of inflation works without saying that you understand how inflation works. Over the last four months, inflation is below the historic average. Prices going down would be deflation, and unless you're a stupid dummy, you don't want that, because that is a sign of a severely contracting economy.
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  528.  @joehatch1602  "I don't care about tribal land." A right winger who doesn't care about anyone but himself? What a shock!
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  529.  @joehatch1602  You're the one who can't have an honest conversation because you don't even understand how economics works, and you're not the boss of me. If you don't like it, stew in your room that your ignorance was exposed.
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  530. @nekrogoregasm What are you talking about?
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  531. They're bringing in a disease that has been completely eradicated for over 40 years? How diabolical!
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  532. Keep my city out of your mouth, Huckabee!
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  533. I'm late Gen X (39), and I got them all.
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  534.  @EH23831  I think most people who have seen it agree with that sentiment.
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  535. After this, he's going to Blimpie's!
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  536. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Centrism is an ideology that can basically be summed up as "take the things that you want to do, and just do a little bit less of it," regardless of the initial offer.
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  537.  @xy6845  The map is actually favorable for such a solution next year. The biggest pick-up opportunities are in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and possibly North Carolina. The only vulnerable seats are Georgia and maybe Arizona (Kelly).
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  538.  @EvanMoon  I don't know specifically what you are looking for, but the one person more responsible than anyone else for the way government (doesn't) work now is Mitch McConnell. He is the one who decided to just unilaterally block anything that a Democratic President wants to do, even if it is their idea, purely in the name of obtaining power, and voters didn't punish him for it. He actually got rewarded for it.
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  539.  @xy6845  I didn't say it was a good ideology, I said that it was an ideology. It is the reductio ad absurdum of the golden mean.
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  540.  @akraidiant4078  Brain cells? He has more than one?
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  541.  @akli3481  [citation needed]
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  542.  @aerodave1  "Let's go down to the other side and give the Republicans some courage!" Der Orangefuhrer That sounds like inciting a riot to me, and given the context, that sounds like treason and sedition.
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  543.  @cf9844  Telling people to go to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to "give Republicans courage" after two months of telling people that they need to stop the count is telling them to be violent. Show me anything Bernie said that could be directly related to a crazed supporter to shoot a baseball game. Time is up for you fascists and fascist enablers.
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  544.  @cf9844  Because it is a threat for what happens to the people who don't do it. What else do you think it meant?
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  545.  @SeaJay_Oceans  We the People votes to get this buffoon out of office.
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  546.  @cf9844  Yeah, and no mob boss ever really ordered people to get whacked.
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  547.  @cf9844  Riddle me this, Batman. What did you think that "showing strength" meant?
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  548.  @cf9844  Also, what did he mean when the fascists were in the halls of Congress and told them he loved them and they were special people?
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  549.  @cf9844  Funny that you ignored the second question of what he meant when he said to the people who were invading the Capitol that he loved then and they were special.
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  550.  @cf9844  Because you gave a non-answer that you thought that nothing would come of telling a group of people, many with guns, to march down Pennsylvania Avenue and make Congress do what you want. There are none as blond as those who refuse to see.
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  551.  @cf9844  And when I asked what any reasonable person could expect whe someone tells about armed group to demand Congress give it what it wants what you thought would happen. Funny that you won't answer that question.
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  552.  @cf9844  When I asked what Trump would happen after telling people to "give courage" to members of Congress who wanted to uphold the election results, you said it was unfair to say that was inciting anything. Then, I asked you what could be expected, and you said "the same thing that happens in any large crowd." Then, when I pointed out that many of them had guns, you avoided the question.
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  553.  @cf9844  What is the expected result when you tell armed people to march to Congress to get them to change the results of the elections?
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  554.  @theworkethic  It's a Portlandia reference. Look up the song. It is hilarious.
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  555. One time at work, a woman yelled so loudly that I could hear both sides of the conversation even though the person on my end had the phone to his ear. Not just that I could hear the woman he was talking to: I could hear every single word. It is more than possible.
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  556.  @tigertalks1567  [citation needed]
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  557.  @lootangshellhouse2506  [citation needed]
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  558. Maybe if they would have told Der Orangefuhrer they were proud of him during his lifetime, he wouldn't be such a hot mess now.
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  559.  @raywhite7179  At one point, that Evil Turtle literally filibustered his own bill.
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  560.  @raywhite7179  At one point, it seemed either like Stockholm Syndrome or like George Costanza in the episode where Jerry's girlfriend didn't like him and he spent the rest of the episode trying to win her over.
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  561. Actually, Seth, hunters have to wear blaze orange in many states to make sure that other hunters don't shoot them. One time, when running in the woods for cross country practice in high school, we had to wear our uniforms because they had orange on them and it was in the middle of hunting season.
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