Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" channel.

  1. Come for the jokes, stay for the mini-one-man shows. Never lose them, Seth. Never lose them.
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  2. “Build the wall!” ... wasn’t that the wall your guy promised to build? Instead of which he spent most of his time in office playing golf?
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  3. I just learned this new term: “voteflake”. That’s his supporter fanatics who still insist he won the election.
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  4. There is a saying: “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing”.
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  5. 1:38 “Apolish our police departments” ... the ones with the bad apples in them? Apple apolishing, perhaps?
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  6. Yup, while Darnella’s footage was the centrepiece, there were quite a few other clips as well. Basically, the evidence against Mr-George-Floyd-Killer was overwhelming. Even so, his conviction was still in doubt. And he might appeal. And no doubt his Police Union still backs him all the way.
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  7. SpliffsNotes could take off, particularly abong the cool kids. Weed like to think so.
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  8. I like the headline The Register did on Elon’s flight: “Good news: He went into space. Bad news: he came back.”
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  9. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  10. They want credit to go to their guy. Credit for all the good stuff, no blame for any of the bad stuff. Just like the god they worship, really.
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  11. 4:09 The amusing thing about that leader of the Oath Keepers is he is a living, breathing testament to the oxymoron that is “gun safety”.
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  12. Trump is now trying to scapegoat the WHO. They gave the warning to the entire world as soon as they knew about it, but he spent months downplaying and flat-out denying that there was anything to worry about. Now his country is suffering badly, while others who took the warnings more seriously and acted in time were able to deal better with it. Yes, China should have told us all about it three weeks earlier. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s inaction.
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  13. 3:15 “Scooby Sandwich of Crime” shall be my phrase of the week. Oh, and his Shaggy impersonation is five-star. ;)
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  14. The reason why you are kept awake during brain surgery is so that the surgeon can get immediate feedback if they get anywhere close to cutting something they shouldn’t. The brain has no pain sensors, so the patient doesn’t actually suffer (much) discomfort. I read once about this virtuoso violinist, who actually kept playing during his surgery, so the surgeon could be sure no damage was done to that precious skill. Of course, your head is completely immobilized, otherwise the accuracy of the cutting would be jeopardized.
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  15. If it’s any consolation, the Republicans’ attempts to invalidate Democrat-leaning votes are getting, shall we say, mixed results. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/2/judge-rules-nevada-ballot-counting-legal-in-blow-to-republicans https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/1/texas-court-denies-republican-led-effort-to-reject-houston-votes Even an all-Republican-leaning panel of judges cannot be trusted to rule the Republicans’ way!
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  16. Making every vote count the same is called “proportional representation”. It’s how voting works in Germany; the system was put in place after World War II to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. And it worked so well, we here in NZ copied it. It does almost inevitably lead to coalition politics: you get a range of political parties in Parliament, none with a clear majority, so they need to figure out how to work together to get things done. But most of us see that as a feature, not a bug. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  17. He claimed the NY Times report was “fake news”, but he didn’t actually come out and say he was paying more in taxes than that. Now I hear he’s claiming the data was “illegally obtained”. But that means it must be true!
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  18. The “My Cue-Card” guy.
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  19. As the saying goes: “Ba-dum-tish!”
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  20. 1:17 ... and their mode of response when this fact is pointed out is “I know you are but what am I?” The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  21. Those are just the colours of the car-jumpsuits.
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  22. I think a time limit might be more effective than cutting the mic. Every time either side starts talking, the timer starts running, even if it’s not their turn. Then when it is their turn, if they find they’ve run out of time, tough.
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  23. 10:27 The WHO already had a working test, but the US refused to use that, instead preferring to develop their own. Which it turned out didn’t work, so it had to be withdrawn and redone before trying again. Wasting precious time while the virus continued to spread.
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  24. The correct answer is: “We run a private company, under the expectation that the Government doesn’t get to tell us how to manage our own business.”
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  25. 10:32 Mitt Romney ... henceforth known as “the only Republican with a conscience”.
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  26. He wants it both ways. It was always a hoax, but he came up with a vaccine for it anyway. Just like he agreed with Chris Krebs that the 2020 Presidental election was the “most secure ever”, yet in the same breath still managed to insist that the Democrats had somehow stolen it from him.
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  27. I thought it was one of those “famous quotes that the person never said”, but it’s true -- he’s apparently even said it more than once.
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  28. His good friend Sam Bankman-Fried told him it was the hot new thing.
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  29. Also, don’t forget why mammalian testicles are outside the body: they don’t like being warm. What I want to know is, how come that doesn’t apply to bird testicles?
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  30. 3:31 The Electoral College wasn’t designed to give more weight to rural areas, it was designed to give more weight to slave owners. In other words, not a good example to emulate!
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  31. After so many decades of trying to claim “liberal” doesn’t mean what it says ...
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  32. What happened to the “more than you can imagine” that Giuliani was supposed to have found in Ukraine?
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  33. Yuge sections. The best sections.
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  34. The god they worship is the one that takes credit for all the good stuff, but none of the blame for the bad stuff.
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  35. If any taxpayer money went into the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine (the first one off the ranks, remember), it was from 🇩🇪 or 🇪🇺, not 🇺🇸.
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  36. Remember “rake the leaves”?
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  37. Voting has stopped. He has (deliberately?) conflated “voting” with “vote- counting”.
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  38. 13:23 “Adaptation” ... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. “Adaptation” means “changing behaviour to cope with changed circumstances”. It doesn’t mean “trying to continue as before, as though things will be fine”.
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  39. The Teamster guy forgot to ask about stock options.
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  40. Unfortunately, when you only have two parties, you don’t get much of a choice. The best democracies manage more than two parties.
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  41. Jordan Klepper’s segments show their mindset in all its naked glory. George Orwell had a name for it: “doublethink”.
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  42. 8:35 True story: they get bred so plump and round, they can no longer mate without falling off.
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  43. They don’t even have to try to make sense any more. Seems their followers will continue to follow, no matter what. It’s like, to them, “sanity” has become secret code for “radical Left”.
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  44. There’s the gag about a man who got a Christmas card from his doctor, but he couldn’t make out what the message was. Then he remembered who was the only person in town who could read the doctor’s hadnwriting, namely the pharmacist. So he took the card round to that establishment. The pharmacist read the card, then took a bottle down from the shelf and said “That’ll be $4.75 please”. (It’s an old joke...)
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  45.  @joyphillips1821  So you call something “Fake news” when it did actually happen? No, the Republicans had no right to attend the closed-door hearing. The law giving the Democrats the power to keep them out was passed by ... the Republicans.
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  46. I think the midterms have proved that they have thinned out a bit ... perhaps even in the Darwinian sense.
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  47. “This President has committed an illegal operation and will be shut down.” Well, we can dream...
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  48. Every time you hear a Forever Trumper speak, you think that has to be the dumbest thing ever. Until the next time they open their mouth ...
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  49. That is the surprising thing. When you consider the armed response to the Black Lives Matter protests, this time they were almost welcoming to Trump’s Fascists.
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  50. 12:42 He loves the military so much he diverted funding from them to build his wall.
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  51. Unfortunately, it’s expensive to be a politician in 🇺🇸. That’s why one who can survive without being bought by lobbyists, like Bernie, is such a rarity. Not many are tough like him.
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  52. “Does this document look deleted to you?” “It’s got a ketchup stain on it. Does that count?”
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  53. The old hand-over-a-bunch-of-money-without-admitting-guilt gambit. Works nearly every time.
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  54. In their eyes, ideology > science. I’ve been thinking about the concept of a “Conservative” being someone who is supposed to prefer how things were in the past. But their memory of how things were in the past seems very limited and selective. Those who actually make a point of studying how things were in the past, and learning from the lessons of history, tend to get branded “Liberals”.
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  55. Basic arithmetic is also a lapdog of the Radical Left, don’t you know?
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  56. If the President were elected by popular vote, a Republican would never hold the position again.
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  57. The lesson for the US is: put together a democratic election for your own leaders. What’s funny is, the NZ proportional-representation electoral system is copied from the German one. This is the one put in place by the Allies after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never get power there again. Even though the US had a hand in creating it, it looks nothing like the US system. Maybe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander? Maybe the US should try out the system it helped to implement?
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  58. Peer pressure is an incredibly powerful thing. You look at examples like some formerly mild-mannered schoolteacher in Cambodia who ran a prison where essentially nobody came out alive, and realize that the barrier to that sort of thing happening doesn’t have to be that high, once you start destroying the credibility of your institutions.
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  59. When you’re that far gone, what’s a little H₂S between friends co-conspirators?
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  60. 7:21 And the Koreans also managed to hold a general election in the middle of their coronavirus containment measures. And not mail-in votes, but actual personal voting. Every voter had their temperature taken as they came to the polling stations, and those with temperatures were not turned away, instead they were sent to a separate section to cast their vote. You hear that? Nobody was turned away from voting, not even those who might be infected!
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  61. “Never challenge a librarian when it comes to free speech.” I love that. #WordsToLiveBy
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  62. If the President was elected by popular vote, it seems likely a Republican will never occupy the White House again.
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  63.  @captiannemo1587  Stock is exactly what I was thinking of. Slightly surprised the Teamster guy didn’t think to ask about that.
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  64. Seems like America’s “greatness” can’t have been much if it magically disappeared the moment he left office.
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  65. They follow a religion that rewards faith, not just in the absence of evidence, but directly contrary to the evidence.
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  66. It’s one of those things, you think it’s one of those famous phrases that were never actually uttered, like “Beam me up, Scotty!”. Then you discover it’s entirely true, he does actually say it.
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  67. Because socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works. Hi from NZ, basically a nation of secular godless socialist liberals. Who value democracy.
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  68. Remember Saddam Hussein’s information minister, who kept denying the Iraq invasion was succeeding, even while the tanks were approaching Baghdad? Trump’s supporters have been taking lessons from him.
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  69. Their loss of followers just happened to happen at the same time as Twitter closing thousands of QAnon-linked accounts. You really think they should be wanting to draw attention to that ... “coincidence”?
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  70. There is a saying: “Every country gets the government it deserves”. Ardern is a product of the society she leads. Using USian terms, NZ is a nation predominantly made up of secular liberals with a high respect for science and low tolerance for dogmatic ideology and “faith” and other such reality-optional doctrines. The Government gets a high credibility rating because it treats the populace with respect.
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  71. You practise by spending a few months in a war zone.
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  72. Wasn’t one of Trump’s campaign promises to make it easier to sue journalists for libel? Actually, I don’t think he actually followed through on that. But you see the irony ...
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  73. It’s like waiting for the bus: you stand around forever, and suddenly 34 of them arrive at once.
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  74. Back in their day, they could rock without ’em.
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  75. 11:43 Militarization of the police just seems an inevitable reaction to the great wash of guns out there. How else are police to act when anybody they come up against could potentially be armed? It seems to me an essential part of the whole process is getting rid of the guns.
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  76. Is this the beginning of a trend? Or just a flash in the pan? Time will tell.
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  77. 11:06 Talking about hollowing out, today I hear that there are mass layoffs among US medical staff, even as coronavirus infection rates continue to rise. Why? Because most of the high-revenue elective surgeries have been cancelled to deal with the virus, leading to a cashflow crunch, and Wall Street investors want their money back before the health-sector investment funds collapse.
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  78. Considering most of the Jesus freaks enthusiastically supported Trump ... “‘Jesus’ ... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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  79. His whole mini-one-man shows are a delight.
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  80.  Yuki Babayega  More people voted for Clinton than Trump. The election was stolen from her by your slavery-era Electoral College system.
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  81. 5:44 Wow, is he going to change campaign managers after every rally from this point on?
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  82. Impeachment proceedings may not seem useful at this stage, but if he’s found guilty, he would be barred from public office for the rest of his life.
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  83. Smallpox is now officially eradicated. And we are this close to doing the same to polio. Measles and others could follow, too, if it weren’t for the anti-vaxxers.
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  84. Maybe not impeach him right away, but sneak up on it: implum him first, then imapricot him. Kind of work your way up the stone fruit, if you get my drift.
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  85. “For the Econo-ME!”
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  86. 7:22 Ah, those were the days, when the numbers could double because of one ship ...
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  87. 5:44 “He’s keeled over.” “OK, we got to leave the mine now.” “Wait -- aren’t we supposed to take him too -- oh, never mind.”
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  88. They keep saying this is just normal “democracy” in action. So you can expect this sort of thing to continue for the next two years.
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  89. They may not be turbining anything, either. A turbine needs a duct with impeller and compressor fans in it. A bunch of blades moving in open air is called a “windmill” regardless of whether it’s actually connected to any kind of “mill”.
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  90. And he’s entirely happy to laugh at himself, and admit that when he’s being portrayed on SNL, that’s not a good sign for the health of the country. Just something comforting about that. And I say that even though I’m from 🇳🇿, where we have our own Fauci, a certain Dr Ashley Bloomfield. The difference being, our administration has been supportive and respectful of him and the other experts right from the get-go.
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  91. Paradoxically, they are a type that is very likely to rise to positions of power.
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  92. It won’t be enough to vote him out. The system needs to be fixed so a dictator like him can never take power in the US again.
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  93. Because if they don’t support their own idiot, it makes the Democrats stronger. Remember, party is more important than country!
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  94. I just love what Robin Williams said: Canada is like living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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  95. He seemed to think his troops could just walk in. He had no idea that the people of 🇺🇦 actually care about their country. It’s not clear what he’s trying to achieve with his invasion any more.
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  96. Voting him out won’t be enough. The system needs to be reformed so a dictator like Trump can never get power again.
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  97. They say laughter is the best medicine. But then, that’s just what they want you think, isn’t it? twitch
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  98. In NZ, the politicians put country before party. The Epidemic Response Committee, which is monitoring the Government’s handling of the crisis, is actually dominated by the opposition National party. So basically every single one of the 5 parties we currently have in Parliament has some say in what is going on. That’s part of what, in a democratic nation, we might call “checks and balances”. Contrast the situation in the US...
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  99. That was obvious from the beginning. Remember he said the Constitution gave him the power to do anything?
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  100. Wouldn’t they have to fit into the lightbulb before they could begin scr—oh, never mind ...
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  101. “Look, never mind signing your name, just put an ‘X’.” “What’s an ‘X’?”
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  102. Given the way the Electoral College works? 3 million votes weren’t enough to keep him out the first time; how many do you think will be needed this time?
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  103. Besides being a slaveowner, he’s like the Microsoft of the Founding Fathers: great at popularizing ideas he didn’t invent.
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  104. 5:40 Yet when a talk show host asks you a question about it, you hang up on them.
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  105. Bernie could never be elected as leader under the US two-party system. That’s why all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  106. Democracy cannot be based on religion, race, ethnicity or any other such divide. A democracy needs to cater for the welfare of all its citizens, and only a secular state can manage that.
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  107. That Constitution is part of the problem, though. The Electoral College is what helps keep Portland Mud in power, and the Second Amendment is killing too many Americans. Remember, law must be based on what is right and what is wrong, not the other way round. If a law conflicts with morality, it is the law that is broken.
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  108. Long-term, the demographics in the USA are moving towards a majority of Blacks and Asians and Hispanics and basically everything non-Anglo. I see this as the last gasp of the slave-owner mentality, pulling out every stop and sacrificing every scruple and semblance of ethical behaviour in order to maintain their grip on power. They seem prepared to trample on every part of the US Constitution🗡 in order to keep that power. 🗡Except one: the Second Amendment seems to be the only part sacred to them.
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  109. Straight from the fridge: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Trump™
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  110. That’s OK. Some of us were dreading his opening his mouth and putting his foot in it.
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  111. In a nutshell: socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  112. It’s his job as President to try to unite the country, not divide it. It will be a massive job, but he has volunteered for it, remember. Try your best to help him.
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  113. The number of ways he could leave the White House on Jan 20 are rapidly narrowing. So which do you think it’ll be: in handcuffs or a straitjacket?
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  114. Maybe he didn’t realize, those experts he was talking to were talking about him.
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  115.  @davidknightx  Well, you have a significant proportion of the American public who believe they never put a man on the moon.
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  116. The reporters need danger money for sitting through a two-and-a-half-hour propaganda press conference.
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  117. Greetings from 🇳🇿, a democracy run by a bunch of godless atheist socialist liberals, where sex work is legal.
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  118. I was wondering. If it was an adverb, wouldn’t it be “uply”? And what about “stand down”? Every time I hear that, I think of the MASH episode where Hawkeye went without sleep for several days. Potter: “I thought I told you to stand down.” Pierce: “I did, but I fell up again.”
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  119. I see a civil war coming. In the only country in the world with more guns than people ... how bad do you think it’ll get?
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  120. Does anybody still seriously believe that Christian nonsense? I mean, apart from Trump supporters.
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  121. 4:39 That fake tan looks even more gruesome in that shot.
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  122. He did chuckle at one point at something Biden said. TFG probably called him afterwards to make him regret it, though.
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  123. The more you point out their character flaws, the more they double down on their denials.
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  124. And that it is dressed in clothes.
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  125. DeSantis is best described as “passive-aggressive”.
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  126. It seems to be characteristic of right-wing nut cases that they project their own evil onto their opponents. “You are behaving in an anti-democratic fashion.” “I know you are, but what am I?”
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  127. 6:17 “E-virgin-see” ... I think they call that a Freudian slip ...
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  128. FG wasn’t the first to notice such politicians’ techniques.
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  129. Colbert -- relaxes while off work Meyers -- work is his only way to relax
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  130. No no no, he’s just going to conduct an extended inspection. A long-duration, live-in inspection. Kind of a test run for when he really needs it. As though he were really using it. Not as though he would ever actually need to use it, no way.
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  131. Maybe some things are more important than money...
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  132. He avoids using Trump’s name, keeps referring to him as “the former guy”. 👍
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  133. I think he includes dicey jokes in his act on purpose, just so he can do something adept to recover from them, and still get that audience laugh.
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  134. The actual proverb is “when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled”. Meaning that, when the big and powerful battle each other, the ordinary people suffer. She has turned it to mean, keep your distance while the big, dumb beasts destroy each other, then you can swoop in and claim the spoils.
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  135. In all the good democracies, every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  136. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat. Particularly after the Democrats ejected the KKK and other bigots, and they found a home with the Republican Party.
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  137. Tell you what: hire NZ as a -- what do they call them? -- management consultant. We can come in and revamp your political system for you. Charge high fees, write up a report, and then go home and watch your lobbyists make your politicians completely ignore it.
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  138. ... that Guilfoyle voice ...
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  139. The law is not what makes things right or wrong; it is our sense of right and wrong that is supposed to guide the formulation of laws. If a law is clearly no longer relevant for our times, and is in fact becoming downright harmful to society, then get rid of it. Simple as that.
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  140.  @jimbendtsen8841  Are you angry that their votes counted for almost as much as yours?
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  141. If Lincoln were alive now, he’d be a Democrat. The two parties basically switched sides after the Democrats expelled the KKK and other bigots, who then found a home with the Republicans.
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  142. In a democracy, they would get handily outvoted. But in the USA ...
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  143. He’s gone full Poe’s Law on himself.
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  144. They were talking about products of the Octa-Gonnell Corporation.
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  145. Key point: those documents she published were genuine. Uncle Donald has admitted as much in his lawsuit!
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  146. 4:21 So, somebody named “Chee K” came up with that “Cheek” joke? #TotalCoincidence
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  147. Remember what MTG was like, perilously skirting the edge of perjury? Trump doesn’t have that kind of self-control.
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  148. You should be boiling mad that months of privation and lockdown have basically all been in vain.
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  149. Short attention spans is one of the key defining characteristics of the anti-Liberal mindset.
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  150. I fear there’s a good reason why 🇺🇸 is classed as a “flawed democracy” ...
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  151.  @andybaldman  Time for these network pros to get some advice from those more experienced at being online.
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  152. This is not a duty you do once and then consider it done. Who was it who said “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance”.
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  153. It’s genuine because everybody is going through the exact same thing.
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  154. A veritable feast of mini-one-man shows packed into this one. 10/10 Would watch again.
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  155. I thought he was against Musk mandates ...
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  156. He fits into the Christian narrative perfectly. What, you thought organized religion was about morality? You poor deluded fool, you ...
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  157. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.
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  158. His sense of comedy is very fluid. . . . One might say, “aqua-esque”.
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  159. Best response I can think of: “Yes sir ... unfortunately.”
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  160. How about Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion: Anita Hill.
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  161. Aren’t you glad you didn’t have a UV lamp?
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  162. She made major contributions, particularly in collecting actual experimental data, this is true. But two problems: a) The Nobel prize has this weird rule where a prize cannot be split more than 3 ways, and b) She had died by the time the award was made, and posthumous Nobels were never much of a thing.
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  163. One problem is that 🇺🇸ans pronounce turbine like “turban”, which is confusing.
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  164. Cannot ... unsee ... Meemaw getting into tub with Lindsay ...
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  165. He thinks the orders are to say things that make people gag.
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  166. Trump supporters: “Now is not the time to talk about wearing masks.” Let’s all send our thoughts and prayers to the Lügenführer ...
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  167. Their main advertiser is the “My Pillow” guy, remember.
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  168.  @e22ddie46  Precisely. 3 million more votes weren’t enough for Clinton in 2016; it took more than double that margin to take out Trump this time. In a democracy, every vote would count equally.
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  169. She has connections to a conservative Christian group known as “People of Praise” ... which is busily erasing any mention of such connections from its entire website https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/29/us-supreme-court-nominee-barrett-tied-to-people-of-praise-report .
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  170. Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works. Didn’t they try to belittle her dancing skillz, as well? Look how well that went ...
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  171. 3:06 I think the term is “endemic”. It is an epidemic that never seems to go away.
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  172. Ah, but Putin has these wonderful Liberal Bombs, which will only kill Liberals and leave Restrictives standing! Or whatever it is that Restrictives do, that passes for standing.
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  173.  @avadarkness666  I’m as godless atheist socialist liberal as they come.
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  174. But if there were two Frankensteins, then the name “Frankenstein” just becomes ambiguous. The monster should more correctly be “Frankenstein Jr”.
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  175. If it’s any consolation, they’re not laughing at you in Brazil.
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  176. Targeting Apple users, is he? Because there is a platform that respects the freedoms of its users ...
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  177. 7:36 A woman was indeed bundled off a Russian street by the OMON thugs for precisely that: holding up a blank sheet of paper.
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  178. Political appointments should never be for life. In most countries, judges are not supposed to be political at all.
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  179. This is like “even a stopped clock is right once a day”.
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  180.  @patsysadowski1546  I wonder how the Conservative lot in the UK are dealing with the fact that their darling, Boris Johnson, owes his life to that epitome of Socialist healthcare, the NHS.
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  181. It’s going to be interesting to see if they succumb to popular pressure as a result of this and roll back their draft decision.
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  182. Yeah, but the nations with fewer cases are all Socialist. Hi from NZ. 🐧
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  183. I like the fact he tried to blame Wally for not bringing up the next cue card, when the next line was very clearly on the same cue card. Seth covering up his own inability to keep a straight face? Never...!!!!!
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  184. The noise of that balloon dying deflating was so horrible and so sad at the same time ...
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  185. Because corporations are people ... actually more so than real people ...
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  186. I wonder, when he was deciding whether to include that or not, it was a toss-up between a Shawshank Rejection and a Shawshank Retention ...
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  187. Yeah, but which one makes for a better Hollywood-movie plot? Yup, these people really do think of the world in terms of what they see in movies and TV.
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  188. “Gave in”. “Gave way”. “Surrendered”.
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  189. That case was prosecuted by the same NY Attorney General who is currently suing to disband the NRA. I’m rooting for her.
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  190. That shake of the head was from the polygraph operator looking at the reading.
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  191. Consider that GW Bush made Reagan seem like a moderate, while Trump made GW Bush seem almost normal. So the next Republican Presidential candidate has to be someone who makes Trump seem almost sane.
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  192. 9:58 “We’re gonna need a bigger wheel-clamp.”
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  193. I must remember that pronunciation of “zoologist” the next time I go to the zo.
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  194. Even in the US polls seem to show most of the people want to be sensible. It’s just you’ve got this small, yet disproportionately powerful group who prioritize their own welfare over that of the public. In a democracy, they would be outvoted. In the US, on the other hand ...
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  195.  @old_grey_cat  It got too close to a personal attack, and backfired.
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  196.  @terri6854  You do your clocks, I do mine.
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  197. But only the good stuff. Even though the Christian Constitution gave him the power to do anything, none of the bad stuff was his fault.
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  198. I don’t think legal penalties can be written off as expenses for tax purposes.
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  199. In some locked-down countries, they give the medical people a round of applause every day. In Brazil, they bang their pots and pans to show how angry they are with Clown-in-Chief Bolsonaro. Maybe the US could adopt both of these ...
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  200. It’s also a very patriotic symbol. Who was it who said “I regret that I have but one asterisk for my country”.
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  201.  @andreweisan9613  Obama persevered with it. He managed to get things done, in spite of the Republicans trying to stymie him at every opportunity.
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  202.  @LeScratch89  He still has to try. Playing the blame game is 1) what Trump spent most of his time doing, and 2) exactly what the Republicans want Biden to do.
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  203. Sounds like a title of a Mel Brooks movie ...
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  204. 3:44 “Consanguinity in the second degree”. There was this case back in mediæval Europe where some royalty got a marriage annulled on grounds of “consanguinity in the third degree”. Since divorce was officially forbidden back then, they had to come up with some creative excuses to get around it ...
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  205. There is one part of the 🇺🇸 Constitution that is sacred to them: the Second Amendment. That part they like, very much. Almost too much. The rest of it can go hang.
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  206. As opposed to a flower show ... petal to the medal ...
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  207. Strange, isn’t it? I thought they declared a Republic to get away from a King, yet here it turns out they worship a King after all ...
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  208.  @crazyhandshands9028  Since the invention of the electronic digital computer, pretty much https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1104cbs-tv-univac-election/ .
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  209. You do that and you turn into Desi Lydic.
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  210.  @andrewstevenson118  Remember, “’Allo ’Allo” was a bit of a spectrum. I take it you weren’t doing Officer Crabtree ...
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  211.  @sweetgirlandhercats  Did you see more than 2 empty shelves? You should have complained they were breaking the limit.
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  212. Parliamentary systems don’t tend to have term limits. My feeling is, they’re a band-aid on a system that’s already broken.
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  213. 1:54 Might be a bit difficult, considering that’s not a whole lobster, just the claw. Am I mean and unfeeling for pointing that out?
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  214. But the Second Amendment specifically mentions the need for well-organized militias. And this new Supreme Court Judge Barrett is known for being very literal in her interpretation of the Constitution. You think maybe your Constitution is overdue for some kind of revamp, maybe? Naaahhhhh...
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  215. Here in 🇳🇿 it wasn’t just Bloomfield, we have our whole coterie of local epidemiologists, like Michael Baker, Siouxsie Wiles and the others, advising the Government and also, don’t forget, giving their own interviews to the media without the Government interfering. In short, I think people were always kept well-informed. We have no media owned by Rupert Murdoch (that I’m aware of), deliberately trying to muddy the waters to push their own ideology.
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  216. Suggestion: look at the ranked-preference (a.k.a. “Single Transferable Vote” or STV) voting system they brought in for their House District election in Alaska. It tends to prioritize individuals over parties, and may be just what you need to break the polarization that seems to be endemic in 🇺🇸 politics.
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  217. This is the kind of real-time interactive feedback that is only possible with the technology that is YouValve.
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  218. This is the state that had to bring in refrigerated trucks to hold the overflow of bodies from the morgues, with so many people dying. Yet they seem incapable of learning their lesson.
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  219. What tickles me is that we finally have a conspiracy theory so loony, even T∗∗∗∗ won’t touch it. He had standards?!!? (Of a sort.) Who knew?
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  220. 0:51 She does love those “Respect my authoritah!” glasses ...
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  221. Yeah, but it didn’t have any date evidence, like a picture of the front page of the day’s paper.
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  222. You know how a magnifying glass works because a convex lens magnifies the rays of light? Well, he invented the first convex typewriter.
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  223. Just so long as they get (re)elected, they don’t care. Maybe the US should try democracy.
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  224. 6:41 Who was it who said “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money”?
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  225. Who appointed the head of the DOJ, again? (It wasn’t JRB, was it ...)
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  226. 8:28 Sorry, have to deduct points for saying “epicentres”. They’re “centres” of infection, not “epicentres”.
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  227.  @cc1k435  As opposed to the murder of born people? Death sentence, anyone?
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  228. Same reason my dad told me never to look directly at an oxy-acetylene torch. Or maybe it was an arc welder ... can’t remember now ... Time for another coffee ...
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  229. Sounds like the way they keep the tea leaves out of the cups in a student flat ...
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  230. If Abe Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat. But then, that has been true since the Democrats ejected the KKK and other racists, and they went across to the Republican Party.
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  231. George Orwell had a word for that: “doublethink”.
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  232. Unfortunately, saying that would just be playing their game. So he has to hold his tongue and continue to stay above all the childishness.
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  233. 4:49 Fun fact: cucumbers are tastier than avocadoes. Yum!
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  234. There’s the economic concept of an “externality” -- that is, a cost that a company is responsible for, but they don’t have to pay, because it’s somebody else’s problem. Like when they mess up the environment or poison people. This is why we have regulatory authorities, to ensure that a company very much bears liability, particularly financial liability, for the damage and hurt that it creates. Then hopefully it will think twice before creating new “externalities” in future.
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  235. Just so long as an ED-209 doesn’t turn up ...
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  236. Maybe this virus was a product of the Deep State which they managed to keep secret until now, specifically to damage his re-election campaign, or something. Man, it hurts to try to think like a Republican ...
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  237. Socialism is a place where kids don’t have to go to school wearing bullet-proof backpacks.
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  238. That’s their faith, which says the ruler they worship can take credit for all the good things, but no blame for any of the bad things.
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  239. Helium isn’t laughing gas.
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  240. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  241. This partisan sickness of putting party before country needs to stop. I’m afraid the USA can never be the same again.
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  242.  @fletcherrhoden  If he had been given Frankenstein’s brain, then it would have been right to call him “Frankenstein”. If he got Igor’s brain, then he would become “Igor”.
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  243. There should be a plaque there. Point it out to visitors on the White House tour.
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  244. 3:02 I always have to ask: does “media” include Fox News? Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  245. 7:09 But Goofy is a fictional character. So it is wrong to say “in fact” he is a dog; perhaps more accurately he is a dog “in fict”.
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  246. Clearly this show is lacking in its credenza credentials.
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  247. 0:42 For some reason I just remembered a certain Family Guy sequence where Brian and Stewie are passive-aggressively arguing over the pronounciation of “whip” ...
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  248. In all the best democracies, the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  249. I was thinking, that joke about an ARM and a LEG could get expensive, and cost you ...
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  250. I never knew there was such a thing as annual squirrels ...
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  251. 4:23 So are you going to arm them for the fight? Or just let them go in defenceless? In the old days, you had “cannon fodder”. Now it’s “virus fodder”. And all those guns you love to carry around are completely useless in this war.
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  252. “Aloe, aloe, aloe, what’s going on ’ere?”
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  253. When the Government is corrupt and has lost all legitimacy, what are the people to do?
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  254. And do horses have souls as well? Otherwise, where does the Headless Horseman get his horse from?
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  255. He’s a stable genius, remember he said. What is kept in stables? And what ends up covering the floors of stables?
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  256. This is why science should not be politicized. Certain groups seem to believe reality itself has a liberal bias. And then they throw a tantrum when Ma Nature herself simply rides roughshod over their precious ideology. There’s probably a Darwin Award in there for them somewhere. Oh wait, they don’t believe in Darwin, either ...
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  257. It was a very predatorial smile.
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  258. I thought that it was in the US Constitution or something that you weren’t supposed to have honorifics.
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  259. 6:29 What happens if he runs out of Secret Service agents?
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  260. Cue “møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti” etc ...
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  261.  @Canada_Dominium  Uncle Rupie is still in charge. So no.
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  262. Looks like this fun fact has been fan-fuct.
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  263. Think of it as “You ass, eh!” and it will make more sense ...
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  264. 5:12 That guy on the right is Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. He actually seems to be a competent administrator. Russia could do worse than have him replace Putin.
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  265. And the bullets.
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  266. 6:51 Boston Dynamics ... the kings of Uncanny Valley.
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  267. 5:31 Fun fact: 🇬🇧 actually tend to have better teeth than 🇺🇸 people. Something about free dental care on the NHS, don’t you know. Yes, Socialist healthcare!
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  268. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for. Also, every vote counts equally. And those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  269. Who was the musician who did either a song or an album entitled “All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”. Because apparently quite a few of the stunt-riders in Western movies were of East-Asian descent.
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  270. There will be more charges. Remember the old saying: “It never arraigns, but it pours”.
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  271. That’s not his head they’re coming out of.
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  272. You live in a Parliamentary democracy, so do I. Pity the US isn’t one.
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  273. Just use Joe Biden’s term for him: “Former Guy”.
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  274. Even the tobacco industry was unable to withstand the tide of science proving them wrong. The gun industry has been much savvier: they were able to block the CDC from investigating the consequences of gun violence, and thereby were able to (partially) stem the tide of scientific evidence from the US. Other countries, however, continue to provide plenty of proof that the gun nuts are talking out their anuses. For example Australia, which brought mass shootings virtually to a halt after legislation passed in 1996.
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  275. I, too, thought it must be a deepfake or something like that. He couldn’t be that stupid ...
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  276. Every time I hear “hashtag”, I think “gesundheit”.
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  277. I have a Samsung. It has 10 different settings for the water level.
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  278. This is why science should not be politicized. Certain groups seem to believe reality itself has a liberal bias. And then they throw a tantrum when Ma Nature herself simply rides roughshod over their precious ideology. There’s probably a Darwin Award in there for them somewhere. Oh wait, they don’t believe in Darwin, either ...
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  279. The Fox News crowd suffered a lot of jealousy that a man whose job is revealing the truth enjoyed more credibility among the general public than someone trying to push an ideology. That’s why they’ve been trying to tear him down every chance they get.
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  280. This is what happens when you put Party before Country. US politics is all about power at all costs, even if it means putting someone you know is irresponsible, unfit and downright incompetent, into a position of power. If he’s on your side, then he’s above criticism.
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  281. Are you from the past?
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  282. Just someþing to þink about, for ðose wiþ noþing else to do right now ...
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  283. 🇺🇸 has Hollywood to tell itself (and the world) how wonderful it is. It’s the most effective propaganda machine in the world.
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  284. Helping, actually. For example, Chile commemorates September 11, 1973, when their own democratically elected President, Salvador Allende, was deposed and murdered in a CIA-backed coup. Why? Because he was a Socialist.
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  285. That’s a commentary on whose intelligence, I wonder ...
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  286. Don’t they count as foreign-owned media? After all, Rupert Murdoch is Australian.
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  287. By the way, it bafffles me how the US was able to ban its Communist Party, yet somehow the KKK got off unscathed.
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  288. And that includes Republican-leaning judges, including also ones appointed by Trump himself!
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  289.  @lassaut6794  Because as long as it remains a free country, you can go and be a thorn in the side of the whackos.
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  290. aka “Frocks and Fiends”.
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  291. If they’re out of time, they have to skip their turn. Just to add to the fun, rather than making it a fixed time allocation per topic, make it a total time allocation. Let Trump run off at the mouth and talk over Biden as much as he wants, because you know he will, until he finds out he’s squandered all his time, and has to shut up for the entire rest of the debate, when Biden can talk uninterrupted.
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  292. Was it plugged in at the time?
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  293. Doesn’t matter what they use, so long as they wash their hands afterwards.
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  294. How about “pornae”, plural of “pornus” ... sounds more learned, and also a bit more naughty ...
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  295.  @sweett2185  Someone should tell Fox News to work on their delivery.
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  296. Actually, the “crikey” expression was invented in NZ. Just like the pavlova.
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  297. They didn’t try to defend Tricky Dicky at all costs.
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  298. 13:41 You do realize that many other countries don’t have dollar bills any more, we have dollar coins? While your country is still filling up your citizens’ wallets with thick wads of paper that are worth less and less?
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  299. It’s been a while since he went to Tangent Camp, though. Probably because if you do find your way there, they send you home to try again.
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  300. At least they cleaned them afterwards ...
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  301. 80% of evangelicals are solidly behind him. If you want proof that religion has nothing to do with morality, that has to be it.
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  302.  @mickeydecurious7082  Oh yes they have. They can quote parts that say their god hates gays, for example. And also remember that you will not find any part of their Bible that has anything bad to say about slavery. Certainly the Ten Commandments make no mention of it. So please try not to make the assumption that reading the Christian Bible will somehow make you a better person. It will not.
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  303. Something I still don’t understand is, why do mammalian testicles need to be kept cooler than the rest of the body, but bird ones don’t? Birds are warm-blooded too.
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  304. Rule 34, you mean?
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  305. The difference between the good guys and the bad guys is that the good guys don’t behave like bad guys, even under provocation. Sinking to their level just gives an undeserved validity to their position.
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  306. Handcuffs are too good for him. Use zip-ties.
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  307. 0:28 AlJ is reporting that more world leaders have congratulated Biden on his victory than Republicans that have done so.
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  308. To those of us who live in countries with consumer-protection agencies that have actual teeth, we look at the USA and think that outfits like the FTC seem deliberately set up with loopholes big enough to drive a bus through.
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  309. Even if you did, I wonder how the rays would get to them, given they’re in some kind of ... cover.
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  310. Also, beware Muphry’s Law.
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  311. What about the Iraqis, who were dying at the rate of about 1,000 a month for quite a while, as I recall. They called Saddam a “brutal dictator”, but even he did not manage to massacre his people at quite that kind of sustained rate.
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  312. TFG: “I want my Empty G” (followed by opening riff from “Money For Nothing”).
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  313. 1:44 I can’t go funnier, but I can go ickier: demon snot.
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  314. I don’t see SUVs as sensible vehicles.
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  315.  @pkelly5368  It wasn’t the “people” who elected Trump, it was that that slavery-era institution known as the Electoral College that picked him.
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  316.  @TMercan31  The lol is a dead giveaway lol
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  317. Is there an afterlife for clothes? I just wonder where ghosts/spirits/whatever get their clothes from.
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  318. And if there is an afterlife for clothes, what happens to the originals? Can ghosts only wear clothes where the physical originals have been destroyed?
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  319. Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  320.  @bonnierobinson5917  Satire. As in “it would be funny, if it weren’t true”.
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  321. You need a national medicine-buying monopsony. We have one in NZ, called Pharmac, which does the buying for the entire national health system. The international pharma companies hate it, and would like to see it dismantled, or at least watered down. But public opinion is very firmly in favour of keeping it. “Public opinion” is a cool thing. In a democracy, the Government has to pay close attention to it, especially when it gets really worked up about something. You should try it in your country.
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  322. Putting a roof on America’s head since 1776...
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  323. It’s an African proverb, if that helps.
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  324. I wonder if any anti-vaxxers are still Trump supporters? How do they reconcile their love of him with his campaigning for vaccines? I’m thinking that would make their head explode. Why did I suddenly think that Rudy might be an anti-vaxxer?
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  325. “LED” = “woke lightbulbs”.
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  326. I think the felony factor arises from claiming them as a tax deduction. Otherwise, simply misclassifying his payments would have been a misdemeanour.
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  327. 6:08 Those are “RESPECT MY AUTHORATAH!” shades ... !
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  328. She’s pressing the wrong button and complaining it’s not putting out enough water.
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  329.  @balung  Well, maybe South Island Kiwis. (North Islander talking here.)
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  330. I think General John Kelly is the last remnant of adult supervision in the White House now. Once he goes, it’s going to be daily food fights...
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  331. But then again, maybe she’s well aware of that, but knows her audience won’t be. Cynical? Moi?
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  332. I don’t know why the conspiracy theorists are so fixated on just Covid-19. Think about it: all infectious diseases are clearly designed to demonstrate the efficacy of Socialist healthcare systems over Capitalist ones.
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  333. It has to start now: get rid of the Electoral College and rampant gerrymandering, for a start.
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  334. Funny about “pro-lifers”. They tend to be in favour of the death penalty. And they are also among the ones saying let’s go back to gathering and living and working as normal, and let the virus kill whom it will.
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  335. Closing the sky means shooting at any Russian jets that are up there. What does “shooting at the enemy” mean? It means “war”.
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  336. When I see two Ts, my instinct is to say “Italian” rather than “Latin”. But what do I know ...
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  337. It’s bamboo-detectin’ time!
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  338. “Gun safety” is an oxymoron, anyway. “Accidental” shootings happen all the time. After all, when a gun is causing damage, injury and death, it is only working as designed.
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  339. 0:46 Anybody from the London area is immediately thinking “that has to be rhyming slang”.
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  340. 7:57 Talking of reality, I just recognized that name “Shepard Smith”. He’s the guy who left Fox News after the whole doctrinaire shtick got too much for him there.
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  341.  @rgwak  I wonder how much capacity his followers have for basic critical thinking. Calling it a “hoax” on the one hand, and making a big deal about an upcoming vaccine on the other hand?
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  342. Put RFID tags on them, and have those anti-shoplifting detectors at every door. “Beep-beep-beep-beep!” “OK, turn out your pockets. And your briefcases. And your purses”
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  343. That’s OK, he got the last word, remember. ;)
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  344. I can imagine Trump being interested, just because their name has “golf” in it.
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  345. Both Fallon and Meyers can do the voice, Colbert can’t. That’s why he needs the prop.
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  346.  @wordzmyth  I think to the US, much of the world looks “Socialist”. ;) And yes, we take it for granted that politicians will put the good of the country before the good of their party. Isn’t that just how they’re supposed to behave?
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  347. The irony is that anti-vaxxers are most likely using computers which have implanted into them the operating system from that company founded by Bill Gates!
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  348. 0:13 Or ... I’d go for “be-warm-fuzzied” ...
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  349. 0:53 Fun fact: “Renegade” was Barack’s Secret Service codename. Michelle was “Renaissance”.
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  350. I don’t know why his supporters get so worked up about such things. If they can claim their man totally dominated the debate in spite of these tricks from the other side, wouldn’t that make him look even better? No, they were just looking for excuses for why Trump would look bad. But at the same time, denying that he was looking bad at all. Maybe we need a term for this: “Fox News Logic”.
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  351.  @IgorRockt  Mine is a top-loader.
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  352. 4:09 Both Cosmos docos were 13 parts. And both very yummy indeed.
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  353. And here I thought it was founded by someone proud of their beach side property. In other words, someone with a sandy ego ...
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  354. Agree with those who see this comparison as offensive to dung beetles. Particularly since I wear an Ancient-Egypt-themed avatar.
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  355. 7:25 “Beyond anything that’s been done so far” ... beyond the ban on semiautomatics that was brought in under Clinton? Or its repeal by GW Bush?
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  356.  @christinebenson518  That wasn’t a different letter, it was a contextual form of the letter s, not used at the ends of words. Many current OpenType fonts offer it as a feature you can enable, with the right software. For example, Inkscape.
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  357. If you said “two-watch” fast enough, it sounds like ... “twatch”. Yeah, Rudy is a twatch.
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  358. Remember Trump claimed there were 3 million fraudulent votes? And he set up some kind of fake commission or something to supposedly investigate the fake issue. But they couldn’t find any fake evidence. What happened to the fake evidence Trump had? Why didn’t he give it to his own fake commission? Bad Trump! Fake Trump!
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  359. What was it Robin Williams said about 🇨🇦: like living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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  360. LNOL ... Laughing Not Out Loud ... that’s a good thing, right??
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  361. Yeah, but mail that you pay for is fee-mail, right?
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  362. And all the victims who come down with it and get sick, and some who die ... they will all be “crisis actors”. Now there is a phrase that shows just how insanely out of touch with reality some people can be ...
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  363. Average the two. And as a bonus, you also have an estimate of the accuracy of the result. #Science
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  364. He’s like an American Cliff Richard.
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  365. I looked it up. Nothing very exciting, I’m afraid. It was “Mogul”.
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  366.  @sblack48  It’s called “nuance”. It’s the antiliberals’ worst enemy.
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  367. It brought Boris Johnson back from the dead. Like it or not, that took quality, professional work.
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  368. 11:57 Aw come on, if he were really a Yorkshireman, he’d have a name like “Walkinshaw” or “Otterthwaite”, not “Pinderberry”. #CulturalPlausibility #LastOfTheSummerWine
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  369. Unless you have coins in your pocket made of actual gold or silver, the cash you have is also “completely made up” (by the Government). There’s a reason it’s called “fiat currency”, and it’s not because it comes from a car company in Turin ...
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  370. If any Republican disagrees with this characterization, just point out what Lincoln fought for, versus what they believe today.
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  371. If only. Unfortunately, it’s little more than some kind of tentative suggestion to the Electoral College.
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  372. There’s another term for that: “personality cult”. Another thing the American Fascist and the German Fascist have in common is they are both officially devout Christians.
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  373. I was trying to think about how relieved Aussies are about Murdoch no longer living there, and I think it might be comparable to how relieved Kiwis are that Russell Crowe no longer lives here. Am I close? BTW, Seth’s Murdoch impersonation is already becoming a staple of the show ...
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  374.  @hewlettwilliam4650  I gather his hold on Aussie media is weakening, given he wasn’t able to stop the election of Labor and Albanese.
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  375. The Captain probably knows some demon seamen ...
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  376. Seth Meyers is the conscience of the USA right now.
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  377. You can tell they’re the Government, because they’ve got more weapons than you.
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  378. There are no examples of English spelling that could shed any light on “Taoiseach”, “Niamh” or “Fionn mac Cumhaill”, so don’t try to blame English for any of this.
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  379. I saw one survey that predicted that: Donnie > Hillary, Bernie > Donnie, and yet Hillary > Bernie. A real rock-paper-scissors situation, in other words.
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  380. I’d celebrate, but where do you get the ground hog, and is it finely or coarsely ground?
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  381. They were so worried about getting a “king” ... did they have the concept of a “dictator” at the time? Seems they forgot to look out for that one.
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  382. Yeah, McConnell is not toeing the official Trump line that the President deserves 10/10 for his handling of the crisis so far.
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  383. Once you follow him down the black hole of psychosis, there is no turning back.
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  384.  @mickeydecurious7082  On the contrary, the Christian god is precisely an example of the sort of thing I described. Remember most of Trump’s supporters are very much devout followers of such a god. That’s what got us into this mess.
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  385. You know the old saying: “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Well, when Seth’s writers hand him bad jokes, he makes ... Surprise Inspection!!
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  386. Fun fact: the German proportional voting system was put in place by the Allies after WWII precisely to prevent the likelihood of a dictator gaining power ever again. And they ended up with a system completely different from the US one. What is that telling you, I wonder?
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  387. I ended up in A&E several years ago, owing to getting extremely nauseous and passing out during retinal laser eye surgery. The pupil on that eye had been dilated with some drops. So what happens when an A&E doctor sees a patient with unequal pupils? They immediately suspect a head injury. So I got asked a few questions about where I thought I was. I think I got them right. Well, I’m here, aren’t I. It’s nice here. I wouldn’t want to leave.
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  388. I had a German colleague many years ago who used to enjoy ”’Allo ’Allo” ...
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  389. Do folks from your country and Jamaica ever get together and trade puns?
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  390. All kinds of shenanigans have gone on. Back when we in 🇳🇿 went into lockdown, a group chartered a flight to 🇨🇳 to get a shipment of PPE. They had to put armed guards on the shipment, to prevent agents from other countries from hijacking it. Guess which other country in particular?
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  391. “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody.”
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  392. Many in the US did sympathize with Hitler. This included the US Ambassador to the UK, Joseph Kennedy. You know, the father of JFK, RFK etc.
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  393. 6:25 Maybe he should up the ante a bit, and throw in some “whereas” and “notwithstanding”. Maybe even a ... gulp ... “heretofore”.
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  394. 5:05 Yes, but he’s got the police union covering his back. They will make sure he never suffers.
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  395. I think it’s just the longest word he’s ever learned to pronounce. So if he doesn’t keep saying it, he will forget how.
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  396. So fine. We have the trade deal. Shouldn’t the wall money already be coming in?
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  397. The Mexicans were supposed to pay for it!
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  398. They are endangered, because it’s becoming harder to find migrating trees.
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  399. “A speaker has been elected ... NOT!” “Well, one thing we certainly didn’t do just now was elect a speaker.” “And we just had another object lesson in how not to elect a speaker.” “If you think we just elected a speaker ... how can I say this ...”
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  400.  @misterdoctor9693  Re the musical equivalent of stubbing your toe ... how would you describe that David Bowie line “the-e-e dance floor”?
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  401. A proper supercar, not a tractor.
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  402. Yeah, 1932 would have been more like it.
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  403. Then the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to fund the Contras. Back in my day ...
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  404. 9:18 “Social science” is a term used by hard scientists (like physicists) to make fun of those who want to call their field of endeavour “science”, but cannot measure up to basic scientific standards of repeatable, controlled experiments with measurable results. Social scientists like to plot data points on a graph, try to fit a curve through them, and then cut out points that don’t fit so well just because they’re “outliers”. In science, we call this “circular reasoning”.
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  405. So ... Lara Clips, my old nemesis! We meet again!
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  406. There’s supposed to be a limit of $250,000 on insurance of deposits, as I recall. There is some talk of that limit being lifted here.
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  407. 12:07 There’s 10 seconds of my life I’ll never have back ...
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  408. I love the fact that even a legal firm is finding Trump’s lies too much to stomach https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/13/law-firm-withdraws-from-trump-election-suit-in , and is withdrawing from work for him.
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  409. Because Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  410. Looks like Uncle Rupie’s power is weakening, even in 🇦🇺. He wasn’t able to stop Albanese from being elected, was he? We in 🇳🇿 continue to be grateful he was never able to establish a foothold here.
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  411.  @KateBond642  Republicans have this weird idea that the rest of the world is in deep pain and suffering because it’s not the USA.
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  412. I keep envisioning the downvoters with bloodstains on their hands.
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  413. Yeah, the original version of that skit had the characters named “Bob” and “Robert”, but they thought it was less confusing this way.
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  414. 6:51 He doesn’t need reading glasses. Has no-one noticed?!?
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  415.  @jonasp6043  Trump is gone, but his followers -- the whole Fox News crowd -- are still active, still trying to tear Fauci and the other scientists down, here and elsewhere.
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  416.  @keenanschouten2582  Fire extinguishers extinguish fires, they don’t create them. Unlike guns.
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  417. And for their next trick,  @keenanschouten2582  is going to argue that gasoline makes a very effective fire extinguisher.
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  418. As the saying goes: “Playmobil Or It Didn’t Happen”.
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  419. 11:40 Apt new verb: “I Giuliani’d myself.”
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  420.  @badbiker666  I’m told that all nouns are capitalized in German.
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  421. 9:58 Or rather, for McConnell to refuse to admit any of the testimony or evidence into the hearing.
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  422. Maybe try a wired connection next time. Less prone to RF interference, you know?
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  423. The Wokey-Blokey.
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  424. 1:44 Projectile baptism! What next ... projectile suckling?
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  425. @Live united Die united The firearm nuts are on his side, though.
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  426. People are getting de-interested in that kind of distinction ...
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  427. I’m sure his supporters will see to it that history is appropriately rewritten: “something something Deep State something something Fake News something something Never Trumpers something something ... #ButButHillary!”
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  428. 3:37 Telling a creature with no lips to go suck something is so ... beakist!
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  429. 8:31 Here https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/30/key-fact-checks-from-the-first-presidential-debate is one summary of fact checks from the debate. The only relevant instances of voting fraud were actually votes for Democrats being changed to Republican.
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  430.  @jimuicker4731  There are countries where proportional representation seems to work well (e.g. Germany, NZ, no doubt other European countries), and ones that seem to have trouble (Italy, Israel). All I can say is, learn what to do from the good ones, what not to do from the bad ones!
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  431. YouTube goes up to 4K, 60fps, all the trimmins’. How high does your TV go?
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  432. Dare I say, that’s a sign of competent Government?
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  433. Their journalistic side does apparently have some semblance of integrity (e.g. the Chris Wallace interview of Trump). It’s their prime-time pundits you have to watch out for. Remember, it was Fox News who first predicted that Arizona would go for Biden.
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  434. ... cigarette holders might help?
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  435. I thought there’s a clause in the 🇺🇸 Constitution against the use of honorific titles.
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  436. 10:30 Eh? Is that a Fox News report saying that Trump rolled back protections that Obama put in place?!?
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  437. Anybody tries to diss you for that, just remind them of the old saying: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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  438. Cheeses cries!
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  439. It was so endearing to see a grown man get so much childish joy out of a simple sound effect. And it wasn’t even a rude one ...
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  440. 4:30 “Number One”? Fox News?!? So is it part of the “mainstream media” now? You know, the part that the right-wingers are always complaining about being biased?
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  441. Is YouTube still blocking comments about Trump’s lying? Edit: No it isn’t!
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  442. Daylight saving fades your curtains! (Yes, somebody did claim that.)
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  443. Does he wear a Casio Gaoiseach?
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  444. What I fear is, a year from now, people reminiscing about when it was “only” 225,000 dead ...
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  445. Well, he didn’t say he didn’t shoplift anything else, did he?
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  446. I caught it.
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  447.  @6Planet  Here in 🇳🇿 we have proportional representation. That means every vote counts equally, and we don’t really attach much importance to “marginal electorates” (or “swing districts/states” as in 🇺🇸). I think all the good democracies are like that.
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  448.  @6Planet  Alaska brought in ranked-choice voting recently for its House representative. You know, that was the election where Palin lost to Peltola. While preference-based voting is not technically “proportional representation”, it does achieve a very similar effect. Also it tends to favour individuals over parties, which may suit the US situation better.
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  449. 9:24 By “good” you don’t mean its quality, you mean “upbeat”. Because Dick’s stuff was good, well-written, quality stuff. Unnerving and disturbing and liable to make you question reality, but good. By the way, I just finished reading Ubik night before last. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  450. Mask or face shield, to me it looks like a table-tennis bat for spittle.
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  451. Ostriches are flightless birds. If you are going to be a bird, what’s the point if you can’t fly?
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  452. Said in a Carter Pewterschmidt voice ...
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  453. Only humans can throw. Not even apes can do it as effectively as we can. There are some invertebrates with specialized catapult parts, but nothing like the human arm with its overarm movement.
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  454. The US could do with a proportional-voting system. That way, every vote counts equally. Here in NZ we used to have the UK-style first-past-the-post voting for electorate MPs, and there were a couple of times where the party that got the most seats in Parliament actually had fewer votes than the opposition. Since we adopted the German style of proportional voting, that can’t happen any more. The German system was also designed to ensure that a dictator could never get power in that country again. That’s one reason we liked it in NZ. Maybe the US should try it?
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  455. 4:34 Wait ... a Fox News presenter referred to Trump as the “Former President”? Did she get sacked afterwards?
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  456. The world needs more dorables.
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  457. 3:55 Man, the kerning on that is so tight. #TypographyGeek
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  458. 8:53 He’s doing a “Thorn-Birds-Alikes: Greatest Hits”, isn’t he.
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  459.  @andrewollmann304  Oh, that’s a point. Another reason to settle out of court, eh?
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  460. There is a term for the deniers of the Trump defeat I discovered a few weeks ago: “Voteflake”.
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  461. 4:14 Putting “buyer beware” on your financial statements is not carte blanche to lie to the Government.
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  462. Colbert can’t do Biden without that. Seth can.
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  463. 11:29 Please don’t say “epicentre”, like it’s some kind of scientifico-techno-synonym of “centre”. Just say “centre”.
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  464. Try changing the channel.
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  465.  @rizon72  None of which is relevant to this channel. Go try another one.
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  466. The talented one finds it easier to mimic the talentless one, than the other way round.
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  467.  @heavysystemsinc.  Ending gerrymandering -- why would that be considered politlcally controversial? Having an electoral commission that is not politicized could only be seen as a step forward by all sides, surely.
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  468. Well, there was this one TV series that called him “Herman Munster” ...
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  469. “The cupboard was bare.” 3 years to fill it not enough?
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  470. It’s got real medical uses. I was supposed to be hooked up to a painkiller IV feed after a certain op, with a button I could use to get an extra boost if need be -- of course, the machine was programmed with strict limits on how many times I could push the button for that boost. You should have heard the nurse swearing as he tried to get the machine working, over several hours. By the time he did, I didn’t need it any more.
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  471. According to this https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12370027 , somebody in his risk group has a 35% chance of hospitalization, 11% of needing intensive care, and 8% of death. I should add, it says being white lowers the risk, but there’s no mention of being orange.
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  472. This is what happens when they uncritically follow a deity who wants to claim all the credit for the good things, and none of the blame for the bad; of course their leaders will act the same way.
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  473. I am old enough to remember “Banned in Boston”. I guess those days are gone, and we have a new, shall we say, benchmark for anti-intellectualism these days ...
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  474. The system needs to change, to ensure a dictator like him can never take power again.
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  475. Assuming he comes back out of that closet ...
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  476. 4:59 Is it wrong to be a trader? I thought 🇺🇸 was built on trade.
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  477. Those birds you hear in the morning? Deepfakes.
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  478. A lot of them are also deliberately aiming for a fulfilment of their “end times” prophecy.
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  479. Hitler and Stalin had Christian upbringings, too. So no, don’t expect that to happen.
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  480. It’s already Friday afternoon here in 🇳🇿, and I would say I am done for the day.
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  481. @spirals 73 And he couldn’t have done it without the help of those righteous Christian evangelicals ...
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  482.  @danmcgriff1421  Except over here in real life, it isn’t MSNBC saying it.
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  483. 0:21 I’m thinking that wasp is a “she”, unless it was a drone.
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  484. Doesn’t “FOIA” rhyme with “lawyer”? Except you aren’t allowed to shout “FOIA” in a crowded courtroom ...
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  485. After all this time, his kids still make him laugh.
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  486. 4:55 Lothrings! You won’t believe how full the NZ media was of the whole thing while it was being lensed. Lothrings Fellowshring! Lothrings T-t-towers! Lothrings Returnking! Lothrings! Lothrings! Lothrings!
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  487. “Comorbidity” ... you sound like you got thet thar book learnin’. We don’t like no smart-uppity book learnin’ in this hyah adminis--adminis--gummint. We shoots from thuh hip, just like our Glorious Leader.
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  488. 0:52 How hard is it to find Ukraine? It’s the part attached to the Crimean peninsula. You know, the sizeable bit that sticks out into the Black Sea, and which Russia has occupied?
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  489. I wonder why? Is it because he sounds convincing? Does he ever fact-check anything?
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  490. You wonder how conservative Christians could stand to eat hot dogs ... doesn’t the shape of those sausages remind them of something?
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  491. I saw an item on their channel, but it had comments turned off. I wonder what they’re afraid of?
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  492. So what you’re saying is, they would dress more like Doctor Who?
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  493. One strenuously denied it and stonewalled for months. Hence the need for the raid. Which uncovered even more offending. The other didn’t.
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  494. 8:05 The Trump echo chamber has closed in on itself. Instead of being quoted on Fox News, and then tweeting back what they were saying, he has now imploded on himself and is simply believing everything that comes out of his own mouth.
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  495. That’s how they spell it in Kzetchoslovakia.
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  496. But there’s atmosphere outside their galaxy. How are their airspacecraft going to bank and turn?
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  497. 7:40 Thorn-bird infection spreading to other books!
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  498. Electoral College + 2-party Tweedledum-vs-Tweedledee system.
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  499. Yeah, because they were never able to conclusively pin those deaths on organic vegetable farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak .
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  500.  @lenkacfk7155  Ag-gag is a real thing, believe it or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag . Yeah, only in the USA would that not be considered a violation of freedom of speech...
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  501. If only their stupid actions would hurt just themselves, not innocent victims as well ..
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  502. I think we just found the Phantom Aunt-Down-A-Well-Thrower ...
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  503. Why wasn’t Trump able to appoint any “honest” judges who wouldn’t be “paid off by the left”? Nudge-nudge wink-wink?
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  504. Diapers?? #TooMuchInformation
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  505. I had to go back and take a look after you said that.
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  506. His name sounds like “Mitt Schmuck-Connell”.
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  507. Lincoln, maybe, was the least tarnished of them all. Washington was a slave owner, and it turns out FDR’s “New Deal” was not for black people.
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  508. Definitely «suitable answer».
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  509. Running your own social network would be a massive money sink. Particularly if potential advertisers stay away in droves, scared off by the sheer looniness of your constituency.
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  510. But then, think about the flak the cops got for killing that woman who was trying to break into the House, if the rioters were armed and got killed in the shootout, nobody would be mourning them. Nobody would be questioning the cops for shooting in self defence.
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  511. Some called Fonda “Communist”, didn’t they, because of her opposition to the Vietnam War.
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  512. Then you can putt, not drive.
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  513. 2:08 Here's a logical question for you: if the “bad” guy having a gun is not a deterrent to the “good” guy taking him on, why would the “good” guy having a gun be a deterrent to the “bad” guy taking him on?
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  514. An Australian named Blair Case has just entered the chat.
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  515. Given the way the US system works, the Republicans have to support him, else the Democrats’ hand is strengthened. Party is more important than country, don’t you know. Think of Trump as fulfilling historical destiny, hastening the end of the ascendancy of the USA and leaving room for the dominance of new players on the world stage, like China, India, Russia, Brazil and others.
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  516. Is it up to them? Or to the voters?
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  517. 1:33 When we in NZ were under Level-4 lockdown, we had to socially-distance in the supermarkets. They carefully controlled entry and exit, and had markers on the floor to space out the checkout queues. There was never a requirement to wear masks here, though some people did.
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  518. Tao is each? Who makes up these speoailing rules, anyway?
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  519. Fun fact: “tear gas” aka “pepper spray” is a banned chemical weapon under international treaties.
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  520. They didn’t call it “tweeting” back then. It was more “cooing”, because it was done via carrier pigeons (go look up RFC 2549 -- it’s on the list of Internet protocol specs).
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  521. Remember what happened to Florida last time. Just in time to decide they couldn’t hold the RNC with in-person crowds of thousands after all ...
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  522. Next step: edible insects!
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  523. 4:20 But ... but ... trickle-down!?! Reagan said it would be so! Did he LIE to us?
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  524. That time they hadn’t yet come up with the “sarcastic” excuse ...
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  525. How do you know they were reading glasses?
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  526.  @rhondah1587  All the time. Just like a short-sighted person.
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  527. He used to be a good guy. He was Mayor of New York during 2001/9/11.
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  528. It doesn’t need to be cue cards, it could be a teleprompter, you know.
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  529. Gatwick Airport, Christmas 2018: repeated reports of some drone buzzing about brings all airline flights to a complete halt for several days. A couple are arrested, but later released for lack of evidence. In the end, nothing was found. Nobody even succeeded in getting good pictures of whatever it was. Did everybody imagine it? Answers on a postcard, please ...
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  530. 9:16 Substances were used that are banned under international chemical weapons conventions. That’s right, tear gas is illegal to use in war, fine to use in peace.
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  531. There is the definition of a “fanatic” I read somewhere as “someone who has lost sight of their original goal”.
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  532. If voter turnout was decent, the loonies would never get in. Make every vote count!
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  533. 0:55 They put items about the shootings on their YouTube channel, but turn off comments. What are they afraid of?
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  534. An effective speaker has still not been elected.
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  535. Lots of airlines offer in-flight wi-fi. It’s a thing now.
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  536. “Frankenstein Jr”?
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  537.  @missmary2877  Not at all. Christianity, like all the monotheistic religions, doesn’t have anything bad to say about slavery.
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  538. 8:47 Slash in an email address? That’s one funky URL ...
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  539. Had they been trying to get hold of them the whole time?
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  540.  @mickeydecurious7082  I don’t think you realize this “Christ” business is a big factor in how Trump got to be President in the first place. We don’t need that again.
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  541. As a lover of dairy products, the more butter or cream, the better.
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  542. Vietnam War logic lives again: “We have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it!”
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  543. I think that was brought in (along with “one nation under god”) in the 1950s, under the pretext of the Red Scare.
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  544. Trouble is, Newsmax thinks Sidney Powell is sane. And Trump already repudiated her. So look for the fractured pieces of the Republican Party to fracture even further.
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  545. Flying birds are in general not dumb. It takes brains to navigate in three dimensions. In real time.
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  546.  @VA-gu1jq  They evolved warm-bloodedness independently, that is true.
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  547.  @docescete3672  Also, bats have exposed testicles (I looked it up).
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  548. Further thought: cetaceans are one class of mammals that, I’m pretty sure, manage to keep their testicles in their bodies. I wonder how they manage that?
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  549. The Thin Blue Line did that joke, when some upper-class oik, trying to get off being arrested for being drunk and disorderly, asked desk-sergeant Patricia that question. Her response was “I’m sorry, I can’t help you there. Have you tried asking your mother?”
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  550. I believe successive Tory governments have tried to water down the NHS, too. But the current ur-Tory, Mr Johnson, now owes his life to the NHS. Wonder if that will colour his thinking any ...
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  551. I would expect that people in the region find both pronunciations equally wrong.
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  552. I don’t mind the rain. It’ll help fill Auckland’s reservoirs. And I don’t even live in Auckland ...
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  553. 5:39 Oh yes, there is one part of the US Constitution that is absolutely sacred to them. That is, the Second Amendment. All the rest of it can go hang.
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  554. Social commentary ... in a box!
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  555. Nope. He is nothing resembling a “journalist”. There was a defamation lawsuit filed against him, and his own employer, Fox News, testified in court, under oath, that no reasonable person would believe a word he says.
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  556.  @SeventhPow3r  Heh-heh.
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  557.  @virginiatyree6705  Worth pointing out, for those who are worried about Big Pharma’s motives -- they tend not to like cures for diseases, and preventatives (like vaccines) even less. The main profit lies in lifetime treatments for incurable conditions.
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  558. 8:09 OK, here’s something to take a bet on: how many seconds of his speech will Former Guy be able to get out before reverting to complaining about how the election was stolen from him? He managed about 5 seconds at that Georgia Senate runoff rally. Will this time be better or worse?
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  559.  @JustChuck1982  If you engage in political lobbying, you cannot consider yourself a non-political organization any more. In a secular democracy, that would be grounds for losing any kind of charitable status.
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  560. Did you know that more people in the USA get their news from comedy talk shows like this one, than from “serious” news programs? Feel free to rethink your “spit upwards” remark in these terms.
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  561.  @fernie6299  You need a system that encourages that.
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  562. “Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!”
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  563. 13:13 Was there a character like that in Mars Attacks! ?
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  564.  @spir5102  Yes, but intellectual perspicacity is seen by their target audience as a liability rather than an asset.
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  565. He’s threatening to issue an executive order something something Twitter censorship something something. But if he shuts down Twitter, where is he going to post his bile propaganda lies public service announcements?
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  566.  @wickednwyld  Yeah! Or claim he couldn’t hear the question over the sound of the engines.
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  567. NFTs are specially attested on the blockchain or something, so nobody else can claim to have the exact same version as you.
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  568. 11:08 Fun fact: if you want a real-life “Doctor WHO”, how about the Doctor who is head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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  569. 6:32 Hence Icarus’ immortal retort back to his father: “None of your beeswax!”.
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  570. I wonder if baited breath will catch any halitosifish ...
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  571.  @lucylillypad1512  I think carbon tablets help.
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  572.  @Digger-Nick  If she said it “wrong” then she wasn’t stating “facts” ... unless they were “wrong facts”? Like the border wall would somehow stop people coming in through airports? Hint: Even Fox News wouldn’t accept them as “facts”.
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  573.  @Digger-Nick  Did you know the net flow across the US-Mexico border is southwards, not northwards? And as you have conceded, there is no “national security” issue or “crisis” with regard to those going into the US illegally anyway -- nothing to justify the total crippling of the US Government as Trump has done. There are already procedures available under US law for dealing with such arrivals, and they don’t require separating children from parents, or treating people in general like criminals. You want these people to obey your laws, yet your own law enforcement doesn’t seem willing to do the same.
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  574.  @dustinmorrow8184  Makes you wonder why he changed his name to “Herman Munster” ...
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  575. 3:03 Which part of Italy, though? There’s the North, there’s the South, and there’s Sicily ...
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  576. That smile was certainly continuing beyond the point of comfort ...
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  577. Only yobs say “yub nub”. Yobs named “Yentob”.
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  578.  @praesidio3496  You don’t hear the left claiming the media is the “enemy”. That seems to be a uniquely right-wing obsession.
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  579. 5:00 Those same video games are available in other countries. Yet it is the USA that has the mass killings. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  580. And she has been a supporter of the Palestinians against Zionist Israel.
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  581. Exchanging jokes about the name of his city? “What is Bristol known for exactly?”
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  582. Restricting the video games (and movies) would mean trampling on the First Amendment. But this is typical of the gun nuts: they will happily sell the entire rest of the US Constitution down the river just to hang on to their precious “right to bear arms”.
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  583. Giving to the satirists, but also unfortunately taking from the voters.
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  584. Shooting brakes are very versatile cars.
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  585. Wonder what’s happened to Rudy? Didn’t he come back from his dirt-digging expedition to Ukraine with “more than you can imagine”? Why haven’t we heard anything more? Has he been switched off and stowed in a cupboard somewhere for the duration?
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  586. I worry too, but on the bright side, so far his supporters have shown themselves to be spineless cowards, quite willing to sell out their co-conspirators to save their own hides.
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  587. 18:54 In a democracy, you get to not vote for sociopaths. In the USA, on the other hand ...
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  588.  @Bdub1952  Hey, as somebody out in the middle of the Pacific, we’d appreciate it if you kept him to yourselves, thanks.
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  589. Do you have place names that trip people up? Here in 🇳🇿 we have “Feilding” and “Manfeild”, and yes, they are spelled that way. Also there is “Hanmer Springs”, which I frequently hear pronounced as “Hamner”.
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  590. Until somebody at accounting goes: “Crafting ... is that the new secret code for something?”
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  591. “gala” and “gala” are actually two different words. Don’t mix them up.
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  592. Never mind the sock, use a spade.
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  593. 10:16 No mention that that was an interview with Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera? Journalistic credit, they have heard of it ...
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  594. “She’s not poppin’ her Ps!”
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  595. I thought golfing pants were called “plus fours”. Also: the Government controls TV in 🇺🇸? And nobody told Trump!!!
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  596. Somebody misspelled “Trump Fever”. Which is a great name for it, and also one of the symptoms.
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  597. The only famous Tallulah I know of is Tallulah Bankhead.
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  598. Message from  @Notfunnysam  says one thing, handle says another.
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  599. @Andrew Simone Does “media” include “Fox News”?
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  600. Edward Tufte would like to have a word ...
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  601. 5:13 Not even with a straight face...
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  602. /me wishes for actual examples within a complete sentence, rather than stuck on as a hashtag. #GrammarIsSoUnfashionableTheseDays
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  603. Actually in 🇳🇿 we pronounce it “crik-ey”. Would I lie to you?
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  604.  @bill6960  11.7 km/l? My Auris hatch does better than that around town. Actually I commonly see it expressed in the motoring reviews as litres per 100 km. Which is more concisely expressed as cl/km.
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  605. The US is now considered a “backsliding” democracy. Not that it was scoring very well before. A lot of work needs to be done to bring it into the top tier. But certain powerful forces continue to oppose that.
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  606. 1:24 And yet, at the same time as this secret cabal is running out of control, Biden himself still manages to be some kind of dictator riding roughshod over Americans’ rights. Consistency? They have heard of it.
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  607. 3:52 And change his name to Alfred. Alfred E New Man ... geddit? #OldEnoughToRememberMadMagazine
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  608. It seems he is the conscience of the 🇺🇸 nation at this point.
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  609. To a gun nut, every question is ”loaded”. Also, looks like some people are overdue for their covfefe injections.
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  610. 5:14 Every other creature that can climb a tree is smart enough to know how to get down again. Except cats.
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  611.  J K  “ In the UK people are dying in long waiting lines despite the fact that more and more money has been invested into the NHS.” I had to look it up: the UK ranks slightly better than the USA in terms of life expectancy; enough to put it 10 places higher in this table https://www.infoplease.com/world/health-and-social-statistics/life-expectancy-countries-0
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  612.  J K  It’s hard to see why you claim that. Look at that life expectancy chart, and see how well the Cubans do. Not only that, but their health professionals are performing sterling service the world over -- that’s how good they are.
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  613.  J K  Even if the cancer survival rate is better in US hospitals, how many of your people can afford the treatment? In other words, how many are actually surviving? And yes, guns are a big problem in the US, too -- at least you have the honesty to admit that.
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  614.  J K  Their hospitals are in fact very good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
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  615.  J K  Healthcare has to be Goverrnment-run. People in the US pay something like twice as much as those in the UK for similar treatment. Obama tried to fix that with his Affordable Care Act, yet some are ideologically opposed even to the idea that such improvements are possible.
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  616.  J K  Where does it say it’s worse than the US?
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  617.  J K  On the contrary, the Government abrogating its responsibilities is precisely what got the US into its healthcare mess in the first place. Other countries with better Government oversight have better-run healthcare systems. Healthcare is not one of those places where a competitive free market works.
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  618.  J K  Strange you should say that Government involvement has made things worse, since the Congressional Budget Office itself said that rolling back Obamacare would make things worse. You know, that’s the body that’s supposed to give objective, impartial, non-partisan advice to all members of Congress?
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  619.  J K  Why is it alway Republicans who disagree with objective evidence? Do you really believe reality has a liberal bias?
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  620. Hmmm ... agent 44 in the movie, agent 13 in the TV series?
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  621. Don’t worry about it. It’s from a country where they call a game “football” which doesn’t actually involve the ball coming into contact with the foot.
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  622. His supporters were armed, remember.
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  623. They used to be better. Now they can only attract comments like these.
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  624. 1:25 See, even Russians are suffering under DT, too.
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  625. Yeah, but things were much worse then.
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  626. In 2021, 🇺🇸 was downgraded to a “backsliding” democracy in the Democracy Index. And it wasn’t exactly in the top tier before ...
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  627. The amusing thing about that leader of the Oath Keepers idiots is that he’s a living, walking, talking testament to what an oxymoron “gun safety” is.
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  628. 5:06 The Roomba Administration ... I like it!
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  629. 7:58 Basically, trump is Nicolas Maduro at this point.
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  630. Need more books: “Thorn Birds 4: Return To Thornycroft Manor” “Thorn Birds 5, aka ‘The Flying Porcupines’” “Thorn Birds 6: What’s A Little Prick Between Friends?”
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  631. I never knew that about schmaltz. I only came across its colloquial usage, and based on that, I guessed it had to be something sickly sweet.
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  632.  @monikak7327  Sounds horribly bad for you. Why is my mouth watering?
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  633. Basically, he got State-funded, Socialist healthcare. The kind that Republicans keep saying is so harmful ...
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  634. Are you sure it was hay, rather than silage?
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  635. The key is the word “lapse”.
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  636. In a democracy, you get more choice than that.
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  637. 9:17 In all the good democracies, the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  638. 🎝 Somebody is looking forward to creating their own neighbourhood war zone ... 🎝
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  639. The “good” news for today is, the US is no longer tops in the world for deaths from Covid-19. That “honour” has gone to Brazil. Which makes me wonder: why is the US moving to ban travel from Brazil, given that President Bolsonaro seems to be, if anything, even a bigger denialist over the seriousness of the issue than Trump?
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  640. He didn’t have to do it, but the De vil mocrats made him do it!
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  641. 2:37 Speaking of trade negotiations, I heard an analyst in Beijing yesterday say that the Chinese government prefers to deal with Trump, since they figure they will get a better deal out of him than any likely Democrat successor. Not that I’m implying that Trump is a soft touch, but you got to wonder, right?
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  642. 18:11 In other words ... a load of old cobblers?
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  643. 6:43 Kickin’ ass ... by a guy named Shoemaker ... fits, somehow.
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  644. 11:13 Imagine if such a thing really existed ...
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  645. NY AG Letitia James has got a lawsuit going to dismantle the NRA. They’re trying to plead bankruptcy to get out of it. And then reform in another, more gun-friendly State. But what funds are they going to use, if they’re bankrupt? That kind of financial shenanigans is why James is investigating them.
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  646. 7:10 Had to wait so long for the mini-one-man show to make an appearance ... 👍
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  647. So, that well-known American actor is named Mark ... Election-Mountain?
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  648. 7:58 Google Maps? Isn’t that a Liberal thing?
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  649. Watch out for the anti-liberal attempts to distract from the issue...
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  650. 5:13 Yes, floors, very important. Without them everything would just fall, and where would they end up?
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  651. Modern civilized nations do not normally tolerate the prospect of armed militias roaming the countryside willy-nilly.
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  652. Very likely he never did. They were just pretend nuclear codes. You think the 🇺🇸 military are stupid?
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  653. 0:55 Hydroxychloroquine? Boy has Oklahoma got a deal for you https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/27/oklahoma-attempts-to-return-2m-worth-of-anti-malaria-drug ...
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  654. 9:07 Oo, those “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!” shades ...
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  655. 9:35 Hah!
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  656. You know how you look at people in some other country and think “they must be crazy”? But in a zany, quaint kind of way, some kind of goofy national foibles that make you go “ahhhh...”. But when we look at the USA and the Trump followers, the Christians, gun-lovers and all the rest of it, it’s gone beyond crazy-goofy and is now well into crazy-psychotic territory.
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  657. 0:48 Au contraire ... back in the 19th century there was a certain Percival Lowell, who was convinced that there were canals full of water on the surface of Mars. You may have heard of Edgar Rice Burroughs? Probably most famous as the creator of Tarzan? Only he did a bunch of other fiction series as well. In fact, his first published work was called A Princess Of Mars . Guess where it was set ...
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  658. What do you think that might be? Hint: look at the facts that have been published.
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  659. UK politicians are only doctrinaire, not completely psychotic.
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  660. 4:21 36% for Trump? So he’s a shoo-in for reelection, then. Biden doesn’t stand a chance with those numbers.
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  661. Also, it’s late afternoon in this part of the world.
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  662. In 🇺🇸, there seems to be a faith in polygraph tests that borders on the religious.
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  663. I think you get there little by little. Start with small lies, and gradually build up to big ones. Then you are so far removed from reality that any admission of this would be just too humiliating. And so you dig your heels in.
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  664. Mexico has two big problems: the USA, and the USA. The USA is the source of huge amounts of money to buy those powerful drugs that cause so much harm. And it is also the source of the mountains of guns the drug cartels use to enforce their power over that drug industry.
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  665. Could be worse. Could be moondust. Go ask any of the surviving moonwalkers what that was like.
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  666. 5:13 Badger badger badger badger mushroom, mushroom ...
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  667. 2:36 Why do I have trouble telling them apart? Or is that just Trump’s taste in mistresses?
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  668. Trans-Tasman joke: under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, somebody had spray-painted: NEW ZEALAND SUX Underneath, someone else had added: AUSTRALIA NIL
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  669. And in Celsius, too ...
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  670. 3:32 Carriage return is done with the left hand. Unless you’re writing right-to-left ...
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  671.  @havable  It took some years to bring the MMP system in. There was a Royal Commission back in the 1980s. Then there was a campaign to act on the recommendations of the Commission. That was resisted by many powerful figures, as you can imagine. Finally the politicians agreed to hold a referendum on it (actually two referenda, one on whether to switch and the other on what to switch to). The powerful figures made many dire predictions of instability and doom and gloom and all the rest of it. But the public went for the switch anyway. And here we are.
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  672. In this case, maybe “survivors” ...
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  673. That grandma joke really got a full-throated groan. The audience knew what was expected of them, and they didn’t hold back. And then they laughed and applauded anyway. That’s what Seth manages to pull off.
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  674. Here’s to all of humanity, regardless of gender, ethnicity, whatever. And all non-moralistic creeds are welcome, too!
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  675. That’s what Biden has promised--that the investors will not be covered for their losses, it is only the bank customers who are being protected.
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  676. Do you get Al Jazeera in your area? Now there is a truly international network.
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  677. 3:24 That power of flight is very energy-intensive for something the size of a pigeon. Compare a sparrow, which is so small it is actually more efficient for it to hop than walk, and will take flight just to get from one end of a metre-long wall to the other. Thus endeth your biophysics lesson for today.
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  678. Meanwhile, our own little city has decided to take down a statue of its founder https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12339287 , and some are suggesting we should change the name of the city to the original name of this area under Māori settlement https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12339393 . Got to admit, “Kirikiriroa” would be pretty unique, compared to the number of places in the world named “Hamilton” ...
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  679. Isn’t it odd that a London werewolf would be able to find Kent, but could never make it to Basingstoke?
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  680. 4:26 Lothrings Fellowshring! Back when the bloody film was being made here in 🇳🇿, it was every bloody where. The level of people going “Squee!” was just sickening.
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  681. 2:29 O RLY? More Americans voted for Clinton than for Trump, remember.
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  682. 10:59 Say it after me: SCHADENFREUDE Roll it around your tongue SCHADENFREUDE , and savour the taste of satisfaction at the cracks showing in the support of the Lügenführer: SCHADENFREUDE SCHADENFREUDE SCHADENFREUDE
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  683. 10:36 “Attributable to”. No, I’m not a tax consultant. I just play one in the YouTube comments. 🐧
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  684. In other news, those who refuse to wear masks in Indonesia are being punished by being forced to dig graves for those who die from Covid-19 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12365108 . Do you think a “law-and-order” leader would object to such an apt punishment?
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  685. It’s just you.
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  686. 6:43 No doubt that “expert analysis” will include the priceless contributions of a certain Dr Shiva Ayyadurai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokNwKx7gM8 ...
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  687. Absolutely true. Microwaving any part of your anatomy is not a good idea.
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  688. 8:09 Yes, but he would say it in an accent that would have everybody immediately shouting and pointing “vampire!”.
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  689. Ronnie Corbett made an art form out of this. Only his monologues actually, eventually, found their way back to the start, and you discovered that the whole rambling story actually had a point. I think also Billy Connolly did this sometimes.
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  690. All the best artists seem to get that way through suffering.
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  691. Ah, I see the Trumpian Sarcasm Committee has arrived.
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  692. 3:07 But the Mexicans were going to pay for it!
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  693. What exactly does he mean “digital exclusive”? Aren’t TV broadcasts digital yet in 🇺🇸?
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  694. Or Swedish?
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  695. 5:51 For more details on the Wilmington, NC incident, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQomlXMeek .
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  696. 9:14 Why does it look like beer? That’s just not a champagne colour, for some reason ...
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  697. In the spirit of clouds with a silver lining, suppose the next pandemic was some infectious eye disease, and everybody had to go round wearing domino masks over their eyes for protection, instead of these mouth/nose ones. Wouldn’t that at least look cooler?
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  698. 9:40 “LNWSM TEAM Presents A CLOSER LOOK FILM” ... hard to read the rest ...
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  699. Count yourself a Clever Groveland!
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  700. Why?
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  701. Aw, seachs ...
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  702. “Tao is each”. See, it’s not hard.
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  703. I wonder how that hydroxychloroquine “regimen” ends. What happens if you get infected afterwards? Or is it supposed to convey permanent immunity?
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  704. ObaMAGAte has MAGA in it! Is that good or bad?
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  705. “Horse hockey.” -- Colonel Potter
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  706. 11:03 Kind of like the intellectual equivalent of the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship ...
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  707. Down with the Coup Plots Plansmen!
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  708. 11:54 That’s hair-dye running down the side of his face. Rudy is melting!
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  709. Unlike Colbert, he can do it without a prop.
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  710. One problem is they have to give time to the proprietary computer operating system vendors, namely Microsoft and Apple, to issue software patches. Remember what happened in 2007 or so, the last time daylight saving changes happened in the US? And all the problems people had with their computers as a result? On Linux, we use something called the Olsen database, which is just a bunch of data files that can be updated without patching any software. I was just looking at the data for South America, and boy is that full of tweak after tweak from year to year. I remember one year, the Parliament of one country voted to extend daylight saving with just about two weeks to go before it would have ended. The maintainers of the Olsen database got an amendment out within a few days.
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  711. Didn’t most of the original English-speaking colonists come from the West Country?
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  712. His name is Captain Sea. And he sails in the good old SS Ess.
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  713. 1:09 The vowls are not what they seem ...
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  714. When you’re learning computer graphics, and just trying to figure out how to pose your model, a DeSantis is one of the first things you come up with.
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  715. Why would you want an induction range? When the old electric oven in my house finally gave up the ghost, I got a nice ceramic cooktop.
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  716. 1¢, 2¢ and 5¢ coins all gone here in NZ .. nothing left smaller than 10¢. Mind you, we’re very heavily an EFTPOS nation now. Amounts get rounded if you’re paying cash, otherwise your card still gets charged the exact amount down to 1¢.
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  717. I’ve heard people pronounce it “hwite”. What’s with that?
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  718. Political appointments should never be for life.
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  719. I’m sure they are all doing well with their own shows.
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  720. At least it wasn’t humpbacked any more.
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  721. It’s always after Labor Day though, isn’t it?
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  722. I can remember when her works were all over the newsagents. You know, back when you bought things on paper ...
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  723. Self-flagellation weekly. I can just see these corrections on corrections building up from week to week ...
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  724. 2:39 I think you mean “pantograph”, not “polygraph”. #CorrectionsToCorrections
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  725. It seems to me there is a line, and that line is being able to draw a direct connection between dollars and votes. Anything as close as you like to that line is considered acceptable, just so long as you don’t (blatantly) cross it. That’s what makes the whole system sick; the idea that you should be above any sort of credible accusations of being less than squeaky clean has gone out the window.
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  726. Countries with Socialist-style healthcare systems can do it for half the cost per capita of the US health-insurance boondoggle mess system. Who is benefiting in the US? Because it’s certainly not the voters.
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  727.  @harrybetteridge7532  Fun fact: Finnegans Wake is where particle physicists got the term “quark” from.
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  728. Antiliberals keep dumping on Joe Biden, forgetting that, no matter how bad they make him look, voters still felt he was better than Trump.
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  729. 9:00 Those same movies and video games are available in other countries, yet it is the USA that has the high violent crime rate. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  730. I have a suspicion about the timing of the US leaving the British Empire: it was because of the beginnings of anti-slavery sentiment happening there. Britain got rid of its slaves about 1800, while the US clung on to them for over another half century.
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  731. His victory was inevitable. I remember online discussions where so many people who admitted to distaste for Trump simply didn’t care to vote for Clinton, they would rather not vote at all. And so the orange baboon won.
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  732. In other news: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12332946 Science 1; God 0.
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  733. At this stage, they’re all just a bunch of “antiliberals”. They stand for nothing positive. Their only position is to hate everything that might be “liberal”.
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  734. Seth did that joke in another clip.
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  735. They are also godless atheist secular societies. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  736. Depends. For example, Arabs are also classed as “white” in the US census, as I recall. Do you mean “anglo”?
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  737. 7:58 Militarization of the 🇺🇸 police has been an ongoing trend for many decades. Those who think that being allowed to carry guns gives them some kind of protection against Government “tyranny” might want to consider this: the Government has way bigger and shootier guns than the laughable pea shooters you’re allowed to carry.
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  738. Christian reference fits. Remember, Christianity is a key part of their rationalization for what they do.
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  739. 4:59 And then get into a lift with Lauren Boebert: “It’s OK, it’s only my ammo!”
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  740. Let’s face it, it doesn’t matter how bad his defence is. The Republicans are still going to let him go.
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  741. 8:27 The Taiwanese baseball teams are also back in action. I wonder if they and the Koreans could get together and, I don’t know, play some kind of series of games with teams from around the world ... I wonder what they should call it ...
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  742. So the idea that he under-valued his properties was debunked? I guess that’s the AG’s point. Unless “under4” doesn’t mean what I think it means.
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  743. 3:09 How do you tell Seth has been to Tangent Camp? Actually, if you do get to Tangent Camp, they send you home and tell you to try again.
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  744. 2:47 Ms H-S has been taking lessons from Mr Spicer. I wonder if she feels the need to take a shower afterwards?
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  745. Logic is part of the Radical Left conspiracy.
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  746. That only takes 15 seconds. At least if you do it a capella ...
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  747. 9:26 Except the President himself has indicated he wants to call witnesses. Just not the ones the Democrats want to hear from. Wonder how Graham and McConnell are going to deal with that ...
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  748. Ceramic cooktop for me. Wouldn’t touch induction with a three-metre pole.
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  749. Don’t worry, there will be more to come.
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  750. “I just need 11,780 votes.”
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  751. I’ve always wondered ... do Trump supporters believe the Moon landings were real?
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  752. 13:07 Other countries have the same idiots. Other countries have the same mentally-disturbed people. Other countries have the same violent movies and video games. Other countries have the same yada-yada-yada-whatever-excuse-you-want-to-offer. But it is the US that has the gun violence. What’s different about the US? The guns.
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  753. I wonder if people know there are tools for splitting large files into multiple parts and joining them back together again ...
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  754. Most of us say “Lego”, not “Legos”. Possibly because we don’t see a connection between these bricks and the largest city in Nigeria.
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  755. Greetz to all the Microsoft Exchange Server admins out there. Having fun with the fact that Microsoft’s own software cannot handle its own new version number without crashing?
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  756. Speaking of translating Donald Trump ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSQbff_p58
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  757.  @nicholasleemarks  Overarm. The only way to throw a spear, for example.
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  758. 0:38 Is “cool bananas” better or worse? Of course, that could be a 🇳🇿 thing ...
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  759. Possibly 🇦🇺 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool%20bananas ...
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  760. Only if you send us your best people.
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  761. 0:20 To be fair, The Beatles were a bit of a mixed bunch: “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” 👎 “She’s Leaving Home” 👍
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  762. 12:46 Maybe no wasps, but what book is that at the upper right ... ?
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  763. Absolutely no difference, except that what Biden did was WORSE. Never mind that, as VP, he wouldn’t have had access to anything important anyway. WHAT TRUMP DID AS PRESIDENT WAS NO WORSE. Therefore, BIDEN MUST BE TREATED WORSE. Trump obviously thought the documents he stole took and kept lying around securely were not THAT classified, therefore BIDEN MUST BE PUNISHED AS THOUGH ALL THE DOCUMENTS WERE OF THE HIGHEST IMPORTANCE. Anything less is obviously LIBERAL RADICAL-LEFT FAVOURITISM.
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  764. Not the ones gassed in DC for the photo-op. They were completely peaceful.
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  765. Given the huge variety of ethnicities in Asia, I wonder what Asians are supposed to “look” like.
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  766. Girls are people, bears are not.
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  767.  @gracelovely3838  Animals are “it”.
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  768. 1:18 ... cannot ... unsee ...
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  769. Because Turdmp is running for the Presidency, that’s why. He explained it in his announcement.
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  770. 1:37 But a metal-detector detector would only detect metal metal detectors. So really it would only be a metal-metal-detector detector. But if a metal detector was metal, wouldn’t it be continually detecting ITSELF!??!? #MindBlown
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  771. ... for only the fifth time ...
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  772.  @andrewollmann304  On the other hand, would the IRS be willing to make such a fine distinction?
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  773. 2:51 I think you’ll find the Oval Office has two corners, which go right round the room: one at the top, the other at the bottom.
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  774. 4:42 He was young and needed the money.
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  775. It’s all about the ████’s attempt t
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  776. o ███ the █████ and give them ████ to
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  777. ██ the ████████.
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  778. Basically, a ████ load of █████ing █████.
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  779. Just wait, tomorrow he’ll claim he was just being “sarcastic”.
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  780. You didn’t have 1000 people dying a day 4-5 months ago.
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  781.  Joe John  Does Fox News count as “media”?
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  782.  Joe John  So which “sources” are telling you that they lie? The Governor of Texas, perhaps? Who had to call in all those refrigerated trucks, because the morgues were filled to overflowing with bodies?
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  783. Fun fact: These nutcases are the most fervent bible-followers already.
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  784. 9:26 I wouldn’t worry too much about being on time. Zeppelins were notorious for being late. The one time the pilot tried to make a schedule, come hell or high water ... well, you remember which one happened.
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  785. 11:06 Bad guy? So no more Mr Na-ice guy? By the way, with all his crowing about vaccines, didn’t he originally have a lot of support from anti-vaxxers? I wonder if they might not be feeling just a little ... abandoned ... at this point ...
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  786.  @rizon72  Because you don’t have a choice but to be here, do you?
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  787. 4:05 Taika Waititi could play him. Think of it as a follow-on to Jojo Rabbit ...
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  788. Don’t you stand on your heads over there? Maybe you could slap his knees ...
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  789. 4:21 Dunkin’ Don’t-nuts!
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  790. Trump watched it all unfold live on TV, and refused to let anything be done to stop it. He knew what he was doing.
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  791. Is a Supreme Court appointment a political appointment or not? Since when are political appointments made for life? You have the convention, do you not, that when there is a change of leadership in the White House, then political appointees associated with the previous leader (e.g. ambassadorships) are terminated and replaced. Why should the Supreme Court be a special case?
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  792. Talk to sewerage people, they will tell you that only 3 things are ever to be flushed down the toilet. And confidential documents are not one of them. You know how, every now and then, they have to squeeze these enormous, revolting “fatbergs” out of the sewers, created by people disobeying the rule? Soon, somebody in DC is going to have to clean out a “Trumpberg”.
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  793. The “country” didn’t elect him, the slavery-era Electoral College did.
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  794. The rules are to ensure the banks actually have money, not take it away from them.
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  795.  @nickcellini5609  This bank was exempted from the rule as a result of Trump’s action, and look what happened.
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  796.  @nickcellini5609  How many collapses would you have deemed acceptable?
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  797. 7:44 “Doesn’t quite recall the conversation the same way”. How many words does it take to say “pants on fire”?
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  798. 8:57 But ... but ... God created all the viruses sometime in those first six days of creation, didn’t he? So where are all these new ones coming from? Is Tucker Carlson talking infidel talk!?
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  799. That must mean he has more supporters than Trump already. Look at all the people making fun of the Lügenführer, and his useless Storm-In-A-Teacup Troopers haven’t been able to make anyone feel a mosquito bite.
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  800. Here’s an idea: all Senators who have already expressed an opinion about Trump’s innocence or guilt should recuse themselves from the trial. After all, we need an impartial jury, don’t we? I have no idea what kind of balance of his supporters that would leave. It could quite likely remove nearly all of them.
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  801.  @choosewisely7994  What’s different about bird testicles?
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  802. There is a saying: “every country gets the government it deserves”. If the US wants to become a proper democracy, it will need to reform some of its institutions.
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  803.  @heavysystemsinc.  Well, I guess that making the rules more fair would disproportionately disadvantage one side ... the side that has been abusing them the most up to now.
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  804. 11:08 “Respect my authoritah!” glasses.
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  805. Hmmm ... what about the ones who believe that Jan 6 was some kind of FBI plot to make the Republicans look bad? So they staged a “peaceful protest” to make the Republicans look bad?
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  806. 9:08 I thought judges were not supposed to be political? Because if they are, then why should they be appointed for life? Other political appointments terminate when there is a change of administration, why should these judges be special?
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  807. 0:46 We don’t even get flash cards for our vaccine certs here in 🇳🇿. We get emailed a PDF file and we have to print our own.
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  808. NATO is supposed to be purely defensive, and only retaliate against an attack against a member state. For it to get involved in Ukraine would be to confirm exactly what Putin has been claiming about the organization all along.
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  809. Also I discovered that, due to the shape of the Earth’s orbit, summer in the southern hemisphere is 4 days shorter than that in the northern hemisphere. Ah, what a time to be alive in 🇳🇿 ...
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  810. I regret I have but one asterisk for my country.
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  811. 1:54 Why am I suddenly hearing accordion noises in my head ...
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  812. Didn’t Trump’s appointees testify under oath to Congress that they would not do such a thing?
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  813. Yeah, how many countries still have cheques??
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  814. Sounds like the kind of thing Sean Connery would say.
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  815. 4:32 </goldfish impersonation>
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  816. There is a pitfall with claiming that “A is as bad as B”. And that is, such a claim is logically equivalent to saying “B is no worse than A”. Do you really want to be saying that humiliating and oppressing people is no worse than using words that animals don’t understand anyway?
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  817. 11:07 I don’t know why they’re called “turbines”. To me, a “turbine” has to mean a ducted fan, and these things have no ducts. Hence they are just “windmills”.
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  818. So much for the idea that everybody was “created equal” ...
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  819. Maybe the antiliberals see it as shocking or scandalous or rude or something.
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  820. What next? Trump and his cronies declare martial law and suspend the 🇺🇸 Constitution, saying they actually want to protect the Constitution and your freedoms? Shut down newspapers and TV stations in the name of free speech? Bring their armed followers onto the streets in the name of preserving the peace? Lock up and beat up their opponents because they want to preserve the rule of law?
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  821. 3:57 Ah, but now try it as though it were being written with a word processor app on a PC, with a nice keyboard with clicky Cherry keys. ∗Chef's Kiss∗
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  822. 13:13 Pigeons are not dumb. They are damn smart birds. Ever seen them ride the subway? And get off at the right station?
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  823. If teachers are afraid of being charged with felony crimes just for using unapproved course material, then there is something wrong with the law, no matter how good its intentions might be.
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  824. I am amused at how these aristocratic and royalistic names are so popular in a country that is not supposed to have such titles.
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  825. For those who want to compare with other countries, just remember that the US is the only country in the world with more guns than people. Just thought I should mention that.
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  826.  @juliaconnell  Boom-boom. Actually, I prefer badum-tish. Yeah, I’m a badum-tisher. Sue me.
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  827. Thought: why not use your family as a studio audience?
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  828.  Pipe Tunes  That’s a point.
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  829.  Pipe Tunes  But then again, if this is supposed to be for adults only, why the bleeps?
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  830. Time to make #BunkerBoy trending!
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  831. Seth is on a roll today. How does he find time to breathe? ;)
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  832. I wonder why they automatically assume that these people coming in, in search of a better life, would never vote Republican. Don’t the Republicans care about offering people a better life?
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  833. I tried looking it up, and I may be wrong about what I thought “consanguinity” meant.
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  834. 4:59 Hey, I laughed at that. I live in a place where people say “most” and it comes out sounding like “moist”.
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  835. He’s the Republicans’ only hold on power. That power is more important to them than the welfare of the country.
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  836. 1:49 Or an “A” to a “Λ” is a common one. How about changing “u” to “μ”? So it becomes “Bµtternµt”? Or perhaps “u” to “ν”, so “Bνtternνt”? (Not to be confused with “Bvtternvt”.)
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  837. Rejects are not necessarily bad people. It’s just that the US has allowed a particular group to gain an unfair ascendancy over the others.
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  838. Warning, warning, attempt at irrelevant (and misogynistic) distraction detected.
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  839. I think you could have made a killing short-selling Fox News ...
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  840. Just came here to say that, too. For those don’t know, there’s an easy way to tell: monkeys have tails, apes don’t!
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  841. Couldn’t they have just sent over a small pin?
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  842. And Trump calls himself “democratically elected”.
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  843. Maybe he’d never been conscious during landings before.
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  844. 1:30 Ya gotta rake the leaves!
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  845. 1:26 And not just any Calvin and Hobbes but the origin Calvin and Hobbes !
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  846. They were on the torrents a few years ago. Might still be there. From back when she was a he.
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  847. 4:53 If that’s the “epicentre”, then where exactly is the centre? This question was brought to you by the Campaign For Using Plain Words With Plain Meanings Without Random Spurious Techno-Scientific Connotations.
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  848.  @ydnacreynolds5889  You can selectively quote from your “holy books” to claim they are wrong, they can simply say you are quoting “out of context” and therefore they are right, you are wrong. Religious arguments just go round in circles.
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  849. While his media outlets were busy downplaying the virus last year, he himself cancelled his own birthday party celebrations to be safe. “Courage of your convictions”, he has heard of it!
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  850. 1:01 Listen to what they are saying to the new Speaker: “You ass, eh!”
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  851. 6:30 Prophetic.
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  852. 10:01 Sick of ants? Try wasps instead! ... Sorry, where were we?
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  853. And that 40% is more than enough to ensure he wins by a landslide.
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  854. 0:44 ... you mean you were only PRETENDING not to know he was there?!? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌I’m ... İ'm crushed ...
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  855. What’s Officer Eugene Goodman doing these days? Now there’s a hero worth remembering.
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  856.  @crazyice2980  Aren’t you admitting that you are no better than they are?
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  857. Craft Services supply the food. It’s the Art Department that made the dios.
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  858. 6:22 Make it 2 plane crashes a day. The US death rate is back up to about 1000 a day.
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  859. 2:36 “Alsho shows” ... ‌‌hic‌‌
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  860. Putin has this fiendish new strategy: for every week that Ukraine resists, another Russian general dies. What happens when the Ukrainians run out of enemies to fight, hmm? What will they do then? MWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  861. 5:41 Don’t you have a calculator app on your phone? I can suggest one.
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  862. Buy one of his pillows, and you’ll get 60% off a good night’s sleep.
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  863. Peak USA would have been something like the Marshall Plan, and the Moon landings. And now we have large parts of the US population who have forgotten one and no longer believe in the other.
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  864. Welcome to the Bank of Woke, led by our esteemed President Wokey McWokeFace, with branches in Wokington, Wokeville and Wokeland. Don’t Be Broke, Be Woke!
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  865. Meanwhile, foiks in Puerto Rico are going “Helloooo ... need some help over here? Anybody?”
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  866. 7:55 If it’s a pesticide, how come it didn’t kill him? Badum-tish!
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  867. 2:45 Jeremy Clarkson is apparently coming to the defence of Piers Morgan.
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  868. Would have been a good expiry date ...
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  869.  @CitizensBriefing  That’s their job. You do know they’re not claiming to be journalists, right? The fact that comedians get taken more seriously than your journalists is not the fault of the comedians, it’s the fault of the journalists.
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  870. What happened to the last person in the US to pull a gun on a representative of the Government? He was shot and killed. How do I know? Because it happens several times a day, every day. The pea-shooters the US Government allows private citizens to have are really only good for massacring other private citizens, not for making a dent against the Government.
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  871. Were those before or after “Get Smart”?
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  872. The largest city in Nigeria just called. They would like ... actually, they have no idea why they called. Never mind.
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  873. 8:57 Reminds me of the line from The Goon Show : “As I swam ashore, I dried myself to save time”. Well, it makes just as much sense ...
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  874. 11:51 "Six-million-dollar-man” ... what?
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  875. 19:01 Five Presidential impressions in a row! 👏🏆💯
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  876. How about “The Book Of Lists”.
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  877. 2:52 I think the CDC is still suffering a bad case of PTSD: Post-Trump Suppression Disorder.
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  878. What I’m wondering is, will Twitter continue to give him special treatment after he’s no longer President?
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  879. 2:55 Actually that should be “equinox”, not “solstice”.
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  880.  @grmpEqweer  That is right. Logical reasoning does nothing to sway conclusions reached by the more emotional, more animal parts of the brain, since it happens in an entirely different part. You don’t have one brain, you have several brains, all vying for supremacy.
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  881.  @grmpEqweer  Yeah.
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  882. It’s against US law for us furriners to try to influence their election. Fun fact.
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  883.  @randomness8819  There was a wise man who lived a long time ago, and left us many lessons worth following. One of them was “the gods help those who help themselves”. He seems to be a bit out of fashion these days. His name was Aesop.
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  884.  @randomness8819  No “blasphemy”, just fact. He was a real person, you know.
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  885. And that no person in their right mind would take him seriously. Tacitly admitting that their own audience are not in their right mind ...
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  886. He never gets any good viewer comments, either.
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  887. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.
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  888. 4:22 But ... but that would be ... DEMOCRATIC! Can’t have that in the USA, can you?
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  889. They should have replied “science has the power of prophesy”. They have the orbits of the angels all precomputed.
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  890. Technically, if Trump claims he is still the President, then he won’t be eligible to run again in 2024.
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  891. I wonder if she’s found out about the Menendez brothers yet ...
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  892. Ssssss!!! You and your National Firearms Agreement! #GunLawsThatActuallyWork
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  893. Dictionaries follow language, they don’t lead it.
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  894. Anywhere near Orlando, where that boy from Brazil is hiding out?
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  895. @fox_fires Yes, I think NZ has more in common with certain European countries than it has with more, shall we say, Anglo-Saxon-dominated ones. ;)
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  896.  @naughtlocke4516  Your religion, not mine.
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  897. They could easily declare bankruptcy ... then reincorporate under another name, and get back to the same old business. That kind of thing seems too easy to do under US laws.
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  898. 11:21 Sorry, I haven’t a claw.
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  899. Just as China gets things under control, the USA is going to turn into Ground Zero for the next blast wave of major infections.
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  900. 1:20 But if Trump said it happened, it happened! The news is real! It’s the reality that’s fake!
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  901. 5:29 Hey, where else can you get “Appartments” ... Oh, and “She wholly fat who window extent either formal.” Words to live by, indeed ...
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  902. And he will (mis)use that money to commit more crimes.
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  903. This is YouTube. You can replay!
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  904. 2:11 I wonder if that one instance counted ...
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  905. Did you suffer badly from the ’rona over in ’zona?
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  906. 9:42 Oh, the irony ...
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  907. In places like Germany and New Zealand, we have “proportional representation”, where every vote counts equally. I highly recommend that as a voting system. It does almost invariably lead to coalition governments (because no one party can get an overall majority), but I think that’s a Good Thing.
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  908. 6:18 You forgot to mention: speaking in coherent, complete sentences.
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  909. Something about “legal expenses insurance companies”. Companies that offer insurance against legal expenses?
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  910. 4:10 I should point out that Nelson Mandela found civil disobedience useless in his struggle against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Which, interestingly, is where Mahatma Gandhi started his career. The latter, of course, was rather more successful with this strategy back in India. Both were officially deemed “terrorists”, as I recall.
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  911. That John Lennon song begins “Imagine there’s no heaven”, so it’s obviously some liberal lefty godless atheist democratic notion which has no place in a true Christian theocracy.
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  912. 6:18 In all the best democracies, every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  913. 5:25 I wonder if Dad knows?
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  914. Ford issued a pardon even before Nixon had been accused of anything.
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  915. Remember he sent the army to stop the Caravan? Well, half of the refugees got in anyway.
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  916. No chance he can be elected, though he will likely win the Republican nomination.
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  917. The error made by the founders was in allowing the legal system to become politicized. Since when are political appointments made for life? They should expire when there is a change of leadership in the White House.
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  918. I wonder, though: if an “epidemic” has now become a “pandemic”, does that mean that “epicentres” have now become “pancentres”?
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  919. “Epi” in “epicentre” means “above”. As in “the point on the Earth’s surface above the centre of the earthquake”. Its application to disease outbreaks is wholly inappropriate.
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  920.  @davidfuentes9957  It’s there, in the menu, down to 144p if you really want to slum it.
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  921. Countries that have long been lectured by the US on adoption of basic democratic norms like a uniform voter roll, election by direct popular vote and an independent electoral commission are discovering that the US has none of those things.
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  922. Oh no, he and his followers are very much of the “Jesus” crowd. If you can believe in “eternal life”, you can believe the vote was stolen. Faith can not only move mountains, it can also rewrite the laws of arithmetic.
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  923. 7:29 What? Asking a poll question which also mentions the consequence of the answer?? Obviously a liberal-biased question!
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  924. He laughed at a Seth Meyers joke?
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  925. 0:51 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both slave owners. So yeah, maybe think about that.
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  926. If there is a “Norfolk Southern”, then is there also a “Suffolk Northern”?
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  927. No doubt you will not resile from that.
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  928. 9:36 At 1800mph, the wind will blow off your hair. And likely your head as well.
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  929. 3:51 How many times do I have to tell you, Seth: that’s not a D-pad, that’s their sting!
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  930. PKD is worth reading, but I think if you do too much of him at once, you are in danger of becoming like him. He wrote so much, and so insightfully, about the tenuous nature of reality precisely because he himself had such a tenuous hold on reality.
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  931. I guess they are the “party of faith” in more ways than one ...
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  932. Lots of people were in jail back then ... for what?
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  933. 5:25 RIP Robert Preston ...
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  934. “Hollywood accounting” will see to it that it never does.
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  935. 4:31 #TonyaHarding -- am I first?
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  936. Hey, I thought that phrase was entirely appropriate.
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  937. 4:40 Just thinking about that: these Republican-registered voters got to choose the candidates in the Republican primaries, then they didn’t vote for them come the actual election?!? Way to destroy the party from within, people ...
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  938. There are multiple ethnicities in Burma/Myanmar. As I recall, the dominant one is called “Burman”.
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  939. 1:29 Looks like those Tangent Camp lessons are paying off. Or maybe not. Tangent Camp is the one where, if you find your way there, they send you home to try again.
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  940. What does “stat” mean, anyway?
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  941.  @Sir99156  Sorry 🙇. Feel free to correct the name as appropriate. Though I think the sentiment still applies. 😏
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  942. I was thinking Cartman.
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  943. Now imagine him playing a comedian in a straight movie -- he was Charlie Chaplin in The Cat’s Meow . It’s about a certain fateful weekend on board William Randolph Hearst’s yacht, where somebody was murdered, yet nobody was ever charged. Why? Because William Randolph Hearst, of course.
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  944. Arr, he be annoying in the way he speaks, ’tis true, arr.
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  945. It’s not fair to the Republican lifestyle that reality has a liberal bias. We demand equal alternativefacts for all!
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  946. 0:17 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
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  947. CNN+ was just 32 days from launch to shutdown.
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  948. Remember that, as far as much of 🇺🇸 is concerned, just about the entire rest of the world qualifies as “Radical Left”!
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  949. 0:27 In mitigation, let me compare you to David Attenborough, who takes a whole set of identical shirts on his location shoots. That way, they can cut the footage together in any order, and nobody will be able to point out “hey, why did his shirt change from this to that, and then back to this again, within ten seconds?”.
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  950. Because those who would vote against them are discouraged from voting.
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  951. Seems like masks, even cheaply-made non-surgical-grade ones, do help somewhat.
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  952. 1:49 I see she still has that face shield ping-pong paddle for spittle ...
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  953.  @maireos  Is Irish a “race” now?
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  954. 0:53 Here’s how to tell them apart: Michelangelo was a sculptor, Leonardo was a painter and would-be engineer. Yeah. So how come a sculptor gets hired to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Maybe he was having a slow week ... which stretched out to ten years ...
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  955. 1:24 Yeah! Yeah! And double-yeah! Scrap that slave-era Electoral College crap now!
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  956. Difference between “review” and “needs investigation”, I guess. Beware of bureaucratic terminology being used to obscure the truth ...
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  957. 0:30 What about mimes?
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  958. In other news, I can’t wait to see what Seth and others are going to make of the announcement that the New York Attorney General has filed suit to dismantle the NRA for fraud and general misuse of funds. And the Washington DC AG is going after the (ostensibly nonprofit) NRA Foundation because it has been illicitly funnelling donation money to the NRA proper. The NY AG is the same one who successfully shut down Trump’s “charity” shenanigans. So she has a track record for getting the crooks.
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  959. “Da Vinci” is not a “last name” as such. They didn’t have them then. It just meant “of Vinci”, being the town he came from, in Tuscany.
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  960. You did say “was”, not “is” ...
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  961. Poor Rob Lowe ... that’s a raw blow.
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  962. I can think of a few issues more pressing than climate change: * A looming shortage of clean water * Antibiotics losing their effectiveness * The rise of the anti-vaxxers Go on, tell me these are less important...
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  963. Shellular technology has come a long way.
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  964. 2:54 So you nominate for party dude a guy who spent much of his life painting the same mountain over and over. (He also kick-started French Impressionism, so I guess that counts...)
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  965. Hi from NZ, where today we have moved up an alert level to 2 for all of the country except Auckland, which has gone to level 3.
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  966. It’s like some kind of infectious disease that has got into their brains. Maybe Trump is the carrier.
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  967. The followers of the Christian sky-fairy are firmly in his camp, never forget that.
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  968. 7:42 How come medicine bottles know how to merge lanes without getting stuck in a jam? (I was in Auckland traffic this afternoon ... I think I’ll just sit quietly until I stop trembling...)
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  969. 5:40 I wonder where people get all these pseudo-mathematical chalkboard scratchings from. What gives it away for me? For one, π is only shown to 3 significant figures. For another, I see an unreduced fraction at the upper right. #mathsgeek
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  970. I’m surprised they know about the internet.
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  971. The Citizens United case was the one that allowed PACs to be treated legally as people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC , with no limits on how much they could spend.
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  972. The movie OCD is strong in this one.
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  973.  @monorail4252  Bland ... lacks salt.
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  974. 12:40 “great Wal” ... sounds like “Great Wall” ... Coincidence? You be the judge!
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  975. Because if Liberals think it’s stupid, there must be something to it.
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  976. As I understand it, IQ is supposed to be “mental age” divided by “physical age” and multiplied by 100. How old was your dope dealer? If he had, say, an IQ of 150, and his physical age was 40, did that mean his mental age was 60?
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  977. If Sondland does an Epstein and is found dead in mysterious circumstances ... ... nah, of course that couldn’t possibly happen.
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  978. A lot of people are saying, believe me, that’s just what I heard, let’s face it, everybody’s talking about it, in all fairness, the most tremendous thing ever, they are saying it’s tremendous, it’s phenomenal, everybody’s talking about it, likes of which nobody has seen before, to be perfectly honest, people think it’s going to happen. #TalkLikeTrump
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  979. Is there something about shaving products we don’t know?
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  980. Just curious: where exactly in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say elections have to be free and fair?
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  981.  @mbjasniewski  That’s one way to avoid answering the question ...
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  982.  @mbjasniewski  ... still waiting for an answer ...
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  983.  @mbjasniewski  You tell me. Where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it guarantee such?
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  984.  @mbjasniewski  You can’t actually answer the question, can you?
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  985.  Buck Rothschild  Isn’t that an admission that the answer is “nowhere”?
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  986. Looks like somebody is trying to concede I have a point, that they never knew about, in the most passive-aggressive way possible ...
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  987. And for my next trick, here is another one: where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it guarantee that the judiciary will be free from political interference?
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  988.  @mbjasniewski  I was the one who asked that question. The answer seems to be “no”. Any advance on “no”?
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  989. No answers to my other question, about (lack of) Constitutional guarantees of the independence of the judiciary?
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  990. By the way: pro tip: if you have to resort to personal attacks against your opponent, that’s a sign you’ve lost the argument.
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  991. Forgotten my second question, I see. Or maybe you are ignoring it in the hope it will go away ...
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  992. Answering a question with a question is one thing; replying with an entirely irrelevant question smacks too much of desperately trying to avoid answering the question.
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  993. Somebody else further down said “Q-Ella” ... which I like. 😈
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  994. 0:19 You and Colbert both!
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  995. You don’t have to be if you don’t accept that you have to be.
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  996. If you were a Communist country, you’d have better healthcare.
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  997. She should sail back where she came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawl .
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  998. “Cognitive dissonance” applies.
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  999. 0:47 Genocide joke. #TooSoon?
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  1000. I think I know why they’re called “wind turbines”: think of it as a marketing thing. It’s an analogy with hydroelectric power, where the water flows through actual turbines that spin the generators to produce the electricity. So when the marketers wanted to sell the idea of generating energy “like hydro, but with wind”, they realized that, even though they are using windmills rather than turbines, the term “windmill” is going to evoke images of those quaint wooden things from bygone centuries, and distract from the message. So they hijack the term “turbine”, just to make it sound better.
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  1001. 3:49 Waiting for the Indiana Jones/Lara Croft crossover ...
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  1002. Slavery. There was a court case in the UK in about the 1770s on the rights of black people. Some in the Colonies could see the writing on the wall. Slavery was outlawed throughout the British Empire by 1807, while the USA hung on to its institutionalized oppression for over another half a century. And some parts of that still exist today. Like the Electoral College. Which, if you remember, took the vote away from the popular choice, Hilary Clinton, and gave it to Trump.
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  1003. Maybe you should ask an actual journalist.
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  1004. Wasn’t he in favour of gun control?
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  1005. 10:55 “The virus itself as it weakens” ... present tense. True marketing-speak in talking about something that hasn’t happened, put to political service.
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  1006. The Republican Party is terrified of her. That’s all you need to know.
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  1007. 9:46 Yeah, but one sign of normalcy hasn’t returned: all the magazines in waiting rooms are still gone.
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  1008. Ah, but that just means it was sucking away the power HOMEOPATHICALLY!!
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  1009. 14:01 You did fractals in high school?? I didn’t discover them until I read Mandelbrot’s book!
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  1010. But then the Senate is supposed to conduct the actual impeachment trial, right? What if they find him not guilty? What then?
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  1011.  @andrewstevenson118  “... I will ønly say this wänts ...”
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  1012. 8:19 Finger-Lickin’ Stein?
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  1013. At least one well-known legal professor somewhere has pointed out that a law means exactly what the courts say it means, no more, no less. That applies in any country. And guess who the 🇷🇺 courts get their marching orders from ...
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  1014. Here in 🇳🇿, as you head south from Auckland along Highway 1, there’s a sign saying “MOTORWAY ENDS”. Then, maybe a couple hundred metres further on, another sign says “EXPRESSWAY BEGINS”. But what is that piece of road in the middle?? Honestly, it doesn’t look too different from the “motorway” bit to the north, or the “expressway” bit to the south. But it is neither?! Does it exist in some kind of road-classification limbo?!?
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  1015. 5:20 Police are civilians. You’re not implicitly classing them with the military, are you?
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  1016. 16:16 Some did. Possibly a cost-saving measure on the cheaper ones.
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  1017. 13:10 I think a couple thousand more have died in the US since this video was made. It’s come to the point where you can just say “tick—there goes another one; tock—and another; tick—and another; tock” ...
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  1018. He probably thought she was Russian.
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  1019. Android 4 doesn’t have it. That’s pretty good, isn’t it?
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  1020. 4:57 If you miss the hole, they throw you out of the casino for cheating.
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  1021. Yeah, they were supposed to be the bad guys. Like an earlier version of Hitler.
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  1022. Can the USA ever recover from the total destruction of the credibility of its institutions that has been waged under this administration? With the full support of a Republican party which has put its own absolute hold on power above the welfare of the country? I’m struggling to conceive of what a post-Trump USA would look like.
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  1023. 2:50 I’d forgotten Bill Daily had died back then ... Am I the only one old enough to remember I Dream Of Jeannie ?
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  1024. Here in NZ we have an Independent Police Conduct Authority, quite separate from the Police. They automatically become involved every time someone gets seriously injured or killed as a result of some police action, and members of the public can even raise specific complaints with them. Does the US have anything similar?
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  1025. Because that was a fictional part.
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  1026. Hah. You and your subversive godless Liberal logic. If you truly understood the part in the Bible explaining how to correctly run democratic elections, you would not be suffering such regrettable confusion.
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  1027. 4:08 #TooSoon?
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  1028. Because in mathematics, the “<” symbol is known as the “fewer-than” sign, not the “less-than” sign. Got it.
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  1029. Of course. So it’s not “grammatical” to write that the number of days is n such that n < 100.
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  1030.  @michaeljohnangel6359  So how do you write the “fewer-than” sign?
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  1031. She totally controlled what you were allowed to know; you simply could not find out anything contrary to what she said. It was like hers was the only news program you were able to watch; when you switched to her, you forgot other news channels existed.
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  1032.  @l_CJ_xl  You are reinforcing my point, that Faith on its own is not enough to tell whether you are right or wrong: you need something higher than Faith, and that is Morality.
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  1033. He must smell like onions.
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  1034. 8:04 And where exactly would a whale put a neck tattoo?!?
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  1035. 11:08 Looks too much like somebody giving vent to their furry fetish.
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  1036. A writer named Wright. What could possibly go wrong...?
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  1037. 12:13 You still have magazines in your dentists’ offices? They’ve all been removed here in NZ.
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  1038. 9:06 True, dat. ∗cough∗ K∗mm∗l ∗cough∗
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  1039. 2:58 s/ecosystem/echo system/. Whom do they listen to? Basically just each other.
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  1040. 1:05 To be fair, a lot of Eminem’s fans have short attention spans ...
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  1041. Part of the problem in the US is the inflexibility of the two-party system: if you’re not for one side, you’re automatically against them. Third parties don’t stand a chance; try voting for one, or even not bothering to vote at all, and you end up favouring the Republicans. Here in NZ we currently have five parties in Parliament, representing a broad range of political views. And three of them are actually part of the Government. Sounds unwieldy? It might be, except that everybody understands that politics is all about compromise. And so we manage to get things done--ideological posturing tends not to survive very long in our political climate. In the US, you have a Government shutdown every few years. When was the last time we had one in NZ? Never. And another part of the US problem is that slavery-era institution known as the Electoral College.
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  1042.  @maryrosekent8223  Seems like lobbyists have too much power in the US system. Even if there is popular sentiment for change, powerful forces can keep it from happening. Looks like every kind of manipulation is allowed, just short of being able to tie particular lobbying/campaign/funding dollars to particular votes: so long as that connection cannot be explicitly made, it’s not considered “corruption”. The system may not be entirely “corrupt”, but it is certainly lacking in transparency.
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  1043. This is why 🇺🇸 is classed as a “backsliding democracy” this year. (Not that it was exactly in the top tier before). You can’t have a functional democracy with just two political parties.
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  1044. 10:18 It’s only supposed to be in fiction that the chief villain is cursed with comically incompetent underlings. But when you look at Trump and Giuliani ...
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  1045. 7:45 Wrong age group for Sandra Boynton? Middle-aged sigh ...
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  1046. What’s more, it’s hard to believe anybody would bother to comment on this.
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  1047. 7:47 Theme park? Aircraft toilets, in my experience.
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  1048. Don’t poke the woke joke, just take a toke, oke?
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  1049. 13:25 What ... Fox News giving credence to Ungodly Non-Doctrinal Socialist Liberal Science, now? Is your ideology something to be only preached, not practised? Next you’ll be saying it’s OK to vote Trump out of office, and still call yourself a Conservative!
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  1050.  @docescete3672  Sure. But how do they get away with warm testicles?
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  1051. 0:48 Yeah, there’s two jobs. In military parlance you talk about “command and control”. Well, the “commander” does the “command” part, while the “chief” does the “control” part. Simples!
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  1052. Hey, I did a joke about “chief” and “control”. RIP Edward Platt ...
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  1053. “Admissible” ... ha-ha!
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  1054. Quick! Somebody should tell Giuliani about all this “evidence” he’s missing! Seems he needs help to see in front of his nose.
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  1055. 12:08 Nah, the best prank played on him had to be the link registered on his Twitter typo https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/05/rudy-giulianis-typo-became-an-anti-trump-message-he-blamed-twitter-this-atlanta-man-pranked-him/ -- remember he claimed afterwards he’d been “hacked”? The guy who was supposed to be advising the nation on cybersecurity didn’t understand how Twitter worked?
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  1056. 8:14 Political appointments should not be for life. I thought the Supreme Court was supposed to be above politics?
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  1057. 4:04 Just a hunch, but I get the feeling that thermostat joke was translated from Celsius. Consider: 77°F = 25°C 68°F = 20°C Notice how they come out to nice round numbers? Just sayin’ ...
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  1058. When their fingers caress that gun barrel, the critical parts of their brains completely shut down.
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  1059. I think I would prefer mine minced rather than ground.
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  1060. 0:48 Don’t call it a “gender reveal”, it’s a sex reveal. The baby is too young to know what gender they are going to be.
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  1061. That’s a very absolutist statement though, isn’t it.
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  1062. 4:52 Ummm... “Yo-yo” “Bipolar” “White-knuckle ride” “Oscillatory” “Barf-inducing” “Stand by negative Gs”
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  1063. 1:27 This channel gets so much mileage out of bad jokes, it’s obscene.
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  1064. 1:32 No fair! Skipped one!
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  1065. Has Moore conceded yet? Last I heard he was still hoping for a turnaround in the final tally.
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  1066. If the number of calories is nonzero, I would say the donor requires medical attention ... stat.
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  1067. Let me be the first to say “erste”. Because nobody else thought to say it...
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  1068. That’s just the popular vote. But what did the Electoral College decide?
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  1069. 0:16 So you didn’t get a ticket?
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  1070. 8:34 Tai-Lund?
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  1071. Just goes to prove that raking the leaves did work, you see ...
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  1072. 6:28 Or at least, the 🇺🇸 part of the World.
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  1073. 4:06 Not sure if this counts as a “correction”, but when you put two symbols side by side with their faux-3D depth perspective at conflicting angles, it makes me wonder about the skills of their art department. No, I don’t use Adobe products. Why do you ask?
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  1074. 2:52 Yeah, but he was just taking the adipisc. It says so on the next line.
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  1075. Funnily enough, I think when the Nazis were asked where they got the idea of combining the office of head of State and head of Government into a single figure, they said it was from the USA. Parliamentary democracies tend to separate the two.
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  1076.  @JustChuck1982  “America tends to separate church & state” ... I think those evangelicals supporting the Republican Party might disagree.
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  1077.  @JustChuck1982  I guess “soft corruption” is the best way to sum up the way the US political system operates. Just so long as you cannot directly tie particular dollars to particular votes, anything is fair game.
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  1078.  @JustChuck1982  You need a democracy and rule of law in order for a vote to matter. You’ve had a regime that has spent the last four years trying to destroy every last shred of credibility in those institutions. Somehow I think it’s going to take more than a vote, this time.
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  1079. 4:10 I like to think it’s still an insult to him. Every time the new Administration takes any action to deal with the pandemic, every time people are encouraged to mask up and socially distance and get tested, every time a new batch of vaccinations gets delivered to people, think of it as yet another big bird flipped to ex-Lügenführer Trump. Over and over. A thousand times a day, from now until the virus is licked.
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  1080. 7:17 A comic caption I saw somewhere: “This is a job for ... [rip] *#@$! I forgot I was already in costume!”
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  1081.  @avadarkness666  Wonderful for you. But we don’t need your approval.
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  1082. Seems to me the Dems could have used him. He already made Gaetz and the “Freedom Caucus” nutjobs angry by putting together bipartisan support to pass that interim spending bill, which is why they wanted to get rid of him; by helping to keep him on, the Dems could have made him beholden to them, and enrage the nutjobs even further.
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  1083. He has a very limited ability to express himself.
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  1084. 1:38 You realize if you put Seth’s and Ben’s hairstyles together, you would have a full head? I wonder what that’s worth in a game of “follicle poker”?
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  1085. Arabs are Semites too.
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  1086.  @whitebirchtarot  They already split it three ways.
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  1087.  @fletcherrhoden  The movie title sounds like an open-and-shut case of false advertising, then.
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  1088.  @fletcherrhoden  Discrepancy between title and content ⇒ settles it.
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  1089. Watch out for the antiliberal kneejerk “I know you are but what am I?” response.
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  1090. All I can think is, peer pressure is an incredibly powerful thing. You’ve seen it in countries where mass atrocities were committed, it’s like large numbers of people are just sleepwalking, oblivious, through a nightmare.
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  1091. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, it’s a good excuse, anyway...
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  1092. “Cashew?” “Bless you.”
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  1093. 6:35 In the old days, they had this hook.
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  1094. They were the bad guys in the Civil War, and it seems many of them never really admitted defeat.
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  1095. But he has the support of so many millions of devout Christians! They can’t all be wrong, can they?
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  1096. You, you, you LATIN, you.
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  1097. “Roswell II: Swamp Gas Is Back!”
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  1098. Cancel your subscription and demand your money back.
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  1099. Mini-stroke.
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  1100. 6:59 Dang ...
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  1101. 2:40 Drippings of raw honey ... and then come the ants. You want ants? Because this is how you get ants!
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  1102. 11:23 I dunno ... Marjorie Taylor Greene could edge him out just by totally out-loonying him.
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  1103. Is Biden actually developing ... CHARISMA!?
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  1104. 1:48 Organically-grown produce, by any chance? They tend to be vulnerable to E Coli infections.
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  1105. Not really: remember Trump never won the popular vote. A more representative system would never have elected him.
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  1106. 0:46 Ross Perot all over again. This is why the US doesn’t really have a democracy; it cannot tolerate even the concept of having more than two political parties in its representative assembly.
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  1107. 5:16 “If we win we get to decide what the agenda is, and they don’t.” Yeah, but aren’t you supposed to let the voters decide elections based on which agendas they prefer? Seems you just want them to grant you the power unconditionally, on the basis of “trust us, we’ll decide what to do with it”. That’s not how checks and balances in a democracy work.
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  1108. Greetings to 🇬🇭 from 🇳🇿. Sorry I can’t think of any famous Ghanaian other than Kofi Annan. ;)
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  1109. 3:28 Private Browsing Mode FTW!!!
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  1110. And the Thorn Boidz graffiti?
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  1111. Why do I suddenly hear Peter Griffin singing “I Need A Jew” ...
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  1112. But where do they find the migrating trees? Those must be pretty rare...
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  1113. 0:40 The PAL version could fit it on one.
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  1114. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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  1115.  @faithcastillo9597  But Trump promised!!!111
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  1116.  @Digger-Nick  I wonder who are the ones claiming “terrorists” are entering the US from Mexico -- who are the real fear-mongerers. Even Fox News had to call out Sarah Huckabee-Sanders on the speciousness of that claim. Seems even the Republican-sycophant “news” network has limits on how sycophantic it is going to be.
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  1117. Imagine if she had a son. Don’t call him “Harry”.
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  1118.  @BleedingUranium  Well, he made the UN General Assembly laugh. At him.
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  1119. OK, this is going to be super-anal-retentive, but the title should be “Republicans Wonder if Georgia Isn’t the Final Nail in Trump’s Political Coffin: A Closer Look”. Because you say “I wonder if not X” when the original assumption was that X was false (and “not X” was true), and now you are beginning to wonder about that assumption.
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  1120. Ah, forgot Sardinia. But the Vatican is technically a separate country, is it not? As is San Marino.
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  1121. And also seemingly trying to hide their connection to her. Wonder why?
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  1122.  @a46475  Does that also apply to Fox News as well?Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  1123.  @a46475  Does that also apply to Fox News as well?Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  1124.  @a46475  Well, that’s one way to deflect from the question and avoid answering it.
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  1125. 0:24 That’s it, you can’t visit Thailand any more without being arrested.
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  1126. Even clicking on the link is impossible.
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  1127. You can’t even comment here, the air on this very page is unbreathable.
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  1128. I saw somewhere a design for a self-aligning sundial, so you can tell from the shadow itself whether you are pointing it in the right direction.
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  1129. 3:32 “id est”
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  1130. But is that d.f. or d.j.?
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  1131. /me basks in an endless stream of coherent, complete sentences from the Leader of the Free World ...
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  1132. That’s how the god of their religion works, so naturally they follow that example.
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  1133. 13:46 Hey, I thought “full-stop” was a 🇬🇧 thing, you said “period” in 🇺🇸an.
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  1134. 1:23 Maybe the system should tell Trump to get bucked.
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  1135. 8:28 Never fear! Underdog is here!
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  1136. Don’t you know that “lmao” is the standard way to indicate sarcasm? If you don’t want something to be taken literally, you need to indicate it with “lmaozedong”.
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  1137. 3:02 Which is only the official name according to the International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemists, but still, points for that. ;)
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  1138. 2:41 “Air dancers”? I though they were called “wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men”!
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  1139. They made one breakthrough in how to manage controlled flight, then when Glenn Curtiss came up with a better idea, they tried to claim their patent applied to that as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war . There is a saying thatˇ"when a company starts litigating, it stop innovating”. This allowed the Europeans to take the lead in aviation, until FDR strong-armed the Wrights into being a bit more reasonable about patent licensing.
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  1140. 6:20 Take your own when you visit, ya dummy.
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  1141. 14:17 Bad Alex?
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  1142. Do you find people run away when the bus arrives?
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  1143. 11:05 Oh, by the way, greetings from secular godless radical liberal 🇳🇿 with Socialist healthcare, proud to be a democracy under the rule of law, where every vote counts. And where both Government and people have sufficient respect for the science that we were able to make our month-long lockdown work.
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  1144. The human body has unexpected complexities everywhere.
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  1145. 4:09 Why do I think for a moment he’s channelling Jon Stewart?
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  1146. We’re glad that you’re glad. Aren’t we?
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  1147.  @707Berto  Maintain a positive attitude. Think glad thoughts. You can be a normal human being too!
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  1148. I thought the news about him being on The Masked Singer was out weeks ago.
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  1149. The floggings will continue until morale improves. That is all.
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  1150. There are metal detectors for the general public, but not for the members.
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  1151. You have no democracy in the USA. Democracies have multiple political parties representing a diversity of viewpoints, without each side accusing the others of trying to destroy the country. They can even cope with multiple parties being elected to Parliament and having to work together to form a Government that can actually get things done, without it all falling apart.
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  1152. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment and put this man out of the world’s misery? But then that would mean Pence takes over ...
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  1153. That fourth estate has to make a living, too.
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  1154. 0:06 Hasn’t TV in 🇺🇸 gone digital yet?
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  1155. Yes, that certainly evoked a frisson among certain quarters https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/30/twitter-users-react-to-bidens-inshallah-remark-in-us-debate ...
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  1156. Are you sure it was sarcasm? Could have been some litotes in there, maybe a touch of innuendo, topped off with the ever-reliable synecdoche, just for laughs.
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  1157. 2:22 I take it the Creationists no longer see him as their darling ...
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  1158. 6:21 Talk about a passive-aggressive guilty plea ... ... I thought Giuliani was supposed to defend Trump, not dunk him deeper in it.
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  1159. Who can tell one fish from another?
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  1160. 7:01 Yes, but “neurotoxin” is such a big word. So many sybillabubbles. So hard to say. That must be a sure sign of a Liberal Scientific conspiracy. What do you mean, “conspiracy” has just as many syllables? Don’t confuse the issue with facts!
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  1161. 5:52 Yeah, but ’flu! That’s like an entirely different kettle of RNA. And protein coat. And an entirely different virus shape.
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  1162. Fun question: where does it say in the 🇺🇸 Constitution that elections have to be free and fair?
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  1163. The more evidence accumulates that Trump and his supporters are wrong, the more stubbornly they dig their heels in. At some point you have to admit you’re wrong. Otherwise it’s not going to end well.
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  1164. 7:52 Tiga suku!
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  1165. TFG has absolutely nowhere near the attention span required to get through a single day’s work as Speaker. Do you think he would last beyond the first day?
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  1166. Hatchbacks are the best.
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  1167. 6:37 What if all the Senators who have publicly expressed an opinion about the guilt or innocence of the President had to recuse themselves from the trial? What kind of mix would that leave, do you think?
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  1168. 12:03 Fractals are actually pretty neat things. Look at some of the Mandelbrot Set videos here on YouTube, for example.
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  1169. Ion propulsion doesn’t work in an atmosphere, though.
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  1170. He makes it sound like 74 million outweighs the, what is it, 250-odd million that didn’t vote for him. Their Christian faith can not only move mountains, it can also rewrite the laws of arithmetic.
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  1171.  @philipclayberg4928  The sad thing about TVNZ in particular going 24 hours was the loss of the opportunity to play the old Goodnight Kiwi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbyor0SvdI ...
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  1172. 6:47 Ah, but he said “they’re looking forward to chomping at the bit”.
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  1173. And if you refuse, they can send you to ... double jail.
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  1174. You can imagine, once hydroxycholorquine has been shown to be useless and even harmful, Trump will say “nobody knew that at the time”, “nobody could have predicted that would happen” and other such nonsense. Or deny he ever gave such a recommendation, blame it on the WHO, or something.
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  1175. 12:11 How this line will be parsed in the future: Democrat: “He said, “I really think they should take it”.” Republican: “He said, “It’s their choice”.”
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  1176. Given the fuss over the “Aroha” poster, maybe somebody will say this counts as electioneering as well. But anyway, something I threw together a couple months ago: https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Arab-Proverb-843164291
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  1177. 8:37 I’m thinking that sounded more Noël Coward than HRH Chuckie Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
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  1178. Maybe he thinks you have to hang up after making each tweet, and call again for the next one.
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  1179. Whom did you say that to?
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  1180. My pants just went to high school in the Carlsbad Caverns!!!
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  1181.  @7thDayAdventures  Remember what Spock said: “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. If you have more water than you need, why should you be mangy about letting LA have some more? Face it, they contribute more to the economy than you do.
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  1182.  @7thDayAdventures  There are ways to build dams with races so the fish can still get by—then everybody wins. Decisions are best made with wide public consultation (and voter support), not by a small handful making decisions on behalf of everybody. That’s how democracy should work.
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  1183.  @7thDayAdventures  It’s not up to me, it’s up to the people in your area. Decisions have to be made for the benefit of the nation state as a whole, not to favour special groups. And it’s also worth pointing out that it is cities that prop up rural economies, not the other way round.
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  1184.  @7thDayAdventures  I have no idea what you mean by “literally not it”. Literally not what?
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  1185. 2:24 Too soon?
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  1186. He’s a performer. Performers need an audience.
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  1187. 11:31 You still have B-52s in service, and the F-35 is gradually being revealed as a fetid pile of excrement.
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  1188. Reality check: all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for. In 2021, 🇺🇸 was classed as “backsliding” on the World Democracy Index. And it wasn’t in the top tier before that.
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  1189. Especially when you realize that the roots of conflicts and wars invariably lie in history. So it can literally become a matter of life and death.
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  1190.  @Miapetdragon69  Is your granddaughter a wisecracker like her namesake? Once on a transatlantic cruise, on one of the big ships of the time, she asked “When does this place get to New York?”
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  1191. 6:23 Kamahl Santamaria over on Al Jazeera was positively wetting himself with excitement over the numbers. So I guess an impartial international news network with no personal interest in the outcome gets to have fun.
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  1192. 3:46 I sincerely hope that the WHO knows better than to use the word “epicenter”. Journalists, on the other hand ...
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  1193. That pronunciation sounds like a bit of a cumpt.
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  1194. 3:50 Remember this: “MARATWA” -- “Make America Respected Around The World Again”.
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  1195. 9:26 What is wrong with this man!? Didn’t the brainwashing take!?
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  1196. 1:04 Are they really talking about blaming Trump for making the wrong decision back then? Enquiring minds would like to know ...
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  1197. Remember, whatever decision was made, was made on his watch.
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  1198. Kylenol ... is that the one with the ads featuring Tylie Minogue?
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  1199. Heckle the jackal, why don’t you.
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  1200. Where does Irish spaeoulliang come from, anyway?
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  1201. Somebody did a Lego reenactment.
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  1202. Could be worse. Could be Brazilian President Bolsonaro, who remains in complete denial over the whole thing and is castigating state Governors who decide to take action on their own.
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  1203. Fun question: where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say that the judiciary has to be independent?
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  1204. 4:40 This sommelier is from Somalia!?
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  1205. 8:51 Maybe they’re thinking of a certain past comment by Ilhan Omar that could have been interpreted as “antisemitic”.
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  1206. 4:32 Only 63 million voted for Trump? So that leaves about 240 million USians who didn’t vote for him.
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  1207. Vampires supposedly don’t have reflections. There’s some other kind of being that doesn’t cast a shadow ... might have been witches.
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