Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "CNN" channel.

  1. Congratulations India! The prestige you will gain from this feat of science and engineering is well deserved. Thank you for your ongoing contributions to humanity (that part isn’t new).
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  2. So we just got to hang in there for 3 1/2 months and then we can start pulling ourselves out of this nightmare.
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  3. As someone else said in a tweet: Musk: If they start taxing billionaires, soon they’ll come after ordinary Americans. Ordinary Americans: Uh . . . who do you think pays taxes now?
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  4. It’s very Christian to see that your neighbor is in need and accuse them of eating pets.
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  5.  @NuclearGameVideos  You really ought to watch the video (and listen to the words said) before diving into the comments and asking people to support their statements. I don’t know one way or the other if MTG is undereducated, but if she is educated, her public statements do not showcase her education. However, she is certainly a troll. Source: her tweets. Go read them.
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  6. I’ll say this in Bernie’s favor: What you see is what you get. He tells it like it is and doesn’t care if he’s popular or not. I’ve never supported him—in past elections I felt opposed to what I perceived as “overly progressive”. But he’s not afraid to tell uncomfortable truths and he doesn’t pander to people’s worst instincts.
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  7.  @fynkozari9271  They might not have been told anything about Chernobyl or they might have been told the danger was past. Chernobyl is the story of government corruption and coverup, so the whole saga might get downplayed in Russia.
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  8. Why does this man deserve your level of defense? ”His parents are wealthy.”
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  9. That’s how Mordor rolls.
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  10. It’s more of a dredge now, but you’re right, it looks better, more blended in with the river.
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  11. A nanny state becomes necessary when too many citizens act like misbehaving children.
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  12.  @dahlemmuhammad9353  LOL, you’d have better luck arguing with a goat. With a candle or a rock. With the wind. Delusional people are not susceptible to logic.
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  13. Like most people, he’s not a hateful guy. He’s been driven to real righteous anger by the evil aggression of Russia. One can come to terms with that sort of anger, and eventually let it go. Not so much the fabricated anger and hate we see generated by “populist” politicians. To process that sort of anger, one must admit they were misled and that they were wrong.
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  14.  @Jim26D  The NSA was using ATT’s 5G network to control the mind of the bomber and they planted the suggestion that he should bomb the building to fight against his mind control. Everyone would think that the bomber was just a lunatic conspiracy theorist, giving ATT plausible deniability. See, I can make up laughably ridiculous shit, too.
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  15. The poor Finns ran out of munitions and never had a large army (or large population to mobilize). Even though they beat the Russians militarily, they couldn’t have survived another onslaught. So they made a peace deal with Stalin, giving up some land. I don’t think Ukraine is in any danger of running out of ammunition or equipment, nor is there a shortage of soldiers. Russia does not have limitless stores of equipment or soldiers to spare for the time being. Putin would need to declare war, and it would take time to mobilize reserves and equip them. But in terms of naked brutal aggression against a smaller country? Yeah, I can see why you’d make the comparison.
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  16. “Give us everything we want or you’re being divisive.”
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  17.  中國擁有比登  Do you get your marching orders from Rodger Stone, Vladimir Putin, or the Grand Ayatollah?
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  18. I pity the ignorant fools that fall for the Antivaxxer/QAnon bullshit, but my contempt is reserved for the spreaders of disinformation and conspiracy theories for political purposes, like this victim Appleby. He wasn’t just a victim of Covid, he wasn’t just a victim of his own ignorance, he was a victim of his own hate. I don’t feel schadenfreude, but I do feel something similar—that his death was avoidable and entirely of his own choosing. It’s sadly ironic that the family he left behind is now a burden on society.
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  19. This movie is like a mash up of The Omen and Goodfellas, with a few moments of Benny Hill. Picture the scene of Trump fighting for control of the steering wheel from the backseat, and put it to the music of Yakety Sax.
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  20. “But where are you really from?”
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  21. With the Arctic thaw, Canada is also becoming a front line against worldwide Russian aggression.
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  22. I’m surprised all her wine hasn’t turned to vinegar because she is unable to put a cork in it.
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  23. Or they will blame NATO.
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  24. Mutation happened. If you haven’t heard of the Delta variant, you’re not keeping up.
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  25. They can flip Gaetz to go after the next level. I’d guess the next level is the level insulating Trump. Yes, that would include Stone.
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  26. It’s worth pointing out that Appleby also infected his infant son “to own the libs”.
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  27. Grudge or not, his office is incompetent. They mishandled evidence from the start, and the ongoing problems they had with delivering discovery to the defense was a big red flag. You can believe the worst if you want. I think incompetence and a lack of professionalism is the cause, rather than maliciousness. Even if they had an airtight case against Baldwin, Baldwin was going to get a successful outcome. If he wasn’t acquitted, he would win on appeal because of the Brady violations. I’ll say one thing more. I don’t think the source of the rounds was relevant to the case. But that is up to the defense to decide as they craft a legal strategy. It was the fact that the evidence was buried and not handed over, not the evidence itself, that got it dismissed. If the DA ran a tight ship and everyone on his staff and in the PD respected the rules of evidence and the rules of discovery, they might have won this case. They would have at least gotten a full trial out of it. In the immortal words of John Belushi, “But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
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  28. Got it, thanks. Now can you give me advice for how to hire a defense lawyer after I land?
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  29.  @jaywalker3087  There’s no such thing as immortality, either, but people behave like they will live forever. That said, the fact that your car can be stolen by a skilled car thief is not a reason to leave your car doors unlocked.
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  30. I’m a conservative (or I used to be, using the old definition of conservative). Bernie has character, and we’ve seen how important strength of character is over the past 5 years. While I’m not in favor of his overly progressive policies (not in general, anyway), I prefer it to the anti-democracy authoritarianism of GOP populism. I am surprised to say this, but I trust Bernie.
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  31. President Clinton’s worst crime was perjury, but he is a choirboy compared to Trrump.
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  32.  @t.m5465  <— illiterate Putzi troll
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  33. But if you were Putin, would you even risk traveling to any signatory country? This really bottles him up. He can’t attend any BRICS summits.
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  34. Government corruption reaching into the military, incompetence of planners and leaders of men, and treating your soldiers like mushrooms (keep ‘em in the dark and feed ‘em sh¡t).
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  35.  @nickcharles6530  Looking over your other comments, I must urge you to see your doctor and ask him or her for a psychiatric referral.
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  36. Not so fast! You’re forgetting Trump’s plan C: An online insurrection led by YouTube Trolls who will type ominous but feckless threats.
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  37.  Jan 6 was "Wall Street Putsch" part 2  Get real. There are much more effective means of doing that if Russia wanted.
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  38.  @Ksins1  OK, Ivan. Maybe you Russians should withdraw from Ukraine, and let us worry about whether we withdraw our money.
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  39.  @afridgetoofar1818  you didn’t watch the video, did you.
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  40. There should be a locking box or case on a cart. It should be part of her kit (for which she receives a kit rental). If she doesn’t have one, one should be rented for the duration of the shoot. She should be on set whenever firearms (functional or not) are being used on the set, and the moment they’re finished, she collects the guns and locks them up. The only person she directly answers to is the property master, in the case that someone else makes a request she is uncomfortable with. If she was put into an impossible position, she still shares in the blame for not making firearm safety her priority. (This is also one of the cases where she can tell the property master to F.O.) Honestly, if the terms of the job made it impossible to do the job, she should have turned it down and/or walked.
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  41. The argument for collusion is that not in picking and not in the advice, but the “banding together” to “stay strong”. I don’t think this argument is morally right. I don’t think it’s the way the law should be interpreted. But it’s how an SEC lawyer might approach it. It’s a sufficient argument for a judge to let a lawsuit proceed. If you and your 1000 co-investors from your financial discord server get swept up, and you see what your legal fees are going to be, you’ll want to settle as quickly as possible. But maybe a crusading lawyer would take the case pro bono or at a reduced rate for the group . Who knows? I could see a young Mark Geragos jumping into something like this. Maybe even the real Mark Geragos.
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  42. Trump’s first clue was that his ears started burning, even before he heard or saw Bush’s speech.
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  43. But you haven’t listened to doctors nor scientists either. In fact, you won’t listen to anyone with any expertise at all.
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  44.  Terry Hawk  Matt Gaetz was involved up to his elbows. ✊
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  45.  @noface6872  No, you misunderstand. Mexico has its own problems without the threat of fascism spreading down south. You know, America is not sending its best people, etc.
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  46. He’s a straight shooter and always has been. When the night time opinion shows were engaged in all sorts of calumny and lying over HRC’s role in a uranium company sale, he devoted a show to setting the record straight. I was glad he quit FNC, but I had already stopped watching it by that point. I’m delighted he got hired at CNBC and has rejoined journalism. We need more like him.
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  47.  @asynchronicity  A much better price and on “ez credit” terms. China and India have Russia over a barrel. They won’t have to buy commodities—they’ll be able to lease mineral and petroleum concessions from Russia. Watch, it’ll happen.
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  48.  @voiceofreason2674  You have a point. This thing in the U.S. has its own flavor. Our history of ideology based on racist hate also precedes the Nazis. But we can learn from the German experience. There’s differences but there’s also a lot over overlap. To a certain degree we might say that the ideologies are decorative bullshit to flatter and mislead the masses, and it doesn’t matter if you have a Hitlerian world view or a Leninist one. The real philosophy is “might makes right”, the goal is maximum power over others, and that goal justifies whatever means are necessary. Our American fascism uses conservatism as a front. It’s not real conservatism, but it divorces meanings from words to signal conservatism. This is part of the grift. The word “conservative” is essentially meaningless. For example. People who promote Christian Nationalism are not Christian. They use the symbols of Christ to flatter themselves and to flatter others, all the while setting themselves above the rest of us. They want to impose “Christian values”, but the values are not the key values of Christ.
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  49.  Preston Hanson  Happy one week anniversary 🎂 on your account, you flippin’ troll. When Shepard Smith left FNC, a huge chunk of truth-telling left that organization.
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  50.  @terryslaughter1409  They probably won’t collect all the money, but they will collect some, and they will collect more over time. The defendants’ wages can be garnished for example—if they actually work and support themselves. The judge can order that assets be seized. All of which is to say that the plaintiffs are also being awarded the happy knowledge and warm feelings that the defendants actions are now causing dire financial consequences for the defendants. Thanks to case, the defendants’ lives are financially ruined for the long term.
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  51. His first act was to attack the train station! First day on the job and he already committed a war crime!
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  52. He’s living the Putzi dream. Hail Puto, the dumbest Russian Emperor.
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  53. “CNN ask retired businessman” . . . who has made his post-retirement life’s work gaining the expertise to fight infectious diseases. And then using his vast wealth to do it. Gates has subject matter expertise. You have, in a best case scenario, your paranoia, conspiracy theories, and a fanatical devotion to a con man. Worst case: you’re intentionally spreading disinformation, fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Either way, GTFO.
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  54. Restaurant workers, retail workers, delivery people, security guards, airline workers. Antivaxxers and antimaskers should be free to practice their beliefs. . . . somewhere else, far away from civilized society. If they refuse to take the basic steps to protect their communities, they need to go start their own community elsewhere. I understand there are a few uninhabited islands in Alaska that would fill the bill.
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  55.  @faithrada  *bonafide I’m not trying to be a jerk. I hope that helps.
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  56. LOL. “I like my corrupt judges to stay bribed.”
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  57. Which is why Trump was auditioning Nick Fuentes.
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  58. To be fair, she left December 1st. She’s still an immoral disgusting person.
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  59. SWORN STATEMENTS (from thousands of lunatics).
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  60. I knew it! CIA weather control! 😉
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  61. I’ve worked on plenty of low budget pictures that involved simulated gunfire. I’ve never been on location in New Mexico, so I don’t know what they do there. I’ve never seen anyone involved in the recreational activity of plinking, either during the working day or after the day was wrapped. Even on the most modestly budgeted movie, the armorer kept weapons and the prop ammunition under lock and key until they were needed on set. When a set up was complete, the actors immediately turned the guns (whether real or non-firing) over to the armorer, even if they would be used in the next set up. This is obviously for safety, but it’s even more basic than that. If we were talking about any other prop, you would never allow an actor or crew member to leave the set with it. Imagine a crew member wandering off with a prop book because he or she was bored between takes! It would never be permitted! The idea of crew (other than prop master or property assistants) taking ANY prop off the set is ridiculous, and I really have to wonder about the professionalism of that crew in New Mexico—and the producers who hired them. The prop master, the armorer, and the ADs (not just Hall) were not doing their jobs if they allowed this behavior anywhere near the set. The boredom of downtime is not an excuse, nor is it a satisfying explanation.
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  62.  @gavinw77  being. Cartoonist and then also saying asinine things in public does not make one a “political cartoonist”.
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  63. @UCj7FdTg_IvMG71pLnn3uQzg This is the first time I’ve seen a comment from an account literally 1 minute old.
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  64. Please tell me more about this Lowe-coin.
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  65. What’s amazing is that there was no overall commander before his appointment. No one was coordinating the Russian forces.
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  66.  @harryamos7869  Agreed, but we shouldn’t let the Kremlin define what is an escalation so easily. Declaring captured territory as “Russian” should be ignored as a trigger. That goes for Crimea and Donbas, too.
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  67. That’s why he’s dejected. He was expecting huge crowds. This crowd was even smaller than the one at his inauguration.
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  68. Hahaha, I was going to say, “You think that was a mace? This is a mace!” but my Crocodile Dundee impression is terrible.
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  69.  @csi1392  TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKES IT TRUE, COMRADE. TRUMP IS THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. WE SHALL BUILD A TOURIST RESORT ON HIS GRAVE.
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  70.  @t.r.campbell6585  That is probably impossible. I’m not sure it’s desirable. What is not only possible but also necessary is people using politics to impose their religion on others. That’s one of the things “Christian” Nationalism represents.
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  71. Can he be promoted any higher than he already is?
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  72.  @sweett2185  It’s better to get a book deal while out of prison than in prison. 😂
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  73.  @tronalddump6620  I hear you. I found him entertaining at first, like 25 or 30 years ago. Not everyday, but a couple of times a week while driving. Eventually I couldn’t ignore his cynicism and intellectual dishonesty, both of which he put into the service of hate and of his personal ambition as he grew more and more successful. He tilled the soil that has led to Trumpism and a resurgence of White Nationalism (that is hopefully peaking). I still consider myself a conservative. I long ago decided that Limbaugh merely hid his selfishness behind a facade of conservatism.
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  74.  @primordialmeow7249  He does make good points, but he only uses the points to throw up obstacles. Where is the Toomey Proposal to get money and resources to the most desperately needy?
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  75. Rudy is going to get his. We want swift justice, but let’s wait for Trump to lose his pardon power.
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  76.  @timcotterill3952  It didn’t used to be like this. It might sound like a fairy tale, but once upon a time, the GOP was the party of ideas. And the truth is, some of those ideas worked. Some only worked up to a point, and some didn’t work at all. The party was guided by principles, but could use those principles to adapt to constantly changing conditions. (And I’ll admit, sometimes conservative principles were misapplied.) There was also a foundation that conservative Republicans shared with liberal Democrats, the bedrock of American democracy and respect for its institutions. If that sounds weird, it’s because the modern GOP is 180° from where it was. Contrary to what many believe, the cause wasn’t Trump. Trump is a cancer, but the GOP had become fertile ground for such a cancerous polyp long before Trump won the party nomination in 2016. The GOP began changing course (imho) when Newt Gingrich became ascendant. To be frank, Gingrich laid down a red carpet for fascism to enter the GOP.
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  77. No, all they said is that they recovered a note that they believe was left by the perpetrator. They have not released any information about the contents. Listen carefully when you watch the video again.
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  78. Many of us carry the weed of racism in the gardens of our hearts. Maybe even most of us, if not all. If our hearts are like gardens, we must always be on the lookout for tiny weeds of hate trying to take root or sprouting from a hidden taproot. I think many people who claim to not be racist are afraid to fearlessly examine their own hearts. They are afraid to find out that they are not the good people they thought they were. You bravely looked within your heart and identified the spiritual weeds that were choking your soul. Let me tell you something about myself that I think you will understand. I’m not a good person. I’m TRYING to be a good person, each and every day. The point is not to become a saint, but to try to be better every day.
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  79. I think you might like the Spanish slang word for such a mess: desmadre — sort of like un-mothered.
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  80.  @AndrewMcleod7  It is, but for a presidential address it’s kind of fucked up. I wonder if this was CNN’s decision or Google’s.
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  81. Ooowee, that’s a whole other iceberg concealed under water. Just because they’re STATE legislatures doesn’t make them immune from federal corruption charges. Their wives might be the least of their worries.
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  82.  @davidbryant3532  cope, MAGA
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  83. ”Give us what we want, or it’s CIVIL WAR.” What do you want? ”CIVIL WAR.”
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  84. He shouldn’t have given Mrs. Putin a foot massage.
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  85. Hate to break it to you, but if you want Shep Smith’s brand of conservative, straight shooter, investigate-and-report-the-facts journalism, it’s on CNBC.
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  86. No limit. And there’s really no downside for McCarthy to continue. His reputation, his stature, and his ego are already damaged. If he drops out, it’s like he goes skulking off with his tail between his legs.
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  87.  @andreaskarlsson5251  you need to ketchup
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  88. It’s unfair to mock Ted Cruz. The ones who deserve the mockery are the jim-jims who keep re-electing him.
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  89. I have an old college friend like this. Super bright first month of Freshman Year, became a serious dead head waste case by the time we graduated (as did I), spent 10 years bouncing around various neo-hippy communities, and then got his shit together went to law school. In many ways he’s still the same guy: The brilliant mind and the hippy. But he’s one hell of a defense attorney. He doesn’t sport the scraggly Jeff Lebowski look—he goes for a neat ponytail and (last time I saw him) was clean shaven.
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  90.  @Hubtones1  Obama didn’t give Iran 150 billion dollars. That’s a lie. You either know it’s a lie, or you’re one of the gullible saps that listens to liars with total credulity because they also tell you those lies you need to feel good about yourself. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re merely a fool. You’re one of the weaklings that needs to be coddled, massaged, and reassured by your news sources. You’re so lacking in inner strength that you require a propaganda channel to tell you that you’re always right. Because you can never face being wrong, nor admit to being in error. Your mentality and moral development is that of a cranky spoiled child. You’re an infant, an imbecile. You have no business offering your opinion on anything because you live in a fantastic fascist candy land that panders to your delusion that you’re a good person.
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  91.  @jonathandnicholson  an unborn child is an unchild. There is no scientific basis to call an embryo or a fetus a child. Neither is there a Bibical basis. The Bible is contradictory and unclear on the matter. You have to pick and choose Bible passages and perform theological pretzel logic to speak with authority on the matter. That’s what we call dogma.
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  92.  THE OBSERVATION SPECIALIST  OK Ivan
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  93. It has a mechanism that destructs the important parts without the need for explosives. The important parts are those that enable secure communications and possibly those that give fine grained surveillance capabilities (those components are probably less secret and less critical). Basically, the self-destruct mechanism just needs to fry the electronics.
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  94. McConnell also unwilling to compromise on a clean targeted stimulus. Why not a counter proposal with a lower cutoff?
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  95.  @danieldickson8591  Also, they don’t seem to be captured in the sense that they gave up after losing a battle or skirmish. They made their way to a safe place to voluntarily surrender or they voluntarily surrendered when they made contact. At least that’s the picture I get.
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  96.  @steve57912  You have a very weak love of country or a primitive conception of nationalism if Rush Limbaugh made you feel proud to be an American.
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  97.  @zesolodar  these weren’t people, they were companies that used the bank for operations, such as payroll. The scramble to get the money out was the scramble to make sure employees get paid on time, that the rent is paid, etc. This isn’t about the little guy getting screwed, or of rich people getting screwed.
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  98. The UV lights are used to scan paper ballots of hidden 5G particles. 🤡
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  99. He really hates Walmart.
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  100. But there is the practical effect in that Putin is now extremely travel constrained. There are a handful of countries where he isn’t at risk of arrest and extradition to The Hague. This limits his ability to conduct high level diplomacy and meet with other leaders.
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  101.  @rudra62  Don’t bother replying. Just report it as spam.
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  102. It’s ships escaping a sinking rat.
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  103. Clearly you’re unfamiliar with Beavis and Butthead.
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  104. Because EVERYTHING has become political to them, especially their petty grievances. Simple things become affronts to their bizarre concepts of liberty—which basically amounts to selfishness.
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  105. “I’m not sad about the election, I was just chopping onions.”
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  106. It means that if Putin came to the U.S., the U.S. wouldn’t be required to arrest him and extradite him to The Hague. But it doesn’t mean the U.S. can’t or won’t.
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  107.  @mitchhoule7721  Let me clear up your confusion. Jojo isn’t an American, has never lived in America, and gets paid in rubles or yuan to post comments on social media.
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  108. Yes, and people who understand that the pandemic is real and deadly serious also have the freedom to ostracize the unvaccinated, to refuse you service if you refuse to wear a mask, to not employ you, and to use our own freedom of speech to shame you into compliance with common sense health measure. Agreed? Antivaxxers seem to think freedom only applies to them.
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  109. It’s not that complicated. You shouldn’t need Katie Porter to understand what happened here. Banks are allowed to only keep 10% reserves of deposited funds. The rest is put into loans and investments. When interest rates are extremely low, as they have been for the last 20 years, a bank can’t make a profit from making loans. So they invest the money. A lot of those investments are in companies that are benefitting from the low interest rate environment. When interest rates go up substantially, a fair amount of those companies fail. There are some basic tweaks that might protect against this problem, such as raising the reserve minimum and putting limits in place as to what type and how many investments a bank can make. You have to strike a balance between banks taking in too much risk and taking on too little. Clearly this bank took on too much, and that indicates a problem.
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  110. The choice facing Russia is how badly they are going to lose. If they leave Ukraine now, some sanctions will be lifted. Their economy will recover eventually. If the Russians don’t leave, their economy will be destroyed beyond recovery. The longer they stay, the more damage to their economy. I don’t know if Putin will be able to remain in power in any case. Between the Russian people and his criminal cronies (the oligarchs), he’s lost his base of political support. His criminal cronies want to remove him. I’m sure Putin is physically protected from assassination , so they will be very careful about taking a shot at him. But I suspect they are already conspiring against him.
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  111. Not all Russian Criminals are in prison. In fact, many were already in the Russian armed forces prior to the invasion. So recruiting imprisoned criminals won’t make much difference.
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  112. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the movie genre of Westerns which often feature gunslinger characters that perform quick draws of weapons and begin firing as soon as the gun clears the holster and the business end is pointed anywhere near the target. The issue discussed here is that the firearm was loaded with live rounds (real bullets), and secondarily, that the firearm wasn’t disabled from firing live rounds in the first place.
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  113.  @flavortown289  People like Carl would be surprised at how many ordinary people, some with liberal politics, others more towards the center, are gun owners. The difference between them and people like him is that they don’t advertise that they’re gun owners. They don’t go out of their way to imply it. They don’t brag about it. They don’t base their self esteem or their identities as being gun owners. They don’t pathologically build their lives around firearms. If people like Carl think they have an edge on ordinary people whose political views differs from theirs, and they think they can bully those people with firearms, they’re in for a big surprise.
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  114. And His prayer mail box is full.
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  115. We probably should have figured it out when they proclaimed they were “pro-life” as they murdered people.
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  116.  @MrDLRu  Explain the logic? We don’t know whether or not casings were found, so that’s not a sound assumption. Better evidence would be someone with eyes on the RV hearing shots but not seeing anyone, but even that isn’t 100%. Our problem with our speculations is we lack details. I believe the authorities are going to keep a lid on the investigation and keep a lot of details hidden, because a lot of loonies are going to be calling in tips or even making false confessions. The investigators will use details to filter out the nut cases and fake tips.
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  117. It’s a mob—we’d do well to remember that we might all be susceptible to the strange psychological influence of a mob, and to take care we do not succumb. Yes, there is something wrong with these people that led them to be there that day and led them to join this particular rioting mob, but be on guard against your own worst human instincts, and don’t think “I could never do that”.
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  118. Why does blackmail always have to be the explanation? Maybe Graham was just a piece of shit the entire time.
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  119. You can tell he’s stone cold by his rosy cheeks.
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  120. With less loss of life.
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  121. I kept waiting for Wolf to flinch from all those birds flying at him.
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  122.  @cdani9972  You make a good point. Cippollone took the oath to uphold the Constitution, and part of that duty is to protect the principle of Executive Privilege. Even if a court has ruled that there is probable cause to pierce that shield, a WhiteHouse Counsel’s duty is to maintain as much of that privilege as he can on any matters outside the investigation. The committee investigators will have to ask very specific questions with regard to matters directly involving Trump, counsel he gave Trump, and things that Trump asked or told him. They probably can’t ask, for example, for him to go through any particular day and what he did and who did he talk to on that day. They’ll have to ask specifically, “Did you have a meeting with so-and-so?” So I don’t think this is a fishing expedition. I think the committee has a good idea of what questions to ask, and how to ask them. I don’t think he’s a hostile witness, just a witness that isn’t free to volunteer information or answer certain questions. He is constitutionally constrained. In fact, I think the committee has been trying to portray him sympathetically (so as not to alienate him?). Here is what I think we will get: More on the day of January 6th and the part he played in keeping Trump from going to the Capitol. More on the pardons and his interactions with Kushner. Interactions with Mark Meadows. The attempt to replace Rosen with a new AG. (I’m not sure how much info he can divulge on Meadows and Kushner, given his constitutional constraints.)
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  123. Maybe send this suggestion directly to the Ukrainian armed forces, instead of posting it on a video? Email it to the Ukrainian embassy.
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  124. Let them get paid. All those paychecks add up and drain Trump’s campaign coffers.
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  125. They seem to suffering real economic hardship. They can’t even afford to buy a change of clothes and have to suit up in their military gear.
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  126.  @taralamalam1321  Trump’s campaign is so broke they can’t afford to pay for TV ads. They’ve resorted to having interns and Russian trolls posting links to campaign commercials. Bigly sad.
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  127. There is one scenario I can think of where team Trump has evidence of hacking but cannot show it. They hacked the machines to win, and someone came along and switched them back. For an illustration of what this would look like, see the poker on the train scene from the movie The Sting.
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  128. Damn. For a moment I thought the headline said “obit” not orbit.
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  129.  Scott Robinson  What a fake patriot you are, wrapping yourself in the flag. Maybe someday you’ll respect the colors rather than use them to project your personal brand.
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  130.  @Piquliar  “Cancel Culture” is a right wing invention, and it has been practicing it for years. Centrists and the left-of-center practice consequences and responsibility for one’s words and deeds. It’s not at all surprising that the right wing only gives lip service to their slogan, “The Party of Personal Responsibility”.
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  131. I think that the Trump administration wants to kill Americans to punish them for the “betrayal” they will inflict on Trump this November. Trump knows he’s going to lose, and this is is parting shot.
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  132.  @sacjusticeforyou  Your standards for “expertise” must be pretty low. This is what makes you prey to the various predatory grifters and snake oil salesmen that make up the antivax world. You’ve got to develop the ability to distinguish between genuine scientific disagreement and the chasm between genuine science and pseudoscientific quackery.
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  133. That’s right. He was already participating in a felony with the murderer and his father. That’s enough participation to qualify him as guilty as well. What a fsck up! I guess he thought he was being helpful? What a thing! Something to think about if you hang out with violent racists. Maybe you shouldn’t if you don’t want to get caught up in their crimes.
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  134. I think the point is that now there is no way he will travel to SA or any other signatory of the Rome treaty. Excepting a handful of countries, his ability to conduct diplomacy face to face with other world leaders, is severely curtailed. It might even have an affect on his status as leader within the Kremlin, but I doubt that.
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  135. There wasn’t an order to stand down. Instead, a few days before the attack, the Secretary of the Army ordered that any deployment of the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) had to be approved by him personally—and this is what led to the delay. Furthermore, he also ordered that those Guardsmen already deployed to assist Metro police couldn’t be redeployed from their assigned locations elsewhere in DC, without his personal authorization. (This hampering of the QRF is utterly bizarre and at odds with the detachment being able to react quickly.) Miller will have to answer for this apparent dereliction of duty, as well as answer other questions about the actions of his deputies.
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  136. Screw that. This is a job for the hashtag zombies.
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  137. “Cold gun” means unloaded completely. “Hot gun” means loaded with blanks. “Homicidally negligent armorer” means a gun loaded with live rounds on set.
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  138.  @joejackson9295  Dude, did you just mix up NATO and the UN?
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  139.  @fksons4161  Big Lebowski jokes aside, you’re absolutely right. Opponents might be lulled by his hippie look, but this is the type that fights for each client as if it’s an important social cause (and probably uses his paying clients’ fees to support pro bono work on legitimate social justice cases). To underestimate this man as a slacker is a terrible mistake. The fact that his client is pleading guilty and cooperating should tell us that the government has a pretty damning case against the client, and that the client has damning information on “an elected official”. Fritz whatever-his-name-is will be determined that this “elected official”, whoever that might be, pays the price instead of his client. (It’s likely Gaetz, but let’s remember that Greenberg provided call girls and drugs to a whole contingent of Florida Republicans. It could be one of them under investigation.)
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  140. I don’t prefer him over others, but I do prefer respecting the majority that elected him. I hate this abuse of the recall process by a minority of anti-democracy extremists and grifting opportunists. If the California GOP can produce a non-MAGA moderate candidate, I’d be more inclined to vote for that person IN A REGULAR ELECTION.
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  141.  @Thea-gj2or  How about we play a game where you are a responsible player and don’t steal other people’s ports?
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  142.  @MsLaylaB  The name of his high school team? The Bone Spurs.
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  143. As of today, the Pfizer vaccine has full FDA approval and is no longer considered to be under emergency authorization. Other vaccines should also be getting approvals in the coming days. Of course, the anti-vaxxers will move the goalposts, hmmmm-ing all the way. “Hmmmm, isn’t it strange that the FDA approved an experimental vaccine?” “Hmmmm, isn’t it strange that the FDA approved the vaccine after the governor forbade school districts from mandating vaccinations?” “Hmmmm, follow the money.”
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  144. It’s that famous GOP projection. Whenever they point a finger, three fingers point back at them.
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  145.  @kentparker3245  How many jobs were lost to China due to NAFTA? Idiot!
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  146.  @laurenjones9064  I’ve heard it said that Trump’s hardcore supporters love him because he gives them permission to be their worst selves. Everything I’ve seen, heard, or read supports this idea. A leader who lacks self-control releases them from the normal bounds of decency.
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  147.  @williamhodgden8970  <— Homeschooled
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  148. The main difference between now and 2016 is we’ve had four years of Trump and we don’t want four more.
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  149. @Mr.B Uh, no. Not quite. Please educate yourself on court procedure and rules of evidence before spreading any more misinformation. Understand what it means if a judge allows or disallows evidence. Understand and respect the process, rather than repeating crap you’re being fed by professional disinformation sources.
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  150. The diplomatic solution could be initiated by an immediate cessation of hostilities by Russian forces, and their hasty exit from Ukraine. Until those conditions are met, what is there to discuss? Putin won’t get better terms—the longer this goes on, the worse is his bargaining position. Sooner or later, there will be a cessation of hostilities, either Russia voluntarily laying down arms or Ukraine forcing Russia to do it. The question of when this happens is something that the Russian people must negotiate with their fuhrer Vladimir Putin.
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  151. And people who have never examined their own attitudes or thoughts for racism, who get defensive if you even hint they might be racist, will not understand the racist nature of your exchange with that passenger. They’ve been breathing the air of white supremacy for so long that they almost always excuse it, minimize it, or invent a “reasonable” explanation.
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  152. Insisting on the truth is a direct attack on Trumpism.
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  153. The irascible John Bolton, complaining the price on his head was too low. 😄
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  154.  @medexamtoolscom  Putin got a majority of votes AFTER he murdered his political opponents. It’s not hard to win after you’ve cleared the field. Would you say a futbol team won if they murdered the other team before the match?
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  155. I guess we figure that Republicans like Toomey have been fucking with Trump this long, not saying shit when Trump incites his fanatical followers, it’s their own lookout. It’s nothing new, other than it’s now being directed at leaders of Trump’s own party. To be honest, I’m surprised Trump didn’t go harder and get more specific. I’d have expected something more along the lines of “GET TOOMEY!”
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  156. There’s no “secret evidence”. The evidence is all on video, we’ve all seen it, and it’s damning. The lawyers excused themselves because they did not want to perpetuate the lie that the election was stolen from Trump. They offered the best legal strategy: to argue that there’s no constitutional basis to impeach a former president. Many GOP senators had already signaled they were on board with this strategy. This doesn’t signal anything nefarious. It signals Trump’s own stupidity.
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  157. Because he’s devoted the time to gain subject matter expertise. He funds and manages those with even greater expertise to solve the problems of infectious diseases. Or put in simpler terms, he knows what he’s talking about.
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  158. But he’s not going to travel outside Russia very much. 😂 He is now effectively blocked from most of the world.
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  159. He’s gained expertise by educating himself. That’s why he should be listened to. Y’all are taking your anti-intelectualism Anti-elitism too far. Your opinion is not “just as good” as expert opinion, especially when that opinion is widely held by experts. You’re being idiotic at best. Can you not for once out aside your politics?
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  160. They’ve been criticizing Trump for the last four years, five including the 2016 election. Where have you been? Also, consider the audience they’re trying to reach: fellow conservatives that have fallen under the spell of fascism. That might be why you’re hearing from Bill Cohen for the first time. If he was addressing you, he’d be preaching to the choir.
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  161. I think you might have it backwards. The law itself specifically mentions “parading” for purposes of insult and ridicule of the POWs as the banned behavior. The letter of the law is the strict interpretation. A broader interpretation would fall under “spirit of the law”, and is a more contentious and subjective area. The strict interpretation, as I understand it, would allow these interviews of POWs, even for propaganda purposes, so long as the POWs aren’t being insulted or ridiculed. I might be the one who has it backwards, but this is my understanding of letter of the law vs. spirit of the law.
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  162.  @jacqdanieles  It’s useless arguing with these trolls. Use the reporting function and report them for promoting terrorism or misinformation. Ivan is clearly supporting terrorism. Others peddle disinformation.
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  163. Is that supposed to be Dimberly Guiltyfoil? I don’t think there are caps capsy enough to capture her tone, but . . . THE BEST. IS YET. TO COME!!!!!11one!!!eleven!!1
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  164. @Aaron Duncan Why would letting suckers give Trump their $600 cause civil war? You’ve got civil war on the brain. Is this your response every time you lose? “Muh high school football team was cheated out of victory! Civil war!”
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  165.  @andybord4421  He licks bicycle seats. When you park your bike, take the seat with you or he’ll get his slobber all over it.
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  166. A prop is ANYTHING an actor touches or interacts with, regardless of functionality. Laypersons unfamiliar with theater or cinema often don’t know this. Thus a real gun, a real phone, a real coffee cup, or whatever, is a PROP. However, you are correct that a “prop gun” is not a real gun as it cannot fire projectiles.
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  167. Sure, maybe. Easier explanation is an idiotic brainwashed Republican electorate.
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  168. Not just “leader”. Messiah.
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  169. It’s 100% true. Those were his boxes. However, the documents inside the boxes were not his.
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  170. They’ve been subpoenaed, they’re not “targets of a subpoena”. Whether or not they are targets of a criminal investigation depends on what they did and whether they cooperate with investigators. I hope for their own sake that they cooperate. To be clear, Clarke, Westbrook, Giuliani, Navarro, etc. are all in deep trouble. One of them should also cooperate and spill the beans on their co-conspirators. You know what they say, “Snitches get lighter criminal penalties and can often avoid jail time.”
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  171.  @walteryoung3056  Are you Republican?
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  172. I get that. But what if they’re lied to by their commanders? What if they’re told, “There’s a platoon of Ukrainian soldiers in that building, trying to set an ambush. Blow the building up.” It’s not always clear cut.
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  173. An addict wouldn’t accidentally leave his drugs somewhere. Having an addiction isn’t like you having eczema.
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  174.  @newpursuit1  They might have standing and a cause of action for the resulting bomb threats. There are some elements to the case that indicate that Vance is trying to incite violence. That doesn’t mean the city would win, it just means that the case wouldn’t get thrown out immediately.
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  175. The Taliban has a lot of motivations to cooperate. It’s not so much that they’re worried about re-invasion as they’re worried about ongoing destabilization. They’re now in charge (more or less) of their country. They have their own extremists problems that will challenge them for power (Sunni radicals). I’m reminded of Vietnam and Nicaragua, two countries were Communist/Nationalist movements won but that didn’t turn into the threats that we thought they would. Vietnam actually fought Communist China a few years after Vietnam was reunified. In Nicaragua, elections took place and a conservative government was elected (they’ve since gone back to a socialist government). I don’t think the Taliban and the U.S. are going to be best buddies anytime soon, but there is no reason why we can’t come to a diplomatic understanding.
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  176.  @fairdinkum977  average trumptards, or as I like to call them, Fa.
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  177. Right? How about all those steel and manufacturing jobs Trump was supposed to bring back? Never happened. The fact is, the Obama administration’s unemployment numbers in its last three years were slightly better than Trump’s were in Trump’s first three years.
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  178. The January 6th Investigation is not a criminal investigation. The January 6th Committee is not the DOJ, nor is it a grand jury. It’s a congressional fact finding investigation—and apparently well run with great discipline. Criminal investigations are different, and there is a both sides in that witnesses, targets, and suspects have rights and can hire attorneys to defend those rights. However, investigators and prosecutors need to establish that a crime occurred before it even gets to that point. It is not rare that criminal allegations don’t pan out and it can’t be determined that a crime was committed.
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  179. “Our defense is focused on something that isn’t being alleged.”
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  180.  @TheJcrandazzo  Yup. The handbook is titled Mein Kamph.
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  181.  @primaryrage  Call it what it is, the Russian shitzkrieg.
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  182.  @robertg8565  The important distinction is whether the pilot was ordered to down the drone or if he was acting on his own initiative.
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  183. Stalin needed Trotsky as a scapegoat. Trump has . . . George Bush? 😆
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  184.  Rachel Madcow  Thanks Ivan. We’re so glad you and so many of your fellow Russians are taking the time to create new YouTube accounts to comment on racism in America. I know times are tough all over, but is this really the best job you could get?
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  185.  @Andy-df5fj  <—Putzi troll
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  186. It took quite a toll on his having access to a hair/makeup/stylist and a lighting crew.
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  187. You’re being overly optimistic. It’s a wounded animal, making it even more dangerous. This is not the moment to pat ourselves on the back and call it a day.
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  188. He was out of contact for a while. Maybe he ran out and had to walk to a gas station with a gas can.
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  189.  @SO-ud6ro  cope, Ivan
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  190. It’s in their best interest if they want to control their own party and not let the guy who got voted out of office rule them. The same guy that lost them their majority in the Senate. McConnell knows this. He knows that if Trump continues to rule the GOP, he will be Donald Trump’s creature utterly.
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  191. What other outcome was Trump and his inner circle expecting? Were they really hoping Cyberninjas would commit easily discoverable fraud on Trump’s behalf? The true reason the Republicans are pulling these shenanigans is because it’s terrific for fundraising. They’re putting their greed ahead of our democracy.
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  192. Pirro is named in the new suit, Sean and Tucker are not.
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  193.  @goodness_graciousme  Except this will be solved. We, the public can only speculate because very few details are being released, but the FBI, ATF, and the locals already have collected a lot of evidence—most of which they won’t release until they have a suspect in custody. Or suspects. This could have been done by a single individual, but it could have been a small group that didn’t blab online beforehand.
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  194. How are they back pedaling?
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  195. Well, at least another Ted Cruz presidential run is off the table—I think even MAGA Republicans will use this opportunity to jettison Cruz—or they should if they had more than a single brain cell dying of loneliness.
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  196. Two separate thoughts come to mind. One is that there are billionaires who recognize the absurdity of the taxes they pay, and are favor of increasing taxes for their level of wealth. I recall Warren Buffet pointing out that he pays less in taxes than his Secretary. The second is that ANYONE who has become rich from the tech sector did so because of early government support during the Cold War. All the early startups received funding, contracts, and research grants, and these strategic subsidies continued for several succeeding generations of startups. We’re talking about the development of integrated circuits, shrinking transistors, telecommunication networks (including the internet), all on the government dime in whole or in part. Besides the pre-existing infrastructure Musk needs for his current businesses, his entire fortune (mostly from eBay) wouldn’t have been possible without government supporting the early tech startups during the Cold War (and indeed up to this day, although to a lesser extent). Like many other leaders in business and politics, Musk demonstrates a selfish childishness that seems only interested in taking while denying any responsibility to give. People like him want to suck all the milk from society’s teat, leaving none for the rest of society. Any value he has as an engineer or innovative mind is diminished by his narcissistic impulses.
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  197. [More Russians in this thread than the annual Moscow Potato Fair] Yup. When it became totally clear America wasn’t going to re-elect him, he decided he would punish us. After the election, there will be no stimulus until Biden takes office. I actually wonder if Trump is going to openly propose to the American people, “I get elected, you get your stimulus.” Although there was good news today about Stephen Miller.
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  198. A term lasts two years. If the people of a congressional district want to elect the same person over and over, they have that right. They also can limit their congressperson to a single term by voting for a different candidate. That’s term limits as envisaged in the constitution. What you want is neither constitutional nor democratic. Worse, it’s lazy.
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  199. McConnell complaining about Bernie Sanders: “That man did not even have the common decency to give me a reach around!”
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  200.  @jessicaribot2288  It is, except for the Pandemic is about as bad here as up there. I got here about March and it’s not (IMO) safe to travel back. I’m just hunkered down until I get vaccinated.
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  201. There won’t be anyone left to answer the phone by this weekend. Perfect opportunity to prank call him.
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  202. Are they named in the lawsuits?
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  203. That’s the whole idea behind the stimulus. It’s also why targeted stimulus makes more sense, because those above a certain income level save it or invest it (normally a wise policy) and take the money out of circulation. The point is to keep the money moving, keeping businesses open and people employed. I think the only argument I’d make with what you’d say is that it doesn’t “move up”, so much as it moves all over. Think of a dry sponge rather than a drinking straw.
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  204.  @latentsea  research capillary action
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  205. Possibly, but Trump is malevolent enough on his own to do this without taking advice. He thrives on chaos and doesn’t need anyone to teach him how to cause it. Ultimately, the President has surrounded himself with sycophants that support him in his whims of the day.
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  206. He started revealing his nuttiness in the late 90s and by the middle 2000s it was on full display.
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  207.  @tommitchell4570  Perhaps. Or perhaps he’ll get a room at the laughing academy. If they have cuckoo’s nests in Mississippi, this guy definitely flew over one.
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  208.  @netizen_m3919  I think this is on the nose. Even emails can be subpoenaed (and I seem to remember a bit of a brouhaha over a certain Secretary of State doing an end run by using a private email server). In certain cases, official phone calls (for example, between the President and another world leader) get officially recorded, but any phone call can be recorded on either end. (Which doesn’t even get into clandestine intercepts.) Additionally, top officials memorialize conversations—they take notes during and just after conversations with the President and other top officials to keep a record of the conversations. Comey’s last conversation with Trump is an example. Most of this stuff is protected by executive privilege, depending on the nature of the conversation. Under extraordinary circumstances, congressional subpoenas can pierce this privilege. Also, executive privilege doesn’t protect the information from succeeding presidents or their administrations. If communications provide documentation of presidential crimes, there’s a good chance they’ll come to light, sooner or later. A President and his team can adapt to these conditions in two ways (or two and a half, as I’ll explain). One is to keep everything above board and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. One point five is “legal findings”, in which the White House Counsel formulates a legal justification for certain actions. And two is the President and his advisers can behave like the mob, like a criminal organization evading the keeping of records of their crimes or trying to hide such records. Both Bush and Obama engaged in 1.5 type dealings—we can debate the ethics and morals of this method another time. I think Trump has a type 2 mindset, and everyone inside knew it. Some would make recordings and keep their own records to cover their asses or even to document malfeasance.
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  209.  @JoseFernandez-wu8pj  Mafia kindergarten, you mean. It sounds absurdly childish unless you can read the implicit threat in the words. Then it’s absurdly childish and chillingly sinister at the same time. Have you seen that twilight zone episode? “If you don’t do what I want, I’ll wish you into the cornfield.”
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  210.  @jamescron9538  FOX NEWS NUMBAH ONE! CNN NUMBAH TEN. I REAL AMERICAN, NOT VIETNAMESE SUBCONTRACTOR WORKING FOR RUSSIAN INTERNET AGENCY. Sorry, Charlie.
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  211. I’m going to say one thing and then explain why Trump and his administration are the exception. We have a proud tradition in the U.S. of peaceful transition of power when one party leaves the White House and the rival party assumes the presidency. This includes the tradition of the succeeding President not going after the previous president as a political enemy. The Obama administration didn’t persecute Bush. Bush didn’t go after Clinton, and Clinton didn’t go after Bush Sr. Trump violated this tradition, making all sorts of false claims about the Obama administration and ordering the supposedly neutral Department of Justice to investigate. When those investigations revealed nothing, Trump persisted in claiming Obama engaged in criminal acts (without specifying or providing any evidence whatsoever). On top of this, Trump and his henchmen have engaged in egregious corruption and violations of the law *that we know about*, with much more suspected, but not yet proven, because Trump has violated common practice of transparency. So the question is, should we return to precedent or should the Trump administration be held accountable for its corruption, its criminal acts, and its breaking of legal and political norms? The answer is that Trump and his minions have acted so egregiously, with such malice, and have done so much damage that they MUST be held accountable. To not hold them accountable is to encourage criminality. We must prosecute the most powerful who abuse that power as warning to other crooks. Only then, after these criminals and grifters have been made to face consequences, can we return to the precedent of peaceful transition. It’s a delusion to think Trump will peacefully hand over the presidency anyway. I suggest a concurrent investigation that would include criminal investigations and a public truth commission to root out both criminal actors and those that might be shielded from the law, but who directed unlawful acts. We generally can’t retroactively criminalize acts done legally, even if those acts were done with malice and intent to damage the country. But we can hold them up to the light of truth and the moral scorn of public opinion. Meanwhile, those that actually broke the law must feel the full weight of the Justice system.
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  212. He’ll see that from a mile away. It’s gotta be something extra sneaky, like Melania suffocating him while he sleeps.
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  213. Trumpier than Trump?
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  214. At least the gun was aimed over the line.
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  215.  @xxdomixx1085  Stalin was Lenin’s henchman before Lenin’s death. Stalin extended Leninism, but his murderous policies were not at odds with Leninism. Stalin was already in control at the time of Lenin’s death. He was a continuation of Leninism, not a divergence from it.
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  216. Agreed. Or your high tech can be inapplicable to the fight you have chosen. Russia devoted a lot of their military budget for the development of flashy prestige weapon systems that are not of much use in this invasion. The hypersonic missile? It’s not five times better than a conventional missile, it just gets to the target five times faster. This is not going to make a difference in Ukraine (although it could make a difference in other types of conflict). I think in Syria, Russia didn’t need discipline or a real doctrine: the “doctrine” seems to have been to exterminate the civilian population. The opposition was already divided into rival groups before the Russians arrived. There was already a dictator in place.
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  217. Even if it goes against a broader interpretation of the Geneva Convention, it pales in comparison with not just the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas, but the intentional targeting to which the Russians have admitted they’re doing (case in point being the maternity hospital). There’s rule breaking and then there’s out and out crimes against humanity.
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  218.  @furiousapplesack  There’s a really bad historical precedent for that. Hitler pressed conquered people into his armies or to work as slave labor in his factories. That’s why you had Eastern Europeans fighting for the Nazis in Normandy. It’s a bad look and feeds Putin’s narrative that Ukrainians are Neo-Nazis. On the other hand, treat the POWs well and they might volunteer to be interviewed (as I think is going on here). I have an even better idea. The U.S. is sending $14 billion in aid. Allocate a few million dollars and send these POWs on an all expense paid vacation to Disney World. Then interview them about their treatment as POWs—I bet there will be a stampede of surrendering Russian conscripts.
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  219. The FBI needs to release Dog the Bounty Hunter’s laptop.
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  220. We have the second amendment so that her husband or father can protect her. (JUST KIDDING!) I’m sure she will be OK. She is now a witness for the committee and will be a Federal Witness and the FBI takes those duties seriously.
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  221.  @sistahfreedom4883  I sympathize with your sentiment, but the community doesn’t have legal standing or a cause of action against Trump or JD Vance. That might change if individuals in the community become victims to violence incited by Trump, Vance, and others (in which case, the individual victims have standing and cause), but let us pray it doesn’t come to that. Unless or until there is violence perpetrated against Haitians because of Trump’s and Vance’s smears, what they are saying is protected political speech. There is a remedy for their hateful speech and encouragement of racism: voting. Deny Trump a second term and vote Vance and other racists out of office. This next election is crucial to preserving our Democracy and our freedoms.
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  222. Unfortunately, even the equipment captured intact needs weeks of overhaul and maintenance before it’s usable. Might be better to just sell the parts on eBay.
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  223. They went from circle jerk to circular firing squad in less than a month.
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  224.  @bbcpfghs  poor lighting, no makeup/hair. It means he’s following pandemic protocols, no? He didn’t sound tired, but he looks older.
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  225. The Trump denials aren’t credible because he commissioned Project 2024. It’s not unusual for think tanks to offer their policy recommendations and even to lobby for their agendas towards candidates and presidents (and their cabinets) that are sympathetic. What is different this time is that their candidate is an empty vessel wrt policy. All he cares about is his personal power, his personal security, personal loyalty to him, and retribution against his opponents. Project 2025 comprehensively fills Trump’s vacuousness while also catering to his own priorities of power and revenge. It’s a roadmap to dictatorship. Let’s also be clear about understanding Trump’s denials and disavowals. The creators of Project 2025 aren’t on the outside trying to get in. They aren’t trying to win favor with Trump in furtherance of their goals of a Christian Nationalist dictatorship. They already surrounded Trump. He told them to create this plan, which he did. Trump has not thrown the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, or the creators of the plan under any buses. He’s done the politically expedient thing of pretending to be unfamiliar with it, but he hasn’t distanced himself from the plan’s authors. How could he? They make up his staff.
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  226. That explains the bruises all over your face.
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  227. There are already term limits. It’s called voting. You and the people in your congressional district get to determine the term limits on your particular congressperson. Have you tried this yet? Do you know the name of your representative? When was the last time you communicated with her or him? Many Americans complain about accountability, but few seem willing to do the work to make politicians accountable. It’s as if you don’t want to be held accountable for your own elected officials! Is it too much work?
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  228.  @muddywater4505  This will help him get ahead as he enters Republican politics. I think he’s angling for a school board appointment in Florida.
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  229. Way too elaborate to be a diversion from something else.
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  230. Systematic is Putin’s weasel word, not Ukraine’s.
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  231. It’s like there is a nation of narcissists that have been living among us. They want what they want, and they really don’t care if anyone else has to die to get it.
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  232. It’s going to be such a burn when Stephen Miller is REPLACED by Nick Fuentes. 😂
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  233. OK Ivan
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  234.  @satanicmicrochipv5656  All that siphoning of money from the defense budget is coming back to bite Putin on the ass. I’m sure the U.S. has corruption in its defense procurement, but not like in Russia, where there are empty warehouses that were supposed to be filled with spare parts. Then there’s the problems of morale and discipline. The convoys aren’t stalled because of lack of fuel. They’re stalled because of lack of radiator fluid. Russian radiator fluid contains alcohol. The troops are hitting the coolant and that’s why the vehicles aren’t moving. That’s a discipline problem (as well as a logistics one—getting the radiators filled and trucks moving before the fluid disappears again). I feel bad about laughing, but Russia is so fucked. Even if they do manage a victory over Ukrainian defense forces, they haven’t won. All that does is start the next stage of the conflict.
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  235.  @checkout5871  Wrong. It’s the other way around. Russia belongs to Ukraine. If Putin wants reunification based on geography and history, he should surrender unconditionally and let Kyiv govern Russia.
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  236.  @bmanfitz  apparently the dots and crosses were sold as military surplus to enrich some oligarch. It was only after the war was launched that it was discovered that there was a shortage of dots and crosses.
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  237.  @Boorshey_offical  LOL, Putin is a spokesman for the people of Afghanistan? You’re off your rocker, buddy. You’re not playing cards with a full deck. A baby chicken is trying to peck itself free from your skull. You wrote walking instructions on the bottom of your shoes and you wonder why you keep falling onto your face.
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  238.  @stc3145  different figures get thrown around, but only a small percentage were killed by coalition forces. Most of the violence post “mission accomplished” was sectarian violence, i.e., Iraqis killing each other. If one argued that the U.S. still has some responsibility for those deaths, there could be an honest debate. But the claim that U.S. soldiers murdered 150,000 or a million Iraqis is a complete lie. I think the invasion was a mistake, and the way the Bush administration tried to create democracy in Iraq was an even bigger mistake. But accuracy is important. (And I would also say that Bush did evil things with the best of intentions, but that might be irrelevant.)
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  239. A witness for the prosecution, by the sound of it.
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  240. The Nu-SSR.
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  241. Those are possibilities, but I think it was he just wanted to have them, like a spoiled child unwilling to put down a toy.
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  242. Yes, he should consider immigrating to Mexico to give his daughters a better life.
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  243. Sounds almost right, but it’s missing this: the Joker has the delusional belief that he’s Batman.
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  244. One child out of a hundred meeting an avoidable death is totally acceptable. /s
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  245. Something like that. Putin promised the plum of Ukraine’s resources to his fellow Oligarchs to retain their support. They’re at the end of their patience with Putin because they’ve been hurt by previous sanctions against them (see Magnititsky Act). With the even greater sanctions being leveled, and with more to come, Putin absolutely has to take over Ukraine or his partners will dump him. He’s not going to concede. Negotiations are a delaying tactic and an attempt to divide Ukraine’s supporters. He makes nuclear threats because he is cornered and he fears his own criminal organization most of all.
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  246. Yes. The problem is that Putin does not allow humanitarian aid to reach the areas where it is needed, nor does he allow the people in need of humanitarian aid to leave and go to areas they could receive it. He has targeted and bombarded refugees attempting to flee combat areas.
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  247. So other than the terrible burden on health care workers and stress to the medical system, sounds like a net benefit.
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  248.  @kernalbert4939  C’mon, man. Can’t you see this is a classic case of “her word against I invoke my 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination”. How can you be so certain in a case of she said, he took the fifth? 😉
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  249. Woah, weren’t these guys on the old Saturday Night Live? Fred Armisen and Bobby Moynihan?
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  250. So far Russia has not been able to expand the southern region either North or West. They have been unable to connect the eastern region with the southern region, even after 4 weeks. The big question is how much of the territory that the Russians have taken is under actual control. The various flank attacks and deep raids into Russian held territory indicates that Russia is not in control and that their front is very porous. I would not pay much attention to opinion polls in totalitarian countries. A wrong response to a survey question could lead to imprisonment.
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  251. Matt Gaetz, reading Chinese propaganda into the congressional record.
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  252. I’ve seen some video clips about Hunt, and the comments cracked me up. A huge amount of trolls had keyed of the name Hunt and were ranting about Hunter Biden and his infamous laptop. 😆
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  253. I’m all for “clinging to our guns”, but those that cling to their ignorance are idiots, and some of them are belligerent and even violent idiots.
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  254. And San Antonio just to the east. There’s not enough qualified medical staff—if there was, they could create more ICU space.
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  255.  @brokenmanbrokenman5222  I think they have very little room for love when their hearts are so filled with hate. We (and they) say that they love trump, but really their sick adoration and blind devotion is very far from love.
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  256. It’s not civil war nor revolution. It’s a violent insurrection that won’t amount to anything other than further discrediting Trump and the Trump movement. American democracy will prevail over these lawless fascists.
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  257.  @harrycollins3248  And they’re not going to get it, no more than the lesser dirtbag looters in Portland caused a civil war.
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  258. Surprisingly insightful comments crammed into a small time segment.
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  259. This is where you’re wrong. It’s not a certainty even if it’s probable. White liberals might manifest racism differently in most cases, but they are not immune to it. Sometimes they slip up and say overtly racist things.
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  260. More like shitzkrieg.
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  261.  @kr6bejuut  Blitzkrieg really doesn’t work without a viable overall strategy. Hitler couldn’t hold on to his blitzkrieg gains because his grand strategy was irrational. Putin is doing great damage to Russia and won’t hold on to any gains he makes in Ukraine because his strategy is flawed. Putin is no more rational than Hitler was. It’s not surprising that he repeats the same justifications for aggression that the Nazis used in 1938-1941. Ukraine will recover from Putin’s criminal acts a lot faster than Russia will.
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  262.  @clovisdacruz6078  If the blitzkrieg was actually successful, you’d be typing in German. Blitzkrieg is a tactic against brittle static front line defenses. It cannot win if the over strategies are flawed or the national policy is irrational. It won’t succeed even tactically against a defense in depth. Take a look at the battle of Kursk for a good early example of defense in depth beating the blitzkrieg. The Nazis made early gains using their breakthrough tactics, but they couldn’t hold those gains. I think you realize and would agree that Putin the Pimp will not be able to hold any temporary gains he makes in Ukraine.
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  263.  @black12212  Not true. They can leave. They don’t have to stay in America. Let them go found their Shangri-La far from decent human society.
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  264. Serial Entrepreneur = multiple convictions for committing business
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  265. He’s a great and underrated journalist. I’ll tell you what though. I remember him when he was young and brash, and kind of a jerk. There was a little foofarah where he was caught on camera having a melt down over a parking space or some such idiotic thing. Not a career killer, but it was an embarrassment. And he came on TV the next day and apologized for being a dick. I like it when people do something stupid, apologize, and learn from their mistakes. It gives me hope for myself.
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  266. That’s an orc camp.
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  267. You didn’t see the punchline. Fuentes is going to REPLACE Miller. 😜
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  268. You’ve distorted a single fact into a lie. Congratulations. The direct payments are 9% of the bill. Other parts of the bill have to do with directly fighting the pandemic or recovering from the economic fallout.
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  269. Graham has been so far up Trump’s ass, I’m surprised he has the room to turn around.
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  270. Not only is it a sound opinion, I appreciate the conservative and liberal Justices coming together in agreement. It sets a good example. I know that they won’t agree on everything but they’re showing Americans that they can find common ground.
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  271. More granular than that. This is going on at the school district level, and even blue states with liberal Democrat majorities have “red” school districts.
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  272.  @The_Red_Pill__  You’ve been Red Pillowed.
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  273. Trump isn’t running for any office in 2022 so the “quiet period” rule to avoid affecting elections doesn’t apply. Investigations don’t shut down around election times merely because the target of the investigation is a member of that party.
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  274. A very sick mangy tiger that has broken claws and suffered from stomach ulcers. On its sides you can make out some stitching where red stars were attached to its fur.
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  275. Better yet, have the White House doctor visit him and set up a morphine drip.
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  276. Cheney’s opening statement is a road map.
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  277. How do you account for the Maricopa County’s GOP led Board of Supervisors opposing this idiotic recount? I would not take exception to the argument that the GOP is now controlled by rightwing nutjobs, nor can I argue against the idea that this is the result of the GOP welcoming these extremists into their midsts. I can’t argue that the GOP never contained the toxic seed that has grown this poisonous plant. But it didn’t used to be only about fascist extremism.
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  278. Ehhhh, more like it’s starting feel like auditions for a Broadway musical based on the French Revolution.
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  279. Public Enemy
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  280.  @The_Christ_Angel  My dude, The Lord Jesus has a few thousand different YouTube channels. Are you saying that only three of them belong to the true Son of God? How are we to tell which are the real channels, and which are the snares of Q?
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  281. The supply lines in Western Ukraine are still open. It will be exceedingly difficult and costly for the Russian army to interdict these lines, possibly impossible. The Ukrainians have what is basically a “Ho Chi Minh” trail like the Vietnamese used. Shall we call it the “Zelensky Trail”? Putin and the Russian Generals thought they could invade Ukraine on the cheap, but it’s turning quite costly. They cannot commit all their reserves to the fight or they are defenseless in other sectors outside Ukraine. They have to maintain control within Russia, which is becoming harder precisely because this war is unpopular.
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  282.  Bulls Eye  It will stop in January, as you know. I’m get how far off that seems to you. I feel the same way. I’m considering the following actions to make that time pass more quickly: 1) short term cryogenic storage, 2) induced coma, 3) taking up an interesting hobby like heroin addiction. Best of luck and best wishes to you and yours this holiday season.
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  283.  @deadacrats6281  the John Wick movies are essentially Kung Fu, but with guns instead of kung.
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  284.  @cookiecola5852  He can’t visit most countries in the world, meaning he cannot have meetings with other countries outside of Russia and a handful of countries or he risks arrest. I don’t know if it makes a difference in the Kremlin either way, but I suspect it doesn’t really matter for Russian domestic politics.
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  285. Elon Musk is the Bill Jobs of his generation.
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  286. That is incorrect. As a non-signatory, the U.S. isn’t required to detain and extradite someone. But they can do so at their discretion. Don’t have to, might want to.
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  287. McConnel has been the best GOP tactician for thwarting Democrats and pushing GOP interests. I understand why Dems would hate him, but GOP senators?
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  288. It’s like a cross between The Omen and Goodfellas.
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  289. I don’t think he’s wrong, but I haven’t seen him propose an ALTERNATIVE solution. If he gives reasons for why a proposal won’t work without offering a better idea, those reasons are just excuses.
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  290.  @panubun5312  Yes. Unfortunately, cutting ties with Russia involves cutting it off at its borders with democratic countries, particularly those it’s currently invading. The rest of the world would be quite content if Russia left other countries alone and tended its own garden.
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  291. Very few are defending him. Quite a few have dished as “anonymous sources”. But even this is pretty short sighted. If you were the ringmaster of the GOP circus and one of your clowns caught on fire, would you want to get him out of the tent? Or would you do as the GOP is doing now, and pretend there’s no chance the burning clown will light the whole circus on fire? The chickens of GOP’s denial of reality are coming home to roost.
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  292.  @robdixson196  Dude, it’s Nashville. And the idea that conservatives have a monopoly on Country music is delusional. It happened next to an ATT building, so one can just as easily speculate it was an irate ATT customer, or (my favorite) a crazy person blaming 5G cellular for the voices in their head. The bomb also took out a Hooters restaurant. So it could have been a radical feminist OR a puritanical Christian type. Or some idiot that didn’t want his girlfriend to work there anymore. There’s infinite possible motivations before we even get to political ideologies.
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  293. OK, Ivan
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  294. He’s thirsty . . . for pee pee.
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  295.  @McCRBen  You get it. Putin has to pay back the oligarchs for the previous sanctions. He was unable to get them lifted. The Putin crime syndicate thought the invasion of Ukraine would be easy and they did not expect the massive sanctions they now face. They thought NATO would take weeks to get its sh¡t together, if it could get together at all. It’s only a matter of time before the oligarchs take Putin out. Economic warfare works against kleptocracy.
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  296. Better than Churchill. As much as I admire Winston Churchill, he was still an imperialist. But your comparison is valid: Churchill kept the UK together until Nazi Germany was vanquished.
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  297. Imagine using real jewelry as prop jewelry, and allowing crew members to wear it in between takes because they were bored. Totally understandable?
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  298.  @Watermelon_Man92  Yes. If capitalism is like an engine, it’s going to have different requirements under different conditions, especially extreme conditions. It’s just like with a car needing a different motor oil for extreme cold than it does during normal temperatures. Unfortunately, there is a tendency among some conservatives to worship capitalism as if it were a religion, rather than treat it as it is: an engine that powers society. They worship an “ideal engine” that will never exist under real conditions.
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  299. Its very much a Soviet term. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin all used the phrase in their violent campaigns to repress and terrorize the populace. I don’t know to what degree Hitler used it. From what I recall, he referred to his biggest scapegoats as akin to rats and pestilence. I know that he used a phrase for the press that is the Nazi equivalent of fake news, the “lying press”. While it is chilling to hear this phrase used by an American President (which is why they use it), it reveals the weakness and fragility behind the Authoritarian mindset, the desperation to hide the nullity at their core and shield it from the light.
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  300.  @Aboertmann  This election gave me a better opinion of Bernie Sanders than 2016 did. He really went to battle for Biden. He did it enthusiastically. I’ll be honest with you: I’m right-of-center, what used to be called conservative before that word got twisted. Normally, I would not support Sanders on progressive policy (which I assume, you do support). Take medical care, as an example. We’ve done things the conservative way for years and it didn’t work. ACA sort of worked, but was impeded by the GOP. I don’t know if adding a public option to ACA would be better than M4A or the other way around, but I’m willing to listen. The point is, because we’ve joined together to battle the anti-democratic forces of Trumpism/GOP fascism, we owe it to each other to hear one another out and to keep an open mind. Even with Trump on his way out the door, the battle is far from over. Let’s keep fighting together in Georgia, in 2022, 2024, and beyond.
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  301. Seems that way. The party is torn in two. The extreme right wing faction might have captured the majority of the GOP, but they’ll never again regain national power without the moderates, “moderate conservatives”, and pro-democracy conservatives. This is probably why they’re so willing to use violence to maintain power.
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  302. Apparently they don’t make an adult infant size. You want your 🤯 ? Can you imagine if the virus was spread through farts? Thousands of free-dumb fighters would be flooding the streets with their bottoms exposed. They’d be calling the rest of us “pants wearing sheep” and whining that anti-nudity laws are socialist.
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  303.  @chip67art  Who you gonna believe? It’s her word against I take the fifth.
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  304. Millions. 😖
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  305. I’m pretty sure they don’t sell rocket launchers at the mall, so even if you had a receipt, I’m not sure that you could track it back to the mall. Russia is basing its attacks against civilian targets on Yelp reviews, the higher the review, the higher priority target it becomes.
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  306. Thank you for your input, General Greg Olas. You honor us with your strategic genius.
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  307. If you mean someone you are or were close to, listen and ask questions that will lead you to common ground. If they start spouting the lies they apparently believe in, say, “Let’s get back to that later,” and focus on your commonalities. You’re trying to open their minds to alternative points of view, but you must get them to see that you can hold different views from theirs while not being their enemy. If it’s not someone you’re close with, forget it. You’ll never be able to open their minds if they don’t want their minds open. Go ahead and argue with them. It’s possible that you will plant a seed of truth in them or others, just not likely. Just don’t expect them to discuss anything intelligently or even in good faith.
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  308.  @gazinta  It’s not about the numbers of children. The problem is you’re not raising them right if they’re becoming fascists and white nationalists. The problem is you’ve failed to instill critical thinking if they mindlessly believe conspiracy theories.
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  309. Self serving incompetence in addressing COVID, putting children in cages after ripping them from the arms of their parents, and a long litany of other offenses is OK, but lying about the election was a bridge too far? Well, at least she had a line she wouldn’t cross.
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  310. You’re pretty damn good at drawing out the pro-fascists.
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  311. THAT’S going to be IIIIIIIINTERESTING. If there’s not enough evidence to convict these MFers, we should still force them to wear pirate eyepatches. They’re like a gang of Bond villains.
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  312.  @miltonbradley6849  I already had direct deposit enabled with the IRS/Treasury Dept., so I didn’t need to do anything. This was after weeks of research to find out what I needed to do! At the end of the day, despite my worries, the money just showed up. And it was a godsend—my refrigerator broke the day before the money was deposited into my account. It’s likely I’d have been living out of an ice chest for months without that payment.
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  313.  @jcsmith3806  Something that didn’t get explained in civics class is that preserving a democracy requires that each of us be an active participant. Voting every four years is not sufficiently active. If you don’t feel that government is responsive, it’s probably because you and I and the majority of Americans are not active participants in the political process. We can change that, you and I, by getting off of our couches and chairs, and spending an hour a day (or a couple of hours or one day a week) on political activism. Obviously, right now the presidential election is important. But afterwards, are you willing to put time into local politics? It might be researching the local issues and writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper or news station. It might be volunteering on the campaign of someone running for city council or a state representative. It might be making sure your friends and relatives are registered to vote. If democracy fails it will because of us. It will be because we didn’t take care of it and let it slip through our grasp. The biggest lie is that we are powerless.
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  314. If those atrocities against blacks by white governments are too hard to understand, maybe Asian Americans can remember when the government imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps.
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  315. The House could impeach him in a matter of hours. The Senate could just pocket the impeachment, and convict/remove Trump if he tries anything. (In theory) the threat of removal will keep Trump from doing anything rash, like bombing New Zealand for the hell of it. And the Senate can still convict when it changes hands after the inauguration.
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  316.  @mechanic6682  Sort of. He did so on the credible belief that his co-conspirators were preparing to offer him up as the scapegoat. You know the one about the two campers that are attacked by a bear? One starts putting on his shoes. The other says, “you’re crazy, you can’t outrun a bear!” To which he replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun YOU!” It’s the same thing with criminal conspiracies, except in that case, you want to run towards the bear and be the first one there.
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  317. The chief Russian troop transport is a shot yellow bus.
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  318. Stick to RT then.
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  319. Good idea. The Senate gets to make up the rules of the trial (which is how we got a trial with no witnesses called in the last impeachment).
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  320.  @jeckjeck3119 Put them on a desert island, rig cameras to all the trees, and make it a reality show. If they have high ratings, they get more supplies. Call it MAGA Island or MAGA Exiles.
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  321. They really are moral infants, throwing tantrums which are sometimes violent.
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  322.  @marvinguigar3623  But it’s not happening to everyone else. It’s happening to a guy that repeatedly violated Twitter’s terms of service but was given a free pass because he was President. We can debate whether or not Twitter should have taken action before this point, but the correctness of Twitter’s ban is not really in doubt among reasonable people. I find it funny that self proclaimed conservatives are shouting for MORE regulation of business. It’s funny that so-called conservatives have given up on the free market. Remember that? Conservative entrepreneurs are FREE to set up competing services. Some already have. We are not entitled to our conservative platforms on Twitter and the like, especially if we do not follow the terms of service.
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  323. Ethically, shouldn’t CNN blur out Rodger Stone’s face? I don’t mean to protect Stone’s privacy, I mean to protect me from losing my lunch! 🤮
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  324.  @Bluewhalebig  I thInk there is a real person there with multiple accounts. I think it’s an “extremist green” hoping to make more people die—and probably they’ve been vaccinated while pushing antivax nonsense. But it could just as easily be a home grown white supremacist or a foreign adversary, trying to weaken the country. As far as the trolls that actually believe the nonsense, they’re a problem that will take care of itself, although it’s tragIc that they’ll take innocent people down with them.
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  325.  @ladybug2681  crow pudding, because he’ll get fed through a tube before he meets his maker.
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  326.  @crabjoe  I’m voting for Harris. I’m dubious about her economic policies and plans, but I think the damage they will cause will be manageable. Trump’s plan (a universal tariff) is taxation that will hit the middle class more than the fat cats, and will wind up being disastrous. If we elect Harris, we can support Haley in 2028. If Trump wins . . . well, he strongly implied we might not have another election.
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  327. Or else! or else what?
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  328. Surely related to Queen Elizabeth.
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  329. If Trump signs today, it will be at 11:59 PM.
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  330.  @Krahamus  That’s not actually true. Russian citizens are voting in the fake referendums.
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  331. But a turd can oxidize smart guy. That’s why you should always paint your turds with Turdoleum. It will protect your turds from the elements, even harmful UV rays. You might not care if your turds look dry, discolored and worn down. I, on the other hand, take pride that my turds look just as fresh and the day I shat them out. Turdoleum. When you care about shit.
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  332. Sore losers.
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  333. Some people need to be quarantined, for sure. 😉 You know, what you ought to do is relocate MAGA-nation somewhere where you will be free to do whatever it is you really want to do, without the constraints imposed on you by society. Somewhere where you can make it illegal to wear a mask during a pandemic, somewhere where you can believe in any kind of crazy delusion and act accordingly. I suggest one of the many uninhabited islands in the Aleutian archipelago. You can even bring Trump with you and make him your king.
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  334. I was going to use your back door, but someone’s pork sausage was blocking my way.
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  335. What is Modi even doing there after Putin signaled he’d be Xi’s bitch?
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  336. And for once he didn’t try to take all the credit!
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  337. Gaetz! Gaetz! I kept thinking this was Congressman Glen Quagmire.
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  338. Who does have standing to petition the Supreme Court? This procedural decision means that anti-abortion groups have to rethink their legal strategy. The only way that this will be finally settled is through Congress outlawing the drugs in question. That means abortion foes need control of both chambers of Congress and the Presidency.
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  339.  @MH_6160  Yes, on self control. BUT a resounding NO on government control, which is what the anti-abortionists are trying to impose on us.
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  340. But why would he risk arrest? Except for a handful of countries, the richest man in the world cannot travel through most of that world. The next time there is a summit of BRICS in Brazil or S.A., he has to stay home, or risk an incident where he is detained.
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  341. To clarify a point: her personal account was permanently banned, not suspended.
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  342. This is pretty normal old style partisanship. He’s saying he supports Biden’s aims wrt Israel, but that the GOP could do it better. It’s nothing to get worked up about. He didn’t slander Biden as an extremist MAGA or DT would do. There was is a vast ocean between saying “We can do it better than the Dems” and saying “the dems are the demonic enemies of the U.S.”
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  343.  Porter93  You’re getting paid in useless rubles. How are you going to buy a potato when the food shortages hit?
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  344.  @ChicoTheMan69  Putin is introducing a new form of Socialism. The Army is going to take all the corpses of their dead soldiers and cremate them together. All the ashes will be mixed together. Then the families of the dead who come for the ashes will be told, “Take according to your need.”
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  345.  @farangutan6773  More and more, your ideology of Putinism sounds like the Nazis.
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  346.  @joedavenport5293  There was a Revolution in February of 2017. Then in October, there was a Coup, and the Bolsheviks under Lenin seized power from the Socialist coalition that was governing Russia. Non-Bolshevik socialists were rounded up and imprisoned or murdered. That’s what a great guy Lenin was.
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  347. I can’t believe this so-called expert didn’t mention the Popov Mechanism incorporated into the turret ring of most Russian tanks.
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  348.  @Sean-h4v9h I’m not surprised you’ve never heard of Eric Trump. Your account is only five months old. You’re practically a baby, Ivan.
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  349. Zelensky’s predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, has said that negotiations are ongoing and that Ukraine’s “Chief Negotiator” is the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 😂 The implication is that Ukraine for its part will continue to generously offer more death to Russian soldiers. That said, once Russian forces leave voluntarily or are ejected from Ukraine’s sovereign territory, there will be some form of negotiations for the peace. Kicking the Russians out is only the first step towards peace, if we are to have a lasting peace. I agree with you, Ukraine has the first say in negotiations and they have the last say. But once their territorial integrity is restored, NATO and the EU also has a say because they hold the whip hand against Russia’s economy. The UN might need to get involved in creating a demilitarized zone between Russia and Ukraine. I don’t know how realistic it is, but a goal of the Western democracies should be disarming Russia’s nuclear capabilities. Such disarmament might involve the non-Western nuclear powers (China and India) getting involved in negotiations.
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  350. This reminds me of the famous bunker scene in Downfall, where two of Hitler’s most fanatical followers tell him, “It turns out the Chinese were helping the Jews”.
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  351.  @catherineborodii2408  Dore is a Putinista.
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  352.  @StinkyGuff  Admittedly, they were sold a bill of goods, but they’re getting what they want good and hard.
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  353. I’m not a Hil Hater, but she’s starting to look like a lich. That’s not a criticism. I’m starting to look like a bowl of jello. I need to exercise more.
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  354. He’s going to have the same problem as FDR if he tries to add justices. As things stand, he doesn’t have enough votes in the Senate, and I would bet the Dems lose control of it in 2024. I don’t enjoy the idea, but it’s a strong possibility. Thank God Chief Justice Roberts is a centrist. I’m surprised that Justice Thomas joined the majority, but not shocked: The case was decided on a procedural issue of standing.
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  355. There’s no downside for McCarthy’s obstinacy. If he drops out, it looks even worse for him, like a kicked dog skulking off with his tail between his legs.
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  356. Hard disagree. The real question is WHO is recruiting illegal invaders to play NCAA basketball. 🤪
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  357. Blofeld 2024, re-elect Blofeld. Make SPECTRE Great Again! Your #3 is interesting. Rogue states with nuclear ambitions could be a campaign issue in 2024.
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  358. That’s just it. He’s a. . . . .(wait for it) . . . . Maverick.
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  359. Eh, Chris is a buffoon half the time. A lot of his analysis is superficial, even trite at times. This wasn’t a bad video as far as it goes. I’m not sure where you get the idea he is meek. Or even that he is nice. I mean, he might be a kind person in his personal life, but I don’t think you can judge based on his public persona. As as far as meek goes, you don’t get to where he is by being meek. That’s not how broadcast or cable news works.
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  360. So Putin’s ability to conduct high level diplomacy in face to face meetings with other leaders is severely curtailed. He’s going to have to pass on the next BRICS conference in SA.
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  361. What about the secret Executive Order that gives Trump’s pinky finger magic declassification powers?
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  362.  @sonandsanford4963  and there are millions of trump worshipping fools, unfortunately.
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  363. You’ve been Red Pillowed. That euphoria you feel is due to the asphyxiation you suffered.
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  364.  Un vaccinated Anticommunist  One month old troll account.
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  365. How can a private business making its own business decisions, be called socialist? It’s you that’s the socialist.
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  366. Can’t wait for his dad to distance from him Matt. “I didn’t really know him.”
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  367. Apparently, Trump has strong support amongst the dead voter demographic. The investigations into voter fraud have so far shown that 100% of the fraudulent vote went for Trump.
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  368. The problem is that the DOJ can’t just “step up” as you put it. Lying is not a federal crime on its own, so it cannot charge someone for lying to the public. Nor does the DOJ have the authority to remove someone from office (nor should it have that power). Perhaps you should educate yourself on the weapons of lawfare and learn how government actually works before offering your prescriptions of what government should be doing. The cleanest solution to problem politicians like Gosar is political activism. Your political activism. Unfortunately that takes a lot more work than beseeching the Department of Justice to do something it can’t easily do or is legally barred from doing.
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  369.  @sandburgmartin7947  Should have paid extra for the extended warranty, because this party is defective.
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  370. The scariest airline experience I ever had was over the pacific, flying from Japan to Anchorage. About halfway there, one of the engines failed. The pilot came over the intercom and told us the situation. The three other engines were functioning normally, so all this meant was a delay of an hour. However, a little while later, we all heard a big banging sound. A second engine had burned out. The pilot assured us that we were safe, but there would be an additional delay. When the third engine went, we had to divert to an old unused air force airstrip in the Aleutians. I remember thinking, “If the last engine goes, we’re going to be up here indefinitely.”
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  371. When the corruption pie shrinks, how else are you going to maintain the size of your slice?
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  372. My conservative sister doesn’t understand why I buy boxes of “cubrebocas” and hand them out to families on my block. I tell her, “I’m protecting me!”.
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  373.  @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980  Well you know what they say about shoe size: the higher your IQ, the lower your IQanon.
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  374.  @Ryan-my5lz  OK, Ivan
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  375. Right? If we follow this logic, criminal conspiracy is protected by free speech.
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  376.  @thehorde2908  OK, Ivan.
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  377.  @cheyennesouza7960  It’s more like a 1 in 10 chance, but it’s still a chance. The odds get better for Trump if people become overconfident that Biden will win. Let’s split the difference between my 10% and your 28%, and say 16.6% (because that’s the percent chance on a single 6-sided die). On Tuesday when we roll that die, it could damn well come up Trump.
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  378.  @enrique4693  He was the most popular character on the sitcom Fappy Days.
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  379. Down there, if there is a Heaven and Hell. This isn’t some pitiful ignorant person. This is someone who actively spread disinformation and conspiracy theories to many people. He is one of those that politicized the pandemic to attack political opponents. If there is a Heaven and a Hell, he’s in the later place.
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  380. It’s a counter-offensive. I hope it’s successful, but it’s unclear what the aims are.
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  381. That’s the problem, Trump hasn’t lifted a finger to get the vaccine out to the people. Assisting in its development is only half the race. What has the Trump administration done in the last 60 days to get more Americans vaccinated quickly? What are they planning now? What directives has Trump sent to his officials in the last week to speed up vaccinations? If ANYTHING is being done, we haven’t heard.
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  382. Peter Parker hasn’t aged well.
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  383. What’s it going to take to not have this asshole constantly in the news? Say what you will about Bush or Obama, but after they each left office, they dropped from public life and mostly kept to themselves. It’s almost like they weren’t addicted to getting attention.
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  384. No.
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  385.  @idpsalm3331  Wow, are you a dumb liar. Do you come from a society where you conveniently forget the past 30 years of history and just believe whatever the Kremlin tells you? Ukraine didn’t join NATO and wasn’t going to join NATO. In fact, it had already been rejected. That’s one of the more moronic things about Putin’s utterly daft invasion—now Ukraine will probably and eventually join NATO. And more countries on or near Russia’s border are joining NATO. Meanwhile, because Russia is losing so badly in Ukraine, it cannot even honor its defense treaties (Armenia for example). As much as I oppose the threat of Chinese expansionism, the world will be safer when Russia becomes a Chinese vassal state.
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  386. For days the keyboard warriors have been promising something mysterious and ominous for last Wednesday. They made it sound like tens of thousands of Trumpers were going to show up and start a civil war. They’ve deleted those messages and are now blaming others.
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  387. @Callum Matias Are they, though? Are they earning the same as they were a year ago? Are their expenses the same? How many are earning less or are having to help support family, friends, and neighbors on their earnings? We’re not even through the worst of it yet—we are still at peak time for holiday travel and we all know a lot of idiots are going to be gathering for New Years parties. Let’s check in two weeks and see how many still have their jobs, as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths catch up to the December-to-remember exposure. In the meantime, stay safe and all the best to you and your family in this terrible time.
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  388.  @lukaskywalker7646  You just revealed yourself as either a non-American or someone incapable of remembering beyond 15 minutes ago. The vaccine wasn’t available until after the election, and afterward the election it was only available in limited quantities. When it was ready, there wasn’t a distribution system in place, and many states had to scramble. But why am I bothering? You’re a foreign national trying to stir up shit, and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt,
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  389.  @bobpace4334  They say things like “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” I’ll tell you what. I’m going to live on my feet while they die in a hospital bed.
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  390. Putin was promising dollars or rubles? If he’s promising hard cash death bonuses in dollars, whoa. That’s amazing. If he’s promising rubles, I don’t think anyone will care.
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  391.  @jamessmith-pf5zf  you have a point, but I was going to suggest a new word, “uncapture”.
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  392. No shit. Vivid comparison checks out.
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  393. Inducing someone to travel with a ruse or false promises sounds like fraud. It was reported that the Venezuelan families were given maps to where they could get help in Martha’s Vinyard. The map led to a parking lot.
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  394. Those were the reporter’s words. He said basically that “concerns or grievances were unknown” at this time.
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  395. He doesn’t want the job. Or he doesn’t want to be seen wanting the job. Voting for himself wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the third round. These are the obvious answers before you go jumping to the conclusion that some secret deal was negotiated.
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  396. I’ll go you one better: the Dems vote for Jordan en masse. Everyone will assume some deal was made. Jordan will deny it. Dems say, “no comment”, but a few of the hard left Dems say things like, “we look forward to working with our Republican colleagues to solve the problems we face, etc.”. MAGA would storm Congress a second time, this time to drag Jordan outside for a lynching. It would be the greatest political troll of all time. Then the Dems say to McCarthy, “Give us what we want or we will support you, too.”
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  397. One fake account = one vote and I can yell louder than you. That’s Trump Democracy in action, and if you don’t like it, go live in the real world.
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  398. There you go. You’re acting responsibly, probably providing a better education for your children while also not putting other children or your own at risk. I honestly don’t care if you’re antivax as long as you act responsibly as we all should. Thank you and God Bless.
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  399. A good portion of the population worldwide is as superstitious and ignorant as people were a thousand or two thousand years ago. They always have been and probably always will be.
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  400. Who can be fact-checked by a free and independent press? Not Russians.
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  401. What is “woke ideology”? I’ve never heard anyone profess an ideology of “woke”. I think “woke” is some kind of boogieman used by grifters to scare weak minded voters.
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  402. So you’re a big supporter of BLM, I take it.
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  403. So, Ukraine is the mother, and the country governed by Putin and centered in Moscow is the offspring. If unification is important to Putin, he should surrender to Ukraine.
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  404. Estonian special forces playing truth or dare.
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  405. Thank god I’m not the only one who sees the logical fallacy in the title.
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  406. I think Trump might make a deal with the Feds and go into Witness Protection.
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  407. Are you a Putin troll or a Putin appeaser?
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  408. And then he took off his Dominion hat! Fuckin’ A. The party to which he honorably gave a major part of his life and work is a frikkin’ disgrace.
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  409.  @julianmarsh1378  isn’t there a character limit on comments? It’s not small, like Twitter, but even if it’s a limit of a 100,000 characters, that’s not enough to list Trump’s 30,000+ lies. It’s really a stunning amount of lies. We had a President that lied just to lie, for no other reason than . . . I don’t know. Why do people lie for the sake of lying? Perhaps telling the truth over even simple things would have burned his lips? “I can tell you’re lying because your lips are moving,” is a snark as old as the hills. Trump is the first person I’ve ever come across where that was literally true 95% of the time.
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  410. So hire a lawyer and initiate a lawsuit against Fox. What will be your cause of action? What’s the legal basis of your case?
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  411. Babies are the biggest Nazis, according to Putin. Putin believes that all of Ukraine should be exterminated if it erases a dozen actual neo-Nazis. It’s plain to see who are the real Nazi aggressors.
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  412. I agree that it’s a cult, but its viral nature is heretofore unseen, and that’s worth studying and understanding. Lemon kept trying to get this cult escapee to “blame social media”, but he cut her off before she could develop her more nuanced answer about how social media envelops users into these conspiracy nut echo chambers. This is very disappointing! I realize Lemon needs quick and simple answers to fill the format of his show . . . to maximize viewer engagement. Haha, so ironic.
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  413. What is great is that Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity are united with their countrymen. This has surprised Putin, but it shouldn’t be surprising. The Russian speaking Ukrainian patriots originally moved to Ukraine to get away from Putin.
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  414. Only three more weeks of that sorry excuse, though. Thank God we’ll have competent government starting January 20th, 2021.
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  415. I no longer have sympathy for people that willfully don’t follow safe health practices.
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  416.  joe thomas  yeah, after being insulted and called names, they should have turned the other cheek. Why didn’t they just surrender when Trump made them out to be enemies?
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  417.  @t.m5465  <—illiterate Russian Troll Reported for promoting terrorists.
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  418.  @Pin927  It will be tricky taking Russian’s nuclear weapons away from it, but it’s become necessary. Russia isn’t using its nukes as a deterrent force, but as leverage to enable their murderous criminal aggression. Say what you will about Communist China, but they haven’t threatened anyone with their nukes.
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  419. Gaetz is also proving Family Guy right about Glenn Quagmire. Giggity.
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  420. I wasn’t sure whether this story would be about Greece or Crimea.
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  421. 300,000 people crossing the border illegally? Is that a fact? Assuming it is a fact, he’s really angry about it but not enough to do anything about it. The GOP doesn’t think the situation on the border is a problem. The GOP thinks it’s a campaign issue. Why would they want to fix a problem that gives them so much?
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  422. I was hoping for Shapiro, but Walz is a very good pick. I’m not disappointed. Looking at the national chessboard, it’s better if Kelly holds his Senate seat. I don’t think any of these contenders are “too progressive”. Like VP Kamala, they’re garden variety liberals. I think the Dems are assembling a team that traditional conservatives can work with (if there’s any of us that remain in politics).
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  423.  @JasonBoyce  China wants a strong Russia? I think Russia’s performance in Ukraine has demonstrated to China’s leadership that it needs to rethink that desire. In fact, Putin has really annoyed Beijing by messing up the Ukrainian operation. They might have to kick Putin out of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. But what China will do is give Russia a lifeline while taking maximum advantage of Russia’s weakness. Putin will try to play India against China, but Modi isn’t stupid. He will also squeeze Russia for every concession he can get. When all is said and done, Putin has consigned Russia to being China and India’s gas tank.
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  424. From your mouth to God’s ears. Or for our modern age, From your keyboard to God’s iPhone.
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  425. Does Nancy exist?
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  426. Do it! Just do it somewhere else, please. There are uninhabited islands in the Aleutian archipelago where you can go be as independent and self reliant as you want. Go have your revolution there—the majority of Americans are sick of your bullshit.
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  427.  @thomascannon1959  I can vouch for him. He’s an old friend. I’ve known him since [checks account starting date], oh, uh, about a week.
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  428. How about if all Russian soldiers go home for Christmas? I think Ukraine would go along with that.
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  429. So do it. Apparently you’d have enough co-plaintiffs to turn it into a class action. Contact attorneys until you find one to take the case.
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  430. Are you forgetting how high Trump scored on his mental acuity test? No one had ever scored that high before. One of the doctors that administered the test walked up to him afterwards to shake his hand. “Sir,” he said, “I sure wish you had been my roommate when I was in med school. If you had been there to help me study, I’m certain I’d have become a brain surgeon. I wish there were more stable geniuses like you.” True story.
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  431. The Russians are screwed if it gets too cold and their screwed when the thaw comes. I think Putin was expecting a Goldilocks war, where everything was just right.
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  432. 🤮
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  433.  @bcampbell1826  To be fair, these are the low level rats, the flunky rodents. The big important rats are on deck, forming a circular firing squad.
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  434. Because this is the third time in six months that it’s been “burned to the ground” according to you hypocrites.
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  435.  @derekh1593 You said it. Why would an addict willing to pick through a carpet for bits of rock cocaine leave a bag of coke lying around? That was a rhetorical question. He wouldn’t. The drug was found in the visitor phone check in area. Hunter Biden wouldn’t need to check in his phone if he visited the White House. The obvious question is was this in inadvertent mistake by a visitor, or an intentional planting of cocaine? It’s 99.99% it was one of those two.
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  436.  @Phil-ui4tm  Agreed. China is sitting pretty with the status quo and small strategic challenges in the China Sea. Russia’s attack actually increases scrutiny on China. I bet Xi is pissed at Putin.
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  437. @First • 15 years ago It was an old Cold War scheme to represent the West (1st), the Communist Bloc (2nd), and the Non-aligned nations (3rd). It originally had nothing to do with economic development, and was never a good way to talk about economic development. Eventually we forgot about the Second World. First World became a joke set up, 3rd world became a derogatory term to belittle Southern Hemisphere countries and parts of England. That said, Putin’s Cat is not wrong. The Russian Army does look like a third world army. This is partly due to the USSR and Russia arming the third world. A convoy of Russian tanks looks exactly like a convoy of Bolivian tanks because they’re the same tank models.
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  438. “Have you smelled the funk after 5 minutes?” And now we get to the heart of it. DENTAL HYGIENE. If you don’t brush your teeth regularly, your breath is going to stink. That’s why your mask smells like ass. So each and every patriot must ask themselves if they are willing to surrender to the American Dental Association—Communist conspiracy just so they can wear a mask. The greatest generation fought WWII to stop the bolsheviks from fluoridating our water supplies. Will their sacrifice be in vain?
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  439.  @foffjerkholes4995  It’s the latest fake evidence that’s already been debunked.
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  440. Will you legacy mainframe proponents just give it up? The PC made you irrelevant in 99.9999% of cases. I hope you all choke on your punch cards.
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  441. What choice do they have? If they don’t post their ridiculous propaganda and transparent lies, they’ll be sent to die face down in the Ukrainian mud.
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  442. Then you’re not an American patriot. You’re anti-democracy. You sound like you’re fully subscribed to Russian disinformation and you sound like one of those “blame America” types. Actual American patriots don’t need to brag about their patriotism. Only scoundrels do that.
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  443. Yup. If there had been a bipartisan compromise, I don’t think it would have been left in, either. It was a chip. I don’t doubt Democrats want it passed, but they’ll need to do it separately. (And I think they want to use it as a 2022 issue.)
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  444.  @tatersalad2457  It’s really the only good argument Trump’s legal defense can make, but Trump doesn’t want them to argue it. He wanted them to promote his lie that the election was stolen.
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  445.  @suomynona4607  It’s still the best legal argument Trump has in his defense. The legality or constitutionality –is–arguable. One can make the argument that Congress is overstepping its bounds. But Trump would rather use this impeachment trial to promote his lie that the election was stolen from him. Because he knows he controls enough members of the jury and because he can use the impeachment to scam more money from his dopey followers. There’s a couple of reasons why it was important that Trump’s legal team make the unconstitutionality argument the center of his strategy, one reason being that it provides senators political cover to acquit. However, the main reason is that if he’s convicted by the Senate (which isn’t impossible), he can later challenge the the conviction if he runs again. Can you imagine how that goes? In 2023 or 2024, he decides to run. Who enforces the conviction penalties and prevents his name from going on state ballots? Do primary opponents have to take him to court? Does the Democratic Nominee do it? That’s when the constitutionality defense comes into play, and a counter to that defense is, Why didn’t you use that defense at the time of your trial? Ultimately, the decision to allow or disallow Trump from running would be decided in the Supreme Court, because whatever lower courts decide, it will be appealed until it gets to the Supreme Court. And they will determine if it’s allowed by the Constitution. And Trump doesn’t automatically have the SCOTUS conservative votes on his side. Anyway, that’s my non-lawyer analysis. Trump arguing the un-, non-, or extra-Constitutionality is his best long term bet, and it helps Republican Senators. But he would rather scam his followers of their money in the short term. I’m not saying you’re wrong to argue with blake schramm, but that the thing you’re arguing apparently has been taken off the table in favor of the “stolen election” argument. But I could be wrong about this. It’s an odd case. Trump could make both arguments. Unlike a trial in a court of law, he could have two different teams of lawyers to make both arguments. At the end of the day, I don’t understand Trump’s strategy here, other than he wants to fundraise off of the impeachment—which he could do anyway. Is this not about any of the above, but about rallying the troops for another coup attempt?
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  446.  @missdana296  if I am understanding you correctly, you’re morally against abortion but you think the state should stay out of medical decisions. As a former Republican and still a conservative, I agree with that position. I don’t believe that abortion should be the first option, but that decision is up to the patient, not the government. What we can do as either private individuals or as a polity is to provide viable options to abortion so that women don’t feel forced to have an abortion because of economic circumstances or social pressures. This goes against my small government tendency, but it’s a compromise I can live with that balances liberty, social issues, and the morality of pregnancy termination. More generally, I think the GOP has strayed from the path with such initiatives to impose morality via government. It’s “back door socialism” that increases government social control over individual liberty and increases the size and power of government. Philosophically, it diminishes the power of individuals to make their own decisions and live with the consequences. This is the opposite of conservatism.
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  447. It might be back, but they’re going to need a new strategy to overcome the standing hurdle. What is that strategy?
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  448. But it’s not supersaturated with immigrants, no more than Pennsylvania was in the late 18th Century.
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  449.  @vecchio1066  If I could prove to you that you were 0.001% Nazi, would you all do us a favor and denazify yourself violently?
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  450. That would be Rudy. You understand that to nail Rudy, you need to nail one or more “coffee boys”. If you nail Rudy, there’s a chance he can deliver Donald Trump, but I suspect Trump insulated himself from the operation. Rather he sent Rudy out with the order “win me this election”.
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  451. You need to get a refund from whomever you paid to teach you English.
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  452. I like some things about Hutchinson, but I can’t stand the culture war crap. He’s not the worst offender, but he still engages in this divisive fake war. If he dropped it, he could run as a president for all Americans, not just fake Christians with manufactured grievances.
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  453. Why doesn’t Toomey propose targeted legislation, if he thinks the $2000 proposal is too untargeted? What he’s saying is not unreasonable, but he doesn’t put his objections into action!
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  454. The longer Russia is delayed, the greater will be its eventual loss.
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  455. They were the largest minority.
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  456. Russian naZis
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  457. Don’t bring your E.D. issues into this. It’s TMI.
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  458. The ass kraken
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  459. FBI can’t do that, but the cabinet can remove him under the 25th amendment.
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  460. Desantis is a coward. He will kowtow to Trump until Trump is in prison.
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  461.  @Basauri48970  Putin’s blood and soil ideology isn’t too far from Hitler’s ideology, but he’s a rather slipshod copy of Hitler. Hitler’s army was horrifyingly effective in Poland, France, and during Operation Barbarossa. So let’s call his forces and supporters what they are: Putzis.
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  462. I like Contorno’s bookshelf. I bet he actually did read Infinite Jest, including the footnotes.
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  463. That idiot didn’t value the Purple Heart any more than the man he gave it to, who immediately put it in a drawer and forgot about it, or had a flunky make a keychain from it.
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  464. Please explain why Zionism is flawed. Anti-Zionism (from what I have seen of it) is a criticism of Zionism that is flawed and based on falsifications of history or ignorance of history. Theories of settler colonialism don’t apply to people returning to their homeland, rejoining fellow Jews that were already living there. Jews were living in the Levant even after most of them were exiled. The Ottoman Empire invited back the Sephardic Jews that were expelled from Spain in 1492. Invited isn’t even the right word. Jews were encouraged to immigrate to the middle east by the Ottomans because the Ottomans saw them as a group of hard working, educated, and resilient people. This stands in stark contrast with the treatment of Jews during most of their time in Europe. Jews would settle in one country for a century or two only to be expelled by that countries rulers. This happened time and again. They were not considered citizens in their countries of residence but as foreigners. And some call them European colonists? They were European refugees, fleeing a Europe that had hated them and attacked them for a millennia before that hatred culminated in the Shoah. Israel needs to declare a ceasefire immediately and immediately expedite the delivery of humanitarian aid. We have influence on Israel and we should use that influence to push for these two things. But the Anti-Zionism I’ve heard expressed in these protests IS anti-semitism. I don’t care what Bernie Sanders says. And it’s all very fine to criticize the nationalism of others when you’re enjoying all the benefits of living in a stable nation-state. Why aren’t you protesting against the Palestinians’ desire to have their own state? Your anti-nationalism seems selective, and that is highly sus.
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  465.  @feffygracie  Not wanting a Palestinian state might or might not be Islamophobia. Israel has a right to exist and Jews have the right ti their homeland. The Palestinians also have a right to a state. There is some jawboning among Jews that the Palestinians are just random Arabs without a true identity. Even if this was true 100 years ago, it is not true today. The Palestinian identity has been forged in a crucible of repression. Maybe you can justify the repression, but you cannot deny its effect. Palestinians have a shared identity. They deserve their own homeland free from Israeli control. Just the same, Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. I explained why in another comment, but I’d be happy to hear a rational and informed argument about why it isn’t.
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  466.  @DaleHartley  You are repeating a falsity that the Jews all left the Levant when they were exiled and didn’t return until recently. The historical facts are that Muslim rulers at various times have allowed groups of Jews to Return. My favorite example is in 1492, when Spain expelled its Jewish population and the Ottoman Empire invited them to return to the Levant. Before that, under the Mameluke caliphate, there had been a sharp decline, but there were still Jews in Jerusalem even then. So the idea that all the Jews left and just weren’t there before Zionism is untrue. The historical evidence is for the opposite.
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  467.  @sunnybear178  That’s completely false. Even under the Mamelukes, there were still Jews living in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, Jews were invited to settle in the Levant. A huge number of Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain. The Ottomans invited them to resettle in the Middle East. By the time the British took control of Palestine, there was already a large population of Jews living in Palestine and throughout the Middle East, because the rulers of that area had been encouraging their return. That’s not an invasion.
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  468. @DoYouKnowWhatThisMeans I think you meant to write anti-Zionism in your first sentence. Otherwise I agree with everything you’re saying. Anti-Zionism is a thin disguise for anti-semitism. The arguments for it are lacking in historical evidence, cherrypick evidence from very recent history, and are usually incoherent when explained. I would like to hear a convincing argument for anti-Zionism.
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  469.  @mimzyjinx8142  🎂 Happy 2 month anniversary on your YouTube account, Ivan. 🎂
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  470. So if Donald Trump dies, do Melanie and Ivanka fight it out to see who is president?
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  471. No it didn’t.
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  472. MLB also invited me to the World Series. Unfortunately they were not able to provide me with acceptable security. Additionally, they expected me to pay for my own tickets.
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  473. Trump has an opportunity to respond and tell his story under oath. If he did nothing wrong, he should take this opportunity to testify under oath.
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  474. Aaaaaaand Vornikov committed a war crime on the first day of his posting. Down with the Putin. Down with the Putzis. Long live Ukraine!
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  475. Those aren’t legitimate mothers of soldiers. Some of them have shown up in previous videos with Putin. Three of them have connections with the Kremlin propaganda apparatus. The Chechen mother is an ultranationalist. This meeting was a propaganda creation top to bottom.
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  476. Lol, nope. Why would fox want to release Dobbs from his contract? Fox is taking its dob and going home. Dobbs wasn’t fired, he was benched.
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  477. If the Dem caucus wanted to troll the hell out of off the GOP they could vote en masse for McCarthy on the next vote. They should do this with no deal in place, and when asked if there is a deal, say, “no comment”. MAGAs would come unglued.
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  478.  @trentbonebrake8160  If it was only her family, and none of them was involved in the attack, she’s in the clear. To be frank, this reconnaissance subplot isn’t something substantial in the overall picture of the violent mob attacking Congress. It’s not like floor plans of the various floors are closely held top secrets. Many many people are privy to the Capitol building’s layout. Show me rioters in possession of maps and using them in the planning and execution of the attack, and you’ll get my attention. Which is not to say that Boeber doesn’t bear any responsibility. If it’s not at the level of criminality, she should and can be punished politically—at the polls.
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  479. Fourth: Go back to Berkeley. You are missed on Smellagraph Avenue.
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  480. This is true, but one of those “what if” things. If she had been more concerned for her crew and stood in solidarity with them (over separate issues than gun safety), this wouldn’t have happened. Instead she seemed more concerned about her career taking off. I can understand that’s not always an easy decision, but just the same, there are a number of ways she could have supported their demands even if she didn’t walk. There are legally protected organizing actions that fall short of quitting, such as work stoppages. I have to wonder whether any of the crew members contacted the union to help them organize. The DP surely had contacts there she could have given to the crew who eventually walked. It’s true that this would have angered the producers, but a DP needs her crew and should be willing to take a bullet for them, not as she literally did for the producers. But hey, at least the gun was aimed above the line.
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  481. For a rehearsal and or blocking a scene, Baldwin could have used a complete dummy gun that didn’t fire anything, blanks, bullets, or air soft BBS. It wouldn’t have mattered where he pointed a dummy gun.
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  482. One AR per customer sounds right.
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  483.  @marjorietillman6697  *dual If the misspelling was due to your auto carrot messing with you, disregard.
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  484.  @rq7035  I take that to mean you want to die sooner rather than later. Why wait to get sick? Go out on top, right? For once in your life, don’t procrastinate.
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  485. It’s theoretically possible to make a careful isolationist argument without being a Russian and Chinese stooge, but these Republicans (outliers, to be sure) fully embrace their obeisance to the Russian and Chinese authoritarian regimes. I’m not talking about Kevin McCarthy saying, “No blank check”. That’s stating the obvious. The statement was only made because poor Kevin needs to prop up his conservative persona at every opportunity. I’m talking about the Gomerts and Gossars, the Greens and the Boeberts, that would trade our democracy for power.
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  486. No, he’s not replacing anyone. He’s being placed in overall command. It’s astonishing that there wasn’t an overall commander until now.
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  487. Being thrown out a window would be a kindness to Putin. He deserves what happened to Gadaffi and Mussolini. The mobs literally tore those villains to shreds.
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  488. I don’t agree with Pence’s social agenda or policies, but I respect him as a fellow American and as a man with honor and background. (I am more in agreement with Pence on economic conservatism and fiscal responsibility).
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  489. If you’ll indulge my conspiracy scenario (not going to dignify it with “theory”), I can think of a case where Team Trump has proof of hacking but can’t show the evidence. This is where they hacked the election machines, then someone came along later and hacked them a second time, undoing their hack. To paraphrase Doyle Lannaghan, the villain in The Sting, “What was I supposed to do, accuse him of cheating better than me?” It’s just idle speculation based on partial facts and no actual evidence. Wasn’t it fun, though? Here’s another. Team Trump hired a hacker to alter the machines. The hacker did nothing at all. When Trump lost, he tells Trump, “Someone came along and hacked my hack. Pay me $100 million and I’ll find out who.”
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  490. 1) Going forward, getting a college education is going to require self discipline on the part of students. Sadly, the whole college party lifestyle will need to go away, be postponed, or needs to be heavily modified. 2) Colleges and universities that want to have physically attended classes should probably be operating as closed environments, cordoned off from the surrounding communities. If students live on campus, they should stay on campus. Faculty and admin will have to find a way to live on campus, or otherwise quarantine themselves from the surrounding community in some other way. 3) If a university or college doesn’t have the resources to isolate the school community from the surrounding community, they should stick to online learning. This might sound extreme, but if education is important and not just 4 years of leisure prior to adulthood, it can be done and should be done. There are many students that would willingly sacrifice the “college lifestyle” to get a college education. It’s a matter of priorities. Those less serious about learning should find something else to do and somewhere else to go.
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  491. Lunker Pond 10 children must die to save one child from suicide, because dying of a disease isn’t a sin, but suicide is. Those ten children will go to heaven and they will have prevented the other child from going to hell. Yes, this all makes perfect sense.
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  492. Tragic news.
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  493. No, they didn’t.
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  494. I despise Trump Enablers, but I got a sense of how trapped this man feels, hemmed in by the delusional extremists of his party and the cynical grifters that manipulate them. A part of him knows he’s on the chopping block, that Trump will annihilate him for stepping out of line. But he cannot bring himself to fully renounce Trump because he clings to the delusional hope that he’ll escape Trump’s ire by some miracle. Dead man walking.
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  495.  @passingthroughtime3033  No, the SS did not. тролль duende ‎القزم 巨魔 ‎גַמָד chơi khăm peikko トロール ટ્રોલ Troll
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  496.  @lyingdogfaceponysoldier5003  I don’t know who he is, but spammers, bots, and trolls sure seem to love him. Is he some sort of John Galt for millennial dickweeds?
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  497. I hope never. I like Cuban. He has interesting opinions. I might not agree with them, but it’s clear he’s given them some thought. He’s a sports team owner. He made his bones as an internet entrepreneur. He’s totally unqualified to be President, even if he’s more qualified than the last “business” person that was President.
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  498.  @chuckd7423  He’s been told for years that entitled is a bad word. It’s sad that he didn’t get the education to which he was entitled.
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  499. @Ping Pong Cuomo is Italian, and “Fredo” is an anti-Italian slur.
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  500. I don’t know if she would take the job, but the committee could hire her as an investigator.
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  501. In a word, nukes. Putin has turned deterrence on its head by staving off direct military intervention because he has nuclear weapons.
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  502.  Mark  That’s the Republican argument, but the impeachment trial started before Trump left office. Furthermore, apparently it’s not an argument Trump will make at the trial in the Senate. Trump seems to be removing that political cover from his loyal Senators—regardless of their reasoning, they will forever have the albatross of the stolen election argument hung around their necks. Trump is telegraphing that he doesn’t want the unconstitutionality defense, and that they need to get on board with the stolen election argument as their reason. Trump seems more intent on destroying the GOP and damaging the careers of his most loyal Senators than anything else. The only rational explanation is that fundraising off of the trial is more important to him than the fate of the GOP.
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  503.  Un vaccinated Anticommunist  One month old troll account. Shouldn’t you be posting anti-Ukraine posts on a different video?
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  504.  @joboygbpedwards  Are you upset that the anti-American, anti-Democracy, White Christian Nationalist side isn’t getting a fair hearing?
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  505.  @castielysia  Thank you. We are Americans that love our country and love democracy. We’ve put country over party. Unsurprisingly, we are hounded out of the GOP as “RINOs” or worse, traitors. This has been going on for a while, before Trump, but it’s gotten much worse under his leadership. When you come down to it, both liberals and conservatives* love our Constitutional form of democracy, warts and all. Each side’s political principles rest on the foundation of democracy: equal treatment under the law and the vote. Conservatives have more in common with liberals than they do with the fascists, authoritarians, and white supremacists that have usurped the name “conservative”. In the end, we are friends and allies, and the false conservatives are the enemy, are the anti democracy fanatics that seek to destroy our country. We are out there, even if we are few. Some of us left the GOP a decade or more ago, when the trend towards authoritarianism was gaining unstoppable momentum, when we realized that the weed of racism wasn’t so easy to pull out, but had taken over the garden. *I define conservatives as people who hold conservative principles, and who do not sell those principles for temporary political power.
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  506.  @jasonb2123  Do you mean the pundits? Or the news.
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  507.  @dragonfly6908  New Myth: Trump will go live on the Isle of Immortals and return in 1000 years. Go forth and prepare for his return.
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  508. Trump campaign is canceling ad buys and the campaign can’t get credit in some media markets. Trump had to run out to California to scrape up campaign money.
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  509. And not just the in the conservative press. His people, his spokespeople, advisers, and hangers on. It would be great to have them testify under oath who told them which excuse.
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  510.  @noneshere  Lies. Stop lying, liar.
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  511. That should be easy for you, because he’s not running for a seat in the Duma.
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  512.  @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574  Russian Troll trying to stir up division. Y’all are so predictable.
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  513.  @joerogain5025  Solzhenitsyn bought a bill of goods. He’s not the first to be duped by a strong man and he won’t be the last. We can still value his important contributions (as you do by remembering his quote). I do agree that his association with Putin does diminish his moral force.
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  514.  @jasft9746  I imagine that if there is a forceful response, it will be at a time and place of our own choosing and probably not publicized, and with plenty of plausible deniability.
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  515. I thought Netflix was already cancelled in Russia, you troll. That’s like saying you’re boycotting a business that had previously banned you.
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  516. They’re out there and they’ve been out there, trying to offer an alternative to the GOP’s brand of fascism-disguised-as-conservatism. As the extreme right gets more violent with GOP support, more conservatives are waking up to this and are horrified.
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  517. The company didn’t do what Gaetz or Washington Times claims it did. But there’s no pressing need. Most of the Fa stooges posted and streamed to social media, where interested third parties scraped the video and photos and have archived it all.
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  518. While L.A. certainly has its problems, we also have been living alongside one another for so long that we understand and care for one another. I’m an Asian American, but if someone asks where I’m from, I tell them I’m a “Hijo del pueblo de Los Ángeles”. I got your back, too, Antonito!
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  519.  @justsomedudeyouknow8372  breath through your nose and count to ten
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  520.  @garygraham8373  But China is able to economically compete with the west peacefully, and on the west’s own terms. In fact, China has become prosperous and powerful because of its integration with western democracies. If China offers any support to Putin, it will be token support at best. Russia represents a tiny sliver of China’s trade. Europe is China’s largest trading partner, followed by the USA. I don’t think China likes being badgered by Biden, but China’s interests don’t align with Putin’s interests. China will act in its own interest.
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  521.  @gocaps1726  Ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  522. As Mark Maron once said, “Lock the Gaetz!”
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  523. Yes. And this is why Asian Americans need to be in solidarity with Black Americans. This is a small taste of a pervasive white supremacy that many Asians haven’t seen because of their model minority status. It’s not just a few racists assholes walking around and being insulting, it’s the rest of white America that coddles the racists, that minimizes or justifies their racism.
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  524. It’s more than a shame that Woodward held back on those tapes where Trump admitted to downplaying the seriousness of COVID-19 until his book came out. There’s no telling if lives could have been saved if Woodward had put the public’s health ahead of promoting his book. I’m not accusing Woodward of anyone’s deaths. Maybe it wouldn’t have made any difference.
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  525. What is “reverse racism”? Are you saying that there is a correct flow of racism, and that you are now seeing that flow I properly reversed? What about your fears of revenge? Are you afraid that your racism will be punished? You say you are more disliked for being white now than ever before. But why did you ever think it was a good thing that you were liked for being white? You seem to want to enjoy all the benefits of whiteness, but you don’t want anyone to challenge these benefits.
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  526. She might actually be the one in trouble.
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  527.  @t.m5465  <—promotes terrorism
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  528.  @t.m5465  <—Putzi = Putin Nazi
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  529. Aren’t former presidents entitled to be imprisoned in military prisons? Maybe Trump would like it at Fort Leavenworth? The Navy has a brig in Charleston, if he wants to be closer to Florida.
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  530. Don’t forget to BOYCOTT THE VOTE!!
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  531. I wonder if that’s a flaw or by design to prevent retreat by the Russian forces facing stiff resistance. 😂
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  532. That’s an awful lot of handwringing about someone who is not running and is not part of a campaign.
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  533. Antifa stole my toothpaste. Yeah, that’s the ticket. My wife, Morgan Fairchild.
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  534. I don’t think the Belarusian economy is sufficiently developed to be affected by sanctions. But interesting fact: protestors in Poland AND Belarus are blockading truck traffic into Belarus at the Polish border crossings.
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  535. That’s on you, but don’t take it to heart. I couldn’t name the governors of all 50 states. You now have the opportunity to learn about him.
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  536. I suppose this report could have put more emphasis that Ukraine is the historical source of Russian culture and society, putting the lie to Putin’s assertion that Ukraine traditionally belongs to Moscow. If anything, Moscow should be subservient to Kiev, if we are to accept the underlying logic of historical imperative. We could also look more in depth at recent history, particularly Russia’s “stewardship” of Ukraine. First, look at the Holodomor. Second, consider that Russia sacrificed Ukraine to the Nazis in 1941 when the Nazis invaded. They weren’t prepared to defend it and sacrificed the people of Ukraine to Hitler’s murderous SS when it was occupied. (If you were to research this deeper, you might be surprised to learn that Moscow only supported those partisan groups it controlled. Otherwise, they were thrown to the Nazi wolves. So I think this “historical” justification for war is just a smokescreen. The true motivation is right before our noses: Putin’s lust for power and his desire to pillage Ukraine of whatever wealth he can beat out of it.
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  537. That’s not actually true. The Ukrainians need to hold together, maintain cohesion, as they get battered, while they batter back. They can absorb more losses than the Russians can, if it’s necessary. Russia is already scraping the barrel for available troops and equipment. And it’s not getting much resupply help from its supposed allies, who have their own problems. Putin can still declare war, which would allow for greater mobilization, but also could hurt him domestically. The Kremlin sold this as a very limited operation, and they sold it hard. Doing an about face now is tantamount to admitting failure and to admitting they were lying. That’s would be harder to sell, even if the Russian public is brainwashed. But either way, there is a limit to the pain Russia can take. The threshold for the Ukrainians is much higher, if it comes to that.
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  538. Where’s a QOP when you need him?
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  539. If the defense tries that argument, it opens up the case against him even more.
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  540.  Dusty  There’s this thing called “follow thru”. Having a vaccine quicker avails us nothing if there isn’t an equally great effort to get Americans vaccinated quickly. Trump is like the car racer who, having taken the lead in the first lap, declares himself the winner and pulls over so he can celebrate. This is not the time to celebrate a premature victory. Do you get it? The existence of the vaccine does not magically vaccinate people. Vaccinating hundreds of millions of people requires the creation of infrastructure. This should have been done months ago, instead we have to wait for a new president to take office, because a certain someone would rather golf than roll up his sleeves and work.
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  541. I just wish these celebrities would stop and think about what sort of example they are setting for Kanye.
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  542. Why is a gay man proposing legislation that affects the rights of women?
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  543.  @michdoogles3939  Wow, it feels like something to you? Why don’t you try thinking, instead. Start with educating yourself enough to comment intelligently on a banking story.
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  544.  @mikeofallon  Pence doesn’t have a choice. On January 6th, Congress with acknowledge the count, despite whatever political stunts the Trump Party tries to pull.
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  545. Don’t be dim. The local liquor store keeps a well stocked truck parked on the street in front of her house.🤪
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  546. Vete a la chingada and take Putin with you.
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  547. What was your major at clown college?
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  548. Nah. Twenty don’t want him. Two hundred do want him. It’s not a matter of reading the room, it’s a matter of you learning to count.
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  549. Led by chief of staff Abbie Normal
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  550. Yes, but it would be a good thing if investigators and prosecutors can establish a criminal conspiracy with proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s just as important, if not more important, to dismantle the cabal of conspirators that enabled Trump’s crimes.
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  551. Scalia would be heartbroken and ashamed of his friend, Clarence Thomas.
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  552. How? You get paid up front, that’s how.
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  553. I’ve kept a work journal. When I get home, I write down what happened, if anything. Good stuff and bad. It can help you maintain your sanity if you’re being gas lit. It’s useful for good things, too, if you have a decent employer. Like using it to remind yourself of accomplishments. Like before a 6-month review, you prepare and refresh your memory of specific contributions you’ve made, successes you’ve had.
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  554. Is there a way that any of these doubters could be convinced? Do they want to personally count each ballot? Would that convince them? Probably not. They would question that the ballots they were given were the real ballots.
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  555. Not the same. To be the same, your warrant would have the force of law outside of your neighbor’s house, meaning he would face possible arrest every time he set foot outside his door. Your neighbor would effectively be bottled up in his house.
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  556. Duolingo has failed you.
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  557. Are we sure there aren’t any Korean storekeepers in Ukraine, protecting their stores from Russian looters? Just saying’.
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  558. And now they’re slowly siphoning units from other border areas, revealing how little a threat they think NATO really is. Fear of NATO is merely a pretext for this land grab.
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  559. Yeah, near as I can make out, there’s a ton of compelling circumstantial evidence, but Cheney was hesitant to say there was a direct link between Trump and the people who organized the riot. So I’m going to guess they haven’t found anyone to say, “Trump gave the go ahead. I was there in the room.” But the investigation is ongoing. This is an interim report. Watergate had the tapes as a smoking gun. If there is a smoking gun yet to be revealed, it will be something like a burner phone.
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  560. This lady’s analysis is good. Smersh needs to bring her back.
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  561.  @traya9450  If you “respect Russia”, you’re a Putzi, the Putin equivalent of a Nazi.
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  562. We’re approaching the end of the baseball season. MLB games every day as teams compete for playoff spots and a chance to go to the World Series. Right now, every game is potentially a big game. This is ideal for a mobile billboard.
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  563.  @catherineborodii2408  That’s an interesting way to fight Naziism, by destroying every building and murdering civilians. Is that the idea? Use Nazi tactics to fight Naziism (that doesn’t really exist significantly in the first case). This anti-Naziism excuse was pure pretext for war, and Russia’s prosecution of the war reveals that it is Putin that most resembles a Nazi.
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  564. P-O-O-P
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  565. “This is not me” is never believable. They might try “There is something wrong with me and I need to change”. That I could believe.
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  566. They’re keeping the Russian reserves pinned down, well away from the Ukraine battlefields. I don’t believe the forces in Poland and Lithuania are doing anything provocative, like holding exercises or assembling to invade. It’s enough that they’re there to hold down Russia’s reserves.
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  567. I guess that’s the downside of going off the grid, Kaczynski.
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  568. Did anyone spot the secret Biden voter?
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  569. OK Ivan
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  570. 😂ZZZZING!!
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  571. Various groups want to claim credit for Biden’s victory, but did anyone do more to help Joe Biden win than Donald J. Trump? Nope. Trump pulled out all the stops in October to deliver a Biden presidency to the American people.
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  572. Have you been Red Pillowed?
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  573. I don’t find blame games to be useful in helping us unite behind the Ukrainians. Indeed, it’s exploiting a terrible tragedy for the purposes of furthering one’s domestic political agenda. Go ahead and finger point AFTER Russia has been expelled from Ukraine, but not before.
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  574. Russian policy in Ukraine is if they can’t have it, nobody can.
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  575. She calls herself a conspiracy theorist, but she’s never worked in either a public or private conspiracy lab. She has no academic experience or academic credentials studying conspiracies. She’s never been licensed as a professional conspiracy theorist by any state licensing board. The American Association of Professional Screwballs says they have no record of her ever being a member, nor of her having applied for membership. I think Loomer is a total fraud, but at best she’s an amateur hobbyist conspiracy lunatic.
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  576. There was no overall commander coordinating all the fronts!
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  577. Does what? What has she said that is over the line? I think her opinions are dumb, but she hasn’t defamed anyone, nor called for anyone’s death.
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  578.  @classicalaid1  No, he cannot.
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  579. To an authoritarian moral monster like Putin, innocent civilians living in freedom represent an existential threat to his power. They constitute a double threat to a dictator seeking absolute control. Domestically, a free people in a neighboring country undermine the legitimacy of his own regime. Externally, they represent the limits of his control and power. Putin must either put them under his control militarily, or failing that, he must destroy them. That bears repetition: Putin must destroy what he cannot control.
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  580. If it was Israel, I don’t doubt it was in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and others in the region. As to how? Most likely a shaped charge hidden on the roadside or a mine planted in the road. There should be evidence of some sort wrt to remote triggering. Wrt special forces or a remote control vehicle, you’d expect to see empty shells. What evidence has Iran showed?
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  581.  @angelrivera2339  The reason I don’t think it’s a Kremlin false flag operation is because it makes the Kremlin look weak. However, the Russian pro-war extremists or one of the PMCs might have done it to create more support for the war. They want more influence in the government and are actively trying to make the Ministry of Defense look bad. I don’t think that there is an organized militant anti-Kremlin, anti-war, or pro-Ukraine resistance inside Russia capable of this attack. The pro-democracy movement in Russia is effectively squashed. But I could be wrong. Bottom line is that, even if you accept my argument that this wasn’t a false flag operation conducted officially by the Kremlin, there are factions in Russia capable of pulling it off, and there might even be factions within the Kremlin willing to do it. So all we can do is speculate.
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  582. Putin has created the perfect combination of Nazi ideology and Soviet totalitarianism, wrapped around the cult of his personality. I call his followers and supporters Putzis.
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  583. With regard to this reboot of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I don’t find this Zaphod Beeblephrox character charming or sympathetic at all. And what’s with all these new characters? Zaphod Junior, Eric, Ivanka, Jared the Robot. This new version of a beloved book is ten times as absurd as the original, but less than 1/100 as funny.
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  584. Does anyone remember the Edgar Allen Poe story, Political Rally of the Red Death?
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  585. What do they pay you, Russian bot?
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  586. It was a different Republican Party in my day. GOP voters would never wear their hats backward.
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  587.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  Potentially any signatory country he visits. Which means he can’t safely visit those countries. How will he attend BRICS summits? He’s out of the club. He can’t conduct face to face diplomacy with many other world leaders outside of Russia. You say, “It’ll never happen.” I say, “It doesn’t have to happen for this to hurt in some way.”
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  588. Sadly, no. This General Dvornikov is not replacing anyone. He’s the first overall commander. Think about that for a moment: there was no overall commander coordinating the Russian forces in Ukraine. That partly explains the chaos and ineffectiveness of the Russian Army. This appointment is potentially very bad news if he can get the Russian invasion organized. It’s also bad news because on his first day of command, he ordered the attack on the Kramortorsk train station that killed 52 civilians and injured hundreds more. He became a war criminal the first day on the job.
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  589. What religious exemptions? Trumpism is now a religion?
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  590. I say tomato, you say insurrection. 😉
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  591. Your government is the Russian Federation, Ivan. 😂
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  592. This effectively prevents Russia from trying an amphibious assault against Ukraine. If they keep losing ships, they won’t have anything to evacuate cut off troops west of Crimea. They might even have trouble providing naval support along the Sea of Azov coast. Russia has lost its original purpose for the war. A land grab is a pipe dream—they won’t be able to hold any territory they conquer. I think the only reason they keep at it is that Putin faces domestic troubles if he admits defeat. I have my doubts he will be able to cling to power when this war is over.
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  593.  @shlepmessing8703  Ivan
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  594. A year later. Chris Cuomo got fired and the three murderers were found guilty.
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  595. Graham is tarnishing his reputation as the first openly closeted gay man in the Senate.
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  596. There’s a difference between “swift to anger” and “unable to control oneself”.
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  597. LOL, because of course he did.
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  598.  @FrithonaHrududu02127 This wasn’t overreach. It was prosecutorial incompetence. The suppressed evidence wasn’t going to hurt their case. I don’t think it was buried with intentional malice. It was buried because the DA and his office are sloppy wrt their procedural duties, procedures in place to insure fair trials. The office culture there is a cavalier disregard for the rights of defendants; it’s this disregard that leads to sloppiness. This is also disrespect for the public that relies on prosecutors to get it right, to put away bad guys with FAIR trials in which the defendants have been afforded every right to defend themselves. The public deserves a district attorney who pays attention to details so this doesn’t happen.
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  599.  @michaelwachendorf2096  Nope. Every two years for House of Representatives and every 6 years for a Senator.
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  600.  @Squidwardsclarinet69  That’s how it stands now, but apparently Texas and 14 other Republican states believe they should have a say in how other states elect their representatives.
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  601. The distinction is whether the pilot was ordered to down the drone or whether he was using his own initiative.
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  602.  @BuryOurHearts Trump is just mad at Bibi.
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  603. It’s a federal case. Florida law wouldn’t be applicable. However, Kise is also a registered foreign agent of Venezuela, so perhaps Kise is arranging asylum for Trump in that country.
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  604.  @standZ4  If racists think the military is a vehicle for affirmative action and not at heart a meritocracy, they have little experience or knowledge of the U.S. military. But you know how racists think. They believe the color of their skin is meritorious.
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  605. I’m laughing at the pathetic GRU trolling attempts. They themselves are so out of touch with reality, due to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their own society. They don’t even understand how an independent press works—they don’t understand or accept even the concept of objective truth. To a Russian troll, truth is whatever like you can convince someone to believe. And now I will report them for misinformation and promoting terrorism.
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  606.  @likalabi8417  Yes, that makes logical sense, anti-capitalist Ukrainians want to join the European Union because they hate the west. 🙄 Your incoherent “ideology” is based on a Putin cult of personality—which is why it lacks rationality.
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  607.  @borisoreskovic6896  Yes, Boris, but Ukrainians are destroying Russians at a faster rate. What will you do when the war comes to Moscow?
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  608.  @BDLforever24  are you temporarily delusional or will you go to the grave with these lies on your lips?
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  609. I’ve supported and respected Flake, but I wish he would do more right now against Trump’s re-election.
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  610.  @S.E.O.S  statue of limitations, hermanito.
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  611. Having fought a against an insurgency himself, I think he’s aware that it was always going to be impossible for Russia to win. He was also part of a force that invaded a country and destroyed its standing army, so I think he knows what is required to win militarily. It’s clear to everyone now that Russia can’t even win militarily, let alone successfully occupy Ukraine. Yes, he knows what he’s talking about. But honestly, anyone paying attention knows Russia is losing now and will lose completely sooner or later.
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  612. It’s the Democrats fault for winning more seats than they were supposed to. If the Republicans had gotten a bigger majority, this wouldn’t be happening. 🤪 yes, I am joking. But it’s sort of true, lol.
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  613. Duolingo has failed you.
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  614. No.
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  615. I believe Ali is part of Rodger Stone’s ratfucking team and was being directed and funded by Stone. This is just a suspicion. In any case, it’s odd that Stone suddenly dropped of the radar.
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  616. Because many Americans are children in the mental/emotional sense, and we always save the children first?
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  617. It’s a moving car, right? Otherwise he would have just gotten out and walked to the Capitol.
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  618. OK, Ivan.
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  619. So you’re saying that someone walked up to Napoleon Bonaparte and asked him, “By what right are you the ruler of France?” I think you bungled the story in trying to make some political point, but you can’t come out and say what you think. Perhaps you lack the ability, or perhaps you realize that your ideas are reprehensible.
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  620. The ABA is a voluntary professional association and not the actual bar of any jurisdiction. Check out the Wikipedia article on Admission to the bar in the U.S., it’s quite interesting.
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  621. Yes, comrade, you are correct. How is the weather in Moscow?
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  622. These are Q zombies.
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  623. I keep confusing Madison Cawthorn with Thurston Howell IV.
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  624.  @annakelley9719  I don’t care, as long as my SchutzStaffel check arrives on time. Wait, what?
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  625. If you had been alive during the Vietnam War, you would have believed. If you had studied the history and culture of Afghanistan, you might not be surprised.
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  626. Hahahahah! What was your major while you were definitely not attending clown college? Honestly, you’re better off saying you were incarcerated for killing a baby than that you worked for the Trump administration.
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  627.  @pleaselikeandsubscribe520  ah dude, I had some spicy berry jam and something like pineapple jalapeño jam. Sooo good. I gotta go back to that store.
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  628.  @DfromSD  More likely a Russian troll. They’re not just trying to influence the election, they’re trying to exploit divisions and sow chaos in the U.S. They play both extremes. This account was created a few days ago.
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  629. Who among us hasn’t been 5150?
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  630. They were in a black SS SUV, not the limo known as “The Beast”.
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  631. How is this objectively a leftist thing? Turning everything into a partisan issue is going to kill you and your family. Plus, this was a clever idea. Are you really saying cleverness is something conservatives should avoid? That’s bullshit—and it shows how much reacting to liberals is buying into their bullshit.
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  632. He’s going to Epstein himself.
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  633. This is terrible news for people who conspire with others to create violent situations. How are they supposed to communicate their violent intentions and get in contact with violent people if their free speech is penalized? It’s almost as if speech has consequences!! But seriously, imagine if criminal gangs and mafia bosses could successfully argue in court that giving an order to murder someone was protected as “free speech”.
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  634.  @herbertotto4725  Herbert, the fact that you (and I) are doing what we can is what is important. It’s a good thing you’re able to draw inspiration from Gates, but don’t denigrate your own dedication to the world. Don’t be discouraged. Now more than ever your contribution matters. You probably don’t even realize it because you’re a modest person, but you might be a model and inspiration for others. Cheers, brother.
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  635.  @a.j.patron9214  FOX is going to try to settle out of court. Their position is indefensible. They’re canceling Dobbs’ show because (I’m betting): One, he is not going along with their strategy, and two, they’re worried that he’s going to damage their case on the air. He could damage them so badly that not only would the two companies not want to settle, a jury might award treble damages.
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  636.  @hodaka1000  You leave Bob Dole out of this.
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  637. That’s why it’s targeted, and it’s why some want it more narrowly targeted.
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  638. Not anymore he doesn’t. He committed suicide. He doesn’t no anything.
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  639. Matt Gaetz looks like a caricaturist’s drawing of a stupid guy.
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  640. Gaddafi wasn’t just killed by the mob. They murdered him by literally tearing his body apart. For Putin, getting thrown out a window would be a blessing.
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  641. You love your country so much, you say it thrice?
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  642.  @justaawake6273  Agreed. So far, no group has claimed responsibility nor have there been communications from the bomber(s), as far as we know. It’s a holiday weekend, so if a written statement or recording was sent out to the media, it might not arrive until Monday or later. We might start constructing a profile of the sort of person that would do this, but it’s all highly speculative without more details, and guessing the person or persons’ political ideology is pure speculation. Here’s mine: the bomber is an anti-5G nutcase (based on the possibility they were targeting the ATT building).
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  643.  @americanpeasant7000  So you think T-Mobile is behind this? Have the 5G Wars begun?
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  644.  @learneroftruth8025  That doesn’t make it less of a terrorist act. It doesn’t excuse the act or its perpetrators. It was intended to terrorize. Why is that difficult to understand?
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  645. The attack came at night and 8 people died—security guards and maintenance workers. I don’t know if the mall was open for business during the daytime, but I don’t think it was being used as a shelter. Nor do I think it was being used as a military depot. If weapons and ammunition were being stored there, we would have seen a chain of secondary explosions, but we did not. All we see is that Russia continues to bombard civilian targets based on high Yelp ratings.
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  646. Can we at least get legislation that would force Republican congresspeople to watch Trading Places?
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  647. Wagner lives . . . Uh, wait. Let me start over.
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  648. The video of the strike showed no secondary explosions, as one would expect if the mall was being used as some sort of military depot, as Russian trolls are claiming. It’s possible that there were a few military vehicles parked there at some point, but what of it? They were doing nothing wrong if they got their parking validated. Soldiers need to shop, too.
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  649. Put down the bong. You’re overdosing on your medical marijuana and you never had the wit to employ sarcasm effectively, even when you were sober.
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  650.  @OAlexable  You’re delusional. Even the ethnic Russians, the Russian-Ukrainians are united against Putin. Turns out that they are also patriotic Ukrainians. There are very few pro-Putin Ukrainians left after the invasion, and they are paid in rubles. Putin buys their loyalty, but the pay is becoming worthless.
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  651.  @brunxcardster  I feel sorry for you. Not just because of your ignorance of geo-politics and economics, but both your current and future economic situation. Your pay is worthless. Your savings are worthless, if you can even access it. Your banks are shutting down, your food will run out (you will soon be paying 120 rubles for a potato on the black market). You’re under economic siege, and it’s self imposed. Russia only needs to leave Ukraine and the damage will stop. Oh, well, your gas prices remain low. Maybe you will learn to eat and drink petrochemicals. Your “friends” will have difficulty propping you up. The support will slow to a trickle, and most of that trickle will go to the oligarchs, not the Russian people. Not to you. Truthfully, the Chinese are already pissed. This invasion is already messing with their plans to expand their own influence. Xi himself is angry with Russia and Putin, and help from him will be minimal. And what help he does give will not be free. Venezuela is a joke. Maduro is only a threat to his own people.
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  652. @Sal Spencer Our military is actually smaller in numbers, but we don’t need as many as Russia. Most are conscripts, and most need to stay at their posts throughout Russia to control the population. But you are right that we are better equipped and have the technological advantage.
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  653.  @Amauvy  The Russians will enjoy eating their energy, I’m sure. They’ll find a way to make the human body metabolize gasoline, and they’ll get their vitamins from natural gas. Good luck with that.
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  654. That bear’s name? Fa.
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  655. But not for many years. I’d be surprised if they’re still at it in another year.
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  656.  @tomterrific9459  That didn’t happen. Why do you lie. There was concern because Trumps political appointees were placing unnecessary political pressure on their agencies to approve the vaccine. It wasn’t just Democrats that shared this concern. I say unnecessary because the agencies tasked with approval were working as quickly as they could without the pressure.
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  657.  @TheHoff4K  Apparently you think everyone in Georgia is corruptible? Project much?
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  658. Keep the light on, but don’t wait up.
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  659.  @dougwhitaker7229  Citizens aren’t saying one thing. It’s a few social media posts that triggered it, the first one was from a woman posting what she had heard THIRD HAND. That woman has since apologized. You’re just making stuff up and bearing false witness. So why are you worried about my making a comment about Christians failing to aid their neighbors? You are clearly not a Christian, and your intent to deceive puts you in league with the Devil. We know who you think is your savior: Donald Trump. I hope that more and more people open their eyes to the trick you and your fellow devil worshippers are playing on us, pretending you are Christian and exhorting us to do evil in Jesus’ name. I’ll tell you what, Doug, there’s still time to repent, but do it now because there’s no telling what signs and wonders that tomorrow may bring.
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  660. OK, Ivan
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  661. A lotta people saying that in these comments. A lotta people haven’t really looked in the mirror in a few months, either.
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  662. Into the ground.
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  663. That’s not undisciplined soldiers. That’s just how most Russians live.
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  664. A lot of militia sympathizers in these comments. Probably afraid the domestic militants will be next.
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  665.  @isaacwhyt287  Actually, daggs is a white supremacist QAnon troll. These people love Putin because he embodies their love for violence and destruction against less powerful people.
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  666. Hello Putzi. Don’t drink too much of your cope juice or you’ll embarrass yourself at the Putin Nazi Party meeting. A good Putzi is supposed to hold his vodka, comrade. Heil Putin.
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  667. I like to put “WORDS” in between “QUOTES”.
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  668. Why can’t he? You don’t have to accept the criticism, or you can deflect it as ordinary partisanship. But there’s not a conflict between criticizing a leader while praising the troops. Honestly, I find this sort of partisan sniping to be refreshingly old fashioned.
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  669.  DrJamal Jackson  THE PRROOOF IS THIS RICK NASTI VIDEO NECER GON GIVE YOOYUP
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  670. Belligerent idiocy is one way to put it. Another way is to call it moral/ethical childishness. Antivaxxers and antimaskers are behaving like toddlers, putting themselves, their families, and their communities at risk for . . . temporary convenience? Temporary comfort? Or even worse and just as childish, some are lost in a childish fantasy world of make-believe politics.
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  671. General Burton Reynolds was the commanding officer at the Battle of Cannon Ball Run, Scott. Get the full name right.
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  672.  @robertcarlclayton7724  It’s ultimately up to the voters of Wisconsin to hold Johnson’s feet to the fire and demand he keep his promises. If they don’t care, that’s democracy. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  673.  @robertcarlclayton7724  I’m not excusing him. He’s a piece of garbage. But that’s not the topic of discussion. We’re talking about term limits.
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  674. That’s old school right there. He wasn’t disrespectful to Biden, but he was critical of the President. He’s not casting Biden as the Antichrist. I’m glad you can spot the difference. We still have hope if we know the difference between normal party politics and the monstrous political dung heap that is MAGA.
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  675.  @ashleylittle8403  The sonic boom is heard at the point that the sound barrier is passed (broken). The missiles are fired from within the Soviet Union. I mean Russia. I do think they were used. But I also think you are correct that there are a limited number of them, and Putin is wasting his limited supply. I also think that the use of such “wonder weapons” is yet another parallel that Putin shares with Hitler.
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  676. You’re posting the same nonsensical comment to every video. Troll much?
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  677.  @BuryOurHearts ”the left” isn’t a party, you non-American disinformation bot. Don’t they train you guys anymore? Who writes your material?
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  678. Putin isn’t high on the list of moral monsters, but he’s the moral monster of our time. He’s a genocidal maniac, but doesn’t have the power to murder tens of millions like Stalin, Hitler, or Mao. (Assuming he doesn’t use strategic nukes against Western Europe or North America, which is still a small possibility.)
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  679. Where the hell is Rudy? Did they forget to pick him up from the Hospital? No, but seriously, he might be on his deathbed. C’mon, kids, there’s only one way to save him. Clap your hands and shout, “I believe in evil”.
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  680. They’ve also sent out an email to the crew stating that they intend to continue the production. “Tone-deaf” doesn’t begin to describe the mentality of whoever decided to send that email.
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  681. Sure! You never heard of the Fafa?
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  682.  @markhall6306  But that is untrue. You’re twisting your ignorance of historical events to justify invasion, war crimes, and potential genocide by Putzi Russian military. The Cuban Missile crisis was resolved peacefully without an invasion or threat of invasion. Get bent, Putzi troll.
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  683. Russian military selects civilian targets by Yelp reviews.
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  684. @UCj7FdTg_IvMG71pLnn3uQzg That was debunked. The incident occurred behind Russian lines. The Russian soldiers involved, both the shooters and the ones shot, were paid a bonus. The ones shot got to go home.
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  685.  @hemaccabe4292  lol, yes, a spam bot. What’s your excuse? Is this how you cope these days?
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  686. These aren’t fines. These are damages awarded to the plaintiffs, to the tune of $26 million. I’m not sure how the damages are apportioned to the various defendants.
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  687. You’re ignoring the fact that domestic terrorists don’t give a fuck about democracy or elections and are only too happy to use violence to achieve their political ends. Therefore your reasoning is flawed.
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  688. Sadly, it cannot and should not, or the government’s operations would come to a halt. So enjoy it while you may! 😂 The common wisdom is that the Dem caucus should stand back and watch the comedy unfold, but they could kill Jim Jordan’s career by supporting him. People would think he made a deal with the Dems, and the Dems could encourage this by saying, “No comment”. Get one of the leftists firebrands like AOC to say, “We look forward to working with our colleagues across the aisle”. The MAGAs would lose whatever shit they’ve managed to hold onto.
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  689.  @Crybaby-cz8et  Direct deposit for most recipients. If you haven’t already set up direct deposit, it might take a while. I’ll keep checking my bank account, but it might until next week.
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  690. I keep forgetting that you’re a monarchy, not a democracy.
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  691. A lateral question: is there a legal reason preventing a Republican Senator or four from threatening to caucus with the Democrats if these seditionist Senators don’t stop wiping their asses with the Consitution? I’m not saying that they would switch parties, only that they would join with the Democrats to select a new Senate Majority Leader (making Mitch McConnell the Minority Leader). This would instantly cut the power of Senate assholes like Ted Cruz (who should know better: he’s a frickin’ constitutional scholar). I realize this is a wild scenario. What if Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse and whomever else were forced to carry out the threat? Would this literally fracture the GOP into two factions? Clearly there’s a lot of downside for any Republican Senator that split from the Trump GOP, but there could be a lot of upside as well (besides just protecting democracy from a party bent on a dictatorship). What upside? They could push their agendas and force Democrats to negotiate compromises with them. They could demand committee assignments. No, they wouldn’t have control, but they’d have a say in the governance of the country.
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  692. Fascism has a new name. It’s now called “Muscular Republicanism”. This rebranding is effective immediately.
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  693. At least they won’t have toilet paper shortages.
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  694. I don’t think Trump is a puppet so much as wind up toy. Putin wanted one specific thing from Donald, removal of the sanctions on various Russian Oligarchs, Putin’s backers. Trump has failed to deliver, and Putin is in hot water himself. But this is a side matter. Putin helped place Trump in power (as did others, so I don’t give the Russians sole credit) mainly to be a chaos agent. And boy-oh-boy, Donald has fulfilled this in spades.
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  695. At least one of his lawyers got a million dollar retainer up front.
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  696. Who’s butt do I have to sniff to get out of this dog park?
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  697.  @JeffreySmith7777  Yes, we’ve heard about you getting paid to post sexual comments about Kamala Harris. Reporters are still in the process of tracking down who is making the payments, and after that they’ll probably track you down as well.
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  698.  @t.h.8475  *constituents I realize that was probably an autocorrect error, but I hope it’s helpful. Damned 🚙 🥕.
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  699.  @genniferbaston4529  He’s still a Senator. Only if he wins will he need to be replaced. If he doesn’t win, he still has 4 more years to until the next senatorial election.
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  700. It’s not a contradiction. To bring the country together, we have to deal with the anger on both sides. We need to understand it and its sources. We have to examine those sources under the clear light of day. I suspect you and I share a political bias. We must temporarily set those aside and listen to the other side with an open mind to get at the real source of their anger. It’s a bit like therapy: we hope that the other side will finally understand the underlying cause of their anger. And we must be open to the possibility that they are justified in whole or in part! Anger is part of the human condition, but we can feel anger and still behave like adults. If we cannot, there is no “bringing the country together”. The anger expressed in the attack on the Capitol was the anger of people psychologically stunted to the level of a cranky 4 year old who isn’t getting their way. But it’s an anger that many Americans feel, even if they don’t express it violently (and childishly).
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  701. In the matter of KRAKEN V. THE PEOPLES OF PENNSYLVANIA, GEORGIA, ARIZONA, AND WISCONSIN OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLROFLCOPTERSLOLOLOLMAOLOLOLPMPL
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  702. The multilayer set of protocols that could have prevented this is normal procedure. Multiple safety checks were bypassed out of expediency or incompetence. The last safety check was the AD, but there were multiple violations of safety protocols before then, starting with not keeping the firearms under lock and key and allowing live ammunition anywhere near them. If there was some reason live ammunition was needed on a particular day, there would be additional protocols to secure it and prevent it from being mixed in with blanks and dummy ammunition.
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  703. In the comments of some other video, the Trumpers claimed it was “police entrapment” because they were not allowed to leave for a period of time and they felt trapped. You cannot make shit this stupid up!
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  704.  @hjk3927  There’s also something called “vicarious liability”. It’s a legal term common in civil law that also has criminal applications—for example, when a person sends someone to intimidate another person, and that someone kills the other person. The instigating person is “vicariously liable” for criminal charges. This applies to the President and others who spoke at the rally, and possibly other “peaceful” riot participants.
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  705.  Teutonic Nordwind  Ah, you NeoNazis. Hope you’re compartmenting and practicing decent opsec. If not, oops. You’ll probably get run down like the rabid mangy dog you are. Talk to your Russian cohorts at the IRA about opsec and make sure you’re doing it right.
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  706. Nobody “put” them in Springfield. They moved there because there are jobs that don’t require even a high school education. They entered the country legally because there was an earthquake followed by an ongoing civil war, between the government and organized criminal gangs.
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  707. It’s because people are reporting it. I usually report either misinformation or (when warranted) promotes terrorism.
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  708. Yeah, I read about that. Not only did Cuban get him back on his feet, he looked for West and went to talk to him personally, for hours. That’s just as important as writing a check, showing you care personally.
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  709. “WHAT DO WE WANT?” TREASON!!! ”HOW DO WE GET IT?” TREASON!! Absurd moment, from the QAnon Shaman: “Hey, you in the red hat, can you take my picture?” Chilling moment (among many): during the prayer for God’s White Light, one of the prayer leaders gives a Nazi salute.
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  710.  @mdmn8160  You’re so off base it’s not funny. You’re drinking the Putin Koolaid if you think NATO created this situation or its existence justified Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine.
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  711. Buried in 11,780 landfills and unmarked graves, then dug up and eaten by 11,780 family dogs, then the dogs were abducted by 11,780 aliens. Trump has hired time on JWST to look for the aliens, but the 11,780 galaxies they returned to went missing.
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  712. Putin is a stable genius.
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  713. Michael Che, is this you? Cant resist slagging Jost, can you? 😄
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  714. Fair point. Also, no fly zones are established AFTER air supremacy is established. For NATO to establish a no fly zone, it would need to attack targets in Russia. THAT is why NATO is abstaining. It’s not a provocation, it would literally trigger WWIII by directly attacking Russia. So, as you say, the Ukrainians are doing very well at establishing a “dangerous to fly zone”, which is the next best thing.
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  715.  @bekstalasch1543  That’s pretty much oversimplified anti-West BS, trying to sow doubts. The truth is complicated. A no fly zone can’t be established without attacking Russian military assets IN RUSSIA, which would trigger WWIII. The migs are configured differently from Ukrainian migs and wouldn’t be ready for a month or more to be flyable by Ukrainian pilots and be combat effective. NATO is doing all it can do short of launching an attack on Russia. When Russia and NATO start shooting each other, the nuclear missiles will fly. Given Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons, NATO is doing all it can.
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  716. John Boehner for speaker!!
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  717.  @youtubewatcher2  lol, came here to say that! NAFO: expansion is non-negotiable!
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  718. It happened in the late 90s—he got racist and beyond crazy about immigration. It got worse during the Bush years. Before that he was a solid conservative journalist and news anchor. He’d say the most outrageous things about Mexicans and Mexico, and then claim he wasn’t racist because his wife is Mexican. He used to be one of my favorites, and it’s truly sad how he turned out.
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  719. She started making a very interesting point about the recommendation algorithms used to populate our media feeds, and Lemon blew right past it. There isn’t any one single key to unlock the puzzle of how so many have been captured by QAnon, but “the algorithm” is an important one. Sometimes it’s useful, sometimes the results are poor. Example: I started watching Jomboy’s sports breakdowns because they are comedy gold, not because I’m really into sports. The result is that YouTube is recommending videos from many other sports vloggers. There must be thousands of them. But that’s one thing. More insidious is what began happening when I began watching a lot of WWII history videos. That’s when the recommendation algorithm began feeding me neonazi and conspiracy based “secret history” videos. One can exercise a bit of control by selecting “don’t show me videos from this channel”, but I wonder to what degree the algorithm can be manipulated by search engine optimization techniques.
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  720. I want to know which Congresspeople asked Trump for a pardon, and why!
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  721. The biggest difference now? We’ve endured 4 years of Trump and we don’t want 4 more.
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  722. So, like Kevin Bacon, the guy who cuts the lawn and does yard work at my Dad’s house, and . . . you? You and everyone else are “remotely connected” to Trump (probably via Kevin Bacon).
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  723. Sad? He was already pathetic.
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  724.  @janetvandenassem8401  Yeah, but it’s Trump. Trump might have been lured to the spot by a guy pretending to be Loomer. It could have been an assignation assassination.
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  725. His name. 😖
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  726. The Hamberdler
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  727. Remember to tell them that Trump can still win if Georgia Republicans boycott the January election.
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  728. Putzi troll.
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  729. To be fair, it’s his family asking for help. Granted it’s sadly ironic that his family has become a burden on society due to his bad choices. He utterly failed to provide for them—I hope he knows this and is tortured by it, if he’s sitting in hell.
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  730. Was he plate-of-spaghetti-flinging mad or not?
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  731.  @sebastianliebmann6014  Less targeted relief allows the individual to decide where to stimulate the economy. That’s the basic principle of market based economies, in contrast to command economies you’re more likely to see in socialist countries. I’m not against more targeted measures, but the fallacy to your thinking needed highlighting. Broader stimulus allows the marketplace to decide which sectors deserve to be stimulated. If the politicians and/or bureaucracy have too much control over relief money, they can potentially play favorites (for example, Ted Cruz funneling PPP money to his biggest PAC contributor).
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  732. Where is Jimmy Stewart when you need him?
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  733. The problem with this sort of testimony is that it’s she said/he takes the fifth. 😉
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  734. IT’S. AN. IMPACT. DRIVER.
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  735.  @Gwaycee  That is possible. The important thing is that they have identified the traitors, even if they don’t have direct evidence. Their neighbors will know and they will be shunned. In the meantime, they will be watched and they don’t dare offer any further aid to the enemy.
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  736. What we are learning is that your tank platoon’s infantry support must be very good and far out ahead of you and to the sides. An effect of this is that your tank platoon is now less effective in supporting the infantry. The range on these modern AT weapons is similar to the range of modern tank guns. I’m not one of those saying tanks are useless and obsolete, but their role is going to be much more limited as breakthrough and assault weapons. The Ukrainians are fighting a mostly defensive war, and that is favoring infantry with AT weapons. Not to be a pessimist, but the same thing favoring Ukrainians on the defensive will be against them when they launch a true counter-offensive to expel the invaders. However (and as you probably know), the Russian military inside Ukraine also suffers from a raft of other problems that will be difficult to solve, especially the structural problems that are inherent to their system.
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  737. Says the Russian bot. Lol, retired Air Force? What kind of Mig did you fly. 😂
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  738.  @charlesoyibo9536 lol, we can tell you’re lying because we can’t hear you typing.
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  739. It’s like ships leaving a sinking rat.
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  740. As a non-signatory, the U.S. isn’t bound by treaty to arrest and extradite anyone to The Hague. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. can’t do so if it wants to. So, no, Putin isn’t theoretically safe traveling to the U.S.
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  741. Low blood sugar.
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  742.  @icestationzebra8636  Hello, Putzi. How’s everything with you and the other Putin Nazis? Coping OK? Not running out of cope juice, I mean, vodka?
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  743.  Doctor Blome  When is that going to happen? In January? February?
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  744. Surprised you’ve never seen Tucker Carlson.
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  745. This is your brain on Cofeve.
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  746. He’s a congressman from South Carolina unhappy with how Wisconsin runs its elections? I guess states rights aren’t important to “conservatives” anymore. Apparently, he hasn’t read the 10th amendment, either.
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  747. Engines overheating because the soldiers are drinking the anti-freeze in the radiators.
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  748. I’m pretty sure they were recruiting criminals from long before the invasion in 2014. Apparently they’re running out of free criminals and are now recruiting imprisoned ones.
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  749. If they’re threatening violence, sure.
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  750.  @Any-qo3xh  your freedom isn’t being abridged by mask or vaccine mandates. You are free to live your life as you wish, you must can’t force your bizarre behavior and beliefs on others, who are free to live as they wish. You’re not fighting for your freedom, but for some weird desire for convenience and irresponsibility. True lovers of liberty understand that their rights do not supersede the rights of others.
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  751.  @aaronhorsman1396  Nah. First of all, you’re not an American. Second, schools have enforced dress codes for many decades, and vaccines have been mandatory for decades as well. There is nothing nefarious about any of this. What is nefarious is people like you posing as Americans to push your death agenda.
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  752. He’s going to annex portions of Ukraine, and use that as a pretext to use nuclear weapons. I’ve heard two different rumors about the referendums. 1) soldiers going door to door to collect ballots, and Russian citizens being allowed to vote. This presumably includes soldiers and anyone they care to bus in (even as they forcibly remove Ukrainians from their captured territories). Short of mass murder of Jews, Putin is following the Nazi crimes against humanity playbook.
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  753. They have no idea what it’s like to put tables on our families.
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  754. “Deer in the headlights” I always thought she looked like she had been run over multiple times, but they never could find a smoking car.
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  755. Nope, you’re lying.
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  756. I heard in another story that it was pence who gave Miller the OK to send in the National Guard, because Trump was “reluctant”. Reluctant to answer his phone, probably.
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  757.  @lisa408t  and he’s a spammer. Report him for unwanted spam.
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  758. Is Sauli a fella? #NAFO
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  759. You must be missing the point—the woman was discussing what led to her change in thinking. Some of her so-called friends were discouraging her from getting surgery because of their weird beliefs. The silver is a reference to coloidal silver—which is an effective anti-bacterial (it’s a very common method of disinfecting water), but has no efficacy against viruses. (You see a similar thought process behind the ivermectin craze, which is effective in both animals and humans as an anti-parasitical medication, but has scant evidence that it has any antiviral properties. But I digress.)
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  760.  @vladkudrya9615  Just until pay day, and then they can go back to using rubles.
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  761. Fa vs antiFa
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  762.  @LARamsEmpire  It’s not insanity, it’s a foreign influence campaign. Nadia is not an American citizen. She (he/it) doesn’t even live in the USA, and Nadia is just one “identity” among dozens or hundreds of accounts being operated by some person sitting in a room in St. Petersburg, Russia. I’m not saying all magas are Russian bots. But Nadia is.
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  763. He’s taken the time to educate himself and is trying to pass that education on to you, so you can make better decisions. If you don’t accept his expertise, the intelligent alternative is to check out what other experts are saying, or to become an expert himself. The dumbest thing to do is say “I’m going to do the opposite because muh free-dumb”.
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  764.  @SylvanFosters  The bots are out in force. They are even outnumbering the actual maga posters on this story.
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  765. $2 gas? тролль duende ‎القزم 巨魔 ‎גַמָד chơi khăm peikko トロール ટ્રોલ Troll
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  766. I got to hand it to Miguel. I would rather report from a war zone.
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  767. This conscription is ordinary and happens twice a year. The conscripts whose terms have expired, i.e., the ones with the most experience, are released. Basically, Russia is losing its most useful conscripts and replacing them with completely untrained and inexperienced conscripts.
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  768.  Jerri McFly  Radical Left Terrorist Zombies? We already know what their conversations are like. 🧟‍♂️ “Brainsssss. . . . brainssss . . . . I’m a zombie living in a red state and I’m starving . . . why are there no braaaaaainsss?”
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  769. You are apparently totally ignorant of basic U.S. laws.
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