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Tedward Stickel

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I once got a 'like' from Dick Nixon. I mean Nick Dixon.

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7 months
@KonstantinKisin @BillAckman This is correct. Wokeness is a bourgeois phenomenon. The slightest risk to career or captital will make it vanish like the morning mist. Until now, the incentives always ran the other way --- and in most places they still do.
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@anneapplebaum One of the great things about Twitter is that you can see, in real time, once respected journalists make foolish, dishonest statements in an attempt to create a narrative.
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@garydunion They are as real as the door and walls of your house. Seriously. The door on your house is the physical manifestation of an "imaginary" border that marks your property.
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@GregTSargent I wonder if these unnamed senators were the same unnamed senators who told Jonah Goldberg that they thought Trump was a despot but were too afraid of Trump and his followers to say so publicly? There really should be a word for the feeling you get when you go on Twitter and
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@JCRyle The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis.
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@itsJeffTiedrich How about this. If your doorbell rings and you don't want to answer it, don't answer it?
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@Michael_Little_ Then it becomes a welfare program and not a social insurance program. The wealthy (who play an outsized role in politics) will pay a million dollars into a system that will only ever hope to get $300k out of.
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@SenTinaSmith The Pulse night club shooter was an Islamic terrorist. Read the transcript of his calls to 9-11: The shooter claims his allegiance to the Islamic State. He never once mentions targeting LGBTQ+ people. Instead he says that he is murdering Americans in
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@NickHannula You should probably try to figure out what is going on, then. I suspect rapid inflation in the price of food and housing has something to do with it.
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How many times has Russia or the USSR invaded a NATO country? 0.
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How many times has NATO invaded Russia or the Soviet Union? 0.
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@torriangray 4500 allied deaths on D-Day. that is not unthinkable.
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@Mikel_Jollett Walk me through the steps where this would have prevented yesterdays assassination attempt. Do you even know if the rifle was a legal purchase by Crooks?
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@TristanSnell That toddler should be arrested, or at least have his guns taken away.
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@gspeng The price of oil is a major drive of inflation, so, no, having an e-bike and hybrid doesn't mean you can ignore a doubling of the price of gasoline.
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@GBNEWS "Near catastrophic" means nothing happened.
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@stephenfhayes The best assurance would be frequent, unscripted, public campaign events. None scheduled for this week. I think that Joe is slipping very quickly.
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@michaeldickson Jews were never a significant part of the German population, 5% at most. Yet, through propaganda, the Nazis convinced many Germans that virtually all of their nation's institutions -- even their beloved army -- were controlled by or had been corrupted by the Jews. The same thing
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@JonahDispatch I wonder who is playing the part of Stephanopoulos in the practice interviews?
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@jmhorp Human beings are not expressions of average wages.
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@chrsdcook @CourtneyHella Because cities are only metaphorically alive, and developers are literally alive and it is their money?
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@leighfinke Leigh Finke is a man.
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@JosephPatrice On the contrary, it is a perfectly accurate statement. What agencies do have is an interest in resolving statutory ambiguities in their own favor.
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@jacobkornbluh Is there some word for this? For when you look at the defeat of the Nazis as a failure because the ideal solution would have been peaceful?
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@JonahDispatch @Morning_Joe If you are a believer in DEI, there is no difference between choosing for DEI reasons and choosing for merit.
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@DrHistoryBrad Nazis hated Marxism, at least as interpreted by Lenin/Stalin, because it was universal. It was not "national," meaning that it made the history of a people unimportant. In Marxism, class drives history, in Nazism, nations drive history.
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@SethAbramson When I saw those people fall off of the airplane at the Kabul airport I thought "So calm! So successful! The only thing that could be calmer and more successful would be a land war in Europe involving the world's largest nuclear power & maybe food & fuel price inflation."
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@ArmandDoma This analogy hits the rocks because regardless of what poor people think of Trump, he is, in fact, a rich person.
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@robkhenderson When men stand 120 deg. they are both looking at something else, like a broken sump pump. More often a pretty girl. I'd like to see data on what happens that makes the men turn from 120 deg. separation to facing one another.
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@ResisterSis20 It took him two weeks replace a span on an overpass. This is mundane.
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@jpodhoretz Biden is showing his usual deep, detailed knowledge of foreign policy. He has always been like this. Since the day he was first elected as one of two senators from a state physically smaller and with a lower population than many US counties. He is a blithering idiot. The truest
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@angel_0f_deathx Project 2025 will allow Secret Service snipers to be posted on roofs with up to a 4/12 pitch.
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@RodKahx I'm guessing your granddad fought on the German side?
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@nickdixoncomic Before historian of the Holocaust Timothy D Snyder went went mad with TDS, he noted that the great difference between Left and Right authoritarianism was that the Right turned its aggression outwards, towards the other, where the Left seemed eager to declare war on its own
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@cafreiman The building of new homes is constrained in ways that the manufacturing of new cars is not. This is obvious.
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@Boenau I have never been arrested for "suspicious walking" and I am quite the walker. Quit being hysterical.
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@mommadukes10704 Now tell us about deep blue Hawaii.
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@JonahDispatch It may actually be impossible to "push Joe across the finish line." Not politically impossible, physically impossible. He is declining fast. They put their best Joe on camera Thursday night.
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@charlescwcooke If only there was a McCain or Romney presidency you could use as a counter example to Trump.
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@ByronYork It is even possible it will get so bad that he will literally not be able to be nominated as president in 6 weeks time. I bet the dems are war gaming this possibility.
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@StephenKing Tell me all about the crimes Trump was convicted of, Mr. King, especially the plight of the poor victims.
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@KonstantinKisin There is something dishonest about referring to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Iran." A republic is ruled by its people. But Iran is ruled by an "Islamic Council," a self-selected oligarchy. If the elected members of the republic pass any laws they do not like, the Islamic
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@McFaul Completely misses the point. Let me say it plainly. The idea that Russia would follow some hypothetical victory in Ukraine by attacking a NATO country is absurd.
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@RepJerryNadler @USDOT @GovKathyHochul The "green" economy is not distinguishable from the poverty economy. Pass it on.
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@jdjmke Not really buying the "wealthy suburbs exist due to low wage urban workers." Where is your data?
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@SenTinaSmith You are the establishment. You don't want a revolution, you want to consolidate the power of the establishment.
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@BestPixMN List the "Minnesota issues," please.
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@jeffgoodell The color scale scale in the diagram begins red at 60 deg. F. 60 deg. F. Where I am, in NW Wisconsin, colored bright orange-red in the diagram, it is one o'clock in the afternoon, and it is 71 deg. F. If Goodell doesn't want to be treated like joke, he should quit posting junk
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@JonahDispatch A decent person would never send one of their children to a university like this, just to increase their social prestige. Right?
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Cheat at wordle the easy way with chatgpt:
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@EWErickson A balanced look at where Joe came from. IMHO: Shanty Irish who want to be lace curtain Irish.
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@Nothda2 @garydunion Not a square inch of the earth's surface is not claimed or treated as property under one or another legal regime.
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Wordle 835 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #wordle836
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@MN_CRIME Shouldn't this tweet be coupled with one of those "Hey all you Republicans in the suburbs you are crazy if you think the cities are dangerous I walked two blocks through the park last night and no one was mean to me!"
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@MarlaTauscher @umairh She means elected, and we know what that means -- it happened before and things were okay. No Afghanistan humiliation, no record setting inflation, no major land war in Europe . . .
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@NewsJennifer Someone needs to take an econ 101 course.
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@scarylawyerguy @juliaioffe Complete surrender in Afghanistan, first European land war since ww2, and worst slaughter of Jews since WW2. Record inflation and an invasion of NON-MEXICAN illegals at the southern border. Don't sound boring to me.
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@W_R_Emory Not sure what the point is . . . getting a lot of fed $ could mean a state has a lot of military bases and social security recipients. As for ag subsidies, that is kind of a "fish head" problem (no one wants to eat the fish's head, but w/o it, you don't get a fish). Also there is
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@robkhenderson Entirely expected. Unless you select for an outlier, you will regress to the mean. What are elite colleges selecting for? It is upper-middle class attributes.
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@the_transit_guy Until the car turns in at the owner's home.
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@julieblaha "Feeding Our Future."
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@JoshEakle I remember hearing this said by epidemiologists and the journalists who report on them in the early stages of the pandemic, the first months of 2020. Then the world went mad.
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@anneapplebaum I laugh every time I see "95% confidence interval" on a non-physics graph. It's arbitrary.
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@asymmetricinfo You have to normalize for age, I think.
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@mattyglesias Bragging about blocking people is pathetic.
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@RichardHanania So, your position is that these people weren't really witches?
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This is an AI generated post.
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Voting for Trump because he had a stable economy for three years and ignoring his violent coup on Jan. 6 is kind of like celebrating O.J. Simpson's 1973 season with the Bills and pretending Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman weren't murdered
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@leighfinke These people wanted to simply exist as well, but they were gunned down by a transsexual mass shooter: Cynthia Peak, 61. Katherine Koonce, 60. Mike Hill, 61. Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9. Hallie Scruggs, 9. William Kinney, 9. I won't mention the deranged killer's name, but I wonder if
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Wordle 996 2/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #wordle996
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@brianschatz "Certain circumstances" == "would not pay for their own defense."
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@JonahDispatch The only non-disaster is to vote for the party of Jonah, which has exactly one member.
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@StephenKing What annoyed me about Ellison was the contempt he showed for ordinary men and women in some of his stories. "'Repent, Harlequin', Said the Tiktokman" for example. But IIRC, he showed great kindness to Alfred Bester as Bester's life neared its end. People are not as one
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@JennaEllisEsq By definition, black swan events cannot be foreseen.
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@Billbrowder Taking away the vote of someone who votes "incorrectly." Sounds like the ol' USSR to me.
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@JonahDispatch Too bad Jonah has been so terrible at his FP pronouncements in the past. I mean, really, really, terrible. I can remember Goldberg saying on some podcast, circa 2017, that since a FISA court had authorized a wire tap on some Trump associate, well that's all you needed to know.
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@ZaleskiLuke Read the article. Russki gave this crook $100k to pass on to Trump. Crook paid $25k to have a pic taken with Trump, pocketed the rest. Trump and Trump campaign knew nothing about it.
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@Mike_Podhorzer Really intense TDS vibe with this guy.
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@gator_gum Would you be willing to wear a nazi armband? That doesn't hurt.
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@mitchpberg @cmclymer Were these the same girls burned alive in the US gov't attack on the compound?
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@pianopayer130 Agreed. Russia does not conquer nations that resist, it moves in to occupy a power vacuum, that goes back to Medieval times. It acquired control over Eastern Europe only in the chaos of WW2 and its aftermath.
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@holland_tom Listening to the opening of today's "The Rest is History" podcast was like being in the same room with Sylvio Dante. I swear that I could smell garlic, anchovies, and hair oil.
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@sam_d_1995 Amazing how a person's love of democracy ebbs and flows depending on what is decided by the people's representatives.
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@north0fnorth Apparently they do not have windows in Britain.
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@SenAngusKing We have no honor. We left it Afghanistan,and the people who tossed it aside are still in the White House and in the Pentagon.
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@rossjonesWXYZ In his bio, Ross Jones says "News is what somebody doesn't want printed" In this case, what Jones is not telling you is that Kilpatrick, corrupt mayor of Detroit, was a elected as a Democrat with the full support of his party.
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Melito is Milton. Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun: "I reined up, and so saw—I believe, before any of the others—the first of the anpiels who dropped, like the angel in Melito’s fable, from the sun-dyed clouds. They were fair to look upon, naked and having the slender bodies of
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@leighfinke Leigh Finke is a man. Everyone, including Finke, knows this.
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@JamesSurowiecki Does the SC have a rule against justices writing non-scholarly, popular books about legal topics and not using proper APA or MLA or whatever citation standards for plagiarism? Are they even required to write the book and not use a ghost writer? Surowieki is not making a serious
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@USDOL Which half?
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@JonahDispatch The Perfect Party of Jonah.
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@JonahDispatch I, also, am neutral about Taylor Swift. The only pop-cult singer I am not neutral about is Karen Carpenter, whom I feel was ill used by the people she should have felt safe in trusting. Call me crazy.
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@nhannahjones Guess I'll have to elsewhere for an informed take on Florida's new education guidelines.
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@Matthew89458824 @garydunion Are you being purposely obtuse? You ma own an area defined by a set of geographic coordinates. The ownership goes back to the Indians, or the French, or the Spanish. It was obtained by the federal government at some point and signed over to some other entity, likely a railroad,
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@robkhenderson One of the problems I have with Peterson is that he seems to assume that the scientific worldview is real, that myths and stories are a second order of reality, a metaphor for what really happened. I don't think that Jung thought this way. What if Christ really did walk out of
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@Oilfield_Rando Would love to see the research that the claim is based on. Illegals tend to be young, male, poorly educated manual laborers. This is not a demographic known to be law abiding.
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@HeathMayo Putin was doing all of these things when Hillary met with him.
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@bacraut_ @Seth_Kaplan Unfalsifiable theories aren't science. Ignore this post.
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Eliason wants a carve out for other presidents, but not for Trump.
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A SCOTUS majority could make this quick and easy: “There may be some core presidential duties where some degree of immunity would be appropriate. But we leave that difficult question for another day. Whatever the scope of official duties that might be entitled to immunity, 1/
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@cafreiman It is hard to think of anything that is popular because it is efficient.
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@FischerKing64 No one wants equality. Some middle class women want male privilege. Some middle class men want female privilege. This is an issue confined within a social class not noted for its sanity.
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