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Unrepentant Capitalist. Swears eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Likes honey.

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@traderjoel
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The only way to hold Bitcoin with conviction is to understand money. The only way to understand money is to study the history of money. Now's your chance. My wife and I wrote a book: Shells to Satoshi: The Story of Money and the Rise of Bitcoin Website:shellstosatoshi dot com
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@MattWalshBlog Marxists do this a LOT. They infiltrate the small joyous parts of life, like sports or entertainment, infect it with their oppressor vs victim narrative, make you feel guilty for being an oppressor, or angry for being a victim, all to grease the skids for revolution.
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@AnthonyKyaw The one thing that fans can’t abide is management that doesn’t care about winning. USSF doesn’t care about winning. They want to just make money and stay in power. Which is exactly what politicians want.
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@RobertKennedyJr This ad makes me ache for who we used to be as a country.
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@AlexiLalas @MLS Just being contrarian doesn’t mean you’re offering real analysis.
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@ginacarano @ConceptualJames @Lucasfilm @Disney I unsubscribed to Disney Plus because of what happened to you, and I said so in my cancellation form. I wish you the best of luck and hope to see you telling your stories in the future!
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@APompliano And you believe him why?
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@BitcoinMagazine @Free_Ross Why didn’t he do it when he was president?
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@jeffreyatucker It fulfills a narrative that people want to believe. Narrative>Truth. Having said that, I remember that press conference. Trump was trying to articulate some progress being made with oxidative therapies that showed promise with their antiviral properties. He was just bad at it.
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@deb_fillman They’re going to try to ban homeschooling. They’re already laying the academic groundwork for that step.
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@nayibbukele El Salvador is more American than America right now. More lawful, more civilized, and more optimistic about the future.
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@littleapostate The unwritten premise of the poll question is “the vax is good, only the ignorant would reject it.” Should be an option that says: “Seen too many people die or injured, too much tribal intimidation, too much sociopathic gaslighting to trust these people ever again.”
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@JesseKellyDC Both the Right and the Left were educated in the same schools that destroyed rational thinking in favor of emotional tantrums. The conservative Right held on longer because the traditions they were defending came from an Enlightenment heritage. But even that is dissipating.
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@tedcruz You called him a pathological liar 2016. How does it feel to have to defend this guy and keep defending him? How does that affect who you are, as a man?
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@ZeekArkham I’ve lived in a couple of the big cities on the west coast, and the Florida Panhandle. It took living in the Deep South to realize just how racist those big blue cities were.
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@gtconway3d What’s scarier? That MAGA has no idea about this because they only watch Fox News where they have a blackout of unflattering Trump news (until the GOP convention)? Or that MAGA actually DOES know this, and they think it’s totally rad?
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@Acyn Every. Single. Penny. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha The House of Trump will make sure that no congressional rep or senator gets another dime. Have fun, MAGA! This is entirely on you.
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@TaylorTwellman US Soccer is one of the highest revenue generating federations in the world and if they’re not talking to Mourinho or Klopp right now, then it’s a complete grift and they don’t care about anything except lining their pockets.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ When you realize that the core of Marxism is the oppressor vs victim paradigm and it’s driven by weaponized compassion, these two ideas suddenly become the basis for the entirety of western political dynamics in the 21st century.
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@AnnCoulter Meanwhile, Julian Assange, Ross Ulbrecht, and Edward Snowden remain unpardoned.
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@audreyy_kaye Breaking up the traditional family is an explicit goal of Marxism because it’s a threat to the state, and teachers colleges are so steeped in Marxism that they don’t even realize there are alternatives. So of course our education system would be against parents.
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@Sea_Glass1115 Yes, because he’s “out” of the race, the media feels safer lifting the blackout and social media can stop throttling his posts.
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@ManagerTactical If you’re questioning why Klopp would want to manage the USMNT, consider that it’s a two year gig at most, it’s not a week-in week-out grind like a club job would be, there’s no expectations for a team that just flames out at Copa America. There’s no downside!
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@reeseonable It won’t be region vs region. It’ll be blue cities vs everywhere else. You wont see region 10 vs 8. You’ll see everyone in region 10 wanting to push Seattle/tacoma/Olympia into the Puget Sound, and Portland into the Columbia River. That whole area is Red except for the cities.
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@ConceptualJames The most pernicious part of the brainwashing is how it requires the victim to give up what they care the most about. For so many, the Harry Potter books were the most formative literary experience of their lives, and they learned so many great lessons about the value of
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@RobertKennedyJr Or you could just support a complete separation of state and medicine, and let decentralized human ingenuity win out over cronyism and government.
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@herculezg USSF tried this before, floating the idea they talked to Zidane before getting Berhalter. They’ve used this playbook before. “Yeah, we talked to the dream choice but he said no, so here’s the MLS guy.”
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@JesseKellyDC The GOP cares more about driving members of the Freedom Caucus out of Congress than they care about reforming the FBI.
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@RobertKennedyJr None of this will happen by simply “cutting waste” and “eliminating corruption.” Those are rounding errors in the US budget. If you’re really going to do this, you need to slaughter some sacred cows. Milei did it because he claimed a moral high ground. You can too.
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@RubinReport @yhazony @benshapiro @DennisPrager @jordanbpeterson So sorry you feel this way. The moment you say that rights can only be god given is the moment that you concede that rights can never be proven by observation, reason, and philosophy.
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@jeffreyatucker What do you think are the chances of major news outlets picking up this story?
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@jeffreyatucker The rational and scientific option would be to choose none of the above. A) was how Marxism was marketed, and none of it was scientific and rational. It was actually B), driven by faith and superstition but sold as scientific. We need C) get elites out of the ruling business.
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@JoshPower80 It’s battered wife and Stockholm Syndrome too. The abuser senses trauma, and poses as the champion protector. The victim, who has long since lost hope and perspective, clings to the abuser like he’s a life preserver, when he’s the one keeping the victim’s head under water.
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@AmValues2024 Struggling to process how this makes me feel in awe of who we used to be as a country and as a people, while also feeling sick at who we have become and how far we’ve strayed.
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@emeriticus MAGA has adopted the opressor/oppressed paradigm like the Left, except they’ve inverted who the oppressors and the oppressed are. The Left sees MAGA as the oppressors and MAGA sees themselves as the oppressed. But whether Left or Right, they both care only about grievances.
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@SteveDeaceShow Sure. Vote Trump. Look at what he’s doing to Thomas Massie and Bob Good. He’ll silence all the best voices in the party so there won’t be any opposition around when he hands the country over to its enemies again. It’ll be much faster that way.
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@ChristinaPushaw @gummibear737 @benshapiro Tucker is dog whistling to the anti-Israel faction of MAGA that put “Christ is King” in their Twitter bios.
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@Ayaan It’s equally likely that everyone else will dig in their heels and keep pushing it, because Orange Man Bad. But hopefully this will inspire more people to fight against it.
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@BauerOutage Trevor Bauer is one of the few people on this website that if he says he did the math, I believe that yes, he did the math.
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@RepThomasMassie The best thing for both Israel and America is for America to completely cut off all aid, and then Israel can do WHATEVER it wants to do to secure their safety in the region.
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@LouDobbs I see you’re testing excuses for a historic Trump loss in November. This one is much better than the Taylor Swift excuse while also not making boomers go “huh?” But if you really want to make McConnell the bad guy, make sure the big man is on the same page with you.
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BARTIROMO: Mitch McConnell is massively anti-Trump. TRUMP: I think Mitch McConnell wants to endorse me. That's what i hear.
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@nayibbukele @nayibbukele understands what value is. Exiting the corrupt banking system doesn’t mean just finding another fiat currency to peg to. It means defining value itself according to an objective standard that no one can manipulate. This is how everyone can win, not just El Salvador.
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@SteveDeaceShow Over a century and a half ago, America handed over the education of her children to a coven of German intellectuals influenced by Kant, Hegel, and Marx. It took generations to destroy what made America great, but once these ideas were accepted, it was inevitable.
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@ConceptualJames Degrees from woke universities need to be an intellectual scarlet letter that marks graduates and identifies them as cancerous agents for any professional organization.
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@RyanAFournier So you’re saying he can pay for his own legal bills instead of making the RNC pay for them so they won’t be able to support downballot candidates?
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@SwissWatchGuy They’re trial ballooning and workshopping excuses right now. Like Taylor Swift, for example. It’s January.
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@PowerOwn45 The problem is MAGA is stuck in a feedback loop. Once they accepted the idea that nothing can happen that is ever Trump’s fault, they’ve lost the ability to quit him. Losing will always be the fault of the system, the swamp, corrupt DAs, mail-in ballots, traitorous DeSimps, etc.
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@RyanAFournier Hilarious. How are you going to flip PA, GA, Mi, WI, Az, and NV? How are you going to win two time Trump voters who say they’re done? You can’t win even if you get ALL of them. Where are you going to make up the difference? 💩ing on others who aren’t convinced isn’t a plan.
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@seanonolennon Orwell was great at IDing the weaponization of language as a means of control. We see this everywhere today as rotten ideas can be smuggled into seemingly acceptable language. We have to be hyper-vigilant to examine every little premise, esp. in our short burst social media age.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ This has happened at every damn software company where ive worked. Most software companies are run like Boeing after the MBAs took over from the engineers.
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@SwissWatchGuy This is how the game works. MAGA gets points when they “take down” an enemy. Doesn’t matter whether they should or shouldn’t be an enemy. Doesn’t matter what the collateral damage is. Doesn’t matter what happens the day after tomorrow. Only the thrill of the takedown matters.
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@BrendaFrost18 MAGA are collectivists for the right. They start from the position of thinking they own your vote because you identify with the letter R. They can’t imagine being an independent person who makes decisions without consulting with the collective first.
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@SwissWatchGuy Don’t forget: No GOTV plan to win back PA, GA, AZ, WI, and MI, and no plans for ballot harvesting operations in states where it’s legal to counteract expanded Dem operations. There is no plan. Just a continuing grift for the DJT legal defense, and Con Inc.
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@UnHombreDeTexas @DanCrenshawTX Actually, they don’t. That’s the problem.
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@gtconway3d There are non-lawyers who recognize this as well. It just took a little longer.
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@ConceptualJames People don’t realize how much the Educational Industrial Complex is building an academic case against homeschooling. Reams of these papers will make their way into state committees and one day, a blue state with legislative supermajority will pull the trigger.
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@ConceptualJames People keep thinking of Communism in a strictly political way, but until you see it as an epistemological movement that corrupts thought by short circuiting common sense with the oppressor/oppressed matrix, the 2+2=5 phenomenon will never make sense.
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@BauerOutage There’s really no one else offering such a personalized behind the scenes account of life as a pro baseball player. MLB is letting stupid petty feuds and owner cowardice keep them from helping to grow the game by showing how fun baseball is. Oh well. MLB’s loss is LMB’s gain.
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@MattWalshBlog Well, that’s the problem with a moral system based on victim points. If you don’t have enough points, make them up.
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@liz_churchill10 @tay63424076 Very skeptical about this. He doesn’t seem to be the type to make a public show of disdain like Brie Larson on Casey Affleck.
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@joesanders33 @ScottGottliebMD I’m from Seattle. A mysterious and highly contagious flu swept through my entire extended family in early January. It sure would be nice to take an antibody test right now, he said while the FDA blocks companies from producing antibody tests.
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@ElSalvadorVisas I never knew how much a beautiful garden could inspire someone until I met my wife. And then I saw it everywhere. Gardens make people happy, which is a beautiful, lovely, important, and increasingly rare thing. Gardeners make a difference in the same way that artists do.
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@KatiePhang It seems pointless now to say we’re a republic, not a democracy,and the Founders meant the electoral college & decentralized federalism to be a bulwark against the tyranny of democracy. Because the response from tyrannical democrats is: “yeah, that’s what we want to change.”
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@BradThor Seriously. It’s almost as if he derives his power by creating a villain (The Dem controlled House, China/Mexico/Europe, Rafael Cruz), and whipping up the villagers to pick up the pitchforks and torches. What would Trump be like if he didn’t have a villain?
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@timecaptales You should see what these fast food places look like outside of the USA. KFC in particular is startlingly different. I’m in El Salvador and KFC here is clean, inviting, the food hasn’t been sitting in warmers all day, and everyone is nice and doesn’t hate you.
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@SwissWatchGuy I dunno. Tweeting Law and Order worked out well for him.
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@ConceptualJames A lot of people would be surprised at how young they go with this. I’ve seen this in second grade classes, but I bet it goes even younger because the point is to make them carry it with them emotionally, BEFORE they can understand it intellectually. Pure evil.
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@thinkingwest He left off the guy who defeated Hannibal Barca, Scipio Africanus.
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@Rightanglenews @johnburk39 “You are a tiny and insignificant man” is the new call for unity with MAGA.
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@BauerOutage @SnavelyCody6 It’s pretty clear there’s a blacklist, probably from Manfred himself. Will there be any ownership with the courage to break it?
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@willchamberlain Not voting for the guy who wants to give the FBI a beautiful new building. Not voting for the guy who gave Fauci a medal. Not voting for the guy who normalized Loomer, and Poso, and Dilley. This is on MAGA. They own this, and they’re exactly who we thought they were.
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@ginacarano Uncensored and unleashed warrior Gina is fun to watch.
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@JoshPower80 Trump said the GA special election was going to be rigged, before it even happened! Naturally, this suppressed the turnout, costing Republicans the Senate. But at least he and MAGA got to play the victim card.
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@CynicalPublius Lived in Seattle, Los Angeles, and the Deep South. By far, the most racist places were the former. They just used empathy as a tool to disguise it.
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@KurtSchlichter I can’t tell anymore if you people are trying to be persuasive or if you just want to express your anger at those you think are your enemy. Anyway, if you’re trying to be persuasive, you’re going to need a better argument than passive aggressive false alternatives.
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@SwissWatchGuy When it fails, it’s DeSantis’ fault.
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@JesseKellyDC I’m pretty sure the operating principle for choosing candidates in MAGA is “whatever you say Mr. Trump,” not “do your own research.”
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@ClayTravis Trump had Scott Atlas in the same room with Fauci. Why did he listen to Fauci and not Atlas? Getting fooled by Fauci is not a satisfactory answer if you’re trying to get people to vote for Trump and not have the same thing happen with the next Fauci.
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@SwissWatchGuy Honestly, who gives a damn how many people were there. He lost the state by 15 pts in ‘20. Everyone is smoking hopium, and getting distracting from trying to win states within reach. But when he loses, everyone will say “it’s rigged! How could he lose when he gets 100k crowds??”
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@akheriaty Because it’s really about this:
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@RyanAFournier So, what you’re saying is Trump paid $3.5 million to a lawyer that got him a $83 million judgment over a baseless claim from someone with no credibility? Only the best people, right?
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@JasonSe99087728 @jeffreyatucker Dear god, do you not remember the petty fights he had with Brian Kemp, DeSantis and Kim Reynolds for opening their states? He cost the GOP the senate by continue his fight with Kemp by telling his tribe not to vote in the ‘21 special election bc it was “rigged.” He’s the
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@SteveDeaceShow Like their leader, MAGA is easily deceived.
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@TheAliceSmith To be fair, didn’t Lennon begin to change his politics and world view in the mid 70s?
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@wealth_turtle @JoePompliano @VancityReynolds @RMcElhenney Is your life so empty that hating on this story is all you can think of? Also, Free Guy was awesome.
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@emeriticus Well, if that isn’t a metaphor for the current state of America’s decline, I don’t know what is.
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@smebadideas @RonDeSantis @FoxNews Trump is not the lesser of two evils, he’s the worst because he pretends to be the defender of your values and then sells you out after taking all the good players off the field so there’s no one left. I’d rather have clarity, not pretense.
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@ConceptualJames They do this deliberately before kids have the capacity for complex abstract thought so they’ll accept it on an emotional and social level. That’s why it’s propaganda. It’s also child abuse.
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@RyanAFournier This would have even less legislative force than a bill declaring it to be National Donut with Sprinkles Day.
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@BBGreatMoments Felix Hernandez
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@SethDillon You can fly with purpose, but the real trick is landing with purpose.
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@ChristinaPushaw It’s nice to see the entire GOP primary electorate uniting against this dystopian nightmare. No one is even attempting to defend or spin this one.
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@SwissWatchGuy I listened to Charlie Kirk’s radio show on election night in ‘22 as the polls came in and he continued to insist that Kari Lake would be declared the victor. This went on for weeks and the excuses kept piling up, some sounding legitimate and others not.
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@pallbro The only purpose for HR is to be a gatekeeper for entry into the company, compliance for internal and external regulations, and cover for managers to maintain control over employees.
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@Tamzilla_52 This makes me think of Kari Lake, who I had a lot of sympathy for, but over a year later with nothing coming out of her court cases after so much was promised, all her credibility is gone. Herschel still has his dignity.
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@JoshPower80 It’s for that reason that I’m not convinced he’ll be the kind of man that will hold the line. Abbott has always been an establishment figure and he’s backing Trump bc Trump is now the establishment. If Trump (and his handlers) decide that chaos is better, he’ll cave in a second.
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@ingelramdecoucy Almost every time Aaron Sorkin wrote a Republican into The West Wing, they instantly became popular because as a good dramatist, he knows it’s better to present the best possible form of an antagonist. The Newsroom suffered for having lame straw men as Republican antagonists.
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@JesseKellyDC @jameslankford Trump endorsed James Lankford.
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@SteveDeaceShow lol. “Advise Trump.”
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@nayibbukele Everyone forgets that this country has been in a multi decade war zone. This isn’t a posh US city with a million supermarkets competing with low low prices. Supply chains don’t magically appear because you wave a wand. Farmers markets are the way for now. This is great news!
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@SteveDeaceShow El Salvador looks nice.
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