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HARRIS/WALZ 2024. 🌊 Thank you, President Biden!🫡 🇺🇸He/him/his. #BLM. LGBTQ+ ally. Slava Ukraini. Web developer and educator.
City Island, Bronx, NY
Joined June 2015
@RebekahWriter I am deeply disappointed to see how ugly Meghan McCain has been toward a man who was a good friend to her father for decades, and who extended to her nothing but empathy and kindness when she lost her father, while the leader of her own party has been so disrespectful toward him.
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@KellyScaletta If Trump wants to raise money, he should have an event where, for $250, people can read their own tweets to him for 5 minutes, and he’s not allowed to argue. It would be the most gratifying $250 I’d ever spend, and he’d make millions.
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@Megawatts55 @tina_reunite @realpaolathomas Also, the tariffs thing is very easy to explain in a way that a fourth grader can understand, and it reveals Trump as an idiot, a liar, or both.
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@sieglindeanche3 @AlexRuchti @SemiramisRising @schmiesel1 @TheProblem @jonstewart @AppleTVPlus Sure. It’s none of anyone’s f@cking business except the patient, the parents, and the doctors. Clear enough?.
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@sieglindeanche3 @AlexRuchti @SemiramisRising @schmiesel1 @TheProblem @jonstewart @AppleTVPlus No, it didn’t. Because interfering with professionally designed and administered medical treatment because of some uninvolved person’s “belief” is ridiculous and immoral.
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@TheAlbion7 @kurteichenwald Increasing productivity over the past 50 yrs only improved the lives of capitalists. For the rest, it eroded the demand for labor, resulting in stagnating wages & mounting debt. The genius part was capitalists convincing labor that immigrants & minorities were the problem.
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@sieglindeanche3 @AlexRuchti @SemiramisRising @schmiesel1 @TheProblem @jonstewart @AppleTVPlus No, it’s not being “put out there.” Right wing politicians are deliberately inserting the state into private medical decisions in order to please their conservative base.
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@AnthonySabatini I think you think you are serious. So please, tell us how DEI did this. I’m dying to know.
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@Laurieluvsmolly @ReportsDaNews Wasn't the Capitol officially closed to tourist visits as part of Covid precautions? If so, and if these tours happened, wouldn't that make them a violation of House rules, subject to at least a fine? And wouldn't there be a record of who brought who into the Capital complex?.
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@NaughtyAgatha45 @MichaelSteele Bear in mind, this was a state case. The Federal justice system is still uncertain, and very much under strain. A Supreme Court controlled by a conservative supermajority still sits atop it, unanswerable to any oversight, and contemptuously dismissive of its own obvious bias.
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@unusual_whales This is part of their overall plan to make it impossible for anyone to believe anything. People who have no one to trust can be ruled by fear.
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@Snapdragon6141 @alfranken I will NEVER forgive my own senator, Kristen Jellybean, for forcing that.
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@lbennie1234 @AmoneyResists They are also wrong on tactics. By driving their “RINOs” out, they shrink their base while nominating candidates less likely to win in a general election. They are pruning their tree while sitting on the branch they’re cutting.
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@VeryFeministy @Chi_flag @dieworkwear @scoonuk @ElChupaBurro This. Trump’s dress and demeanor *scream* insecure new money. He wears a *costume* depicting what a poorly-educated middle-class person *thinks* a rich person would wear, without bothering to observe the class he aspires to closely enough to understand how it works. /1.
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@NASJones333 @keltrott @washingtonpost That they did. When ALL of a candidate's siblings appear in TV ads warning voters he's not fit for office, someone really should have listened.
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@NativeNuYorkerr @notcapnamerica I’m sorry, but how the HELL does the wife not march outside, take him by the hand to the car, and flip off her parents with both hands as he drives them somewhere they’ll BOTH be welcome? That’s what I’d expect my daughter to do to me if I pulled that kind of shit.
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@davegreenidge57 Elon thought Trump would be indebted to him, after Elon bought him his election. He should have known that Trump doesn’t work that way—he’s famous for not paying his debts.
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@lizmnv @Socialist_frogz @simonical @Patraverse @msmegalodon Omigod, Polar Express is my go-to example when I want to explain the Uncanny Valley to someone unfamiliar with the term. I understand why that movie had to be made, in terms of technological evolution, but it doesn’t need to be re-run every year. It’s not watchable.
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@Jane4UsGirls @TheRickWilson The conviction is unprecedented because the crime is unprecedented. We’ve never had a POTUS get caught cheating like this before. The closest comparison was Nixon, and at least he felt enough shame to resign and admit guilt by accepting a pardon. Trump got himself in this mess.
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@numfuksteinstan You can’t talk about rising Democratic stars without mentioning Mallory McMorrow. If she hadn’t chosen to remain in MI state government, she’d be in the Senate in January.
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@RobynElyse @HNTurtledove They didn’t even buy the emoji. They’re *renting* it for $8 a month.
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@NeolithicBarber @sieglindeanche3 @AlexRuchti @SemiramisRising @schmiesel1 @TheProblem @jonstewart @AppleTVPlus Except society “as a whole” doesn’t believe that.
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@pegharpham1 Nothing makes good neighbors like a properly-surveyed property line and a six-foot fence.
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@OurShallowState I’ve been around a lot of old people in the last several years. Some of them died in their 70s; others lived into their 90s. But regardless of their age, they were perfectly alert, until they weren’t—at which point they unraveled FAST. Trump has begun that process. Biden hasn’t.
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@chikyruiz321 @donwinslow In this particular case, we press charges. Between this video and the Uber terms of service--which they agreed to when they booked the ride--these girls should be easy to convict.
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@VeryFeministy @Chi_flag @dieworkwear @scoonuk @ElChupaBurro It’s this failure to grasp the subtleties of East-coast moneyed society that has kept the Trump family locked by outside the gates. The Trumps are loud, vulgar, and insecure, the opposite of the patrician dynasties they envy but don’t understand. /3.
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@VeryFeministy @Chi_flag @dieworkwear @scoonuk @ElChupaBurro Trump’s flashy, big-shouldered Italian suits and his long, shiny red ties are trying desperately to impress people, while old American money dresses in a self-assured way that has no need to turn their wardrobe into a performance for the proletariat. /2.
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@esjesjesj We should 100% call them President Musk, Vice President Trump, and White House Interns Vance and Ramaswamy, several times a day, every day, until Trump’s head explodes with rage and resentment.
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@Nonstopdrivel @TheDaveCalaz @AmyClukey @ideirdre Orals and proctored blue book exams are the answer. And it’s no longer necessary to memorize *facts*, those are easily searchable throughout your career. What matters is competence applying broad competence with principles, concepts, and problem-solving techniques.
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@JustinAHorwitz The pattern is always for Republican administrations to harvest the healthy economy left by Dems, hand out tax cuts to the rich, and leave the country in a recession for the next Dem president to fix, so they can do it again. And again.
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@KellyScaletta Sadly, as a recently-retired teacher, I can assure you that a modern administration would not have supported a teacher who handled the situation that way. Justice is not their priority anymore; calming irate and often unreasonable parents is the top priority these days.
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@commonismnow @farronbalanced Certainly, local, state and national teachers' unions should be defending teachers in these lawsuits.
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@AGenericBody @anng8282 @JeffPetrie5 @rustbeltenjoyer @ZWrestleGoober Oh, Arkansas’ governor this nice lady, seen here signing a bill to make it legal for parents to send their happy children to work up to 8 hours a day, six days a week. Freedom is alive and well in Arkansas!
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@maryangelaperna @tribelaw @JeffSonnenfeld @hmkyale Am I missing something? @tribelaw is suggesting Biden’s objectively poor debate performance may have been due to a temporary effect of cold medication, rather than any sort of permanent impairment. How is that undermining his candidacy, or denigrating his ability to do the job?.
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@PatrickLovell1 Biden was obviously physically unwell the night of the debate. If you read the transcript, the content of his remarks—no matter how poorly delivered—showed character, competence and compassion. He should have called in sick, but one bad night does not define a man or a career.
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@Moose_1981 @BeschlossDC The framers never anticipated that members of Congress would be more loyal to their party than to their branch, nor to their nation. But George Washington did warn us about the threat to democracy that political parties would pose.
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@ElieNYC Video game superiority is not a long-term basis for parental authority. The student WILL utterly surpass the master sometime between ages 9 and 11. Pop Tart supper was inevitable, if not tonight, then very soon.
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@BetoMedia @GregAbbott_TX Another great Beto moment, of course, but did you look at that crowd? A Democrat talking about gun safety filled a room with enthusiastic working class white voters, many of them men over fifty. We CAN save this country, if we fight hard with the right message and messenger.
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@EABTSJ @CandyisDandy100 @Atlanti11448522 @JasmineForUS @Adan_Tejada Raskin should be all of our North Star on Constitutional and due process matters. He’s smart as hell, knows the field better than anyone, and votes according to logic and the law, not party loyalty.
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@NycAuntie @itskatemcgate @TOtstot @BrianneKohl They really should verify name choices 48 hours later, before filing the paperwork.
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@MasterSykil @Treigear @72ps @iamthefknbatman @betty_stal @BrianneKohl Yep. Check out the big brain on Brad!.
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@therecount They love free markets, so long as those markets favor capitalists and employers. The minute the market tilts in favor of labor, it’s a Marxist plot.
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@DeplorableSimon @acnewsitics The baby was born with multiple severe deformities. The parents—on the advice of their physician—opted to withhold life-sustaining medical procedures. This is NOT an abortion; it’s more similar to withdrawing a feeding tube from a patient determined to be brain dead. /1.
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@IreneAdlerCal @SteveSchmidtSES True enough. The left-right debate is a side issue now. Now it's the Democratic Party vs. the Autocratic Party. The Democrats need to make a big enough tent to hold @AOC and @SteveSchmidtSES at the same time, or the Constitution is dead.
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@HaackJoe330 @RpsAgainstTrump It’s time for @MittRomney to man the hell up and endorse Harris, instead of weaseling around and writing in someone he knows can’t win.
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@Desenberg @DeeTwoCents @maervin33 Our best hope is Trump’s history of both (a) overplaying his hand, and (b) hiring second-rate loyalist hacks who fuck up the execution.
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@OurShallowState Boasting about your close personal relationship with our nation’s chief antagonist, who has a history of oppressing his political opposition, invading his peaceful neighbors, and tossing journalists out of windows isn’t quite the flex Trump thinks it is.
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@jasperki_pp @BoricuaHockey @PennyWiseFren @Chimpychimpy00 @Not_Kama0 @ChimericEcho @halomancer1 @elonmusk Debatable. But rich people are definitely getting richer by making sure poor people get poorer.
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@OurShallowState They’re almost right. Indicting and convicting adds to the INTENSITY of his popularity with people already devoted to him, but there’s very little to suggest it EXPANDS his popularity to include new supporters. Weekend polls suggest the opposite, in fact.
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@ChrisCJackson @igorbobic @ArthurDelaneyHP I know people in AZ who worked HARD to get her elected. I expect they'll be working just as hard to replace her in her first primary as an incumbent. She's certainly been a consistent disappointment since January.
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@RealMartyT7 The PURPOSE of Congress is to be a forum where people with opposing viewpoints come together to work out compromises so the country functions without civil wars every generation. A man who refuses to even talk to the other party has no place in government, let alone leadership.
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@CapehartJ Firefighter Hansen's testimony is bad for Chauvin, but it's worse for Thao and the other officers. She's credibly testifying that they were actively assisting in and protecting Chauvin's murder-in-progress of Floyd. 1/.
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@michaelharriot Once again, white supremacists get their chosen princess snatched away by the evil influences of humanity, empathy and conscience.
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@garykoepnick @bigsby57 @RpsAgainstTrump Actually, you’re both right. Christie was right there with Trump, from 2016 until Trump’s Covid almost killed him. At which point, Christie had a sudden epiphany, and decided to start telling the truth about him. Christie’s no hero, but he’s right about Trump now.
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@TheRealThelmaJ1 Damn right. Next week, Joe Biden will be over his cold, but Trump will still be a pathological liar, an adjudicated rapist, and a convicted felon awaiting sentencing. One tough night doesn’t stop a champion.
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@RacheL_MtF @wunthyll @souththepump @backpackerSO I think the mention of marina slips was the clear sarcasm tip-off.
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@admiralmpj Anyone calling for Biden to withdraw without demanding just as fervently that Trump do the same is not to be taken seriously.
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@FPWellman Just another example of the old political adage, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”. She believes ending the life of an animal not because it was dangerous, not because it was suffering, but simply because it was inconvenient, makes her tough. No, it makes her selfish & lazy.
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@notcapnamerica Not to defend Swift TOO energetically, but when read in the larger context of the entire song, that passage doesn’t mean what it seems to mean in isolation. The protagonist is deliberately picking an awful point in history, to show her friends how false *their* nostalgia is.
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@KevinAncil @JoJoFromJerz He may have been told to turn himself in quietly tomorrow morning, or be arrested and hauled in tomorrow afternoon in front of the nation’s assembled media. At least I hope so.
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@shannonrwatts Great job, JD. Remind a Trump supporter of her public humiliation on the internet by using her as the punchline of a mean and unfunny joke *on the internet*. What kind of sick weirdo does that?.
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@Button29074808 @Laurieluvsmolly @ReportsDaNews So either there's records of these tours and the people on them, or serious violations of security rules by certain Congressfolk and their staffs. Good to know.
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@OldLnghornBroad @AllMattNYT They have this moron dead to rights. No hurry to pick him up. Lots of more pressing police work to be done tonight. Bigo can be arrested tomorrow morning.
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@DaveKelley6 @kgorchinskaya @ablnk @MSNBC It's difficult to compare anyone with Hitler while events are unfolding. But historical comparisons between Hitler's Germany and Putin's Russia are apt and necessary. If we learn nothing else from WW2, we must realize that appeasement of tyrants only makes them more dangerous.
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@CapehartJ Also, defense's "hypothetical" about how Hansen's performance while fighting a fire might be affected by a hostile crowd telling her she's doing her job wrong is obvious BS. For the situation to be analogous, she'd have to be fighting the fire by spraying gasoline on it. 2/2.
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@Dee452597 @StephenMoore This is the standard conservative plan. Cut taxes on the wealthy when they are in control, then whine about the social safety net and the deficit THEY EXPANDED when they are out. Since WWII, deficits always decrease under Dem presidents, and up under Repubs.
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@AlfredENeuman99 @RBReich Bankruptcy is worse than loan forgiveness, because in bankruptcy, it’s the court telling private creditors they’re screwed.
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@thejackhopkins This is also a reminder that none of the Trumps could ever pass the FBI background check for even the lowest level security clearance, because their financial entanglements leave them vulnerable to bribery and blackmail.
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@TIMELINELEGEND @amberrebekah @19joho @BowieFan2024 @TheGoodLiars It means Trump can’t fill venues anymore.
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@AndyMorales8 @mhdksafa There’s just no putting this toothpaste back in the tube. They can try to do better in the future, but nothing will ever undo the harm that woman caused this little girl.
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@lesleyabravanel @capeannsky This shows how little value conservatives place on trained educators, who think they have a right to an opinion about education methods and content, and how they value expertise in general. If I watch a couple of surgeries, will DeSantis let perform appendectomies?.
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@pompeyrod @kirienjw @WatchChad Technically, yes. But forensic analysts have determined that it was heavily tampered with, multiple times by multiple people, AFTER it left Hunter’s possession, including the apparent addition of emails involving Burisma addresses compromised in a Russian hack of that company.
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@trumpmenbashi @jahsounds @PAniefiok The great failing of the Democratic Party—or at least its white segment—is our inability to understand how *little* progress has been made in the hearts of our own literal cousins in the past half century. It’s impossible for us to conceive that people we love can be THAT cruel.
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@WajahatAli I realize Mehdi’s weekend MSNBC show was probably ended for poor ratings, rather than adherence to a specific agenda, but I do think it was a loss to real journalism.
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@unsequitur @herosnvrdie69 @kenklippenstein That's going to turn out to be real organizers and genuinely dangerous ones--the ones competent enough to hide their faces and not post grinning, giggling confessions on Facebook.
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@ResisterChic @shedalight1122 Yes, AND they know many social conservatives will vote for candidates who claim to oppose abortion, even tho doing so is against their economic best interests. Same with guns, immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, etc. The right is an alliance of convenience among single-issue voters.
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@DeplorableSimon @acnewsitics Withholding treatment is a fraught ethical issue, especially when the patient involved is a child. But it has nothing to do with abortion, which is specifically the termination of a pregnancy. This “abortion after birth” canard is deeply manipulative and dishonest. /2x.
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@MaryLTrump Now watch as "Scylla and Charybdis" climbs the Google search statistics, and all anyone gets is lyrics to an old Sting/Police song.
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@silbecl @gtconway3d Anyone contemplating a filibuster should have to decide his objection is SO strong that it merits halting all Senate business until he's been heard out. Manchin is right that the filibuster must have a high cost if it's to be retained. But the silent filibuster has to go. Now.
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@AesPolitics1 Crude oil prices are currently at a point where new wells are *barely* profitable. If the price of oil goes *down*, US producers will be forced to drill *less* oil, not more. The only way US production goes *up* is if energy prices go *up.*.
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@WildWildCloudz @jason_koebler You’d think that. Either you own AND ARE THEREFORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF the accounts, or you don’t and you’re not. You can’t have one without the other.
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@EffinLeftMama @AngelAbove799 @MarkoSilberhand I’m not a gun guy, but it looks to me that if she fired that gun with that loosy-goosy grip, the recoil will smash the backside of the gun into the toddler’s face.
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@QQ88168791 @BellaQuinn18 @PaulM72840713 @alongcameTrisha I definitely think there should be a class-action suit on behalf of the survivors if people who died of Covid after heeding Fox's deliberately and knowingly false propaganda regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.
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@MsViaCaring @ElieNYC Not if he wants to get re-elected in a deep red state Trump won by 40 pts. Everyone needs to stop wasting energy hoping Manchin will change, and work on getting enough Dems elected elsewhere that we don't have to care about him anymore.
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@SnottyNapkins @thisismyalibi @SkipTheProdigy @PopCrave You just proved you’re a troll. I’m only guessing that you’re white, but I’m feeling pretty confident in that guess.
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@CosmosMom1 @JoanieVee1 You would have been just as confused by the firehose of lies Trump was streaming, as would I. The purpose of a Gish gallop is to make it impossible for an honest person to respond adequately in real time.
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@DrGJackBrown @sara_carrion_ Ultimately, they are all just flavors of fear, the ultimate lizard-brain emotion, which is why they are all so hard to overcome.
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@CodyTidwell9 @Coopemmie12 @JerzeeAj @madsaleswoman That used to be true. It started to die in the 90s, roughly when Gingrich became speaker, and the GOP began prioritizing party over country. It was essentially dead in 2008, when Republican leaders in Congress decided to make sure Obama’s presidency failed, no matter the cost.
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@Aphasialista @blondemedSJW @MaxWittMD Doctors sometimes lose patients they are trying to save—medicine isn’t perfect, and everyone knows that. Health insurers let people die who could have been saved, to increase their profitability. Not the same thing at all. Not even close.
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@neeratanden I disagree. Media shoukd wait to declare a winner until the Biden's margin in PA exceeds the remaining uncounted votes. Any sooner gives Trump room to allege conspiracy between media, Dems, and deep-state election officials. This will happen within hours.
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@PokeysaurusRex @chaoticJustise @hankgreen @octal So it’s *fermented* bee vomit. That’s still barf.
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@silvestex @Cook34H @AnastasiaforKam @RadioFreeTom @BettyBowers If Harris had won, the smart play would have been to let Hunter’s sentence be passed, and then wait for Harris commute the sentence, letting the conviction stand. But with Trump riding to power, Biden needs to protect his son against further persecution.
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@go2aford @SPuro88 @nishanturo @Humana For-profit insurance adds expense to the entire health care system without adding any value. There’s a reason the US pays twice as much per capita for health care than the rest of the industrialized world, and gets worse outcomes.
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@RadioFreeTom If I were Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, or even eastern Germany, I'd want Putin stopped NOW. History shows appeasement just whets the aggressor's appetite for conquest.
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@ehCECP @Desenberg @DeeTwoCents @maervin33 If Europe holds the line on Ukraine without us, they’ve done their part.
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@atrupar Good. No journalist should ever clean up his speech, for grammar, clarity or meaning. The world needs to understand what it’s dealing with.
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