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Liberal. Policy Wonk. A true dark lord of the facts!
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Did he forget that Iran is the Iran we know today because of the US and Great Britain meddling in the countries politics in the 1950s?
Look how that regime change turned out.
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Why they constantly report on the utter shit these assholes produce is beyond my ability to comprehend. Probably due to the revolving door between conservative "think tanks" and the press.
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I'm literally here specifically to get away from the trolls, gaslighting, and general bullshit on X.
I'm fine with "diversity of thought" but the voices you seem to want here have nothing of substance to add to any interaction.
No. BS is what Twitter could have been with appropriate moderation.
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Not really. The Marshall Plan was completed in 1951, after which Western Europe was back to pre war production levels.
Same deal with the occupation of Japan, which ended a year after the Marshall Plan in Europe.
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Bingo. Sanders understands you have to meet voters where they are to win them over and change their minds.
Meanwhile, many of the responses to this skeet represent the attitudes that are the reason why Democrats lose so goddamn always.
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Trump - and the sycophantic support of by yourself and other GOP leaders - draw people like Joy in and make them even crazier, Elsie! What the fuck did you expect to happen?
You push moderates out of your party, expect the crazies to run, dipshit.
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I mean Gaetz was showing some around on the House floor IIRC, so that tracks.
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Drunk cis females (including the Bible-thumping kind) will literally walk into a men's room - where we are standing there with our junk out at a troth urinal, but they are uncomfortable with a trans female in their bathroom in a stall?
Bull-fucking-shit, Bible Thumperl Barbie.
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PeopleSoft is terrible, but do better. A few minutes worth of research the reporter would have learned Retirements costs are paid for by the trust fund, not public funds.
It would be reported on annual reports to members/retirees because it was *their* money that paid for it, not taxpayer money.
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This is why the contract would not appear in a database of public contracts. It should show up in annual reporting from NYSLRS.
Nothing shady here. It isn't public $ paying it. It's member/pensioner $.
This is another "The reporter doesn't completely understand what they are talking about" thing.
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Eh, Stefanik has had a Democratic challenger in every race she's run in NY-21.
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What did you win again? You lost to the worst presidential candidate ever - twice. You've lost control of the House and the Senate, yet you refuse to re-evalute anything and just demand people vote for Democrats because "We're not as bad as the other guys."
Your electoral record speaks volumes.
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What's to defend? You think absurd slogans are action but think inaction is somehow action.
Why argue with centrist pretzel logic?
You assholes won 1 election in 1992 and think the strategy then has to continue on every subsequent election, and it's why we lose so goddamn always.
/Golfclap
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Centrists do none of that without being prodded to do so dragged along kicking and screaming by the left. Spare us.
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Centrists, meanwhile: "No we can't" on basically any issue of importance.
Which is more absurd? The desire to move the goalposts towards improvement, or being constantly mired in neutral with a perpetual stick up your ass?
No one seriously expected the police to be "abolished", bozo.
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"Far left absurdism" does not exist in the United States except in the wild imaginations of MAGA and centrist Democrats.
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I agree his endorsement is powerful in a primary, but his endorsement is the antithesis to that in the general, at least in NY. So in that respect you are correct.
Bottom line is Stefanik cannot win unless she faces a severely weakened or scandalized Democrat - and Hochul is weak.
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It would not be a a Trump endorsement that puts her over the top on this state.
It would be the fact that Hochul isn't all that popular to begin with. Upstate Dems simply don't sell well downstate, though I'd still except Hochul to squeak by Stefanik since Stefanik is so heinous.
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It's almost like he doesn't realize that 50% of the country struggled to buy even one doll even before his tariffs.
He has no concept about how half the country lives on the ragged edge.
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Next thing you know those nasty liberal teachers will be encouraging their students to drink a lot of dihydrogen monoxide.
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Meanwhile, while their idiot voters thing rolling back the New Deal is a "win", they completely fail to recognize that golden age of mid-20th century America they long for was entirely built on the New Deal.