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gcbiz.bsky.social
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“We’ve got to make this fit into that using nothing but that.” Such a great line from the movie.
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Don’t you understand how unpopular and distrusted the Democrats are? Some of the people you mention are symbols of the problem. You don’t regain power by doing the same thing that lost you power to begin with.
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Congress is becoming superfluous, though. Musk has the keys to the kingdom and will likely find a way to reprogram funding for his purposes any way he chooses.
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Exactly, and screaming at the poor 20-something making $40,000 a year answering phones in your Congressman’s office won’t suddenly make the Democrats wake up. They’re already awake and they know. Hopefully, they’re busy planning something more impactful than screaming.
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Definitely intensional leveraging speed to reduce cognitive processing. If a car is going 100 miles an hour, you might see the general outlines, but it’s mainly a blur. In the second, you can see make, model, and the fact that an 11-year-old is driving it.
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Would be super cool if you Senate Democrats would pull a page out of McConnell's playbook and THROW UP EVERY CONCEIVABLE ROADBLOCK Because soft platitudes on social media ain't cutting it, fam
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It’s nothing but a slow, plodding version of Germany’s Enabling Acts.
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I don’t think he lied. He doesn’t read. That’s documented, and he’s nothing but a figurehead. They give him a set of talking points, put paper in front of him, and he signs.
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It is an entitlement because you are “entitled” to it when you enter a certain category based on age, just as Medicare and military benefits for veterans. That is how it is categorized in law. It is definitely not a handout, though.
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If Hawking was right, this is a look at history — the remnants of elements once absorbed by the black hole that are now being expelled back into the galaxy. Fascinating.
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Why the picture of Andy Rooney - who died a decade before Jan. 6th - rather than one of the people to whom you are referring?