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Born in Nebraska; educated at Princeton; works at being a home chef and brewer, gardener, politics junkie, hiker, fly fisher, reader, wannabe essayist, grandpa, home project doer for grandma...
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Hegseth has become my most despised Princeton grad, overtaking even Justice Samuel Alito (who is my classmate from 1972). Hegseth is more a liar, a fool, and a miscreant than a mere conservative like Alito. He's a disgrace to the uniform.
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And the headmaster brought out the switch.
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Woke is derived from African-American English used since the 1930s, or earlier, to refer to awareness of RACIAL PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. Woke has been kidnapped. I don't want your pronouns all over the place. Put 'em in your bio if you must, but keep them out of standard English and politics.
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Yes, but he won't have to be mayor much longer, and then he can devote his full time and attention to corruption.
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The positional gain leaves Musk flat on his back in a Wisconsin cow pie.
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Trump loves to mess with middle- and left-leaning minds, and tantalize his followers. Ignore him. Reporting every thing he says isn't journalism, it's just pigeons pecking at anything. It's how he works, screwing around with people. His family trait for dementia in the 80s will soon kick in anyway.
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I once worked in HR for a Jewish man like Miller at a professional firm. When he "removed" - fired - a member of the firm he didn't like, a man who was a leader in the larger community - the fired man turned to me, a gentile, and said, "(First name) is the kind of Jew who gives Jews a bad name..."
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With Elon heralding from South Africa, it's known as the "Boor" War. (From a language website: "Boors are worse than boring; they’re offensive, repulsive. To be a boor is to be an obnoxious, unsophisticated oaf. Boors lack manners and taste. When a boor is around, others want to leave.")
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But if a cop pinned you to the ground and got you into a choke hold for several long, long minutes, hey, you probably deserved it.
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I'm still waiting for my millions... Meanwhile, my retirement holdings lost 7% of their value in just the past week!
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If only we could have had a similar hardscrabble start in life by inheriting an emerald mine! Musk says that never happened: His father says it did. Fire dad!
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Coupled with his spasmodic dysphonia, he could have had major acting roles in the Star Wars movie franchise...
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If I see somebody who is white, I'm going to think, "Oh, crap, I hope this isn't another stupid racist Trumper..."
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Is that post from THE "I took a cognitive test and I aced it, Doc Ronny — Doc Ronny Johnson?"
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I have thought for some time that Amy Coney Barrett could have some David Souter in her... Souter, let's recall, was considered to have been a "home run" for conservatism when he was nominated...oopsy!
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No more WHINING about billionaires, Trump's lies, and look how bad "they" are. I want action statements: "Here's what Democrats will do: mobilize to reduce Federal spending and overzealous regulation, increase housing, protect health, add manufacturing jobs. We are the party of healthy growth."
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They are to the extent that they know how to win while ordinary, honest people wring their hands. “They can’t do that!” “They just did.”
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They are not at all ignorant. They know exactly what they’re doing. Paring the federal government down into a shell of itself is the goal, along with legislation to ease the tax burden on themselves and their friends. Trump and Musk are purely transactional, and with every transaction they must win.
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They ask me questions, but get only scripted or no answers — “I’ll get back to you.” Whether they want to be or not they are vessels for any administration. Trump now wants all the questions to be beautiful, so all but his sycophants will be excluded.
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Lana Lokteff is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist who is part of the alt-right movement. She was a prominent YouTube personality before being banned. She has no college degree, and likely never attended a single class above high school. She identifies as a pagan. How peachy!
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A school-aged child in West Texas has died from measles. The child had not been vaccinated against measles. Measles can kill. It's entirely likely that Kennedy's opposition to vaccines contributed to the child's death. How many more will he kill?
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So right. I learned in the business world that a good way to get on a chief executive's very bad list was to offer up, in a crisis, the following advice, "But, we've always done it that way."
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Apparently he didn't send out enough Christmas cards displaying his Christ-loving family members, including kids and grandkids, with all their guns, to the right people!
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White House pool reporters have the least import of any of journalists covering the Federal Government. Why? Because they mostly are telling us what the White House tells them. The real journalism, real digging, real reporting comes from other reporters not hanging onto every White House word.
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Eventually this all will pass and retribution, governed in law, will have its day. (Previous example: Democrats retained the House of Representatives in EVERY national election from 1954-1994.) I can't wait. But your cartoons help!
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And Mitch presently has demonstrated so much influence and leverage over his fellow Republican Senators. Consider this: If he were a deciding vote, he wouldn't have voted no. Let's not canonize him just yet.
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According to Matthew, the revocation of security clearance will eventually befall Trump, on some future Day One. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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First thing that occurred to me was "deflection" -- Trump trying to take away our attention from him and his "policies" and a likely truth and focusing attention on "the other." Thanks for this thread.
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Twitter threw me off its platform two years ago for saying to a Tweeter, "You, sir, are stupid." He had tweeted that Joe and Hunter Biden are pedophiles. Apparently I was seen as foul-mouthed, an enemy of the people, but his claim was considered fabulous. I miss X like I miss having diarrhea.
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Rowling shook up children's literature and got tens of millions of young people reading HUGE novels. What's wrong with that?
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Let's be honest: Joe Biden, with family members and close advisors, bears responsibility for the 2024 election loss. If he had said in the fall of 2023, "I'm no longer at an age where I can run and be President into the future," we probably wouldn't find Donald Trump heading to the White House now.
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Don't do business with any of those people. Don't hire them. Don't praise their newly-found "redemption." I don't even do business with nonviolent Trump supporters in my community who have made their MAGA love known to me. I easily find non-Trump supporters to do work around my property.