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Artist and musician in Pittsburgh PA. I make pastel paintings and write the occasional opera mattgillespie.net For inquiries I can be contacted via DM or through my website
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Yeah, no
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Lovely. Never tried pastels on wood, how do they work? Very well by the looks of it
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Very nice! I try to keep mine organized as I am painting and put each pastel back where it lives but inevitably end up with a mangled after a while
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To be (grudgingly) fair to Hegseth, I expect the pentagon has plans to invade just about every country on earth, and there is probably nothing easier than ordering a group of officers to draw up a plan to mollify Trump. The existence of a plan by itself signifies little.
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Thank you! šŸ™šŸ»
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Sounds like a useless government employee that needs to be fired…
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Probably posting from prison…
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We’re only four months in…
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Meanwhile trade was effectively halted for a month and US business still cannot engage in long-term planning
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I’m so confused. Someone please tell me if I should continue hoarding TP and canned salmon.
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I love how the lettering magically doesn’t wrinkle
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tbf it’s been delayed so many times for so long I can understand why people tuned it out
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This makes no sense, I’ve heard the US is opening factories not closing them!
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It looks like all you do is post shit on the internet
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To be clear, going as low as MAGA goes effectively means abandoning the constitution and the rule of law.
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Some will call this essay doomerism, and not everything you envision will necessarily happen. But it could, and as you point out at present it is not clear what can stop it. And as you rightly note, people banking on the courts or Trump’s unpopularity to save us are huffing a lot of hopium.
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ugh he actually seems kinda funny and charming in that gif
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I said ā€œuh huhā€!
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18 international trade deals negotiated in two weeks, just need a signature. Uh huh šŸ™„
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…and just sort of hang onto all of it for who knows how long in some magic warehouse
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This EO is not necessary. Unemployment offices typically offer services in multiple languages
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Why? Unemployment offices have services in multiple languages.
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Sure let businesses preorder 6 months of stuff, not knowing what the economic conditions will be a week from now, let alone months out. And they’ll keep all this stuff…where exactly?
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I’m sure Liz Crokin is all over it
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ā€œI want to be left aloneā€ does not suffice for OP. She knows people want to be left alone by their body language and other cues, yet still wants them to willingly be inconvenienced (her word) by her conversation.
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wtf lol
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Why tf would you want to ā€˜inconvenience’ people?
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The last illusion I had about the US was the essential common sense of the median voter. Honesty not sure who is dumber, them or me.
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I think it’s a little of both. He often is a tool of whoever he talked to last, but he also has a lot of buttons and levers he really does want to play with (tariffs being the obvious one right now)
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Lethal!ty69 Nah, that’s too strong
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Some of them probably did- for Trump
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No doubt a ton of damage has been done to intelligence sharing with allies, to say nothing of how much sensitive information is now in the hands of our adversaries…
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His attacks on the judiciary, his torching partnerships and alliances…
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😳
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Which one is Simone?
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He’s presumably talking about their polling outfit, which is independent and pretty reputable
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I’m gonna go with option 1
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First time I saw this there was a German gal with us and she started going ā€œoh no noooo!ā€ while the rest of us were like šŸ¤·šŸ»
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Oh…okay šŸ¤·šŸ»
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The US military: lethality, war fighting, and top of the line cosmetologists on demand Oorah! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ”„šŸ¤”
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what does this have to do with war fighting lol
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more like desperation, surely
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Who was that guy on Twitter back in the day that took the foot creep shots of AOC? Eddie something