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That was veal-y good.
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I don't understand. I thought California had a budget surplus.
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What's causing the deterioration in quality of life?
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The original proposal was FBI: Department of Agriculture.
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What's behind this? Anti-vaccine feelings? Free-floating hatred of expertise?
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She's become a true leader, and Raskin is great too. We need more people like them.
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That "apology" cover of Private Eye was awfully good, too.
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He's great. I think of Raskin, Adam Schiff, and AOC as canaries in the coal mine. If they ever get arrested...
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Schumer must have something, because he's been Democratic leader for a long time. But pugnacity isn't it.
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Russia helped us win the Second World War? This is so strange. Stalin and Hitler had a treaty, until Hitler invaded. The Soviets made tremendous sacrifices, and drove from the banks of the Volga all the way to Berlin. We helped them win the war in Europe.
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Mussolini was quite muscular.
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I read not too long ago that people spend more time on Wordle and the other games than on the Times's written content. They've been smart about keeping an audience, but it must be depressing to Times people who care about informing the public.
Lifelong Times reader here
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49.7 percent of us sold our democratic birthright for a mess of pottage. That was a low price.
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The article basically says that the White House press corps likes the drama and large audience that Trump brings. These are superficial, messed-up criteria. The one solid thing is that Trump talks to them more than Biden did. But since he lies constantly, what's the value?
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He said "reconized." He's lost all credibility with me.
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They back the blue when it's beating up the black or brown.
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The mandate people are secretly counting only white votes.
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This kind of thinking is just awful. When the Bolsheviks overthrew Kerensky in late 1917, a lot of Russian socialists and centrists thought that it was only a matter of time until Lenin proved incapable of governing. But the USSR lasted for 74 years.
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MAGA thinks that police are always in the right when they're beating up Black people, but always wrong when trying to restrain white MAGA people.
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Does the lake ever freeze over?
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Yet another religious grifter
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What's going on with the ADL? I used to respect them.
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But they usually leave relatives and friends behind. Even old people have value as human beings (said the 69-year-old commenter).
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It's amazing how little reaction there's been to the US death toll from COVID. Florida had a sorry record in 2020-21, but it reopened businesses and schools relatively early, and DeSantis got reelected easily. The voters didn't hold him to account at all.
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Even if tariffs reduce imports of some product to zero, domestic firms will raise their prices to just a little below where imports would be priced. There's no escaping the inflationary impact.
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What you've excerpted reads like a campaign speech, not a law. Pretty weird.
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We Americans should be thankful every day to have such a good neighbor. But Trump likes to attack allies and kiss up to foes. It's a deep psychological flaw.
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How can you tell for sure?
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It's just that he chooses victims who are much less powerful (like any bully). The WHO can't really fight back. The Canadians are looking for ways to resist, but it's hard when the US is 10 times their size.
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I usually think of calling all able-bodied men to show up, with their rifles, on the town square to get their marching orders and repel an Indian attack.
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Yes. They always skip over the well-regulated militia part.
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This is so ridiculous. If an executive order could override the Constitution, the Constitution would cease to mean anything.
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Why did Vance and some others say that Trump wouldn't pardon violent rioters?
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What's the MAGA complaint about the WHO, that they help foreigners?
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What do you mean?
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"It seems that Hitler made an awkward gesture by sending half a million armed troops into Poland, but we're sure he didn't mean to invade or anything. Everyone is so on edge. Poles, chill, OK?
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No, under the Leopards Eating Faces Doctrine.
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Is it even an interpretation? It looks more like running rough shod over the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment.
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Outstanding. W.S. Gilbert would approve.