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Writer, editor, book publisher and reviewer, retired journalist, former welfare mom, opinionated old broad. DSA, SPJ. To steal from Anne McCaffrey, I have white hair and blue eyes; the rest is subject to change without notice. 🕊⚖️🥺♌︎
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Yet you persist in shilling for the party that sold you out more than once, never once mentioning their part in all of what you've just listed. I find it hard to believe you didn't notice.
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Consider that you're (a) insufficiently hydrated and/or (b) harboring a low-level infection of some kind that might benefit from a few weeks of green tea, boswellia, echinacea/elderberry, and sunlight (or at least vitamin D3). Upping your vitamin C likely wouldn't hurt.
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Is that what you think that was—having that performance go public? Do you seriously think it would have seen daylight if the GOP didn’t want it to? Lord, but y’all are gullible.
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Given his affiliation with the CIA, I’m sure Sen. Schiff already knows the facts about any Trump/Russia relationship. If it weren’t to the advantage of the US, you’d never have seen it.
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Only if you're so brainwashed you still believe there's scientific evidence to support the idea that masking protects against respiratory viruses.
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Not to mention that if they're going to gut Medicare spending, they'll likely also proceed to raise the premium rate on Part B, meaning already inadequate monthly incomes will be even worse.
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That makes him a bigot, not a Nazi, unless you have proof he belongs to the Aryan Brotherhood or one of the other wannabe groups.
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Just who are you trying to engage with this constant comparison of everything on the right with Nazis? Is it just ignorance of human psychology, or being done deliberately to continue the distraction from the real root of the problem?
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No, it didn't. It took 50 years and the collusion of Clinton Third-Way Democrats; and the the Comfortable/Professional Managerial Class chose to ignore warning after warning because they were doing just fine, thanks. bookshop.org/a/97093/9781...
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Have you braindead Comfortable/Professional Managerial Class liberals any idea how pathetic you look blaming people who rejected managed democracy to employ the real kind because your party chose to anoint a candidate nobody every wanted but their plutocrat donors? Signed: a former lifelong Democrat
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You're seeing the result of 45 years of the imposition of the Rockefeller curriculum on US public education. Look it up.
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“Poverty does not destroy virtue nor wealth bestow it.” — Colombian Proverb
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I don't recommend holding your breath. I do recommend looking for someone with a lot of courage to primary them.
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Actually, it's more a case of being so pathetically brainwashed by your corporate media you're totally ignorant that Russia's space program is likely far in advance of the long-neglected US version so isn't in need of whatever you think is being "sold".
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Before you can organize people you’ll need to repair 45 years of damage to their education by the Rockefeller curriculum. And they have no desire to learn. We need Freedom Schools ASAP.
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Actually, I avoid vets, and my cats have lived long and healthy lives. I have experience raising orphans, and other than an initial series of injections he's thriving quite well as an indoor dictator after 8 years.
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He was just outside the door, in a depression that likely would have filled with water and drowned him when the approaching storm hit. We figured he was ~4 weeks old, barely, but he knew to holler for help. He doesn't have his own room because he prefers taking up half my pillow.
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Perhaps that's because your life was sufficiently comfortable you didn't suffer from what the poor have gone through while their betters decided what was good for them. Totalitarianism doesn't always come with guns.
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Because those who deliberately created the original shortages have, with their terrorism propaganda about H5N1, convinced everyone the destruction of thousands and perhaps millions of laying hens is essential to preventing another manufactured pandemic. So, they're raising the prices in anticipation
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Yes, but we will, because the middle class refuses to accept they've been living an illusion for the last 70 years, created to convince them they were superior to the "working class" so didn't need unions, and that all they had to do was follow orders and work really hard and they'd become rich.
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Because, you see, The Koch network only needs 6 more states run by neoliberal elites to sign on, and there will be a constitutional convention not just to fix something but to rewrite the whole thing: newrepublic.com/article/1784...
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Not to mention the current version of the ACLU sold out to the establishment at least a decade ago.
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California is not burning because of fossil fuels. It's burning because instead of properly restoring forests after lumbering they were simply turned into tree plantations for further lumbering and construction of houses for people with money who want to live in the woods.