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My new position is that the U.S. should simply give away all its obsolete-on-arrival boondoggle weapons platforms to a random country, e.g. Botswana, and focus on making cheap things that actually work
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More of our military budget should go toward making explicitly gay Chinese-language video games which we then beam into China via Starlink, in order to make Xi so mad his head explodes
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Two things can be (and indeed are) true:
(1) Manchin's stance on the work requirements is bad
(2) If the pivotal senator represents West Virginia and will vote for strong climate provisions, you just give him whatever he wants on the rest
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my immediate thought (open a teahouse) isn't feasible due to the pandemic, so i'm going with "put me in charge of the CDC, you fucks"
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That we don't all have a perfect agreed-upon term for "President tries to overthrow democracy via procedural loopholes while also fomenting a riot to overtake the Capitol during the official count" kind of speaks to how insane the situation is rather than the level of severity
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You love to see it https://t.co/9SvjiSxGIQ
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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria @MayorToddGloria
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So if you're a Democratic Party senator who thinks the way the country should be governed is with a lot of executive branch unilateralism tempered by whatever Brett Kavanaugh's interns come up with, then making it hard to pass laws is smart.
But if not, then not.
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More and more folks are realizing that owner-occupied housing is capital!
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Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
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After years of wondering what caused the crime wave of 1966-1993 and the crime decline of 1994-2014, I'm now leaning toward a "general social unrest" theory of crime.
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