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Re: “We’ve been waging an all out war on American Democracy”. - Today

Snopes says it was “in”. But ultimately, it’s hard to follow his word salad when he’s riffing. Who knows what words he will string together and WTH he meant.

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Re: Brown v ATF 18-20 yo are members of "The People" - Yesterday

The problem with gun nuts is that they can’t see where these “victories” will inevitably take us. At least, I hope they can’t. It’s a dark, dark place.

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Re: I realize anything can happen in a year... - Yesterday

QuoteLemon Drop Their big donors have no appetite for another Trump loss. IMO Dems need to stay focused on supporting Biden Harris and every Dem Senator, Governor on down who is up for reelection in 2024. PS: Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances Donors have not cut as many large checks to the RNC in recent years, and the party’s small-dollar pro

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Re: "Students for Trump founder arrested, accused of assaulting girlfriend" - 3 days ago

Where do they find these people? Well, actually, they don’t have to find them. These days, they all crawl out from under their rocks, attracted to an orange hero who is just like them.

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Re: two more: Mother and son linked to Pelosi laptop theft on Jan. 6 sentenced - 3 days ago

QuoteHe must pay $2,000 in restitution and perform 350 hours of community service. His sentence is to be served consecutive to a separate one in New York for possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun that he was convicted of seizing with several other firearms Well, this SCOTUS should be able to get him off on that one easily, I expect. I don’t recall the founders saying anything about

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Re: Do the GOPers have the guts to oust Santos Friday? - 3 days ago

Well, they only need like 5 Republican votes (theoretically) to expel, right? When Matt Gaetz is your main defender, it ain’t lookin good.

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Re: "Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual battery by alleged menage a trois lover" - 3 days ago

Ooh la la! Reminiscent of the Falwells. Where do they find these people? Maybe we should ask Floridian mr645 what color loofah he has?

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Re: Biden’s economy is so bad, that instead of a recession, we got… - 3 days ago

BTW, Y/Y PCE continued to decrease, just as expected. Core was up 0.2% M/M, an entirely “normal” number. Total PCE was up less than 0.1%. The expected decrease to 3.5% Y/Y is mostly due to the increases 6-12 months ago - ie, another lagging indicator which will progressively disappear from the numbers. The markets liked it, and are getting near all-time highs. Apart from rents (yet anot

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Re: Lawyers: Trump never took oath ‘to support the Constitution’ - 5 days ago

Besides, he had his fingers crossed.

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Re: Musk to departed advertisers: “Go f**k yourselves.” - 5 days ago

Anger management (and impulse control) issues with that one.

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Sorry- repost of below. - 5 days ago

I’m on vacay, and the internet here is slow and wonky. ——— …5.2% growth last quarter. QuoteShrugging off higher interest rates, America's consumers spent enough to help drive the economy to a brisk 5.2% annual pace from July through September, the government reported Wednesday in an upgrade from its previous estimate. I don’t think this can be explained away as a post-pande

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Biden’s economy is so bad, that instead of a recession, we got… - 5 days ago

…5.2% growth last quarter. QuoteShrugging off higher interest rates, America's consumers spent enough to help drive the economy to a brisk 5.2% annual pace from July through September, the government reported Wednesday in an upgrade from its previous estimate. I don’t think this can be explained away as a post-pandemic bounce-back any more. But these numbers just reflect inflated dollars

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Re: Smoking is good - 5 days ago

QuoteSpock Quotemacphanatic QuoteDeusxMac Quotemacphanatic What if we at least ban all the crap that goes into the tobacco, paper and filters? Won't make it healthy but it might make it less bad. I'd bet there's NO smoke that's healthy to inhale repeatedly. Never said it would be healthy. Just less bad. Right, it's less bad than being shot in the head, for example. Meh. At least being sho

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Re: Bare = Ground. White = Neutral. Black = Live. Pink = ? - 8 days ago

Yeah, sounds like a traveller to me. If so, it’s gonna need to be connected, or the two (or more) switches aren’t gonna work right.

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Re: Explore Scientific Telescopes: FirstLight 10" Dobsonian $500 (normally $2k) - 8 days ago

Sold out. BTW, how are you supposed to track stars with a Dobsonian and it’s flat, turning bottom? Seems like they ought to include a wedge of sorts on the bottom that will get you pointed the right way for your latitude.

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Heh. Donald Trump demands the government produce evidence that all his looney theories were right - 10 days ago

Newsweek: QuoteDonald Trump's lawyers want the government to reveal all of the undercover agents who were involved in plotting the January 6 riot at the Capitol building, their latest court filing shows. They are also seeking a list of all the undercover agents who were within a five-mile radius of the Capitol on the day of the attack. Huh. Who was president when all of these undercover a

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Re: Anti gunners, the minority - 10 days ago

Pew Research: QuoteGun owners tend to have much more positive feelings about having a gun in the house than non-owners who live with them. Of course; many of the former are gunners, while the others just have to grin and bear it. QuoteAmericans increasingly say that gun violence is a major problem. Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 pe

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Re: Pete's friend likes kids - 12 days ago

Did Buttigieg make this guy his outreach coordinator? No? Did Buttigieg help him become Mayor? No? Did Buttigieg so much as ever meet him before he became Mayor? No? Sounds kinda like a typical Faux News effort to imply some sort of guilt by (extremely minimal) association.

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Re: Voter fraud in Iowa - 12 days ago

Where do they find these people?

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Re: Moms for Liberty outreach leader exposed as registered sex offender - 13 days ago

Not our fault - not our responsibility to check that our outreach leader isn’t a child molester says “Moms for Liberty”.

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Re: Search for Colorado shooter underway after 3 killed, 1 wounded in apparent dispute over property lines - 13 days ago

Cars are immensely useful devices. Guns result in a similar number of deaths, but are only useful to kill, practice to kill, or threaten to kill.

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Re: [ such a ] Drag_Net?!....Netflix sending out emails for the price increases.... - 15 days ago

“Netflix”? What is this “Netflix” you speak of? Oh, another one of those streaming services. No thanks. We have plenty already.

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 15 days ago

You didn’t read any of the link I provided. Got it.

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 15 days ago

As I’ve offered up many times, we could use other developed countries successful efforts to reduce gun violence as a template. It’s worked elsewhere; it would work here. Much more practical than “address mental health”, as though mental health issues somehow are restricted to our country alone.

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Re: Moon photobomb...sort of... - 15 days ago

QuoteSpeedy Very nice. But that looks like aliens. Teen aliens, tearing up the lawn surface of the moon in their (big) four-wheeler.

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 16 days ago

From his link, some of the stuff Smote left out: QuoteOn the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. In other words, they are simply recounting what others have claimed, not concluding they are acc

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Re: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - 16 days ago

QuoteSteve G. IDF says it found more underground infrastructure at Shifa, searching complex for info on hostages IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says troops found additional underground infrastructure at Shifa Hospital today, and are still searching the complex for information on the hostages., “We continue to deepen our operational activity at Shifa Hospital,” Hagari says i

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Re: IDF says medical teams, Arabic speakers among troops that entered Gaza hospital - 17 days ago

…and now last night, NBC News passed on the discovery that there were tunnels under Al Shifa. No word about who built them, but they took the IDF’s word they were used by Hamas.

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 17 days ago

Funny that no other peer countries have a mental health issue like us. I mean, that’s got to be the explanation, right, that all those other peer countries have lower homicide rates, and a tiny fraction of the gun deaths that we do…

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 17 days ago

I think it’s hilarious when this SCOTUS, or lower levels of the judiciary, through the unending efforts of conservatives overturn laws, like Roe, or bump stock bans, and Mr-you-know-who says “Biden allowed it”. He’s president, not king, like the last guy imagined himself. He plays by the Constitution.

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