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Sawbonz

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  1. And yet you voted for him for president
  2. Ever heard of the library of Congress? Read up on its inception and evolution. A federal government was a brand new concept, and ours was in significant debt from fighting a war against the greatest power on the planet at that time. There wasn’t much money available for government subsidies for anything. Look up the Federal Depository Library Program (1813) and Smithsonian Institution Publications (1846) As our country grew, monetary support for the arts and sciences has grown along with it (at least until now).There are examples everywhere, from the Lewis and Clark expedition through the land grant university programs and federally backed research in agriculture and industry. Government leaders beginning in the 20th century have consistently have felt an obligation to promote the arts as well. It is mind-boggling that in the last 30 years or so such concepts have become partisan issues. Even the Robber Barons knew the importance of private patronage in partnership with government money. What we have today is pathetic and we are on the verge of the biggest brain in history
  3. I’m confused. Is your argument that the founding fathers, who put so much emphasis on knowledge, science, and the arts, and who encouraged their development both on a personal level as well as with government patronage, would not take advantage of the technology of television, radio waves, and now the Internet to foster and promote those ideals, and disseminate them to our citizens? Go ahead and flesh this out for us a bit
  4. Washington, from the very first State of the Union Jefferson, in a letter to Edward Tiffin, a physician who became the first governor of Ohio, on the importance of the arts and sciences to developing and maintaining a free society (especially relevant to what is happening in America currently) And finally Madison who, along with Jefferson, is the founding father who aligns most closely with “borderline libertarian,” in Federalist 62 CPB and PBS / NPR embody one of the core aspirations of the founders of our country, and provide infrastructure critical for carrying it out. Gutting and dismantling them are direct attacks on our way of life
  5. Remember when Covid numbers were up because we were testing too much?
  6. This American Life episode on lies this is a fantastic episode and one of the acts focuses on how this type of lie is becoming pervasive among government officials They interview Masha Gessen who wrote a book called Surviving Autocracy Everyone there knows it’s a lie. “Now what are you going to do about it punk?”
  7. Post their maps fucknut
  8. @immamac looks like gruhorn is back
  9. If I’m ever on a jury for something like that bullshit the defendant is definitely going to walk
  10. If you’ve been around that long then you should know that everyone with a car that shitty has a cousin or buddy in the hood that will pass their car for an extra $20 (maybe 50 these days, I haven’t been a poor in quite some time)
  11. So who is brave enough to start the John Mateer Seems Like He Sucks thread?
  12. This guy is 44 years old
  13. Goddamn you are stupid. I mean I’m surprised you earn enough money to have internet access.
  14. They could’ve arrested David Koresh at the grocery store or on his routine run through the neighborhood outside the compound
  15. In America? Shit I would say about 30%.
  16. Hope you didn’t need that water East Texas I drink your milkshake!
  17. No just bullets in the heads and chests of little kids. By IDF snipers
  18. Were you going to drive him to llano?
  19. Yes, I’m sure all of the surgeons talking about the little kids with bullet holes in them are just making shit up
  20. The new home of Miss Teen USA
  21. Sawbonz

    Senate 2026

    If they throw out gerrymandered districts in blue states and allow them in Texas that is a coup. I can’t imagine the dem governors and dem federal and state legislators standing for it so that leaves calls by dem leaders for military action
  22. Sawbonz

    Senate 2026

    Then we get to see how the generals feel about things.
  23. I bet the secret sauce is thousand island dressing
  24. new Dem motto ”if you think you hate us now”
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