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Gatorubet

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  1. ???? Wait! Do you mean to say that other weapons we used to sell did not have a “turn off its ability to work when I unilaterally decide they are a shit hole country…or Vlad asks” switch?
  2. I believe Moscow is “the Capital”…. of Russia.
  3. To be fair, Trump promised that grocery prices would come down the first day he’s in office. He never did address prices the second day.
  4. “…and you keep promising checks.” This is really what her biggest political issue is…. ”Please stand behind what you say.” Nanette, good news. Your check should be coming in < checks notes > two weeks.
  5. They didn’t listen to you libtards and their Tesla stock is TO THE MOON!! …back to February’s price….finally
  6. That questionnaire seems slanted to me. Almost like it was designed for negativity. If asked a different way, like: “Do you think the loss of your farm and home will free up your available spare time to better monitor the status of trans athletes unfairly competing against your daughters? With 1 being most positive, and 10 being most negative, how would you rate the extra time to ensure that high school athletics remain divided by God’s two sexes?”
  7. I went to the funeral yesterday of a colleague of over 30 years who passed away from lymphoma. She was an extremely talented and accomplished attorney with a national reputation. Fuck cancer.
  8. I am still gob-smacked by this.
  9. This is the fourth time they’ve hit the one in Samara. i’m glad they also took out the main rail transport infrastructure as well.
  10. 18% is likely made up of people who still have their good job and their 401(k)s are doing great. This too shall pass.
  11. Robert Mitchum disagrees…
  12. What if my $3,500 a month was spent on good booze, friendly women and drugs? Or - like - if I said, “thank you!”? That sum is nowhere near the maximum Social Security benefit because… I started drawing it when Trump was in office the first time. I don’t think it will last till 2034 like they say. Which is why I think there is a possibility that a GOP Congress will require Trump hating ex-pats to be cut off Social Security in order to help efforts funding it. TFG will assume many ex-pats hate him. Because that won’t be far from wrong.
  13. I HATE when that happens..,
  14. Well, it was kinda, sorta, meant to be a metaphor for the great depression. As long as some people are doing well, they will not care if others are not. If everyone is going bankrupt, losing their home, becoming unemployed, not having food or healthcare, etc., there is a greater chance that the now-impoverished electorate will see that it as “us versus the oligarchs” than white folks doing well because invisible boot straps versus “the other”. I guess I’m saying people don’t truly ….appreciate….populist ideas when they have self identified themselves as “I’m gonna be richer than I already am!” When everyone is on the metaphorical bread line it is harder for them to identify with the elite making all the coin on the repossessed home. (left column is political control of the House, right is Senate) Black Tuesday was October 29, 1929. The Democrats picked up 52 seats in 1930, one short of control. Republicans passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930, further fucking up the economy and intensifying the Great Depression. Those rock-rib Republicans became populist Democrats when they were all starving and screwed by tariffs with massive unemployment. It may not work this time, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi, it’s my only hope.
  15. Helpful….hopeful…. Whatever it takes!
  16. I’ve said it before, until MAGA and non-MAGA are standing on the same soup-line, we won’t fix this electorally.
  17. Joby up $1.50. Still below my last sold price. Should I stay or should I go more? Insider sold 500k of his shit-ton of stock. New house in France petty cash or worrisome? Lots of good news lately….
  18. Heh, heh, heh….wait! It won’t!!
  19. Yeah, that tiny movie thing was not my idea of a copacetic Hootennanny.
  20. I’m pretty sure he was referring to Fox News and Company. There was plenty of anti-war counter information on the news every day. Because olds like me were watching it. And you might want to remember the quaint notion of the uproar caused by the fact that Nixon had an “enemies list”, which included press who did not go along with the White House take.
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