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    Great job Republican scum!

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  • They have been doing it for 50 years, it has just expanded and grown increasingly sinister:

    First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

    This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

    Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

    Wreck the government, then point to the Democrats and loudly claim everything is all their fault...

  • Trump Reiterates He Wants to Be a 'Dictator' for 'One Day' at Wisconsin Rally

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  • Mixed in-between the word vomit, he validates their hate. Unfortunately their lives are so miserable and empty, being told it's okay to hate, is more important to them than anything else.

  • J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate

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  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

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  • The are all great, but tawdry is fantastic!

    Rolls of the tongue, and we all come across several tawdry things/people in a given day.

  • Alabama illegally purged voters too close to election, Justice Department says

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  • If I'm not mistaken, residents can vote in local elections in many places.

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?

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  • I hate that "feature" so much. For a while it has used the speed of other's phones for your ETA. As in, if everyone is doing 10-15 over the speed limit, you're expected to go with the flow.I don't want a more accurate ETA. I want to arrive when it says I will if I follow all speed limits, and shave off a couple minutes if I am going faster than that.

  • I've been procrastinating calling the doctor for a week now...

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  • I didn't go to the dentist for 4 years, moved & Covid & postponing making an appointment 50-100 times. I severely regret not going sooner.

  • Automation be like

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  • Doesn't even have to be the case. A 2min task done every (work)day, takes up a bit over 7 hours/year. After 2½ years it will be a benefit to have automated it!

  • Parent to Moderate YouTube

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  • Trump ridiculed after accusing Kamala Harris of mistreating Mike Pence

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  • Likely some form of secure/encrypted phone. There are special versions of phones made, not available to the general public.

  • Michigan AG Dares Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: ‘Pry This Wedding Band From My Cold, Dead, Gay Hand’

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  • Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Frank Wilhoit

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  • Well, the top 25 wealth hoarding dragons paid 13.6 billion in federal income taxes in a span of 5 years. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-taxSo you were likely only very mildly exaggerating that claim.And before some class traitorboot-licker squeaks up about * the article looks at wealth which isn't taxed, only income is taxed.* 1 that wasn't the point & 2 you don't need income when you have that kind of assets. But they built their wealth by massively benefiting from the society they pay so very little back to.

  • They called an "emergency meeting" this week to solve the mystery

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  • No, they were (presumably instructed to be) really weird about orders, after they changed the menu. There's a subway at work, I go 1-2/week, had been the same staff for long over a year when it happened. I asked for some chicken sub with a different cheese than the one on the menu, or something to that effect; was told I needed to get the 'build your own' to substitute.After that silly nonsense, I realized you could do whatever customizations you want when ordering in the app +use coupon codes repeatedly.

  • CNN Will Buck Tradition and Put Commercial Breaks in Biden-Trump Presidential Debate

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  • What democracy? The will of US citizens have practically no factor in which laws pass, big money on the other hand...

    That being said, congressmen & president are somewhat democratically elected - and voting is thrice as influential if you're in a low population state!.So you can influence if big money A's laws get passed, or big money C's (big money B gets their way regardless).

  • 10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says

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  • This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.

  • California is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco − and that could put a dent in gun violence

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  • Where do you think illegally acquired firearms are sourced from?

    PDF: ATF NFCTA vol2 part3, Crime Guns Recovered and TracedATF traced 70.2% (1 million firearms) of submitted 'crime guns' to having originally been purchased from a dealer. An additional 22.6% (⅓ million) were from pawnbrokes. [page 7]In 12.2% of the cases [page 26] purchaser and possessor was the same.One or more guns are stolen in 63% of household burglaries.

    From conclusion page 41:

    Traced crime guns typically originate from the legal supply chain of manufacture (or import), distribution, and retail sale. Crime guns may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be a theft or violate one or more regulations on firearm commerce.

  • iPad rule

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  • Smaller kids still love playgrounds, even if they also want/love screentime. Heck, it is not infrequent there are a group of younger teenagers at the playgrounds we frequent.

  • Recognizing when you're living in your best years

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  • Adulting is hard 😑 didn't exactly help I emigrated to my spouse's home country, we had our child, I (finally) got my career properly going, and we bought a house, all in a span of two years. But, even without all that, adulting would be a lot. Up until I started actually feeling like an adult, I wanna say somewhere in my 30s, it usually seemed like adults had their shit together. Either life used to be somewhat easier, or part of adulting is getting really good at pretending you have your shit together...

  • Florida man points AR-15 in Uber driver's face, forces him to ground for dropping daughter off: deputies

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  • Well that's good, but even if we are generous and say half the ~80 million gun owners in the US, are as responsible with their weapons as you are; that leaves a fuckton of gun wielders who are not responsible.I am not outright anti-gun, but it makes no sense to me it took two tests and several weeks of waiting, to get a driver's license; and if I want to do e.g. more than basic electrical or plumbing changes in my home, I should get a permit and there will be an inspection. Yet I could waltz into a store, buy guns like I was a personal army, and at worst I would have to wait a couple days to pick them up. As far as I know, there are 0 requirements or inspections for if you have a gun safe; let alone any form of test or licensing of if you are just barely competent and safe weilding them.