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What's in the air these morons breathe anyway?
I wonder why these people are so comfortable substituting ideological purity for evidence-driven decision-making?
Edited for civility.
Wonder if the Greenland custom officers could just grab the national security adviser and whoever else and ship them off somewhere. The US showed them how to do it.
"Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, went beyond simply expressing outrage and zeroed in on the group’s use of Signal, a self-deleting messaging app, as particularly worrying:
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From the White House: Trump has put Musk and his staffers in charge of investigating how Jeffrey Goldberg ended up in the Signal chat. I’m sure we can all expect a thorough, unbiased report any day now
Excellent! If there wasn't anything secret on the chat then there's nothing to worry about. Or is there? Total freaking screw up by all administration participants!
The Signal is Flashing Red - Jennifer Rubin in The Contrarian.
About us communists:
"In a similar moment, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, of Skowhegan, Maine, stood up to Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy and his supporters were hoping to gain votes in the 1950 midterm elections by stoking fear that the c…
I will be happy to start a different thread with this but Columbia University sold out as well. Robert Reich substack report.
The shame of Columbia University
You might have to do a little digging:
Tracking U.S. Federal Disaster Spending: The Disaster Dollar Database
Who gets more disaster aid? Republican states.
What are some key facts and trends about disasters and emergency relief?
"Spending on disa…
Thought you all would enjoy this update.
"Public information release from the City of Bloomington regarding the arrest of MN GOP Rep. Justin Eichorn for the solicitation of a minor. He was one of 5 authors of the bill in Minnesota that would classi…
@Crash that's what I'm guessing. The authors of the bill must be too embarrassed to ID themselves. What I'm really interested in knowing is with all that is going on in the world today who has the time to waste coming up with this crap.
Well today'…
I haven't been able to locate which MN State republican senators authored this bill BUT do know that both MN United States Senators, Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar, are democrats.
Frankly I much more concerned with TWS aka Trump Worship Syndrome.
Anyone thinking or believing that even $1 collected from all the alleged savings obtained by all the closings and firings to date will be used to lower the $2 trillion annual government deficits and handing the debt to the grandkids, raise your hand…
I place my disgust of this travesty right up there with cuts to the VA, cuts to Habitat for Humanity and USAID for waste and fraud, oh hell, all the heartless cuts made to date by this clown show.
@Old_Joe - I don't eschew beer entirely but when I want one it's usually an Anchor Steam (hoping it does come back), a Guinness or a toss up between Corona or Modelo (with lime of course). However I will look into those non-alcoholics you mentioned.…
Serious question:
What would be the effect if Canada and the EU just took all American produced alcohol products off the shelf or maybe just doubled the prices without calling them tariffs?
"That was different from our beer, which was officially supplied by the Coast Guard. It was San Miguel, and in contrast to the Tanduay, no two bottles tasted the same."
Sounds pretty much like the rice wine(?) the Koreans and Vietnamese shared with…
I thought trump fixed NAFTA for the UAW with USMCA.
"The USMCA achieved stronger enforcement mechanisms for labor provisions than the original deal, leading the AFL-CIO, the largest collection of U.S. labor unions, to support the pact—a rare endors…
@Old_Joe - you know these trolls never answer a direct question. They just come here to throw up a bunch of random crap they heard on Fox or Breitbart or whatever to see if anything sticks. They are void of original thought or even common sense. The…
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