Political thread of the week Dec. 8th-14th*
Posted by JacobRDaugherty
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so they released the person of interest in the Brown shooting*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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ICE arrested a Pentecostal Christian singer and labeled him “the worst of the worst”
Posted by ATL
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I might be sympathetic to them in this instance.
Posted by complainant
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I did consider whether he was the Latino William Hung*
Posted by ATL
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The funniest thing of this political season
Posted by Stu
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Thoughts and prayers for Brown University*
Posted by Stu
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Also for Bondi Beach in Australia
Posted by Stu
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Assailants are father/son*
Posted by Sounder
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Wisch...
Posted by illini21
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This has to be a running gag now
Posted by TarheelIllini
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That might Mount Rushmore caliber*
Posted by OB25
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He's been there too.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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They actually showed a video of an unarmed man tackling one of the gunmen in Sydney
Posted by ATL
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I don’t understand why he let him just go back to the bridge? Dude ended up getting another gun and
Posted by John Coctostan
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Because there was another guy on a bridge (higher position) shooting a gun.
Posted by ATL
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Sure. But he took the gun, stood there and held it at him and just let him walk away*
Posted by John Coctostan
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I had the same reaction as you but who knows what was going on or how I’d react *
Posted by ATL
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Especially impressive what with not being able to wrap up*
Posted by Herman Blume
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And the tackler is a Muslim*
Posted by Sammich
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Apparently an aboslutely insane person*
Posted by gvibes
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Dan Bernstein on Matt Shaw…
Posted by OB25
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Never read the comments.
Posted by WhitmansFolly
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Especially in that Nazi bar*
Posted by ATL
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It’ll be interesting to find out how much in bribes he’s received for these pardons
Posted by ATL
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CBS is going all in on Erika Kirk.
Posted by larue33
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So is JD. *chort* *
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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This Bari Weiss has never done anything
Posted by Stu
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She is a garbage person*
Posted by Sounder
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I've been trying to figure out who Erika reminds me of, and I just realized
Posted by Stu
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ooo
Posted by ATL
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Tone deaf Katie Tur celebratedher husband's promotion to CBS Evening News anchor without mentioning
Posted by complainant
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FWIW
Posted by Sounder
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All the more reason why a Paramount acquisition of WBD would be awful*
Posted by UofIL6
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Trump is gonna crashout this weekend. Lost Indiana vote, lost Garcia case, lost house vote on his EO
Posted by MC
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As long as he gets to keep the bribes he was laundering through the ballroom fundraising.*
Posted by DT
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Also first D Miami mayor in 30 years*
Posted by Stu
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DJT hitting new low*
Posted by Stu
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What now?*
Posted by Sounder
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His meme stock symbol
Posted by Stu
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I’ve been very critical of AI but you sometimes gotta hand it to AI
Posted by ATL
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Ooo
Posted by Sammich
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Good thing we pulled all that funding for mRNA research!
Posted by Carl Spackler
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I enjoyed this
Posted by TarheelIllini
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Reading more about the tanker, why haven’t we been doing this for years? It was so
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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Expend blood and treasure on this in service of what strategic goal?*
Posted by ATL
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I see that "no new wars"' is yet another Trump lie*
Posted by Sounder
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They are sanctioned for a reason. Those would be the reasons. If the Biden NSC wasn’t so feckless….
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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Good run down here:
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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That’s a good goal but I guess I wonder whether Venezuela is really a significant threat to us
Posted by ATL
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How is Iran a threat to us?*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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Fair. Retracted.*
Posted by ATL
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*taps map*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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If you’re enforcing sanctions, then say as much
Posted by TarheelIllini
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Obviously it’s part of the recent shenanigans but my question is why weren’t we doing this
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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The fact that we weren’t makes me think that there are some concerns or downsides
Posted by DT
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You mean its complicated and there is nuance and potential consequences to consider?
Posted by DocWalk20
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It’s all flotsam
Posted by memyselfandillini
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the question is why are we doing it now?
Posted by memyselfandillini
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It seems fairly obvious that part of this is to force a regime change*
Posted by Sounder
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Shame on Maduro for having the largest oil reserves in the world.*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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exactly. We give a good goddamn about who is running Venezuala*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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I agree that it should have been done sooner
Posted by TarheelIllini
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Now we do Pirate*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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We did that off Somalia for a few years and very recently with the Houthis*
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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Opposing pitchers persecuted me for my faith
Posted by RVA
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I bet he has riveting things to say*
Posted by CWR10
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Feels like as good of a place as any for my question on the OU student
Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes
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Considering this is her mom...
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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I suppose it's possible it didn't start out that way, but now it is for sure*
Posted by Sammich
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Turning manufactured outrage into grift and guest appearances is the conservative playbook
Posted by opey8
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That is an extravaganza of punchable faces*
Posted by Sounder
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Come on Bregman*
Posted by Herman Blume
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Bregman is a rarity, white baseballer lib. Ricketty would probably adopt Shaw than sign him.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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I'd rather not*
Posted by Sammich
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A comma can be powerful thing*
Posted by Herman Blume
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Couldn’t care less of a player’s personal politics, but this is a level beyond that.
Posted by OB25
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PHX residents should keep their underage children away from the area *
Posted by ATL
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So, does Riley Gaines talk about how women can’t compete with men while Danica Patrick nods along?*
Posted by Franklin
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I always like these because you can see how they rank themselves. You know everyone on the second…
Posted by LeatherneckIllini
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It's ranked by batting average.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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the sabermetric revolution has yet to hit the America First crowd
Posted by Sammich
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That flyer had to have been harder to put together than any wedding seating chart*
Posted by RVA
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Congrats to the Cubs for having active player representation at the event!*
Posted by OrangeSox
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A lot of "who the f are they?" and "makes total sense they are a Nazi"*
Posted by DanSaint
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I feel like this should have gotten the music festival poster treatment
Posted by DT
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GA Republicans lose seat after they hastily call special election in Trump +12 state house district
Posted by ATL
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RFK, Jr's sidepiece's book flopped
Posted by ATL
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Probably apocryphal, but still worth a good chuckle.
Posted by complainant
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"That's not how Donald says it to me!" Lofl*
Posted by WhitmansFolly
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I pronounce it like that in my head often.*
Posted by Toonces
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is there a limit on how many times they can try to indict with the same charges? I assume no*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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Presumably the presiding magistrate judge will have some discretion right?*
Posted by ATL
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Imagine working for the President, and then after that you have to go work the fry trough at McDs
Posted by doubledown
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Poor Vivek may not win in Ohio
Posted by Stu
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The Republicans seem particularly good at losing elections because of terrible candidates*
Posted by Sounder
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except for the one, of course*
Posted by Sammich
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Uh, there is plenty of that to go around*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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Right?!?! Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump like a year ago. *
Posted by haighter
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Just 31% approve of Trump economy
Posted by Stu
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Indiana Senate defies death threats and Trump's mafia threats, votes no on further Gerrymandering
Posted by assassin
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Indiana is a comfortably red state but shooting for 9-0 seems like a potential dummymander.
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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And now we see he follows through with his promise to cut government funding to the state*
Posted by OB25
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The Indiana Senate has substantially more brain cells than the House.
Posted by tvillini
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maybe, but they're still Republicans, who have not shown any previous desire
Posted by assassin
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I still believe there are actually princpled politicians out there.
Posted by tvillini
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Good*
Posted by UofIL6
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Fetterman is lobbying to get Bibi a pardon
Posted by ATL
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Don’t understand that guy at all *
Posted by cpsteine
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He had a tramautic brain injury*
Posted by Sounder
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lol.*
Posted by Ari Gold
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Boss, just so you know, I don't care if my asshole is full of genital warts
Posted by Sounder
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MyPillow loon thinks he will be governor of Minnesota*
Posted by Stu
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Is he running as a Republican?*
Posted by Sounder
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So, presumably because Nvidia bribed him, Trump is approving sales of their 2nd Gen chips to China
Posted by DT
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I'm looking forward to seeing who gives the biggest bribe to acquire Warner Brothers*
Posted by Sounder
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He will die one day
Posted by TarheelIllini
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The Chinese AI Robot invasion of 2027 will take care of it
Posted by timmer
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The invasion is already happening. It's just online. *
Posted by doubledown
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I can also see a scenario where he wasn’t directly bribed, but was made to understand that
Posted by doubledown
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I don’t know how much they paid him, but two things are true. He could have gotten more,
Posted by doubledown
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So we’re apparently pirates now…
Posted by timmer
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This is what happens when you let so many Somalian immigrants into the DoD.*
Posted by DT
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#56
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Soybean farmers: Trump blows
Posted by Stu
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Welfare Kings better not be spending my tax dollars on potato chips and scratch offs.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?*
Posted by ATL
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The LA Times’ new AI tool to generate opposing views posts KKK-sympathetic views
Posted by ATL
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I’m confused
Posted by DT
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Two things: first, I think a reasonably intelligent person could formulate an opposing view t
Posted by ATL
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More rate cuts!!!
Posted by timmer
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Trump is angry*
Posted by Stu
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Rate cuts and no soccer fans? Golden Age confirmed.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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In addition to rate cut, there's also a QE Lite component*
Posted by Stu
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Let’s add completely tanking the tourism economy to the affordability agenda.
Posted by OB25
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What did you post last week?
Posted by DT
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It's not like it's a drivers license or passport
Posted by RVA
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Trump keeping out soccer hooligans is a big win IMO.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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Number 969 in the list of things Trump says he's going to do and never figures out how to do.
Posted by Illiniphil
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Why is he destroying America?
Posted by timmer
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Because Fred Trump was a horrible man*
Posted by IlliniRunner
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"I'll take things Nazis would do, for $100..."*
Posted by shua
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Just wondering...in practice...how? If it's for everyone and not just for visa holders...
Posted by haighter
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That’s part of why I can’t see there being any way this actually happens.
Posted by OB25
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At immigration but basically yes.*
Posted by ATL
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Maybe the silver lining here is that World Cup ticket prices will come down*
Posted by Sounder
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Mods, please change the board font to something that isn't woke
Posted by RVA
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This seems like more of a Wingdings administration.*
Posted by DT
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Comic sans *
Posted by ATL
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just as worthless and wasteful as a Congressional hearing on the CFP
Posted by Sammich
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TBF, Calibri is a really gross looking font*
Posted by ATL
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it was not and is not an aesthetic choice*
Posted by Sammich
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Oh I know *
Posted by ATL
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It’s the intellectual equivalent of MAGA women disfiguring themselves to demonstrate loyalty. *
Posted by doubledown
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Speaking of which I heard that Nancy Grace wrote a NYT oped about how she’s surprised that misogyny
Posted by ATL
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Can't wait for the before/after shots of places that revise their entire brand to incorporate TNR*
Posted by RVA
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ooo
Posted by IlliniSax05 MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
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I doubt that anyone chose to adopt calibri. It is just the default font in Microsoft Word.
Posted by ATL
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Miami elects first Dem mayor in 28 years over Desantis/Trump endorsed candidate
Posted by ATL
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Just wait til all the ex-New Yorkers resettle*
Posted by RVA
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The bigbop effect is truly undefeated *
Posted by ATL
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Oh dang, I forgot, this election already overcame the millions of Chicago transplants
Posted by RVA
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When you can't even buy an election in Florida anymore...
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Real estate sellers in the sunbelt giving up on the market
Posted by ATL
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is "refuge market" really the best term they can come up with?
Posted by Sammich
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Did you mean "clapboard?"
Posted by complainant
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rust belt is not woke enough*
Posted by torinese
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What are people who move to refuge cities taking refuge from? Are they refugees?
Posted by ATL
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they don't have to live like one, I know that much*
Posted by Sammich
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we've had no offers on a tiny starter home in rural illinois in two months
Posted by Nobster
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Not even trying to hide it anymore
Posted by OB25
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Because people from Norway and Sweden consider this to be a shithole, Don*
Posted by ATL
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Every time I watch Dumb and Dumber, she's just peak early 90s alternative GF hott.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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You'd think that by now celebrities would realize that it's career suicide
Posted by Sounder
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Paramount/CBS begs to differ.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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trump is basically a cbs sitcom dad...overweight buffoon that has a hott wife and despite being
Posted by Nobster
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This reminds me of the Children's Nuclear Plant contest
Posted by Sounder
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Kevin Queens and the Still Standing guy had good hearts
Posted by Sammich
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He's been a politically vocal guy forever, so whatever.
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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yeah, that's what I can't really get past
Posted by Sounder
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everyone is scrambling to get what they can before the grift ends*
Posted by Nobster
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Tim Allen disagrees*
Posted by assassin
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I've attempted to watch his show several times
Posted by Sounder
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I like how Trump keeps telling people he knows nothing/very little about the people he pardoned*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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I mean, it's true. All he knows is that they paid. *
Posted by doubledown
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It was always a witch hunt*
Posted by Sounder
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Perfect.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Nick Fuentes being a virgin is a huge shocker*
Posted by AintHatin
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Having sex with women is gay*
Posted by Sammich
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Even being attracted to women is gay*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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He's saving himself for someone he really loves.
Posted by doubledown
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Only if ghey xes doesn't count as xes*
Posted by ATL
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He is the literal hit you across the head stereotype of an incel*
Posted by Sounder
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No Chicken for you, Lil' Greggy.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Crockett entering the TX Sen race and Allred dropping out. Not good.
Posted by ECEIllinois
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What about Switek and Zito?*
Posted by PapaDels
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State is rigged; they will toss as many ballots as necessary so whatevs.
Posted by Toonces
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lol.
Posted by Ari Gold
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Your ignorance of basic facts is probably the reason you find disenfranchisement funny.
Posted by complainant
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I don't think she has the juice to win statewide (in Texas)*
Posted by Sounder
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I don't know much about her politics or how progressive she is. Often times that is just code
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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I think Talerico would do better as governor than Senator *
Posted by JacobRDaugherty
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Can Aikman run as a Dem? Might be the only hope*
Posted by reggiedunlop
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Alfred seems like a perfectly nice guy who will get whalloped like that Air Force lady who
Posted by Toonces
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however, his name is worth 1-2 points for republicans that don't pay close attention
Posted by Nobster
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Amnesty International reporting on prisoners at the Alligator Alcatraz being subjected to torture:
Posted by IlliniRunner
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and the worst part about Abu Zubaydah
Posted by VIV
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Trump getting ready to bailout the farmers again. Quelle surprise.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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if only they hadn't got rid of USAID. that helped US farmers as much as foreign poverty...
Posted by shua
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Soft power is for pussies. Glad Elon & Co. were allowed to destroy that with no questions asked.
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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Internationally cresting a problem, then bailing out that problem
Posted by Mrap24
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Just remember this isn't what a majority of farmers voted for.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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is it at least American farmers this time?*
Posted by Sammich
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Russian potato farmers*
Posted by shua
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October inflation report not being published*
Posted by Mrap24
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oOo
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Will get bad come February. All of my wine I got in pre tariff is gone as of last week
Posted by JacobRDaugherty
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Dont you work at a restaurant for rich people?*
Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes
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I also broker in wine. Small part of my income. More to get a company to pay for my
Posted by JacobRDaugherty
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Biden's fault I'm sure*
Posted by WhitmansFolly
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I just saw video of the shithead grabbing the "peace" prize himself and hanging it around his own
Posted by doubledown
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Side by side it with the Grinch.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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Ooo
Posted by Sounder
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