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Chris Cillizza`s headline story on September 3rd,1945:

"The Japanese surrender yesterday was, weirdly, a good day for the Axis Powers."

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IKR? emotional range of a teaspoon.

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Journalism took a hit when they were 'embedded' with units. Then they started repeating what what the PAO told them.

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Turn off the TV.

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I loved it in the late 70s.

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One of your best columns, Stephen!

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He is a rising star in the Republican party. He and people like him are literally the best they can do.

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As dad once told me, "Look, son. You just have to realize that there are people out there who never learn a damn thing from being wrong".

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Clitzilla: “Wallll, he DID have a cold and he was also very tired and had a hangover besides.”

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If only he’d gone to the Chinese Laundry instead.

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Wait WUT?!?! Rush Limbaugh has died??? Oh noes!!! That’s turrible!!! (Say it again please, pretty please!!!)

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Ex San Franciscan here. As I said to a friend, "that's the Gav I love to hate". Gavin ... kind of has always lived in this world.

Except for that though I think he's been a good gov in the panini. In early days I was VERY pleasantly surprised.

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And it went blue in 2020 because TFG insulted them after that last.

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According to Death deSantass — yes!

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These are the ones in the Dunning-Kruger study who not only didn't know how little they knew, they still didn't know anything after their deficiencies were pointed out. (It should be noted that many of the low-score/thought -I-did-great group did learn to do better. Of course, Dunning and Kruger were working with college students, not Republican voters.)

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Like General Milley.

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