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Kinda OT but how did things get so fucking dystopian? I mean I know it's been building to this for decades but it still feels like such a steep slide into the abyss.

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Lol I had this thought. Only because I don't have an AirB&B.Those lucky bastards won't have to go anywhere. Not that I'll earn enough this year to even worry about it.

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"the right response to a pandemic is .. let's just pretend it is not happening"

that's Trump's response to EVERYTHING

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What's up with that????

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Trump's a hotel man. Wait until he endorses the bill. The Republicans will be clawing over each other to get to that paper to put their names on it.

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I went to Phoenix the first week of June one year. Wife was attending a ferret symposium at a hotel in Tempe. She spent her days hanging with ferret people. I spent my days at the pool with a book. When the heat got to be too much, I'd just step off into the deep end, climb out and go back to the book, until I was dry and hot again. Rinse and repeat.

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Remember, she's a Republican. All she knows is to throw money at every problem.

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How the hell do they expect to keep track of where this money's spent? Will you be required to set up a separate bank account, with the feds having monitoring permissions on all debits to make sure you didn't buy a pack of gum in your hometown with that money?

Oh, that's right. She's a Republican, the party of Big Government.

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Direct payments to the employees is socialism. End of story for one entire political party.

And a lot easier to spell than Communism. You don't have to remember how many "m's" it has.

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The first time Rachel Maddow devoted her entire show to coronavirus, Ms. O turned to me and said, "We need to stock up at least four weeks worth of supplies."

And that was before the woman at the CDC let slip that we should all have a two-week supply. Bought a bunch of toilet paper a week before the big run.

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We did that with Ms. O's service dog. She was great the whole trip. Got a little burnt out by Day 9, but we were home Day 10, and she was glad to be back.

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Wait a minute. You're talking tax fraud here. What do you think you are? A Republican?

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'I learned it from watching you, Dad Dad[Cheney, Drumpf, The entire Bush Family, every republican in in public office...]!'

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Remember, she's a Republican. All she knows is to throw money tax cuts/credits at every problem

FTFY

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yeah, cuz it sounds nothing like Loggins, not at all.

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