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Ta, Liz.

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I have this insane urge to stick him with a big hatpin and see if he goes POP!

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Not sure what "mercenaries" you're talking about, but I have learned something about the contractor who was killed, and he wasn't a mercenary. He was an Iraq-born, naturalized US citizen named Nawres Hamid, 36 years old, father of two boys, who served as an Arabic language interpreter for the military (because we don't have enough of our own, obviously). His widow and two sons, aged 2 and 8, live in Sacramento and have plans to stay there. He sounds like a good man. May Allah be merciful to him. https://www.washingtonpost....

At first I too thought this was a Gulf of Tonkin incident. It wasn't exactly. Other coalition force members were also killed. But there was no need to escalate. Donny Tinyhands and Fat Mike were just looking for an excuse.

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Lizard person.

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I did not bother to learn about him, thank you for enlightening me.

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The looks on the faces of the people in Toledo surrounding Trump really makes me think of some sort of Stephen King story ( King himself has said that he predicted Trump in "The Dead Zone" and the mayor in "Under the Dome"). They just look totally brainwashed.

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I like my flecks of grey in my black hair. I consider them free highlights

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Thanks so much; was guessing it was a translator, which explains why Cheeto couldn’t find it in the hole where his heart should be to even acknowledge the guy by name. His current Millerite immigration policy seeks to prohibit those who helped us from even coming here, as well as deporting undocumented vets AFTER their service. At least the WaPo spared him some ink. RIP, citizen.

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...but you forget how modern Germany was in the gilded age. That whole Cabaret nonsense wasn't based on nothing. Berlin was the place to be in 1920. German society was in large part completely accepting of Gay folks in the modern sense.

...until it wasn't.

Fascists direct their venom at whomever it is convenient for them to attack. Mr. Röhm found H-tler convenient and vice versa. When Mr. Röhm became too powerful, it was convenient for H-tler to add the Gay community to his list of enemies.

There's no difference today. The same MAGA cultists who are fine with marriage equality today will find some reason to hate Gay folks if they are told to. Same with their Muslim, Black and Latino neighbours.

None of it matters to the fascist brain. They will murder whomever they are told to murder and base it on whatever difference they are told to perceive. People like Milo, Katrina Pierson and even Stephen Miller need to pay attention. They will be forced onto the boxcars with the rest of the undesirables if their sick little movement succeeds.

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I was more interested in the Bauhaus than old school jazz. I visited the Busch-Reisinger museum at Harvard, when it was still in the original building near Memorial Hall. They had mechanical light show device, by Schwitters, I think, a buddy of mine fantasized about putting on a show with it.

Fascist measures against homosexuals predated the Rohm Putsch. Prior to the ultimatum by the army, Hitler dismissed criticisms of Rohm's orientation.

I think the Zionists and their evangelical friends are far too influential for The Donald to countenance pogroms

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I think you're right that the MAGA fascist coalition is already far more fractured than the coalition of the third reich.

You have MAGA cultists chanting "Jews will not replace us" at the same time Mr. Miller is murdering migrant children in his concentration camps and Kushner is doing dirty deals with Wahabi terrorists in Saudi.

There's backstabbing all over the place.

...but we shouldn't allow their incompetence to make us complacent. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Jacksonville and Allentown need to get up and stab a stake through this thing's heart, because if they don't, it'll keep on growing.

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Stakes are way too high for even the though of complacency. We need the biggest win possible, one that turns the Senate blue.

I was a grad student in Pgh., and now live in Greater Philly, though on the Jersey side of the Delaware.

The problem isn't the cities, for the most part, it's the rural counties between them. But there were a few holdouts.

Allentown did their part last time around, they voted for Mrs. Clinton. But Reading, Wilkes-Barre, and Erie all went GOP.

And the margin of victory was only about 45K; you had 49K Steinbots, who voted anti-vax and pro-RT News.

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I actually lived not far from Mem Hall, so I was a serial visitor. Loved the Busch Hall building, but they converted it into a European studies center. Left the pipe organ, though.

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The problem is 100% the cities, and specifically Philadelphia.

They didn't show up to vote in 2016.

That's why we're in this mess.

I would hope you could spend some time with voter registration! It's what I would be doing if I lived anywhere near a swing state.

The people of Philadelphia decide everyone's fate. No pressure...

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