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I'm thinking this FAQ thing is an inexperience gaffe. AOC's staff probably thought that everyone sees the real world the way it really is, naively forgetting that half the country lives in their own fantasy land.

I can relate. As a union steward, the first time I filed a grievance, I put way too much information in it, giving management a blueprint for how they could proceed against this claim. We walked into the hearing, and they nailed my ass to the wall, and they let it be known that they were enjoying it.

Never made that mistake again. So, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and vow to only make new mistakes here on out. As was said, the Republicans would have come up with the same or worse on their own, but there's no need to give them ammunition.

AOC can console herself with the fact that no one remembers the gaffes an inexperienced Nancy Pelosi may have made when she started out.

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Remember Mr. Sardonicus? Guy discovers that he buried his father with a winning lottery ticket in his pocket. I saw that on Houlihan and Big Chuck on a Friday night after the news, and it scared the shit out of me.

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My favorite story about this album is that the record company sponsored an all female nude bicycle race for interior art for the record album. They rented a bunch of bikes and hired a bunch of struggling actresses out in L.A., staged the bicycle race, and snapped lots of pics.

When they returned the bikes to the rental company, the company wouldn't accept the seats because they were "soiled". Queen went on tour to promote the album and took the seats with them. When they did interviews with local rock stations, the station could give the seat away to lucky caller # along with a pair of tickets to the concert.

Problem solved.

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Damned straight! Obama would have gotten all the facts and carefully considered his words before responding.

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What? When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, he immediately killed the HSR proposal and gave the funds back to the feds, who turned around and gave it to California.

Wonder who gets the remaining funds next?

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I grew up on a dairy farm, and I don't remember a lot of farting and belching out in the straw shed, even at the height of winter when everyone kind of clustered together.

Were we not feeding them enough Big Macs?

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The worst is hand milking a cow that has little bits of dried manure in their tail, like little pebbles.

They whip that thing around while you're on the stool, and it's like getting slapped in the side of the head with a cat-o-nine-tails.

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My Tesla Model 3 goes from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, which I'm told is good, but YMMV.

In any case, fuck these assholes.

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True. Cow farts are Judge Jeanine's specialty

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Wouldn't transitioning the electrical grid bring jobs to the country and doing things like making solar power, wind, geothermal and in areas where there are open seas use the tides to generate electricity make even more jobs available in addition to those that will come from producing the solar panels, wind turbines and other means of energy production. When these thing happen our reliance on oil and oil byproducts shifts down dramatically and that's better for us as a country because we're not spending our money on oil but it's our own investment in ourselves and it become cheaper because it's basically maintenance after that because it's already paid for and we're only buying it once. I'm not an economist but I'd think that investing in our own country would be of benefit since that money would be going to people who would in turn inject it back into the economy because once people are working they will spend it on things as well.

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I think of the GND as being like Wilson's Fourteen Points. Great and worthwhile idea, but how do you achieve all those goals? What are the details on how you'll get there?

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They will flip out no matter what is said on the subject.

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They really are aren't they? They harp on about her youth as a bad thing, but for Paul Ryan who was around the same age it was an asset.

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"...Fox News 'smartperson'..."FIFY

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Yeah, remember the "Young Guns" of Congress?

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Cows don't belch.

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