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Man does Abbott have 'short man syndrome' or what? What.....too soon? That fucking tree should have finished the job and spared the good folks of Texas this fetid pile of monkey droppings......

Of course, then you would have some ass wagon like Patrick or Paxton running this shit show......

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More like White Power syndrome.

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Bloodthirsty cretins

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Fifth Circuit gonna keep on Fifth Circuitin'.

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Abbott wastes billions and the lives of Texans are improved not a bit…

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Tell Abbott he can do better if he hires a former French Army Sergeant named Andre Maginot, who was wounded at Verdun in 196.

I hear he built this BRILLIANT and expensive fortified line along France's frontier with Germany....

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Or he could hire someone else, like Alexey Von Schmidt. He just drew lines any old place. I don't know if CA and NV have ever gotten over it!

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I am so fucking angry over this. We are not at war with Mexico or any Central or South American country so how is Abbott getting away with the slaughter of their citizens? How can the Federal government be powerless in the face of a state governor/murderous tyrant?

I really am trying to be a kinder person and not wish harm on others but there’s not a day goes by lately where I don’t wish BANHAMMERED REDACTED on Abbott and his monstrous cronies.

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Biden needs to send in the COR and tear that shit out today. Make Texas sue us for damn change FFS

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Governing via the courts has gone too far, I believe. Just deploy the army corps of engineers to the national border to remove it, and fine Texas for the trouble. How is this hard?

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Over 70 hours at the regular jerb this week, I should bring a cot and sleeping bag. And just when I’m getting more investor interest in my vaccine as people are realizing that mRNA can’t hold the line.

Caveat: I still encourage masking in crowded indoor settings and boosters for at risk people. They still provide some measure of improvement in immunity to the variant of the month

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I have been masking since the start. It is an easy habit to get into. Easier than remembering my damned grocery bags, even.

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Don't know exactly what you do but I am in biotech, and the number of times I have straight-up slept on the floor of my office (when those existed and I had one) or just on the floor near my desk or near the manufacturing floor is astounding.

I am in no way an "upper-level" person - I'm maybe upper-ish-mid-ish management level now (?), but I have still pulled 36 hr+ support on the floor for my processes. I would never ask anyone to do that if I am unwilling.

Please make sure that you get some sleep and/or don't drive too tired. I lost a colleague who did that and put myself at risk before.

And best of luck for your non-mRNA endeavor, because everyone is all over that right now. If you have something different and better, DO IT. Note that flu vaccines, etc., are not mRNA (though you know that).

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It’s an intranasal formulation the size of Staphylococcus a. In a synthetic lung fluid mimic. Viruses are wave pathogens so constant high levels of mucosal antibodies are a waste of resources. mRNA is designed for rapid response but wanes quickly.

It’s all about size, signal s and time

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I’ve noticed a significant increase in my patients masking when they come for their appointments- plus they are asking about when the boosters are available

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I started masking up last week. I've noticed other people masking as well.

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I went into NYC last night for a show and masked for the train and the subway. The venue itself was a little difficult as it was dine in and see the show, and I ate and drank a couple of glasses of Syrah, so I was constantly pulling my mask down. It felt a little silly and performative, but hey, I didn't want to get sick nor did I want to make anyone else sick.

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The virus didn’t get the memo that this thing is over, so back to work, peasants, Daddy needs a new Superyacht

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Imagine if TX had spent that $4B on ... decent public education, food for those in need, housing, infrastructure (hey, electrical grid!), etc. $4B is a lot of money that could have been used to help people instead of slicing them apart, drowning them, or shooting them.

Also, $4B is a lot of money that could have been spent supporting refugees instead of demonizing/killing them. I mean, $4B could have at least bought even more flights to states that would take care of them instead of trying to kill them.

Fuck Abbott three ways with a rusted pointy object (with votes).

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Or fixing the electrical grid

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Spreek Ingrish! Your post is thoroughly incomprehensible.

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Sep 8, 2023·edited Sep 8, 2023

In case you were wondering just how barbaric these murder buoys are, there are saw blades between adjacent buoys to slice you up if you try to climb between them.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-texas-floating-barrier-saws-rio-grande-1818433

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Link is something of a non-sequitur

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Damn it. Fixed.

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I guess this means my dream of watching Abbott take this floating deathtrap down, piece by piece, by his own little lonesome (he can have some swim floaties, I'm not a monster) is a dream delayed.

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“Candiru catfish, if you’re listening “

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OT - New Horizons in Dementia: Earwig and the False Profit

𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗱 '𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁' 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝟰 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 '𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁'

https://www.alternet.org/evangelical-prophet-eric-trump-indictments/

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AHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA...

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Pardon me, buoys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

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proud boy Ethan Nordean has appealed his 18 year sentence. Is it possible to have your sentence increased on appeal? Because that would be golden.

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So, I am one of THOSE PEOPLE who watch true crime stories to decompress. I just watched one where someone had a mistrial because her jury had a member who was a convicted felon (how does that happen, seriously?).

She went from something like a 20 yr sentence the first time around to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She murdered her boyfriend by shooting him repeatedly.

It was a very satisfying watch.

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Short answer: not really.

Long answer: sometimes, but only if new facts/evidence come to light as aggravating factors or the sentencing judge went inappropriately low in the length of the original sentence.

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I mean given that this MAGAT judge whacked 10-15 years off the recommended minimums shouldn't DOJ appeal the sentences?

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That would be HYSTERICAL and I am HERE FOR IT.

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Yep, absolutely.

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Then I'm pretty sure Dominic Pezzola won't be appealing his sentence after he left court and proclaimed that PAB won.

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I feel like if Texas was a country, the US would probably invade them and put someone else in charge. (And then take all their oil.)

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We'll be greeted as liberators.

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Showered with Slim Jim’s and Pork Skins

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Weirdly, that would probably be true for about half the population. Not sure how demographics break down in Texas, but no way is it really as red as it pretends to be.

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We could flip it if the DNC was halfway competent.

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It certainly sound promising!

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I'm fairly confident we already did that.

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No, they begged us so we could help them keep all the slaves.

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Ah, but then 1861-1865 came around...

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Well, I suppose you're not wrong about that.

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