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Why would it be in this mixture?

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I don't know who's backyard that is but I like their perennials and flagstone patio.

what were we talking about? Oh yeah, freedom forum repugs finding ways to hold the economy hostage for shits and grins. Yawn, another day ending in "y"

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Jesus. That was horrifying. We are so screwed

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We'll be screaming death alright, only we'll hopefully be dragging tumbrels.

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For one thing, this is pretty much what the rich have tried before... except they lost control of Hitler.

On the other hand, folks, two things: as Gandalf said, when a plot reaches fruition, it's no longer secret.

And then, there's ego, and *all* these assholes in power want to be The One On Top. That's why they can't pass anything in Congress.

And there's us, and the rest of the resistance. And I just heard this... and here's something to give y'all heart. Time to sing along with Petehttps://www.youtube.com/wat...

it's the hammer of Justice, and the Bell of Freedom, and the song about love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.

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"I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability...

You will have to watch next weeks episode to see what happens. We have planned a doozy. Emmy quality."

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No, seriously. That's the whole idea of Ron Paul Austrian economics - depressions are great because they reset the system to zero and the system keeps on ticking, and the real horror of SOCIALISM or even moderate capitalism is that it tries to prevent depressions happening, due to some stupid idea about "wrecking ordinary people's lives for the glory of CAPITALISM isn't a great idea".

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Yeah, which is why I don't like the moderates' "Trump treason" narrative. Apparently bending over for AMERICAN kleptocracy is fine and dandy, but ROOSKY kleptocracy is crossing a line. Still, whatever it takes to build a majority against him.

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Oh, FFS.

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Horrifying. Even more horrifying are the comments, which feature reactionary buttboys posting links to 'scholarly' refutals (attempted hatchet jobs, in fact) of Nancy MacLean's book --the most prominent two being a professor at Duke who has gotten hundreds of thousands, if not millions by now, out of the Koches, and a professor at Case Western , at which the chairman of the board just happens to be one Charles KOCH.....Please continue posting this link. It's vital.

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Because 1800s.

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I miss hanging around the desktop with friends watching these!

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yes. unpredictability is exactly what financial markets need. that'll work out just fine.

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Just a bunch of folks that went "But her e-mails!", which unquestionably was worse.

Unquestionably.

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Someone should tell Donnie that the markets he depends on to enrich him and is family does not like unpredictability.

Not. At. All.

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It's an official Louisiana Slugger!

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