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Imagine a piece of grid paper with an x/y graph documenting two specific personality traits: Compassion/Empathy on x and Competency/Intelligence on y.

Someone in the upper right quadrant would be both competent and compassionate. Someone in the upper left would be competent, but not compassionate. Someone in the lower right would be incompetent yet compassionate. And someone in the lower left would be incompetent and not compassionate. For instance:

Bill Barr would likely plot way to the left on the x, yet slightly positive on the y.Barack Obama would plot on the upper right corner of the x/y. George W. Bush would plot way down on the y and slightly right of x.Donald Trump would be eating the grid paper.

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In other words, he's canceling the November elections.

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I figured the Russians and/or Trump were just dumb enough to get caught. Chinese, not so much. Oh, we probably know they cheat, and they know we know, and they know we pull the same shit, and we know they know, but unless one party is blatant about it, both parties keep it on the DL out of professional courtesy.

I forgot about Mossad. I'm sure the Israelis pull some strings in hostile countries too.

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Only use stainful steel.

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Yer right insofar as the political class has tended toward keeping things the same while professing they want difference. It has always been such.

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The colors, man.

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Bill Barr.

Worst Man in the World or worst man kissing butt for the Worst Man in the World?

I vote both.

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I got a casino ad. Someone or something fucking around with WaPo links?

ETA: Nope! HTML fail. The link should work now.

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Bank accounts? You mean C-level bonuses?

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australia votes on saturdays 8am to 6pm at their local schools.

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so, you're saying t'Rump couldn't find a sucker to buy the graph paper?

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you might notice that the most competent candidate is no longer on the ballot.

[ yay, old white guys like me?]

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no difference for me . . . my polling place (Town Hall) is right across the street from the PO . . . and i have to go to the PO to get my mail because they don't deliver in this small town, just to PO Boxes.get the PO to deliver and i'm all-in.

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Thanks, working now!

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"The point is, we gotta watch these motherfuckers like hawks" I couldn't have put it any better.

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He's sorting through the folds trying to find his pee pee.

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