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So history shows. The war-losing misjudgments of the Nazi army tend to get overshadowed by their stunning early successes, but the incompetence of the German officer corps really does stand out, even compared to the French.

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I wish I thought so, but read Kathryn Olmsted's "Challenging the Secret Government," which details how the intelligence agencies managed to evade the wrath of the public following the disasters of the '70s.

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Shouldn't his wall grift have violated some state statute?

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Or the Whitewater myths of the '90s

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I heard it and i was in Hawaii.

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For pure stupidity it's hard to exceed Navarro.

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You sound like my wife...

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"There's the whole back stretch for someone stupider to pull ahead". https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Jan. 6th......a full box of STUPID chocolates ....no surprises here

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Would the Kushners like "loogies" with their fries..??

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Just look at all those Red-Flag-White-Men

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will he be the one to flip on the donald ? … his “career” is toast, & person who exposes this shit sandwich will probably eat less shit than the rest … it’s a horse race (not to defame horses), i figured jeffrey clark would turn but that could just be his weak chin …

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Judith Miller.

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I think we can see that it's one of those pre-selected situations statisticians understand.

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Well I'm surprised because Don jr's girlfriend was massively enthusiastic. She's just a party girl, I guess.

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The Donald's going to weasel out of this by saying Meadows was the proverbial finger in the leaky dam of people wanting him to speak out against the rioters--i.e. "it's not my fault, because if it weren't for Meadows, I would have known how bad things were".

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