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All classrooms have cat litter and a bucket in case students have to relieve themselves while locked down because of a school shooting.

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If you go with amateurs over professionals, shit will go sideways every time.

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From what I can determine, Betsey DeVoss must be rooting for Pompeo. He wants to destroy the public school system.

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His campaign will be a rebirth of the anencephalic campaign of Fred Thompson.It will die a rapid and little remarked death.

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Well, she pushed Tudor Dixon hard in Michigan. Hope Pompeo does as well.

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What else they going to run on? Their economic policies? Their philosophy of government?

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Pompeo is a rightwing Christian nationalist who tried to turn the CIA into his personal theocracy. Then he used his position as SOS as a fundraising platform for his future presidential ambitions

So, none of this should be surprising.

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And voting republican,

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It's gonna take a while, he's full of it.

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Accherlly "The Letter" by The Medallions c.1954. Steve was a fan. "Let me whisper sweet words of pismodality And discuss the pompitous of love."

Vernon Green, the author of "The Letter", says, "You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only fourteen years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches." This uneducated kid was prone to fantasy, so he just made up the lyrics. Pismodality, to him, meant words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved.

"And it's not pompitous," he said. "What I said was 'puppetuse,' which is a term I coined to mean a secret paper doll fantasy figure."

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Wow.

This is honestly what happens when you don't have anti-Nazism laws like France and Germany, kids

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The smart bigots are worse.

They’re better at plausible deniability.

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He also went to Harvard Law. You are also right!

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If kids get just a sense of Putin, for example-- this 'so elegant guy' Pompeo loves-- and a sense of life in Russia-- they'll know all they need to know about American Exceptionalism. It's a crap notion but compared to Russia that's just what we are.

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