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AK's avatar

Thankx

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AK's avatar

Thanks for the education.

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kermit's avatar

Worse, it turns him into the choreographer.

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Kamwick's avatar

My real mom’s been kidnapped by the Trump/GOP/Fox Noise Cult.

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carpethefish, decappinated's avatar

I've always believed in looking after the people around me because I didn't have that coming up and I sure would have appreciated it!

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AK's avatar

I feel bad for anyone and everyone having to rely on food stamps. I've learned a bit more as to how the budgets work, so thanks everyone.

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AK's avatar

Thank you for helping educate me further as I don't have a better understanding about what I originally commented about.

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Bindersfulohostbodies's avatar

Oh. Lol! You are welcome. I totally understand your point though. I think it’s rational to want us to spend that absurd defense budget on our own land. We can’t keep picking fights for oil companies and then using the predictable results as an excuse to claim our outrageous military budget is necessary to protect us. It’s definitely unacceptable.

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carpethefish, decappinated's avatar

I busted my ass as a junior officer, called in every favor I had, and sent 2/3 of my division to college, and that's my proudest accomplishment as a serviceman, no contest. I'm really passionate about "my guys" and if I came across as snappy, I'm really sorry!

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AK's avatar

Nothin to be sorry about, I'm just uninformed as to how the budgets work regarding what I said.

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Leftflank's avatar

If you ever wonder where a lot of the Repub talking points come from, I believe they are from the beak of McTurtle himself in the Deep State of Kentucky.He's a talking point generator and a Grim Reaper proving that more than one thing can happen at once.

Nancy is tap dancing on Touché Tortoises neckbone as we speak and he's sad and mopey. Oh well, Nancy is just better at this than he is and she can moon walk, bust a move and break dance all whilst impeaching a mother fucker.Seriously, give it up for a Lady, she's badass personified.

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carpethefish, decappinated's avatar

I went into defense consulting and program management because, and this was my actual bit I'd use in interviews "If a billion dollars is changing hands, I want to get a real good look at that money." It's a license to print cash, and I worked it from both ends. The "Big 5" defense contractors have their hooks into every corner of the government like it's a Japanese woodcutting. And it also gets super shady and weird. I got in a funding fight with John McCain once, and beat his ass so hard that his proxies at the GAO got reassigned and retired early.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

"That's not unreasonable because NAFTA was mostly a disaster"

Alternatively NAFTA is the only reason that there is any manufacturing left in the US. It put suppliers in the Mexico instead of China. The entire midwestern infrastructure depends upon the adjacency of Mexican manufacturing. They were moving everything to China. It was a backstop against larger forces.

But yeah, boo hiss Bill Clinton. FFS. Let's pretend the Dems suck and shit on them endlessly then wonder why don't people vote? It's a mystery.

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AK's avatar

You're a badass! Heck ya! You 1, John 0.

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SterWonk's avatar

And with the court packing, with even longer-lasting ramifications.

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

The twitter replies to that Jennifer Franco tweet are batshit.

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