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Then how come we had airports during the Revolutionary War? "Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports," Trump said of the fighting force created by the Continental Congress in 1775.

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Stormy said Chump couldn't ram the ramparts.

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Ta, Stephen. The paper of birdcage lining.

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Just like Judy Woodworth on PBS News Hour, what with her GOP talking points disguised as questioning.

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The Penny Saver of the Upper East Side strikes again!

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Any day now.

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The NYT story is hogwash. Quantitative fact checking should be done by someone with quantitative literacy. The BLS estimated employment for years before 1939, see e.g. Table 1 of https://www.bls.gov/opub/ml... The labor force in that era was on the order of 50-55 million, and though unemployment was volatile, there weren't any increases over 3 million. You could go back farther but Biden would still be right.

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I didn't understand the sketch when it first came out. Then I moved to NYC and started working in telecom and realized that the ONLY people who could actually fix stuff were the West Indians in NYNEX. Then I started working with them as they took early retirement and started their 3rd or 4th careers. Then I really got to know a lot of West Indians/Caribbean descended folks and understood why Queens county is one of the few counties (and one of even fewer relatively wealthy counties) in the US where average Black incomes outpaced average white incomes.Hell, were America not racist West Indians would be the model minority, because America immediately figured they were American enough to fight our wars; we didn't do that with most other 'model minority' groups. (Many of those Caribbean guys who moved to the US to work in telecom in the 60s got drafted and sent to Vietnam, not a lot of Japanese or Chinese immigrants were drafted.)

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If little Ben pulled the trigger, it'd be a dry fire and there'd be nothing on the wall

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if Raygunz had only listened to Carter instead of scrapping the nascent effort the first day of his administration. Like Trump, he was smarter than everyone else

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Well played!

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Ok fine, you win xD

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We literally lost that battle.

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What about 1800? There were 5.3 million people in the country - they could have all gotten new jobs. It's possible, isn't it, NYT?

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The history of unemployment numbers began in 1939, so Biden is correct and the NY Times is wrong. If they wanted to quibble about pre-history that would be a different discussion.

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