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Because if you spend all your time scrolling you’ll never say anything.

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nailed it

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But be patient folks. The lawyer who wrote this, and who won the "pink slime" thing with got ABC to pay at least 177 m USD ... still took 5 years from start to finish.

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Being from the UK I still don't understand what the machines are for. We use a piece of paper that you mark a cross on, which is then counted by hand by voluntary local authority staff on overtime and we get it all done by the following morning. Why do states 1/10 the size of the UK using expensive electronic counting machines take weeks?

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How will they get "Judge" Speedway Wine-from-a-box to appear? Offer boxed wine, of course.

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Don't also forget, especially for the individuals, the costs they will bear to defend themselves. Huge legal fees. Fox has in house counsel, but, they may need to hire outside counsel, again, many hours of work at hundreds of dollars an hour.

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I wonder how many are in purple districts?

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E & O insurance also has limits on what it will pay. I doubt they have a $2 billion dollar policy.

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True, he does not, but he is not aggressively hostile to the US, or interested in using military missions abroad to distract people from domestic issues. He also seems to believe in democracy and free speech. A better alternative to Putin.

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Wouldn't work, since Fox is on record as stating those two are entertainment, not news.

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Yeah, the outcome of that story saddened me.

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that's good snark, there!

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Fox will settle, leaving the co-defendants hanging out to dry. Sux 2BU, Sidney Powell. Speaking of sux, my sourdough starter slipped to the back of the fridge and froze, and Mr. DogsWeTrust REALLY wants me to bake bread. This the high drama at House of DogsWeTrust.

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I think Hannity has very good lawyers.

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Except Hannity.

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I had to use my calculator to make sure it was true.

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