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Sometimes I forget how awful the 70s were, maybe because I didn't have a TV and lived 6 miles out a washboard marl road and had cows, chickens and geese.Then I hear and see this and remember why I lived out there.

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Some quotes from Reagan's fundy Secretary of the Interior James Watt:

“We don’t have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.”

“My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.”

“After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.”

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it sure won't be wherever they all turn up

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Everybody in that video is an asshole and so is the person posting it.

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He'd be pretty if he smiled more

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I temped and floated at a number of top law firms. I got coffee whenever asked. I was making good money (more than now) and figured I could not make that as a waiter.

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According to the Trump adoring Evangelo-fascist, climate change doesn't exist, if it does exist, man didn't cause it, or even if man did cause it, it is what "god" wants, and since we are in the "lastdays" we shouldn't do anything about it, because the good will be "raptured" leaving behind only sinners, who deserve to "suffer",until jeebus comes back.

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German "frankenwords" usually put adjectives before nouns, so Trumpenfunkenspunken is more likely (or maybe even Trumpenfunkenspunktsbett).

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"Gish gallop" of scandals

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Markwayne? JFC. He has 6 kids: PennySue, BarbaraJennifer, RobertDave, RichardLarry, MichelleJosephine, and TimothyMike.

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Trumpenspunkenfunken -- It's a FEATURE, not a BUG!

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I don't know. That asshole Ryan Zinke was up there. Could be a photo finish.

Unrelated, can we get rid of the Oregon Nurse story on the sidebar? That was two years ago and looking at that woman makes me feel bad. Thanks.

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Well, young counselor, now that I'm in the process of retiring, allow me to pass on one of the lessons I figured out early--when owner asked me to get him some coffee, i put 7 or 8 spoons of sugar in it, and he never asked me again.

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We can't put someone who cares about climate change on the federal reserve because there are too many Republican obstructionists in the U.S. Senate who aren't willing to confirm any.

The next time BIPOC try to tell White folks the Senate majority matters -- like so many of us did in 2018 -- it would be great if those people who have the actual facts were not dismissed and pooh-poohed ad complacent YT folks so sure that democracy can run by itself would get off their butts and vote.

Yes, there was a Democratic candidate for an Indiana seat. Yes, Ted Cruz cheated and Beto O'Rourke wasn't willing to launch an investigation. Yes, Amy McGrath got FOUR TIMES the money Charles Booker did so she won the primary and then because she was milquetoasty and didn't have enough fire to stand up to McConnell's sneaky lies, he whipped her butt in the general even though he'd been polling at 20% the whole time.

"Good" White people have to be willing to actually put up a fight for democracy. They don't run themselves.

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So I've heard.

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im all for e-biking commuting. not so much for mountain ( trail) biking.

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