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I quoted the actual punch-down. Let’s stop fighting each other and finally move to the center: New Deal Sociali(zed) Security. By combining financial and social collective responsibility, we make capitalism greater. Get it? Move further left.

More public education.Safer environment.Work/life balance and protections.Social security.

Move left for humanity’s sake.

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Re: Warren...Me too. She appears earnest and authentic. My first vote was for Nancy LK, who reminds me of her generation.

In fact there all seem a vast improvement over the status quo. I’d love to see them all in the administration - including she, whose name cannot be mentioned.

So let’s not name-call and cuss and insult and deride and punch-down; because we MUST attract the youth, the Latinos, the blacks, the disenfranchised D’s and R’s and independents.

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I can always count on you to find a way to smile on the spiral down. Kudos

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I didn't. Please read my other comments- this is the same thing I have been saying consistently.

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Still with the “You must be logged in to upload an image” bullshit, associated with this same screen where I am uploading this non-comment. Why are you so damn evil Disqus?!?

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I always look forward to your weighing in on the discussion at hand.

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Actually, Pompeo was academically successful and probably scored well on IQ indicating tests. What makes him particularly dangerous is that he is a SMART twisted dominionist fuckhead, much smarter than laughable fellow traveler Betsy DeVos.

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So true!

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Trucks can be bought on time, Gas can't

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I live in Ridgecrest CA , location of 6.4 and 7.1 last summer., We have dozens of little ones all the time with a noticeable 3+ a couple times a week. After 55 years and 38 hurricanes in FL in my earlier life, I'll take the earthquakes happily. Of course I live in a one-story town .

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Are you punching down to help Republicans or to hurt Democrats?

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That means a lot to the dead.

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The fuck you talking about? I'm taking the original commenter's "thoughts" to their logical conclusion. Do you also think there's no difference between the parties?

And "punching down?" You should learn what words mean before you try to use them.

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Whatever your other comments were, you said he killed Americans in his role as a general. Which is not true.

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We can't get a conviction, because the Republicans are on board for the dictatorship. But I think they were worried they could possibly get something resembling a trial, and can't have even that.

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Well, you haven't actually established that it wasn't true, you have just offered a reason it might not have been. If we're going to get pedantic about this, he was assassinated for things he could only have done as a general- whether the US is actually at war with Iran or not. His control over special forces in Iran is a role normally given to generals. The operations he ordered were ordered in that capacity.

As yet, no details of why he was assassinated have actually been issued, besides very vague allusions to something terrible he was definitely on the cusp of doing. Obviously, generals never do terrible things.

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