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The great Malcolm Nance joining the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-joined-by-malcolm-nance-of-international-legion-of-territorial-defense-of-ukraine-137997381811

The American veterans who are voluntarily joining the fight in Ukraine are reminiscent of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that fought against Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Back then, those Americans rightly saw Spain as the front line in the fight for freedom. Ukraine is that front line today.

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Biden has no choice but to run again. Just hope he can keep it together in his '80s like my Dad has.

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Biden’s age is only part of the problem. He’s also, fairly or unfairly, deeply unpopular. What’s he at now, 33% approval? Jesus.

Regardless, with prices climbing and crime rising (that’s the perception, anyway), no Democrat has much of a chance. The only glimmer of hope is that Trump, by far the most likely Republican candidate, is possibly the only politician even less popular than Biden.

If the GOP would just nominate any of the many normal-seeming fascists in their ranks, they’d win in a landslide. But they are all Trump’s bitches.

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@4: I am always curious to know what % of the poll respondents actually voted for Biden and now disapprove because of a myriad of progressive disappointments, mainly not waving a magic wand and eliminating student debt.

there will be many who disapprove but vote for his reelection anyway, because the entire GQP is now composed of insane Birchers.

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Speaking of Republicans pretending to care about things, I guess free speech only matters when it isn't CRT (in name only); then it goes into the fire along with the Constitution.

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@11. Yeah like Jared Kushner took $2 billion from MBS to hush up the Kashoggi bonesaw mutilation murder, but that doesn't fit the narrative.

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10 Because this country continues to do nothing after the Trump coup attempt and then the MAGA rigging of state election boards, it is virtual certainty a republican will get elected. Regardless of how well or how poor the country is doing.

Unless of course one of the variants proves even deadlier and begins to ravage the unvaccinated MAGA strongholds again. Which is always a possibility.

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"That the leftist unmentionables are being laundered in public directly contradicts those on the left that deny such things ever happen. "

Could you be a little less coy and spit out precisely what you mean?

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@10: Such attitudes will guarantee your self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Attitudes = motivations = voting = outcome

Your cynicism only validates like-minded proletarians reading this blog.

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@15: as you can see, skidmark can't plainly state anything.

he appears to be circularly referencing the "purple parent" movement, where fundy christians are asserting that schools (aka "gubmint instytushins") have no role in teaching morals and ethics, and are using "CRT" and "Common Core" and "Social-Emotional Learning" to indoctrinate ("groom") children in a Trans lifestyle. they don't know WTF they're talking about, but they're getting laws passed in all the shithole states.

IIRC, public schools have ALWAYS had a role in teaching morals and ethics. purple parents can get fucked.

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@18 What are you talking about. "Panties in a wad" about what? Which teachers doing what, where? Be specific. My god. Not everything is this cure little cypher. Use your big boy words.

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Well, you HAVE to know that the President of Delta Airlines is relieved that their corporate name is out of the news and feel sorry for any related business w/ Omicron in their name.

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@3: And which industries aren't 'duplicitous and amoral'?

@22: There are no shithole states, only shithole people

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@31 I'm pretty sure 3/ is "How many people are psychologically damaged by having to wear a mask to go into Wal-Mart?" The second half is just "I can't be bothered to wear a mask over both my nose and mouth, ergo mask use doesn't work, ergo nobody should have to wear a mask."

Answer: Zero.

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@ Demi Human Squawk

Not even a match for Goc

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For a girls basketball team facing a game where the competition's star forward is a 6'-2" trans female, it's not exactly a level playing field.

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@39: These are the things being debated, and it obviously varies depending on the sport. And if I'm a bigot, then why is the same thing being said by a famous Olympic Gold swimmer who is now a transsexual? I think you know her name, she's related to the Kardashians.

Your apology accepted in advance.

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Fun fact: Endemic doesn't mean harmless.

And over two years into the pandemic and for some reason even the basic science of what masks do and do not do continues to elude the dim bulbs of American society.

For the three trillionth time: Masks protect OTHER people.

Masks help prevent what you exhale from reaching the respiratory systems of other people. The evidence that they are effective at reducing transmission and death is overwhelming. That was true in 2020 and it's still true today when the covid19 virus is still killing three to seven times more than any modern flu virus every week. Endemic or not.

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@40, yer sarcasm detector is broken.

oh no, having trans athletes means sports aren't FAIR!!

life isn't fair. deal with it.

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@44: Wow, I guess so. Thanks for letting me know.

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@2 & @8 Max Solomon:+1 for the WIN!! Bravo and well said.

@14 RogerTheShrubber: I keep praying for a new lethal variant that would wipe out the entire GOP Death Cult. If only Vladimir Putin and its sock puppet, Orange Turd could get struck by lightning. Now that would be poetic justice.

Nope, nope, nope. Even if the mask mandate has officially ended I will NOT fly in a commercial jet or travel on a cruise ship. Let's face it---they're flying and floating petri dishes. And Boeing STILL can't get its act together regarding all the scandal with the CEO-defective MAX. And woe be to many U.S. service members serving in the fleet on any naval vessel that has succumbed to onboard infection. You can run but you can't hide.
My beloved and I will still ride the Washington State Ferries but that's it.

Unfortunately, I must concur with economist and NYT editorial columnist Paul Krugman regarding the rise of violence towards those among us wearing masks in public. Krugman nailed it---it never was about freedom. This overly long, dragged out pandemic has been about MAGA-preached Free Dumbs (i.e.: "the right to die", or, my personal favorite, "proud to take one for the Team"). I'll be wearing mine, except to eat, drink, and play wind instruments.
MAGAs can go fuck themselves.

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Auntie G usually it's not 'proud to take one for the team' so much as 'hoping to pass it on to the other team but Authoritarian Jeebus will protect me'

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@49 HW3: "Authoritarian Jeebus will protect me" only applies to apocalyptic white MAGA rubes assigned male at birth. It's all about their insanely corrupt bro club. What are these batshit crazy dumbfucks going to do once they've killed all the women and girls? On to breeding with farm animals?
I'm glad I had my full bilateral hysterectomy when I did. I consider myself among the lucky ones. The procedure corrected four decades of indescribably horrible monthly misery, and proved to be a real blessing.
I don't know who to feel sorrier for---women and adolescent girls in their reproductive years, or little girls from birth to their preteens who have yet to experience their first menstrual period. What kind of future can they possibly have?

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Smokin' Joe Biden or VP Kamala Harris had damned well BETTER soundly defeat the Orange Turd in 2024, keep the Democrats in the White House, and oust a TON of useless GOP garbage in Congress, the Senate, and SCOTUS or it's GAME OVER.
The Death Cult, a.k.a. the world's richest .000000000000000000001% and their MAGA and Russian dupes = Everyone and everything on a dead planet,
The rest of us on what's left of the Earth = 0


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