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Seriously. That's what I was thinking before everything else popped off.

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This is very true and makes the current information that much scarier. What has this crazy heffa been doing all these years? Yep. There's no benefit in pretending to be sick. The GQP responds best to open brazen defiance. They like their heroes to pretend to be dick-swinging heroes and macho men instead of what they really are: incels and bullies. If Thomas was in remotely decent shape we'd have gotten proof of life by now.

Having him die at home also means they can control access to him better. I'm pretty sure at least TMZ would have someone stalking the hospital looking for pics or gossip.

I think everyone knows that. I've no doubt that Biden's got a list ready to go but people need to remember that he will need to interview potential nominees to see if they want to put themselves through what comes next. Coney Barrett went so fast because she did as she was told. Our nominees aren't like that.

I think he's genuinely sick. If he wasn't, he still would just refuse to answer any questions and let's be honest, the press wouldn't ask him any because the Beltway press is broken. I think he's dying because him being sick doesn't help his wife at all.

Remember when the news came out last week (the week before?) where Ginni admitted to being at the Capitol on Jan. 6? I said then that the only reason she would admit that is if she was trying to get out in front of something. Now we know what it was and I'm very confident that far worse information is yet to come.

If Thomas goes, they'll claim Biden had him killed. Just like they claimed Obama killed Scalia.

All I care about is getting KBJ confirmed before Thomas dies. If he dies before that then the GQP will go buck wild. Once she's on SCOTUS, he can head to the crossroads.

Part of the problem with William and Kate, even before the poor planning, is that neither of them is good at interacting with the public. Meghan and Harry are. Harry was good even before Meghan entered the picture. William is Charles son but Harry is Diana's and it shows. Add Meghan to the mix and William and Kate don't stand a chance in the court of public opinion. I also think that like Charles and Diana before them, William and Kate have grown to hate each other.

Polls this far out from election day are worthless. IMO, Georgia is unknowable until election day. There's just too many variables.

Because he wanted Joe Biden to fill other judicial vacancies first. These are the judges who will make decisions in cases that get sent to SCOTUS. That was more important.

The Ohio Republican Senate primary y'all. Josh Mandel is such a deeply disturbed person.

A perfect example of how this was never about masks or mandates. It's about dragging this country back to the 1930s.

Someone referred to this as the QAnonification of politics. Just accuse someone you don't like of being a pedophile. The truth is that Republicans want to kill the rest of us. Accusing Dems of being sexual predators is the pretext. Just like how Putin is accusing Ukraine of being filled with Nazis even though Zalensky is Jewish. It's all designed to give right-wing authoritarian an excuse to do what they really want to do: kill the rest of us.

That's a whole different conversation. The state of mental health in this country has become critical among people of all ages but I think social media has been a molotov cocktail of fuel for narcissists, psychopaths and nihilists of all stripes. History is filled with how populations have been taken down by diseases they had no immunity to. I feel like millennials and Gen-Z don't have any immunity to propaganda/disinformation. Yes, this is basically me telling the kids to get off my lawn. I said what I said. 😄

This is the real issue. I understand why some people would prefer we stick with Standard time rather than Daylight. That's a perfectly legitimate debate to have. But the "children going to school in the dark" argument falls apart under even the most basic pushback. All day I've been watching this debate on Twitter and it always comes down to some assertion that kids will get run down by cars en masse. Which leads to my followup questions... Does your neighborhood not have streetlights, traffic lights, school zones, crosswalks, or crossing guards? If your children walk to school then you have to live fairly close, what mechanisms have already been put in place to ensure the safety of children? (This is an excellent chance to remind people about the existence of school zones.) Does your school system have a program for teaching kids about safety? (Cleveland schools have one. I don't know how common this kind of thing is though.) As we've seen over the last few years people love to use children as rhetorical human shields. Masks become "child abuse." Teaching accurate history is "indoctrination." But the truth is that children handle this stuff much better than many of the adults in their lives. Kids were fine with masks. It was their parents who couldn't handle it. Kids learning about slavery and the Holocaust doesn't harm them. It gives them context and teaches empathy but it's the parents who don't want little Dakota and Heavenleigh to learn that their ancestors enslaved people. Sorry, I'm on a bit of a tear. I just really need the generation growing up now to be stronger than the one before them.

I can already tell that this Daylight Savings thing is going to turn into civil war. I mean literally the north vs. the south. I keep seeing people say that they don't want kids going to school in the dark but that's literally the reality for kids who live above a certain longitude. In winter, you end up having to do stuff in the dark.

I love when Hillary Clinton decides to troll. The list of sanctioned Americans is kind of hilarious. I mean: Jen Psaki? She must be heartbroken. LOL!

One of the things I admire about Zalensky is that he takes the hero worship and accolades and always pivots back to saying that the Ukrainian people are the real heroes. He knows that his chances of surviving this grow smaller every day and he's making sure that if/when that time comes his last words will be used to inspire. It reminds me a lot of MLK's last speech and I don't make MLK comparisons lightly. "Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land."

All these years later, it still blows my mind when we agree. 😀

Here's how I define the difference between progressive and liberal. The current incarnation of progressivism is focused on economic populism. Every policy position is about how they don't want to pay their bills. (See: cancel student debt.) Liberals are focused on civil rights. Issues like reproductive rights, LGBTQ issues, police reform, etc... Just as a disclaimer and for context, I consider myself a liberal not a progressive. I'm a pragmatic, liberal Democrat and I believe in the credo of the Congressional Black Caucus. "We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies—just permanent interests."

Finally. Police are clearing out the protestors in Windsor. There seems to be coordinated police response in multiple cities.

I love seeing #COTUS trending on Twitter.

I can't with this kind of reasoning. We passed two huge spending that included lots of support for the poor (Child Tax Credit, increased SNAP, free school lunches), states just got millions of dollars to fix crumbling bridges, millions of people vaccinated, lowest unemployment in a generation, record numbers of new judges from diverse backgrounds but we should put McConnell back in charge because "nothing will ever get done as things currently stand, anyway?"