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6 years

Anytime you feel the urge to say stupidities about Social Security, #resist

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1 year

@erinrpineda I don't doubt that's part of it. On the other hand, I've noticed an increase in what I inelegantly refer to as "proud helplessness", tbh. No attempt at even basic 'self-help' or 'discovery', straight to "demand help".

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@richard_guhl @0liviajulianna Absolutely *not*. There is zero empirical evidence, let alone logical argument, whereby a vote FOR a party results in "moving" that party (let alone the nation), in a certain/particular direction. This is gobbledygook!

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5 years

@ryangrim And his "power of command" has increased as well, and its scope expanded tremendously.He is now effectively determining health and educational policy around the world. Even neater trick.

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4 years

@EmmaCaterineDSA @videotroph And you mean "naked" public spending. Cause we do a gargantuan amount of that but disguised and geared toward maintaining the power of capital, etc. :-(

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3 years

@EngelsFreddie @shl Neither is "investor".

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3 years

@PoliticsNYnews "In August 2013, the New York Post wrote a series of articles detailing Inez Dicken's history as a landlord. As of July 2013, she had $265,000 in unpaid code violations dating as far back as 2004, earning her a spot on the Public Advocate's "Worst Landlord's Watch List."

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4 years

@StephanieKelton The classification of businesses as "small" on the singular criterion of "number of employees" has always been a Trojan Horse. 5-person hedge fund = sMaLl BuSinEsS.

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3 years

@john_sipher If by "asinine" you mean "100% correct/true but uncomfortable", then yes.

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4 years

@dirksdt @Sophiemcneill He did not lose his integrity. The person claiming he did never had any to begin with.

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9 months

@narrative_hole The RFAF Su-35s are there lawfully. The remaining aircraft involved are there unlawfully.

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3 years

@FaeKronman So, if a person prefers being identified/classified as a "he" or as a "she", it's acceptable for others to classify and address them (ha ha!) as "they", right?

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4 years

@Peter_Dickerson @MattBinder No, sparky. He was born in Hawaii! Deal with it.

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2 years

The notion that an entity which spends in its own fiat, unpegged, inconvertible but redeemable, currency is dependent on "investor" willingness to "lend" (its own previously issued currency) to it to spend in 'excess' of the currency it destroys through taxation IS PREPOSTEROUS.

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@GrkStav

1 year

Tell me you never took a methods of inquiry and principles of statistical inference course without telling me.

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@DavidSacks

1 year

Hot jobs report today. I don’t know where they’re finding all these jobs. All I see are layoffs.

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7 years

@babyitsmb @JordanChariton @BernieSanders Once they accept public funds paying for their primaries and caucuses they forego the "we're a private association we can do what we want".

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2 years

@tomatomotorola @papa_rosh No. You all do not understand capital, capitalism or what qualifies one as a capitalist.

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1 year

@Trollstoy88 @GeromanAT He's *not* a former *U.S.* Senator. He's a former *Virginia* State Senator. Big difference.

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5 months

@LahavHarkov Are you asserting that the level of available verifiable definitive evidence is the same for the two?

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4 years

@JakeSherman The words "I yearn for ... Republican Presidents" ought never ever come out of the actual or proverbial mouth of the Democratic Party's Speaker of the US House of Representatives. That lady needs to be encouraged to spend "more time with her family" in November.

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3 years

@dessertrat33 @EoinHiggins_ You realize, don't you, that all of that has been done repeatedly already, to no avail? Also, "respect their time"? Why? They are elected officials.

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3 years

@jenniferdoleac @kearney_melissa @tylercowen What is your definition of "being cancelled", what are the empirical criteria for being included as having "been cancelled" and how did you meet them "several times"?

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4 years

@sonofsarcasm @marceelias No, we cannot. GFY.

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1 year

@erikmbaker Under no circumstances ought colleges and universities disclose any such information to the parents or guardians of their students without the latter's explicit consent.

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2 years

"President Joe Biden asks Congress for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine" HoW iS cOnGrEsS gOiNg To PaY fOr ThAt?

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2 years

@thesiriusreport "RS-28 Sarmat .. missile, with 10 heavy reentry vehicles, each [capable of] wip[ing] out an area the size of Texas ... features hypersonic glide vehicles to make it less detectable by U.S. or space-based sensor systems & could be immune to [US] missile defense systems."

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3 years

@Needle_of_Arya @edburmila Bernie Sanders is not senile. Feinstein is. I would be happy to say any competent, progressive Democrat in lieu of Feinstein, regardless of sex category, age, religion, race, etc.

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3 years

@MikeGrunwald No, nothing in the past 40+ years indicates that "you take the progress you can get and then you can push for more" is a proper stance/strategy. You have to threaten your alleged 'allies' with catastrophe (for them, as well) to get anything off them.

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4 years

@BrianAGraham42 @Vanessa_ABee @curaffairs Sans the blatant or "hidden" white supremacy and with significantly less "settler-colonialism" and imperialism.

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2 years

@SawyerHackett @rohangrey Also, shout out to the eligible voters in the district for falling for it.

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3 years

@susanflewis @JasonOverstreet This is biological essentialism. It is crap.

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3 years

@verdadeconomic @ojblanchard1 @rdomenechv This has to be the most brazenly false and ignorant statement I have read this year. Wrong on so many empirical and logical levels. Verdad, my arse.

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2 years

@BenjaminFogel So: 1) *She*, Michelle Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro's wife, unfollowed him, Jair Bolsonaro; 2) *He*, Jair Bolsonaro, Michelle Bolsonaro's husband, unfollowed her, Michelle Bolsonaro. "She, ... , and HE unfollowed each other." *not* "She, ... , and *him* unfollowed each other."

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6 months

@sarahleah1 @vijayprashad "it also bypassed Congress to sell Israel 13,981 120mm High Explosive shells" That's a definitely impeachable offense.

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3 years

@SecBlinken @LassoGuillermo I am sorry, what? "about how we can work together to ... restore democracy in Venezuela"????

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8 months

@DudeAsInCool @SpiritofLenin @ZareenaGrewal Peace Festival, my arse. We have the promo for it.

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5 months

@GeromanAT Why would the RF attack Germany? Or is the fear that Bundeswehr forces stationed in other countries might come under attack?

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3 years

@bunchofnumberss @carterforva Why? So that only already well-off people can run for office and if elected actually be able to serve without needing to be directly bribed?

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4 years

@axios @ossoff @margarettalev In that case, good luck to him and the Dems. I ain't doing a single thing, contributing not a single red cent, to him and them. Thumb down and "hmmm" are not going to cut it. He can eff right off.

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4 years

@theodoricofyork @ChrisDJackson @BernieSanders I'm at least twice her age and won't be voting Democrat if Biden is the nominee. In CA.

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2 years

@tankterminator @PlateLicker_21m Say, if you try to pay taxes and other non-reciprocal obligations you owe using the second 'piece of paper', do you reckon it will be "accepted" and "redeemed"?

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@GrkStav

3 years

@IsraelWarRoom @aaronjmate Yes, when lies are detected, when false, manufactured claims are presented as truth, Aaron speaks up. I like that pattern.

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2 years

@danushman @RWApodcast "unprovoked aggression"? That is "beyond me". That's a mendacious claim, Dan!

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4 years

@Kellymag26 @ddayen @daveweigel No, it is not. Obama nominated crappy, McConnell-approved, people to the USPS's BoG. Just because Obama nominated them doesn't mean that they'd be good.

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8 years

@liamstack Remember when G.W. chose Cheney? Similar situation, only Trump is apparently a bit more clueless.

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4 years

@C3OrgullosaC3 @zei_squirrel Huh? Are you the sort of person who claims that only people who are as good at football as professional footballers can critique them?

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3 years

@KirstieMAllsopp @BobbyNorthbank @adilray No. A mess was created on the floor as a result of sexual activity. A prayer mat was used to clean it up. That's the issue. Please stop 'doubling down'.

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7 years

@FactTank I therefore feel entirely justified in calling them faux-Christians, hypocrites, etc.

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4 years

@ConorTeich @NathanJRobinson That's not how it works. There are 50+1 *separate* elections for unevenly weighted slates of Electors to the Electoral College. I voted for a woman to be President, btw. Jill Stein, in CA.

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@bohdan7777747 @GeromanAT Which part of Minsk 1 or 2 imposed any obligations or duties on the RF?

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2 years

Paul Krugman, because he's a grade A a-hole *chose* to characterize Isabella Weber's piece published by the Guardian as "stupid". Anyone who ever tells me I should *ever* give him the "benefit of the doubt" because he, sometimes, happens to support policies I favor should stop.

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@GrkStav

3 years

I hate to inform you, but it IS "Monopoly money". The US Government IS the monopolist AND 'the Bank" for the U.S. Dollar. For the U.S. Government, U.S. Dollars ARE "Monopoly money" and for the rest of us, we're 'playing' ITS "Monopoly" board game.

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3 years

If you want a "big infrastructure deal" argue for it on its merits. If you want to increase taxes on billionaires and corporations, make a case for doing so on the merits. Do NOT make the former dependent on the latter. NEVER.

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8 months

@Watchmakermaker @wideofthepost @SeanErnst Right. Palestine being free has zero to do with 'ethnic cleansing' of Israeli Jews. Weird that you concluded it implied it. Is it perhaps because you assume that a free Israel implies ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians?

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3 years

@Israellycool @ryangrim The "governments" in the West Bank and Gaza that you refer to, are they collective entities with the all the rights and authorities of e.g. Israel or Jordan or Egypt? Can they effect fiscal, monetary, regulatory, foreign, defense, etc policies?

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3 years

@SenSanders Oh no . . .. I have to conclude you actually believe this crap, Senator, since otherwise one major component of why I support you would be removed. Sadly, this is so wrong, on so many levels, that I am depressed that you posted it. :-(

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4 years

@Stratfor @SimTack The very same NATO which Baker promised Gorbachev would expand not an inch beyond unified Germany, right?

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2 years

"A government following an MMT-type prescription runs the risk of increasing ____ (country name)'s dependency on international financing." This is the kind of rubbish that passes for serious 'left' critique of MMT.

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2 years

@lesiavasylenko Please stop spreading disinformation. Thanks in advance.

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3 years

"Money is critical for the functioning of our complex societies, and yet we understand so little about it."

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7 months

@DaisyB_77 @jncatron So, how do you propose they would go about asking "them" (a German newspaper whose name you cannot remember), then?

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7 years

@CbadRN We'll just arrest you if you even attempt to "run them over", instead. @lgee06 @thehadsshow @MartyCaswell

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4 months

@AndrewDesiderio Why? Maybe you can press Biden to cease the prosecution of Julian Assange, instead.

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3 years

@BryanMcMahon12 @sahilkapur @RepJohnYarmuth Well, it can issue and make available USD "whenever it needs to", and it actually do so, as the U.S. Congress authorizes and appropriates. There's no debating facts.

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5 years

@moarxbt @BernieSanders The problem with socialism is that the US and its allies and lackeys will undermine it in every possible way.

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2 years

@Independent Why, on earth, would 1,000 civilians, non-combatants voluntarily take shelter in the Azovstal steel plant complex?

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3 years

@PeteHarrisonNYC Just like NYT running an honest, factual story on the likely impacts of NAFTA *after* it was "ratified".

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2 months

@PaulMBigland @SkipMcQueen @SackStarmer @jruddy99 So, when you voted LibDem, you preferred to see the Tories in power than Labour, right?

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4 years

@mtaibbi Suggesting that editors of the NYT not solicit an editorial from a US Senator eager to invoke the Sedition Act in response to popular mobilization against law enforcement's criminality and brutality is not akin to promoting, condoning or abiding "censorship", Matt.

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3 years

"The problem with MMT is that it might not work when inflation takes hold and interest rates pick up, says Perkins." This is an incoherent statement. As a test of your knowledge and understanding of MMT, figure out why.

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3 years

@RichWisneski @SocialistMMA @TulsiGabbard WTF does "homophobia" have to do with ANY of this?

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1 year

Why do various and sundry self-proclaimed critics of MMT not actually read L. Randall Wray's work or even watch/listen to the many available videos of him on YouTube?

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@tab_delete Let me ask you: Would you consider the UK/British and/or English flag, and the U.S. flag as "symbols that signify terror and violence"? If not, why not?

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@jjz1600 @jeff_kaye On our watch, with our material, financial, diplomatic and intelligence support, in OUR name!

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3 years

@MeridithGetty1 @SenSanders You don't pay. Anyway, if your main motivation for not abolishing the death penalty is cost of life incarceration, you need lots of help with your moral development.

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4 years

@doyle1020 @briebriejoy @CNN 90+% of those not supporting him.

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4 years

@slownewsdave @lhfang There ya go, moar defending of Boeing and its shareholders. Woohoo! Lick those boots harder!

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2 years

@TheStudyofWar So, in effect, you take Ukrainian government sources as ex hypothesi accurate, right?

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4 years

@ryangrim @AOC They didn't "give her" anything. Bernie selected her to deliver the customary motion to put him up for consideration by the Convention. The DNC gave her *nothing*.

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10 months

@KitKlarenberg @jamesrbuk @J_Bloodworth "unlikely to face prosecution in the US" ... Gotta love that deep insight, clairvoyance really.

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11 months

@richard_guhl @0liviajulianna My standards are my standards, and how you characterize them is entirely your business and immaterial to me. Apply YOUR standards precisely as you like, and choose accordingly. I'll do the same.

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2 years

@SlavaUk95551106 @TreyYingst In what does this "all you have done for Ukraine" consist?

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3 years

I have a feeling that most people genuinely think that increasing taxes on the rich automatically adds to the disposable income of the non-rich.

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3 years

So MANY people, including learned, thoughtful people simply assume that tax cuts etc. result in other taxpayers having to "make up the foregone revenue" or in "spending cuts" to match the foregone revenue. Simply NOT TRUE.

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5 years

@Scrumhalf1 @MeetThePress @BernieSanders They were not "mistakes". They were deliberately evil, immoral, and illegal acts.

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3 years

I take it that US Govt spending for e.g. Israel's "Iron Dome" is not subject to PAYGO. Is that accurate?

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3 years

@ajamubaraka Who is confused? Who did not already know that Twitter, Google and Facebook are major ideological state apparatuses? When was mass control of thought and speech not privatized?

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3 years

@APompliano @dandolfa This is the absolute stupidest, most moronic idea I've heard all year.

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2 years

@Anna__Korte @Ukrainy_1991 Speak for yourself. If the Kyiv regime represent the "defense" of "the West", that "West" is not worth defending.

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5 months

@sfrantzman @LahavHarkov How is being skeptical regarding allegations put forth by Israel regarding ... anything at all not eminently prudent?

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4 years

@MarkBermann @yanisvaroufakis Why is that relevant?

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3 years

@MacaesBruno Wait, what? What "Western values" is he referring to?

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@jacobshed24 @AXChristoforou Wait, wait, wait, are you saying that Iran has not already been attacked via proxies?

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1 year

@vicktop555 Remember this face:

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3 years

@chrislhayes @RogueWPA How could you possibly be persuadable that it's real? What have you been presented by way of actual "mechanisms" whereby the so-called Havana Syndrome is effected?

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4 years

@RealForeFathers @mtaibbi Why are you telling us? Vote for whomever the eff you feel like, don't vote, whatever. Who cares?

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2 years

@TpyxaNews Seriously, COPE!

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3 years

@dandolfa "Everyone has money, no one wants to work [for me, for what I am offering to pay them for the right to use their capacities to work for a specified amount of time]."

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3 years

@TheWisestHuman @lindsaywise He's describing what HE/the GOP is/are going to do, I reckon.

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2 years

Were people asleep during Obama's 2nd term? Did they pay no attention to US foreign policy at the time? The US fomented, financed, supported and legitimized a *coup* in Ukraine in 2013/14. Did you all think Russia was going to accept an anti-Russian, NATO & EU aspiring, Ukraine?

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