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Dad to Noah, Natalie, and Gabriel. Husband to Margarita. OG Yordan Alvarez stan. 2x Champion #Astros . IB Economics teacher. Ralph Yarborough Democrat. CT-NH-TX.

West U, TX / Plattsburgh, NY
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3 years
If you want to know how the week is going, I just took a pillowcase out of the dryer, put it over my head thinking it was a t-shirt to wear to bed, spent 15 seconds inside it searching for the neckhole, and then mumbled “what is this, pants?”.
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@JohnCornyn You're aware that there is nothing typical about a family with their own non-corporate business and separate business income, correct? Do you even interact with people who aren't lobbyists?
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@jkelly3rd @HotlineJosh I’ll never understand how mask-wearing became a line in the sand about personal freedom to so many. How powerless do they feel in their own day-to-day lives they they had to rebel on *this* one?
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@MCunninghamAJC @JohnCornyn Yup. And even so, he basically took the profile of how many wealthy people make their money and reduced all the numbers by like 90%, but that's not a middle class profile of how income is usually generated.
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For George Springer, who has overcome a lifelong stutter, to wear a live mic on national TV for the All-Star Game, is brave and inspiring.
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Altuve looking for Singleton right after his HR - two guys who’ve walked different paths who were in this organization back in the Ed Wade days, and on the field for Bo Porter - is everything. ❤️
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@johnroderick @Willeth You communicated your story in enough detail that everyone can reach an informed conclusion. She’s 9. Just feed her when she’s hungry. Nobody needs their weirdly analytical dad conducting grit experiments on them for hours.
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@NateSilver538 Watching you evolve from cutting edge data analyst to bitter middle-aged pundit who punches left is really unfortunate. I’m sorry your liberal staff said some mean things about you over the years. But it appears they may have picked up on some genuinely reactionary instincts.
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@chrislhayes We are really underselling how bad things are going to get if he loses next November, during the 10-week aftermath where he’s still in power.
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@bdjansenphd @amberjans The work standards of junior high and high school in no way reflect the real world. Kids work more. The hardest working people I know are all 17. The reality is we lose energy when we get older but get paid to “supervise” and “use judgment” because we’re too worn down to create.
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@WalshFreedom @SachaBaronCohen He didn't really fool you. He posed as a lobbyist supporting exactly the idea he claimed to be supporting, and you chose to go on camera in support of it. Speaks volumes of how radical special interests own your party.
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@GShaneMorris I’m a happy husband and father of 3, but posting something like this says more about you than any of the single social 35-year olds you’re, uh, trying to warn?
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@ohheckorama @ChristianWalk1r His own son “my dad sucks, we begged him not to run” MAGA voters: But his opponent is WOKE!!
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@ellewoodsgolfs @nycsouthpaw I want each remaining lame duck public appearance from Trump to be at a slightly smaller desk.
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One of baseball’s finest traditions.
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@JillianBarkley @sug_knight @KrangTNelson 🪜 Actually, in order for something to qualify as a fear - or phobia in the more technically accepted jargon - it needs to be a persistent thought pattern or… 1/82
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Javier struck out all 9 Yankees at least once. Stanton three times. Judge twice. That’s an all-time regular season performance.
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#Astros dynasty update: 6 straight full-season AL West titles 6 90-win seasons 4 100-win seasons 6 straight ALCS (2023 pending) 4 AL pennants 2 World Series titles There are no Bill Russells or John Woodens in 21st century baseball. This is a dynasty by any logical definition.
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@GShaneMorris “You may enjoy your cute outfits and disposable income now, but just you wait!!!!”
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@MEPFuller I don't get it. He's retiring. Why is he keeping this mini-Trump shtick going strong?
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@ChatByCC @realDonaldTrump The party of “law and order” when they don’t like a law.
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@AdamSerwer A lot of people know their son will never get attacked by cops for playing with his friends but is probably at much greater risk of being exposed for the hateful garbage he texts to his friends.
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@WillOremus The real takeaway is that when people do bad things they instinctively know that the GOP will provide a massive psychological shelter from the morality police.
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Trey Mancini went from losing 110 games a year since 2018 to getting in the box and seeing Jose Altuve on 3rd, Yordan Alvarez on 2nd and Alex Bregman on 1st. Dude had to hit a grand slam.
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Back when I was a kid and teenager, ABC News had Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer. That was an absolute superpower of a news team.
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@FauxShizzul @lolacoaster The problem occurs when people who were clearly handed a life of luxury talk about how hard they had to work, nothing was handed to them, etc. Just own it. I know some trust fund types who still work but are like “yeah, I’m lucky as hell lol”. That’s fine!
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@BenKlinePoet @ProfMMurray @nytimes @jodikantor @Jo_Becker Christianity in America isn’t about Christ. It’s about fusing the gut instincts of reactionary people with the structures of power, and telling yourself that God favors such behavior.
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Kinda funny how the starting center fielders for the 6 AL playoff teams are Aaron Judge, Julio Rodriguez and the last 4 Astros’ center fielders.
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@david_j_roth Between Harris, Swalwell, Williamson and Yang, tonight was an amazing experience in The Four Types of Californians.
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#Astros . Spoiled as hell.
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The Astros were bad for 5 years straight, and then they rode a homegrown core to 7-years-and-counting of consistent winning. The Rangers were bad for 5 years straight, and then there was no end in sight so they just overpaid everyone on the market to complete their “rebuild”.
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@JoannaMang “Are we finally collapsing as a civilization?” - me when the low tire pressure light comes on again when I just bought new tires last month
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@ProfDBernstein @jadler1969 @rickhasen @FedSoc “Our organization that exists solely to cement conservative dogma and political philosophy into our society for generations on behalf of right-wing elites does not take political positions.”
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@YAppelbaum @gcaw I don’t know how to tell you guys this: 98% of college students are not remotely interested in sadomasochistic intellectual combat. They’re trying to get good grades, express/develop confident sexual autonomy, and line up a good entry level job on a strong career path.
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@RosalyndMC @BrandyLJensen When you teach kids to negotiate and expect reasons for how they’re treated, they tend to be more confident in demanding fairness as adults. When it’s “because I said so”, they’re conditioned to accept a world where powerful people pull that shit constantly.
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@MrDavidAngelo @jaketapper Imagine thinking Donald Trump is honest and all these career FBI goody-goody types like Mueller and Comey are the *real* villains. You're telling on yourself.
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3 years
Astros cutting this to 9-5 is a reminder that the pitching doesn’t have to be great. It just has to avoid implosion.
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Going to 7 straight LCS is not going to happen again for any team in my lifetime. Too much parity, too much randomness, too hard to build the kind of player development advantage we had in the 2010s. This is a dynasty.
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@thismomisoverit @JacobAShell $325K in the early 80s?!? You were rich as hell lol.
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2 years
Some positivity: Rafael Montero grew up in the Dominican and was in danger of his career ending with less than $2M in career earnings in 2019. Now he has generational wealth for his family.
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The Astros have played *73* playoff games over the past 5 seasons, easily the most in the Majors. Just a massive number of memories for any fanbase in such a short period of time.
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2 years
The Mariners’ fans should take time to reflect on why they made that much more embarrassing for themselves than it needed to be. #Astros
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1 year
Just a reminder that James Van Der Beek’s wife is an anti-vax kook and they moved to a ranch in Texas to experience moon cycles and whatnot. He’s one of those “apolitical” around-the-bend crunchy types who ended up a right-wing RFK stan:
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i don't see how Biden bounces back from this (Fox has been hammering this "story" all morning)
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@jaketapper There are people who have always been clearly *bad* who are celebrating the rise to power of a proudly bad man. That explains Pirro.
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Bo Jackson’s 1989 where he hit 32 HR, 105 RBI, 124 OPS+, top 10 MVP… … then he joined the NFL season already in progress and rushed for 950 yards in 11 games, 5.5 YPC. Close to the most impressive calendar year in the modern era from a pro athlete.
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Bo knows hitting ABSOLUTE BOMBs off Hall of Famers. 💣 😳 Bo Jackson nearly hitting the ball out of the stadium vs. Jack Morris. Bo hitting one of the longest HRs Randy Johnson ever gave up... And hitting the LONGEST HR given up by Nolan Ryan in his career.
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@lindseyadler “Ms. Middleton didn’t throw her scheduled bullpen last weekend, and she’s not traveling with the team, but there’s been no setback.”
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From @brianmctaggart : "Dana Brown... will have a say in who’s in the manager’s chair, but owner Jim Crane and Jeff Bagwell, the team’s senior advisor to ownership and baseball operations, will oversee finding the next Astros skipper." Absolute clown show in the front office.
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@CindyKatococo @gorskon @seanhannity Hannity has gotten very, very rich persuading older people with no college education that the world is ending if smart liberals take power.
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@AaronBlake @nycsouthpaw I mean, of course Tucker privately thinks Trump is a dumb failure. People’s opinions of Trump are 98% polarized by education/ability level. People of relatively high ability who speak fondly of Trump are almost all lying.
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2 years
As far as uniforms go, the Astros current 4-pack is elite. The orange alt and Framber Day blue alt both fire. Traditional and colorful. Big W.
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The Rangers may be hosting Creed tonight, but they’re currently a… … nickel back.
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@CaseyCagle @Delta @NRA Conservatives: Small government! Let the powerful businesses decide everyone's fate! Also conservatives: This business is being mean to another business I like. I will use the government to hurt them.
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3rd place, 39-33 record, supposed to run the whole damn league
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@nycsouthpaw People of all political persuasions who own upper middle class houses will object to more working class people living in their town/neighborhood/school zone. They will do so for the most virtuous reason they can find, but you will not appease them. They want exclusivity.
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Not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but today’s winning #Astros pitcher was the 2nd overall pick in the 2004 draft (Verlander), and the Rangers losing pitcher was the 1st overall pick in the 2004 draft (Bush).
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@FauxShizzul @lolacoaster You seem intent on misunderstanding what bothers people: I don’t expect anyone to demonize their rich family, or refuse financial help/connections. It’s when they want that *and* a heroic original story where they built themselves from scratch. The ones without self-awareness.
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@NateSilver538 The polls aren’t what’s causing the anxiety. It’s litigation plus mail ballot shenanigans.
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@pixelatedboat That’s how he bought Twitter! He fell in love with Babylon Bee’s boomer Onion shtick and was outraged when they were banned.
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@nycsouthpaw There is no bigger gap between real world sentiment and online sentiment than NIMBY-backed exclusionary zoning, which is ubiquitous in reality and a punching bag of greed and selfishness online.
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2019 Astros, and not close. Absurdly loaded. The two best pitchers in the AL by a mile, plus 6 of the top 15-20 hitters. Better than either WS champion team.
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Of the past 10 World Series losers, which team was the best?
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@mrs_hippiequeen This should be standard procedure.
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@chrislhayes The problem is that the people who think it's the greatest nation in the world often think so *because* we give people the freedom to destroy themselves rather than providing basic guardrails that a rich nation can afford. It's grotesque.
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@notreallyjcm Yup. People are engaging in addictive navel-gazing and deciding they constantly have to make CHANGES because of existential despair. Take your Zoloft and stop doom texting your friends, folks.
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Letting Maldy hit here with Framber already out of the game is hilariously dumb and all the people who loudly said it will be different in the playoffs should feel ashamed.
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Dusty Baker on José Abreu (77 OPS+): “He’s back in shape, and we got every Thursday off. We need him. We need him badly.” Baker on Chas McCormick (137 OPS+): “Depends on what I need… depends on how a guy's doing. I mean, it’s easy if you got Julio Rodriguez…”. It’s all vibes.
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Honestly, if the Astros win this series, and they ask Correa how they turned it around, he should look right at the camera, pause, and say: “our cheating is better than ever”.
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@nycsouthpaw He wants us to believe that he feared a park ranger triggering a Pentagon investigation into a years-old bullet wound. Tellingly, he declined to allow the treatment record at the hospital from the park incident to be released.
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Can blame players for losing to bad teams, or Dusty for the lethargic victory lap season of managing nonsense, but Jim Crane fired the GM and AGM six days after winning it all, ran a terrible off-season with Bagwell as his co-pilot, and ran the trade deadline himself. It’s him.
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@AFictionalGuy @NateSilver538 Lefties I know don’t care about young, energetic, etc. They want someone to reverse the changes in post-Reagan America and restore the FDR/LBJ trajectory towards European-style social democracy. Whether that’s an old white man from Vermont or a 30-year old Latina from the Bronx.
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@Nicole_Cliffe If my enemies have footage of me looking less dead inside from a decade ago, I’m here for it.
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@jaywillis @Taniel You see a lot of this in certain schools, sadly. The mainstream media portrayed as “the left”, and then absolutely batshit stuff like The Federalist is the other side. Explains why we have a far right wing party and a centrist party.
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The most shocking #Astros win since Game 5 of the 2017 World Series, which was the most shocking win since Game 2 of the 2017 World Series. Eat it, Dodgers.
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George Springer shamelessly participated in the postseason, which has been banned in Seattle by city ordinance for 20 years.
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I really appreciate the Mariners fans in attendance reminding everyone of what George Springer was previously a part of.
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@TeddyDavisCNN @newtgingrich @PressClubDC Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House when the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton for obstructing justice. You can't make this stuff up.
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Altuve has the MVP. Bregman is the best player on the roster. Correa was the 1st overall pick of the Luhnow era. Verlander is the celebrity. Make no mistake. The 2011-2020 story can only be told through George Springer. He’s the soul of it.
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@Buster_ESPN “We send our lobbyists out with blank checkbooks to buy Senators. This is America, you know. We regret the error.”
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It’s pretty wild that we have a pitcher who has 21 consecutive quality starts, ERA under 2.7, was the winning pitcher in the All-Star Game, and he’s not even arguably the ace.
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Brian Cashman wants us to believe he cries himself to sleep every night over 2017, which is why he… employs Carlos Beltran and Marwin Gonzalez?
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@timfromhouston @haleyjennyc @teddyschleifer If a billionaire says “I could be comfortable with any candidate except this one”, I promise you it’s not personal or stylistic. It’s about his money.
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@stumbalinaa @ndrew_lawrence Not a single person complaining about Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy cares a single fuck about the debt, nor claims to. It’s just funny to point out how it’s a pet issue for Republicans only when the money flows out to the poor.
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@mitchysuch Both of these people were so cool in 7th grade because they would kiss in the locker bay after lunch and you didn’t realize they weren’t future leaders of society but rather would live within 5 miles of that middle school their whole lives.
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@hshaban @maggieNYT These guys seem to be really bad at intimidating moms, maybe they should take some classes in how to save lives and protect people in danger instead?
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Can we all talk about how Luhnow’s decision to select 18-year old Kyle Tucker over polished college outfielders Andrew Benintendi and Ian Happ in the 2015 draft is now a massive home run?
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@DJJudd "Peaceful means quiet" lol. Please protest in a way that is literally inaudible.
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Happy 3-year anniversary to the morning when @DICKS accidentally discounted all Astros’ World Series championship gear (including $150+ jerseys) to $9.97 for a couple hours and then got pressured to honor the sales.
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@maccabeecheese @robbysoave I’m a teacher who just finished paying my loans during the pandemic. I’m thrilled for people to not have to go through what I did. Life isn’t a competition. The more people who can afford basic necessities without anxiety, the better.
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Dusty taking a shot at “those who have never played the game” in his salty retirement quote is too perfect after he inherited a 108-win team built by guys who never played the game.
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@oliverdarcy A lot of people on the right use “elite” to mean “educated”, regardless of income. It’s like SAT score polarization.
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The #Astros are going to clinch the division in the next couple days, and host the ALDS, and the real story is 3 starters who were non-prospects - Framber Valdez, Jose Urquidy and Luis Garcia - have replaced Verlander, Cole and Greinke (and Morton before him). Homegrown saviors.
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@JStein_WaPo It wouldn’t be a GOP presidency if it didn’t end in chaotic ruins with an economic catastrophe handed to the popular incoming Democrat.
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@Astros290 @JohnCornyn Yup. Cornyn knows the only way to win when the facts are against you is to play to tribalism.
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@jenniferdoleac @kearney_melissa @tylercowen Could also be that Larry Summers was comically wrong about everything that he advocated to promote growth and economic activity from 1998-2011 and is one of the people most responsible for the looting of the working class due to securitization. But we can’t let him be critiqued!
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@ShawnMcCreesh @semaforben How many divorces do you need under your belt before this becomes the dating app to meet people in your target demo?
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@chrislhayes I think Fox got cocky with their “LOL socialism” view and forgot how popular FDR/European populism is with normal people, even ‘Murican white guys, who aren’t rich.
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Meanwhile, props to Carlos Correa, who will beat all these $300M deals by signing ten consecutive 1-year, $35M contracts in ten different markets.
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@sonyashea3 @ibflorea Santos as an early 1980s hotel magnate who is linked to a half-dozen dead prostitutes but claims his ex-wife’s brother was in charge at the time.
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