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I would be willing to make a small bet that cutting the cancer research is aimed at Biden because he has promoted it.

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That unfortunately makes total sense, as stupid, ignorant and petty as Felon34 is.

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Throwing in that his family stole from a cancer charity, right?

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Not to mention that Beau Biden died of cancer, albeit as an adult.

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I like how Louisiana is all for "personal choice"... for vaccines, but not when a woman is bleeding out in the parking lot due to pregnancy complications. That makes sense. I wonder how the stock market will like the latest chaosery from the super expert business republican people?

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The stock market continued the longest slide since 1978 on Friday.

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I read some analysts a day or so ago on the slide--one of those "so and so said and then so and so said and then so and so said" analyses. The gist was that Wall Street likes stability and that is about the last thing trump brings. Who wants to invest in a company that might have ICE tramping through its warehouses?

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The usual cruel and heartless MAGA. Perhaps if the Dems message this a bit, people will catch on. But don't bet on the messaging, alas. MAGA = pro-life??????? Only before birth.

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Dems should message it a lot, and loudly, but right now their message is being written in invisible ink and broadcast nowhere.

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Well, to be fair there is a very uneven playing field in terms of ways and places to broadcast that message through.

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SO TRUE

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About a week into the Trump administration being in office it was discovered that his "advisor" daughter was using a private server, and when confronted with that fact, she said she hadn't known she wasn't supposed to. This was after the entire nation had been subjected to the right wing foaming at the mouth for an extended period over Hillary using a private server and cries of "lock her up" had provided entertainment at every one of her dad's rallies. It was a jaw dropping pretense of ignorance or else a jaw dropping display of true ignorance in someone who was about to be paid for political advice.

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Use a Tesla tire iron; Louisville Sluggers deserve better than Muck.

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Yes.

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Do you think Louisiana’s new possible health mandate has to do with preventing a future manslaughter lawsuit aimed at Donald Trump for killing hundreds of thousands of people because he told millions of his followers that vaccines, social distancing and mask wearing were unnecessary?

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An ineresting question.

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It looks to me like the guy is trying to plug up all the holes and possible holes to cover his previous heinous snafus.

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To Grover, Dave, and Yehawes below: The Dems need to start something like the Doomsday Clock on which they log each gaff and snafu by the Musk administration so that when 2026 comes around Dems can campaign with pictures and billboards of the Maga Midnight. People "get" visuals. And the Town Crier needs to make a loud ceremony of adding to that clock. Moscowitz could be good at this, or rotate the ceremonial chore among Dem volunteers. Maybe Katie Porter could do this because she's been so efficient with visuals and it could set up her return to Congress. Do it this way and the right wing spinners will have trouble lying about all of it. It's a far better gimmick, gimmick though it be, than cheap hightops painted with gold Rust-o-leum paint.

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I believe Joyce Vance has spoken about doing something like that. And she's the cookie that can do it!!

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Good post, Tom. You'd think people of the Jewish religion all over the world would condemn Netanyahu from skipping the Auschwitz liberation ceremony. Auschwitz was not the only concentration of horrors camp but it has come to symbolize the holocaust in general. As to the musk/trump/jd Executive Branch - nothing they do surprises me, they are doing exactly what they and the 2025ers said they would do,

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Timothy Snyder is already in the groove, labeling Wreck II accurately, "The Mump Regime".

Ok, Ok ... Tim's label is for Holiday Family only. Sorry, sorry back to regular order.

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You're right about the South,

Tom. Add in Utah, Iowa and

Mo with a few other mid west

states. It's like a virus there's

no vaccine for:

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As I was reading this, the news popped up: Senate has passed by voice vote the bill for children's cancer research ( the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0) that the House passed back in March and the Senate has been sitting on ever since. Don't know why sitting: filibuster? Any way, up yours, Elunge.. Slightly different bill--now the House GOP will be the bad guy if they don't accept the changes.

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The Senate passed that as a separate bill. Not a part of the CR and already on its way to President Biden. Still a definite FU to Elmo.

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yes indeed. Now if we could only get some control of those drug middlemen. But that’s not gonna happen. Health care is going to get worse before it gets better.

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I like these Pig Poking sessions

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