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Thursday, April 22, 2021 10:30 PM

Trump Border Wall DEFEATED by $5 dollar Ladders: Report


Derp.
Americans really know how to spend their tax dollars wisely. Failed wars, failed walls and hookers for Matt Gaetz.


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Thursday, April 22, 2021 10:53 PM

Right Wing Media and the Dangerous Expansion of the Disinformation Universe




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Thursday, April 22, 2021 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Trump Border Wall DEFEATED by $5 dollar Ladders: Report

Americans really know how to spend their tax dollars wisely.

38 second video of the ladder being used to climb over Trump's Wall at
www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-border-wall-people-climbing-with-
5-dollar-ladders-2021-4


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 22, 2021 11:51 PM

Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Under a deal with the state of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday, Foxconn will reduce its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000.

The Foxconn-Wisconsin deal was first announced to great fanfare at the White House in July 2017, with Trump boasting of it as an example of how his “America first” agenda could revive U.S. tech manufacturing.

https://www.reuters.com/business/foxconn-sharply-scales-back-wisconsin
-investment-2021-04-20
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 22, 2021 11:54 PM

QUOTE
I do not care.
Normal sixteen year olds do not attempt to butcher another human being to death with a knife.
Neither her skin color or her age absolves her from any guilt.

The responding officer is a hero.
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1384929367072116736

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Friday, April 23, 2021 4:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
QUOTE
I do not care.
Normal sixteen year olds do not attempt to butcher another human being to death with a knife.
Neither her skin color or her age absolves her from any guilt.

The responding officer is a hero.
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1384929367072116736

Bullshit.
The pig didn't even say a word. He just shot her because he knew it would make him feel like a big man with his pig boyfriends.
You're a racist piece of shit. Remove yourself from the world. It's the one and only thing you can do to make it better.


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Friday, April 23, 2021 4:49 AM

Welcome to Day 93.

Today in one sentence: Biden pledged to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030; the Senate passed legislation denouncing discrimination against Asian communities in the U.S.; the House voted along party lines to grant statehood to Washington, D.C.; Biden is expected to propose almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for people earning more than $1 million; and Senate Republicans released an outline for their own $568 billion infrastructure plan, which Democrats rejected as "totally anemic."

The Democrats are right, as usual.


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Friday, April 23, 2021 4:21 PM

Trump Can't Stop Crying During Hannity Interview


"You're working as hard now as you did in the White House."
That's the most honest thing Sean Hannity has said in a long time.

Trump’s definition of working hard:
Trump: “Getting more attention. But enough about me, what do you think about me?”

How can we ignore him if he won't go away?


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Friday, April 23, 2021 5:12 PM

What the Iraq Invasion Revealed About How America Works

A geopolitical and human failure on that scale doesn’t just happen because of a lie (or analytical error) about a weapons program. It happens because people let their ambitions and their fears and their big ideas cloud their judgment, or because they assume they can make big-picture decisions about the fates of millions of people without a real base of knowledge. Or because they are too scared to go against their boss, or their work is a little sloppy, or they listened to the wrong consultants, or they’re insufficiently worried about the stuff that’s not precisely in their job description. It happens because some people write memos that are more convincing than others. It happens because petty office rivalries play out on a world stage, with disastrous consequences.

But after spending most of a year reading and talking to people about the war, I’ve come to believe that failure on that scale happens, mostly, because of ego. On a personal, institutional, and national level. It’s ego that manifests itself in a refusal to believe that the critics of an idea might have a point, or that the facts might not support your intentions. And, most of all, in the notion that one country can just decide to change another, by force, and succeed.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210422190144/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2021/04/iraq-invasion-slow-burn-intro.html


Donald Trump, who’d favored the war as a guest on The Howard Stern Show, pretended he’d opposed the war to make political hay in 2016. A Republican nominee casting himself as an Iraq dove was a sign of how much things had changed in the 15 years since 9/11.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, April 23, 2021 9:25 PM

Exclusive: Ohio Republicans Are About to Introduce a Devastating Voter Suppression Bill




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