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I liked the pie chart. That was a nice touch. ROTFMOL


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That article really reached me. I felt exactly the same way.


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One of my Facebook friends down in Oklahoma said:

"I dunno Jeffery, it's a bit too technical."


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i counted and i believe the purple was overstated and the light blue was understated

or maybe there was a typo


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I think a German translation is needed, all those fikkens.


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My pal Angus, agrees...

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Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
3) Within 100 days of assuming office (if it even waits to inauguration), world affairs are going to explode. Iran, North Korea, ISIS, Russia and China will ALL be expanding and testing the limits of US commitment. His responses will be all over the board, but the Pentagon will be trying to limit foreign involvement (which he will gladly cling to).
And so it begins: After Trump chat, Putin's airstrikes pound Syria - USA TODAY; Russia Resumes Airstrikes in Syrian Provinces - WSJ. The airstrikes were paused as an election ploy, but now that Putin's puppy is in...


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Look for a "national voter ID" law to be proposed, and for a prohibition on "motor-voter" laws. 2016 proved that voter suppression worked for the GOP.


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“To see what is in front of one’s nose is a constant struggle,” George Orwell famously observed. So what is it that we have just seen?

We are witnessing the power of a massive populist movement that has now upended the two most stable democracies in the world — and thrown both countries into a completely unknown future. In Britain, where the polls did not pick up the latent support for withdrawal from the European Union, a new prime minister is now navigating a new social contract with the indigenous middle and working classes forged by fear of immigration and globalization. In the U.S., the movement — built on anti-political politics, economic disruption, and anti-immigration fears — had something else, far more lethal, in its bag of tricks: a supremely talented demagogue who created an authoritarian cult with unapologetically neo-fascist rhetoric. Britain is reeling toward a slow economic slide. America has now jumped off a constitutional cliff. It will never be the same country again. Like Brexit, this changes the core nature of this country permanently.


"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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