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Mellow Seas posted:Then why didn’t the last fascist president? He gave it a bit of a shot but, fortunately, he and his fascist MAGA army largely decided to leave their guns at home and weren't quite organized enough to draw and quarter Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence on a livestream.
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BiggerBoat posted:He gave it a bit of a shot but, fortunately, he and his fascist MAGA army largely decided to leave their guns at home and weren't quite organized enough to draw and quarter Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence on a livestream. This is a misreading of the OP’s point which was “Biden can’t just send in the army to do whatever he wants.” Not “Biden can’t incite a network of chuds to work his will.” Although he literally can’t do that either. Literally. Because #1 they’re chuds, that’s #1. And 2— no parallel group of insurgents exists for him.
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Captain Invictus posted:Probably the cab, but I'm not a driver so I'm not sure. They already have tracking devices in the diads the drivers carry, so having a camera in your face to have even more monitoring on you sucks. The cameras are only to gently caress you not help. I went for driver and the van they gave me had a broken headlight the next morning. They showed me a picture of the damage from a ceiling camera, but when I denied doing it they insisted they'd have to do an investigation. All they had to do was rewind the footage. Instead they just had me stay home a couple days before Saturday, when they desperately need people. Told me they couldn't prove I did it(because I didn't), and to be more careful. As for the contract, I'm a tentative no while I wait for the actual language. Several points listed here are different from what I heard and my in interpretation of what they released on the Teamsters ap. People in my hub are currently pissed with a few threatening to quit the union. However long time part-timers are a minority of the union so we'll see how it goes.
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Interesting. I noticed the president gave thanks to the senators, and this seems to be a common pattern -- you can search "Thank you to Senators" "for their leadership" site:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation and find many more, and some cast even broader acknowledgment with the phrase "and many others for their leadership". My question -- are there any bills we know Biden was opposed to that he thanks the senators for anyway, or does he only thank for bills he endorses?
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Driving a delivery truck or doing anything like that while having a monitored uplinked camera pointed straight at you sounds like a goddamned nightmare One of the highlights of trucking work is you get to do your own poo poo on your own, not have someone staring straight at you conceptually 24/7 in case you pick your nose or start badly singing tears for fears or some poo poo
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Nothing really happened to Trump after using DHS to attack protestors in Portland and try to push his antifa conspiracy. Y'all can argue if that fits whatever the requirements are for sending in people with guns. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...tter-protestors https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673
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haveblue posted:Yet another Biden family member has been caught in a pattern of outrageous behavior yes, we must oust the other dog from the white house, soon Willow shall reign supreme
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yronic heroism posted:This is a misreading of the OP’s point which was “Biden can’t just send in the army to do whatever he wants.” Not “Biden can’t incite a network of chuds to work his will.” Oh. Then I apologize for misreading it.
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mawarannahr posted:Interesting. I noticed the president gave thanks to the senators, and this seems to be a common pattern -- you can search "Thank you to Senators" "for their leadership" site:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation and find many more, and some cast even broader acknowledgment with the phrase "and many others for their leadership". Unless he vetoes it he’s effectively endorsed it so there’s not many of these.
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yronic heroism posted:Unless he vetoes it he’s effectively endorsed it so there’s not many of these. I guess question I'm asking is does he always thank the people involved in a press release, and if he doesn't, does it mean anything in terms of his level of support for it? I haven't checked his predecessors' practices but it anyone knows it would be interesting.
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bird food bathtub posted:It may not even be them being trained to "hate" the secret service. If there's tension between people (like, say, your body guards are of questionable loyalty because the fat orange fucker before you tried to overturn the entire political system through violence and you're not sure which of them are loyal to him despite or because of that) then dogs will absolutely pick up on that tension and act on it. The secret service are also cops, who are 1: all bastards, 2: inherently loyal to fascists (see 1) and 3: murderously hostile towards anyone who does not show them immediate deference, which dogs don't know or care they're expected to do. Failed Imagineer posted:How can you say that when he's clearly ¡Jeb!-ing at a very advanced level Yeah, comparison to Harris is actually too flattering, at least in that Harris had establishment backing that actually followed through.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy floats an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden https://apnews.com/article/biden-impeachment-mccarthy-hannity-78e4c7efeb030b29e1576f868257179b So what are the odds that they'll try and drag this out into 2024 and the election? With the make up of the senate I know there won't be any real impeachment. And a real choice quote from MTG “We need to expunge,” she said of Trump’s two impeachments, and “we must impeach Joe Biden.” I hadn't realized that they were still wound up on expunging Trump, but I guess it makes sense when your entire party is hopelessly lashed to the Trump boat.
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Dull Fork posted:House Speaker Kevin McCarthy floats an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden I thought they did that already to be honest
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Main Paineframe posted:In practice, most judges are going to be understanding of the fact that a 100-word limit substantially limits how specific and detailed the summary can get. They're not going to treat it as an effective cap on the complexity of the rules themselves. That "most" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting considering some of the utter whackjob rulings coming from some federal judges these days. It's a guarantee that people will judge-shop for some of the worst offenders to overturn regulations based on a word limit.
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this is the highlights of the tentative UPS/Teamsters contract for 2023-2028, it's the only link I could find of it at the moment. Can't read it right now, but I'll probably set aside some time to do it after work. I know Gyges had issues so I'm curious to see what they say. The long-time part timers at my hub(10+ year part timers) are optimistic about it, as long as they make more than fresh meat due to their built up seniority, they're happy. If they wind up making only like a buck more an hour than a new walk-in, they're gonna be upset, yeah. though some of them said they'd just go full time in that case, due to the raises full timers are getting. also, I really, really like that from what I heard, grievances will now ramp up, if someone in management gets grieved 3 times within a certain timeframe(like, a 3 month period), instead of being triple overtime penalty pay, further grievances will ascend to QUADRUPLE overtime penalty pay. so like, for example, this tryhard supervisor who keeps bumping the guy on the low pickoff down to do misc stuff and goes up there himself for 2-3 hours a night, if I were to nail him for that full time and nobody else also filed grievances against him for it, that would net me somewhere in the realm of $600. I'll take it. the last grievance check I got was for a sizeable amount, it paid for most of my current car so I didn't have to take a loan out or anything. management motherfuckers LOVE working union labor jobs when it's not their purview, and I LOVE writing them up for it. I'm really particular with my times too, so it's not like "this guy worked for 20 minutes today", it's "this guy worked for 10 minutes from x to y, then in this area from y to z for another 30 minutes. then after break he worked a further 15 minutes", and that really nets me bigger payouts than the guys who hand in generic, unspecified reports Edit: skimmed it, lol at the "add 18,000 new fans to facilities". I'm pretty sure my hub has like 500 fans alone, unless every one of those 18,000 are the huge industrial fans, thats kind of a pittance. But I didn't really expect them to push for aircon or anything in the warehouses while also arguing for higher pay, vehicle aircon, etc. That can wait until next contract I guess. But if they do upgrade or add a bunch more industrial fans to increase airflow, that'd help a lot. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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mawarannahr posted:Interesting. I noticed the president gave thanks to the senators, and this seems to be a common pattern -- you can search "Thank you to Senators" "for their leadership" site:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation and find many more, and some cast even broader acknowledgment with the phrase "and many others for their leadership". It passed the House and Senate unanimously, with no one at all opposing it, so Biden probably didn't oppose it either. Although it was a GOP-sponsored bill, it wouldn't have passed so easily if even a single Dem thought it was a meaningful threat to the regulatory state.
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Mellow Seas posted:Then why didn’t the last fascist president? He did.They tried to justify it by claiming the need to "protect federal buildings," but CBP was brought in because of DHS' loyalty to Trump.
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Captain Invictus posted:this is the highlights of the tentative UPS/Teamsters contract for 2023-2028, it's the only link I could find of it at the moment. Can't read it right now, but I'll probably set aside some time to do it after work. ChatGPT summary: “The document outlines the changes and improvements agreed upon in the UPS National Master Tentative Agreement 2023-2028. The highlights include increased paid time for union stewards, new language in preventing technology changes without bargaining with the union, increased training premiums, restoration of paid time off for military service, and new guidelines for harassment cases. The document also specifies changes in safety and health equipment, part-time transfers, trailer repair shops, non-discrimination, and job protection, among others. Finally, there are economic highlights such as increased daily guarantee, overtime wages, and reduced mechanic progression.” (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Are UPS hubs still gross as gently caress, and do you still end your shift as a loader or unloader coughing up black poo poo? I only worked there for a couple of years back in the early 2000s, but Jesus what a health-wrecking, back-ruining job, and that was even before online ordering really took off.
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Captain Invictus posted:this is the highlights of the tentative UPS/Teamsters contract for 2023-2028, it's the only link I could find of it at the moment. Can't read it right now, but I'll probably set aside some time to do it after work. I was more pissed when I posted earlier, since I just realized that everyone with less than 10 years was essentially going to be making the same, pt. They did that last contract too, and I was a newish hire then and I realized it was bullshit. Basically the contracts tend to screw over the medium term guys, and the old timers get pissed that they aren't as far above a new hire as they were. Still, I'm not going to believe anything until I see the actual contract. Last time 22.4 was sold as a way to alleviate overtime for Package Drivers, and the language of the contract turned it into a second tier sucker bet. Lots of stuff like Pension changes didn't make the press release but seems to have been part of the deal. Hopefully that $30 billion estimate value isn't including the cost of A/C in the trucks and poo poo. Also, does the A/C apply only to Package? What about Shifter and other vehicles(mules getting fans would be godly). The building fan project started months ago and shouldn't be part of the contract. At least it did down here in Florida. It's actually made quite a noticeable difference inside, and they're only like halfway done with the building. The stupid new building they build 3 years ago and is already having issues. Eason the Fifth posted:Are UPS hubs still gross as gently caress, and do you still end your shift as a loader or unloader coughing up black poo poo? I only worked there for a couple of years back in the early 2000s, but Jesus what a health-wrecking, back-ruining job, and that was even before online ordering really took off. Depends on your hub. They're still gross as gently caress, because holy poo poo do so very many packages leak everything from detergent to cement destroying acid. However the building in Jax went from blowing my nose and it looking like I just got out the coal mines, to normal. Of course I also went from loading trailers to Hazmat. So less visual terror more psychological terror as I deal with some rear end in a top hat in Miami returning to sender 70lbs of rotting bait fish to Wisconsin, because they were already bad when he got them. Gyges fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Some interesting results from the recent Morning Consult poll. Highlights: - All 50 state Governors have positive approval ratings, 0 national political leaders have a positive approval rating. People in every single state like their Governor and hate everyone in Congress. Republican Phil Scott of Vermont continues to be the most popular politician in the country by an enormous margin. His approval rating has hovered around 70% for his entire term and is currently at 76%. - DeSantis still has a pretty positive approval rating in Florida (54%), but it has dropped by a net of 6 points since he announced he was running for President. Almost all of the drop comes from Republicans. Governor Doug Burgan has had no change in his approval since running for President and most people aren't even aware he is running.  - A bunch of other not too surprising things: Biden is up 60 points in the Democratic primary, Trump is up by ~30 in the Republican primary, and black voters in the south are becoming more and more upset with their Governors. Even though every Governor has a net positive approval rating, Tony Evers in Wisconsin has the highest disapproval rate of 44% and "only" a net +7 approval rating. https://twitter.com/MorningConsult/status/1684196118937194504 quote:Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear — a Democrat running for re-election this year in a deep-red state — remains among America’s most popular governors ahead of the November contest. His approval rating among GOP voters is stronger than any other Democratic governor, resisting drag from President Joe Biden’s poor standing in the Bluegrass State and setting up a formidable challenge for Republicans hoping to unseat him.
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Congress is having its third hearing on UFOs right now and one guy is claiming that he knows people who have had personal encounters with aliens and that the U.S. government has been reverse engineering alien spacecraft since the 60's and has alien bodies in its possession for research. He has not seen any of this personally, but he says that multiple "current and former" members of the military have told him this. Nobody seems to have expected him to say this and everyone is very confused. His name is David Grusch and he is a former member of the Air Force. quote:He says it came after he heard reports from multiple "esteemed and credentialed" current and former military and intelligence officials that the US government was "operating with secrecy" in regards to UAPs. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-hearing-uap-house-oversight-committee-watch-live-stream-today-2023-07-26/
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Congress is having its third hearing on UFOs right now and one guy is claiming that he knows people who have had personal encounters with aliens and that the U.S. government has been reverse engineering alien spacecraft since the 60's and has alien bodies in its possession for research. Hasn’t he been saying this in tv interviews for a while? I might be thinking of some other guy who’s been in the news for ufo stuff.
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Baronash posted:He did.They tried to justify it by claiming the need to "protect federal buildings," but CBP was brought in because of DHS' loyalty to Trump. If Trump had sent in federal agents to try to confiscate all the weed in Portland, maybe that would be comparable, in terms of federal authorities aggressively overriding illegal state gov actions (which legal weed technically is.)
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I AM GRANDO posted:Hasn’t he been saying this in tv interviews for a while? I might be thinking of some other guy who’s been in the news for ufo stuff. Yes, sort of. He did an interview with 60 minutes where he said the U.S. has interactions with UFOs almost every day that aren't reported. I don't think he said anything about the alien bodies or spaceships in his 60 minutes interview. quote:Former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves calls whatever is out there a security risk. He told us his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UAPs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014 when they updated their jet's radar, making it possible to zero in with infrared targeting cameras. quote:The government has ignored it - at least publicly - since closing its project "Blue Book" investigation in 1969. But that began to change after an incident off Southern California in 2004, which was documented by radar, by camera, and four naval aviators. We spoke to two of them: David Fravor, a graduate of the Top Gun naval flight school and commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz; and flying at his wing, Lieutenant Alex Dietrich, who has never spoken publicly about the encounter. Here's the full transcript: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/ Edit: He's back baby. https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1684214321360904198 I know that all the O'Malley-heads out there have been waiting for this for a long time. People on Twitter in 2016 are going to be very excited about this. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yes, sort of. He did an interview with 60 minutes where he said the U.S. has interactions with UFOs almost every day that aren't reported. I don't think he said anything about the alien bodies or spaceships in his 60 minutes interview. He has made these claims before, in June, in a different interview here. Relevant excerpt: quote:“We’re definitely not alone,” he said. “The data points quite empirically that we’re not alone.”
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I hope we at least find out there’s been some kind of egregious scamming going on. If people actually talked to this guy and led him on about ufo poo poo, what was the point? To make him look insane and discredit him because he was given authority to learn about budgets? I feel like he’d have to be predisposed to believe this poo poo, since even though it was his job to collect evidence about ufos, he doesn’t have any evidence but is absolutely confident the things he’s been told are true.
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Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty to tax charges today, but the plea deal has fallen apart and been withdrawn because of "public outcry" and House Republicans asking the Judge to delay a ruling until they finish their series of public hearings on Hunter Biden. Literally happened 3 minutes ago, so waiting for a full story or any additional details. But, it is quite odd. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/index.html
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty to tax charges today, but the plea deal has fallen apart and been withdrawn because of "public outcry" and House Republicans asking the Judge to delay a ruling until they finish their series of public hearings on Hunter Biden. I had hoped that this would just go away
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty to tax charges today, but the plea deal has fallen apart and been withdrawn because of "public outcry" and House Republicans asking the Judge to delay a ruling until they finish their series of public hearings on Hunter Biden. https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1684205213874286597 Keep loving that chicken I guess
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty to tax charges today, but the plea deal has fallen apart and been withdrawn because of "public outcry" and House Republicans asking the Judge to delay a ruling until they finish their series of public hearings on Hunter Biden. Since when do politicians have any say over delaying a criminal trial?
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CNN Summary of the House Republican filings to the Judge.quote:The Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee submitted materials Tuesday to the judge in Hunter Biden’s criminal case, flagging recent claims from IRS whistleblowers that the probe into President Joe Biden’s son was tainted by political interference. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/h_9ff896410dee30d341e7f6085303f4fa Bolded, because this was written before it happened. Hunter's lawyers have asked for a recess for 10 minutes to see if they can find a way for him to plead guilty today and get some kind of plea deal.
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Update from CNN: Looks like the Judge called another recess after the 10-minute one was up. Probably no more significant updates on this for another 30 minutes at least. quote:The judge called a second recess in the Hunter Biden plea proceedings as it appeared that the agreements the president's son had reached with prosecutors had begun to unravel. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/index.html?tab=all
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:'Has begun to unravel' is a weird way to write 'The Trump-appointed judge is unilaterally rejecting it' To be fair, it is not 100% the judge. Though, she is driving it. She seems to be questioning the prosecution and they are backing away from the original deal because of her concerns. They technically could try to force this through and make the judge explicitly set the terms/reject the deal, but they aren't. quote:Hunter Biden’s lawyers repeatedly cast the deal as the final chapter of the five-year inquiry into the president's son. But Judge Noreika quickly punctured that assertion when she asked a prosecutor, Leo Wise, if the Biden investigation was “ongoing.” He replied “yes,” adding that if Biden’s team thought otherwise, “then there’s no deal.” The original deal basically said if he pled guilty, then he would be immune from any further charges related to this. The judge says she doesn't like the idea that there is still "an active investigation" and the plea deal could potentially eliminate any other charges they might discover later. The prosecution has backed down from that after the judge prodded and Hunter's lawyers say they just want to plead guilty and include the immunity to settle the case 100%. The judge also didn't like that the gun charge was tied to the tax stuff and the prosecution was backing away from that too. Hunter's lawyers want the broad immunity and the gun charge included in the deal to resolve everything at once and aren't happy that it means they will have to keep going with a new case for the gun charges.
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NYT has updates:quote:As we wait to see whether the deal is salvaged, it’s important to remember that it was negotiated over weeks in which there were lengthy back and forths about every inch of the deal. The idea that this issue was not resolved seems extraordinary. quote:After conferring during recess, Biden's lawyers and the government lawyers agree that the diversion agreement on the gun charge is separate from the plea deal on the tax charges. The judge in the case had questioned if the agreements were separate. Looks like Hunter's lawyers have agreed to split the gun charge off and have separate sentencing for that (probation and being banned from owning a gun for a period of time) and are trying to get the judge to sign off on something that lets him plead guilty to the tax charges today. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/26/us/hunter-biden-plea-tax-charges Quite a weird situation and a whirlwind of stuff going on for what was supposed to be a boring guilty plea.
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Tayter Swift posted:A boring guilty plea will not force Biden's son to commit suicide, which is the goal of the House GOP. It's two misdemeanor tax charges. He's not going to jail for them regardless. Stretching proceedings out is always stressful and annoying, but this is not anywhere near suicide-worthy. The Judge is also not plotting with the House Republicans to kill him. She is sympathetic to their legal arguments, though. I think there will almost certainly still be a plea deal of some kind, but it will be much more limited in scope. It would be crazy and unprecedented if they forced a trial for failing to pay taxes that have already been paid back and the defendant wants to plead guilty. The funniest outcome of this is that it is likely that the gun charge being separated from the plea deal means that Biden will go to the Supreme Court to argue that the banning anyone who has used an illegal substance from owning a gun is unconstitutional. He would have a good chance of winning in any court, but it would be especially funny to see this Supreme Court decide whether to limit the federal government's power over guns or clear Hunter Biden. https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1684234386454065153 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Captain Invictus posted:this is the highlights of the tentative UPS/Teamsters contract for 2023-2028, it's the only link I could find of it at the moment. Can't read it right now, but I'll probably set aside some time to do it after work. I feel like this is absolutely one of those cases where the union is basically forcing their employer to actually get their poo poo together before the whole organisation collapses from neglect and tight-fisted incompetence.
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Tayter Swift posted:A boring guilty plea will not force Biden's son to commit suicide, which is the goal of the House GOP. What makes you think the goal of the House GOP is to force Joe Biden's son to commit suicide? I think their goal is to create negative press around Joe Biden. I don't think they're able to force Joe Biden's son to commit suicide, or that they have any particular intent to do so. Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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