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Submarines and why it doesn’t matter. Assuming the story is true (can we trust anything out of DC about Trump?), what difference does it make to China’s or Russia’s strategic planning? Will they suddenly build a better defense system? If they ciuld, they already would. And whose to say Trump wasn’t being hyperbolic -- as he is with everything he’s trying to sell, as to the capabilities of these submarines? We should not fall for the think-beyond-the-sale persuasion approach employed by Trump’s enemies that he revealed real secrets that would hurt us. Indeed, we should give the president the benefit of the doubt that he would not compromise our national defense. Now Biden, on the other hand... :)

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If Trump shot three children in Times Square, his supporters would be out explaining why it wasn't so bad.

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It depends. If you’d said it was three doctors performing mutilative sex-change surgeries on children he shot, you’d probably be right.

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Re: McCarthy ousted... The Speaker of the House is 3rd in line for the Presidency. It should take a 2/3 supermajority to remove a someone from that position, not just a simple majority.

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Great monologue about the My Pillow guy. So sad.

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Erick, may I ask you to read the affidavit presented by Catherine Engelbrecht, and the never-too-late response by Brad Raffensperger, here: https://newsletter.truethevote.org/p/ineligibles-aftermath

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Are they second and third jobs for people trying to combat inflation?

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Only if the US Department of Labor can count them as full-time jobs, thus continuing Biden's incredibly impressively awesome reduction in unemployment.

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Wages and payrolls increased but inflation has eaten that up.

So let’s say someone makes 90k and they get a 3-4% raise.

Well inflation has made prices 13% higher than they were 3 years ago.

So that raise means nothing.

So it’s not good news at all.

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Will the House of Representatives Kamikaze caucus support whoever wins a majority of the Republican caucus, or hold their breath and turn blue?

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