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  1. heron

    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    What a difference context
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Just to keep things balanced, I'd like to recommend this volume of Tom Wolfe's essays "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flack Catchers". Two truly hilarious send-ups of performative activism....
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    This is a bit OT, but I'm gonna post it anyway. Let's not dismiss performative loudmouths so quickly. Remember the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic? From 1981 to 1985, the Reagan administration,...
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I lived in Boston when this happened, working on an inpatient AIDS unit in a state hospital. This is what made trump a hard no for me. Those who refuse to learn from history
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Project 2025 is what it is ... a party platform authored, in part, by former members of trump's staff. I'm sure that there have been distortions both pro and con since it came to public notice. The...
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Probably for the same reason he torpedoed the bipartisan border bill. After all, one of his frequent claims is how various other international issues (I.e. the Russian invasion of Ukraine) would be...
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Ummm ... just what qualifies you to speak for all
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Quite the strawman, there. I didn't see anything in that quote about taking over a company. What I saw was the statement that products developed with taxpayer money will be taken back by those...
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    The Trump Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Of course it's over your head. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I suggest you revisit the history of conservatism and the Republican Party since at least the Nixon...
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    So what? I'm not running for national office. It's still a fact that those "critiques" are being offered as a reason to vote republican. On the weirdness scale, they are right up there with tan...
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    The Trump Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Your whole schtick here is based on the assumption that the republican narrative is true. It is not. I think that it's is just more of the same old dog and pony show that grew out of the political...
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Swiftboat, AI crowds, tampons for teen girls and now hot dish recipes.
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Earth-shattering!
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Which is why one should not listen to what they but watch what they do,
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    Veep candidate caved at the expense of patients and nurses

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    That's quite the trial balloon, there. Swiftboating didn't work. Radical lefty didn't work. Let's throw something about healthcare against the wall and see if that
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    It's called context-blindness (syn. tunnel vision). Heh ... wait'll s/he hears about the Land Back
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Fine - be done. It's still a gigantic false
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    Calling all crusty old bats ‘?

    heron replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Crusty Old Bats's Chatter

    I signed up 2 years after you. And remember all of these. I actually remember two mass withdrawals. There was the tragedy when the site owner died. The people that took control of AN content were...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    One would think so ... except he was still dealing with a hostile Republican Party in the process of selling its soul to trump. I agree, though - a moot
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    Calling all crusty old bats ‘?

    heron replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Crusty Old Bats's Chatter

    Funniest thread evah! Didn't the mods close it down? Joined 2004-ish. Nosing around here daily ever
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A classic example of why old folks are worth their
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    Where To Start/ New Grad

    heron replied to Ashleyy3's topic in Oncology

    Others are better able to help within job strategy. My one suggestion would be to make sure you have a good off-the-job support system. It's
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Another genuine question: why are you
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    Questioning American Politics?

    heron replied to luv2's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    1. She has a solid history of respect for the rule of law. 2. So far, there is no evidence that she's indulged in any public or private corruption, let alone the blatant self-dealing and...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Chaotic? Maybe ... or the best game of rope-a-dope ever