@MichaelAArouet Keep in mind that a lot of Northern Italy is culturally Austrian. Bolzano/Bozen feels more like Innsbruck than Naples.
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Lamentations Jones
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Each time I travel to Italy, I wonder about the massive economic gap.
Why is the North one of the wealthiest areas in Europe, while the South remains so extremely poor?
Isn’t it the same country, with the same language, culture, taxes, and laws? Can someone please explain?
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@FacistColonizer @seanmdav @TruthFairness NH and ME had a GOP rep until about 7 years ago. For CT, you have to go back to Nancy Johnson in the mid 2000s. MA and RI haven't elected a GOP rep since the mid 90s. VT - more like '88.
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@seanmdav @TruthFairness Republicans have had zero representation in New England for decades. I live in CT. In 2024 Trump got about 42% of the popular vote. Yet all five of our House Reps are Democrats, and most with stage 5 TDS. This situation will continue for the foreseeable future.
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There are 0 Republican seats in New England.
David@davidslosttt
It's possible that the Democrats only have 6 districts in the ENTIRE DEEP SOUTH
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@caroljsroth I dated a girl in 2007 and used to buy her dinner. We broke up and married different people. Under this dumbass logic, I should still be buying that girl dinner.
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@emzanotti I lived in Germany for 7 years, and yes, they can boast about it. They have great bread in grocery stores, and virtually every town and village has at least one bakery making fresh bread, pretzels, and pastries every day.
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I get the European need to express bread supremacy, but only France gets to do that, not Germany, and only then for *some* bread. The best baguettes are in SE Asia, San Fran is best for sourdough, and Japanese 7-11 crushes all.
Leo/Täubchen🐦@affairemayaling
these are in almost every supermarket chain here. this is what we mean when we say you don’t have bread in your grocery stores.
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@Mob1us0ne @OleTimeHardball I guess you missed the part about being a power threat.
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@LamentationsJ @OleTimeHardball Home runs, the only type of hit anyone has ever gotten
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One 3B for the entirety of his career
George Brett or Adrian Beltre?
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@Mob1us0ne @OleTimeHardball Averaged 7 more HR per 162 games.
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@LamentationsJ @OleTimeHardball Bigger power threat than George Brett?
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@Riffraff3232 To be fair, Fox News has had chicks like this for decades. I remember Laurie Dhue.
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This broad Erin McGuire shows up on Fox News every once in a while…
And I think she’s about one of the hottest women I’ve ever seen in my life…
I would probably come out of sex retirement for her
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@SeanTrende And since it helped Democrats, got almost no media scrutiny
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Ah the 1992-94 Dem gerrymander of Texas. Truly a thing of beauty.
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
Is this the most insane gerrymander of all time? Republicans won the popular vote by 13 points and won a third of the seats
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@KenGardner11 If they're OK with the crap that comes out of Ilhan Omar's mouth or Hassan Piker's mouth, they're not gonna care about him. They think he can attract white men to vote for him.
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I still can't get over the fact that the Democrats are running a literal Nazi for the US Senate -- and the entire party is rallying around him. Even 10 years ago, anything hinting at Nazism would have been a death knell. We all learned as children that the Nazis were very bad.
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@def_leppar20044 Mean Street. Just a full blown, ass-kicking.
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@TheExtremeMusi1 Bon Scott but respect to Brian. It's gotta be hard to become the front man of a band that was already successful with another guy who dies. It's a lot of pressure, and he handled it well and did a good job.
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A tough question for some… an easy one for others.
Brian Johnson or Bon Scott? 👇🏻
Which one’s your pick???
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@baseballinpix There are more unbreakable records, but it's pretty unbreakable. Pitchers can't even throw a complete game anymore, much less a no hitter.
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Nolan Ryan pitching in his 7th no hitter.
Is this the most unbreakable record in baseball?
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@KenGardner11 He also drew down the US military presence in Europe to ridiculously low levels, which certainly made Putin's decision to annex Crimea much easier.
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The things that I still remember most about the Obama years are Obamacare and the JCPOA, along with his Supreme Court appointments.
There is a very legitimate argument that he might prove to be the worst POTUS in American history. It is earlier than you think.
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True or false, Dan Marino is the most over hyped QB ever?
GIF
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@PaulNiland It's really both. The main thing they do is carry out operations away from the US, so your point is right. However, on the off-chance that Germany was invaded, those bases would certainly be used to defend it as a NATO ally.
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Something a lot of people don't see. Trump thinks US troops in Germany are there to protect Germany. They're not.
They're there because the US needs the bases to be able to carry out US operations beyond the north American continent.
Trump doesn't understand this basic fact.
Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️@RepDonBacon
The continued attacks on NATO allies are counterproductive. The comments hurt Americans. I commanded the huge Ramstein AB in Germany. The two big airfields in Germany give us great access in three continents. We are shooting ourselves in our own feet.
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@SouthernKeeks @dcexaminer No. If someone (like Trump) is trying to push in the wrong direction at the federal level, I definitely wouldn't ignore that. If Trump wants the issue deemphasized by federal candidates, he needs to not push a pro-abortion agenda himself. It's either a state issue, or it's not.
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So the Trump admin criticizes a senator for creating a new pro-life initiative, pushes IVF as pro-life when it’s not, refuses to go through normal review process for an abortion medication, and discourages talk about the issue because of its effect on elections and this should all be ignored because Dobbs sent the issue back to the states?
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"...overturning Roe and Casey was a monumental step in the right direction. But that success must be followed by legislation...It also requires a GOP that doesn’t shy away from the abortion issue, regardless of elections."
My latest at @dcexaminer.
washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…
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@LamentationsJ @dcexaminer You’re not sure the role Republicans should play in continuing to promote the worth of the unborn? Really? Dobbs is done so it doesn’t matter? 🤨
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