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@dclaybar2 @OrSoCoKat @DataRepublican @Deplorathal Until 2017 when he and Ryan gummed up the works and slow-walked Trump’s agenda.

@OrSoCoKat @NandoElRando @DataRepublican @Deplorathal And McConnell is the best thing that ever happened to the modern Republican Party in terms of getting stuff done.

John Thune has destroyed every single Senate norm that he claimed to cherish. He set a far bigger and more dangerous precedent than abolishing the filibuster.

@Cernovich Only if they agreed not to bomb me.

Would you agree to meet with people who bombed the last people who agreed to meet with those people?

@CynicalPublius Only if we win. Otherwise, they will vilify him, or worse, erase any mention of him in all but cartoon villain terms.

Hundreds of years from now, historians will give the same level of significance to Elon buying Twitter as today’s historians give to Gutenberg’s printing press. Think where we would be right now had he not made that purchase.

@RantyAmyCurtis She should be made to live with this animal for a year.

Prison is supposed to have a poor impact on criminals.

@ThePowersThatBe Well, that's because, according to @CoryBooker, 5%-10% their voters are illegals.

@DataRepublican @Deplorathal If he was a Democrat what would he do differently? Because I can't find a single thing. He's the Paul Ryan of John Thunes.

@Deplorathal You know why.

They lied to us about the severity of the disease. They implemented draconian measures that were never proven effective. Look no further than mortality rates in like countries with no lock-downs vs. those that had them. Or look at how there were no mass-outbreaks/deaths in private schools that went back into session when public schools were keeping kids away. They made up procedures that ran counter to established facts, including lock-downs, 6-ft social distancing, cloth masking, sneeze guards and keeping people indoors. They wouldn't let us see our parents and grandparents as they were dying, forcing all of them to die alone. They destroyed the vital learning years of a generation of youth based on guesses and psuedo science. They forced vaccines and vaccine IDs on people and then forced people who didn't comply—even those who had natural immunity after contracting and surviving the virus—to lose their jobs and be ostracized by society. After telling us we all had to stay home and isolate, the same "experts" told us it was OK to go out and join in mass race protests. They drove nearly 40% of small businesses out of business while engineering huge transfers of wealth to Amazon, Walmart and other massive corporations. And no one was prosecuted. How's that for a long, diverse answer, sport?

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@susancrabtree Well, I mean, it was that or stay on her detail. 🤣

🚨🚨SECRET SERVICE Incompetence Continues… Jill Biden's Secret Service agent accidentally shot himself while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport

@CynicalPublius Barefoot, too. Jim was always barefoot. And riding a Zebra bareback.

@Saganismm Like they did during the pandemic, you mean?

“Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.” ― Carl Sagan

@justicenow_alan @overton_news latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

So: Reality is, Jennings, as usual is REPEATING already debunked spin and disinformation. There’s no credible evidence that Democrats ever advocated for higher gas prices to end internal combustion engines. Fact-checkers and policy experts say EPA rules don’t ban gas cars or require higher prices. The only place this claim appears is in fossil-fuel industry ads and political messaging—not in statements from Democrats themselves.

Scott Jennings just made a 23-year-old MeidasTouch commentator look like a fool on live television. Adam Mockler tried to attack Trump over gas prices, and Jennings nuked his narrative mid-roll with a BRUTAL reminder about Democrat policy. MOCKLER: “This is going to be a big blue wave.” “It already was going to be before the war in Iran. And this is the most like visceral change that we’ve seen so far.” “When I drove to the airport today, I passed by two gas stations and I was paying attention. American families are paying attention to this.” JENNINGS: “I’m old enough to remember when Democrats were advocating for higher gas prices to bring about the end of the internal combustion engine.” “NOW, all of the sudden gas prices are a big deal.” MOCKLER: “Wait, which Democrats said they want higher gas prices?” JENNINGS: “Literally ALL of them.” MOCKLER: “They said I want higher gas prices?!” JENNINGS: “Yes! That was the stated policy, to drive prices, up to get rid of the internal combustion engine.”

@KyleHend1 @overton_news Here you go, sport: latimes.com/archives/la-xp… freebeacon.com/biden-administ…

@overton_news Wow guess you guys heard secret messages cuz i never heard democrats say we want higher prices.. but didnt trump say, within the last couple weeks, higher gas prices is better for the economy?

@GigiLevangie @IfindRetards

@IfindRetards Gretarded - which has the benefit of describing Greta Thunberg, as well.

End the debate. What's the word for someone who is both gay and retarded?

@TRHLofficial He's the John McCain of his generation.

This is massively important.

@DC_Draino He was and remains a Swamp Thing. Look no further than him not allowing any recess appointments. He's part of the Collins/Murkowski/Tillis wing of the Deep State/DNC. Nothing more.

This is how almost all of us feel. Pure frustration and anger at John Thune the Buffoon.

@EdHand89 You’re a solid dude, Ed, no doubt. But I cling to my theories, especially the outliers, until they are empirically disproven.

@NandoElRando I do not think you actually believe what you are saying, I think you just enjoy conversation with me.

Some old friends on the Mariners opening day roster in Rob Refsnyder, Cooper Criswell, and Eduard Bazardo.

@CynicalPublius @Valster57 The same gaggle of elite nun strike teams rotated through Catholic schools throughout the East Coast from the 1970-early 1990s dispensing corporal punishment and PsyOps at will and with extreme prejudice. And I am scarred, and a better man, because of it. Change my mind.

@Valster57 Same grammar school too. (Not at the same time, he's much older than me.) But I always joke that we got beat up by some of the same nuns.

I grew up in Bruce Springsteen's hometown. His song "My Hometown" is LITERALLY about my hometown. Springsteen’s music was the anthem of my teenage years. The town is called Freehold, New Jersey. A. & M. Karagheusian, Inc. was a giant carpet mill in Freehold that was once the town’s single biggest employer. It shut down and moved away in 1964. That act of taking away a town’s jobs to move them to where labor was vastly cheaper DEVASTATED that community. Freehold became impoverished and almost a ghost town, taking decades to recover. All of the themes in Bruce’s early work about the indignities heaped upon the working man stem directly from the pain he, his family and his neighbors experienced when that carpet mill moved away to chase cheaper labor costs elsewhere. The theme of the betrayed working man streams across all of his early albums with a heartfelt sincerity that was borne of painful experience. The albums “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” and “Nebraska” in particular resonate with the mournful howls of the betrayed laborer whose calloused hands meant nothing to the bosses who had thanklessly reaped the rewards of his pain and sweat. Early on, Bruce really and truly did speak for the working man. But somewhere in Hollywood he lost his way. Now, it’s 2026 and the singular domestic agenda of President Donald J. Trump is to bring back American manufacturing jobs from offshore and to restore the dignity, pride and wealth of the working everyman. And Bruce SPITS ON THAT to appeal to his Hollywood cronies. When you understand this background about Bruce, his behavior comes into sharp focus as perhaps the very most disgusting behavior of any pop star alive in America today. He has betrayed the everyman he once championed. SHAME ON YOU BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. The young man who once wrote these lyrics would find you disgusting: "Early in the morning, factory whistle blows Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light It's the working, the working, just the working life Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life The working, the working, just the working life End of the day, factory whistle cries Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight It's the working, the working, just the working life 'Cause it's the working, the working, just the working life"

They have more than 5 without Oviedo and several guys who are better than him waiting in the wings. If they can turn him into a #3 starter like they were wish-casting then it's a win. But right now he's a one-pitch pony who still has issues with consistency, command and control. Sure, we can hope he becomes that or an elite set-up guy, but he was a #5 starter on the Pirates who had one outlier year between them and St.L. with TJ in between. I am hoping I am wrong on him and he ends up being a star for the Sox. But he's no one I would wasted anything more than another back end #6/7 starter prospect on.

@NandoElRando Believe it or not, five starting pitchers isn't really enough to make it through a season. Also, they got an MLB lefty reliever and a catching prospect, two things the team needed more than a platoon outfielder.

@EdHand89 AND NATE EATON IS NO ROB REFSNYDER! 🤣

@NandoElRando Weren't you also mad that they traded Jhostynxon? They don't have room for Eaton and Campbell either, too many RH bench OF bats still on the roster.

@EdHand89 As for Campbell, fixing his swing and plate decisions could be a tough climb. Spring training is fairly useless, but he still seemed to be able to get beat on the hands and the outer 3rd regularly. Spring is what it is, but it will be interesting to see how it goes in Worcester.