The Local Crank
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Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan
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A Reading List to explain how we got into this mess Dreamland by Sam Quinones The Most Dangerous Branch by David A. Kaplan The Death of Expertise
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Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
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Comfortably Numb
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Great, now this bloated syphilitic manbaby has forced me to look up "medbed conspiracy theory"
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Roger Parloff
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US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:
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People demanding that “Congress” do something about this that or the other don’t seem to have met the Republican Party
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Fatal Funnel Hat
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I just think we should not be sending American boys 2 or 3 thousand miles away from home to do what Portland boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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Yes, there's a lot to despair over but there is I think also hope. Just as no one 10 years ago could've predicted how bad things would be now, no one now can predict how much better things could be 10 years down the road. I said in 2016 that the America that emerges on the other side of Trump will
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Man, it's a good thing all the self-righteous coalition refused to vote for Kamala Harris because she would definitely have sent the military to invade a major American city...
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Jess Piper
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Guy who thinks this is an airline where he has to announce his departure
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Man, who could've seen this coming? I'm sure the ruling would've been precisely the same under a President Harris
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The Onion
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Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
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Adam Serwer
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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The original source
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This right here
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Yes we were let down by the politicians & the press & the creaky dilapidated 1787 constitution but mainly it was Americans who let down America-Americans who couldn't be bothered to inform themselves or turn out to vote against fascism because the alternative was less than perfect
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He's THIS close to understanding what a majority means...
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It's safe to assume that anything Kash Patel's FBI says is a lie until or unless proven otherwise
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The question remains: is Trump Caligula or Commodus?
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Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire?
'Revolutions' and 'History of Rome' host Mike Duncan discusses the decline of the American empire, comparing it to Rome and other revolutions.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fall-of-rome-united-states-america-decline-mike-duncan-1235430424/
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Can we have more of this and less of the "sucking up to fascists" please and thank you
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Elderly Florida man accidentally wanders into UN, rants incoherently for an hour before being escorted away by caregiver
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Seth Abramson
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This post wins the internet this week
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11-Year-Old Expelled After Taking Gun Away from Classmate, Friend Says He 'Acted Out of Courage and Compassion'
The mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her 11-year-old son was expelled for taking a gun away from a classmate. Savitra McClurkin said her son was expelled after admi...
https://people.com/11-year-old-expelled-from-school-after-taking-gun-away-from-classmate-11814226
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Evergreen post
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Between the rambling insane word vomit on Tylenol and the rambling insane word vomit at the UN, Cheeto Mussolini continues to beclown himself on a cosmic level
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Democrats: we favor incremental change to improve life for the vast majority Republicans: we will destroy everyone & everything you have ever known or loved Voters: I’m just not inspired The Left: it’s all the Democrats fault The Center: let’s feed trans kids to the dragon & then they’ll love us
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The Onion
10 days ago
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
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Your regular reminder that absolutely everything wrong with America today happens because the majority of eligible voters are letting it happen.
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I'm sure Kamala Harris would've said the exact same thing...
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Apparently it's a bad idea to give 9 unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable lawyers the absolute power to rewrite the constitution at their whim. Who knew?
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Apparently it was a bad idea to build an entire national security apparatus with broad ill-defined powers around a vague definition of the word "terrorist." Who knew?
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Only the best people
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This right here is the reason Obama ultimately accomplished so little in office: his unwavering belief that somehow, somewhere, despite all evidence to the contrary, there are reasonable Republicans with whom compromises for the good of the nation might be forged.
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JFC, Obama! There is literally no one in politics as remotely far to the Left as even the average Republican is on the Right. They'd have to be Shining Path Maoists or something.
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Oliver Willis
12 days ago
it is germany, 1938 pick a side
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Kara Swisher
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Accurate
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No doubt the Founding Fathers dreamed of a world where people can get arrested for saying something that the President doesn't like
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"Hate Speech" is defined as anything which hurts Cheeto Mussolini's tender fee fees
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Syphilitic old fraud threatens American ally
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥
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The Tennessee Holler
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Phil Williams sharing some data…
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Senile old grifter thinks cocaine smuggled in ziploc bag.
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Oh what a circus, oh what a show Argentina has gone to town Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron We've all gone crazy Mourning all day and mourning all night Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right
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Who could possibly have foreseen!?!?!??!?!!
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Welcome to America, now speak Cherokee
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Supervillain Egghead threatens city if demands not met. Batman unavailable for comment.
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