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 As we face yet another Govt shutdown I reflect on these absurdities. In the United States:
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 @e4576eea 

We should stop calling them MAGA Republicans and use the more descriptive tRump term shithole Republicans.

Here's how you would use it in a sentence: These shithole Republicans can't even keep the fucking lights on. 
 Trump is getting worse, more dangerous, more bent on inciting violence. This is not a presidentia... 
 @339afc2d 

Autocracy might not advocate elections while democracy might vote in a tyrant

These times test less the media but more the American people

Just as you never fully know the character of friends & family until your own hardships, now we learn the nature of our neighbors, our communities, our states & our country

Now is revealed the true nature of our politics, of our supposed friends & known enemies foreign & domestic; at least only those we thought our friends can betray us 
 Short story: I have curly hair. But I straighten it for work to appear “professional.” Or I w... 
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 @53de482a 

Collateral damage to innocent lives lost in fighting human shielded Hamas is a nightmare

But before you demand peace as prize for Hamas raping & murdering kids at an Israeli music festival, you tell us how is it possible to maintain an erection, writhing to orgasm in blood of your victims' dead friends' bodies limp alongside the soulless raping by your undistracted penis

You tell us how purposeful, non-collateral rape & murder deserves to lead to peace

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/survivors-of-hamas-assault-on-music-fest-describe-horrors-and-how-they-made-it-out-alive