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TriTorch's avatar

The last thing anyone should want is the military on their street corner. This is a camel's nose under the tent moment - they are attempting to normalize the idea - and everyone needs to reject it immediately.

If crime is a problem there are likely well over a million town, county, state, and federal law enforcement officers that can be deputized in DC to bring back order. The national guard or military has no place here, and you do not want them to camp out. Once they get a foothold they will not leave willingly.

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Mercedes's avatar

Where is Bolton? Was he at home? Also, I was happy happy joy joy listening to Newsom last night until he mentioned the possibility of Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House - dafuk?

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Lisa's avatar

Caught that too. No. No. No. Jeffries veered off course long ago.

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Pamela Fender's avatar

I couldn't even watch the entire interview. UGH!

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Jane in NC's avatar

You're beautiful, DC! You make The Resistance proud! 👏👏🙌

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Michelle Brody's avatar

My dudes - Enjoy your day off. Thank you as always! See you on Monday. Stay strong Sexy Patriots. ❤️🤍💙

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Janina Fenigsen's avatar

"He claimed earlier in the day that he would be going on patrol. That, of course, was a lie. Because he’s a total chickenshit" Actually, he really meant to. Unfortunately they were not able to get an armored vehicle with Depends ready on time

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Fred Jonas's avatar

You are more than welcome to your rare day off. You more than earned/deserve it. Thank you.

You have uneasy feelings about Gavin Newsom, and I have great antipathy toward John Bolton. Republicans have no idea which end is up. (But didn't we used to love him, or our daddy said we had to?)

Interesting! So Powell is considering a deal: you knock off the insane tariffs, and we'll lower interest rates a bit. I didn't think Donnie was capable of learning anything, but he might learn something from this.

Etc, etc, etc. If I thought there was such a thing as "god" and Jesus, I'd say Jesus wouldn't want Byron Donalds' life: don't bother with the offer: you're going to the other place.

This is DeSantis' idea of portraying a big boy?

It's indices, not indexes.

Someone devoted to Donnie did something wrong? Who saw that coming?

Whoa! We have an adjustment. Donnie or one of his stooges said months ago that slavery was good, because it taught skills and crafts to black people. Now, it's horrible? Did something happen recently?

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Thank you for the correction of index/indices. I’ve wanted to do it for a while, but my being Canadian, readers may have thought it was merely a canadianism. I truly try to mind my Ps and Qs when I respond.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

Index is singular. Indices is plural. It seems that you know that. It's the English language version of Latin. It's neither Canadian nor peculiar to the States. My offspring always call me a grammar Nazi. When it bothers me enough, I even correct my patients if they use the wrong pronoun (I vs me, for example). They get therapy and a grammar lesson, the latter thrown in for free.

One DVD series I watch is the 1940s Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone as Holmes. In one episode, Holmes predicts that someone was killed by having his lumbar spine broken. It makes me nuts. No one will die from having their lumbar spine broken. It's the cervical spine.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

I do the same with my grandkids, hoping that they will master the only language they have learned- English. I tried to teach them French, my mother tongue, but the blowback that I got from my daughter was over the top. She learned French and English from the time she could speak and why she hates the French language eludes me. So I get out of the way and keep my mouth shut, and keep repeating - what a lost opportunity for the grandkids.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

I'm sure it's too late for her, but she's making a mistake, especially in Canada. It's always a good thing to be bi/multilingual.

I grew up in Miami (Beach), and the choices in public school were Spanish and French. I mistakenly devoted myself to French, not realizing how much Spanish would eventually help me. Many, many years later, I took night courses in Italian, because I was the psychiatric medical director at a clinic that had a population of Italians who had never learned English, and I couldn't always find a translator. The Italian is mostly gone, because I no longer use it. Some of the French remains, because I was young enough when I learned it in school. I'm not comfortably functional with it, though. It's been about 60+/- years.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Je suis très heureuse d’apprendre que vous avez choisi la langue de Molière. En effet, j’admire les gens qui ont pu lire Molière et Shakespeare. Je puis attester que mes connaissances de ces deux auteurs très distingués m’ont donné un net avantage sur mes amis et collègues anglophones.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

Etrangement, moi, aussi.

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Ellen CW's avatar

Thank you guys so much for all your work. I read from here most days. Have fabulous weekend you’ve earned/deserve it ☮️

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Zelda Huntress's avatar

Thank YOU!!

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Pamela Fender's avatar

Hope your weekend is relaxing. Love you guys.

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Thom Haynes's avatar

Thank you for your e-newsletters!!!

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Al Ciuffo's avatar

Bear spray is not poisonous, very effective.

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Angie's avatar

Dancing in the streets and joy and music and happiness are one of the best antidotes to an old fascist child rapist. Keep going, America! Trump is weak, not strong!

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menehune's avatar

ALOHA.... WHERE'S THE STINKIN' FILES?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Joan Bosworth's avatar

Road to Hell——

Trump, ICE, and the Republican sycophants are on a fast track to hell! Consequences and karma will get them.

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