@irishspy

Me: "I despise generalizations by generation." TwitterX: "Okay, Boomer." Property rights are human rights. Reaganite. Aprendendo português.

King's Palace, Numenor
Joined October 2008
This year is just a bumper crop for bad and embarrassing (and embarrassingly bad) candidates.
Washington state Democratic House candidate Krista Perez was seen crying, praying and sobbing in the back of a patrol car after her DUI arrest. Police body camera also shows Perez admitting she'd been drinking wine and refusing field sobriety tests after officers say she crashed into a parked car, damaging five vehicles. Read the rest of the story here: foxnews.com/politics/democra…
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The desperate search for relevance in a world which has passed them by.
Yes, I can well recall Curtis and De Niro manning the barricades against the Biden administration's attacks on free speech. Are they going to do a jump-cut singing of "Imagine," too?
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You can only watch five movies for the rest of your life What are your five? 1. Casablanca 2. The Maltese Falcon 3. Fantasia 4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 5. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Limiting to five was hard.
You can only watch five movies for the rest of your life What are your five? 1. Lawrence of Arabia 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 3. The Seven Samurai 4. The Right Stuff 5. Airplane!
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The Republicans have had unitary control since 12:00:01 pm January 20, 2025. I do not comprehend this attempt to hand wave that away.
46 days from midterms. Will voters believe Democrats, who created the affordability crisis by turning inflation from 1.9% when Biden came in to office to 9.1%, are the right party to fix it? Basically should voters hire the arsonists to put out the fire?
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Numerous flights into Luxembourg Airport were forced to hold or diverted tonight after the airfield was shut down due to unknown drone activity. Comes after a series of Russian grey-zone drone incidents at other sensitive European sites.
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Slotkin is part of the problem.
NEW: Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin is headlining a DC fundraiser for Abdul El-Sayed next week, per a person familiar with the event. She’s been pressing the Dem Causus to unite behind El-Sayed and help him with fundraising in his tight race against Republican Mike Rogers. Slotkin’s been candid that she doesn’t agree with him on everything, but is calling on Dems to focus on the common goal of putting a check on Trump in congress.
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BREAKING:
Can we PLEASE stop the rampant overuse of “scoop” by journalists? I get it: You think breaking news is how you make yourself matter. But the vast majority of these “scoops” are so small that they don’t make ANY ripple. The “scoops” obsession drives me INSANE (as you probably can tell).
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Putin’s computer is running an unlicensed copy of Windows In the video of his online vote, the “Activate Windows” watermark is clearly visible. A legal copy of Windows 11 starts at $139.
Putin, at his own election, voted for himself He summed it up: “You can’t go wrong!” And indeed, you can’t go wrong in a lottery you cannot lose. The only rule is that wherever you press, Putin wins.
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Many countries are getting great results with retirement systems based on private savings, so it is very depressing that... (1/2, link in reply) 👇
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Even Graham Platner thinks he's a misogynistic jerk.
Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is known for speaking out against widely beloved things like fireworks, football, and bacon. Add to that list funding for breast cancer research, which El-Sayed said creates problems for “equity in health research allocation” by prioritizing research for diseases that affect people with “social power and privilege.”
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The past 18 months of US tariff reality seem to have penetrated even the thickest of partisan bubbles:
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Yes, I can well recall Curtis and De Niro manning the barricades against the Biden administration's attacks on free speech. Are they going to do a jump-cut singing of "Imagine," too?
Jamie Lee Curtis and Robert De Niro pledge to defend the U.S. Constitution in new campaign to protest Trump. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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I loathe this line. If you only “love” what a place could someday be if you got your own way on everything—and if it were thereby completely changed from what it currently is—then you don’t actually “love” it. (1)
beautiful question, happy to answer. im an american citizen. i love this country in spite of its dark chapters because i beleive in its promise, and its people. it’s up to us, people of good conscience, to continue the struggle to unlock its true potential.
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Proof that Mel Brooks is a prophetic genius: He accurately predicted the topics of Tucker Carlson's podcast almost 50 years ago.
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Hence, thence, and whence: What’s the difference?
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So, are you gonna allow my faith to be taught in your school? If not, go pound sand trying to shame people for wanting their children instructed in their faith & their values rather than those of the State.
Possibly my most controversial opinion is there should be more shame (and consequences) for people who send their kids to private schools instead of their neighborhood schools. I get that the public school still gets your taxes, but enrollment matters so much.
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