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[TomF]

Reporters report; it's what they do. I am concerned about the leak, which is only the latest in a series of leaks about confidential things over the...

[TomF]

Which suggests how their relative commitments to the 2ndA and to savaging Biden stack up....

[TomF]

Again, it seems that Trudeau did not want to make a public statement when he did - and was instead working through a few different versions of diplomatic...

[TomF]

I listened to it for a little bit, but couldn't stomach it.

On days like this, Garland almost certainly wishes he'd never stopped being...

[TomF]

saw someone on Twitter observe that the House Republicans are fractured into about 3 groups. The "Freedom Caucus," about 160 members who're...

[TomF]

I think Jeffries is way too smart to do that. He'd consent to become speaker only after extracting promises, and publicizing them. Standing up in press...

[TomF]

Because student debt is now taking decades to pay off, even at the higher earning rates for university grads vs. others. And the socio-economic fallout...

[TomF]

I mean, when Matt Gaetz said yesterday that the House's chaos couldn't be blamed on Biden, not on Schumer, not on House Dems ... I hated that this odious...

[TomF]

Yeah, I did that too. It's an indicator that we're old, Lefty.

My older son's girlfriend got her B.A., then worked as a waitress these past...

[TomF]

I agree, Figment. It's been an impossible job for each of the last 3 Republican Speakers, getting incrementally worse for each.

One longshot...

[TomF]

Interestingly, some suggest that depending on the vape juice, Boebert may have left herself vulnerable to exactly the same federal charges Hunter Biden's...

[TomF]

I'm not sure what Trudeau would do, if he left politics. He's a young man, eh? A whole lot of decades to get through yet. And like him and his policies...

[TomF]

You didn't tell me you were visiting New Brunswick.

Yeah, depending on what measurement's where, I'm somewhere between 0-4 on that map....

[TomF]

Deep within a court document Fani Willis filed today or yesterday, they name not only defendants but also some of the witnesses for the State which Willis...

[TomF]

Herself's half Russian. No hate there.

I feel about Russians under Putin as i feel about Trumpists. They've been sucked into a cult,...

[TomF]

Hair on the palms of .

[TomF]

Trudeau had no intention of making a public announcement - and only did so because a reporter with Global News got the story through a leak, and informed...

[TomF]

Student debt forgiveness is one instance of a subsidy - what you call "spending your money to buy votes." It has a concentrated impact on people...

[TomF]

Interesting you mention that famous quip by DeGaulle.

A commentator today observed that even after Quebec separatists took DeGaulle's nationalist...

[TomF]

Look, I've my own raft of complaints about Trudeau. Happy to have a thread about them, if you wish.

It's very unfortunate, and I think...