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Been there. Not far from Harper’s Ferry. I plan to rewatch “The Good Lord Bird” soon to remind me of happier times.

The GOP got where it is by fighting everything and anything and having a bigger bullhorn and having billionaires pumping their views on all media resources through all manner of things at their disposal.

It wasn't per se. I think Oblong AND CMRIVdogs will have a better feel on this but the big mistake the Confederacy which cost them the war made was when they were trying to push into Maryland and Pennsylvania that they issued orders to seize freedmen as war booty and they were trying to knock out the North by taking Washington. This led to the Gettysburg campaign which stopped Lee cold.

as for what a coup is...an extra-constitutional attempt to change the government. The US Civil War was an attempt by the rebels to change the government of the people living in the rebel states.

Sorry, I meant that the previous one was...

we hadn't had anything like that since 1861 so...

how dare they!? https://x.com/natashabertrand/status/1854982978994139389?s=46&t=76Y1aNflZsD8yrwQrvLC2g

He had black masked goons thump BLM protesters on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln would have spun in his grave.

by the transitive property all aviation crash victims are about to uncover .... i've said too much. :--)

might as well be. I lost track of him.

Or a couple referrees will be killed in a helicopter crash

entertainment you can wager on

Say what you will about the Reagan era...they at least had an ear to the ground to being a governing majority. I think that will be this admin's undoing. I wish I were more confident than that.

Not yet

Catastrophizing -- although warranted and understandable is -- something i'm trying to dial back on because its like panicking in a lifeboat situation.

I have hope the EU and NATO will rally to keep Ukraine going. They do not want Russia to capture the baltics again or threaten Poland and Romania. My hope is very thin reed though. Some really bad people are going to be in the administration.

We can't hope for the parasites to be kept out of this government but we can fight them when they need confirmations. The checks and balances need to be more than eye wash.

I think he will have a rough confirmation in a sober senate.

I guess we may miss out on the worst of this.

The catastrophizing in the US Government agencies going on today. Yesterday was just shock.

Its weird because the fine-tuning of the skillset to hit a MLB pitcher's arsenal isn't something you can just flick a switch do again. With vertigo, yeah...that's no good.

I realize this is probably a moot point but Austin Meadows is just done with baseball?

and this follows

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