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Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow
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Adhere to any of these factions and it will instantly declare you to be a great man and a genius, while the other will hate you and declare you to be a nincompoop. At any rate, though having enemies you will also have friends. By maintaining an unbiased and sober view on the subject, you will incur
We need a stronger pushback on the 2020 lie.
We need movies addressing this.
Where is our cultural response?
They aren't turning the corner.
I worry they were so intensely and consequentially so wrong that they might not be able to admit it and move forward.
People running away from despotism towards freedom aren't coming to America anymore because it wouldn't be freedom. It would just be more despotism.
This is the kind of stuff that only happens under Republicans because during the Biden and Obama administrations the scammers knew they were being prosecuted. But it was common under Bush and it's been common under Trump.
The permissiveness of marijuana legalizing has been confused with permissiveness towards every vice.
As a live time advocate for legalizing pot, I've never thought we should extend it to hard drugs, prostitution, gambling.
The we frame the issue shouldn't be "Do we support the police?"

The issue is "Do we support police who break the rules?".
Or do we hold them accountable.
If they are building something crazy in the bunker underneath the ballroom, it would be top secret. We wouldn't know about it.
Okay, when I reserved a rustic cabin up in the Olympic mountains far from cell coverage, internet or even a radio signal, I failed to take into account that the Dodgers would be playing in the world series this weekend.
Blocking use of copyrighted material could potentially kill free speech.
He could attack anyone who uses any images of government without permission.
Just another vulnerability for him to exploit.
Two Maga chat bots walk into a room;
-Democrats are the Nazis.
-Yeah. Hitler was right about the Jews.
-Yeah. Democrats are too dumb to recognize their self delusions.
He could perform at his best while viewing a massacre.
I say we keep the ballroom and have real liberal parties in there. iykwim?
The Billups arrest is just the beginning of gambling scandals in professional sports.
Eventually it will be so common it will be tolerated.
Results will be tainted. Records will have asterisks.
The golden age of sports is coming to an end.
Task Manager (Not Responding) is a pretty good summation of Microsoft 11.
Jefferson & Washington are thinking their lucky stars that they were slave owning rapists about right now.
Is it legal to privately fund renovations on the security bunker that's located under the ballroom?
Exactly. The ballroom is the presidential bunker.
The press needs to get on that aspect of this story.
Leavitt: Permit needed "Only for vertical construction."

How about for bunkers? 🤔
So it's a go on tearing down the Supreme Court in 2028?
Follow up question; "Is there anything you can think of that the president isn't allowed to do?"
The Soviet government acted like this. Especially towards the end.
🤔 Interaction between HuffPost and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
For me, this is reminiscent of the East India company.
What happens when private companies are more powerful than the government?
What's to stop a private company from destroying anything in America, your own house could be demolished tomorrow.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
White House East Wing demolished, new images appear to show
Trump first said the project wouldn't interfere with the existing White House, but on Thursday satellite images appeared to show the entire East Wing reduced to rubble.
abcnews.go.com
I think what they're saying is that it's automatically Democrats fault.
I think about the Nero from Sienkiewicz- very deeply researched.
Nero thinks he's the best musician/ poet as everybody tells him. But then he goes to Greece and they totally laugh him out of the room.
At he decides he needs inspiration and sets fire to Rome to inspire himself.