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That was an amazing 90 second response by that community.
January 13, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Sorry it was free to me and I didn’t even sign in…
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“appears to be no more or less effective”

I mean, logically the only other option is that it’s “exactly as effective as”… that’s obviously what the authors concluded based on solid data, right?

/s
January 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
They could at least try harder. It’s not like her age isn’t in every story this week…
January 12, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Imagine if the actual goal were to reduce America’s presence and soft power in the world…

Now, look how much things make sense!
January 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
*That* was the joke?
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Yes this is why this time around he has avoided having any such people anywhere near his cabinet.
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
2nd thing. Is hard but is way.

Also, (partly) why my blogging to do list is constantly growing…
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Was gonna say, why just punching…
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Also I suspect nobody identified themselves as law enforcement officers.
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Reposted by ardalis (Steve Smith)
January 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
He literally doesn't know how to joke.
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
My point which maybe was not well made was, it's pointless to try to suggest to *this administration* that it should revise its processes, or even follow to any process, when it is clearly ignoring *all processes* (it doesn't like) and just doing whatever it wants.
January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Some.

But I'm more specifically referring to processes for:
- Spending congressionally approved funds
- Making changes to historic buildings/landmarks
- Due process for individuals
- Firing protected gov employees
- Hatch Act and other corruption-preventing processes

etc etc
January 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Everything about the process(es) used by this administration is shit but pointing it out for a year hasn't caused them to reconsider any of them.
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
or more simply and colloquially, verbing. Which uses verbing to describe verbing.
January 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM