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April 13 - April 21, 2022
There was barely a smidgen of truth in it, but it certainly energized the president’s base.”
She woud never say that out loud
“You’ll have the mind the store
Typo: "to" mind the store
a labor of love.”
I thought this phrase meant "an onerous task that needs lots of love tp be willing to do?"
We spent a lot class of time discussing
Typo: "we spent a lot of class time"
Dartmouth
Perhasps TJ and Valeta would like thos?
“Once I had grasped that ‘free speech’ was just a cover for unjust power structures, I became active in efforts on campus to prevent people who had harmful ideas from speaking.
Allen Charles Kors and all at FIRE need to read this & review it.
“One very important course was African-American Studies with Professor Armand Green. He taught us that American capitalism was heavily dependent upon slave labor and that since the benefits of slavery were still spread throughout the economy, it was only right to put the cost of reparations on the country as a whole.
Note this to Phil Magnuss
marland too
“I’ll be honest with you, Jen. Ours was more a marriage of convenience than of love.
Ad.itting this to a biographer????
was sure that he was going to be a superstar lawyer who’d haul in loads of money, and as you well know, money is the lifeblood of politics.
Admitting this to a biographer too for a politician, formet Pres!!, seems farfetched
We never had time for children.
Also a bit farfetched for a politician
“Then you’ll recall how that woman who looked Native American was recognized by the moderator and when she had the microphone, asked, ‘You, Governor Farnsworth, have spoken again and again tonight about all the new laws and policies you have in mind, but I have never, tonight or any other time, heard your say anything about laws that you would repeal because they cost too much or interfere with our freedom too much. Could you provide a list of laws you’d repeal, or even one or two?’” “Yes, I sure do remember that moment. I was watching the debate and thought, ‘Oh, this could hurt big time.’”
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Cool
Tell Jim Payne about this.
“Actually, I wasn’t worried at all. Local Democratic officials in several key states told my staff that they had boxes of reserve ballots that they’d put in to be counted in the early hours of the morning. They assured us that they would have enough votes, and they did.
No way would a politician admit this to a biographer
ask jon Fund
Jen knew that Pat’s first election was clouded in controversy over the results in several states, but had not expected to hear the former president admit that the vote totals had been manipulated to ensure her victory. That didn’t bother her.
Really????
The whole idea of the Electoral College was unfair, and if it took manufactured votes to overcome it and give the people the president that a majority wanted, that was just the way things had to be.
Some justofication
not sure i have heard that before
tis is turning into a ridoculous strawman characterizations
Senate Majority Leader Dzerzhinsky
Wow, what a reference! the first leader of the GPU then OGPU in Sovietf Union!
That was to create the appearance of fairness and objectivity, which we thought would help build public support.
Perfect
federal stadium subsidies.
Are there any such thing?
the minimum wage for newly hired workers.
Newly hired????????
the bad ones, but just about all of them were either Black or Hispanic.
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which had seemed like a good idea from her position inside the Beltway,
Ha
but she couldn’t see any reason to doubt Will’s argument against it.
? really? she switched her convictions on the issue that fast?
she had to admit, her sources of information were confined to a narrow spectrum of progressive writers.
But they rarely admit that
Jen had never heard anyone of any race say that reparations weren’t at least a good concept.
???
Jen realized that she had never experienced this before—profound cognitive dissonance.
nevet? what about when talking with her sistercor parents?
When I hear politicians talking about their plans for creating group equality, I know that they’re just fishing for votes among people who want something for nothing.”
Thrre's a stastement more people need to confront. Mary!
That Pat Farnsworth’s years in power had not been glorious for the United States, but instead, as he thought, ruinous?
But her sister and parents had told her the same things!!!
A long-forgotten lesson from her high school journalism class came to mind: above all, give your readers the facts. The evening’s events had reawakened that instinct.
Amazxing
Will’s outlook was so completely different, so unexpected, and so reasonable.
Compared to her parents asd sister?
Did she dare to ask more probing questions and follow up if the former president’s answer was a facile evasion?
Nope
facile - ooh,what a smear
decided that she didn’t have a strong enough foundation
Amazingly perceptive
she had a suspicion that doing any serious questioning might blow up the whole book project.
No kidding!!!
After all, Pat had shown that she has a vindictive streak.
For SURE
puffball questions and no pushback.
among progressive Democrats, it was a given that Israel was the bully in the region and was always responsible for trouble.
If so, then where is the cognitive dissonance in progressive Jews???
A pathetic question, but just what she expects.
Ken already realizes hoe pathetic the question is already? her "foundation" is building fast
Would people really be content with less? The rhetoric sounded nice, but you can’t eat it.
Lol - but can u eat i - what a line!!!
Professor Edward House,
Oh boy, what an acient and perfect reference
they are free to go, but we also put in place a fifty percent exit tax on the assets of businesses that want to leave America.
"free" but have to pay 50%?
newspeak logic
Do I dare ask if those labor policies had anything to do with the decline in jobs? No. She might think I was being disloyal and provocative.
She's learning very fast
this paper is not interested in stories that cast doubt on progressive policies.
Ever explicitly said anywhere in real life?
to borrow a phrase, ‘they have seen the future and it works.’
Perfect reference quote again.
but how mafny people remermber what it refers to?
“We set up a secret task force devoted to figuring out how we could get enough ballots delivered to friendly hands to make sure we won close elections. Naturally, I was kept out of the details—plausible deniability, you know.”
But admitting it to her eliminates the deniability!!!!
“Another part of the plan was to use the IRS to go after big donors to the Republicans as well as those who supported right-wing think tanks and media outfits. Previous presidents did that, but my enemies list was much bigger, and we put far more manpower into it than my predecessors ever did. It took only a year or two for the message to spread that if you want to avoid trouble with the IRS, don’t support anything on the Right.
Nod to Obama and FDR!!!!
So it’s not the case that Americans were won over to you, but that you used the power of the government to silence and intimidate the opposition. Is this any different from the tactics of tyrannical rulers throughout history?
Oh, Jen is learning her foundationasl principles and info too fast now.
competitors that might try enter their markets.”
Typo: try TO enter
So that explains it. The big tech moguls weren’t acting in the public interest when they suppressed news and books that helped conservatives; they wanted governmental favors in return. This is ugly.
Alan Charles Kors - interested?
And once we get the internet under full control,
Hmmmmmmm
total control is not possoble, but partial cpntrol os:
- the way it is happening
- as China is doing it
- as Russia and other dictatorships are
methods are tyrannical.
Key foundation
George Harbison - this is the kind of tbing we need to expose!
planting these seeds of doubt will reap good harvests
that sent a signal to right-wingers that their old ‘freedom of speech’ arguments wouldn’t work any longer. There haven’t been any First Amendment cases in years, showing that we have broken those people—utterly broken them.” Those last words were spoken with a vehemence that Jen had not previously heard from Pat. It did not, however, surprise her.
Allen Charles Kors!!!!!
