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Biden gives a great intro speech for Kamala in Pittsburg - BuckGalaxy - 9/3/2024 5:56:34 AM

ER speaks. - ER - 8/23/2024 3:42:45 AM
- Buck Reponds - BuckGalaxy - 8/23/2024 4:02:16 AM
  - Return to normalcy - RobVG - 8/24/2024 2:02:35 PM
    - "...Harris has more going for her than that." - BuckGalaxy - 8/25/2024 3:21:06 AM
      - Forgiveness shut down a second time - RobVG - 8/28/2024 11:08:56 PM
      - "Like" n/t - RobVG - 8/25/2024 7:07:02 PM
      - Excellent analysis, Buck. - ER - 8/25/2024 2:30:57 PM
  - The day Trump leaves - ER - 8/23/2024 2:25:28 PM
    - I agree - BuckGalaxy - 8/23/2024 4:55:02 PM

What Buck said... - ER - 8/25/2024 11:40:21 PM

The wreck of the Bayesian - ER - 8/24/2024 4:03:57 AM

Another Ruskie mercenary leader has turned against Putin - BuckGalaxy - 8/22/2024 5:02:10 PM

DNC Speech of the night Day Three - BuckGalaxy - 8/22/2024 4:29:58 AM

DNC speech of the night Day Two - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 10:48:33 PM

DNC: Speech of the night Day One - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 10:32:38 PM

Gaza protests at DNC fizzle - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 9:24:43 PM
- It's sad. - ER - 8/21/2024 9:54:36 PM
- Protestors on campuses have never demanded peace negotiations, only the destruction of Israel - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 9:48:12 PM
  - I gave up on Campus protestors in the 1970s. - ER - 8/21/2024 10:27:20 PM
- No appetite on either side for a two state solution right now - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 9:44:47 PM
- Dem divisions over Gaza disolve in the face of the Orange Menace - BuckGalaxy - 8/21/2024 9:37:31 PM

What 'they' want, maybe most of them. - ER - 8/20/2024 8:00:21 PM

What "they" want, at least some of them: - podrock - 8/12/2024 7:23:52 PM
- It's not that hard to figure out. - ER - 8/12/2024 11:23:01 PM
  - I came across this interesting observation - podrock - 8/20/2024 4:32:44 PM
  - You know I am a fan of Umberto - podrock - 8/13/2024 4:53:11 PM

The BS machine in full force - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2024 7:25:47 PM
- GOPspeak - ER - 8/16/2024 8:40:49 PM
  - Whatever the market will bear - podrock - 8/17/2024 3:35:05 AM
    - Your observation - BuckGalaxy - 8/17/2024 6:56:46 AM
      - But sometimes, it's a lie. - podrock - 8/17/2024 3:40:01 PM
        
        Sure but - BuckGalaxy - 8/17/2024 4:22:03 PM
        
        But let me emphasize the need for competition - BuckGalaxy - 8/17/2024 8:17:47 PM
      - Its intuitive only to the indoctrinated. - ER - 8/17/2024 12:22:49 PM
        
        Production costs, Marketing, Shrinkflation, et al - BuckGalaxy - 8/17/2024 4:13:14 PM
  - I should have known... - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2024 9:29:45 PM
    - I'm so glad I was able to disappoint you. - ER - 8/16/2024 11:05:14 PM

The lunatic time - ER - 8/12/2024 2:14:39 PM
- I think Kamala will get stronger - BuckGalaxy - 8/12/2024 10:08:24 PM
  - America is one assassin's bullet away from destruction.... - RL - 8/13/2024 8:04:04 PM
  - She seems pretty strong already. - ER - 8/13/2024 1:34:28 AM

I don't want to say, "I told you so." - ER - 8/8/2024 5:40:24 PM
- Emergency landing - BuckGalaxy - 8/10/2024 5:21:24 AM
  - And it didn't even happen. - podrock - 8/10/2024 5:26:23 AM
    - Not like he claimed, he confused black people... - RL - 8/10/2024 3:51:37 PM
    - I'm inclined to cut him a little slack on this one. - ER - 8/10/2024 11:02:30 AM
      - Difference being - podrock - 8/10/2024 8:03:21 PM
- Only for years now. - podrock - 8/9/2024 3:57:19 AM

"The main point of the war in Ukraine is not to allow Donald Trump to win." - ER - 8/10/2024 3:52:10 PM
- The Manchurian Candidate - ER - 8/10/2024 4:32:09 PM

What It Was Like to Be Tim Walz’s Student in High School - BuckGalaxy - 8/8/2024 2:53:22 AM

Childless cat ladies and the child tax credit - BuckGalaxy - 8/8/2024 1:58:55 AM

I just finished reading Applebaum's book. - ER - 8/8/2024 12:19:06 AM
- What book are you talking about? - RL - 8/8/2024 12:20:30 AM
  - Autocracy, Inc. - ER - 8/8/2024 12:24:30 AM

Changing the subject, it looks like it will be either Shapiro or Walz for VP - BuckGalaxy - 8/3/2024 11:12:57 PM
- It's Walz - Tony - 8/6/2024 2:57:12 PM
  - Ezra Klein podcast with Walz interview -- Good stuff! - BuckGalaxy - 8/6/2024 3:47:59 PM
- I thought shapiro had a scandal that would likely block him being VP - RL - 8/4/2024 9:25:11 PM
  - It wasn't Shapiro doing the sexual harrassing - BuckGalaxy - 8/5/2024 1:32:37 AM
  - I am still uneasy that we a re fielding yet another first of their kind candidate in this election - RL - 8/4/2024 9:27:31 PM
    - First of her kind - BuckGalaxy - 8/5/2024 1:26:11 AM
- All these guys are good choices. - ER - 8/4/2024 1:02:52 AM
  - This VP search really doe show the depth of the Dem field - BuckGalaxy - 8/4/2024 3:13:14 AM
    - Or Hickenlooper - podrock - 8/4/2024 6:48:14 PM

Absolutely brilliant on the immigration issue - BuckGalaxy - 7/31/2024 3:08:50 AM
- I've often wondered why Biden didn't stress this issue. - ER - 7/31/2024 2:09:05 PM
  - The other thing - BuckGalaxy - 7/31/2024 6:19:31 PM
    - The GOP has always been the 'Party of Business'. - ER - 7/31/2024 7:33:06 PM
      - Words have meaning - BuckGalaxy - 7/31/2024 8:45:25 PM
        
        Even slaves can quit. - ER - 7/31/2024 11:39:30 PM
        
        Slavery is not a spectum in my view - BuckGalaxy - 8/1/2024 5:07:37 AM
        
        With ER on this. - podrock - 8/2/2024 1:07:52 AM
        
        Sorry but you're both wrong - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 5:03:52 AM
        
        And sometimes those words are a cover - podrock - 8/2/2024 1:35:25 PM
        
        You almost got it right at the very end. - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 4:07:37 PM
        
        I really don't expect to see - podrock - 8/2/2024 6:14:18 PM
        
        Huh? - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 6:42:00 PM
        
        Who is going to pay for it? - podrock - 8/2/2024 6:56:44 PM
        
        Who do you think? - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 6:58:56 PM
        
        Call me cynical, but I'll believe it when it happens - podrock - 8/2/2024 7:45:52 PM
        
        It will happen - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 9:28:49 PM
        
        Words have multiple meanings - ER - 8/2/2024 1:23:25 PM
        
        Hyperbole is a thing - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 3:59:59 PM
        
        And by insisting on a "correct" definition, - ER - 8/2/2024 4:54:27 PM
        
        Do you think… - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 6:52:47 PM
        
        If you're trying to shame me into a concession, its not going to work. - ER - 8/3/2024 1:20:40 AM
        
        You deserve less of a vote - BuckGalaxy - 8/3/2024 3:16:34 PM
        
        Insisting words don’t have definitions - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 6:37:03 PM
        
        Words may have definitions, but why should I accept yours? - ER - 8/3/2024 1:35:05 AM
        
        omfg what a crock of sh!t - BuckGalaxy - 8/3/2024 3:27:01 PM
        
        My analogies make perfect sense to me. - ER - 8/1/2024 9:31:05 PM
        
        We're using different definitions - BuckGalaxy - 8/1/2024 5:01:05 AM
        
        True, but (there is always a 'but'...) - ER - 8/1/2024 9:53:06 PM
        
        You can't see the forest for the trees - BuckGalaxy - 8/2/2024 4:51:40 AM
      - The jobs Americans are not willing to do. - ER - 7/31/2024 7:51:08 PM
  - What I found the most effective - BuckGalaxy - 7/31/2024 6:09:39 PM
- And here's the new ad - BuckGalaxy - 7/31/2024 3:16:48 AM
  - Good. - podrock - 7/31/2024 3:52:57 PM

A Marshall Plan for Gaza? - ER - 8/3/2024 1:57:26 AM
- You may be right but - BuckGalaxy - 8/3/2024 8:01:51 AM
- Additional riff... - podrock - 8/3/2024 3:55:34 AM

Conservatives:"STOP CALLING US WEIRD!!!" - RL - 8/2/2024 2:29:31 AM
- No. - podrock - 8/2/2024 3:13:04 AM
  - Oh, its real - RL - 8/3/2024 3:12:11 AM
  - Groucho nose, moustache and glasses? - ER - 8/2/2024 5:04:08 PM

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? - BuckGalaxy - 7/25/2024 7:43:28 AM
- Maybe I'm just to old. - ER - 7/25/2024 1:28:04 PM
  - Yes you're acting too old - BuckGalaxy - 7/26/2024 2:50:18 AM
    - The problem with "acting old" is you can't help yourself. - ER - 7/26/2024 5:06:05 PM
      - I'm already there - BuckGalaxy - 7/26/2024 7:36:34 PM
        
        I'm sure it affects everyone differently, and at different times. - ER - 7/26/2024 8:53:42 PM
        
        Advice - BuckGalaxy - 7/30/2024 4:27:07 AM
  - And just what does "von dutch brat coconut tree edit" mean? - ER - 7/25/2024 1:35:36 PM

A lot of things are starting to make sense now. - ER - 7/25/2024 2:28:36 PM
- I've always like Anne Applebaum - BuckGalaxy - 7/27/2024 8:22:55 PM
  - She's great - podrock - 7/29/2024 4:58:33 PM
  - Conservatives have always feared concentrated government power would lead to tyranny, - ER - 7/27/2024 9:04:14 PM
    - Conservatives have changed - BuckGalaxy - 7/28/2024 11:12:17 PM
      - And another thing - BuckGalaxy - 7/29/2024 6:49:38 PM

Trump pledges to end birthright citizenship. - ER - 7/28/2024 10:02:21 PM
- *cough* - podrock - 7/29/2024 4:55:03 PM
- Republicans want you to GTFO - BuckGalaxy - 7/29/2024 5:18:11 AM
  - Let's give MAGAs a citizen test - podrock - 7/29/2024 4:52:56 PM

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