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Grassley
Steve Randy Waldman
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On how the Great Depression hit Romania. Let's not do this shit again, anywhere. by Balutescu Marius Petrisor blogulluibalutescu.blogspot.com/2025/03/mare... (in Romanian, Google Translate will get you there if Romanian isn't your thing.)
Steve Randy Waldman
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Great paragraphs from @jamellebouie.net to have on hand next time you find yourself conversing with the MAGA-pilled. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Text: Vance begins with a lie. “Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country.” That is a load-bearing “approximately,” to say the least. The U.S.-Mexico border is where the greatest number of immigrants enter the country. But according to an analysis by FactCheck.org, from 2021 to 2024 Customs and Border Patrol officers stationed there released 2.5 million people into the United States, with notices to report to immigration authorities for further hearings and processing, out of 6.5 million “encounters” across the U.S.-Mexico border and legal ports of entry. In addition, an estimated 1.6 million people evaded law enforcement to enter the country, for a total of 4.1 million people. You may think that’s still too many. But it’s nowhere near what Vance says it is. Vance goes on to assert that this imaginary horde of “20 million illegal aliens” placed “extraordinary burdens on our country” and “committed violent crimes, or facilitated fentanyl and sex trafficking.” It’s been shown again and again that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens do. Stating otherwise is demagogic innuendo meant to short-circuit the rational mind and inflame prejudice.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the article i linked to suggests that’s a mischaracterization. before Jan 6, same day (Jan 5) as the remark taken to suggest that, Grassley’s spokesperson clarified that Grassley had referred to the Senate-only convening, not the joint session, and that Grassley expected Pence at the joint session.
Steve Randy Waldman
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he’s been a coward, like nearly all Republicans still electeds. but “in on Jan 6” strikes me as mistaken, and cowardice superior to malice. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
Democrats have criticized Chuck Grassley's record on Jan. 6. Here's what we found:
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Steve Randy Waldman
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if we can make it that long without a serious rupture or interventions that undermine the elections.
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i’m not going to argue with whichever path gets us to a survivable shoreline. 2026 seems a lifetime away, though, given the pace of the vandalism and arson. maybe it slows and we can make it ‘til then.
Steve Randy Waldman
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look. just because you have a firetruck doesn’t mean that anybody’s fired a truck.
Steve Randy Waldman
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yeah. he’s no spring chicken. thus attention to the VP pick. there’s no reason to think he’d not choose a milquetoast pre-MAGA GOP-er, if revulsion by that point didn’t compel him to do even better than that. advice and consent of a senate that would have just convicted.
Steve Randy Waldman
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Van Hollen is clear they tried to stage a scene in which they’d be sipping margaritas by the pool, to mock human rights concerns. they refused the pool, and didn’t touch the margaritas placed before them.
Steve Randy Waldman
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three impeachments (Trump, Vance, Mike Johnson) gets us to Grassley, who is not great but would serve as a conventional caretaker until 2029. we’d have to pay attention to his VP pick too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
United States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia
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i wish you sweetness in whatever form you can enjoy it.
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look. the piety of a tart is much greater than the piety of a croissant. you don’t have to care about either one’s religion.
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yes. and it obviously requires accelerated depreciation.
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❤️
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they could have just said no, leaving Van Hollen’s trip looking like a failed stunt. why didn’t they?
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📌