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Regarding JD's assertion that the abortion ban will be signed, I can't help interpreting this as yet another sign that, in his own mind, he is not running as VP; he intends to be prez. He's certain the ban will be signed because he plans to sign it.

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Sep 13Liked by Jonathan Larsen

So funny; and wellwritten; thanks for the laugh!🤣

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Aw, thank you, Nina!

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"But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there."

If the SNL skit about the debate won't include this line, with the response from David Muir being something to the effect of: "I'm a person on television and I'm telling you no dogs were eaten", I would be very disappointed.

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Sep 13Liked by Jonathan Larsen

Trump proclaimed himself a leader on “IVF, which is fertilization”. When Trump explains something completely obvious like this, it usually means he just learned it, and he thinks others will be just as astonished as he is. Remember “people don’t realize Lincoln was Republican”?

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Another tell of his, is "sir":

When he tells a story, if it features someone calling him "sir", we can be sure that interaction never happened.

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“Sir, you understand fertilization better than anyone. Maybe it’s because of MIT. My uncle, very smart, MIT. They say sir, nobody ever thought of that before, but it’s true, IVF really is fertilization, if you think about it. So it’s very interesting.”

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Where were people with an audience (like yourself) saying this about 9/11 back in the frenzied days of US anaphylactic shock? Everywhere we turned, those few of us not caught up in the hysteria, it was all about “everything changed” and “what’s it like writing children’s books in the new age of terrorism” (actually asked by Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air”).

There was no public media space to which one could turn that wasn’t taken up with that.

I see the post-9/11 years as the second successful US coup d’etat of the Cold War and post-Cold War era.

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I was at CNN, doing my best. Then I went to Air America Radio in early 2004, and did my best!

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Three things:

1. “he also called himself a “leader on fertilization,”. True! Given the endless stream of shit that comes out of his mouth every time he opens it.

2. The christo-fanatic general running the USAF academy is just channeling Gen. Jack E. Ripper late of Burbleson AF base.

What is fluoridation doing to our precious bodily fluids anyway?

3. Fear of escalation that has tied Ukraine’s hands in their fight for survival has been proven false time and again. Putin’s nuclear saber rattling is bluff. What would he bomb exactly and what would it get him?

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BODILY FLUIDS!

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Sep 12·edited Sep 12Liked by Jonathan Larsen

Wide meaning indeed. I took it to mean more illegitimates out there. Yuck. Love the photo!

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