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Serious Euro immigration problems.
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#3 Shannon
This Captain Kirk likely does not have Tiberius as his middle name. If he does, you know his parents loved Star Trek. 🙂 -
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100 Darren says:
November 3, 2013 at 9:03 pm
At this point, if Ted Cruz joins the presidential race my support is sealed and if he does I want him to win. He can’t do that if he’s unpopular.Not sure what’s meant here. You seem to be saying that your support is sealed, unless he’s unpopular, then its not sealed.
Or, you could be saying that your support is sealed for him , but he won’t win the race if he’s unpopular.
The first one indicates that your support really isn’t sealed—its conditional on what you consider to be “electability”. That’s politically naïve in that it doesn’t consider the importance of who the candidate is unpopular with. In 2016, it is highly likely—or damn well better be—that the race will center around Obamacare. I believe that the candidate who is unpopular with those who want to keep or expand it will be the one who wins. It also doesn’t consider that there are people who are, in fact, very popular will be presented as being “unpopular” by both the Establishment Republicans and the Democrats. Do you really think Mike Lee is as unpopular in Utah as the Huntsman’s and Romney’s and their allies in the press say he is?
The second shows a bit more political naiveté and ignorance of political history. George Bush was re-elected even though he was unpopular, and the geniuses who decide what “electability” means thought that Obama was so unpopular that the best strategy would be to run a candidate that was not “polarizing” so as not to upset that balance. They didn’t want to scare people away with a Conservative, so they ran a milquetoast with a bad record on Socialized Medicine, Gun Control, and Abortion.
My support for a Candidate is conditional, but only on two points:
1. He must be Conservative. A real Conservative, not “A Proven Conservative Leader” as described to me by sycophants, paid pundits and consultants, and Party shills.
2. He not come from the Establishment wing of the Party. Anyone who does is a loser. Want to talk “unpopular”? OK. Someone who comes from the Establishment wing of the Party will be unpopular with all of the Democrat and most of the Republican base. The first group will vote against him, and a significant portion of the second will stay the frik home like they did the last two times, only this time there will be more people at home.
And I don’t give a rosy red rat’s rump who thinks he’s “unpopular”. Mitt Romney was the most likable loser I have ever seen. He wasn’t “unpopular”. Of course, he wasn’t popular with most folks either. That’s the problem with the “unpopular” calculus. Everybody who is considered “unpopular” with some folks is “popular” with others.
All it takes to get my vote is for the Candidate to be popular with ME. I don’t care who else is going to sit at the lunch table with me—-I stopped caring about that kind of peer pressure when I got out of Junior High. If more people voted on their gut rather than vote for the person somebody else told them was more “popular”, a lot better people would be elected. This freaking country has been run into the ground by “electable” people. -
Captain Kirk’s new ship has an interesting schnozola. I have never seen a bulbous bow in that shape or orientation. It looks like a big nose or a huge gob of drooping chewing gum.
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Morning, y’all. I dislike time shifts. Takes me weeks to get settled in again.
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An hour is nuthin’.
In the last few weeks I’ve had:
-2:00 and back
-1:00 and back
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+9:00 and back
+13:00 and back
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Chris Christie is about to win in a landslide.
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Pyro: If Cuccinelli wins, Christie will look like a big slob pandering to the LIV. If the Clinton-McCauliff juggernaut fails, it could very well spell the end for Hitlery. The Ds will still nominate her but even the LIV over 45 will remember Hitlery-care and how it was even more Draconian than O-Care. Hillary will be stained like Monica’s blue dress by the disaster known as O-care.
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#10 “Pryo”
I could never travel on business or for any other reason because I can’t take the time change. This one hour shift is bad because I’m still on pain meds and nausea tablets, with a poor appetite to boot. The taste of my toothpaste made me throw up one night, and I lost the blood thinner pill I had just taken. Had to change up the time of day I was taking that pill.
The small crew I was working with until last May all loved to travel and could easily spend a week showing new software features in Beijing, then fly over the North Pole to France for another week of meetings and demos. All 3 of them thought there was something wrong with me for never wanting to go anywhere. To me, the one who travels is the servant, the one who stays in place is The Queen. -
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I doubt if there are more than a handful of “Republicans” in NJ that the rest of the country would call “conservative”. That’s why it woks for the Pufferfish. -
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I distinctly remember that in the hillary-care plan a doctor was committing a crime punishable by jail time if he treated someone for cash. Even now there are Ds in Virginia calling on the law to FORCE doctors to take Medicare and Medicaide patients even though the reimbursements do not cover the costs to treat them. I call that slavery. That kind of rhetoric, forcing doctors to treat patients at a loss, is enough to wake up whole armies of LIVs and D voters.
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fly over the North Pole to France
From here, you don’t even make it up to Greenland.
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#11 WB
Josh Barro, the author, is an obnoxious, arrogant left-winger who never misses an opportunity to tell the Right how they should run their lives.
The fact of the matter is this: Christie’s opponent, Barbara Buono, is exceeded in political incompetence only by the Republican candidate for NYC mayor, Joe Lhota. If the two of them married, they would be unchallenged for the most boring couple in the nation.
Christie is winning big simply because he has no legitimate opposition, not because he’s such a brilliant political strategist. Everybody should read the Halperin/Heilemann book excerpt in Time linked by Drudge. Chris Christie exists in an alternate Jersey reality bubble. -
If you’re a white person and you own a gun, you’re a racist.
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#19 Hamous: This little passage in your link pegged out my BS-O-METER:
“There had already been research showing that … blacks are more likely to be shot, so we thought there must be something happening between the concept of being black and some whites wanting guns,” Monash researcher Kerry O’Brien said in an email to the Daily News.
I find it more than just a little “curious” that the article failed to mention that the overwhelming majority of black gun shot victims are shot by other blacks, not whites.
When I got to the above passage I stopped reading as I determined that there was potential to damage my brain, electronic equipment and office furnishings by continuing to assault my mind with such drivel. -
Good morning Hamsters. A pleasant 57 at 6 and partly cloudy, Dawn’s rosy fingers poised to peek over the horizon. Back to standard time as Nature intended, but the downside is it’s mostly dark by 6 pm. Supposedly the rains this week will not be as heavy as last week’s deluges. The San Bernard and Nueces Rivers are high and on flood watch through Fort Bend County this week. The Brazos is not mentioned in the weather report, but it is higher than usual. Not safe to fall into it either.
Tomorrow being election day throughout the Republic, the results will be interesting no matter where one lives. Voter ID required in Texas apparently is a success with few problems. There’s a strong likelihood that complaints that are made come from the donkey side trying to make something of nothing, resulting in egg on faces. -
English toasters must be very very sexy indeed.
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Meant to say this earlier: John Cleese nails it.
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Christie is winning big simply because he has no legitimate opposition, not because he’s such a brilliant political strategist. Everybody should read the Halperin/Heilemann book excerpt in Time linked by Drudge. Chris Christie exists in an alternate Jersey reality bubble.
But, Christie’s popular.
The press and Republican consultants say so.
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After 32 years of voting against every bond election so my property taxes won’t rise, only to watch every single one of them pass, and watching the residents of the City of Houston elect and reelect a continuous stream of illiterate, inept liars, racists, and heterophobes, I give up. I’m not voting this year. I might have considered voting if Outlaw Josey Wales IV was running again but sadly he died last year. I have a lot of pine cones to pick up anyway.
I really think any bond election that directly effects property taxes should be voted on only by property owners. Since that will never happen, landlords should form a PAC to send out announcements to all their tenants that if the bond election passes their rent will go up accordingly to pay for it. -
You know, like with John MCain and Mitt Romney.
I would really like the opportunity to be able to vote FOR a conservative R candidate for prez. Ever since Reagan, my only choice has been to vote AGAINST the commie, scum-sucking D.
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I really think any bond election that directly effects property taxes should only be voted on only by property owners.
I’ll see that and raise you this:
Anybody who is on any form of Govt assistance other than the SS retirement WHICH THEY FRIGGEN EARNED should be ineligible to vote for anything.Period. Dot. Bingo.
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If I was a landlord I’d even put a clause in the lease agreement to automatically increase rent for every bond election that passes. I’d put it in bold, make sure I pointed it out, and remind them in writing right before the election.
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So what’s the deal with the Dome? I’ve seen some signs about a bond to “save the Dome”; are there plans afoot to actually do something with it or are these people simply decrepit building hoarders?
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Hillarycare via Wiki:
The Clinton health plan required each US citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their disenrollment until covered by another plan. It listed minimum coverages and maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses for each plan. It proposed the establishment of corporate “regional alliances” of health providers to be subject to a fee-for-service schedule. People below a certain set income level were to pay nothing. The act listed funding to be sent to the states for the administration of this plan, beginning at $13.5 billion in 1993 and reaching $38.3 billion in 2003.
There really isn’t much of a difference between H and O care. Both are gross intrusions into the private healthcare market. Both have the effect of making doctors the employees of the ins companies or the government. Both force the individual to buy a minimum of coverage and remove choice. Neither really has the goal of improving healthcare, they are merely a vehicle to control the people.
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So what’s the deal with the Dome?
I think it’s being converted into a retirement home for washed up Republican squishes. It should fill up fast.
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“Bullying” in the NFL???
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I think it’s being converted into a
retirement homeSOYLENT GREEN FACTORY for washed up Republican squishes and commie fargin Ds. -
On Monday, former Colts coach Tony Dungy said on “The Dan Patrick Show” that Incognito was on the team’s “DNDC” list ahead of the 2005 NFL draft, which means, “do not draft because of character.” During Sunday night’s Colts-Texans game on NBC, former Chiefs GM and Patriots player-personnel VP Scott Pioli said of Incognito, “I didn’t want him coming out (of college), and I don’t want him now.”
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Afternoon all. Keeping with the serious theme.
Some people are serious about Christmas gifts.In 1964, Larry Kunkel’s mother gave him a pair of moleskin pants for Christmas. He found that they froze stiff during the Minnesota winters, so the following Christmas he wrapped them up and gave them to his brother-in-law, Roy Collette. Collette returned them to Kunkel the next year, and the pants began oscillating between the two as a yearly joke. This was fun until it escalated:
One year Collette twisted the pants into a tight roll and stuffed them into an inch-wide pipe 3 feet long and gave them to Kunkel. -
Wow.
Even for a small guy, it sure does take a lot of moles to make a pair of pants. -
Something else.
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/11/01/the-bellamy-salute/ -
If you’re gonna do something, don’t go half-@$$ed.
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I’m not voting this year.
Same here. And more likely than not, not in any other election after that either. We’re outnumbered by those who see .gov as the answer to everything and the entrenched establishment who encourage them with worthless trinkets. The best I can do is refuse to play the rigged game. So I do.
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#41 – It was really painful to come to that decision. It goes against my nature as an American. But to hell with it. I’ll reevaluate the situation each year but I’ll probably be sitting out more elections as well.
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I give up. I’m not voting this year.
Same here. And more likely than not, not in any other election after that either.
Now I am highly urinated off. I caught holy hell for making that declaration, even got blamed for the downfall of Ameruhka, got called a commie bastige and all kinds of mean and nasty things.
Now you Johnny Come Latelys are gonna try and snatch my glory!!!
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It was really painful to come to that decision. It goes against my nature as an American.
Yup. Know exactly what you mean. But I’ve come to accept as reality things which only a few short years ago would have seemed like loony conspiracy theories to me. This Obamacare lead-in to single payer (socialized medicine) is but one of them. Repubs are as much a part of that as dems IMHO. When they start trotting out blowhard NE “moderates” like Christie as the salvation of the party I take that as a clear sign that it’s over and me voting or not makes no difference whatsoever to that outcome.
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YOU GET YOUR ARSES OUT THERE AND VOTE.
Does it pay well?
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even got blamed for the downfall of Ameruhka, got called a commie bastige and all kinds of mean and nasty things.
Not by me. I might have encouraged you to vote but I never parroted the stupid line “If you don’t vote you can’t beotch.” Non-voters are actually the only ones who can honestly say “Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for the bastige!” every time some politician screws up 😉
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This Obamacare lead-in to single payer (socialized medicine) is but one of them.
That was never a conspiracy theory for me. Bonnie Prince Barry flat-out told us that’s what he wanted to do. It’s one of the few times I’ve taken him at his word. Another was “We want to fundamentally transform America”.
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This about covers it. Note the song was written back in 1977. Ain’t much changed in 30 years.
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#50, Yeah, true. But since the other half of our false dilemma in 2012 was a guy who enacted something similar to ACA on a smaller scale in Mass. Obammy did at least have to keep up the appearance of “giving the free market approach a chance” even though it was only for the reason of later on saying, “see… we tried it your way and clearly capitalism failed”. Enter BIG.gov to save the day. Maybe conspiracy theory is not as good a way to describe it as highly deceptive to anyone who was not paying attention, which obviously was quite a few people. Then again, if not for deception I’m not sure most of the government of the last 100 years could have ever been possible.
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52 Hey Hammie
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Then again, if not for deception I’m not sure most of the government of the last 100 years could have ever been possible.
We have a winner.
But here is the kicker for me. I argued for years about kicking the flotsam and jetsam out and this was long before the primaries. Ya see i was always reminded that the time to change was in the primaries. Okay so I reminded said argumentcombatants how “their” candidate was hosing everyone and listed their lies etc I got the argument that that person was the best suited to beat the demorat. How is that working for us now? Politics is not for the people any longer. I friggin gave up when people argued that any “R” was better than any “D”. REALLY? How is that working out for us now?
And Michael Berry, Rush Limpbutt, Sean Shanmesty can plant their lips on my butt too. I don’t buy there guilt trips of calling me unpatriotic/ a quiter. I have other methods of registering “my vote”. I actually heard Berry say we did not have a right to complain if we did not vote. I could not get through to the show, I wanted to ask him where in the Constitution that was.
Politicians will only rise to the level the electorate demands of them. Look at Cornball Cornyn. His man in black schtick makes me sick. -
We’re really sorry, Tom.
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Maybe conspiracy theory is not as good a way to describe it as highly deceptive to anyone who was not paying attention, which obviously was quite a few people.
Not paying attention? That’s putting it a little too nicely. I’d describe them one of two ways: They’re Marxists and are deliberately trying to destroy the republic or they’re useful idiots and too stupid to realize what’s going on. Most of them fall into the latter category.
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#59 they need to follow BP’s lead:
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Maybe conspiracy theory is not as good a way to describe it
Not paying attention? That’s putting it a little too nicely.
I won’t name names, i argued with some folks among us that Obama did not have to govern to the middle ala Clinton. I knew Obama was a true believer long before he got nominated. “Not paying attention” was not the problem…… out right denial and subscribing to the status quo was the problem.
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Seems to me that regardless of what was argued in the past, most here are now on the same page that our government, whether R or D, does not now represent everyday people. The question isn’t who in government is a good guy or bad guy. That they are pretty much all bad guys is a foregone conclusion. Question is where to go from here.
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Question is where to go from here.
Sit back, laugh at the disaster, and pick up the pieces.
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Sit back, laugh at the disaster, and pick up the pieces.
There ya go! Still plenty of joy to be had if you know where to look.
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Hammie Nice find
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even got blamed for the downfall of Ameruhka
yabbut now that you went and caused the downfall of this once-great nation, the rest of us are off the hook
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Despite the fact that our once-great Republic is disintegrating before our very eyes I sleep sound every night, wake up happy every morning, and find joy in my life every single day. All the rest is just background noise.
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I am really thrilled that this is happening:
HEADLINE: Sauk Rapids Graphic Artist Challenges National Security Agency
SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. (WCCO) – It was Edward Snowden’s revelations of domestic spying by the National Security Agency that hatched the idea — graphic artist Dan McCall would take the NSA’s emblem and create a new look with a funny twist.
“When I got finished I thought, this is pretty good – I thought it was fun,” McCall said.
Soon, he was having T-shirts emblazoned with the NSA logo accompanied by the slogan, “peeping while you’re sleeping.” Under the parodied emblem was the statement, “the only part of government that actually listens.”
What McCall meant as pure parody, apparently wasn’t very funny to bureaucrats at the NSA.This is a great T-Shirt. I am proud to be an American when I see other Americans pushing back at the bullying tactics of Big Brother Terd-Nozzle. I simply wish that the establishment Rs would learn a thing about bullys and start pushing back. They have been battered more than a trailer park wife.
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My joy just kicked up another notch still knowing that it’s all Squack’s fault. I was worried that I mighta had something to do with it. WOOT!!!
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I took a long nap after my session this morning, then I get up and check the Couch and find that it is all over. But I can not be a don’t-care; I have my selections ready and will go vote on my walker tomorrow.
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This used to happen to me a lot, because of going to the office only one day a week. Once I came in and my docking station was gone. Another time it was the keyboard to my desktop. I used locking cables on everything that I possibly could.
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I’m remembering now that I used a gigantic old track ball on that laptop, because no one had ever coveted it. Had to keep my mouse pads in a locked drawer though, they wouldn’t have made it one day if out in the open.
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I’m finding ‘cable locks’ to secure an entire laptop, but no ‘locking cables’.
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mouse pads
Do mouses menstruate?
Do what I do. If going commando doesn’t work, flip a legal pad over.
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It still blows me away that this president will stand there and blantantly lie about what he previously said; in this case about keeping your health care policy.
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#79 If you have an exceptionally shiny desktop or a pane of glass on the desk, optical mice don’t work good.
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#79 If you have an exceptionally shiny desktop or a pane of glass on the desk, optical mice don’t work good.
My iMac mighty mouse works good on glass/shiny surfaces.
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#76 Shannon
Laptops and docking stations have a small hole in the case at one back corner, where a piece of the lock can be inserted. All the company furniture had bolted-on metal loops where the other end of the cable could be passed through, as did many heavy items like desktop computers, flat screen monitors, UPS boxes, etc. So it was possible to encumber something thus locked down by having its cable wrapped through a bunch of loops. -
That garish old trackball was used on the old desktop Dell, which belonged to me but was widely used by the whole team for remote logins. I used a conventional wired mouse on a desktop pad with the laptop, but had to lock up those accessories.
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My main reason for using a mouse pad was to keep the critter’s underside clean. It is amazing how filthy a desk surface can get. Especially if you go to the office one day a week and in the meantime, any guest, visitor, or miscellaneous Tom, Dick, or Joe might borrow my desk for a while.
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What do Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain have in common?
Each was an influential rock musician who had a meteoric rise to fame cut short by a drug-related death at age 27.
Also dead at 27: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Ham of Badfinger, “Pigpen” McKernan of the Grateful Dead, Gary Thain of Uriah Heep, Alan Wilson of Canned Heat, Jeremy Ward of The Mars Volta, Dave Alexander of the Stooges … and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, for whatever that’s worth. -
Mr. Dougall’s plight of personal info floating around the Obamacare site in Shannon’s #60 was discussed on Hannity’s show this afternoon. Mr. Dougall was kind enough to do an interview. An IT techie later condemned the Obamacare site as totally unprotected for personal info and a target for hackers. Buyer or info seeker beware. Scary.
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Sarge #7;
Or, you could be saying that your support is sealed for him , but he won’t win the race if he’s unpopular.
That’s it and the rest of your speculation is crap.
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I think I’m not voting for different reasons than Stefan.
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That’s it and the rest of your speculation is crap.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
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Well I can finally rest knowing the cause.
King Tut was likely killed in a chariot crash
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