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Nope, 22... Article says that's 75k.

And each one is in custom "hideaway" cabinets that they said cost as much.

They didn't do anything cheap, and once you get to a certain level, everything becomes crazy expensive.

This is the type of shit you do when you're the problem and money is an afterthought.

I don't know why anyone would celebrate it.

The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?

One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren't were sent to the camps for other reasons.

Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even "the good guys" were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction

And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.

I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.

I just read that one of the Democrats said none of that is true and there was no deal

I think you may have just read my quote and not the article< or there's a misunderstanding here.

What exactly do you mean "none of that is true"?

The quote doesn't say there was a deal, just that a vote was taken...

“I will say that a vote was taken,” Wild said. “As many of you know, this committee is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans — five Dems, five Republicans — which means that in order to affirmatively move something forward, somebody has to cross party lines and vote with the other side — which happens a lot, by the way, and we often vote unanimously.”

If you're wondering who these politicians are that agree across party lines on ethical issues:

Republicans

Chairman Michael Guest, Mississippi

David P. Joyce, Ohio

John H. Rutherford, Florida

Andrew R. Garbarino, New York

Michelle Fischbach, Minnesota

Democrats

Ranking Member Susan Wild, Pennsylvania

Veronica Escobar, Texas

Mark DeSaulnier, California

Deborah K. Ross, North Carolina

Glenn F. Ivey, Maryland

For some reason I just got a shit ton of notifications all from your account...

All with just a period.

What are you doing?

Is this intentional and you're fucking with people?

What?!

The 80s were fucked, but if you're saying it was worse than the response to the Civil Rights movement...

McCarthyism...

Jim Crow...

Or the KKK destroying reconstruction...

Like, I could see saying that last one was the point, only if you start the clock immediately after resolving the civil war. Cause obviously a Civil War is what really happens after a point of no return. We lasted a couple years in between the two points.

For as fucked as the last 40 years has been, as far as America goes we're beating the average on basic human decency.

What's happening now isn't new, it's a slip backwards, which is unfortunately common when you try to fight fascism with moderate politics. It works for a little bit because they're coasting off the last people who really fought. But all moderate politcs really are, is giving fascist time to regroup in the shadows like fucking Sauron.

It's a cycle, and we live in a time when you can learn pretty much anything about history in a few minutes on Wikipedia

America can not afford for voters to stay ignorant. We need people who know what happened last time, what worked then, and what might work again. Stop acting like we live in unprecedented times, and start reading up on how fascism has been defeated historically.

Cuz we're up, like it or not shits getting real again. And the more people know what we're doing then better.

The “all” figure is influenced by the fact that Biden is old and has been through many election cycles.

Compared to all the sprin chickens on the list like Mitch McConnell?

Well, let's see what Chuck Schumer probably thinks...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

Number 7 on one of the few bipartisan lists in DC, nestled right between hos buddies Mitch McTurtle and Rafael "Ted" Cruz...

One of the few areas Biden is really head and shoulders above the rest though.

But Israel pays way too much money to both parties for either party's leaders to actually do what's best for America.

They're gonna do what's best for their campaign donations.

Edit:

Since some people may be surprised number 2 doesn't sound familiar, it's this guy:

https://apnews.com/article/bob-menendez-new-jersey-senate-resignation-9941e49020a032da3861f5f5cf118ec2

One of the most corrupt Dems to ever be held accountable (technically the trial is still happening).

He was Hillary's co-campaign chair in 07 when she lost to Obama, and then Obama made him chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for some fucking reason. He was indicted shortly after in 2018, but charges were then dropped for 5 years till 2023 when he was committing crimes and accepting bribes from foreign government with a legitimately trumpian level of skill at hiding his crimes.

Like, at one point I remember him trying to argue that storing gold bars inside of the suits in his closet was a totally normal thing and not related to him googling how to smuggle gold bars into America while he was in Qatar and just accepted gold bars as bribe...

Still not true tho...

Receptors aren't binary, there's like millions of those fuckers, no one is taking enough of this to keep all their nicotine receptors bound 24/7.

Even if we could do that, it's a terrible plan for a whole bunch of reasons.

And not everything binds the same way for the same amount of time, and obviously don't have the same effect. If there's nicotine and this medication floating around, it's not an orderly line, it's random what binds. So smoking can still give an effect.

Like, this reminds of the time someone asked me:

Why don't we send an astronaut up to the Hubble telescope, and have them check if Climate Change is just the Earth moving closer to the sun?

There's just so much wrong with what you're saying and it feels like you have no background knowledge about how any of this actually works to build on to explain it.

If you want to understand this, you'd be best off just reading the Wikipedia for this medication, specifically the method of action.

Democrats are attempting to push through as many Biden nominated judicial confirmations as possible.

Are they?

We had the numbers yesterday, with 46 vacancies and 16 pending a vote...

Schumer held a vote on one and then called it a day. We could have definitely filled the other 15 already pending, and we should all be pissed 30 haven't even been nominated.

The truth matters, and the truth is they are absolutely not doing everything they can. And we only have two months left to get them to do their fucking job.

but you can’t relapse unless you stop taking pills.

Wildly untrue.

Yeah, I mean it's not debatable if it works, it's been around a long time.

It's not like 100% effective obviously. I think normal cessation rate is like 2%? And this gets it as high as 6%.

So like, compared to cold turkey it's insanely effective, 2-3x is huge. But 6% isn't like it's a magic pill that lets everyone quit.

It's just something that tickles the same receptor so you don't miss nicotine until you're past the psychological addiction