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Maybe the most JVL piece I’ve ever JVL’d.

America Always Sucked: A Case for Optimism
Alexander Verbeek's avatar

This is so beautiful: a mother elephant delivers her calf on the plains of Masai Mara. Watch how the herd instinctively forms a protective ring around the pair.

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Sunday School; A Pillar Bible Study
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Adam Kinzinger's avatar

Ummm. Will someone just say it?

The emporer is naked AF

Trump is PSYCHO

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Will Saletan's avatar

The most ominous theory of Trump's relationship with Putin isn't bribery or blackmail. It's that Trump is a narcissist. He cares more about a dictator who flatters him, and whom he sees as a fellow victim of the "Russia hoax," than he does about America.

And that’s the theory, unfortunately, that’s turning out to be true. This article reviews the accumulating evidence. lnk.thebulwark.com/3EEC…

Trump Puts Putin Over Patriotism
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β€œWho Elected YOU Boss of This Outfit?”
NothingButNet's avatar

Current polling shows a shocking lack of awareness in the American electorate - on one hand we have an inarticulate POTUS candidate with very modest intellect who has been complicit in the failures of the current administration (inflation, border, Afghanistan, foreign wars, etc) and has paired herself with a radical left winger who dodged his deployment to a war zone.

On the other hand we have a candidate for POTUS who demonstrated exceptional policy performance (low inflation, real wage growth,…

Kelly Harbeson's avatar

I knew nothing about Vance other than him being a Republican and under 40 years old. That was enough but I snagged a copy of "Hillbilly Elegy" anyway. Now I am a supporter of "Vance for President in 2028" even though I plan to vote for Trump in November.

Pangolin Chow Mein's avatar

I assume you voted for Obama based on his memoir?? Dreams From My Mamaw is an inferior memoir and so you should go back to judging candidates based on how than hosted their reality show…so that means RuPaul in 2028!! 😝

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