Karen DeCoster 

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I have very mixed feelings about this essay.

While I agree with portions of your argument, you ignore many positives that Biden has responsible for because they don't nearly fit within your chosen narrative (eg, student debt relief, vigorous antitrust enforcement...the first president in decades to do so, restarting US manufacturing, supporting unions, reenergizing NATO, etc).

Biden is flawed, but he's not a willing participant in a many-pronged conspiracy.

Netanyahu was embraced by Biden after th…

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Please share how the average citizen can resist.

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No, I would let them establish first. However, some of the leaves will die back so I would cut back those so you don’t spread any diseases

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There is no issue with doing with the plant, it won’t hurt it at all. The only thing you lose is the stems being in the garden 😀

More than white people, more than men, more than young people, one group backed Trump overwhelmingly…

…and media aren’t even talking about them.

Trump Won on Identity Politics No One's* Talking About

MAGA not like Substack … smart people on Substack … MAGA not like smart people … smart people make MAGAs head hurt like math … MAGA like Trump rallies … Trump rallies have beer …. MAGA like beer … 😁

More than white people, more than men, more than young people, one group backed Trump overwhelmingly…

…and media aren’t even talking about them.

Trump Won on Identity Politics No One's* Talking About

Trump did NOT win a little over half the country. Voter turnout was only about 65%. Trump won barely 50% of the votes cast. That means Trump won ONLY 33% of the country. Yep 33%! That's it!!

No, democracy isn't dead
TGIF: Death of the Tech Bro
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Reporter Sean Illing asked psychologist Paul Bloom in a December 2017 Vox interview: "So cruelty isn’t an accident or an aberration, but something central to who and what we are?" He answered: "It’s many things, and I don’t think there’s ever going to be a magic bullet theory of cruelty. I think some cruelty is born of dehumanization. I think some cruelty is born out of a loss of control. I think some cruelty is born out of an instrumental desire to get something you want — sex, money, power, w…