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Democratic senators must be having a conference call every hour to keep their talking points in sync. Over the last couple of days they have gone full circle from "The senate committee must hear what Dr. Ford has to say" to "How dare the senate committee ask Dr. Ford to testify?"
At this point I am not even sure whether Democratic senators are taking their cues from Dr. Ford's lawyer or giving cues to Dr. Ford's lawyer. Either way, the two parties are becoming increasingly indistinguishable.
Collusion or No Collusion -- Dr. Ford Edition
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1. The Case For “The Wall”

“The Wall” is a metaphor for a robust fence that, when combined with practicable monitoring and patrolling, is impenetrable enough to act as a robust deterrent against anyone who tries to breach it.
2. The case for funding such a barrier is distilled in this mainstream media report.
3. First and foremost, the purpose of such a barrier is, and has to be, the elimination of untold human misery, on both sides of the border, caused by the hope of illegal entry into the U.S. by those who are desperate enough to risk it.
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Fair Share of Taxes

Don't buy the socialist crap about who does and doesn't pay 'fair share' of taxes. The burden of taxes in the U.S. falls fairly and squarely on the upper income brackets.

As I have written extensively, the ONLY way to grow govt revenue is through GDP growth.
1. Paul Krugman has penned a fallacious article on "The Economics of Soaking the Rich" to suck up to and normalize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brain-fart about raising the marginal tax rate to 70-80%.
nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi…
2. Krugman's sole appeal to authority is an arcane 2011 academic paper by economists Diamond & Saez in which, based on much mathematical skulduggery, they opined that the optimal marginal tax rate for the U.S. is ... 73%. I am surprised they rounded it to a whole percentage.
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Terrorists At The Border

MSM offers this as a defense for Democratic push to NOT fund the wall.

We spend $7+ Billion on TSA every single year. How many terrorists were caught at airports before we instituted TSA?

Dear MSM, how many is too many? How many did it take for 9/11?
This fact check is from mainstream media. Have a look to decide who is playing politics with the issue.
Idiots on TV who think border security fight is about nothing.
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Starting to see the (inevitable) hot takes come out on why the Senate Democrats couldn't stop Kavanaugh.

Say it with me now: 🗣 They don't have the majority. 🗣

But good news. We can change that. Here's a quick refresher.
1. At present, the Senate breakdown is 51/49, with the Democrats in the majority.

(Picture (C) - CNN)
2. Confirmation votes and specific forms of legislation usually only require a simple majority or 51 votes, which is *why* it's been so hard to stop cabinet appointments and parts of the Trump agenda.

It's also why it feels like we've had to beg Republicans every key vote.
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Sixty-five female character witnesses for Kavanaugh from his high school years. And as @courtneymilan notes, he went to an all-boys high school.
Wonder how many of these signatories knew that they were vouching for someone who'd been accused of attempted rape at the time they knew him? My guess is the answer is zero.
The standard model for this kind of testimonial is that it comes from women who know what he's been accused of but support him anyway. This (almost certainly) isn't even that.
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THREAD: Body Language Analysis No.4323: Trump Putin Helsinki Summit Press Conference • • #Nonverbal & #EmotionalIntelligence #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #HelsinkiSummit #TrumpPutinSummit #CompromisingMaterial #kompromat #DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin
1/ Today in Helsinki, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met for 2 hours and 15 minutes with only their translators present. Afterward, the two leaders held a press conference.
2/ A multitude of nonverbal dissections could be conducted regarding the pre-summit lead-up, the summit, and the presser. What follows is a partial nonverbal & statement analyses focusing on allegations of Putin's alleged "compromising material on President Trump or his family".
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President Trump and President Putin to hold news conference after meetings in Helsinki. nbcnews.to/2LpCnNG

TUNE in to @MSNBC now for live coverage.
WATCH: Opening remarks at President Trump and President Putin news conference.

TUNE in to @MSNBC for live coverage.
Putin: "The Russian state has never interfered, and is not going to interfere into internal American affairs, including the election process."
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Svi is an even better shooter than I thought he was. He’s not just hitting standstill 3’s, he’s going up on balance after being on the move, w/his upper body leaning in one direction or another, etc. These are advanced shots. 1/
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Over the last couple of days I've spent a bunch of cycles on the consideration of how we codify security. What it means to us, and how we go about doing this.

Direct (language/systems) levels, and meta levels (the passwords that end up in emails).

It gets curious.
To a very large degree, it appears that a lot of this Complexity comes from our languages and tools not providing us with sufficient expressive capacity.

E.g. we have to boilerplate guard code into accessors, because the language has no specifier for this behaviour.
But stopping there alone would be moronic. Because computers are made of other people's opinions.

You're literally executing the reduced thought substrate of some other person.

In most cases, bits of those people leak through in this.
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