MyPillows, given to them by Peter Thiel.
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I have no opinion on the desirability of this now since I can’t say whether or not the confusion of Trump would be preferable to the focused evil of Vance (and his handlers).
I do regret Trump didn’t shit himself on stage. And then slip in it.
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I think for foreign policy he would be better because he’s a rational and therefore predictable actor. It would be more Bush era than Trump era.
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I wonder. He’s a fucking nutter, a crazed zealot in at least several ways. It’s easy for me to imagine that his ideas about international relations are whacked too.
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If he weren’t bought and paid for by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, I might agree with you. But he is. He will do what they want, and what they want is rational, I suppose, but what they want is oligarchy to win out everywhere. Ukraine will fall, and perhaps some of the rest of eastern Europe. So sure, they’re rational, but they’re also evil. I don’t think that helps.
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Vance will be bad if he gets in. Real bad. But he doesn’t share the cult of personality that has been the biggest source of Trump’s power. The MAGA crowd would happily turn on Vance at a moment’s notice if they got an inkling that’s what Trump wanted.
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Has Harris delivered a concession speech yet? I’ve heard nothing about it.
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Beyond election tactics and candidates, there are two things that come to mind:
-It’s been pointed out before, and the wisdom is really proven with this election: systems will not save us. T**** was ineligible to even run for President, but nobody enforced the 14th Amendment; even the judges he threatened let him slide on trial and sentencing schedules. I have to believe we would have seen a different outcome if he had been in prison for the past 5 months.
-Accelerationists are getting their wishes fulfilled. All the people who voted based on the price of eggs are going to be getting a rude lesson in practical economics.
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Are we sure the Onion is satirical?
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He’ll go without seeing time.
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“Rational” yes. Putin is also rational, and reasonably predictable.
He was a foreign policy joke last time. World leaders were laughing behind his back when they weren’t just frustrated at his inept obstruction.
will be joining the 
at this rate…
We’ll almost certainly joining a renewed defense pact with Europe, and we have trade deals with 
already that could be expanded.
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I’d absolutely love to see this happen.
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My hypothesis is that there are a lot more horrible people in the world than I previously assumed and that this is the most intractable fundamental flaw in our system of government.
It’s not very comforting.
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I think the odds of Trump completing his term are pretty slim. Sooner or later, for whatever reason, it’ll be Vance. (I wonder who his VP will be?)
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I need something other than a " 
" for that. Like 
maybe?
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I want my money back. Every last GD penny of it.
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One only needs to look at history to understand that there is a substantial part of humanity that is horrible evil unredeemable assholes, and then there’s a whole bunch of useless jerks who tend to only do things that are in their best interests but probably aren’t particularly evil, then there’s a decent chunk of empathetic people who want the best for humanity, unfortunately, they’re rarely a majority.
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Thanks! We just finished a long phone call about next steps. I suggested celebrating with some good food…
…followed by cake:
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