I was always under the impression that when one votes for POTUS, one is also voting for VPOTUS. Well, maybe Gerry did scrimmage too many times without a helmet then, eh?
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Ford was appointed VP after Agnew resigned and assumed the presidency after Nixon resigned. So, yeah, unelected.
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Oh Hecuba, I forgot about that!
I was gonna copy at the point where “We Need a Football President” begins, but then I thought: What the hey? There’s a lotta relevance in the whole album!
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One of the songwriters is dead. The other is the Trumper in question.
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Elizabeth Warren is giving Hegseth a grilling… and now over to Coach Tuberville… 
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This should go well.
For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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The author is dead as in The Death of the Author, I meant. The songwriter doesn’t get to decide what a song means to their audience.
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The death of the author is the birth of the reader listener.
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Duckworth is up!!! Go get him!
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Kid Rock and Billy Ray Cyrus too.
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Good news, the war will end in a few days.
Marge is against the wars as opposed to everyone else who is in favor of the war.
When the war in Ukraine first started, I was one of the only members of Congress who opposed the war.
I still believe the United States should be pursuing peace for Russia and Ukraine, not funding another forever war.
When President Trump is inaugurated in 7 days, he will end the war in Ukraine!
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I promise if we invade Greenland or Canada or Iran or China, she’ll be onboard…
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I’ve not heard it attributed to any one person, it just seems to be increasingly the consensus. Tacitus was maligning Nero on multiple points (e.g. playing the lyre), and there were apocalyptic Christians living in Rome, expecting Jesus to come back any day amidst fulfillment of prophecy. One of those prophecies at the time was specifically that Rome would be destroyed by fire, and the clock was ticking on that. Nero might have taken advantage of the situation, but Christians living there had serious motivation to start the fires to help prophecy along. Basically, given the situation, it would be highly coincidental if Rome burned and the group that was the most motivated to see Rome burn weren’t involved.
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Trump really doesn’t understand how tariffs work, does he? (He’s got a lot riding on not understanding them, and more importantly making sure his supporters don’t understand them, so it is, to some degree, a willful misunderstanding, but…) The press need to be pointing out, on a daily basis, that the whole idea of taxes on an independent foreign country inherently makes no sense at all.
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Well… that was…
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It “seems to be the consensus” is a pretty weak source for something I’ve never seen anywhere and have trouble finding any good source on (I’ll note wikipedia doesn’t even mention the possibility). When we say the clock was ticking on that…this was 64 CE. Jesus had died as long ago as Kurt Cobain did for us, and there were people still alive from when he was born. I really think we should have better standards than “eh, seems like the sort of thing those people would have wanted” when the explanation that the city was a giant fire hazard works just as well. Can you at least point to something about the prophecy?
For the record, Tacitus obviously hates Nero but he still calls playing the lyre a rumor rather than a fact.
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Stilgar glanced at Jessica. “Is this true? Is there water in your pack?”
“Yes.”
“Literjons of it?”
“Two literjons.”
“What was intended with this wealth?”
Wealth? she thought. She shook her head, feeling the coldness in his voice.
“Where I was born, water fell from the sky and ran over the land in wide rivers,” she said. “There were oceans of it so broad you could not see the other shore. I’ve not been trained to your water discipline. I never before had to think of it this way.”
A sighing gasp arose from the people around them: “Water fell from the sky . . . it ran over the land.”
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ETA:
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And Jesus very explicitly promised to return in their lifetimes. (It was only after all those people died off that suddenly Christians started “interpreting” that bit differently.) The clock was running out on fulfillment of prophecy. Historian Gerhard Baudy has done some work on the various prophetic texts and pamphlets that were circulating among Christians in Rome at the time. Apparently the burning of Rome was a consistent theme in them. He also points out that July 19th had particular significance in a long-standing set of prophecies as a day when Rome was supposed to fall - and that’s the day the fires started.
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But that won’t be a war, you see; it will be a purchase, or an annexation, a “hostile takeover” in business terms. Not a war!
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