C. Dale Brittain

JD Vance, who surely knows better, says the tariffs are great because the billions collected can be used to "cut taxes for Americans."
Leaving out the tidbit that American consumers pay the tariffs so billionaires & big corporations have their taxes cut.

With today's Wordle win, building our streak back up, we're headed in the right direction.
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Our backup probe word got us almost there! Let's lift a tall cool one.
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What's so different now from Watergate days (which I still remember vividly!) is that the GOP today still sticks by their man, no matter how corrupt.

I love the scent of victory in the morning.
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The martyrs of Lyon Sanctity is constantly redefined.  What is holy to one group of people in one place will not seem holy at all to others in another time or ...

In Lyon, second-century martyrs became 4th-century Christians to admire, 5th-century ancestors who deplorably left no relics, and 6th-century heroes who had their own church, complete with relics.
How did this happen?
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We were filled with pride after getting this tricky word.
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We were tickled pink to have a straightforward Wordle for a change.
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Over half the people on the planet were vaccinated against Covid-19.
You'd think that if the vaccine was going to kill them all in 3-4 years we'd have noticed by now.

Sigh. Wordle is now giving us (relatively) easy words after messing up everyone's streaks.
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We flew to the answer on this one, even though it did take us 4 tries.
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I Second This Statement…. Looking guilty as hell! 🔥🔥

This one wasn't as hard as some recent Wordles.
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Got over the hump and back on track, building a new streak.
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This would be an incredibly ugly addition to the WH. It's not Trump's to mess up.

Trump can't figure out what tariffs are for:
Stop drugs? (not going to work)
Make countries buy US goods? (ditto)
Make manufacturers build US plants? (ditto)
Replace the income tax? (ditto)
Enrich US with foreign tax? (Americans pay the tariffs)
Punish political opponents? (huh?)

Yesterday at the grocery store I saw a *Halloween candy* display. Yeah, 3 months early.
Guess it's been a long haul for the candy companies since Easter.

The Epstein files and the terrible job numbers (plus efforts to deny them!) are shaking at least a few GOP sycophants loose from Trump.
Maybe (maybe) there will be enough of them to slow down Trump's next horrible idea.

The one (1) silver lining in the GOP slashing Medicaid:
They held off implementing until after the midterms, hoping no one would notice (ha!). So with luck we'll have a Democratic congress that will repeal in '27. Trump (Vance?) seeing how unpopular the cuts are will sign.

Wordle is definitely getting trickier. It's discovered that it can mess us up with obscure words that are just one letter different from words we know well.
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Trump supporters were fine with him "grabbing em by the pussy" plus committing adultery with a porn star & a Playmate and paying them off & getting criminally convicted for covering up the payoffs.
So his total panic over the Epstein files shows there must really be some doozies in there.

The one (1) silver lining in the GOP slashing Medicaid:
They held off implementing until after the midterms, hoping no one would notice (ha!). So with luck we'll have a Democratic congress that will repeal in '27. Trump (Vance?) seeing how unpopular the cuts are will sign.

Trump can't figure out what tariffs are for:
Stop drugs? (not going to work)
Make countries buy US goods? (ditto)
Make manufacturers build US plants? (ditto)
Replace the income tax? (ditto)
Enrich US with foreign tax? (Americans pay the tariffs)
Punish political opponents? (huh?)

Let's sing a song of triumph as we get the Wordle in our normal 4.
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Wordle is getting too fancy for its own good,
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Trump supporters were fine with him "grabbing em by the pussy" plus committing adultery with a porn star & a Playmate and paying them off & getting criminally convicted for covering up the payoffs.
So his total panic over the Epstein files shows there must really be some doozies in there.

Wordle is really testing us with its tricky words, but we've gotten our new streak up to 2.
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At least today's Wordle was a real word. Are they reaching the final end of good 5-letter words? (based on recent ones, yes)
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Brunhilda: a Visigothic princess who ruled as queen with four generations of French kings, back in the sixth century, before being dragged to death by wild horses and ending up in "The Ring of the Nibelungen." Why does no one name their daughter Brunhilda anymore?
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When folks urge releasing unredacted Epstein files, R members of Congress often say, How 'bout Bill Clinton?

If you think the files implicate Clinton, then wouldn't you think they'd be eager to make it all public?

Couldn't be they're protecting someone else? Mmm?