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@russellgaleti.bsky.social

Welcome to my mid-life crisis • Reconstructionist • Special Envoy for Counter-Malarkey • Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary from Ohio to the U.S.A. • Critically Acclaimed Author of “Speaking of Production Control” • Born Between the Cuyahoga and Chagr
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I’m making the hard sell right now and she ain’t having it.
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I think it's becoming clear that Trump can't do anything (even nearly dying) to change his vote ceiling, but Biden has the ability to keep pushing his own up This is Biden's election to lose, not Trump's to win
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Boy, dudes can not resist wearing badges and ribbons on their AGSU Class B shirts. They absolutely cannot accept subordinating their identity to the greater organization. They will absolutely die if you don’t know they can fly a helicopter or that they got a Participation Bronze Star.
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CNN is straight stenography and little jokes
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What items’ sales spike the most at the drug stores closest to the RNC do you think?
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Connections will only help so much. You still have to meet educational, physical, mental, and moral requirements that are pretty un-waiverable, and once nominated, if you get appointed (which is a next step run by academy admissions), you have to have a credible shot at succeeding there.
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Still disagree. I got Sherrod Brown's nomination with absolutely no connections or prep, pure gumption and acing the interview. Some decades later I ran Marcia Fudge's nomination process and I don't recall panelists I selected knew any of the applicants and I instituted a very objective score system
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I mean... that stretches the definition of 'right now.'
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I believe he was an enlisted Marine. I'd contest the assertion about being 'connected.' It certainly helps, and anecdotally it certainly seems that the officer caste and academy graduates is increasingly nepotistic, but just because nominations are congressional does not mean you need a connection.
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Are there any good service academy graduates in politics right now?
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(whispers) who the fuck is popehat?
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I’m a really law-abiding guy until I see an unattended police car and the intrusive thoughts start pumping.
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Maybe Trump picked Vance because of his proven track record of getting traded for a handful of drugs. 🤷‍♂️
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I am never not thinking about who goes Nazi. The character types Dorothy Thompson draws here just keep getting more breathtakingly accurate by the year. harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompsonharpers.org
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When I get Schedule F’d in January, Ally, we’re doing this
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The populist, working man ticket will be led by a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns a bunch of exclusive country clubs, and a Yale grad, ex-venture capitalist whose rise was funded by Bay Area billionaires.
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what do you call a throuple where one dies on jan 6? coup-le
somehow i memoryholed that ashlii babbitt was in a throuple
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HEY GUYS COUNTERINTUITIVE POST HERE, BUT THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION DURING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CYCLE BECAUSE THE VIOLENT LAST GASPS OF WHITE PATRIARCHY HAVE LOCKS ON THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE POWER TO LEGITIMIZE OR DELEGITIMIZE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND ALL NORMS ARE GONE
If the Dems win the house in November, isn't it that House, not the old one, that sits in January? In other words, the stakes for the house are big.
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Well, see, their parents are usually someone of import and wealthy. That lets them into the right schools and to live in expensive cities for low pay when others can’t. Then you need to present as competent yet unthreatening to billionaire owners…
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Wanna put my tender Gelato in a blender Watch it spin around To a stracciatella oblivion
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Bill I will flip half-dollars at you with my thumb SO HARD
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Okay but they have a killer band.