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DOB: A long, long time ago
Location: Woodstock Nation
Occupation: Donut-hole inspector
Groups: Anti-Capitalist Meetup, Team Bernie
Hobbies: Ambling; Perusing
Diaries published: 149 (197 days since last diary on Sat Dec 05, 2020 at 10:35 AM PST)
Comments posted: 10490 (20 days since last comment on Sun May 30, 2021 at 06:46 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 3733
Total Comment Ratings: 22537
Most Recommended Diary: Fear among the Republican base, 543 comments, 755 recommends
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Donald Trump lost the Presidential election of 2020. On January 20, 2021 he will leave office and Joe Biden will become the 46th President. Yet nearly every day #trump and #DonaldTrump continue to be the top two hashtags here at Daily Kos....
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This place is allegedly a “reality based” community. It hasn’t been in quite a while, but that is the claim. Nonetheless it is one thing to make rather absurd electoral predictions. It’s quite another to claim that there will be an...
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Dear Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, I imagine that you are growing weary of all those Democratic centrists and Lincoln Project Republicans who would like you to keep quiet and not make waves as we celebrate the Biden-Harris victory....
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A couple of days ago there was a diary on the rec list on the topic of boomers and their treatment here at DK. This is not a diary to rehash that subject. Rather this concerns some of the comments in that diary that suggested that it was divisive and...
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What do the following seventeen people have in common?
Bob Barr
Evan Bayh
Sam Brownback
Hillary Clinton
Christopher Dodd
John Edwards
Dick Gephardt
Virgil Goode
Fritz Hollings
Duncan Hunter
John Kerry
Joe...
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We visited Sweden a couple of years ago. On the first evening we dined out, and I added the standard tip to the bill. The waiter looked at it, said “Too much”, scratched out the amount and wrote in an amount that was less than 3%. “This is better”, he...
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