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Dave’s Not Here's avatar

Woohoo, the rebuild will be glorious. The rotten decay of civil society can be replaced with decency!

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Lyon's avatar

Lil' Prick Fauci lives about 2 blocks from me.

The 5 foot 1 midget has a Secret Service security detail of two Chevy Tahoes he uses to gallavant around upper northwest DC, traveling to Starbucks 3x a day and various restaurants so he can be seen.

His picture is in Websters Dictionary next to definition of Bridge Troll

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Teak's avatar

too many psychopaths and sociopaths in "leadership" positions

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Unfortunately the selection process weeds out normals.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

This is being reported by Times of Israel:

The 3 Israeli hostages killed by the IDF were shirtless & waving a white flag when they were shot. One of them managed to escape while shouting for help in Hebrew, however, Israeli soldiers chased & executed him.

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johnycomelately's avatar

Zoonotic transfer makes sense if you want to heard people into 15 minute cities by releasing zoonotic bio weapons.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

"Leases are coming up for large office spaces in major cities around the US. ... Occupancy of these offices is dramatically down in most places around the country. The decline is 30 percent on average and much more in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City."

Yeah and Cook county where I live makes up their gap by increasing my property taxes over 20% so we can continue to pay the wages of union laborers of the county without a blink look to reduce expenses.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

You make it sound so simple.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

For a lot of people, at a certain point in life there are family reasons to stay put.

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SMH's avatar

For me the money quote was, instead of trying to fix the mess everyone is playing a game of “let’s pretend”! How do you reason with someone who is living in a fantasy world and completely detached from reality on all levels? It’s the same thing we see with the Neocons and Ukraine; Russia is on the ropes, any day now the country will descend into chaos, Ukraine has made major inroads into the Russian army and it’s only a question of time and money before our gambit succeeds and Putin is vanquished…….. blah, blah, blah.

Seriously, it’s like trying to reason with a tree stump. And these are the people in charge?

What’s heading our way is going to make Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom” look like a Sunday picnic. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not looking forward to it.

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Amanda R's avatar

Trepidation is my word for 2024.

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SMH's avatar

Couldn’t agree with you more.

No warm and fuzzies in 2024.

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Ray Zacek's avatar

I eagerly await Fauci meeting his Maker. Of course, he will no doubt approach the Throne of God with indignation. "Excuse me, that's my seat."

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Steghorn21's avatar

"Only the bite of the consequences can bring an end to the madness." Exactly. The first part of your fine post, Mark, at least shows that resistance is coming a bit more out into the open.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Maybe it's a function of the small size of NZ?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Hopefully so.

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