I believe there was a thread about it, once. Once.
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Hey, let’s not be hasty…
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Well, there’s always Jim Justice, governor, richest man in WV. Coal money.
So yea, future looks bright for WV…
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Tweeting that heavily!
I used to be able to rattle off synthesized Palin babble, but I dont’ have the heart these days.
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Well, once Sessions was confirmed, didn’t their “technical” reason for not allowing it to be read disappear? He’s not a Senator anymore, right? (That’s how stupid the rule they invoked was)
(This is not to make a counterpoint to the sexism part, because there really isn’t a counterpoint.)
I know it’s too long for hashtag culture, but I really wish they had the “Nevertheless” in there.
I just can’t find this anything but hilarious. I guess I don’t find Canadian/American ambassadors to each other’s nations to be terribly important posts because our countries have such a close relationship.
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It’s true that major trading partners and military allies can normally count on being able to get direct access to the secretary of state or even the president, esp. for top-level stuff like major trade deals, which makes their ambassadors less critical. And there is a long tradition of these positions being used as political payback. Hopefully they’ll at least be able to get some professional staffers in to do the actual work. But with Captain Random at the helm, who knows.
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People who believe in white male supremacy believe they have won in having Trump as president. They think they can do as they see fit now, no matter who they hurt or whose rights they trample on.
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Is he dead? Should we start a thread?
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We need a thread.
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As one would expect it looks like she hasn’t released a statement. She’s released all of them.
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Don’t feel bad… if you’re not keeping up that just means you have a real life to tend to! 
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Oooh Duckworth is an excellent choice. Hard for the GOP to argue with a war vet. I mean, they will, of course, but they’ll look like even bigger jerks.
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They’re pretty used to looking like jerks.
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Oh, they’ve already demonstrated great enthusiasm on that front.
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Oh lord there’s so much wrong with that.[quote=“Brainspore, post:213, topic:94603”]
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Even dumber, because DAR requires a fuckton of genealogical information for you to join. You can’t just claim DAR membership without proof. My grandmother was a chapter head for years. In order for me to put my name on their rolls, I “only” have to prove my descent from my grandmother - birth and marriage certificates for both of my parents, and my own birth certificate. And that’s only because my gramma has done the rest of the work of providing that information all the way back to our Revolutionary War ancestor. (Technically, it’s ancestors, but one of them was fighting for the British so he doesn’t count.)
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After they ran ads that compared triple-amputee Max Cleland to bin Laden I don’t think the GOP has any qualms about arguing with anyone who isn’t one of them.
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Her left leg is a prosthetic covered in a combat camouflage pattern. Her right one is decorated with the stars and stripes. She’s basically the kind of person that Captain America would point to in a PSA and say “she’s the REAL hero.”
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FWIW, DNA testing is helping tremendously. I don’t have any Early Colonial myself, but I’ve helped others who do, and one side of my family has the Canadian equivalent (Matriarchs and Patriarchs of Acadia). Now you can show appropriate DNA match to someone who is already “proved”. It particularly helps those of us who don’t have marriage certificates in every generation!
It even helped someone I know who was the product of adultery: the DAR accepted the genetic evidence despite the fact the the biological ancestor was not ‘legally’ in their family tree.
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