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I mean, good for them for figuring out what we knew 40 years ago? But, I kid, they knew it too, they just figured they could profit from it.

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Cue driftglass:

Honestly, it is just wild to me that in less than three years, the outcast remnants of the odious Weekly Standard have built an entire media ecosystem replete with a phalanx of paid writers, white paper generators, millions-of-downloads-a-month podcasts, a paywall premium membership level and a ubiquitous presence on cable teevee all based on thunderously applauding each other as Cicero!Reborn! for doing literally nothing more than repeating as some brilliant epiphany what us Liberals have been saying for decades.

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Abbott has sworn to continue to call special sessions until the bills are passed, so we’ll see what happens. The dems have pulled some significant parlimentary shenanegans this session, of which this is only the latest. The others appear to have stuck, so I’m crossing my fingers.

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Oh cool a governor can line item veto the legislature.

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I’m sure that if any of them need money they’ll get it.

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They don’t get paid much. $7200 a year in salary, with an additional $128 per diem during the 140 days they are in session every two years. None of them rely on those wages.

Not that Abbott isn’t filth.

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But I assume that also means that pages and congressional staffs don’t get paid.

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Nice, a chance for my theoretical industry to buy a cadre of legislators without having to resort the overhead of PACs and lobbying. Public employment of lawmakers to provide independence from conflict of interest was probably just a fad.

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The blatant ignorance is astounding.

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For anyone like me wondering exactly what the deal is with the retweets, I did the Googling and the man in the photo is Lee Harvey Oswald.

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klippenstein has done this before with Oswald’s picture…
It’s also funny because usually, after he gets someone to retweet it, he changes his Twitter banner to something like he did with Gaetz.

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