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"ZOMG someone is asking questions I am incapable of taking part in so let me go and call the OP a cuck"

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It will be extremely unfortunate for the country if the long-term beneficiary from this on-going GOP civil war is the Socialist Dems.

I wouldn’t be surprised once DJT exits the stage if it turns into a mess with factions coming forward claiming to be the true standard bearer/continuation of MAGA.

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Of course people are going to court a block of voters, and the Dems have their own identity crisis happening right now. The circumstances aren't ideal but they're not dire IMO.

The real question is if the true cult of personality types, the ones who really didn't vote before Trump, will tune out of politics again because the personality is gone. And the flip side of that is how many ambivalent folks who only showed up to vote against Trump will also tune out.

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It continues to not make any sense

The people they claim are “panicans” (tariff doom guys) have minimal overlap with the people skyscreaming that Trump may get us involved in Iran. It’s closer to the complete opposite.

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There's a gradually decreasing (which gives me a bit of hope) segment of Trumpets that still view every issue as digital. Disagreeing with him on tariffs means you have TDS just like disagreeing with him on Iran or immigration means you have TDS. For the true believers it makes perfect sense to lump all those people together. They're against Trump and the issue isn't relevant.

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I'm pretty convinced that Sy's recipe is scouring the internet for reasonable-sounding bits of OSI and then piecing it together into a comprehensive narrative that makes sense to most reasonably intelligent people and then falsely attributing it to non-existing sources

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This. His claims about the Russian pipeline were riddled with BS, sprinkled with just enough real (but not exactly rare) knowledge . None of his claims here sound too objectionable to me but he’s just throwing stuff against the wall.

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Life in America… we can go hard against American politicians but need to chill with Israel’s.

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Political discussions are probably fine. We have a few people who start sounding like skinheads shortly into a topic about Israel.

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the translation of the bible into english was a political act not the divinely inspired work of god.

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I know there are alot of trout fisherman on here that can recommend better rods in the 200ish price range

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I don't target trout but I get them catching reds occasionally. I'm typically not going for bull reds so I gradually moved from Med Heavy to 7' Med/Mod or ML/Fast from St Croix. It's enough for slot reds, plenty of flex for soft trout mouths, and lighter gear is more entertaining for me anyway.

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They blocked Gaetz

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Nobody blocked Gaetz but Gaetz. Trump didn't give up on him and "they" didn't keep him from being AG. That was all Matt.

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So I guess we are not a cult now.

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Why do you think you're catching heat?

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Criticism or questioning of the leader is typically discouraged or punished

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but in general...most men think they want a high IQ women when many times that brings way more issues that an average IQ. think of the big time career women in NYC....is that really what you want to marry? a "boss babe"???

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That's a values thing, not an IQ thing. Not everybody chases a career/income at the expense of pretty much everything else. My wife works now but she was quite content to stay home and raise the kids until they were driving & in college.

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You want a women that is loyal, supportive of you, defends you in rooms you are not in...a women who is a great mother...who loves putting your desires above hers when it comes to sex. A women that will be there for you when you grow old, is fun and likes to laugh..

if you think you need a High iq to have those things...you are wrong.

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100% agree, but a high iq can also have those qualities. I doubt there's much correlation between IQ and values.