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Dec 31, 2021Liked by Jeff Maurer

"I fear a permanent Noemocracy" Not to be confused with a gnomeocracy (rule by garden-dwelling imps) or a Noamocracy (rule by Chomsky).

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Jan 3, 2022Liked by Jeff Maurer

"When Ayatollah Khomeini disqualifies every candidate" — I think you mean Ayatollah Khamenei. Khomeini is the dead one.

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"In Pennsylvania, former Senator David Perdue is making Trump’s claims of voter fraud"

You mean Georgia.

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Just don't do what the Bureau of Atomic Scientists did and keep the visual metaphor going after the original meaning was lost. No one has any idea what the countdown clock means anymore, and your victim would be damned to an eternity of screaming at a steamroller driving back and forth at random.

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The blowhole bit still has me laughing. Even more than the Putin video.

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The left is so used to catastrophyzing that it's the only thing they do. And "we have to stop another January 6" which never seems to be about making sure that there isn't a dispute about which electors are the real ones.

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