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DeSantis emulating Trump's "mascot being lowered from the rafters on a wire" approach to standing might be the funniest development of 2022. Give it a few weeks, he'll be hugging the flag too.

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Pete's got the ambition. Not sure why he thinks he'll make a great leader. I don't see that in him. But he sure knows how to play the game and play the power base in the Democratic party. His secret hand shake with Biden bowing out and endorsing Biden just before the Southetn primaries got him the Transportation gig. It also wrung the momentum out of Bernie's chances for getting the nomination . Biden swept the south, Bernie lost his mo and Pete got Sec of Transportation. But to you other point: we sure do need young blood going to Congress. Just hope Pete gets his come upping. He'll never get my vote

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Pete, among a few others, would get my vote.

Plus, since when haven’t politicians played the game of making deals and putting themselves up for this or that job? Read & research history, all the way back to our founding, and that’s always been done.

We all “play the game” in life. It’s how we interact with each other, vying for a job, smiling to get what we want, withholding agreement to put someone else down or in place for a comeuppance. The stakes are far bigger in politics but we all behave this way to some degree and in some variation. Sure, some do things with no thought of reward or favor or being thought well of but even they will play the game at times to get what they need to continue even selfless work. To suggest humans don’t do this is to to ignore basic human behavior.

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Can't argue with you about the human conditions or human behavior....u b right on. Not a great history buff but the founding fathers imho were: privileged white dude hypocrites regarding race and equality and most revealing of all showed contempt for the common (wo)man. But most despicable to me: they denied voting rights to the common man; the common man that fought with his/ her blood fighting for our independence while they were sipping tee served by their black servants pondering our constitution...their Constitution..

So be b right on Kasumi they played the game and rigged it.

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“Look at these two dorks.”

I’m sorry Cros but I can’t let this libel go unchallenged. Pence for sure is one of the dorkiest mfing dorks that’s ever lived. But Grassley is a swagged up king.

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Grassley absolutely looks like he belongs in those clothes, and has even probably worn them before. Pence CANNOT WAIT to get out of those wet threads and into, I presume, his Snuggie.

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Grassley’s drip is flawless.

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