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Sol man

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@resonanteye @DumbOldJTramp @davidfrum Hence "SMALL R". Holy shit!

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@Got1milk @DumbOldJTramp @davidfrum I'm sorry if you don't understand what the word "republic" means outside of the Republican party. Christ. At least stupidity is bipartisan.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@DumbOldJTramp @davidfrum Liberty and inalienable individual rights as central values; the sovereignty of the people as the source of all authority; rejects monarchy, aristocracy, and hereditary political power; expects citizens to be faithful in their performance of civic duties; vilifies corruption.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@davidfrum Are you trying to say that we need constitutional amendments to fix our institutions, give the power back to the people, take power from political parties, and restore small-r republican virtue? Yes. We badly do.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@davidfrum Then the only way to save the "democratic idea" is to destroy social media (at least as it currently works) b/c social media rewards the idea that our innate nature is correct.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@davidfrum Is that really an objection? Or is it another way of saying basically the same thing?

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@NateSilver538 If this was the only thing, the patheticness would predominate. But as it is just a logical continuation in the GOP base's decades-long descent into madness (beginning in 1994), we should be very concerned.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump Social media killed the constitution. It raised factionalism over regionalism (killing the Madison argument), and raised factionalism over the separation of powers (killing the independent branches).

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@BelAves @NPR Would it matter to your family if you died?

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@ZephyrTeachout Better yet, let people make an election between student loan cancelation and receiving $1k/ mo, so it also helps people who already paid and who never had student loan debt.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@baseballcrank @ProjectLincoln RPC 3.1

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@sullydish @wesyang Probably about the same number of dudes who pretend to be religious, or into poetry, or into country music, or into rock climbing, or into art gallery openings, or into

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@overdramatique - Fake your own death in a boat explosion/ use getaway kayak
- Fake your own death in a plane explosion/ jetpack
- Fake your own death in a shark attack/ but it was really a fake robot shark that you can getaway in

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@buttonslives @chrislhayes Well he does specialize in erection law.

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@TheLonePatriot2 @Ricardohhhh It's fundamental to the non- delusional.

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@drvox Narcos

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@SportsCenter Florida Man, Esq.

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@OCDiamondKing @DamonLinker What if they forgave the first 50k tax free but charged a tax on the remainder? Would that be an acceptable compromise?

[Ben @Benlbrother]

@DamonLinker Would be smarter and have the same stimulus effect to just suspend it indefinitely.