@MeghanMcCain I was in Venezuela in 1992. It was most definitely not the third richest country in the world. It wasn't even the third richest country I'd visited.
@mattxiv The concept of ivermectin being "alternative" is insane. The scientists who created it won a Nobel Prize, and it's manufactured by large pharmaceutical companies.
Though, I suppose, "take this dewormer, it'll cure all your ills" is some serious alterna-snake oil shit.
@mattyglesias@dwallacewells ...if that opponent was still Andrew Cuomo? Yes.
I don't think people in NY have gotten past the question of: "how many senior COVID deaths is too many to hide?"
Tonight @Target , I was approached by a rando aggressively asking personal questions. He was selling phones/plans for Target, giving the very hard sell. I will go out of my way and pay more money to avoid dealing with that crap. Next time will be the last time I shop at Target.
@esjesjesj Those blue counties: 11,990,000 people. 60.4%
The red ones: 7,877,000 people. 39.6%
The 2024 election:
Harris 55.9%
Trump 43.3%
It's a blue state with red rural areas, and Long Island.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them
@the_transit_guy The owners of shell companies, of course.
How are we supposed to run a scam like Enron if you're going to make us tell people what we're doing!??!?!
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them
...is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.