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I’ve never been a fan of wrestling but I loved Andre. From everything I’ve seen and heard, he was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. There are some great stories about him out there too. There’s video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a time when he and Andre were arguing over who would pay the check at a restaurant and Andre literally picked Arnold up and put him on a piece of furniture. And another similar occasion with Andre and Wilt Chamberlain. The Cary Elwes book, As You Wish, about the making of The Princess Bride has a lot of stories about Andre from the cast too. It’s well worth the read if you’re a fan of the movie.

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Earlier this year, my colleague Abby Vesoulis reported that Moreno shelled out more than $400,000 to settle a wage-theft lawsuit in Massachusetts in which “he was forced to admit to shredding overtime-­payment records.” He eventually settled more than a dozen claims of wage theft at his dealerships in the commonwealth, along with a host of other complaints from former employees—outcomes he has blamed on disgruntled workers and “activist” judges.

Yeah, wage theft does tend to make workers a tad disgruntled.

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It’s shit like this that makes me not give a shit when cops get ambushed or murdered. The whole profession is a cesspool of sociopaths that the world would be better off without. I try no to subscribe to the whole ACAB attitude and believe that they aren’t really all bad, but it’s virtually impossible to hang onto that belief when dangerous officers like this are kept on the force.

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Wouldn’t that mean that this transparent political hit job was a colossal waste of time on the part of the Republicans?

Not really. Their whole goal is to make sure they can say that Biden is impeached at least as many times as Trump even though they know that they’ll never get a conviction in the senate. The whole investigation is not in the interest of justice or good governing. It’s pure politics. When you point out that it’s all just for show, they’ll turn around and say that the Trump impeachments were the ones that were all for show. And their base, the only one’s they care about, will believe it.

Here’s the kicker. The reason they want to be able to say that is because they are trying to 100% equate Harris with Biden. Watch the first few seconds here (youtube) where Vance says, “It’s hard to believe just how bad the Kamala Harris administration has been…” There hasn’t been a Kamala Harris administration. It’s been the Biden administration, obviously, and Sofa King knows it. This is not a mistake on his part. This is the new play, everything Biden has done, they will try to lay at Harris’ feet including Biden’s impeachment.

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That’s the Republican method of operation. Accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing. When you point out that it’s their guy doing it, they just claim you are the one lying. Their base is so deeply programmed they believe it.

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Oh look, another party that doesn’t run candidates for any state or local offices but wants to run a candidate for the highest office in the land. An election they cannot hope to actually win, and the only actual effect their run will have is to increase the chance that a fascist could come to power in the USA. Not surprised that the Post would run a story with this headline, but I was surprised to see this honest passage.

The PSL, has raised more than $235,000 and promises voters a radically twisted vision for America, which includes seizing the 100 largest American corporations and turning them into public property and ending all US aid to Israel. The group does not release membership numbers but claims to have “an organized presence in over 100 cities and towns” in the United States.

The party is not affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States which has elected multiple members to Congress and boasts more than 77,000 faithful.

OP, if you’re really a socialist as your name claims, perhaps you should support the DSA which actually walks the walk and has earned some respect as well as national level offices. Has the Green party ever won an election for Senate or the House in DC? What Senate or House candidates are they running this November?

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That’s how they should be starting. Get candidates in the state legislatures and local offices. Instead, she is insisting on getting on ballots states like Wisconsin where she has no electors because the Greens don’t have anyone in a state office who is eligible to nominate electors for the party. Even if she were to win in Wisconsin, she wouldn’t get the votes in the electoral collage because she has no electors. The only effect she can have is to again steal enough votes from the Democratic candidate to let Trump win the state.

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