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Funny fake clip (I can't wait to see the presser of Trump being asked about the size of his Presidential package); it does seem like Putin got the short end of the stick here. Question: if Trump calls Rubio "Little Marco", what does he call 5'6.5" Vladimir? https://t.co/j60GKYGfk8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 13, 2022
The GOP flirtation with political royalty hasn't worked out (the latest example being Laxalt, who just blew the NV Senate race), but we can talk Taft, Bush, Huckabee, Ron & Rand Paul, etc. Of course, the Dems have their own royalty like Kennedy, Cuomo, Biden (AG Beau), et.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 13, 2022
Leftist trolls suck at analysis. Let's point out 21 of the 35 Senate's seats up in 2022 were held by the GOP, and all the Dems did was capture 1 from an open seat from a retiring Republican. There are 20 seats uncalled, Dems need 14 for a majority, but Republicans lead in 9.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 13, 2022
This leftist is officially the dumbest tweeter of all time. Amash voted to impeach Trump and was primaried. The Huff Post headline says it all: "The One House Republican Who Can't Stop Criticizing Donald Trump". https://t.co/q8XD6pCXir
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 13, 2022
Buffalo races down field to hit a field goal to send it into overtime.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 13, 2022
Vikings take the kickoff but have to settle for a field goal. Buffalo looks like it's on the way to a winning TD drive, but Allen gets intercepted for the win.
The Vikes entered the 4th quarter behind by 17
FNC has called OR-5 for the GOP putting them at 212-204, now 6 seats away from clinching the House. The GOP continues to lead in 8 races, the closest being CA-13 and CO-3. The Dems have to capture 14 of 19 to retain control of the House
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Trump was a candidate for the Reform Party nomination in 2000, spent most of the 2000's as a registered Dem ,backing Clinton & Obama in 2008, but somehow he's your fault? You opposed military interventionism, qualified immunity, massive deficits, etc., vs. Trump. This guy? Clown.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Hmmm. Is there a theory, underlying constructs for the "sociology" troll's Trump Derangement Syndrome?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Um. Herschel Walker is black. Unless you literally believe Biden when he says: "If You Don't Vote for Me, 'You Ain't Black'"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
I never issued one when I was professor, but yes, they do exist. The leftist troll is wrong again.https://t.co/xadui6a5t5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Well, we need that diplomatic leadership of Nancy Pelosi who reconciled Taiwan and China #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Well, McCarthy led the fights against Trump's impeachments so Trump rewards his friends.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
What we know is the Twitter Musk acquired did not have controls in place to prevent fraud using blue check accounts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
It's now Groundhog Day until Republicans admit Trump was a mistake. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Pence publicly rebuked Trump's request to intervene in the Jan 6 vote as early as December 2020.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Congressional leadership prior to Jan. 6 rejected an offer to augment Capitol police with National Guard.
Little or no evidence of armed insurrection, military coup.
Trump denied these ever happened and no charges were filed. He claimed he was trying to impress other men about his sex behavior. I don't think Pence personally approved of Trump's behavior, but he was clearly qualified to fill his role.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Pence publicly rebuked Trump's request to intervene in the Jan 6 vote as early as December 2020.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Congressional leadership prior to Jan. 6 rejected an offer to augment Capitol police with National Guard.
Little or no evidence of armed insurrection, military coup.
Spoken like someone who was never thrown under the bus to the mob by Trump on Jan. 6 and probably has worried about Trumpkins still trying to avenge Pence's "betrayal'
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
This is FANTASTIC! Why isn't the Western Hemisphere a free trade zone? We need a free trade treaty with Africa. I don't have a lot of hope in the leadership of mercantilists like Biden or Trump, though. https://t.co/curgw8m1vp
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
The fact is that GOP had to defend 21 of 35 Senate seats. They lost just 1: Toomey's open seat in PA. On the other hand, Trump pushed bad candidates in PA, GA, AZ and elsewhere. His MD gubernatorial pick's opponent got 60% of the vote.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
No. Elections are not for the convenience of the State or the candidates. People have busy lives (work, family, other things), and we should accommodate them as flexibly as possible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Nope. This is just a leftist troll's wishful thinking. Incompetent comparison.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
The GOP successfully defended 20 of 21 GOP seats, the only loss being retiring Toomey's PA seat. Trump incompetently backed bad candidates in PA, GA, AZ and elsewhere, like MD where Moore beat Cox with 60% of the vote. https://t.co/BxiiEl29TG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
HELL, YES! The twice-impeached Traitor-in-Chief is a power-mongering, unprincipled, incompetent stain on the Presidency, I left the GOP when he clinched the 2016 election. He never got more than 47% of the vote, going up against weak Dems like Clinton and Biden.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
It seems like I underestimated the GOP leads for 2 races (AZ-1 and CA-3, recent lead changes?). See the CNN link for a convenient summary. This means the GOP, which needs 6 seats to clinch majority, leads in 10 of 19 uncalled races,https://t.co/99gLObYo1f
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
But...but...but "the blacks love me".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
The Dems are likely to prevail in the ranked-choice voter states of uncalled House Maine (tomorrow) and Alaska (Nov. 23). Not sure of the other seats to be called short term, but some CO, NM districts are nearly counted.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
Thomas Derangement Syndrome. Boring....
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
"Ginni Thomas"
Well, I think you have worse structural problems. With a majority+2-4, the Speaker could face the GOP version of the Senate Sinema/Manchin problem. And Biden has no problem threatening a veto over a thin majority
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
I think I and others are weary of the partisan nonsense. I don't want to hear about Hunter Biden or Dr. Fauci. I want to hear about Congress taking back their power from the Executive Branch.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
"DeSantis Surges Past Trump in Texas GOP 2024 Poll"...
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
I can feel a TrumperTantrum coming in. There's a possibility I could support DeSanctis, but never Trump.
Oh, God. I don't want to hear a conversation between Fetterman and Feinstein.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 14, 2022
The GOP picked up 2 Arizona House seats (1, 6) to pull within 4 seats of the majority, 214-205.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
In other election news, the Dems flipped the Arizona governor's mansion as Trumpkin Ms. Lake was defeated.
Since the GOP are within days of clinching the majority, you'll have to wait a few years.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
I live in MD. Trump backed Cox over term-limited Gov. Hogan's endorsed successor. Dem Moore beat Trumpkin Cox in a landslide.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Levin is a Trumpkin. The right-wing media have not been happy with Bush, Hogan, and Christie for years. (Remember Christie's photo ops with Obama after Hurricane Sandy?) Remember how Trump relentlessly attacked Jeb Bush over George? Why would those 3 back bad Trumpkin candidates?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
FNC has called NY-22, CA--41 and CA-45 for the House GOP, putting them at 217-205, 1 short of clinching the majority. Dems must win all uncalled races to keep their majority. It ain't gonna happen.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Thank God. Not a Dem, but I took pride in our country's proud heritage of the peaceful transfer of power, and Sore Loser Trump's insane post-election meltdown is stain on American history. Those who fought for Trump over America needed a humiliating rebuke from the people. https://t.co/KszXN2lBSG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
It looks like a Dem has pulled ahead in the CA-13 race; Republicans still hold decent leads in CA-3,22,27 and CO-3 (Boebert). The last is closest. A few Dem-led races are within a point or so CA-13,47,CO-8.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Zelensky isn't all that tolerant of his political opposition, and his record on public corruption is mixed at best. The next Congress might want to stipulate related conditions with future aid: no blank check.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Sad but predictable. We Americans take for granted our separation of Church and State. https://t.co/tZQVLRDJ3m
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
The same holds true for term-limited MD Governor Hogan who would have posed a serious challenge for Van Hollen's seat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Oh, is Trump going to announce he's retired from politics? https://t.co/9zxXZtoq1v
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
I was trying to figure out what this kerfuffle was all about. I was not familiar with the "Happy Merchant" meme (right). Apparently there is a false Internet rumor that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is Jewish. I don't see the chia pet hairstyle in the meme.https://t.co/KD0SdvAyMU https://t.co/iXqSDoPfBh
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
That reminds me when the Dems tried to scapegoat deregulation for the 2008 economic tsunami, that Glass-Steagall Act had been a master stroke of empirical economics,
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Dems add CO-8 according to FNC. 217-206. Maine should release the RCV outcome of ME-2 shortly, expected to be a Dem hold.https://t.co/wSGYXNwV6A
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
It's like what hit the Titanic: the bulk of unfunded entitlement liabilities is below the surface. https://t.co/uw2KbJQUME https://t.co/tcaLSn90dk
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
Come on! We libertarians embrace religious liberty. The intent of the meme was to point out political corruption, not subliminal antisemitic theme. Why the meme designer portrayed the FTX CEO eerily similar to the Happy Merchant, an offensive stereotype of Jews, is unfortunate. https://t.co/mJXzFQCQQs
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 15, 2022
CA-6 has been called for the Dems, narrowing the GOP advantage to 217-207.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
ME-2 ranked vote redistribution of third-place finisher voters' second choices has been delayed because 2 memory sticks of ballots are unreadable and rules require full recounts.https://t.co/pox4SLTWKt
Interesting ideological inconsistency. Right wingers have generally opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates (e,g, military personnel). Title 42 used a "public health emergency" to restrict border entry. We don't even require foreign travelers to take COVID-19 tests anymore https://t.co/Kn3NmlKPUE
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Twitter six-figure employees are upset Musk has ended their free lunch program. Cry me a river. It could be worse. Musk could have hired Michelle Obama to design their lunches.#sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
No. Even Amash gets this wrong. This is all pushing on a string nonsense based on Justice Thomas' opinion on substantive due process in Dobbs. The real issue is the Congress has no constitutional authority to regulate state marriage law. The real liberty position is privatization https://t.co/ohAC6CgJf4
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Leftists are out of touch with reality. The GOP is one seat from clinching the House (they lead in at least 4 races). The Dems won 1 of 21 GOP Senate seats, an open seat at that. The red wave did hit Florida, NY and CA. The GOP had some candidate issues and turnout problems.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Trump has a favorability rating below 40%; he has no chance of attracting the independents he needs. If the GOP does nominate the guy who cost them control of Congress, I get to complete my hat trick of voting against him as POTUShttps://t.co/AkTGLAOINm https://t.co/n5BYUD32eZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
The Dems have won CA-21 to pull within 9, 217-208. We are down to 10 uncalled races, and the GOP leads in 4. We have been waiting for the magic 218 since yesterday.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Dems have added CA-9 to narrow the GOP lead to 217-209 in the House.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Well, I remember in March 2016 NR was Never Trump. I wonder when they'll fold this time... https://t.co/LWCwoK6kHY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Never Trump 2024
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Never Trump 2024
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Wow. I remember Grover Cleveland. Unlike Trump, he was an honest man and the last good Democrat to be voted POTUS. Trump is no Cleveland. https://t.co/Xgc1kC0iVS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
The former Dunce-in-Chief still hasn't read the Constitution:
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof." https://t.co/UTbyUTiKEB
Jimmy is still trying to get that dye out of his hand. #sarcasm https://t.co/4ilaNSMYdX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
I would never vote in this poll because I am Never Trump and Never Biden. https://t.co/CvKA1xEq4z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
No, it should be to protect individual rights. But de facto nullification (e.g., sanctuary cities) of federal constitutional abuses of power is part of that.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Not a Republican, but McConnell has done a superb job in his role. Indirectly you know that from how often the leftist trolls on Twitter go after him. https://t.co/QWpsDfdDVJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Yes. Note I have always been Never Trump. But I believe in the free exchange of ideas. https://t.co/wzCTErYnHN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
America has always been great and glorious. We don't need some attention-seeking, pretentious, power-mongering, corrupt sore loser once again soiling the Presidency and defiling the Constitution. https://t.co/IOsTfDZqYK
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Trump supersized bombings and drone attacks in the Middle East/Gulf Region with so many civilian casualties he wanted them filtered out of reports. He launched unprovoked missile strikes on Syria and assassinated an Iranian government official.https://t.co/ChcDlBegQj https://t.co/bcLguFMQfi
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
Zelensky has long sought NATO involvement against the Russian intervention, and an attack on NATO member Poland might do that. There have been Russian missiles landing near Polish territory. I don't know Zelensky knew it was a stray defensive missile.https://t.co/d9ytQCzH9d https://t.co/9cczuNi82Y
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
A true libertarian, like me, and anyone who respects our generally open immigration heritage before WWI, supports liberalization of our immigration policies.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
However, the right wing is unlikely to agree to "amnesty" without other reforms, including foreign worker legalization. https://t.co/3wIxAPZ77W
What is really election fraud is Trumpkins scamming eight/center voters for the personal power and glory of Trump. https://t.co/LZcSJovHEY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
There is NOTHING in the Constitution that gives you authority over state regulation of marriage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 16, 2022
The House has been retaken by the GOP! CA-27 was called and the GOP leads 218-210. Earlier today, ME-2's RCV election was clinched by the incumbent Dem as expected. 7 seats remain uncalled.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
POTUS nominates officers of the US; he isn't one himself.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
14th Amendment
Leftists obsessed with a Constitutional gimmick to prohibit Trump from running for President in 2024 are just as crackpot as the birthers who tried to convince Americans Hawaii-born Barry Obama was constitutionally ineligible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
14th Amendment
Marriage is a private sector institution/construct-not some government-conferred privilege.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
"Marriage" is NOT something the Congress is authorized to legislate over by the Constitution. States have regulated marriage, clearly under the 10th Amendment
"Respect for Marriage Act"
This is pretty stupid, even for crackpot leftists. There is no Constitutional authority for the Congress to regulate marriage, a 10th Amendment issue.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
But more to the point, Leader McConnell's marriage is already recognized and cannot be revoked.
CA-49 was won by a Democrat, putting the GOP majority at 218-211, with 6 uncalled races, half led by Republicans.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
I wasn't even aware Ms. Bure had left Hallmark. I was curious why I hadn't seen Bure hosting Countdown to Christmas. She suggested in a relevant post they didn't agree on terms for contract renewal. She is entitled to her religious views if relevant.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
"Candace Cameron Bure"
The controversy deals with social experimental extensions of the traditional marriage construct, the foundation of procreation and family within norms for the preservation of society. This does not exclude relationships for others.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
"Respect for Marriage Act"
Tell me about it. He's running against some pro-abort "preacher" who is a Biden rubber stamp.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
You were once realistic about the political whore until you caught the Trumpkin virus.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
The importance of the new House Majority is that the Republicans will hold the power of the purse. This is the end of Biden's blank check. We libertarians don't necessarily like Republicans on things like partisan investigations or uncapped defense spending.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
Like viral STD's, Donald Trump never goes away.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
#Trumps2024Slogan
@elonmusk this Russian propaganda rubbish is rather tiresome. The US respects freedom of speech but not Russia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
#ZelenskyWarCriminal
I'm glad you didn't ask Trump to fire her.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
Saying BS like "forced birth" will get you blocked from my feed. There are no bans on pregnant women traveling to states promoting genocide to the preborn. Most pro-lifers are pragmatic about exceptions.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
The federal government isn't funding his acquisition of Twitter, and for someone who spent billions buying the company, he seems to have underestimated the challenges and undermined his credibility in the process.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
The Constitution matters. Marriage is regulated by states. Amendment 10; federal system of government. It has nothing to do with personal feelings.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
Pence Derangement Syndrome rubbish.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
"Short testified that Pence told Trump he would not reject electors "many, many times" yet the president would not drop the matter. "
Pence knew the 12th Amendment. I have no doubt Pence talked to Quayle, another VP who presided on 1/6/93.
Good riddance to a failed political whore who has left following generations with unsustainable debt, trillions in unfunded liabilities, someone who has enabled legalized plunder, crippling regulations and intrusive meddling in our private lives.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
"Nancy Pelosi"
Perks have changed since I was a kid. I remember one of my uncles worked at an ice cream factory and got to take home a couple of quarts. I was suitably impressed; that had to be the coolest job in the world.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
The Twitter free lunch kerfuffle reminds me of my involuntary work experience in Silicon Valley years back. My first boss would buy gooey Friday morning cobblers. I was at a client site doing an install, couldn't leave the building. Lots of client leftover Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
I don't think so. Lysander Spooner started his own mail delivery service.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
American conservatism is actually based on our classical liberal heritage.
I don't think so. Lysander Spooner started his own mail delivery service.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
American conservatism is actually based on our classical liberal heritage.
Listen to hypocritical feminist leftists cite their morally self-superior sexual harassment heroes. Yes, even given their high-profile predecessor, Bill Clinton. https://t.co/IHOos7Og18
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
What made this incident particularly stupid is that I was a visiting consultant who would file travel expenses. I have no clue why she was guarding leftover pizza when employees had mostly already left the room, and the company was going to cover my meal expense either way.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
If you spend the next 2 years playing partisan politics, you'll get kicked out in 2024.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree (Papa Trump). And yes, she is nuts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
I want a silver bullet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
If you had listened to the J6 investigation, you would have Trump badgered Pence, who repeatedly refused. You underestimate Trump's lack of character. Pence is the one hero in all of this nonsense. He's the one Trump threw under the bus on Jan. 6.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
Some leftist, as usual, underestimates Musk. He owns the company. He manages others. Delegating work to subordinates doesn't imply compromising his business objectives. https://t.co/4oOJAkFtEO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
I believe the ranked choice vote to be done on Nov. 23 or so.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
If they go by the pound, the twice-impeached sore loser is A LOT BIGGER. https://t.co/ka7iEStxm2
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 17, 2022
I expect a Trumper tantrum any time now. https://t.co/YyL08ikpqN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Ms. Porter of CA-47 won reelection, narrowing the GOP majority to 218-212. The GOP regained a narrow lead in CA-13. They still lead in CA-3,22, and Boebert's lead is narrowing in CO-3, but down to last 1%. I don't understand why in one of the CA districts some 40% not counted.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I love the fact Musk can poke fun at himself. https://t.co/wRhOShI8zH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Oh, God, Tom Massie: why are you embarrassing us pro-liberty folks again? This is classic Boebert, of course. You might think she would be more worried over the coming recount in her race. https://t.co/e4xG9eumMd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I ended up with a chronic stress induced cough, I lost my singing range. (It went beyond the project which involved employee expense reports.) I was scheduled to a Texas job interview when my boss had a heart attack on a Vermont business trip. I had a moral responsibility to stay
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
So we're down to the final 5 Congressional races. Palin would need to win nearly all second votes next week, which ain't gonna happen, so the Dems are likely going to end with 213, Possibly, not likely 2 more with razor-thin GOP leads. GOP likely to add 2 up to 4 to their 218.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I'm not sure I would want to work for him, but of the ones I know of, he's the most diversified successful entrepreneur with Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. The Twitter acquisition is interesting. I think he can unshackle value from a previously mismanaged company but a risk taker. https://t.co/Y7eSQbJKNR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Those Blue Checks want more than their free lunches back at HQ. They feel entitled to free verification for life.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
LMAO. Let me know the stock symbol so I can short it. https://t.co/AIownmceQO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I can't believe, but for once I agree with Geraldo. A broken clock is right twice a day.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Let's not have unrealistic expectations of what the House can do with a razor-thin majority. a POTUS with a veto and a Dem-controlled Senate. But partisan rubbish isn't winning politics. https://t.co/uIs3n3bovS
Bad news, sir. Good luck on finding six-figure jobs censoring people leftists disagree with. I've been actively tweeting for nearly 10 years and only once came across a "neo-Nazi". https://t.co/rKqd1rCjb4
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
This is beyond stupid. Clinton didn't get impeached over infidelity. Clinton lied in court about his pattern of sexual harassment of women who worked for him in public office. I wouldn't have given a damn over his cheating on Hillary at some Nevada brothel.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
LMAO. Twitter hasn't died for years despite incompetent management and leadership. Musk is an effective manager although unorthodox, although he had a reputation before acquiring Twitter. He had to cut costs to get Twitter into a sustainable business model. I would tone it down. https://t.co/3i7X1eTeN8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Elon Musk did not commit fraud. I think he's amused by all you leftist trolls who couldn't make payroll for a lemonade stand judging his management skills. He's unconventional, but that's part of his charm. He had to get costs under control. He'll prove you wrong. https://t.co/x0KyBjVrlr
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Yes, after Musk rebuilds Twitter to a sustainable profitable enterprise, he can look at the failures of the public school monopoly with abysmal productivity over decades and prescribe a more competitive market-based solution. https://t.co/6mymlw8Xit
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Poor George W. I guess they got off to a rocky start.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
LMAO. I guess Nancy didn't want to put Trump on Mount Rushmore....
She ended up having me walked off the project, and I was fired before the production server upgrade. I later learned they still couldn't figure out the upgrade and later made my test server the production server. LMAO. This is never done in real world IT.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I once had to do an app server upgrade which had failed in 2 prior attempts by others. The incompetent PM was a Navy NCO who had bonded with contractor developers, who had provably lied they had prepared their code for the upgrade and scapegoated my upgrade effort.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I think you got the quote wrong. I think the version I've seen was something to the effect she has enjoyed working for 3 Presidents. I earlier joked she and George W. Bush must have gotten off to a poor start...
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
You always are working out bugs with code, rolling out new functionality, etc., typically first in dev/test environments before being put into production--not to mention dealing with infrastructure issues and security patching. The leftists are fear-mongering.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Who was the political whore who ripped up a Trump speech in front of a national audience? (Note I'm a Never Trumper, by the way.) You reap what you sow. She has not worked with the GOP and is part of the hyper-partisan atmosphere. Personally I would have been more gracious.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Thanks. We expect to make a lot of money with a company that finally has competent management.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Will it unconstitutionally quash state policies? What the HELL is the Congress enabled to pass any law on marriage? The only connection I see has to do with marital status in direct tax policy and there are ways to expand relevant eligibility without redefining marriage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
The First Lady of School Lunches? I know some conservatives who worry about her running for POTUS. https://t.co/4aVY9q5BdY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Well, we know the GOP is against high taxes and regulations, against inflation and the border crisis, and for law and order. The devil is in the details. https://t.co/4gb8KMANbP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
You and Brad need to read the Constitution. I bet you can't find "marriage" anywhere there. So how is Congress passing a law on it? I call it pushing on a string, virtue-signaling "I love Mommy and Puppy Dogs" rubbish.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Be more specific! The Democrats promised to make healthcare more affordable, and God knows how that turned out. How do you promise to make Thanksgiving cheaper? We know the Dems' "answer" is SNAP.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
I expect a Trumper tantrum any time now....
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
"66 percent of GOP voters in the Sunshine state would favor their governor, compared to 21 percent who remain loyal to the former president"https://t.co/Vn8Zl9s98A
Well, you blew the midterms by backing bad candidates. Your best case: the status quo 50-50.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Nope. As the late Justice Scalia would say, "The Constitution is DEAD...DEAD...DEAD!"https://t.co/6BDtOJWbfn https://t.co/FaRhoodfTH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
YES! The Bee has been reinstated to Twitter! https://t.co/JnVkA1gb42
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
Boebert's opponent Frisch has conceded in CO-3. I show her up by 551. Less than 819 triggers an automatic recount but only 3 of 31 recent past recounts have flipped results, the biggest being 440 votes in MN's 2008 Senate race. https://t.co/Y1BjJBKXJm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 18, 2022
How stupid do you have to be to compare asylum seekers, many of them ordinary women and children, to Russia's war criminals? Trumpkin trash. https://t.co/ycaPJHl5r0
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I later got a transcript of the migration which proved me right. But now the client had a big problem: if and when vendor support knew they were running on an invalid characterset, it would be a violation of their support contract. And so I outlined a solution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
It needed to be WE8ISO8859P1. Client management was skeptical, but I proved the patch ran under a database copy created with the latter characterset. But how did production end up with US7ASCII? I know Oracle used it by default, so you had to take care when creating the ERP DB.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
One tech example from my own experience: I had been assigned to do ERP administrator consulting work for a chain of airport duty-free shops. I was literally 5 minutes on site when the client DBA saw a prompt like "You have a patch problem. Do you want to continue?" And he typed Y
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Take an arbitrary demand to write a hit song in minutes. CSN did it for "Just a Song Before I Go". I didn't know the same was true for "Under Pressure" and "Sweet Child O' Mine", But it took Paul Simon a while to flesh out "Bridge Over Troubled Water".https://t.co/jm2mW83Eep
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
How stupid are you? Babylon Bee was suspended for poking fun at USA Today piece naming a Biden Administration transsexual minion "Woman of the Year".https://t.co/FKfJzvx48P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds stupid. There's a difference between appointing a special counsel and filing charges.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I refuse to let someone like Trump to yank my chain, but he is a serial liar. The impeachments were real; he did extort Zelensky for personal reasons; he was derelict of duty on 1/6/21. He violated the Presidential Records Act and knowingly retained classified data insecurely. pic.twitter.com/OXqiizr2zE
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Reversal of Roe wasn't something Trump could promise, even though Roe was blatantly unconstitutional. Multiple Republican Presidents nominated justices who maintained the status quo. The fact is abortion was low on the list of their issues to back Trump. https://t.co/wMpgWPA3wM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I'll even buy my own lunch. But no guarantee my humor will actually be funny.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Just because Justice Thomas criticized one line of reasoning didn't imply there wasn't another constitutional argument to be made.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Of course, I and others argue the bigger issue is the incorporation doctrine, the false notion the 14th amendment is a wild card for state meddling.
Obergefell was wrongly decided. Not because gay people don't have a right to contract their mutual commitment. None of the states actually restricted that. It had to do with contradicting the Tenth Amendment.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
All of this Congressional pushing-on-a-string rubbish involved Thomas
"The government should not prevent people from making contracts but that does not mean that the government must confer a special imprimatur upon a new definition of marriage."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
In other words, privatize marriage--which is as libertarian as it gets.
Yes. Traditionally liberalism has focused on restraining the government monopoly on power against individual rights. Later political philosophers introduced the notion of positive rights, the idea one is entitled to certain benefits at the expense of others: modern social liberal https://t.co/T0N9qrzwgy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I don't like Elon Musk started a poll on whether Trump should have the right of self-expression. What if leftists swamp the poll? If Musk believes in free expression, he shouldn't pretend that the censors can trump doing the right thing. Note: I'm no Trumpkin.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Trump's persecution complex is tiresome. The dude is still in denial over stealing documents, including classified data he no longer has need to know and was keeping in unsecured locations, against government policy. There was an FBI search at MAL. Politics? No. https://t.co/EUAUGPLHBb
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
That being said, I loathe Warnock and don't support Walker (although he is the lesser of two evils).
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
LeBron was worried that protests against Chinese commie violations of human rights might put lucrative broadcast contracts at risk. Kaepernick wasn't protesting on his own time; he was violating the NFL code of conduct on the field. Walker is retired and has has the right to run.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
This is leftist rubbish; also, this reference to "Christian nationalism" is pure rubbish. Leftists can't stand the fact they seem to have lost their back door to judicial activism. Roberts will be criticized in history books but probably mostly known for his opinion on ObamaCare.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
Alito Derangement Syndrome has been ongoing since Bush's nomination. Schenck is not a credible witness. Alito had to know he and other jurists, especially Kavanaugh, would be targeted by violent and/or harassing pro-aborts. This is not the first time a "conservative" converts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 19, 2022
I'm glad he's doing it, but this could have backfired on him and almost did. P.S.: I, a Never Trumper, voted yes. https://t.co/QTymcUHAzu
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
And I'm among the thousands of Twitter users saying, "CBS has been on Twitter?" https://t.co/dSY8M8zw4z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
A profession that promotes baby killing has no sense of ethics. The profession has forgotten what Hippocrates swore them to do. https://t.co/eC4C1Ihktj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
A high approval number is not one of them. https://t.co/ceuGvrPzGS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
The same was true in 2016. The GOP needs ranked-choice voting.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
You're still wrong.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
I think some Republicans were caught flatfooted by the Dobbs decision and let the pro-aborts define them. I think they were also on the defensive over Trump. They didn't offer a compelling vision of policies to address the nation's problems. Partisan investigations are toxic.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
The GOP lacked a real strategy. They probably thought all they had to do was point at Biden's abysmal job approval numbers, high inflation, rising crime, a bungled exit from Afghanistan, and the border crisis. They needed more of concrete agenda on which to claim a mandate.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Let's bust a leftist myth: the GOP was heavily favored. They did have an edge pre-Dobbs, but RCP showed a 2.5 pt advantage heading into the election & actually ended up with a 3.2 pt advantage on Election Day. So arguably they outperformed expectationshttps://t.co/C5uOHLLzcs!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
I'm tired of you dumb leftists calling me a bot. I'm a Never Trumper, but I believe in free speech--and that includes speech I don't agree with.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
I'm not sure Trump wants to return to Twitter. He owns a competitor and no doubt felt he contributed to Twitter's success and holds a grudge he was treated "unfairly".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Well, Tom Massie posed with Rittenhouse and Boebert for a photo op. I threw up in my mouth a little.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Is this part of Colbert's monologue? "Biden's supreme diplomacy" is an oxymoron. A blank check for the military-industrial complex?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Well, Trump is back on Twitter, and I'm still not following him.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Leftists are already demanding a recount by paper ballot, the lack of early voting, and not every verified Hillary Clinton user account was counted. #saecasm https://t.co/WILx3FNMrX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Trumpkins insist Trump really got 99% of the vote, that Musk didn't comply with voter ID policies, and foreigners voted against him. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
Does that mean he's waiving the right to confront his accuser?" And the judge doesn't swear him to the Truth Social, the whole Truth Social and nothing but the Truth Social...
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) November 20, 2022
