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Stunning.
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/12/01/...wpr6rUPYRBzcWs
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/12/01/...wpr6rUPYRBzcWs
NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
Neo-**** Furries are Trump's Latest and Most Puzzling Alt-Right Supporters
BY WILLIAM HICKS ON 11/22/17 AT 8:00 AM EST
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I never cease to be amazed by the extremely high degree of both diversity and also specialization by extreme-fringe fetishists.
I'm guessing that within the neo-**** Furry community, there are even more nested sub-groups, such as non-gender-conforming neo-**** furries who specialize in baking Italian-style pastries who oppose Biden but do not support Trump.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Also maybe also rivalries. Like there are two particular sub-factions of the furry Neo-**** community which are bitterly divided by whether Liberals referring to President Trump as "literally Hitler" is meant as compliment (because autism prevents them from understanding that some people think Hitler is bad), vs. those who are capable of envisioning differing points of view, and recognize that Liberals are actually using this in a figurative and pejorative sense.
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meanwhile:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-g...ying-home.html
END THE ******* LOCKDOWNS.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-g...ying-home.html
Cuomo says it’s ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home
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Sometimes Braineack, you are off in the far corner of right field but sometimes your stuff is spot on.
The last couple have been among your best posts and could very well propel you to superstar posting status.
The last couple have been among your best posts and could very well propel you to superstar posting status.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/u...eGUft1ZbYvB51E
Sept. 24, 1987
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., declaring that his candidacy had been overwhelmed by ''the exaggerated shadow'' of his mistakes, dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination today.
The 44-year-old legislator from Delaware betrayed little bitterness but some sadness as he stood behind a forest of microphones at a crowded news conference. In sharp contrast with former Senator Gary Hart, who withdrew from the Democratic contest in a blur of invective against the news media, Mr. Biden chose to swallow most of his private anger and place the burden for the end of his candidacy on himself.
''I made some mistakes,'' said Mr. Biden, who has faced 10 days of news reports on his lifting of sections from the speeches of others and on his record in college and law school. Role in Bork Hearings Stressed
Mr. Biden cast his departure as a choice between salvaging his candidacy or fulfilling his responsibility as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearings on Judge Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. Mr. Biden said he felt his first responsibility was ''to keep the Supreme Court from moving in a direction that I believe to be truly harmful.''
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Mr. Biden was the second candidate, after Mr. Hart, to be knocked out of the contest by a quick succession of revelations in the press. And he was among the first to suffer from the spread of video-technology, which can make even the most intimate living-room campaign gathering into a national political event.
Mr. Biden's troubles began with the revelation in The New York Times and The Des Moines Register that he had used, without attribution, long portions of a moving address by the British Labor Party leader, Neil Kinnock. Later, it emerged that he had also used passages from the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Then, it was revealed that Mr. Biden had been disciplined as a first-year law student for using portions of a law review article in a paper without proper attribution. Mr. Biden tried to put the charges behind him by admitting to mistakes at a news conference, but he was hit again by a Newsweek magazine report on a videotape of an appearance in New Hampshire in which he misstated several facts about his academic career.
The events unfolded just at the moment when Mr. Biden had hoped to make a favorable national impression in the hearings on Judge Bork. Instead, his national image was deeply tarnished. A New York Times/CBS News Poll of 838 adults conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that Mr. Biden was viewed favorably by 3 percent of Americans, unfavorably by 16 percent.
The irony for Mr. Biden is that his handling of the Bork hearings were in fact winning him something he had never achieved in the past: broad respect from Washington's professionals.
BIDEN WITHDRAWS BID FOR PRESIDENT IN WAKE OF FUROR
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Special To the New York TimesSept. 24, 1987
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., declaring that his candidacy had been overwhelmed by ''the exaggerated shadow'' of his mistakes, dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination today.
The 44-year-old legislator from Delaware betrayed little bitterness but some sadness as he stood behind a forest of microphones at a crowded news conference. In sharp contrast with former Senator Gary Hart, who withdrew from the Democratic contest in a blur of invective against the news media, Mr. Biden chose to swallow most of his private anger and place the burden for the end of his candidacy on himself.
''I made some mistakes,'' said Mr. Biden, who has faced 10 days of news reports on his lifting of sections from the speeches of others and on his record in college and law school. Role in Bork Hearings Stressed
Mr. Biden cast his departure as a choice between salvaging his candidacy or fulfilling his responsibility as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearings on Judge Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. Mr. Biden said he felt his first responsibility was ''to keep the Supreme Court from moving in a direction that I believe to be truly harmful.''
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Mr. Biden was the second candidate, after Mr. Hart, to be knocked out of the contest by a quick succession of revelations in the press. And he was among the first to suffer from the spread of video-technology, which can make even the most intimate living-room campaign gathering into a national political event.
Mr. Biden's troubles began with the revelation in The New York Times and The Des Moines Register that he had used, without attribution, long portions of a moving address by the British Labor Party leader, Neil Kinnock. Later, it emerged that he had also used passages from the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Then, it was revealed that Mr. Biden had been disciplined as a first-year law student for using portions of a law review article in a paper without proper attribution. Mr. Biden tried to put the charges behind him by admitting to mistakes at a news conference, but he was hit again by a Newsweek magazine report on a videotape of an appearance in New Hampshire in which he misstated several facts about his academic career.
The events unfolded just at the moment when Mr. Biden had hoped to make a favorable national impression in the hearings on Judge Bork. Instead, his national image was deeply tarnished. A New York Times/CBS News Poll of 838 adults conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that Mr. Biden was viewed favorably by 3 percent of Americans, unfavorably by 16 percent.
The irony for Mr. Biden is that his handling of the Bork hearings were in fact winning him something he had never achieved in the past: broad respect from Washington's professionals.
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