Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦
@bdquinn
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Permanent Secretary of the Department of Bad Takes
Madison, WI
Joined July 2009
The country wants this. I've just come to accept that. I think they'll regret it when they get it full force, but they clearly want it. Let them have it. Just pray the rule of law survives it.
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@bdquinn is too smooth. Too fast. Too meticulous. The scientists will never find out how, or why, he put iguanas on this island.
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Well, that's one way to cause some additional inflation.
🚨 BREAKING: Scott Bessent says $2,000 tariff checks from President Trump would go to families making less than $100,000 per year Plus, MAJOR tax refunds coming in 2026 because of Trump's new law👏 "$2K rebate - that would be for families making less than $100,000. We have not
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Among other things, if you look at who was in mental hospitals before de-institutionalization it’s 47% women and 20% senior citizens at a time when the national age structure was much younger. This is not the crime/prison demographic at all. https://t.co/p9P3p73H7a
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On the popular-but-bullshit claim that prison institutionalization simply replaced psychiatric institutionalization
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Deconstructing a statistical myth
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Well, he's right about this.
According to a new study from the Yale Budget Lab, AI has caused no discernible disruption in the labor market based on 33 months of data since ChatGPT’s release.
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I spent a long weekend in Washington. Here is what I learned about Groypers, Jew haters, and the fight for the conservative soul and future. It’s not pretty.
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I remember the old days when Chesterfield County was a solidly Republican county. Now, it's the margin by which a Dem carries it that tells you whether the Dem is up statewide. Harris carried it by 9% vs. a 6% statewide win.
DDHQ has called the Virginia Governor Election for Abigail Spanberger (D). GOP -> Dem FLIP
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Pretty much what I expected. Musou games rarely rate above 8 out of 10 due to their inherently repetitive gameplay.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment | Reviews 9 - Gfinity 9 - RPG Site 9 - Nintendo Life 9 - GameReactor 8.5 - CGM 8.5 - Areajugones 8 - VGC 8 - TheGamer 8 - Shacknews 8 - Screen Rant 8 - TheSixthAxis 8 - Console Creatures 7 - Gamespot 7 - ComicBook 4 - Metro MC: 78 OC: 79
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I don't think there's much doubt this will be the last game of this vintage of Hyrule. Incidentally, I've always really liked the Warriors style hack and slash games as mindless stress relief.
I hope Age of Imprisonment is the end of the BOTW era The games are great and I get they were super successful….but holy shit BOTW turns 9 in March. Let’s get a fresh Zelda-verse in here
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@JoshReynolds24 @NBAOfficial It's not a travel because he crossed the international date line so the last 4 steps actually happened yesterday.
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The idea that Democrats can dispense with persuading heterodox swing voters -- by moving left to mobilize its progressive base -- rests on nothing but bad intuitions, per @simon_bazelon's report https://t.co/PV1ELJkam5
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Chinese leaders say the U.S. is trying to contain China’s rise. In reality, the biggest problem the country is facing today may be coming from within—as reflected in its next five-year plan. @Lingling_Wei
https://t.co/vNxGIoWs24
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At a certain point, you run out of innocent explanations for people's behavior. We're way past that with Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson: "Putin is the most popular leader in the world. Whether you're in Western Europe, Canada, the English-speaking world, outside the English-speaking world, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, you won't meet anyone who doesn't like Putin; Putin is like a global
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China actually is an outlier on the import side - especially when it comes to imports of manufactures. Net of processing imports (typically imported chips for reexport), total imports of manufactures are only 3% of GDP ... 2/2
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Deeply misleading. Big economies trade less than small economies, so exports to GDP isn't the best metric. Look instead at the size of China's manufacturing surplus -- which is huge v the world economy and large v China's own economy 1/
China today is less export-dependent than every other global top 10 economy except one: the USA. The easiest way to assess this is the exports-to-GDP ratio. Per the World Bank, in 2023 China's exports were roughly 19.7% of GDP. It ranks #159/195 in the world by this metric. 🧵
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Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself, is this worth jeopardizing your pending merger with another media conglomerate over? Ronald Reagan loved tariffs.
"Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. And they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial ... Crooked ad. They knew Ronald Reagan loved tariffs... That's dirty playing but I can play dirtier than they can" - Trump
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@HowardMortman Another lie in service of illegally taxing Americans.
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Goes to show that voters like gerrymandering so long as their side comes out ahead.
62-38. This ballot initiative is sailing. Republicans arent even really contesting it at this point.
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“McKinsey is a dealbreaker, but Blackwater isn’t” is certainly a position, just not a left-wing position.
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