No, but Chait takes the Aussie explanation at face value for his piece on Trump. I don't believe at all that Trump was being sarcastic in this exchange, but on this particular case he has perceived something to be what it really is, whilst the journalist who is scorning him for his idiocy is showing the more limited understanding. And taking it that way put Turnbull on difficult ground. Completely accidentally of course, seeing as Trump would be, is, entirely supportive of such a policy.
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I've been eating cheetos recently. It remains as pleasurable as ever. There's a trend in San Diego to start putting flaming hot cheetos into burritos. And it's delicious. It's a riff on San Diego's "traditional" California Burrito, which uses french fries instead of rice and beans. Now we're getting cheetos instead of fries and they retain their crunch better...
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Originally posted by Gerontophile View PostThis guy is a coal magnate who sold his coal company to a Russian company for $436 million (plus a shedload of stock options) in 2009, and bought it back from them in 2015 for $6 million.
Nothing at all untoward there.
*Although, to be fair, the price of coal slumped in that period.
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Particularly if you live in a state that's not going to make the business owners pay for any of the clean-up costs after they take all the dividends out of the company and then have it declare bankruptcy once the mines are empty.
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Meanwhile, on his Twitter feed ... it's amazing to see how a lot of his supporters picture him. There are countless pictures of him looking 20 years younger, 60lb lighter and muscular, doing heroic things, and many assertions that he was sent by God to govern. What sort of a fucked-up God ... as many reply.
One can understand his supporters wanting to cling on to the idea that he's a well-meaning, straight-shootin' kinda guy, but seeing him as a divinely-blessed good-looking hero is a bit of stretch.
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Originally posted by BrunoWe haven't seen much of them lately. Not as much as during the Bush family values heyday. The Lord works in mysterious ways though.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostI've been eating cheetos recently. It remains as pleasurable as ever. There's a trend in San Diego to start putting flaming hot cheetos into burritos. And it's delicious. It's a riff on San Diego's "traditional" California Burrito, which uses french fries instead of rice and beans. Now we're getting cheetos instead of fries and they retain their crunch better...
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My feeling is that Takis would be too "authentic". I've always felt that the point of the California Burrito is that it should be deliberately inauthentic while also being delicious. (Cheetos definitely help, because most Mexican places round here make their fries a little too soft, which works OK for carne asada fries, but not for a burrito).
As for the religious nutters - you hear less from them because they don't need to work nearly as hard. They already control the Republican Party - and many Republicans genuinely believe that the Rapture is (a) going to happen soon - which is always the weirdest of the many super-weird aspects of millenarialism; and (b) going to happen when Israel stretches from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, and the enemies of Israel have been vanquished.
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