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First Class Duck

@FirstClassDuck

an opinionated and jaded traveler

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Honestly, just work hard, save your money, support your friends and family, be a friendly and compassionate person, and avoid being bitter. Just avoid chasing women for sex, and you’ll live a happy and healthy life. Just keep some platonic friends for brownies. :-)


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Mamdani had a terrible performance. He desperately ran to the center and barely broke 50 against a sex pest and a perennial loser despite having the support of the Democratic establishment. I personally like him but Mamdani would not even win statewide office in New York

Not only that, Spanberger got 57% in VA and Sherrill got 56%. Mamdani got 50%, in NYC. It’s really not an impressive performance.



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Wow:

I'm sorry, but this is fucking ridiculous

LizWolfeReason's tweet image. I'm sorry, but this is fucking ridiculous


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Agree Also I'm confident that most Mamdani voters think Mamdani ran on freezing everyone's rent which is false, he wants to freeze the rent for the already fortunate


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50% of those who voted picked Mamdani because they wanted to invest in his vision for New York City. Cuomo wasn't a candidate, but a fallback for people who didn't want that vision. When this election is framed like that, it makes Mamdani look genuinely impressive.


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Pretty much same reason why I have not tweeted about him, Massive nothingburger that does not matter, If anything it just shows how diminished American governance is when Shanghai is literally being run by actual ex PHD holding rocket scientists and New Yorkers are actually…

I saw a Zohran poster on the ground in San Francisco. I don’t understand why a mayoral race across the continent is an international leftoid cause celebre. They had British Laborites phonebanking for Zohran. Nothing will happen, this is just a PR trial run for anglo…



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I saw a Zohran poster on the ground in San Francisco. I don’t understand why a mayoral race across the continent is an international leftoid cause celebre. They had British Laborites phonebanking for Zohran. Nothing will happen, this is just a PR trial run for anglo…


I'm sure that our poorly covered municipal races will be better covered when everybody is focused on the presidential race and top level statewide contests!

FWIW, Odd year elections are a disgrace and every election should be in a presidential year unless it can't be moved due to our shitty constitution.



"Nashville is Portland for white people with right leaning politics."

My Nashville home value is about to skyrocket again, isn’t it



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Generally, people want lower grocery prices, but not economic protectionism. They want better immigration policy, but not their local taco truck guy grabbed off the street by masked men. They want rescue, but not the one Trump is undertaking.

The beating Republicans took last night has a simple explanation... most prices are higher than they were a year ago. Inflation hasn't receded as was promised. That's what people care about, it's why Trump won. He's failing, and his tariff love is gonna crush Republicans.



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Of all the Trump precincts in NYC, Mamdani won fewer than 10 percent. 40 out of 790. There are very, very few Trump-Mamdani voters. There are waaaaaaaay more Trump-Sherrill and Trump-Spanberger voters.


Mamdani's victory was the top story on France 24's English coverage of global news this morning... So even municipal elections in the US have global implications.


I can’t believe there’s a market for this.

FirstClassDuck's tweet image. I can’t believe there’s a market for this.

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Seriously, folks, St. John of the Cross says it's at least a venial sin to pray for a revelation or a prophecy. The reason is obvious: you are courting spiritual pride and self-deception. And your putative revelations or prophecies might harm other people. If you want to pray…

I've developed my own training course for how to activate the gift of prophecy. Unlike other people, my course is free and takes 10 seconds to complete. Here it is: DON'T. DO. IT!!!



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giving this to my kids and asking them to circle what they want for Christmas

KennethCassel's tweet image. giving this to my kids and asking them to circle what they want for Christmas

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you decide which one...

77AugustWest72's tweet image. you decide which one...

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Christians do not call burial places “necropolises”, that is, “cities of the dead”, but “cemeteries”, which literally means “sleeping places”, places where one rests, awaiting the resurrection.


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Frozen food is incomparably better today than 30 years ago

It's like there's a whole generation that doesn't realize the frozen food aisle exists

PstafarianPrice's tweet image. It's like there's a whole generation that doesn't realize the frozen food aisle exists


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The folks who were there in the 80s or 90s wanted the prime location and were okay with trading off safety and other qualities. Now that the place is safe, they can’t make that tradeoff anymore, so have to live in a less desirable location.


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Potential thesis for an All Souls' Day Homily: "You all better be praying for the poor souls in purgatory today, because you are probably the reason why some of them are in there." Too strong?


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"You go to elections with the electorates and institutions you have, not the ones you wish you had." I'm sure it's frustrating for "temporarily displaced Europeans" in Los Angeles and New York to have to deal with conservative sociocultural norms in swing states like Arizona,…

My strategy for winning those states back is very clear: Focus more on the economy, moderate on immigration/crime/energy/culture. Your strategy is ???



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