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What a fabulous last line: "Nobody advocating for Harris has argued that she’s earned your vote—only that she should get it. Why? Because she wants it now, that’s why."

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I am afraid for my country. Weak disconnected leadership is an invitation for an attack by our enemies, and we do have many: Iran, Russia, China, Qatar (oops did I really say that? Must be Brat).

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Bravo to Kat...good essay, nice job of writing...For your next article please compare and contrast The Rat Pack, The Brat Pack, and Brat.

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Scary, sad, appalling and so on. We are discussing the possible next President of the US.

OMG.

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So dumb.

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So what demographic is 'brat' supposed to appeal to? The 20-to30-something unmarried female who doesn't quite have her act together?

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Thank you for the clarification and insight. I appreciate it!

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Harris is clearly the least qualified candidate for the Presidency in American history and aided, abetted and perpetuated the lie and deceiving of the American People as to the truth of Biden's physical and mental condition

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Before there was the Brat Pack there was the Rat Pack (40s -50s).

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Ocean's Eleven

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Thank you for the explanation. This 68 year old white guy was clueless.

Now I’m quite pleased I was clueless.

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same here, although this article was WAY longer than it needed to be!

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founding

Ignorance is bliss

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The beauty of an empty mind is tranquility.

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I've been WAITING for a Veruca Salt reference. I can die happy now.

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Jul 24·edited Jul 24

The worst part of this is that Crash is so much better than Brat. Crash at least had pop songs with hooks and is enjoyable popcorn music, but Brat? Brat sucks. It sounds like experimental nonsense with no hooks.

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You just have to go back 100 years to understand: https://x.com/CalPolicy/status/1815841034288652413

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Thank you for that reference.

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Excellent analysis. And I was delighted to see the Daniel Deronda / Gwendolen Harleth reference and comparison.

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This is just stupid.

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"...are all very much adult women..."

Chronologically only. They're perpetual children. Our entire society refuses to grow up. In case you didn't notice, it's a BIG problem.

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