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happen, maybe I'd fight over it." It's actually a really good cup. Like crazy good cup. You should see it. It's just really good. So whoever designed that, A+. I saw this on a Colin Rugg post. It's their most successful piece of merchandise. Well, Jesse Watters has a scoop. He says his sources, I think he said this yesterday, that his sources in the Senate say the moderate Democrats are about to…

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ounteroffer. He says Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes healthcare affordability. Now I think in this context what he wants to do is just extend the Obamacare tax credits for a year while the Republicans and Democrats work out how to improve it. Isn't that reasonable? Doesn't that seem to you like a completely reasonable compromise? Because they didn't want to open the government at all unless they got something in return. So if you want to give them something in return, the best thing you can give somebody in a negotiation is what? If you're negotiatin

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g and you're going to give somebody something so that you know you've compromised, what's the best thing to give them? The answer is nothing. The best thing to give them is nothing. Do you know what this is? It's nothing. It's nothing because you wouldn't be able to fix Obamacare in seven weeks or whatever we have before we have to have a real law. It's going to take a year to fix it. Whatever th…

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