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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero</strong> - The C.E.O. of a conglomerate that includes Warner Bros. studios, CNN, and HBO takes on an entertainment business in turmoil. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/can-david-zaslav-make-it-in-hollywood">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Mobster Cosplay of Donald Trump</strong> - He’s been indicted on RICO charges, but how does the former President stack up against actual dons? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-mobster-cosplay-of-donald-trump">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Invisible Fire on Maui</strong> - For those on the Hawaiian island whose jobs depend on tourism, a period of mourning and recovery has also brought fear for their livelihoods. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/maui-hawaii-fire-aftermath-tourism">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Abortion Opponents Are Targeting a Signature G.O.P. Public-Health Initiative</strong> - A program that funds H.I.V./AIDS treatment in more than fifty countries has been ensnared in the post-Roe abortion wars. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/abortion-opponents-are-targeting-a-signature-gop-public-health-initiative">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Constitutional Case for Barring Trump from the Presidency</strong> - Does the Fourteenth Amendment empower state election officials to remove him from the ballot? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-constitutional-case-for-barring-trump-from-the-presidency">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>The Asian penalty in college admissions is still here — even without affirmative action</strong> -
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<img alt="People walk past a red brick building." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0W_z8LOb5hoFS-581Fy0An_V22c=/307x0:5227x3690/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72573169/1556576755.0.jpg"/>
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Pedestrians pass a dormitory in Harvard Yard at Harvard University. | Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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Legacy and geographic preferences will continue to favor white applicants, a new study finds.
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a>’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23405267/affirmative-action-supreme-court-ruling-race-harvard-unc-chapel-hill">decision to strike down affirmative action</a> in college admissions — effectively banning the consideration of an applicant’s race — will not end advantages awarded to white students during admissions. A new <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31527">study</a> backs up this idea with ample evidence.
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Researchers analyzed almost 700,000 college applications from white and Asian students and found that admissions at selective colleges rewarded privileged applicants who are disproportionately white. In other words, the report reinforces the idea that there is a potential open bias against Asian American applicants. Because of this alleged Asian penalty, it’s likely that Asian American applicants will continue to be admitted to selective schools at lower rates than similarly qualified white applicants — even with affirmative action gone.
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The report identifies two key factors that cause the alleged penalty: the favorable treatment given to children of alumni, who are usually white, and admissions patterns based on geography.
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Since the affirmative action decision, the practice of <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/30/23778906/affirmative-action-white-applicants-legacy-athletic-recruitment">legacy admissions</a> has come under fire. The Department of Education is now <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/7/26/doe-investigation-donor-legacy-admissions/">investigating</a> Harvard’s preferential treatment of legacy applicants. The report highlights just how jarring the legacy boost is. On average, legacy applicants are two to three times as likely to be admitted to a selective college than non-legacy applicants with comparable academic credentials.
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I talked to the report’s lead author, Josh Grossman, a PhD candidate in computational social science at Stanford University, about the report’s findings and why he and his co-authors say it’s past time to rethink legacy admission. Grossman walks me through the report’s methodology and what sets it apart from previous similar studies. One key detail is that the researchers analyzed outcomes separately for East Asian students, Southeast Asian students, and South Asian students, recognizing that there were major differences between the groups.
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Ultimately, the report suggests, the gaps between white and Asian applicants will not change with the elimination of affirmative action. “The raw numbers of Asian American and white students will probably go up,” Grossman said, “but those differences in admission rates are still going to be there.”
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Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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Fabiola Cineas
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Are Asian American students admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications?
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Josh Grossman
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Yes. Our study, and many prior studies, have shown that this is the case. If you just condition [admissions] on academics — compare students who have similar test scores and other academic qualifications — what is found time and time again at these selective colleges is that Asian American students are admitted at lower rates just based on academics. I do want to emphasize that our study focused on academic qualifications, though there are other qualifications taken into account.
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Fabiola Cineas
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You looked at close to 700,000 anonymized applications from white and Asian applicants to a group of selective colleges for five years, starting in the 2015-2016 school year. But you didn’t have the full application materials. What elements of students’ applications were you able to analyze and which elements were you unable to analyze in this study?
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Josh Grossman
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What we did have was quite substantial. Our data include students’ high school GPAs, standardized test scores, extracurricular participation, leadership record, their AP classes, and what their courses look like. We knew where their parents went to college. That’s important because while legacy status is somewhat controversial, it can be a boost in admissions for students who had parents who went to the same school.
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We didn’t have access to their specific transcripts so we couldn’t see progression through high school. We know that’s important in admissions. We didn’t have access to their intended majors and we know that’s another thing that’s taken into account during admissions. We didn’t observe whether an applicant was an athletic recruit or not, but we tried to infer it based on how they prioritize their reporting of sports on their application and when they were admitted. Since admissions works differently for recruited athletes, we excluded them from our main analysis.
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We also didn’t have access to student essays. And one thing to note is that these other factors themselves, that we didn’t have access to, can potentially encode their own biases. We saw in the <em>Harvard</em> case that the personal ratings appeared to have some degree of bias against Asian American applicants. So that’s something else to think about.
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Fabiola Cineas
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You also didn’t have actual admissions outcomes. So out of the applications you analyzed, you didn’t know where the students were admitted or denied admission. To circumvent that, you created a proxy based on enrollment choices. What does that mean and how did it allow you all to draw conclusions?
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Josh Grossman
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Particular schools have a measurement called the yield rate, where if a student is admitted to a particular school it’s the proportion of admitted students who actually enroll. There are yield rates as high as like 80 percent for schools like Harvard, the University of Chicago, MIT, and Stanford. That’s a pretty high yield rate but keep in mind, there’s still that 20 percent who aren’t committed. They might be going to one of the other schools I just mentioned. Yield rates drop off pretty quickly after that. In our study, all of the schools we included had relatively high yield rates. If we were to just look at enrollment for a specific school, it wouldn’t be telling us the full picture about admissions because there are students who didn’t enroll who were admitted. So that’s why it’s sort of challenging to look at an individual school.
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Instead of thinking about admission to a specific school, we decided to think about admission to a specific group of schools. And if you think about this group of schools, we can make this assumption that if you’re admitted to at least one of these schools, we’re going to assume that you are going to matriculate at one of these schools. And if you do that, then a record of enrollment at one of these schools can be viewed as a record of admission to one of these schools and that anyone who didn’t enroll in one of these schools was not admitted.
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Fabiola Cineas
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What did you all determine when it came to preferential treatment for children of alumni?
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Josh Grossman
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We estimated that legacy applicants were, on average, two to three times as likely to be admitted to a selective college than non-legacy applicants with similar academic credentials. And legacy applicants are much more likely to be white.
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Something that sets your study apart is that it breaks down the broad “Asian American” category into smaller groups. What did you discover along those lines and why was it important to analyze the data for these smaller groups?
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A lot of past studies have really treated Asian Americans as sort of this monolithic group. And it’s not necessarily because they wanted to do that. A lot of the time, it just has to do with data limitations. In this case, we had access to that data. And I think it’s important to recognize that there’s heterogeneity between these groups.
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For example, East Asian and Southeast Asian migration to the United States started picking up in the 1970s, whereas it started picking up in the 1990s for South Asian students. Because of that, East Asian and Southeast Asians on average have an extra year for perhaps their parents to attend a US-based university, which can provide social capital and in the case of legacy admission, might even provide an added boost of getting it. Asians make up a large part of the world’s population, so it’s odd that we lump everybody together.
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One thing we hope is that this paper will lead education researchers, when they’re able, to start analyzing these groups separately. We found that there’s a huge difference in the estimated likelihood of admission across these groups.
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Probably the most salient comparison in the paper when it comes to legacy status is white students are six times more likely to have legacy status than South Asian students, when you’re only looking at these high-scoring applicants. But if you look at white students versus East Asians and Southeast Asians, it’s closer to three to four times as likely. So it’s still more likely but the difference isn’t as stark. That’s one important difference, that South Asians among these three groups are the least likely to have legacy.
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You all also found how legacy admissions impact other groups of students.
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Yes. We found that high-achieving white students were about twice as likely as high-achieving Black and Hispanic students to have legacy status. Legacy admissions also limit the number of low-income students at these top colleges. We found that students who received an application fee waiver were one-eighth as likely to be legacy students than those who didn’t.
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Something that isn’t as widely discussed that the paper covers is geography, and how it affects an applicant’s admissions chances. What did you learn about the role geography plays when it comes to admissions for Asian American students?
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Legacy is just one piece of the puzzle, and the geography component is also pretty interesting. I’m certainly not an admissions counselor, but I think it’s pretty open knowledge that admissions offices often work on a regional basis. And while they don’t have a fixed quota for each area, because that would be illegal, there’s roughly the same proportion of students coming from each part of the country each year. For this reason, you often see, at least in our case, that admission rates for states like California are lower because so many more students are applying and maybe they want to make sure — similar to the popular vote with the Electoral College — that there’s sufficient representation from other parts of the country. This preference came out of a nefarious place when they were trying to limit the number of Jewish applicants earlier in the 20th century.
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But now, it’s morphed into something that’s acceptable, though I think it’s still nefarious. What ends up happening is if you reduce the admission rate for students from California in this way, and a lot of Asian students live in California — the second highest in our data set concentration of Asian American applicants, among all states, and DC — that’s going to have a disparate impact on Asian American applicants. They’re going to be admitted at lower rates.
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Geography explains part of the gap we see. If you just compare applicants from California who are white and Asian, the gap shrinks a bit. Does that mean it is a justifiable shrinking? That’s the ultimate question for universities to decide.
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Which states stand out in the data as being particularly tricky for Asian American applicants?
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The states that really stand out are New York, with a pretty high admissions rate and a lower proportion of Asian Americans, and on the other side there’s California, with a lower admissions rate and a pretty high proportion of Asian Americans. That’s driving a lot of that pattern. But there are other states like Texas, Washington state, and Georgia that are all clustered near California in the figure we created. There are other northeast regions up there with New York.
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Why don’t we talk about geography in the admissions conversation as much?
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In the case, lawyers on both sides steered the conversation toward affirmative action. Affirmative action, at least how they were talking about it in the case, didn’t have a lot to do with geography. They weren’t openly taking it into consideration. Because of that, the big question in recent conversations has been affirmative action.
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Affirmative action and the alleged Asian penalty, can be really thought of as orthogonal issues. Before affirmative action was eliminated, you could reduce barriers; you could reduce things that benefit white students over Asian American students like legacy, some subset of athletic recruitment, some of this geography stuff, while still retaining a preference for groups that are typically underrepresented in higher education. The plaintiffs in this case sort of attached the two issues and merged them.
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Ultimately, what does your research tell us about how the decision to ban affirmative action impacts Asian American applicants?
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After you eliminate affirmative action, the differences in admission rates between similarly qualified Asian American students and white students aren’t going to go away. The raw numbers of Asian Americans and white students will probably go up, depending on how things sort of shake down, but those differences in admission rates are still going to be there.
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<li><strong>2 winners and 3 losers from the first Republican debate</strong> -
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<img alt="On the Republican debate stage, Vivek Ramaswamy makes V-signs with his upheld hands while Nikki Haley stands quietly at her lectern." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zjCVFYjGJqjXftceSWlqhuuRbR0=/446x223:2533x1788/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72572922/1619654364.0.jpg"/>
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Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-founder of Strive Asset Management and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, left, and Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during the first Republican primary presidential debate. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Without Donald Trump onstage, the other Republicans seeking the nomination scrambled (and struggled) to stand out.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s absence from the debate stage Wednesday night ultimately meant little: This is still the former president’s nomination to lose, and despite a few moments of conflict and clarity among the eight Republican presidential hopefuls onstage, no candidate emerged as a clear alternative.
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Still, without the former president, the eight contenders gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were able to have a lively discussion on a range of issues: <a href="https://www.vox.com/abortion">abortion</a> bans, the reality of <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a>, urban crime, K-12 education, immigration, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia-invasion-ukraine">Russia-Ukraine war</a>, and the rise of <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>. The differences between the candidates were clear, their varied experiences were on full display, and at certain points, you could see a flash of an old kind of pre-Trump Republican Party debate,<strong> </strong>deliberating over government spending, illegal immigration, and foreign policy.
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But no matter how lively the conversation was, no one on the stage will likely be the next president. Yet once you get over that fact, Wednesday night’s debate has some lessons about the state of the race and the Republican Party.
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Here are two winners and three losers from the first Republican <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/27/23700848/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-debates-2024-election">presidential debate</a>.
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Winner: Donald Trump
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It wasn’t until former South Carolina Gov. <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/2/14/23599194/nikki-haley-donald-trump-2024-presidential-campaign">Nikki Haley</a> criticized the nearly $8 trillion of federal spending authorized during the Trump presidency that any of the eight candidates criticized the primary’s frontrunner — and that wasn’t until about 15 minutes into the debate.
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The former president emerged from Wednesday night’s debate as the clear winner, even though he wasn’t there. He suffered no major surprise blows from the candidates onstage, was frequently defended by one of the loudest voices in the room (<a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23720391/vivek-ramaswamy-affirmative-action-woke-capitalism-ideas">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>), and after a question from moderators Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier, six of the eight candidates <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1694531303956521443?s=20">pledged</a> to support him even if he is convicted of a crime.
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The audience also showed this loyalty. When former New Jersey Gov. Christie or Haley or former Vice President <a href="https://www.vox.com/mike-pence">Mike Pence</a> would say something critical of Trump, they were met with boos. By the end of the night, it did not seem as though any candidate could be a realistic alternative to Trump.
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And while Trump came in for some expected criticism over January 6 from Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and Pence, the attempts to attack Trump also reinforced the apparent pointlessness of the whole affair. While the candidates were happy to bicker over policy, conservative credentials, and track records, they failed to deal any kind of fatal blow to the man leading all of them by double digits in poll after poll.
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Loser: Any alternative to Trump
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While Trump was the big winner of the whole evening, everyone else seemed like losers. Yes, each of the debate contenders had their moments of brilliance: Mike Pence caught a second wind when the topics of abortion, January 6, and foreign policy came up; Ramaswamy picked fights with Pence and Christie, held his own against them, and seemed to stun the contenders with his witty replies; and Haley, seemingly fed up with Ramaswamy toward the end of the night, hammered him on his foreign policy positions.
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But no one emerged as the clear, non-Trump alternative. Pence’s defense of his actions on January 6 didn’t break any new ground, Christie’s Trump attacks were met with boos, South Carolina Sen. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/5/22/23731910/tim-scott-2024-presidential-candidate">Tim Scott</a> could not break the mold of a career politician, and Ramaswamy’s Trump-lite grenade-slinging schtick grew tedious. He started to get booed with more frequency after he declared that climate change was a “hoax.”
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Within the confines of this debate, Haley stands out as the candidate who stood her ground, cracked enough jokes, and confronted Ramaswamy just as it was needed. But none of it is likely to be enough to catapult her to the front of the pack or seriously challenge Trump.
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Loser: Ron DeSantis
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Going into debate night, the Florida governor was still the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/2023/8/21/23837539/first-republican-debate-candidates-gop-primary-milwaukee-2024-election">most plausible non-Trump candidate</a> to win the nomination. He was still the next-best candidate in most polls and the most serious threat to Trump, even if diminished by bad news, slips in polling, and a floundering campaign. But he was hardly ever the center of attention on Wednesday — neither going after Trump to try to gain ground against the frontrunner nor attacking the lower-polling rivals trying to seize the second-place spot from him.
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At the same time, he was almost completely ignored by the other candidates — one clear exception being when Haley rebutted the premise of a question about <a href="https://www.vox.com/ron-desantis">DeSantis</a>’s comments earlier this year that the <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia">Russia</a>-Ukraine War was a “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-ukraine-republicans-2024-f44acc03f772f393b7f8d452ee26508a">territorial dispute</a>.” That his rivals didn’t see any point in attacking him shows that he might not be seen as a legitimate risk anymore — and his monotonous responses didn’t inspire much of a response from the audience either.
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Winner: A pre-Trump Republican Party
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Because so few of the candidates were willing to go after Trump, the debate could, at times, feel like a refreshing flashback to a pre-Trump Republican contest, one where policy proposals, differences on specific issues, and details actually mattered — albeit one where the differences among the candidates were fairly stark. Would the candidates support a national abortion ban? If so, with what timeline? Would the candidates support using lethal force at the Southern border against drug cartels? Would they invade Mexico to do that? And how would they run the <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a>? Would they freeze government spending?
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The moderators asked questions meant to drive a substantive conversation, including one about climate change and the role of humanity in worsening it that landed as a bit of a shocker given the venue (<a href="https://www.vox.com/media">Fox News</a>) and the context (a <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/23/23611828/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-hurd">GOP primary</a>). Though the mood changed as the candidates sniped at each other as the night progressed, for at least the first hour of the debate, the constant talk about debts, balancing budgets, confronting Russia and China, and standing against abortion felt like a callback to a different era of Republican politics.
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</p>
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<h3 id="rqZG0W">
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Loser: Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum
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</h3>
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Yes, many of the questions were good and substantive. But the Fox News co-hosts lost control of the debate early on and never won it back. The candidates did not care for the 30-second time limit on their rebuttals, abused the opportunities they were given to respond when mentioned by another candidate, pivoted constantly, and refused to answer questions — especially those having to do with Trump. Nor could the moderators keep a lid on the audience, who cheered, booed, and took any requests for decorum from the hosts as more like suggestions. Better luck to the next hosts, of the next debate, happening in just about a month.
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<li><strong>Republicans showed their hands — and Trump is still holding aces</strong> -
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<img alt="Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy chat onstage at the Republican debate on August 23, 2023." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/pafDJbG5FeyDiOFrt_6mpPF_-U8=/254x0:4310x3042/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72572853/1619654884.0.jpg"/>
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During Wednesday night’s debate, six of eight Republican presidential candidates on the stage committed to backing Trump if he’s the nominee, even if he’s convicted in court. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The charges against Donald Trump are defining the GOP primary. His opponents don’t want to talk about them.
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By the time you read this, the news cycle may have already moved on to anticipating former <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a>’s surrender in Georgia Thursday on charges that he sought to overturn the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election">2020 election</a> results. And that has been the problem all along for the Republicans challenging him for the 2024 nomination.
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</p>
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Eight candidates took to the debate stage Wednesday night in what might have been the most substantive policy debate that Republicans, who did not have an official national platform in 2020, have engaged in publicly for quite a while. But none of that really mattered given that Trump, offscreen at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, is the runaway frontrunner in the polls, and the party’s identity has become all but indistinguishable from the former president himself.
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<em>[Related: </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/2023/8/21/23837539/first-republican-debate-candidates-gop-primary-milwaukee-2024-election"><em>All the candidates onstage for the first GOP debate, explained</em></a><em>]</em>
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That much was obvious when <a href="https://www.vox.com/media">Fox News</a> host Bret Baier asked the candidates — who signed a loyalty pledge to the eventual GOP nominee as a condition of participating in the debate — to address the “elephant not in the room.” He told them to raise their hand if they would still back Trump as the party’s choice if he is convicted in any of the four separate criminal cases against him.
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</p>
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At first, four candidates raised their hands. <a href="https://www.vox.com/ron-desantis">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis</a>, Trump’s former protégé running a distant second, looked around to see what everyone else did before raising his own. Trump’s estranged former Vice President <a href="https://www.vox.com/mike-pence">Mike Pence</a> hesitated but followed. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose candidacy is pretty much based on taking down Trump, wagged his finger.
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</p>
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“Here’s the bottom line. Someone’s got to stop normalizing this conduct,” he said. “Whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of president of the United States.”
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<div id="WFnCQX">
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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Asked directly at the debate if they’d support Donald Trump if he is convicted of a felony, 6 out of 8 Republican presidential candidates raise their hand. <a href="https://t.co/GbciS9sF6f">pic.twitter.com/GbciS9sF6f</a>
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</p>
|
||
— The Recount (<span class="citation" data-cites="therecount">@therecount</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1694531303956521443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a>
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</blockquote></div></li>
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||
</ul>
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Christie was met with boos so overwhelming that the moderators had to lecture the crowd. “Let’s just get through this section,” Baier pleaded.
|
||
</p>
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No other candidate was willing to go as far, though former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson also did not raise his hand. Pence defended his decision to certify the election results over Trump’s wishes on January 6, 2021, if only out of necessity: “He asked me to put him over the Constitution. And I chose the Constitution.” In addition to Christie, another four candidates concurred that Pence upheld his oath of office that day, but then digressed from the topic to issues they felt to be more important, from the weaponization of law enforcement to <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>. “Is this what we’re going to be focusing on going forward? The rehashing of this?” DeSantis asked.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="iFicTE">
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But whether DeSantis likes it or not, the charges against Trump have become the defining issue of the primary. His legal troubles and court appearances, which will likely continue throughout the campaign given that prosecutors are seeking speedy trials ahead of the 2024 election, have consumed media oxygen and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-donations-legal-bills.html">millions of his campaign funds</a>. DeSantis’s first big mainstream media interview on CNN, for instance, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-south-carolina-presidential-primary-739eac048707187fd6fc551a4a49be78">was a footnote</a> next to Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that he expected to be charged by federal prosecutors for his involvement in the January 6 insurrection. (That indictment did later come, and is arguably the most serious of those levied against him.)
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</p>
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<em>[Related: </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/23832341/trump-charges-prison-time-sentence-indictments"><em>Trump’s 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes</em></a><em>]</em>
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Fi3x0V">
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But fearing the sway Trump has over the base, his opponents still cower at the prospect of addressing the charges or speaking out against him — or may even genuinely agree that he is the victim of a “political witch hunt.” The former president’s lead in the polls has grown to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html">more than 40 points on average</a> since the four indictments against him dropped. An <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-poll-indictments-2023-08-20/">August CBS News/YouGov poll</a> showed that 77 percent of likely <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/23/23611828/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-hurd">GOP primary</a> voters believed the charges were politically motivated; only 8 percent said that he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Vzg04k">
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This debate should have presented a golden opportunity for a serious challenger to Trump, who had no means of defending himself because he opted not to participate. But instead of turning on Trump, most of the candidates turned on each other in sometimes raucous fashion, leaving little room for anyone to emerge as a true winner. In so doing, they reinforced Trump’s iron grip on the party and the fiction he has spread about what happened on January 6 — the memory of which Republicans have been <a href="https://www.vox.com/23816484/trump-january-6-capitol-indictment-election-2020-poll-public-opinion-apathy">happy to muddy</a>.
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</p>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sea The Sun shines</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chess World Cup final: Carlsen beats Praggnanandhaa; lifts title</strong> - By winning the silver medal, Praggnanandhaa also secured a ticket to the FIDE Candidates.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wrestling: After back-to-back junior world titles, Antim now targets success at senior level</strong> - With little time to recover between events and trials and with little respite in the coming months, the 19-year old admitted it was tough but was confident of managing both the workload and expectations.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>United World Wrestling body suspends Wrestling Federation of India</strong> - Indian wrestlers won’t play under India flag at Worlds</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cricket South Africa takes step towards pay parity, announces equal match fees for genders</strong> - This decision comes on the back of the landmark announcement from the ICC earlier this year that saw equal prize money for men’s and women’s teams at ICC events</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ED claims Baghel’s political advisor helped cop bribe seniors; he says allegations fabricated</strong> - ED alleges that bribes amounted to ₹65 cr, says incriminating documents were found in raids of Chhattisgarh CM’s aides; political advisor Vinod Verma denies charges, alleges political angle</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>QR Codes mandatory in real estate advertisements from September 1: Kerala Real Estate Regulatory Authority</strong> - By scanning the code, homebuyers can access information on the projects such as their physical and financial progress, approved plans and latest photographs</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Here are the big stories from Karnataka today</strong> - Welcome to the Karnataka Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated by Nalme Nachiyar.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Spot fine of over ₹1 lakh collected for illegal disposal of garbage in Kannur</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chittoor Collector reviews arrangements for CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s visit to Nagari</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wagner defied Putin and now its leader Prigozhin may be dead</strong> - If Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death is revenge, it sends a message to Russians, writes Steve Rosenberg.</p></li>
|
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wagner boss Prigozhin’s years of living dangerously</strong> - For decades Russia’s Vladimir Putin relied on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s services, until he staged a mutiny.</p></li>
|
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Who is Dmitry Utkin and who else was reportedly on the plane?</strong> - Wagner chief Prigozhin’s “right hand man” Dmitry Utkin, financier Valeriy Chekalov and fighters.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine claims Crimea landing for ‘special operation’ on Independence Day</strong> - Kyiv claims Russia suffered personnel losses in an encounter that ensued in the peninsula’s west.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nîmes shootings: Two killings in three days in small French city</strong> - A teenager is shot dead in the same week as a boy aged 10 in the southern city of Nîmes.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
|
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<ul>
|
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations</strong> - Child groups asked the FTC to investigate YouTube ad placements on kids’ videos. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962721">link</a></p></li>
|
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API</strong> - Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo outputs. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962565">link</a></p></li>
|
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Project Moohan” is Google and Samsung’s inevitable Apple Vision Pro clone</strong> - After a decade in the market with nothing to show for it, here’s the latest plan. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962511">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dark Forces: Remaster gives you a cleaned-up 4K view of an absolute classic</strong> - Better cutscenes and resolutions, but all of the same Star Wars-but-<em>Doom</em>-iness - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962593">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April</strong> - Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962625">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>I matched with a tinder profile that had no pics.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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I’m not expecting much, probably 400lbs. But she answered the door, this little strawberry blomde with a head full of curls and all the right curves in all the right places. We exchanged our real names and i asked what she did for a living. She says, “Sunday school teacher”. Now i ain’t never had me Christian girl, but I’m open minded about it, so I’m driving her to.the second best restaurant i can think of.
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I pullout a joint if my best weed and ask 8f she wants an appetite. She says “Heavens no, what would i tell my sunday school children?”. Well,some people smoke and some don’t so i thought nothing of it.
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We go to the restaurant andi i order a steak, she gets the lobster. I order the second most expensive bottle of wine on the menu. But when the waitress brings it she says she doesn’t drink. My mind is blowm. “You don’t drink?”
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“Heavens no. What would i tell my sunday school children?”
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We have a good time, laughing at each others jokes, but i know this is a bust as i drink up that overpriced bottle by mysrlf.
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I’m like really?!? “what will you tell your sunday school children?”
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She said the same thing i tell them every week
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“You don’t have to drink and smoke to have a good time”
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After becoming very frustrated with the “no haggle” attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the blonde shouted, “Maybe I’ll just go out and catch my own alligator so I can get a pair of shoes at a reasonable price!” The shopkeeper said, “By all means, be my guest. Maybe you’ll luck out and catch yourself a big one!” Determined, the blonde turned and headed for the swamps, set on catching herself an alligator. Later in the day, the shopkeeper was driving home, when he spotted the young woman standing waist deep in the water, shotgun in hand. Just then, he saw a huge 9-foot alligator swimming quickly toward her. She took aim, killed the creature, and with a great deal of effort hauled it on to the swamp bank. Lying nearby were several more of the dead creatures. The shopkeeper watched in amazement. Just then the blonde flipped the alligator on its back, and frustrated, shouts out, “Damn it, this one isn’t wearing any shoes either!”
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“I fly to another city, call home and everyone is asleep. I woke you up at 4AM but I thought it was only evening. - I call Olaf Scholz to congratulate him on his birthday and he tells me he had it yesterday. - I wish the Chinese President a happy New Year, and he says it will be tomorrow.”
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“Indeed” Putin replies “but that’s only minor stuff. Remember when that plane crashed with Prigozhin on board? I called his family to express my condolences, but the plane hadn’t taken off yet!!”
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Two men and a blonde woman are in death row. They’ve had their last meals and prepare for what’s coming up. The warden calls one of the men and asks: “How would you like to go? Firing squad, electric chair, or hanging?”
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The man thinks hard, and finally decides on the electric chair. After he has sat down on the chair and has been tied, “Any last words?” the warden asks. The man stays silent. “Very well, on with it” says the warden, and one of the guards pulls the switch.
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The man is awaiting his death, but to his surprise, nothing happens. He tries his luck and to the warden he says “Look, nothing’s happening. This must be a divine intervention.”. The warden, being a religious person, doesn’t want to get in the way of God, so he agrees. “You may be correct” he says, and then tells the guards to escort him back to his chamber.
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While on the way to his chamber, he sees the other man lined up for death, and he quickly goes up to him and whispers “The chair isn’t working, trust me.”. The other man thinks to himself, what do I have to lose if it does work? So once again, the warden asks the man: “How would you like to go? Firing squad, electric chair, or hanging?”
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The man immediately replies with “I’ll take the chair”, and the warden nods. The guards sit him down and tie him up. “Any last words?” the warden asks, and the man stays silent. “Very well, off you go.” the warden says and one of the guards pull the switch. To the warden’s surprise and the man’s favour, nothing happens. “Wow” the man says, “must be God intervening!”. The warden gets suspicious, but again, not wanting to take his chance with God, tells the prisoners to escort him back to his cell.
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On his way to his cell, he sees the blonde woman on her way to the execution chambers, and thinks “The other man did me a favour, I should pass it forward.”. He goes up to the blonde and whispers “The electric chair is broken, trust me”. The woman nods her head and goes on her way.
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The warden once again asks, “So how would you like to go? Firing squad, electric chair, or hanging?”.
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