lol every time someone says something smart, someone proposes him or her for president! it's a rather specialized job, which is an odd thing to say since its requirements are also so expansive. let's not get carried away here!

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@genessa I think it's a reaction to preferring anyone over the sitting president. However, in my case, I was only making a silly joke.

@Xuande good! i have seen people do this for real! it's weird lol

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[huffingtonpost.com.au]

it is an excerpt, more than halfway down, from this daily beast interview. i have not yet read the interview in its entirety; i got the excerpt from a friend. when i wake up (again) and my eyes work i will read the whole thing, but here it is for your reading pleasure: [thedailybeast.com]

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@RavenCT huffpo just excerpts the daily beast interview. it doesn't have all of the above.

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@genessa I know - I saw both.
Where I don't know how reliable the Daily Beast is - but I do know the Huff Post fact checks - I went with Huff Post.
Just more familiar to me. (My own bias).

@RavenCT the huffpo credited the daily beast with the interview and linked to it. it's always best to go to the original. if huffo is good and they used the beast as their source, then the beast was a good source!

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@genessa Well aware. I just have my own fact checking bias. And therefore went with Huff post. That's why I said "My bias".

I worked for a newspaper - pretty sure I'm clear on this.

And why aren't you sleeping yet?

@RavenCT lol because he just came home so now i can't sleep until i find out if he's okay.

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@genessa Understood. lol

lol those words are not mine either, but yes, you are correct to perceive they're not his. i copied and pasted from a friend, then corrected a typo she had there, but as you can see, when i type i do not use initial caps. anyway, the important thing is, you could tell which words were his even though i didn't bother to correct the punctuation of the quotation itself. most people don't even know how to do that so i figured it'd fly and i am SOOOOO sleepy!

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i'm going to correct something i said above. it was true when i said it but is not necessarily always true now. i said i don't make initial caps when i type and this is true -- but you may see initial caps ANYWAY if i am typing on my phone, which very occasionally i do, because the infernal spell-checker is an asshole. it is too much work to go back and make sure i am true to my personal style, which, despite my arthritis, lower-case typing for informal writing also is. it's not JUST about the arthritis, even though that's a factor. so... if you see initial caps it's not necessarily a hacker. it's just my phone. notice i am not on my phone right now rofl rofl

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