But, let me be blunt: this is barely a thing.
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And, to be blunt, he lifts that shit like Atlas.
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Because, to be blunt, the story usually leaves them out.
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Let me be blunt: You should not pay for TurboTax.
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Be blunt with your pickup linesMake like Brynn in Bridesmaids.
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He can also be blunt when he needs to be.
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But, to be blunt, I don't give a shit anymore.
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"Let me be blunt with you," Judge Fitzgerald told McCoy.
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"To be blunt, equity was not a consideration," she said.
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"I'll be blunt — we must defeat him," Ms. Harris said.
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To be blunt, she's not much of a vision person.
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Global demand for electric vehicles is, to be blunt, terrible.
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To be blunt, they just want to make what sells.
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To be blunt, they're enormous, with consequences beyond the purely personal.
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He can be blunt and likes to be graphic and colorful.
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That is, to be blunt, absolutely insane, even for a newbie.
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He will be blunt in telling Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism.
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If your ex is making forward advances, you can be blunt.
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"I'm just going to be blunt with all of you," Warren said.
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To be blunt, service members with no clearance are useless down-range.
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To be blunt, most of our office implementations are just downright lazy.
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What better way to deliver blunt news than to just... BE Blunt?
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To be blunt, Labour's centrists are sounding increasingly racist themselves. Culture. Identity.
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"To be blunt, I think I'm qualified to be president," he said.
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The current justices of our Supreme Court are, to be blunt, old.
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"Happy Birthday to You" is, to be blunt, a pretty bad song.
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It is important to be blunt: The tragedy was entirely man-made.
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To be blunt, the death penalty is a form of societal revenge.
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To be blunt: this is really not what the industry needs right now.
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I'll be blunt: Right off the bat, this thing was not particularly precise.
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"To be blunt, they were crippled," a former homicide detective, Vernon Parker, said.
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To be blunt, I wanted to shed the fat as quickly as possible.
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Instead, the cause was found to be blunt force injuries to the head.
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The idea is to be blunt in a way that communicates genuine guidance.
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To be blunt, my committee will issue a subpoena as a final recourse.
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"To be blunt, all of these event losses are human-made," he said.
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To be blunt, Saudi Arabia legitimizes Islamic extremism and intolerance around the world.
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Well, to be blunt, the DeVos-led Department of Education reportedly did something stupid.
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This cut can be blunt and smooth, big and bouncy, or somewhere in between.
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To be blunt, scientists aren't sure exactly why people get sore after a workout.
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Before the expedition, Plaisted specifically asked Aufderheide to be blunt about his leadership failings.
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More from VICE: To be blunt, the combination of cocaine and alcohol can kill.
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Yet these treatments can be blunt instruments, killing healthy cells along with cancerous ones.
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To be blunt, maximum pressure puts us one accident away from full-blown conflict.
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I might as well be blunt: It's between the high road and the gutter.
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"The cause of death was determined to be ... blunt trauma and strangulation," the agency said.
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The first, to be blunt, is that politics has become inescapable in post-2016 America.
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That was more exciting to me, to be blunt — to make stars and create opportunities.
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To be blunt, I found the constant killing and the twitching bodies a little disturbing.
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The time to be blunt, to be New York, was when he met with Putin.
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" He added, "I don't mean to be blunt, but let me worry about that problem.
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Australia is, to be blunt, a hateful country in a lot of ways right now.
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Looking at this movie — or any movie — through this lens is, to be blunt, gross.
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"To be blunt, L.A. 2024 has never been only about L.A. or 2024," he wrote.
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To be blunt, you hope the agreement lasts longer than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei remains alive?
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To be blunt, the world owes the innovator nothing and the innovator owes the world everything.
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To be blunt, it's rare to see a major cultural figure so publicly own their s—.
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Is Chum Lee, let me just be blunt, is he sharper than he appears to be?
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To be blunt, even at the cost of sounding trite (and morbid): It'll outlive you. Features
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"Let's be blunt: The problem with process arguments is it's not the substantive question," he said.
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Opinion Columnist Let's be blunt: China is accumulating a record of Orwellian savagery toward religious people.
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Let me be blunt: You and your ex should not be together, at least not right now.
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Elizabeth MacDonald: I hear that, and I don&apost like the mud-throwing, I&aposll be blunt.
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The imputation of anti-Semitism, an old and much-used tool, was suddenly revealed to be blunt.
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Although, to be blunt, the greatest threat likely comes from white supremacists already within our own borders.
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The addiction to lies has also — let's be blunt — turned it into a party of bad people.
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While Professor Hazard wrote for professional and academic journals in lofty legalese, he could also be blunt.
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"To be blunt, the success of this has been bigger than I certainly realized," Mr. Turner said.
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Should I just be blunt and tell him to back off, or should I go for it?
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Unlike his wife, who maintains a measured public persona, he can be blunt and prone to gaffes.
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"I'll just be blunt: Betsy DeVos is the worst Secretary of Education we've seen," the Massachusetts Democrat wrote.
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To be blunt, the issue of multiple compression is an even bigger challenge for valuations of private companies.
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He is very, I mean, just to be blunt, he can be kind of a bully and demeaning.
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And he campaigned as a businessman-turned-politician who promised to be blunt when it came to terrorism.
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So let's be blunt, Trump's baseless attacks on the intelligence of black Americans is grounded in white supremacy.
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Storr's side of the conversations he recounts tends to be blunt, inquisitive and peppered with salty British swearing.
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And let's be blunt: This wasn't a good debate, and it probably wasn't good for the Democratic Party.
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Let me be blunt: Screeching at us about straws is not going to fix the problem of plastic.
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Let's be blunt: the goal will be to tarnish the president further as he runs for re-election.
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To be blunt, that kind of behavior has no place at SoFi, and we're not going to tolerate it.
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"Let me be blunt: This was a failure of government at all levels, local, state and federal," Snyder said.
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For the sake of this particular subject, I want to be blunt and a little bit in your face.
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The "no-maj" moment may be blunt, but it's exactly that: the handing off from one world to another.
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However, to be blunt, better the French than the U.S. military, at least in this part of the world.
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"We are trying to figure out for sure exactly what the best reporting regime would be," Blunt told reporters.
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President Trump has already proven he can be blunt, but not rude, in his two official trips to Europe.
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" Sanders seemed to be churning internally about something until, dispensing with ceremony, he blurted out: "Let me be blunt.
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"As a woman, you have to be blunt," Peru State College student Kayla Myers, 21, says at the rally.
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To be blunt, by comparison with Thailand and Sri Lanka, you'll be awfully unimpressed with the underground scene here.
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Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — Dear Donald, We've known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt.
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But, to be blunt, the NRA has no one but its leadership to blame for this turn of events.
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"To be blunt, this Administration has no clue what it is doing and must be held accountable," Thompson said.
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The idea that the internet is so big that hackers won't come across your database is, to be blunt, wrong.
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"I'll just be blunt: Betsy DeVos is the worst Secretary of Education we've seen," Warren told supporters in the email.
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At the end, we catch a brief snippet of what may be Blunt rapping imperceptibly beneath the static-y beat.
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What if, to be blunt, the deepest moral problem with contemporary American war is not its inhumanity but its existence?
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It's uncomfortable sometimes to be, I'll say brutally transparent - I don't mean disrespectfully transparent or be blunt - but brutally transparent.
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And, to be blunt, Rosenberg was probably better known for his showmance with fellow contestant Leah than for his cooking.
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To be blunt, the question is whether relaxing restrictions will lead to illness and death for large numbers of Americans.
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To be blunt, Dane was about as good at being a hero as his uncle was at being a villain.
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With six months remaining in his term and no intention of extending it, he apparently felt free to be blunt.
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To be blunt, from what I have seen recently, particularly in the initial coin offering space, they can do better.
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They like Mr. King because they think he is a straight-talker willing to be blunt, just like President Trump.
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Timing can be blunt, but there was divergence present between these two averages at major tops in 2000, 2007 and 2015.
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"I'll be blunt: I'm asking for $15 to make the cut for the next debates," said one ad bought on Sunday.
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We're just going to be blunt and say up front that what Facebook claims to have found is not particularly impressive.
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To be blunt, the Surgeon General is standing in front of the burning hellscape of this administration's public health policies, smiling.
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To be blunt, had I known then what I know now, I would have whopped them for a lot more money.
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But he is counting on Ross to be blunt and direct in a manner that perhaps only an ex-teammate can.
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Nor, to be blunt, does your choice for secretary of health and human services, who is one of those congressional Republicans.
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But we should be blunt: There is no economic growth that can erase the levels of federal spending currently being discussed.
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The headlines can be blunt — "God Help Us if Chelsea Clinton Runs for Office," The New York Post shouted in February.
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The fact that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend keeps churning out fantastically clever songs on a weekly basis is, to be blunt, astonishing.
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I'll be "blunt" with you (that's a little bit of a joke, even though there's nothing funny about pot culture), weed kills.
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To be blunt, without proper intervention, the increasing push for cyber sovereignty may only result in a frightening future of cyber fascism.
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I am going to be blunt, because it's time to stop using euphemisms just because someone is rich and a business leader.
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To be blunt, this "best interest" standard is a confusing mess that does little or nothing to fix the mis-selling abuse.
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To be blunt, Major League Baseball doesn't want you to know it has a problem that extends throughout its predominantly white culture.
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Here I will be blunt: it matters very little to me whether my rapist is transformed at some point in his life.
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With only a few weeks of his term left, Mr Draghi could afford to be blunt at the post-meeting press conference.
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It was, to be blunt, like watching your grandfather try to understand how they got the internet onto your new Macbook Pro.
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And to be blunt, that's one of the reasons why I'm actually pretty angry about this Valentine's Day text message screw up.
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I can be blunt, but I am doing this because I think it is so important to pick the right candidates here.
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To be blunt: Many now defending McCabe would roundly mock a Trump ally citing a similar excuse for making misstatements to investigators.
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To be blunt, Democrats could help President Trump win re-election if they're not smart about how they cast themselves in 2020.
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If you're someone who organizes, executes, or fuels abuse and hate crimes online, then let us be blunt: You are not our people.
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"To be honest with you, Hank and Alijah, I can be blunt right now, they really are there for each other," she said.
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MARGARET LYONS It's probably wrong to judge sea creatures based on a first impression, but, to be blunt, Sigmund is no Little Mermaid.
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"Congregating on our lakefront, to be blunt, is going to create a risk that is unacceptable and could lead to death," Lightfoot said.
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Still others didn't go for the decided lack of a Simon Cowell-type judge who was known to be blunt in his criticisms.
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To be blunt, if we are depending on multinational oil companies to protect the United States, we are in a lot of trouble.
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Some of Trump's recent problems have been, to be blunt, categorically dumb mistakes that don't happen to campaign staffs that know what they're doing.
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"I like to fix things and to be blunt, Fiat needs a fix right now," he said after his appointment as CEO in 2004.
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He's not afraid to be blunt and show his patriotism and show what a real man is in this world full of pussified people.
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"I like to fix things and, to be blunt, Fiat needs a fix right now," he said after his appointment as CEO in 2004.
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Let's be blunt: we're dealing with legacies in education that go back to the historical contradictions of our nation, including our original sin: slavery.
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Clinton is riding a wave of support from old-fashioned Confederate-flag-waving Dixiecrats, as opposed to, let's be blunt, the descendants of slaves?
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To be blunt: No, the custom-mixed products were not exact copies of the originals — but that didn't stop me from loving them more.
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And if the teacher doesn't get the hint, be blunt and say that the assignment is simply beyond your child's ability to complete alone.
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To be blunt, we are in this situation because the facts given to the American people are often sensationalized and inflamed rather than informed.
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He could be blunt, but he was also erudite, witty and outspoken in an era when bosses have become ever more wary of courting controversy.
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I'm gonna be blunt: if price is the main metric you're paying attention to, you're here for the wrong reasons and you can go home.
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The reason was a sense of urgency and, to be blunt, desperation to take the House back so it could be a check on Trump.
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And to be blunt: If UnReal wanted to do a season that hinged on race, it could've used someone other than Rachel as its conduit.
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But to be blunt, Morrissey's kind of a skid mark, and his sewage opinions have continually run the risk of ruining his former band's reputation.
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I was entirely prepared to be angry at the male/male options in the game, which are—to be blunt—incredibly bad on multiple levels.
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Also, the visual effect of his wife screaming impotently at him from an armchair in a vast void is not, to be blunt, very good.
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"To be blunt," Hatch continued, "we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana," since some regulations do more harm than good.
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Worlsfold shared some photos of an incident—or, if you want to be blunt, the horrific murder of a furry wallaby by a very large snake.
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"To be blunt, it's seen as a win simply that it's not Grenell," who is known to share Bolton's "pugilistic approach" to international institution, Gowan said.
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"I think we should be blunt about this — there is never an excuse for a shutdown of the government," said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee.
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What Meghan Trainor's case illustrates is that these rules, and the algorithms that enforce them, can be blunt instruments with dire implications for those lacking celebrity clout.
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Mr Trump took that step, to be blunt, because other signatories let him know that if he walked away from that deal now, he would walk alone.
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To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out the MEDS Act.
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To be blunt, information is not the measure of some stuff we have discovered, as happened with electricity, but a probability estimate of what users can do.
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While Ashworth can be blunt, he is also disarming and funny, with a self-deprecating sense of humor that appeals to both parents and their cynical children.
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Let me be blunt: If The Hunt is what passes for satire in 2020, as I think it may, then we're all — pardon my French — completely screwed.
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"I think that's, to be blunt, a lot of nontechnical people who don't really understand what AWS is," the Social Capital CEO said, referring to Amazon Web Service.
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To be blunt, I think Sanders is selling an illusion, but it's an illusion many people want to believe in, and there's no easy way to counter that.
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The song may be blunt and crude at times, but it's also an undeniable vibe, and more than anything it signaled a moment: House of Pharaohs had arrived.
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The New Jersey governor has known Trump for years, and sources say is one of the few who will be blunt with the billionaire when giving political advice.
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Dr. Lian Bartkowiak believes many of her callers have misunderstood what the law allows, and thinks that the best way to clarify the confusion is to be blunt.
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And frankly, if we are going to be blunt and honest here, it is a clear and danger to our -- clear and present danger to our constitutional republic.
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The fact that many members of the political elite, including even former senators, can't bring themselves to be blunt about this matter is itself part of the problem.
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I'll be blunt, if you're looking for a pair of on-ear headphones, this is one of the best tech upgrades you'll be able to make all year.
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To be blunt are the government programs and benefits that some of your rivals are offering giving your voters—people a false sense of what is actually achievable?
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I can be blunt," but also gave the gift of a "decency check" to Americans: "[W]e have to bring people with us and not shut them out.
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To be blunt, a lot of books and podcasts are fueled by voyeurism, and I am not comfortable with being culpable in the transformation of tragedy into entertainment.
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"To be blunt, a flu shot can mean the difference between life and death for you or your loved one," Surgeon General Jerome Adams said at the briefing.
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The cause of death for all nine victims was determined to be blunt force trauma, and the manner of death was certified as accident, the medical examiner's office said.
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" Warning the students that she would "be blunt," Ms. Yovanovitch said that "an amoral, 'keep them guessing' foreign policy that substitutes threats, fear and confusion for trust cannot work.
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Now to be blunt, being Muslim American, I'm not even sure that even if Trump did both these things it would be enough for me to have an open mind.
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The cause of Combs' death was ultimately found by investigators to be blunt force trauma to the head occurring prior to the fire that engulfed the vehicle after it crashed.
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"To be blunt, Andrea, I think it is foolish to goad or provoke or mock someone who, even in President Trump's own words, is on a suicide mission," Earnest said.
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"To be blunt, if we took Mark Zuckerberg out and we replaced him with Mahatma Gandhi, I don't think the corporation would change in any significant way," Mr. Lynn said.
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We're going to be blunt, Pisces: this month is going to be very challenging, but you'll be in much better spirits if you have an emotional support animal at your side.
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Apple marked the occasion by releasing the iPhone X, a device decked out with new features like facial recognition, a bezel-less screen, and, to be blunt about it, talking poop.
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To be blunt: Is this the original story arc of the Mac Pro's development, or are we looking at a roadmap that has a fundamentally different timeline than one year ago.
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To be blunt, none of them are quite as capable as Google, but each of them feel like a thing that you can talk to — and a thing that talks back.
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To be blunt, if you have already made the decision to be—and be seen as—a global meddler and bully, then you might as well be considered good at it.
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Jessi's cause of death was also determined to be blunt force trauma to the head, which the Sheriff says occurred before her race vehicle was engulfed in flames following the crash.
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" If you think this person is too combative for that approach, then skip the attempt to engage thoughtfully and be blunt without being accusatory: "I believe that you're not a racist.
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"If I have to just be blunt about it, I think we can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way," Simon said at the hearing.
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Moulton supporters were few and far between and tended to be very open-mindedLet's be blunt: There are not a whole lot of Moulton die-hards in the Democratic primary voting population.
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"To be blunt, investors in Aramco are not just gambling on the future price and production of oil, but they are betting on the future of security in the region," one said.
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The esthetics, themes, and approaches feel decidedly West Coast — to be blunt, a little more psychedelically influenced than their East Coast equivalents — but the tensions and resolutions are, in the end, fairly universal.
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Another series of leaks later that year involved senior Polish officials, whose bugged restaurant conversations showed them to be blunt and foulmouthed in private, leading to resignations and ultimately the government's election defeat.
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The app sometimes generates nonsense—"You will have a bit of luck relating to your natural sense of self-control," it told me recently—and can be blunt to the point of rudeness.
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We had been talking about re-jacketing the covers to match how the story has developed and I will be blunt, I really wanted a to see a brown girl on these covers.
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And, to be blunt, you should also consider just how clumsy and forgetful you are: Do you have a history of broken and lost phones or have you never dropped one in 2500 years?
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Jason Merritt/Getty Images Mom-to-be Blunt glowed on the red carpet with help from a St. Tropez tan (and pregnancy hormones!), but we were more excited about her matchy-matchy makeup moment!
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This solution, to be blunt, feels like a bit of a cop-out after Game of Thrones has spent so much time telling us that this contagious disease is essentially an automatic death sentence.
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One anonymous member identified to The Advocate the single factor that tied Gamma Mu's members together: "To be blunt about it, the common denominator for the members is that they all have money," he said.
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To be blunt, China uses North Korea like a thug nation to do some of its dirtier jobs and act as a buffer against nations it sees as potentially hostile like South Korea and Japan.
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If you look at how constitutional carry has evolved over the last six to eight years, and I'll just be blunt about it, I think the election of President Barack Obama contributed to the frenzy.
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As a Cancer, you tend to be blunt and hate small talk, so you'll absolutely love the show's frank ways of discussing race, relationships, and the importance of standing up for what you believe in.
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To be blunt: I have read along with U.S. Senators asking questions about the deal from lists provided by certain U.S. lobbying organizations to ensure that critics of the Iran negotiations spoke with one voice.
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"Let's be blunt: it's a tax on the American consumer and the American manufacturer ... who's paying about $1.4 billion a month in new tariffs," Democratic Senator Chris Coons said in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday.
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"To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program," he said.
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Police have not said how Hong was slain, but a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said on Wednesday an autopsy had determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head.
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"To be blunt, we find it shocking over half of RH Modern products are currently not in stock and will take over two months on average before customers are even contacted about scheduling deliveries," Chukumba told investors.
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"I have a history of being blunt, so let's be blunt today," Mr. Sanders said to open his remarks to the National Action Network annual conference in New York, put on by the group's founder, the Rev.
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That&aposs exactly -- by the way, what Donald Trump signed today, let me be blunt, it&aposll last five minutes in a courtroom before it&aposs thrown out, but at least gives Congress time to do their job.
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To be blunt, if McConnell were to take a stand that made Trump unhappy, such as supporting a call for a select committee or the Justice Department's appointment of a special prosecutor, Trump could retaliate by firing Chao.
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"Of course we must engage with Moscow, but we must also be blunt: Russia's foreign policy under President Putin has made the world a more dangerous place," Hunt will say at the US Institute of Peace in Washington.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis wants Chile's bishops to owe up to the "devastating wounds" inflicted on the Church's credibility by a cover-up of clergy sexual abuse, serving notice that his coming meetings with them will be blunt.
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Perhaps. JON CARAMANICA Cherry Glazerr, the Los Angeles indie-rock trio led by the 19-year-old singer and guitarist Clementine Creevy, has prowled around punk, garage-rock and post-punk in songs that can be blunt or sarcastic.
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"We remain optimistic 2016 will show momentum is building, the hurdles are being overcome and, to be blunt, that Rolls-Royce management has control and is growing in confidence," Jefferies analyst Sandy Morris, who rates the stock a "buy" said.
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"To be blunt, such rhetoric is more or less the same as Steven Mnuchin (who) said months ago that a deal was '99% done'," Commerzbank analysts wrote in a note to clients, though they acknowledged the comments had benefited sentiment.
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While I get that revisiting old things is often nice and calming, and that most new things are, to be blunt, fucking terrible, there's one hotly-tipped and highly anticipated revival that I cannot get behind in any capacity whatsoever: Jamiroquai.
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"I'll be blunt: We already have so many outbreaks around the country and so much community transmission that the wall is meaningless for preventing spread of the virus," said Tara C. Smith, an epidemiologist at Kent State University in Ohio.
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"For two and a half years the Democrats in the Senate pretty much prohibited us from doing that, and I think it got us into a bad pattern of thinking acting was more acceptable than it should be," Blunt said.
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Let's be blunt: In the annals of stadium fiascos, Atlanta's forthcoming SunTrust Park (and by the way, nice job spending $217 million to get your corporate name attached to this mess, SunTrust Bank execs) has to go up against some exceedingly stiff competition.
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That time began for us about 3 years ago when I decided to open Dubspot LA. To be blunt, and looking back on things, I now realize that Dubspot was undercapitalized and without enough infrastructure in place to open the new LA school.
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"Tax reform, to be blunt, is the game-changer our economy needed," said Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanPaul Ryan moving family to Washington Embattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway MORE (R-Wis.) at a press conference Wednesday.
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"Tax reform, to be blunt, is the game-changer our economy needed," said Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanPaul Ryan moving family to Washington Embattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway MORE (R-Wis.) at a press conference Wednesday.
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I'll be blunt here, because it feels appropriate, and because this is my time and your time at stake, and I would be beyond remiss to waste it: If it's time for you to look for a new charcoal grill, look no further.
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"The defense never contested that Don Blankenship could be blunt and a hard taskmaster, but the truth is that he cares deeply about his family, his community and the people who worked for him," his lawyer said in his own sentencing memo.
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The study, published July 16 in Nature , makes the case that instead of CRISPR being thought of as a pair of "molecular scissors" (as it has been previously called), making surgical precise cuts, it may actually be "blunt" and cause more damage than previously thought.
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But Bloomberg's longtime support for the controversial policy of stop and frisk, which disproportionately impacted minorities, was thrust into the spotlight again Tuesday when President Donald Trump and his aides circulated leaked audio of what appeared to be blunt remarks from Bloomberg in 2015.
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"To be blunt, your well-intentioned work in these areas are tainted by the affiliation with Ms. Mnangagwa and her direct personal connection to an increasingly corrupt and abusive administration in which tolerance for dissent is nonexistent and democratic rights are violently denied," they wrote.
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Or how about this Father's Day Facebook post, which gets a little personal, and also explains how long forever is for: Sometimes even mystery can be blunt: And then there's this tweet, where Uhans wants to clarify that nothing's perfect but at least it's trying hard!
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To be blunt, even if giving a woman of color the venerated title sounds great in theory, in execution, it seems like it may be a bald-faced attempt to address the optics of Bond's typically homogeneous casting without actually letting Lynch take over the role of 007.
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A framework for figuring out whether you should apply to Goldman SachsLebowitz: So it sounds like there is a bit of an upside to working with a recruiter if you can, mostly because of their familiarity with the process and their ability, as you said, Oliver, to be blunt.
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An independent examination by the local charity South Norwood Animal Rescue Liberty came to the same conclusion, after 25 post-mortems on cats found the cause of death to be "blunt force trauma," such as collisions with vehicles, and the mutilations to be caused by a sharp implement.
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That's because, to be blunt, there is no reason for Cohen to try to debunk the Steele dossier by lying and saying that he didn't visit Prague at all if he actually did, unless he was trying to cover up extremely serious wrongdoing that happened during that visit.
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To purse something because it matters to you, to your moral expectations for the world; to pursue something because the way it occurs now is, to be blunt, unjust, to pursue and invest in change despite not having the power to implement it directly, is to be willing to fail.
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"Let me be blunt, there isn't much time left if we are to conclude an agreement and to have it operational by the time the United Kingdom leaves the European Union," Leo Varadkar told a news conference after talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
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This wariness toward white-maledom makes some people nervous because, well, let's be blunt: With one exception in the form of a person who was an exceedingly rare political talent and who benefited from a world-historic economic meltdown seven weeks before the election, this country has elected only white males to the presidency.
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""And so when you couple developmentally delays or learning disabilities with youth, and you match that person against two or more adult, intelligent, trained police officers who have been trained in psychological interview techniques and manipulative interview techniques, you are creating a situation that is rife with risk of false confessions, just to be blunt about it.
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And to be blunt about it, the only effect it has for me as a law-abiding citizen is that we are no longer scared of criminals/drug addicts, we are no longer scared to go out on a wee hour to eat for a midnight snack craving, we can go out of streets without fear of being held up.
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And it would push candidates and outside groups, including down-ballot Democrats furiously working to retake state and local governments, into more expensive media like TV. "I'll be blunt: a blanket political advertising ban on Facebook would have disastrous consequences for Democrats — and my friends on the Left should reconsider advocating for such a move," Tara McGowan, founder of Acronym, a leading progressive digital group, pleaded in a Medium post Sunday.
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