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You have no bottom. Jill Biden is going to the Olympics as First Lady representing the US at the opening of the games.
Gingrich: Jill really needs to cancel her trip to Paris. There is no reason for her to take taxpayer money and go spend probably several millions of dollars going to Paris now that her husband is no longer a candidate.
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This is Trumpism on the left. And I’m a progressive Democrat. It’s obscene and debases you as you assault a man who has lost a wife and two children in the most painful ways. I denounce you; Sanders should too.
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Tara Reade is becoming the Trump campaign’s desperate obsession aided and abetted by the fringe far left. An alliance made in the darkest corners of our politics.
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Listening to Biden on @CNN and I’m struck by how informed, reasonable and compassionate he is. Can we have the election now?
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I have refrained from all the criticism of Merrick Garland. I was wrong. And he was the wrong choice for DOJ. History will not absolve him.
Thank you, @neal_katyal for calling out Merrick Garland for not policing the Special Counsel guidelines and allowing Robert Hur to put out a report with opinions that are outside the guidelines in the same way Comey did with Hillary. @TheJusticeDept has let us down again.
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This is simply economically illiterate. No wonder he apparently had a mediocre record at Wharton.
Trump: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No… It’s is a tax that doesn’t affect our country.
Community note
Tariffs are almost always paid by those importing the goods. If they are a retailer they will be passed on to the ultimate consumer.
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This is idiotic. The Voting Rights Act had to be-authorized several times after 1965. I was there. And Biden was involved in getting it done. These apparatchiks either don’t know any history or are simply lying.
BIDEN: "When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act."
Thurmond died in 2003, while Biden didn't leave the Senate until 2009. The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, before Biden was in office.
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This is the criminal act of a crazed and panicked POTUS. We have never had so deranged a President before. I like summer, but November can’t come too soon.
Trump abruptly announced that he would be speaking at West Point. That was news to everyone, including officials at West Point. They are now summoning 1,000 cadets scattered across the country to return to campus in New York, the center of the outbreak.
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Press largely covering Biden as they did in run-up to primaries. Snark and writing him off. Continually cite Quinnipiac 38% approval when more recent polls show 48 to 50%. Two reasons- they want eyeballs and to prove they’re not liberal. A lot of journalism is broken- and wrong.
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MLK was for affirmative action. Being a Governor does not confer a pass on knowing some basic history.
As Martin Luther King Jr said, people should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
The Supreme Court affirmed that fundamental truth in today’s decision.
The greatness of America is that it doesn’t matter where you start — you get to decide where you finish.
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Joe Biden is the most underappreciated president of our time. He will go down in history, along with Harry Truman, as someone not honored in his own day, but as a great president for America.
Notable detail: Just an hour before Pres. Biden announced he was exiting the 2024 race last month, he was on the phone with his Slovenian counterpart, "urging them to make the final arrangements" for this massive prisoner swap, according to a senior administration official.
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This RFK Jr. Super Bowl ad is a straight out plagiarism of JFK ad from 1960. What a fraud- and to quote Lloyd Bentsen with a slight amendment, “Bobby, you’re no John Kennedy.” Instead you are a Trump ally.
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I honestly do not understand the NYT coverage. Extraordinary reporters, but with the editor’s choices, there seems to be a dangerous double standard with respect to Harris and Trump, normalizing conduct that would be clearly disqualifying for another candidate.
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Never have so many been evacuated in so short a period of time at anytime in human history.
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This is as petty as it gets.
NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed"
w/ @DaniellaMicaela
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Watching the GOP side, their body language sent a clear message: they want things to go bad so they can do well in 2024. Politics over country. And OMG, they couldn’t even applaud Biden saying teachers shouldn’t pay more in taxes than billionaires.
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I never did any such thing in any campaign ever. Never even thought of it.
Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who's been called 'Putin's favorite congressman,' says "there's not a person in this town" who wouldn't have taken the Trump Tower meeting with Russians like Don Jr. did.
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Pelosi is one of the great House Speakers and Leaders of all time. The assault on her is cynically opportunistic and shamefully sexist.
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This is the stupidest move by Catholic hierarchy since the condemnation of Galileo.
US Catholic Bishops: willing to weaponize the Eucharist over something Christ never mentioned.
But they wouldn't deny Communion to a politician who supports the death penalty, which Jesus actually opposed.
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Benedict Arnold was white, male, Christian, and anti-Revolutionary War. He was also a traitor. And apparently so is the guy you are defending.
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Nancy Pelosi was the masterful strategist who persuaded the House to accept the Senate version of Obamacare. She has done it again with the American Rescue Act. She proves RFK’s words: “Youth is not a time of life,but a state of mind.”
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The only thing these particular Republicans have left is an attempt to keep people from voting. An attack on the Capitol in different form. And it will not work.
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For McCain, this would have been a high tribute.
Russia state media refuses to honor John McCain: "He was an implacable opponent of Russia" bit.ly/2BPHt5T
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I know Steve @SteveSchmidtSES and this is entirely true.
This Far right propagandist has repeatedly smeared me. I came out in favor of gay marriage in 2009 @brianellner in a speech. I accepted a single speaking invitation at the 2008 RNC, it was for The Log Cabin Republicans.
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I like many of them, but Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Steyer and Warren should suspend their campaigns. Reality is reality.
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Trump lives in a dark imaginary America of stereotypes: Pittsburgh=coal/steel. In fact it= health care & high tech. nitter.app/mattyglesias/status/76…
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Significant from a Democrat in a tough Senate race. And Alabama Democrats vote on presidential nominee Tuesday.
I have known Joe for 40 years and tonight’s huge in South Carolina shows his ability to bring folks together. I am so proud to count him as my friend. He’s dedicated his life to making the world better, and he truly reveres America. Joe is the leader we need.
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Biden unleashed is a lot better. Buttigieg is a superb debater. Bloomberg is fending off attacks better than before and making a case for spending money electing Democrats. Sanders- the “billionaire” attack on Bloomberg is no substitute for answering the argument.
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Reagan would be thrown out of today’s GOP.
President Ronald Reagan's final speech was a love letter to immigrants:
'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. We draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world.'
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Cardinal Dolan reminds me of the obsequious prelates who not only abided but applauded fascists like Franco. MAGA in a miter.
I utterly concur. Having seen Trump’s mean crassness in clips from the dinner, it’s unfathomable why the Archdiocese would allow him a stage in this Catholic space: Cardinal Dolan's 'Al Smith dinner' disappointment is misdirected - @NCRonline ncronline.org/opinion/editor…
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Already posted a response. Ad was plagiarized from JFK 1960 campaign.Word for word. He can steal his uncle’s ad, but he is no JFK.
I would like to know what @BobShrum thinks of that God awful inappropriate commercial by RFK Jr?
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Trump is a malevolent, deluded, inveterate liar. This briefing is obscene. Why are they broadcasting it?
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Josh Hawley- “brilliant” guy who just used the non-word “irregardless”- and Ted Cruz who creeps toward a R nomination he will never win will be detested on both sides if they prolong this. And Hawley apparently will. The George Wallaces of our time. Wallace apologized at the end
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A class act. Also best Speaker ever.
.@SpeakerPelosi on Speaker Pro Tem @PatrickMcHenry kicking her out of her "hideaway" office.
"That's so incidental, I'm more concerned about the fact they're trying to cut 30% out of the food for children...the office means nothing to me!"
Via @TheIssueIsShow
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Watching Biden on CNN, I just keep wishing he was doing this from the WH podium. January is coming but too far away.
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Superb, moving, and a devastating indictment of Trump. A convention speech that will live on.
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Why not name a base after Benedict Arnold? But I doubt Trump knows who he was.
It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a...
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White House debates vaccines for air travel | TheHill
SILLY DEBATE, OBVIOUS ANSWER:YES. CANADA DOING IT. SHOWING VACCINE CARD EASIER THAN TAKING OFF YOUR SHOES. WHO CARES WHAT AIRLINE LOBBYISTS THINK? ANY HYSTERICS ABOUT OVER-REACH ALREADY THERE. DO IT NOW thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
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Damnable lie.
Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo: “A new report says that some far-right protesters have discussed posing as members of the National Guard to infiltrate the inauguration — the way Democrats infiltrated two weeks ago and put on MAGA clothing” mediamatters.org/maria-barti…
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Then he shouldn’t get one.
Rand Paul Throws In His Two Cents On Stimulus Package: “Most Working Americans Don’t Need A Check Right Now” polinews.org/rand-paul-throw…
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The GOP does not care about deficits per se, but only as a political talking point during Democratic presidencies.
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He’s taken grief for making tough decisions. It is the essence of greatness in a President. Countless lives will be saved. The economy will prosper. A turning point.
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True, very funny, and very Mooch @Scaramucci @Elex_Michaelson
"We have more people inside the White House who have #COVID19 than have voted fraudulently [across the country]."
@Scaramucci says @realDonaldTrump is prioritizing the wrong issue.
Watch him & @rickwgates on @TheIssueIsShow now: piped.video/watch?v=M1A5BnpN…
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How can anyone who claims to care about faith and family values continue to support Trump? Is religious right this hypocritical?
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Arrest, prosecute and set big fines for this. These are luddites, crackpots, and subversives who are literally endangering people’s lives.
Dodger Stadium vaccination site shut down amid protest - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/story…
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Yes, COVID, the economy, health care, racial healing, climate are priorities. Also on day one start to take down the Berlin Wall around the WH, restore Jacqueline Kennedy’s Rose Garden, ditch Trump’s hideous design for the new Air Force One, and reverse Trump executive orders.
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I have coached a lot of presidential and other candidate debates. Harris had one of the very best debates ever. JFK level 1960, Reagan level 1980. Even more unanimous judgment that she won commandingly- and Trump lost abysmally.
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Hume has become a total partisan hack after years of pretending to be a journalist- was always a partisan.
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Sean Spicer is a dangerous liar and should be a pariah. Period. dailykos.com/story/2017/9/18…
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Biden, two little appreciated in his own time in public opinion, will like Truman be highly rated by historians as one of our best presidents.
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1. She has no vote.
2. Her choices would have lost to Obama.
3. The country is ready for someone like FDR to repair the system, not overthrow it.
4. First priority is economy and COVID. As FDR said: “Relief Recovery, Reform.” Right order of challenges.
5. Future is not socialism
CNN: AOC wants to battle the Biden Administration over appointments and cabinet picks.
Um, that's not the way this works.
There is one president. @JoeBiden.
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Pelosi is an unparalleled Speaker. Clyburn did an extraordinary job- again, as he did with Biden in 2020. And Biden achieved an LBJ style victory with very thin margins compared to vast majorities Johnson had.
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Shameful. Sanders did far more to advance the cause you believe in than you have- or ever will. He’s not trashing his supporters, most of whom will follow him to Biden, but reproving those who would enable a Trump re-election.
I know the media will never understand this but this moment right now, with Bernie trashing his own supporters is exactly why he lost. He was more committed to maintaining power for Dems than claiming it for his own movement.
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I said yesterday: Sirhan not only murdered a great man; he murdered the best hopes of a generation.
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These police do not protect and serve.
Mayor orders all Chicago workers to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15.
Police union inexplicably resists, though their members interact with the public every day and are highly vulnerable.
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Paul, this speech was a rhetorical mishmash. The ending was some of the worst speech writing I have ever seen or heard. A parody.
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To be McCain’s Mini-Me is one thing. But Trump’s?
When it comes to Alabama politics Steve Bannon should have followed President @realDonaldTrump lead in supporting Luther Strange.
Trump’s instincts on the Alabama race proved to be correct.
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Powerful statement, persuasive rationale. And essential with Trump threatening revenge.
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50 years later, what can Americans learn from Robert Kennedy? americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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I have lived a long time. One of the saddest days of my life. I was in college; I had met JFK; and the world took a turn in the wrong direction. I stood in line for 8 hours in the cold to spend moments in the Capitol Rotunda as he was laying in state. So futile, but all I cd do.
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If this theory prevails, democracy fails and the Constitution pales to fading ink on cracking parchment. nitter.app/kevinmkruse/status/100…
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@Scaramucci to his employees and attendees at SALT conference: “Get vaccinated. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, leave.” Corporate responsibility. Others should do the same.
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Comey was W Bush’s Deputy Attorney General and John Brennan was Director of National Counterterrorism Center under Bush.
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@peterbakernyt and @sbg1 must be so proud of their son Theo, youngest winner ever of Polk Award, whose journalism as a first year Stanford undergrad, revealed the university President’s research misconduct and led to his resignation. Amazing.
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Biden is powerfully presidential in video for George Floyd funeral. I wish the election was tomorrow and the Inauguration the next day.
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Trump is the most anti- Constitutional President in American history. In short a would- be authoritarian. This will fail.
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Poland 1939; Finland 1939; Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania 1940; Hungary and Poland 1956; Czechoslovakia 1968; Afghanistan 1979; Georgia 2008; Crimea and Eastern Ukraine 2014. The names change- from Stalin to Putin. The aggression continues. The evil endures.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov: "Let's remember that Russia never in its history attacked anybody. Russia, which has lived through so many wars, is the last country in Europe that wants to say the word 'war.'" tass.ru/politika/13773973
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Why do we have decision desks if they don’t decide? Networks need to move: they KNOW what the outcome will be.
.@DecisionDeskHQ called the race 4.5 hours ago. And all that's happened since then is Biden doubled his lead in Nevada and grown his lead in Pennsylvania.
It's bizarre networks + AP haven't made the call. More bizarre is AP + Fox called AZ on Tuesday on much less than this.
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