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Truly surreal clip. Interviewer has Trump dead to rights but is desperate to change the subject. Trump meanwhile refuses to let it go, insisting on continuing to punch himself repeatedly in the nuts
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waiting for JD Vance to smash through the door, eyes rolling, foaming at the mouth, to yell at Bukele for not wearing a tie
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Biden's letter announcing he will not run for reelection again doesn't have the presidential seal on it because announcing you aren't running for reelection is a *campaign* announcement.
Even Nixon’s resignation letter had the Presidential seal on it.
Why doesn’t Biden’s?
Why’s the signature different than all of his previous letters ever signed?
Why is Biden’s schedule empty?
Something strange is going on here.
This wasn’t Biden’s choice whatsoever.
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I am going to continue to point out until I am blue in the face that if the federal government had reason to believe Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a human trafficker it would have charged him with human trafficking, which it didn't.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will likely be deported soon, and America will be safer for it.
NEVER FORGET the media painted him as a "Maryland Man", when any of these titles would have been more honest:
"MS-13 Gang Member"
"Wife Beater"
"Human Trafficker"
"Salvadoran Illegal Alien"
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It's kind of funny how the correct and true counterargument to this ridiculously stupid line is "actually, we live in a republic"
Musk: If the will of the president is not implemented and the president is representative of the people that means the will of the people is not being implemented and that means we don't live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. Does that make sense?
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A 1,350 percent chance, huh? Every baby who got the shot developed autism 13.5 times?
The CDC’s own data in 1989 showed that babies that got the Hepatitis B Vaccine within the first 30 days had a 1,350% chance that child would develop autism
“YES, Vaccines cause Autism” says RFK Jr.
Archive this video, because it’s a doozy that every single parent needs to hear..
🔴 MEASLES VACCINE
• WOULD YOU give your kids the measles and mumps vaccines?
—— NO, Absolutely not
—— it is very hard to kill a healthy child with any infectious disease, particularly with measles.
—— WHO themselves say Vitamin A is an absolute cure for measles.
• Kids who are exposed to measles as a child are much healthier when they grow up.
—— they’re much more resistant to cancers, atopic diseases, allergies, and heart disease.
🔴 HEPATITIS B VACCINE
• the CDC’s own data in 1989 showed that babies that got the hepatitis b vaccin within the first 30 days had a 1,350% chance that child would develop autism. Wow 🤯
🔴 DO VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM?
• Yes, Vaccines cause autism
—— all of these ‘studies’ trying to disprove that are paid handsomely by the CDC.
—— one of the most referenced and cited studies used was/is from a Chief Scientist named Paul Thornsen.
—— Paul Thornsen is now a fugitive and wanted by Interpol and stole millions of dollars from the CDC and spent that money on a luxurious lifestyle and instead of studies.
rumble.com/v5dpct9-yes-vacci…
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Waving off Trump's transfer of power comments because "of course he's not going to try for a coup" heroically misses the point. The danger isn't that he's going to, like, barricade himself in the Oval Office. It's that he's priming his base to reject any loss as illegitimate.
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The funniest thing about GameStop populism is going to be a bunch of online 17-year-olds suddenly getting extremely pissed off and militant about the capital gains tax
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Such a bizarre spectacle—Biden (arguably?) insults Trump supporters, then immediately walks it back/cleans it up. But this will dominate right-wing grievance discourse for the next week. Meanwhile, Trump says things like this about his opponents constantly, and ... crickets.
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation.
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The JD Vance couch thing is a totally invented and arguably slanderous shitpost and I'm gobsmacked that the guy I've been hearing all day is Mr. Midwest Decency would pull it out at his introductory rally
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It's so funny to imagine that electing a moderate Democrat governor is going to immediately turn Virginia into a dystopian socialist hellscape such that people will be fleeing to North Carolina . . . a state that has had moderate Democrat governors for eight years
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Remember when the biggest argument against impeaching President Trump was that removing him would be "overturning the will of the voters"?
"We will not be intimidated...We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."—Sidney Powell
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Just in awe of the shamelessness of GOP reps who voted to decertify the election results one week ago today standing up and kvetching that a quick impeachment is a reckless application of the House's procedural powers.
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"Three down arrows" being widely interpreted as a common antifa logo. But given that the full description is "up right down down down" and the guy plainly had internet brain poisoning worth noting that this is also a meme from the game Helldivers 2
Gov. Spencer Cox: "Inscriptions on a fired casing read 'notices bulges, OWO, what's this, question mark.' Inscriptions on the unfired casings read 'Hey fascist! Catch!' Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing read 'O Bella ciao, O Bella ciao ciao ciao,' And a third bullet casing read 'If you read this, you are gay — L-M-A-O.'"
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Trump: "There were no guns down there. We didn't have guns. The others had guns, but we didn't have guns."
Quick reminder: "We" here is the insurrectionists. "The others" is Capitol police.
Q: I am a Republican, but no longer registered. I was disturbed by January 6. People from your own administration don't support you. Your own Vice President doesn’t support you. So why would I want to support you?
Trump: I totally disagree with Mike Pence for certifying the election results. January 6 was a day of love
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Very interesting that Johnson's response to "the president is unhinged" isn't "how dare you, ma'am, the president is our greatest, most powerful patriot" but rather "a lot of folks on your side are too"
WATCH: Rep. Madeleine Dean confronts House Speaker Johnson over Trump's speech to generals
"The President is unhinged. He is unwell."
"Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a President who is unwell."
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I have not been ragging on Bernie's lake house, because I genuinely don't understand what it's supposed to illustrate. Which Bernie Sanders policy proposal would ensure that people can't own a lake house? What's the ostensible hypocrisy?
The dirty little secret revealed by last night's debate: the media are f***ing garbage at their jobs. Every conservative has been ragging on Bernie's lake house for YEARS. And that was the first time he's ever been confronted about it. By a fellow candidate, not by a reporter.
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Is there even a conventional wisdom for why he posts like this on every holiday now? Or is it just something embarrassing and obscene that we all agree we're better off just pretending isn't happening?
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Incredibly, the clip itself is worse even than the synopsis makes it sound. No human being could watch this and defend it on the merits, but many will watch it and simply sneer—which is worse.
Trump laments that Debbie Dingell voted to impeach him despite the fact that he allowed the normal state funeral to proceed for her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell. Trump then suggests John Dingell is in hell -- to audible groans.
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A high school student we know is in really bad shape in our local PICU with COVID. Please keep him in your prayers.
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Statement from the city of Springfield deflating a lot of the wild rumors that have been going around:
"In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community. Additionally, there have been no verified instances of immigrants engaging in illegal activities such as squatting or littering in front of residents' homes. Furthermore, no reports have been made regarding members of the immigrant community deliberately disrupting traffic."
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Obviously, this wasn't Vance's opinion like two weeks ago when random nobodies were making tasteless posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.
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People who like this monologue walk among us, and the scariest thing is you can't tell who's who
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Protesters have torn down a barrier. Fireworks going off outside the Capitol. People in a tower telling the crowd to press forward. "Move forward and we can beat them." Throwing things are police. Crowd pushing up chanting USA. This is unreal
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Everybody says "you should watch a Trump rally," but what you should actually watch is this conversation with Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago. Just wandering around free-associating words with the moderator trying to drag him back to the question he asked occasionally.
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This is so ludicrous. The Times hasn't done a thing yet! We're all just supposed to take Tucker's word they were *about* to do this outrageous thing that is also against their own editorial practices?
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This is a bizarre thing for a news outlet to tweet. The thing Biden is saying, that not only does he support increased police funding, but that Trump's own proposed federal budgets have included budget cuts to law enforcement, is true!
.@JoeBiden: "The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump ... he's pathological."
Doesn't Biden know its BLM protesters, not @realDonaldTrump, shouting "Defund The Police?"
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My pet theory is that all of academia is just riddled with plagiarism and other corner-cutting shoddiness, that it's basically the subprime mortgage market circa 2007, and the only person checking any of it is Chris Rufo because he's got this DEI axe to grind
EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Law Review published a special issue featuring only black women. But, according to material unearthed in a new lawsuit, the issue was rife with plagiarism.
This is how DEI corrupts academic standards. 🧵
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I personally think it's fine for fired employees to be bummed that they're fired, even if they work for the federal government
One thing I never realized until I moved to the DC area is the absolutely insane amount of people who think they are entitled to a job in government - forever.
It is part of the rot in DC and they need a reality check about how the actual world works.
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This clip is remarkable. Lewandowski, absolutely trapped in several obvious lies he made on national TV, brazens it out—insists he "doesn't believe" he lied. But when asked whether he's actually denying he lied, he can only bluster, because he doesn't want to perjure himself
The committee counsel asking Lewandowski questions catches him in lies regarding public statements he made about his role in the Mueller investigation. Lewandowski replies by saying, sarcastically, "No one in Congress has ever lied to the public."
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"Polyamory is seemingly everywhere these days--in thinkpieces in the New Yorker, in thinkpieces in the New York Times Magazine, even in thinkpieces in The Atlantic!"
Polyamory is seemingly everywhere these days. What are all these open couples, throuples, and polycules suddenly doing in the culture, besides one another? nyer.cm/xxxuYpW
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I had not considered the degree to which the Trump v. DeSantis primary was going to result in young right wing guys knifing each other over the awful edgelord stuff they've been DMing each other for the entire Trump era
Pedro Gonzalez has become one of team DeSantis’ biggest social media advocates.
I wonder if team desantis will continue to promote him now that @BreitbartNews has exposed him for being a racist and an anti-Semite.
DeSantis should disavow!
breitbart.com/politics/2023/…
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Not every place people make speeches is a hallowed place! It's just a big room where the Chicago Bulls play, let's take it easy
Activist poet Amanda Gorman at the DNC: "We gather at this hollowed place because we believe in the American dream. We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country."
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Today, November 4, is the day we were reliably told COVID would magically go away. No such luck, unfortunately: Over 100,000 new U.S. cases today, and 1,200 deaths.
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This is just an insane thing to say about the No Kings rally in particular, which was *ostentatiously* peaceful and orderly last time with organizers taking considerable pains to keep it so
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
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The Chiefs are going to win another Super Bowl after Mahomes throws like a 60 yard helmet-catch miracle ball to Marquez Valdes-Scantling and the dumbest people alive will be like "wow, just like they drew it up in Davos"
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It is impossible to overstate how deeply "2,000 Mules" wormed its way into the right-wing understanding of how the 2020 election went down
NEW:
@DineshDSouza has issued an apology over his election conspiracy film “2,000 Mules” on his website.
D’Souza admits that the heart of the film - surveillance footage of vote drop boxes supposedly showing illegal “ballot trafficking” - is false and misleading.
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These "young boys" are professional-class Republicans in their 30s.
Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
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Imagine thinking you shouldn't have to pay a premium to enjoy the services of people working on New Year's Eve
Jacking up your prices on people trying to celebrate the holidays? Classy, @dominos.
To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I’m sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias.
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This is lunacy. If today's reporting is true, innocent civilians weren't "caught in the middle of" anything between the U.S. and Iran. They were shot down by Iran, full stop.
Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat.
My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight.
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The radicals on TheDonald.win have a much clearer-eyed view of what happened Wednesday than the whole roster of MAGA pundits combined.
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Trump asked whether having to deal with impeachment in January made it hard for him to respond well early to coronavirus threat. "I don't think I would have done any better had I not been impeached. I think that's a great tribute to something, maybe to me."
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It's incredible to me that "Mitt Romney would've won in 2012 if he only would've raged and declaimed and made a jackass of himself" has become a bedrock axiom of the conservative political worldview.
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Puerto Rico the trash island. Liz Cheney with guns trained on her. "I shouldn't have left" the White House after losing in 2020. "Doesn't mind" if somebody shoots the reporters covering him. All just days before a tied election.
Even for Trump, this is a world-historical run.
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As a young, healthy person, I personally plan to get the vaccine not because I particularly fear dying of COVID but because I am looking forward to being able to participate in ordinary human life again without fear that by doing so I may inadvertently kill people I love!
Because they don't understand that their risks if they encounter the virus are so low because the media has lied to them with horror stories for nine months.
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Donald Trump is a liberator for the forgotten man, if by "forgotten man" you mean the world's most entitled, least vulnerable person and by "liberation" you mean "giving him permission to be the worst version of himself"
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What Ezra means by "the right way," and what I meant expressing a similar line this morning, is that Kirk was operating within a liberal framework that was modeled on persuasion and included real, robust support for free speech. Obviously it's not an endorsement of the content.
NEW: Ezra Klein says Charlie Kirk practiced politics the right way. Looking at his election denialism & use of extreme rhetoric, I question that. While we all should condemn this heinous assassination, we can still discuss his full impact on US politics.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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The old Ben Sasse would be screaming bloody murder about this Ukraine/whistleblower stuff and literally everybody knows it.
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JVL makes a great point: There is zero chance the Tenet guys did not realize their insane pay packages way, way, way, WAY outstripped their video metrics
thebulwark.com/p/the-tenet-m…
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How on earth does this guy listen to the funeral speech Erika Kirk just gave her husband and still go "alright, time to do my whole stump speech"
Trump: Tariffs are making us rich again. Richer than anybody ever thought was possible. And the only one challenging them are people that hate our country or foreign countries that are paying a price
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Where have all our "it's a Republic, actually" folks gone!! Time was you couldn't say the word "democracy" in public without those guys swarming you like the orcs in Moria!
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we are seeing levels of winging it previously only theorized by our top scientists
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I *am* a Trump hater, and quotes like these--which are not merely "tone deaf" but shine a spotlight on the guy's staggeringly deformed soul--are a big reason why
Donald Trump was asked today if he had called MN Gov. Tim Walz after the shootings in the state this weekend.
Here’s what he said:
“Well, it's a terrible thing. I think he's a terrible governor. I think he's a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too.”
The utter lack of empathy. The total disregard for even trying to bring the country together.
I am no Trump hater. But quotes like this are so fucking tone deaf.
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After a long, long, LONG struggle, involving weeks of sedation, multiple machines doing the work of multiple organs, and a tracheostomy, this kid was able to go off his ventilator today. For a while it really seemed like he wasn't going to make it. Truly incredible news.
A high school student we know is in really bad shape in our local PICU with COVID. Please keep him in your prayers.
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Seattle Times this week: "According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, authorities near the northern border seized just 0.03 pounds of fentanyl in January. That’s the weight of a single battery for a television remote."
seattletimes.com/nation-worl…
Leavitt: "Your audience should be aware that tonight -- 12:01am -- tariffs on Mexico and China are going into effect and another 10%, uh, another 10% on China, 25% on Mexico, 25% on Canada. And the reason is because we cannot continue to allow fentanyl to pour into our country."
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Can we just take a minute to appreciate how that "special surprise guest" thing was just a totally made up rumor on here. Excellent content
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No better indication that the conservative movement has lost all ability to keep the hacks at arm's length than Pizzagate Posobiec landing a prestigious Claremont fellowship claremont.org/page/2019-linc…
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One of the more bizarre clips I've seen. Reid completely melts down over Donalds' factual assertion that Social Security is currently on the path to being insolvent by 2035--which is the assessment of the Social Security Board of Trustees!
BOOM: Joy Reid explodes and just shouts "not true" over and over when Byron Donalds explains that Social Security is on a path to insolvency in 2035: "Joy, I'm a financial profession. I do more than just Congress...I'm telling you. [It] will go insolvent."
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There is no other way to read Republicans calling No Kings a "hate America rally" run by "Antifa people" than as an attempt to create the conditions to crack down on the protest with the might of the state.
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If the "First Amendment Violation" you're hopping mad about this morning is Twitter making you click one extra button to see a tweet from the president and not Minnesota police arresting an entire team of TV reporters, you're not a serious person.
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The kraken is backtrackin
Sidney Powell has moved to dismiss Dominion's defamation lawsuit. She argues that when she accused Dominion of being part of an election-rigging scheme with ties to Venezuela, "no reasonable person would conclude" those "were truly statements of fact" assets.documentcloud.org/doc…
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This sort of thing is so bewildering to me. Lots of people have led happy, contented lives throughout history, and many of them weren't even among the more fortunate members of the richest and most comfortable society that has ever existed!
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This shit is just so funny, man. They're all zealous deficit warriors for four years of Biden and then before Trump's even inaugurated they turn on a dime without the slightest hint of shame. We've always been at war with Eurasia!
BREAKING: President Trump signals his support for a deal that’s been brokered in DC that includes pushing out the debt ceiling for two years — critical for giving President Trump the runway to work.
Let’s get this done!!
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Watching GOP congressmen rush to battle stations to decry Pelosi calling Trump a racist while remaining sullenly silent about Trump's *undeniably racist remarks* is literally stomach-turning. What an unbelievable farce.
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The damage the Ben Sasses of the world do with votes like this isn't a mirage. When you make "principles above all" your brand, you lose your right to go along to get along. Otherwise you just convince people "principles above all" is a bit for suckers.
thebulwark.com/the-big-cave/
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$787 million is a lot of money!
!!!! Harris Faulkner immediate after Trump's speech: "At the very beginning you heard the former president talk about a stolen election. And while he may feel a certain way, the facts remain Joe Biden was declared the winner ... states certified those results."
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Sure is a bummer how Republicans think the entire apparatus of the state hates them and sees them as a hostile entity! Very unfortunate how they arrived at that notion completely out of their own conspiratorial heads.
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When I think of JFK, the second trait that springs to mind is "faithful to his wife"
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You know you could just delete this account and start over with a new one so people wouldn't know just how lame this is!
Here is why we will be supporting Trump:
We ain’t paying for your loans.
We don’t want to be forced to purchase insurance at the DMV.
We ain’t giving a cent to those ‘unwilling to work.’
We like our farting cows.
We don’t want to pay $5 for a gallon of gas.
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