Christian | Husband | Father | M&A Lawyer | Founder @Principles_1st: principlesfirst.us

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Here’s the problem with the “blame the protesters” COVID excuse: if that were the cause here, we’d see equivalent spikes in NYC, DC, Chicago, & other urban areas. We don’t. The outbreaks are exclusively occurring in TX, FL, AZ, GA, LA, MS—states that opened ahead of the curve.
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Please read this statement from the family of Rebecca Lobach. Read every damn word. And then share it with anyone you know who still cheers on this sorry excuse for a President. The President of the United States, the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense claimed, without evidence, that this accomplished warrior was only in the pilot’s seat because of “DEI”. She was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide—and it’s pathetic and disgusting that her family had to issue this statement to the country to justify her seat even in her death because the leaders she served under blamed her for the accident in front of the White House press corps within 12 hours of the crash on baseless speculation that she was unqualified because she was a woman. If you’re an American—or even if you’re just a decent person—this should make you burn.
Statement from the family of Rebecca Lobach, one of the pilots on the Black Hawk helicopter which crashed in D.C.
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It takes an unfathomable amount of incompetence to alienate Japan and South Korea to such a degree that they lock arms with China against the United States. So stupid. So dumb. So bad for the United States.
China, Japan, and South Korea agree to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs — China state media
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Notice, by the way, that Trump’s claims of “cheating” in Pennsylvania have magically dissipated. He’s a liar to the core—but our country doesn’t mind.
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The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, for starters. 🇺🇸
Does this “No Kings” messaging make a lick of sense to anyone outside the far left?
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I’m a principled conservative—which means I will never support any GOP Senator that votes to acquit. Period. I hope you’ll join me.
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“Woman who first spread Springfield rumor regrets it.” “I deleted the post. I was wrong. I messed up royally. I never meant to cause so much hate.” This woman has more courage than JD Vance. Please share this video far and wide.
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Listen to this entire interview from an officer who was assaulted at the Capitol.
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You’re a liar. No Democratic candidate or leader has “mourned the loss” of Soleimani. I’m a conservative Republican that used to be an avid fan of yours. Now, I can’t even respect you, much less vote for you. Sick of all the casual & conscious lying. It’s disqualifying.
“The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership and Democrat Presidential candidates.”
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From a GOP friend: “Heath, I don’t get it. Why not just stay silent? Why publicly vote Joe? You might’ve ruined any future in the GOP.” Easy. Cowardly silence is why so many Rs bent the knee to Trump to start. Plus, the Party has no future if it sticks w/ Trumpism. I’ll own it.
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That Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting committee assignments instead of censure tells you everything you need to know about the House GOP’s moral compass and backbone: neither exist.
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JD Vance: “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” This alone should cost him a seat in the US Senate.
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COVID arrived in the US on January 13. Wednesday is May 13. That’s four months. Four months to figure things out, to communicate a plan, & to get testing & tracing in place. Instead, it seems we’re just opening up because of politics. Our leadership completely failed this test.
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Attacking Kamala Harris’s intelligence after getting completely rolled by her for two hours in a debate seems to be a pretty low-IQ strategy.
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If nobody’s said it yet, I will: Matt Gaetz is what happens when you elect people like Donald Trump and shrug off his indecencies and immoralities. So many said: “We aren’t electing a preacher!” No, you weren’t. You were electing perverts.
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The problem with Vance is not that he lacks intelligence—it’s that he lacks character.
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Whatever happens, one thing is clear: Trumpism is now the GOP permanently. There is no battle for the future of that party. It believes different things now and doesn’t think character matters—and Americans appear to have plenty of appetite for it. It has no incentive to change.
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Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated? That wasn’t funny. It was scary.
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I’m sorry—but it is very difficult to maintain a high opinion of anyone who thinks this is fitting conduct for the President of the United States. He embarrasses the country and makes his supporters look like fools every single day.
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Wow. The Biden team doesn’t even have to edit this. Just slap a “Women for Biden” logo on it & call it a day.
President Trump: "I'd rather have [Pompeo] on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes because maybe his wife isn't there."
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You can censure us, but you can’t stop us. If Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney aren’t Republicans, then neither am I. See you at the ballot box, GOP.
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I will not vote for, donate to, or otherwise support any R who embraces the Big Lie & votes against Liz Cheney tomorrow. I hope you’ll join me & urge others to make the same pledge. Lies like this have to come with political consequences or we’ll get more of them. Stand firm. 🇺🇸
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This dude is a patriot. My goodness.
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I’ve seen enough: Congress needs to entirely repeal the President’s unilateral authority to raise tariffs without congressional approval. It served a purpose at one time, but that was back when we managed to elect adults. Time to childproof the presidency.
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Don’t fall for these charlatans. They are lying to you—and even they know it.
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Pete Hegseth should immediately resign. He should have never been confirmed in the first place.
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Respect the verdict. Respect the appeal. Respect the judge. Respect the jurors. Respect the law. Respect the Constitution. Respect America. Lots of people are telling on themselves today. Their loyalty is to a man. And it’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
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If a Republican candidate is an election denier, @Liz_Cheney says, as a conservative, she’ll campaign for the Democrat, despite other core policy differences with them. I agree with her. Constitution first. Policy second. It’s pretty simple: if an R denies our elections, vote D.
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I have nothing against Cawthorn wearing lingerie. You do you, man. But I’ll be damned if he’s going to tell the rest of us we need to go on some crusade against the LGBTQ community to “protect the culture” while he does it.
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Pointing to the flattened curve as evidence that we shouldn’t have gone through all the trouble to flatten it is the dumbest argument I’ve seen in a while—but, here we are.
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This is a mess. He either committed crimes that deserve prosecution or he didn’t. This sends a terrible signal about how the rule of law operates in the United States. It isn’t up for a vote—and you shouldn’t escape consequences by winning an election.
BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith requested today that all charges against Trump be dropped in the Washington, D.C., case over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/NHqSkAg
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Trump has now been arraigned in the Manhattan and Miami without any major violence erupting. You know why? Because people are now scared of being prosecuted for it after January 6. Enforcing the law maintains order. Don’t pardon the J6 convicts. They are an important deterrent.
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It’s remarkable how quickly world events are showing how badly wrong people like Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis were on Ukraine. Just a total & embarrassing miss on one of the most consequential geopolitical events in recent decades. This is historic.
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It’s official. To be a good Republican today, you have to support Donald Trump; be against aiding Ukraine; support absurd tariffs; think our courts and elections are rigged; & believe character doesn’t matter. I simply don’t believe in any of that. I am no longer a Republican.
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A margin of defeat so staggering and so embarrassing that he can’t even lie about it with a straight face. That’s what we need.
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Only the first volume of Jack Smith’s report was released, but the first few pages alone are sickening. The country may want to ignore the truth or even believe Trump’s lies. But sooner or later the debt to the truth is paid. The United States has embarrassed itself and shamed its legacy by re-electing Donald Trump.
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This single response deserves to win @ColinAllredTX the election. Ted Cruz voted against certifying the 2020 election and then hid in a supply closet. That alone makes him unfit to be a US Senator. Send him home, Texans.
Colin Allred
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The Abrego-Garcia case is a perfect litmus test for whether a person understands and is truly committed to the rule of law. If you can’t admit the plain error here, you are captured and, through either tribal loyalty or blind trust, are losing touch with an important part of what America is.
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If Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala Harris, it’s safe to say this election is not any kind of referendum on conservatism. Conservatism is not on the ballot, so let’s just all band together and beat the guy who would ignore our votes and terminate the Constitution.
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Bob Menendez John Edwards Hunter Biden Henry Cuellar Rod Blagojevich Jim Traficant Mel Reynolds Chaka Fattah Anthony Weiner All Democrats. All charged, most convicted of crimes. Trump is not special. MAGA just needs him to be so they can keep playing the victim. Don’t buy it.
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Kevin McCarthy is now saying that a GOP House majority will end US aid to Ukraine. The GOP as an institution is now against continued support for Ukraine. Vote accordingly.
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It’s too little observed how Ted Cruz literally changed everything about himself when MAGA hit. In just 4 years, he didn’t just ditch his constitutional conservatism. He changed his entire physical appearance & style from Princeton debate champion to Duck Dynasty man. 😂
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I’m a Christian, pro-life, pro-2A conservative that has never voted for a Democrat in my life and who disagrees with much of the Dem platform. But Trump and his ilk have actively degraded the GOP & pushed conservatives like me away—& I will now vote for Joe Biden as a result.
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These idiots crashed the best economy in the world in less than three months.
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I’m sorry, but Hegseth, RFK Jr., Patel, Gabbard... they just aren’t intelligent. We need to call it like it is. It isn’t just that I disagree with them. It’s that they don’t understand what they’re doing and they actively endanger the security of the United States.
Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified. thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabb…
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Jarring to hear an American President say: “Russia fought for that land in Ukraine and lost a lot of soldiers doing it, so Russia should keep it.” The United States is quickly becoming just another country—and it’s sad.
Jay in Kyiv
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I don’t think I’ve ever been as disgusted, angered, and disillusioned with politics than I am today. The Constitution lost; facts lost; logic lost; accountability lost. Our country lost. The Framers who sought to create a government of laws and not of men are surely weeping.
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On JD Vance: “I was never more sick than when JD asked Zelenskyy why Ukraine doesn’t just stop fighting. They’re fighting because Putin invaded & started killing their women and children. To even ask that question is just so idiotic.” Thanks to @AdamKinzinger for the discussion.
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I don’t care where you stand on the death penalty, if the prosecutor’s office seeks to vacate a conviction and the victim’s family want the sentence commuted—the state should not execute that person. This headline is an indictment of Missouri.
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I’m sorry. If this is your team, you don’t deserve the respect of decent people until you condemn this ugliness that your leaders keep putting on stages for you to cheer. Until then, I’m assuming you’re sitting there clapping along to this, too.
Aaron Rupar
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Yeah, I’m going with this guy’s word over Trump. It’s not even close.
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Don Jr. has the mental maturity of a third grader. This isn’t conservative. It isn’t even entertaining. It’s stupid. Fellow Rs: Why would you want to willingly champion & associate with stupid & classless voices like Don Jr’s? thedailybeast.com/donald-tru…
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Listen to Republican H.R. McMaster straight-up confirm the basis of the *first* Trump impeachment: that Trump stalled critical military aid for Ukraine to try to get election dirt on the Bidens. Sheesh.
Face The Nation
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This is open grift and corruption from the President of the United States. And if you can’t admit that it’s a problem, you’re in the grip of a cult. Every time he does this, he degrades our entire country. It’s also sad. Many Americans who trust him will lose their savings.
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Donald Trump faults Lincoln for not just cutting some kind of a deal on slavery to avoid the Civil War. We will permanently embarrass our country if we re-elect this man.
Aaron Rupar
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Woah. Just realized my own Senator for whom I once interned has now blocked me, presumably for this tweet. Sorry, John—the R next to your name doesn’t put you above criticism.
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That WSJ story is also written like they have much more in the barrel. Folks are kidding themselves if they think WSJ didn’t expect the “I’ll sue you!” and “It’s fake!” responses. More to come, I’m sure. So many people are going to look so stupid for carrying this guy’s water.
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Dude represents southern Louisiana but is busy taking glam shots of himself today like he’s a character in House of Cards. We elect idiots.
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Sorry, folks. Mom teaches 4th grade public school. I went to public school. My uncle is a superintendent of a public school. You’re not going to convince me there’s a big conspiracy among public school teachers & admins to indoctrinate kindergartners on sexuality. There isn’t.
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It’s not enough that he lose. He needs to get destroyed. Run up the score, folks.
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Vance on Harris: “She can go to hell.” You can see his pause as he reads the words on the prompter. He knows it’s disgraceful and isn’t sure who put those words there—but then he says it anyway. We deserve better leaders than this.
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Trump’s disrespectful comments towards the military seem to be having an impact. Small sample, but even diehard Trump supporters I know in East Texas are furious over this and have had enough of the guy. You don’t mess with the troops.
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I don’t understand this. This Vet was respectful & ready to engage in good faith. If @LindseyGrahamSC & others are so convinced, why not just explain it in settings like this? One honest & respectful conversation on this would do wonders for the country.
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I can’t associate with these Rs. Under Trump, they’ve abandoned most of what I agreed with as a conservative when it came to policy & worse have so embraced his odiousness in how they engage, there are few left I even respect. They want a shrinking circle & can have it. I’m out.
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Difficult to overstate how remarkable the Wilkinson opinion is. For seasoned readers of these opinions, the tone and substance are unmistakably unique and severe. This was not a normal opinion for Wilkinson. He knew and clearly hoped the entire country would read this—and I think it will easily be a legacy-defining opinion for his entire career. It reads as if he knew it would be when he wrote it. He delivered. I hope the country heeds his warning.
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MTG should be censured. What an embarrassment to the country.
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Gohmert, just now: “Colonel Vindman was portrayed as some hero?! He’s no hero.” Vindman was blown up fighting in Iraq and was back on the battlefield the next day. Vindman has a Purple Heart, Louie has no shame.
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Good grief. Every second of this response is incredible. From January 6th, to the absurdity of Ron DeSantis and others who feign ignorance, to the personal connection with a young NH voter. A masterclass in clarity. Watch out.
Kaitlan Collins
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Two more votes for Harris. She wouldn’t be my first choice in a normal election, but she is the only choice in *this* election if you believe that character, integrity, the rule of law, and defending our allies against authoritarians should matter. We also have a baby daughter on the way and I want her to know her country rejected weak men like Trump who denigrate and assault women—exactly the type of men I hope to protect her from. Send the message. Go vote, folks. 🇺🇸
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Nikki Haley was finally leading. She had spoken clearly and developed her own base in politics that Trump couldn’t steal. She stood on her own feet. We even voted for her after she dropped out. And she just threw it all away. An utterly bizarre and cowardly choice.
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Targeting law firms for who they represent. Removing things from museums. Deporting legal residents without due process. Threatening companies that raise prices. Playing loose with classified intel. Impeaching judges for their decisions. We’re losing our country—fast.
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He tweeted this exact same thing before he lost to Joe Biden—and the stock market is now at record highs and unemployment is near 4 percent.
If Kamala wins, you are 3 days away from the start of a 1929-style economic depression. If I win, you are 3 days away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen. Kamala’s inflation nightmare has cost the typical American family $30,000 dollars in higher prices—and now, she wants to impose the largest tax hike in American history, and raise your taxes by $3,000 dollars a year. I will massively cut taxes for workers and small businesses—and we will have NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY benefits!
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I was a fan of Mike Lee. He is smart. He was conservative. He was a scholar of the law who originally ran on fidelity to the Constitution. He *knew* none of this was legit. But he did it anyway to play a part—to stay on the team. And he doesn’t get a pass for knowing better.
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Ron DeSantis is actively campaigning for Doug Mastriano and Kari Lake—two election deniers and one J6 attendee. If that’s not crossing a red line, I’m not sure what is. Ron DeSantis has made himself unsupportable.
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I’m sorry, but every reasonable attorney of any political stripe with any kind of self-respect knows this Trump appeal to SCOTUS was a bogus legal argument. The fact that four Justices gave it a thumbs up is a damning indictment of either their intelligence or their integrity.
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We are led by immature children performing for their own cameras. This is embarrassing, @RepKatCammack.
Congresswoman Kat Cammack
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This is what failure looks like.
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That virtually no Republican politician is seizing this moment to loudly defend folks like Kemp, Ducey, and Raffensperger and reposition themselves away from Trump on something so obvious tells you that many are as dumb as they are cowardly.
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“Sure, Trump aimed & pulled the trigger—but, ask yourself: why the hell was the person standing there?!” — Every Congressional Republican
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I can’t understand a member of Congress willfully sitting out the State of the Union and the show of national solidarity during a moment of international conflict just because they don’t want to take a COVID test. Ukrainian families are getting bombed. Show up.
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Hey, GOP: If you nominate Trump again, conservatives are going to vote for Joe Biden—again. And more of us this time. It’s your call. If you want to keep getting beat, go right ahead.
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.@Scaramucci on CNN just now: “I talked to 3 cabinet officials last night who think the guy has lost his mind. The dam is about to start breaking with folks coming forward. I’m just the tip of the iceberg.” Watching hopefully, but won’t believe it til I see it. 👀
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He’s crumbling. We’re also starting to see where this is headed. There is no world in which Trumpism ends with a respectable permanent place in America’s political discourse. It will self-destruct and be remembered as an embarrassment—like McCarthyism.
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Dude. This was all he talked about on the campaign trail—and you clapped like a seal and told us all we just didn’t understand politics. Please sit down with your MAGA buddies until this stupid recession is over. We know where you stood.
This was done in the name of working class populism, but there is no way in hell the working class voted for this.
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Trump called men and women of the FBI ‘scum’ last night. Reminder: Every Republican who sits by silently and refuses to say anything tacitly accepts this. Remember who they are when it comes primary season. huffpost.com/entry/trump-fbi…
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Hosting the Saudi LIV Golf tournament at your course while the families of 9/11 victims grieve and protest outside is one of the least “America First” things I can imagine.
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Let’s walk through this blow by blow, since it appears to be the last-ditch argument the GOP wants to try to hang its hat on: Why is the Hillary situation different from the Trump situation and why is it *not* a double standard to charge Trump and not Hillary? (1/)
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The Senate GOP echoes Putin’s talking points just to stay in lock-step behind Trump. This is repulsive.
John Kennedy doubles down on unfounded theory that Ukraine interfered in 2016 election hill.cm/ghcZEcO
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Doug Collins says Democrats are "in love with terrorists,” and that “we see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold-Star families.” Despicable, Doug. Where do y’all even come up with these lies? They aren’t even good lies. They’re stupid.
nikki mccann ramírez
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A helpful pictograph of people that should never be supported for any elected office ever again.
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There’s nothing to debate. The vaccines worked. Why debate something everyone can look up for themselves & is patently obvious to the rest of the world. We ran a race against the clock to get these things and once we had them, fewer people died. It’s not rocket science, people.
Again, I’m going to ask you very clearly, are you willing to debate @RobertKennedyJr on my podcast?
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Senator Mike Lee is a terrible person.
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Listen to Don Jr. explain that the real reason the Trumps had to sell memecoins was because no actual banker would lend them money. He says it was because of their politics—but anybody who knows anything about bankers (who definitely skew conservative) knows that if you’ve got good credit and you’ve got a good business, they want to be in on the action. So? The Trumps turned to sketchy unregulated capital raises with memecoins that bilk retail investors without any liability under the securities laws. If you don’t see this as the obvious scam that it is, you deserve to lose your money.
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Case study in how *not* to lead in a crisis: “There’s a lot of info out there, some of it’s accurate.” “I can’t say. I could, but I won’t.” Like a damned child. Someone get this clown off TV and get a serious LEO who will just deliver the known facts.
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MAGA GOP ran on “radical transparency” from everything to UFOs to nuclear secrets, but the minute folks want to see a taxpayer-funded report on Matt Gaetz’s sex crimes, they want to keep it all locked up. Absolute frauds.
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This is the most absurd and appalling document to issue from an official government body in the United States in modern American history. We are losing our country. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
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What’s nuts is that this is not a difficult one to be right on. It was a jury of citizens Trump helped screen & he presented his entire case in a full trial. The jurors unanimously convicted him of every count. Not the judge. Not the “deep state.” The jury. Of citizens.
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