Charles M. Blow
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@NYTimes columnist. @MSNBC political analyst. Lecturer. Author of #TheDevilYouKnow and #FireShutUpInMyBones , both NYT bestsellers.
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Allow me to reiterate: There is NO WAY Obama could have 1) had an affair with a porn star 2) while Michelle was pregnant! 3) paid her $130k to keep it on the low 4) and STILL have religious folks defending him! There would have been a mob at the WH demanding for his removal!!!
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America, where black ppl can commit a traffic offense and lose their life, but the first fam can commit treason and not even lose their job.
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Anti-racism is so hip right now. Yay! But, don’t let it be a fad; make it forever.
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For me this remains the most profound picture ever taken of Obama. The little boy needed to know if Obama's hair was actually like his own.
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It is estimated that the Boston Tea Party, the riot that gave birth to this country, resulted in $1.7 million dollars (in today’s dollars) in property damage (tea). I’m just going to leave this right here for whoever needs to read it.
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Also, I’m sick of explaining racism. You invented it. You should know it better than me.
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Here in Georgia EVERYBODY is voting. It’s the only thing people talk about. Have you voted? Where are you voting? Want to go with me to vote? It’s such a thrilling feeling to be in a state that can actually flip.
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My oldest son is a first year medical student at Cornell. Yesterday on his flight to Dallas a passenger had a medical emergency, diabetic shock. That asked if there was a doctor on the plane. He said he was a student. They still took his advice. He made them land the plane. PROUD
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Say what you want about Obama, but I never once worried about a damned nuclear war...
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My brother’s funeral is today at noon. Lord, give me strength…
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Melania felt it was too traumatic to move her son to DC in the middle of the school year so she spent millions of taxpayer dollars to stay in NY w him for MONTHS!
Now she’s sipping tea w the queen of Spain discussing helping kids while her husband locks them in cages
Girl bye!
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“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb
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Can we all just admit this: The transformational changes that covid, the economic crisis, police brutality and racial turbulence will force are precisely some of the things Bernie Sanders was talking about but may have sounded too extreme to some just months ago.
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Chick-fil-A is anti-gay: You don’t burn chicken sandwiches
Papa John’s founder says n-word: You don’t burn pizzas
H&M puts black boy in ‘monkey’ shirt - you don’t burn sweatshirts.
Nike taps a man who stands for black lives: You grab your matches from the shelf by the sheets
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Let this sink in:
There are tanks in the nation’s capital and concentration camps at its border.
The drift to toward the unimaginable is unmistakable.
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Once more: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. There is free speech. You can say and do as you pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your products EVER again. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.
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You turned this massacre into a campaign ad? Are you kidding me?!!!
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For the record “send” is a massive leap forward from voluntarily “leave.” For the president to bask in the chant while his race rally calls for the removal of a sitting congresswoman from the country is a historical moment you should remember.
Trump rally crowd launches into "send her back" chant over Ilhan Omar
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So, are we just going to move on from the fact that the president has been accused of raping someone?
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I hope
@BetoORourke
wins just so that I NEVER have to listen to
@tedcruz
’s sanctimonious sermonizing ever again. That’s my prayer, and amen.
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So, in the Trump’s worldview, it is your patriotic duty to trash the country when the black guy is in charge but your patriotic duty to love it when the white guy is in charge. I see…
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I don’t want to hear any talk abt this man being insane. He posted his manifesto just 20 mins bf walking into the store, but he had driven 9hrs. He probably did it in the parking lot. He knew posting too soon would give ppl time to stop him. He’s not crazy; he’s methodical.
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Shopping for my brother’s casket this morning with my mom and his sons was one of the most surreal things I’ve ever done. Still can’t believe this has happened. RIP…
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I like what obama is doing. There is only so much time in a news day. No one has had the weight to challenge Trump dominance of the news cycle. Obama has that weight. Just by speaking he’s altering the diet of what news people consume. His very presence in the fight is disruptive
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The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days, through a long, hot Alabama summer, and DID NOT END until the Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional. THAT’S how you protest: For as long as it takes!
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The petition to rename the stretch of 5th Ave in NY in front of Trump Tower
#ObamaAve
has gone viral and almost reached its goal. If the street is renamed the new address for Trump Tower will be 725 Barack H. Obama Ave.
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Donald Trump is saying in every way possible that power in America is white, straight and male and all else are targets.
#DACA
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Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone number on his arm “just in case,” I damn near cried. Why do our babied have to even think abt this?!
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During the summer of protests after the murder of George Floyd, millions of ppl - including incredible numbers of white kids - marched in defense of black lives. This shook the white conservative establishment to its core. In their minds their children had been indoctrinated. 1/2
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White America, don’t you EVER talk to me about riots. I know too much history. In that history, your rioting, slaughtering and massacring is epic.
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Donald Trump is a racist. That’s it. That’s the whole tweet. Just can’t say it enough.
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I must keep saying this: How the HELL are we going to spend $20 bil to build the
#WallOfHate
but can't find $55 mil to fix pipes in Flint?!!
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Lynching?! Sir, don’t you DARE invoke the darkness of America’s viciousness toward black people to defend your corruption. How dare you?!…
So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!
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Donald Trump is a racist. Full stop.
If you are part of this administration, defend him in congress, or voted for him and continue to support him, you are part of that racism. I don’t differentiate between him and you.
Dems, stop trying to court these people. They are poison.
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
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@Kaepernick7
tried peaceful protest. Your husband demonized him and called him a son of a bitch.
Our country allows for peaceful protests, but there is no reason for violence. I’ve seen our citizens unify & take care of one another through COVID19 & we can’t stop now. My deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd. As a nation, let's focus on peace, prayers & healing.
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Think about this: we taxpayers are actually paying Sarah Sanders' salary to lie to us.
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Whatever eventually happens with Trump, America will ALWAYS be the country that elected him! We will always be the country where 40% continued to support him after knowing he was a racist Nazi sympathizer who grabbed women by the pxxxy, broke up families and locked kids in cages.
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Stop infantalizing white men and pathologizing black ones.
Kavanaugh, accused of attempted rape, was 17: Trump defending his “very special” guy.
All of the Central Park Five, accused of rape, we’re YOUNGER than 17: Trump said he hated them and called for their execution.
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2/2 All of the CRT panic, book banning and anti-protest laws are a direct response to this. They are trying to push white children’s exposure to - and sympathy for - racial issues back to the dark ages of Jim Crow ignorance. It is a simple as it is shocking.
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You take down a few racist monuments and change the picture on a bottle of syrup, and you think we’re done. Nope!
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The dreadful takeaways:
1. A hostile foreign power can hack our election and barely get reprimanded.
2. A POTUS can obstruct justice in plain sight, and it will be hard to prosecute.
3. A POTUS can surround himself with criminals and liars and expect us to believe he’s not.
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I still can’t get over this:
#JamalKhashoggi
was a columnist for the
@washingtonpost
!!! That could’ve been me or any number of other columnists. Would Trump just let a rich foreign monarch chop up our bodies and do nothing as well? I don’t know how this isn’t a full-stop moment!
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I’ve changed my mind on impeachment.
I used to agree that an impeachment in the House, knowing that the Senate wouldn’t vote to remove, was folly.
Now, I think it must be done ANYWAY. The political question is also a moral one: We can’t have a criminal prez who goes unchecked
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How did we go from a nuclear deal with Iran under Obama - a deal that was *working* - to THIS?!!!
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White people calling black people racist for demanding white people acknowledge and address racism will forever be the most hilarious thing in the world to me.
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Can you imagine if Obama had even *mused* about using the US military against US citizens on US soil.
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I’m not afraid to say this forthrightly: Trump’s horrible mishandling of the pandemic response has cost the lives of TEN OF THOUSANDS American who didn’t need to die. He did it. He killed them. It is negligent homicide. Say it out loud. This didn’t need to be this way.
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The greatest trick white supremacy ever pulled was convincing the world it didn’t exist.
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How the HELL is Sean Hannity simultaneously claiming that Michael Cohen was not his attorney BUT that he assumed their conversations were covered by attorney/client privilege?!!!
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Making my last college tuition payments for my twins this week. I’m done! This will be the biggest raise I’ve ever gotten after paying tuition for three kids (from pre-school to now with some public schools in the lower grades) as a single dad. It’s time to celebrate!!!
#IMadeIt
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If young black or Muslim men were walking into schools and malls and movie theaters and randomly slaughtering Americans — including children! — with anything near this frequency Congress would have acted LONG ago.
#elpasoshooting
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I will say this: the moderate argument against Bernie Sanders — that people are not interested in massive, structural change but incremental change — has fallen away. Covid-19 has insured that we will experience massive, structural change whether we want it or not.
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1. Woodward book paints Trump as dangerous, dumb & unfit.
2. Anon Op-Ed by admin official says there is resistance in the WH trying to protect country from Trump.
3. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in a fed crime.
And yet, Senate is about to approve his SCOTUS pick?!
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Apologies you owe:
Obama (birtherism)
Central Park 5
Mexicans
Muslims
The Khans
My disabled colleague
Women (pxxxy grabber)
Humanity
about that...Those Intelligence chiefs made a mistake here, & when people make mistakes, they should APOLOGIZE." Media should also apologize
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If this isn’t a Marie Antionette moment I don’t know what is. Who cares about a redesigned rose garden when we’re in the middle of a pandemic, 175k+ people are dead and millions are out of work?
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Y’all do realize that if there is a tape of Trump using the N-word his approval rating among his base is just going to UP, right?!
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Meet 9 y.o.
#JamelMyles
. This summer he came out to his mom as gay. Then, he went back to school, 4th grd. The bullying came quickly. His mom said, “My son told my oldest daughter the kids at school told him to kill himself.” On the 4th day he did just that. I’m so sick of this!
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Rich ppl last night implored me to “lay off” Bloomberg.
Did he lay off those blk and brn men & boys? NO!
Ppl asked, begged, sued him to lay off, & instead he intensified his tactic.
Judge told him to lay off bc it was unconstitutional. He tried to appeal.
I WON’T LAY OFF!
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One day today’s Republican Party will deeply regret having blindly followed Trump.
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Trump on Don Jr.: This is a good young man.
Don Jr is a 41-year-old man with five children.
Stop allowing this man to infantilize these GROWN people!
Stop infantilizing white men when they do wrong, while adultifying black BOYS (and girls) when they do wrong.
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I must say that I’m very surprised
@ewarren
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If you are more offended by racist people being called racist than by the racism itself then there is an EXTREMELY high probability that you too are a racist!
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Just so you can see them side-by-side, here is Trump on Texas vs PR. Wonder what the difference is. Hmmm…
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Ok, that’s treason! Seriously. I’m not joking. I’m calling this treason. Point. Blank. Period. TREASON.
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Can I just say, once again, that if that Stormy Daniels interview had been about Obama it would have been OVER, and EVERY black man would have been deemed so DEPRAVED that no other would ever be president again!
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Everything about you is a fraud. Your fake earnestness, your pseudo policy chops, your smart-for-a-country-boy act, your hostility for the poor masquerading as patriotic. EVERYTHING. You are a coward, a liar, a stooge and a hack. That is all. Carry on…
“I have heard time and again that the middle class is getting crumbs, but I’ll take it!”
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If you still ignore, support or defend Trump’s racism at this point, you too are a racist.
I don’t care if you are a cheerful grandma who bakes cookies for the children’s Sunday school class.
You too!
#ThereIsNoMiddleGround
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Again, how are we going to move forward with a SCOTUS nominee chosen by a president implicated in a conspiracy to commit a felony?
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It’s official: We’ll have a doctor in the house. My son just completed his White Coat Ceremony at
@weillcornell
Medical School where he’ll begin his studies this fall.
#PagingDrBlow
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So here’s the lesson teenage boys: You can drink beer like water, write all sorts damning horribleness in your yearbook and have multiple girls accuse you of sexual assault. But as long as you keep a clean calendar and yell and cry during the interview, you’ll still get the job.
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Friends have been trying to sell me on
@BetoORourke
for months. I just didn’t know much about him. Okay, now I’m SOLD!
#TakeAKnee
#ImWithKap
‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful
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How can you set up a joint election hacking commission with the country that hacked our damned election?!!! I feel like I'm going insane...
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DUDE! There has been a mass shooting. A cat 5 hurricane is threatening the country. What are you doing?!
I have not forgotten that when it was announced that I was going to do The Apprentice, and when it then became a big hit, helping NBC’s failed lineup greatly,
@DebraMessing
came up to me at an Upfront & profusely thanked me, even calling me “Sir.” How times have changed!
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I’m a little ticked off that Bolton put all this info in a book to make money after refusing to testify at the impeachment hearings where this info could possibly have made a difference.
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BIG NEWS: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the
@msnbc
family as a political analyst!
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Americans killed in 2018 by right-wing extremists: 50
Americans killed in 2018 by Antifa: 0
Priorities sir…
Sen. Cruz Introduces Measure to Designate Left-Wing Antifa a 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'
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I strongly believe that we are heading towards some sort of crisis with Trump and this Russia investigation. Either he will be brought down by the system or he will bring the whole system down. This is not going to be pretty.
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She’s a birther who wore an “I don’t really care, do you” jacket to visit children her husband was separating from their parents and locking in cages. That’s all I need to know about *this one*. I don’t need a book…
"Free, Melania" offers new details about the life of a private first lady
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Let me throw down the gauntlet NOW: If anyone comes on my tv tomorrow night after the SOTU saying whatever speech Trump READS somehow makes his sound good/presidential/unifying, I’m turning you off and never listening again.
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Why the hell is Ivanka Trump sitting in for daddy at G20 meetings?! What are her qualifications? Who voted for her?
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I’m still trying to figure out how the IRS let Trump get away with so many wild deductions.
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Let me say this again: If Obama had done just 1% of what Trump has done, Obama would have BEEN gone by now!!!
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I think what I hate most about the Trump presidency* is the feeling that hatred, venality and incuriousity are being rewarded.
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If u support Trump, we don't have anything to talk abt & we can't be friends. This isn't abt parties or ideology; This is abt right & wrong
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So, a woman can’t wear a bodysuit to compete in a sport; she must wear a mini-skirt? I’m I the only one smelling the patriarchy on this?
French Open won't let Serena Williams wear her sick black catsuit: "It will no longer be accepted"
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There is a high likelihood that the president of the United States is a criminal and attained the position with the help of his criminality. Let that sink in…
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I am no great fan of Plato, but he got this right: “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
#vote
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How this is going to go:
America: Outrage, sadness
NRA: Complete silence
NRA supporter in DC: Thoughts and prayers
WH: Statement of grief, praise 1st responders
Media: Lamentations, coverage of funerals, candlelight vigils
Adds up to: Nothing changes
#RepeatTheRitual
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Understand this: If Trump thought he was going to win he wouldn’t be preemptively calling the election a sham. You have him terrified.
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“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” — Malcolm X
#breonnataylor
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This is absolutely disgusting…
I had to clip this because it is unbelievable. President
@realDonaldTrump
just said this: “Hopefully, George is looking down right and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country. It’s a great day for him, it’s a great day for everybody.”
#GeorgeFloyd
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Voters, please, do me a favor: give me a future in which I never have to think or write about Donald Trump ever again. I need that. The fact that this vile man has had to be on my mind for years has been a violence.
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I’m tired of black people being killed in the streets. I’m tired in my damned bones. Don’t talk to me. Just let me sit in this. Words are insuffiecient. Language fails.
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I’m am still absolutely stunned that we (black people) now simply have to watch as these states forge ahead with massive voter suppression efforts aimed at us because American *chose* not to stop them. I don’t even know how to form my rage into words. I’m sick. I’m disgusted.
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I don’t think Trump is some great liar. He’s pathological and prolific, but not great. There is no craft or sophistication to his lying. It’s clumsy and stupid. The problem is that his people WANT to be lied to! He’s saying what they want to hear, true or not.
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I think that what I’m witnessing are the protestations of patriarchy and privilege. It whines and it rages when it is threatened with being denied that to which it is owed, as birthright and gender benefit. And how dare a woman be the impediment.
#KavanaghHearing
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