Eric Kleefeld
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Senior Writer, Rapid Response at @mmfa . Neoliberal social democrat, political punned-it. (Tweets are my own.)
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Red Hen should simply hold a press conference, and defiantly state that this never happened.
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS
and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
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The President of the United States is trying to tank Amazon, in order to punish its CEO for negative media coverage in the newspaper he also owns.
And I'm supposed to think David Hogg spearheading an advertising boycott of Laura Ingraham is an urgent threat to freedom of speech?
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The student loan system exists because the Baby Boom generation didn’t want to pay the taxes that helped put it through college at vastly subsidized tuition, but still expected younger generations to get all the same education.
Result: Generations of white-collar debt peonage.
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Newt Gingrich: "What you are watching is a legislative coup d'etat. This is not an impeachment, and we ought to quit talking about it as if it's an impeachment," Dems just want to get rid of Trump.
Newt led the impeachment of Bill Clinton over an affair — while having an affair.
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Jill Stein literally attended a big dinner in Moscow, sitting at a table with Vladimir Putin and Mike Flynn. This statement by Hillary Clinton *shouldn't* be controversial!
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Amazing how a Fox News article says that somebody who lost both legs as an Army helicopter pilot in Iraq “takes advantage” of a benefit program for disabled veterans.
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Ted Cruz has done more to stand up for canned beans than he’s done to stand up for his wife.
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Nancy Pelosi has been married for 55 years, has had five children, and currently has eight grandchildren.
She just doesn't measure up to the traditional family values of past Republican Speakers like Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert.
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Isn’t the vaccine supposed to be his dad’s great accomplishment?
Eric Trump: "The vaccine represents, literally, the stripping of freedoms in this country"
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@ZacB_MN
@fawfulfan
However, nobody should cite Wikipedia for an official work such as a school paper, news article, etc. You can figure out what other source the Wiki page is citing, and then use *that*. It’s a starting point for research, not the end point.
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In a functioning constitutional system, the chief justice of the Supreme Court would be on the phone with Clarence Thomas this weekend, telling him that his vote this past January on the secrecy of Trump’s insurrection papers now poses a major problem to the court’s legitimacy.
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Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin responds to Trump’s tweet calling for her to be fired, over her reporting to confirm he disparaged U.S. troops.
“My sources are not anonymous to me, and I doubt they are anonymous to the president.”
Also, her sources are “unimpeachable.”
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Fox Business contributor: “You want to know how bad inflation is? Yesterday, yes, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell — cost me about $28 at Taco Bell for lunch.”
Um, how is that even physically possible? (Also, don’t think I’ll take financial advice from this guy.)
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This is from Fox Business yesterday: Former Trump economic advisers Larry Kudlow and Kevin Hassett dismissed Wall Street expectations of a 250K jobs report for July, insisting in this recession it would be “closer to 100 … way on the downside.”
Numbers just came out: 528K.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton says the quiet part loudly: “The governor has figured out we can stop trade along the border, slow it down, and it will create pressure on Mexico and some of their governors to work out a deal to help us with border security.”
Just blatantly unconstitutional.
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Note: Trump's mother was an immigrant. So even he wouldn't qualify to be one of your Volksamerikaner.
@AnnCoulter
If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.
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Mike Huckabee personally intervened to release a convicted rapist from prison: Wayne DuMond, who had become a right-wing favorite because his previous victim was a distant relative of Bill Clinton.
After Huckabee released DuMond, the latter man raped and murdered two more women.
Yes
@ktumulty
because MS-13 is not a race but an illegal gang who rapes, murders, and mutilates children as sport. Nancy Pelosi defended them because she said
@realDonaldTrump
insulted them. Are you defending them too? Wasn’t aware that criminal was a “race.”
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John McCain isn't just a cancer patient cutting off other cancer patients. He's also an 80 year-old cutting off people in nursing homes.
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Indeed, why can’t we “resume life as normal,” asked Herman Cain’s Twitter account?
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We need to ask whether Greg Gianforte and his white Republican supporters were turned violent by country music lyrics glorifying bar fights.
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Easy prediction: Meghan McCain will support Trump for re-election in 2020.
In deleted Tweet, Meghan McCain responds to Trump: "My father lives rent-free in your head"
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Coming soon, to schools in Texas and Florida.
New Russian history book for 11th graders says Trump lost the 2020 elections "as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party"...
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Are there any branches of academic theory that would explore this question?
Kyle Rittenhouse, in his first interview, with
@TuckerCarlson
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"If they did this to me, imagine what they could've done to a person of color who doesn't maybe have the resources I do, or [if] it's not widely publicized like my case."
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Proud to say that I am blocked by
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Fox News is now openly pondering on the air: "Is Rudy Giuliani becoming a liability for the White House?"
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This exchange between Stuart Varney and Joe Walsh is oddly reminiscent of the torture scenes from "1984."
Varney challenges Walsh: Name an example ofTrump lying.
Walsh names one. Varney denies it.
Walsh: "Do you believe he's ever told the American people a lie?"
Varney: "No."
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Jeanine Pirro mocks Nancy Pelosi for “wrapping herself in God, country, and the American flag” to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump — while Pirro is herself in front of an American flag backdrop, and wrapped in, well, something.
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Imagine if Lincoln had simply delivered a short public address: “HAPPY GETTYSBURG!”
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Orwell: “She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”
Kristen Welker: "Do you think it was a tragic day? Do you think that the people who stormed the Capitol should be held responsible to the full extent of the law?"
Elise Stefanik: "I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages."
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Start calling AHCA "Treasoncare" — it is a deliberate conspiracy to destroy the public health of the nation.
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Adventures in Deleted Tweets: Rudy Giuliani Edition.
Here’s take one, then take two.
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Rand Paul rails on how Georgia was supposedly stolen — “but probably most importantly” absentee ballot applications being sent out for the Senate runoffs.
“I’m very, very concerned that if you solicit votes from typically non-voters, that you will affect and change the outcome.”
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In Dec. 2020, Texas AG Ken Paxton pushed a frivolous lawsuit for the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Biden’s victories in multiple states. He was a right-wing hero.
Now he says Texas impeaching him would “overturn the results of a free and fair election.”
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The Founding Fathers never intended for there to be two Dakotas.
The Founding Fathers never intended for Washington D.C. to be a state.
#DCStatehood
is really about packing the Senate with Democrats in order to pass a left-wing agenda.
Just look at the DC voter registration data:
🔵 76.4% Democrat
🔴 5.7% Republican
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Start with farm subsidies and bailouts, right?
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Stuart Varney: "Sen. Warren would force all big companies to take a lot of their profit away from shareholders. And it would be given to (pause) — the workforce, the community, customers, the local and global environment, and community and societal factors — whatever that is."
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Here was Brad Raffensperger two years ago, warning people there would be legal consequences if they moved into Georgia just to vote in a Senate race: “Let me be clear, those who come to Georgia with the intention of voter fraud will be prosecuted.”
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Stephanie Grisham rebuts Melania Trump on CNN: “I can dispute every single thing that she said today with emails, with texts. And also, I sent her a text saying, ‘Do you want to condemn violence?’ If she didn’t know what I was talking about, why didn't she say, ‘What violence?’”
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Ask those governments for bailouts, then.
You want a U.S. bailout? Fly under the American flag, and pay U.S. taxes.
All the major cruise lines are asking for bailouts from the U.S. Government.
Yet, Disney Cruises sails under the Bahamian flag ... Celebrity Cruises under Liberian/Maltese flags & Carnival Cruises under the Panamanian flag - all to avoid U.S. taxes & employment law
Just sayin'
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Russia basically did a Bart Simpson prank call to Tom Cotton and Donald Trump, which then set off the whole Greenland episode.
The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's foreign minister & alleging there'd be an independence referendum.
Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.
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CNN contributor Sean Duffy is too crazy for the managing editor of the Washington Examiner.
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Reminds me of National Review in 1963, after the Birmingham church bombing: "…he set back the cause of the white people there so dramatically as to raise the question whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur—of a Communist, or of a crazed Negro."
None of the leftists ostensibly targeted for pipe-bombs were actually at serious risk, since security details would be screening their mail. So let’s determine not only who is responsible for these bombs, but whether they were trying to deflect attention from the Left’s mobs.
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We’ve gone from Republican scaremongering that Democrats were out to kill Grandma with socialized health care — to Republicans now calling upon Grandma to die to save capitalism.
Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren
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Orwell: “She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”
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That is literally what happened on Jan. 6.
Gingrich: A real coup is an effort to occupy the government and to change who controls Washington. There’s no evidence of anything like a coup here
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I know South Carolina is deep-red, but I would like to see a TV ad this year replaying Lindsey Graham sneering at nurses as a bunch of greedy layabouts.
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Peter Navarro: “The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president who I believe was legally elected on November 3,” “74 million Americans out there” are “pissed off” like him.
Maria Bartiromo: “We know that there were irregularities in this election.”
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MTG tells Kudlow: “Yes, the news just broke that Tom Emmer is out of the race for Speaker of the House, and I think it’s good news.”
Also: “He also, you know, once had supported the voting rights — the national voting movement that was completely against what we stand for.”
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Karl Rove shoots down Stuart Varney’s question about Michelle Obama replacing Biden as the Dem nominee: “The starting point is, she hates politics. This is a weird obsession of the conspiratorial right, and it’s just lunacy, pure lunacy.”
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Imagine thinking this is an own vs. Biden.
Also, Biden actually said, “to get that phone call in the middle of the night, to say your family members are gone. I’ve been there.” That’s happened to him more than once — his 1st wife and baby daughter died in car accident, in 1972.
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Flashback to mid-Feb. 2022, when Maria Bartiromo claimed that Russia’s buildup to invade Ukraine was really just a “ruse” created by Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, to distract from something to do with Hillary Clinton.
Bartiromo: The mainstream media has an excuse not to cover it. They’re covering everything about Russia and The Wagner Group as if it matters to the US right now
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Honestly, Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t the first House GOP member whom I’d expel.
Mo Brooks actually spoke to the Trump rally on January 6, and told them: “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.” This should’ve been an open-and-shut case.
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Rick Scott voted to reject the election results, even after Trump’s violent coup attempt. This is like interviewing an active Confederal general about how Lincoln isn’t uniting the country.
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@AmosPosner
@DennisPerkins5
I have no hesitation to openly endorse the leaking/piracy of this movie.
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This NYT article seems to be doing its level best to *not* explain why the U.S. has “has failed to vaccinate as many people” and has a higher death rate.
Closest it gets is talking about “distrust,” but not the right-wing politics and media sowing it all.
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Wall Street Journal news section: Texas is in a catastrophe because gas power plants went offline from the storm, while they’re trying to get wind power back up to cover it.
WSJ Editorial Board: Texas is suffering because wind power has failed, while gas “ramped up” to cover it.
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In a Nov. 2020 phone call, McDaniel urged local GOP canvassing board members to refuse to certify the votes from Michigan’s largest county: “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys.”
Hiring her is an absolute disgrace.
MSNBC does a lot of good work but NBC hiring Ronna McDaniel is exactly why I’m grateful to be independent. I can say (accurately!) that it’s a disgraceful move without having to worry about my job.
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Why does Donald Trump *continue* to obsess over Barack Obama?
Here's an explanation of this type of behavior — written down all the way back in 1964, in "The Amazing Spider-Man"
#10
, by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Capitol Police officer: “They were waving the Thin Blue Line flag and telling us, ‘We’re not your enemies,’ while they they were attacking us, and killed one of us.”
The pictures were shocking, but the words of these DC Metro police officers paint a clearer picture of just what happened last week. An incredible piece from
@Nia_Official
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@ShimonPro
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Nancy Mace says Hunter Biden should be arrested right now where he’s sitting in the committee room, for the crime of not showing up to the committee.
Mace: You're the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, You have no balls to come up here and --
Moskowitz: We can hear from Hunter Biden right now
Mace: Are women allowed to speak?!? Hunter Biden should be arrested right here
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So much of Ginni Thomas’ political activities are circumstantial evidence of Clarence Thomas’ judicial corruption — a lot of it, but still circumstantial.
His vote on the Supreme Court to try to keep Trump’s insurrection papers secret is where he *clearly* dirtied his own hands.
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Kevin McCarthy publicly boasted that the Benghazi committee was set up specifically in order to damage Hillary Clinton politically.
Corey Lewandowski: Nadler's investigation is a taxpayer-funded contribution to the 2020 Democratic candidate | Fox News
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Trying to censure Adam Schiff, after he just completely humiliated John Durham for the latter’s willful ignorance (literally, not reading the news from the time) about Trump’s public welcome of Russian help in 2016.
Schiff: To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you. You flatter me with this falsehood. You who are the authors of the big lie about the last election must condemn the truth tellers and I stand proudly before you.
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@yashar
Taking Einstein’s name off an institution would be a real controversy. But is she asking for the free tuition to be called something like the “Gottesman scholarship”?
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Kayleigh McEnany told Jan. 6 Committee: “In my view, upon the conclusion of litigation, was when I began to plan for life after the administration.”
Here she was in December 2020, talking up the fake elector scheme. (And continued litigation, after SCOTUS threw out Texas suit.)
Kayleigh says the litigation is ongoing and says in four states there has been “alternate slate of electors voted upon that congress will decide in January”
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump briefing a group of Senate Republicans on the impeachment fight.
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Reminder: Newt Gingrich pursued the impeachment of Bill Clinton over an affair — while he was himself having an affair.
(He has since married the "other woman" in question — and she's now the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.)
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The weekend before the 2020 election, Chris Christie said on ABC News that Trump would accept a defeat, “putting up that kind of stink in terms of peaceful transition just is not the way he wants to leave.”
Why does mainstream media treat him seriously?
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@existentialfish
“She’d be the first vice president of color, but not African American.”
Even by his own definitions, the genius Mark Levin has no knowledge of U.S. history. The first VP of color was Herbert Hoover’s VP, Charles Curtis, who was part Native American and grew up on a reservation.
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@Mediaite
Susan Sarandon is the sort of privileged white person who likes social struggle more than enjoying actual progress.
Susan Sarandon on Her Past Trump Comments: Look at How ‘Energized’ People Are With Him in Office (VIDEO)
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Saying that tax-free churches should get reimbursed by FEMA is like saying the Red Cross should get reimbursed, instead of people donating.
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A short thread: Comparing the Trump paintings of Jon McNaughton, with state “art” of North Korea worshipping the Kim Dynasty.
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When propaganda aimed at making a problem look far worse than actually it is gets into really cartoonish territory: Putting up a map of states with gas station outages — with two states actually lit up at “0%.”
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I'm seeing some tweets making fun of Trent Franks's appearance. Please do not do that. He was born with a severe case of cleft palate, and even the best surgeries at the time were tricky. (Perhaps still so today, for similar instances.)
Stick to talking about how *weird* he is.
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Larry Kudlow personally asks Kevin O’Leary to loan Trump the $464 million bond he’ll need to appeal the New York civil fraud case, “in order to protect America’s name, think of it that way.”
O’Leary never answers that one, instead says the Supreme Court needs to intervene.
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Sure, let’s ask every other state’s governor about how South Dakota has got the highest COVID death rate since July.
BRENNAN: Since July, your state has the highest Covid death rate. How can you justify that?
NOEM: Those are questions that you should be asking every other governor as well
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Jim Jordan endorses Trump’s call to demand in govt funding bill, “no money can be used to target your political opponents, which is exactly what Jack Smith is doing to President Trump.”
Without missing a beat, Stuart Varney asks for latest update on Jordan’s Hunter Biden probe.
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We must seriously consider idea that conservatives *welcomed* Russian dirty tricks, to "save" America from becoming a multiracial democracy.
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) at the rally earlier today: “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”
He incited today’s disgraceful episode, and he should absolutely be expelled from the House.
Mo Brooks begins the Trump "Save America Rally" on a profane and angry note
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Reminder: Newsmax’s White House correspondent is also a fervent anti-vax conspiracy theorist. (The full-on Bill Gates, vaccines-are-tracking-you type of person.)
“I’m sorry, Emerald, I think you’ve had plenty of time today” — Psaki ran out of patience with a Newsmax staffer’s conspiracy theories
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The New York Times is stealing from me, cashing in on the trending topic without credit:
You could order $28 of Taco Bell or you could do the right thing and make this yourself in 30 minutes. Your choice.
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We’ve got 800,000 case studies.
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@realDonaldTrump
Churches get *tax-exempted* because they are supposed to provide public services. If they were for-profit companies…
Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others).
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Republican politicians aren’t just completely shameless liars and demagogues. They’re also totally unoriginal.
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You already endorsed Trump — after he publicly insulted your wife.
@tedcruz
Every wife, mother, daughter -- every person -- deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
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Remember when Republicans said Obama was letting Ebola into the country?
Seriously, every last one of their accusations are all projection.
CDC didn’t want to fly Americans infected with
#Coronavirus
to the US along with those who weren’t infected. The Trump administration overruled the CDC.
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I will vote for Stacey Abrams for anything, simply because she just used the grammatically correct plural, "attorneys general."
#SOTU
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Newt Gingrich claims “as a historian, people are going to find it’s absolutely true” that there was a vast conspiracy of forging mail-in ballots to steal the 2020 election from Trump.
This man is a former high officeholder, continuing to push lies that already led to violence.
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My approval of Biden just went up.
Rick Scott voted with the insurrection. Nobody should take his calls.
Rick Scott claims he called the White House this week and got hung up on
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Joe Biden meeting this morning with his political advisers, to discuss the midterm results.
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This slipped by everyone’s attention Thursday, but while Trump was getting indicted NBC News also ran a totally credulous interview with ex-Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who claims Fox wants to make her the fall person in the Dominion case.
Did they do zero diligence on her?
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Reminder that after the election, Fox News fired its purported “news side” editor because he was the first to call Arizona for Biden — which was correct.
Stirewalt: I understand why Donald Trump’s experience with the Arizona call was difficult for him because it disrupted a narrative he was trying to put into place that night… When we flipped Arizona red to blue, that meant that Trump was hit under the waterline…
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Rush Limbaugh: “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York?”
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Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) elaborates on his new Senate campaign ad: “We’re either going to go in the direction that the president wants to take us — or the direction of AOC, Omar, Colin Kaepernick, and the Squad.”
Wow, I didn’t know that Kaepernick was in Congress.
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Do you want to hear something really scary?
Louie Gohmert used to be a judge.
LOUIE GOHMERT: "If you love America, mamas, don't let your babies grow up to go to Harvard or Stanford law school."
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