Kurt Andersen
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co-creator , author Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Heyday, Turn of the Century etc., formerly host Studio 360, editor New York, Spy, etc.
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Still think it’ll be politically terrible for Republicans: in the midterm elections after abortion is criminalized in a dozen states next summer, but also long-term—an enduring widespread anti-GOP backlash as well as the GOP losing their consistently, powerfully mobilizing issue.
67% of Americans want abortion to continue to be legal everywhere, 29% don’t. Roe v Wade has been a boon to the
@GOP
for 45 years, and its overturn would be a political disaster for them.
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Among other things, this hearing absolutely reconfirms that Trump’s impeachment by the House on January 13th, 2020, was justified and deserving of conviction.
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Nobody cared about his Fox News medical stunt last night. Only 300 cult members showed up for his rally on the South Lawn today. People have stopped caring. They want it to end. They’re turning the channel.
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Well that was an expensive hissy fit: in addition to damage to this site, Tesla is worth $25 billion less now than it was worth 24 hours ago.
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The
@nytimes
says there are 93,000 votes left to count and that Warnock's and Ossoff's estimated shares of those uncounted votes will be 77%. That'd give them each a net gain of 71,000 votes. If true, Ossoff would win by 69,000 votes (1.5%) and Warnock by 106,000 votes (2.5%).
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@NYTimes
: “Officials presented the president with options. The Pentagon tacked on the choice of targeting Suleimani mainly to make other options seem reasonable. They didn’t think he would take it. When Mr. Trump chose the option, military officials, flabbergasted, were alarmed.”
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Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35:
Boomers, 1989 21%
GenX, 2008 8%
The average Millennial turns 35 in 2023. Right now they own 3%.
There will surely be political implications.
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People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators.
What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.
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The German Health Ministry confirmed a report that Trump “offered large sums of money” to the German pharmaceutical company CureVac to agree to sell rights to a possible coronavirus vaccine exclusively to America, “only for the US.”
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Wouldn’t it be nice if American voters said to themselves: “This 9.1% inflation really sucks, but given that it’s 8.1% in Canada and 9.4% in the UK and 9.6% in the EU, it really makes no sense to blame my financial pain on President Biden or Democratic Congressional candidates.”
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In the Ohio state legislature yesterday, the farthest-right GOP candidate was supposed to be elected Speaker by the body’s huge GOP majority. Surprise: 22 less-hard-right Republicans joined 32 Democrats to elect a more moderate Republican leader instead.
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If a rat could tweet, and it was cornered, would it tweet 45 times in 15 hours? Because that’s what the president did today.
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Last night our eldest married her BF. In their lovely apartment here in Brooklyn, with just a couple of their friends and our fam, everyone spiffed up, music beamed from my iPhone to a speaker, dinner on laps of caviar & good champagne. Such warmth on a cold night in a dark time.
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At “, find out instantly if your voter registration’s current. If not, follow the instructions to register. Click to receive an absentee ballot. Make sure your friends and family do the same.”
Please RT. Thx.
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As I said a few weeks ago, the great photojournalism of 2016 is continuing to resemble stills from a scary, not-entirely-realistic movie.
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53 of 53 U.S. Senators who would ordinarily jump at any opportunity to appear on
@MeetThePress
. An astounding illustration of pathetic, shameful, wholesale cowardice and the bankruptcy of the Republican Party.
.
@chucktodd
: "We invited every single Republican senator to appear here on
@MeetThePress
this morning. They all declined.”
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Dear
@MittRomney
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This is the character-testing moment of your life. This is your opportunity to make history, become a leader, even a hero. You have more power this week and next than any senator apart from
@senatemajldr
. Use it.
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A president of the United States is saying that a criminal’s loyalty to his fellow criminals is a sacred principle, and that it’s wrong for law enforcement to interfere with that.
Trump: I know all about flipping. It should almost be illegal.
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Actually, the way I'll always remember him is when he threatened to have a CNBC camera crew follow my daughters, 4 & 6, home from school.
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Prediction: he decamps to Mar-a-Lago well before January 20th and then remains there for the duration.
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One party doesn’t want to debate policy or legislate or govern. So the other party, with a fleeting historic opportunity to pass good policy, crazily creates its own intramural simulation of a fractious gridlocked two-party system.
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Graphic design.
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One of the great framers declined in the end to sign the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights -- and also because of this:
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I don’t get why post office operating costs not covered by post office revenues started being called “losses,” unlike with other services the government provides, such as military defense. Especially since Article 1 of the Constitution provides for creating post offices.
The USPS is viewed favourably by 91% of Americans despite billions in losses annually
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Faced with a decrepit infrastructure,
habitual austerity and zero bipartisanship, a new president in 10 months passes the huge historic bill he campaigned on, with 13 GOP House and 19 GOP Senate votes. (After a divisive GOP POTUS who kept promising and utterly failing to do it.)
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I really don’t understand why the White House press corps doesn’t agree in advance that at press conferences with this freak, after particularly egregious non-answers or lies, they’ll follow up, rather than always asking their own unconnected pre-fab question.
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I've laid off until now, but come the fuck on
@PeteButtigieg
: for your entire life, it's been Republican presidents who rack up the most extravagant and unnecessary deficits (Reagan, George W. Bush, Trump) and Democrats (Clinton, Obama) who've done fiscally prudent cleanups.
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Here’s one way to think about
@FoxNews
‘ extraordinary and unprecedented power over our president, Congress and politics right now: its viewers are mostly over 65, and 94% white, but only 10% of Americans are white people over 65.
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30 years ago, Spy magazine sent “refund” checks for $1.11 to 58 rich people. The 26 who cashed those got a another check, for $.64. The 13 who cashed those each got a check for $.13. Two people cashed the $.13 checks—Donald Trump and Jamal Khashoggi’s arms-dealer uncle Annan.
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National Retail Federation report last spring: “‘organized retail crime’ was responsible for half the $94.5B in store merchandise” stolen. I fell for it. In fact: about 5%. And “in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen 7% since 2019.”
Hugely important retraction.
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Brilliant one-line email from an historian friend, connecting Trump's nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act indictment to Trump's lawyer who handled a nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act prosecution:
"What was it that Roy Cohn got the Rosenbergs electrocuted for?"
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My dad and mom at age 23 and 22 cast their first votes in a presidential election not at their Nebraska polling places but by mail, because it was 1944, and he was on a boat in the South Pacific and she was working at a cryotography office outside D.C., both fighting fascism.
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He didn’t used to stand this way. Is it shoes with lifts, a girdle, both, or something else?
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The three useful idiots who may get the dangerous idiot reelected president.
Just realized all three are Harvard College graduates—classes of ’76, ’73 and ’73, respectively.
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I’ll never get over the fact that in 1960s & 70s Nebraska my conservative Republican parents’ go-to example of “black hats,” their derisive term for crazy far-right-wingers, were our neighbors across the street, the Lamps, parents of young Ginni, the future Mrs. Clarence Thomas.
ICYMI: Also signing the letter calling for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the GOP House Conference — Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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How absurd that the anti-intellectual, anti-elite, anti-cosmopolitan party’s four top-tier non-Trump 2024 presidential candidates (Cotton, Cruz, DeSantis, Pompeo) all have Harvard Law School degrees.
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Doing research, came across a letter from a 23-year-old reader to his small-town newspaper. It could be a summary of today's mainstream Republican talking points, but it's from 4 years before Fox News existed, 23 years before Trump ran.
Any guesses who was so ahead of his time?
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Did not see this coming: choice between a nominally Democratic Rockefeller Republican and a non-Democrat democratic socialist to prevent a former-Democrat fascist from being re-elected, all of them between 74 and 79.
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The FBI planted the sensitive documents it was illegal for him to have AND he declassified all of them: Schrödinger's cat burglar!
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Florida man whose federal job gave him access to intel, “knowingly removed 300 classified documents, including 30 items marked Top Secret” and kept them “in his home,” was just sentenced to 3 years in prison for unlawfully retaining documents relating to national defense.” 1/2
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Pretty big deal: the 5th largest Protestant denomination in America, consisting of 4 million people in 9,000 congregations, declares itself a “sanctuary church body” regarding immigrants.
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Behold, the Democrat’s narrow victory" in New Jersey is now larger than the margin of the “stunning shellacking" wrought by the Republican in Virginia.
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The pandemic’s not over, but this graph of New York deaths makes me think this jam-packed city of 8.8 million people learned the lessons and adapted well.
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Note:
@senatemajldr
and Senate Republicans’ threat to reject Biden cabinet nominees for ideological reasons would be an insane new busting of a norm. The Senate has rejected only 3 nominees in the last 150 years, the most recent (for being an alcoholic sexual harasser) in 1989.
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Timothy McVeigh. Who 3 years later blew up the Oklahoma City federal building, murdering 168 people.
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Adore Jane Krakowski. “Jane has never met Mr. Lindell. She is not and has never been in any relationship with him, romantic or otherwise. She is, however, in full-fledged fantasy relationships with Brad Pitt, Regé-Jean Page, and Kermit the Frog and welcomes coverage on those.”
Jane Krakowski is shutting down rumors that she's been in a secret, months-long relationship with the MyPillow CEO she's never actually met
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Earthquake. Eclipse. The antichrist running for president.
Check.
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In March 1945, a few weeks before we defeated Nazi Germany, the regular informational pamphlet Army Talks, sent to all U.S. soldiers and officers in Europe, was a primer on fascism. It’s remarkable to read now. For obvious reasons.
h/t
@HC_Richardson
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What I don’t get about all the privately Trump-loathing Republicans in Washington: being a member of Congress or the cabinet is just a JOB. Getting forced out of a good job sucks. But life goes on. And won’t you hate to die knowing that when push came to shove you were a coward?
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So interesting—and for Democrats, important. Percent of Americans who “think political correctness is a problem”:
87% Hispanics
82% Asians
79% whites
76% 18-29
75% blacks
66% post-grad degrees
61% “traditional liberals”
30% “progressive activists”
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So true. At the the time of the Constitution, the biggest state was 13X more populous than the smallest; today it’s 68X. For instance, 3 states combined—Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota—have a smaller population than my neighborhood, Brooklyn, but elect 6 U.S. Senators.
Founders’ design flaws in democracy—electoral college & 2 senators per state no matter the size of population—have created the current Supreme Court.
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The 275 counties in which Trump held campaign rallies in 2016 had a 226% increase in hate crimes compared to similar counties in which Trump didn’t hold rallies.
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Health economists estimate Sturgis resulted in 19% of new U.S. cases last month and cost $12 billion in medical care.
Thomas Jefferson said Americans should be free to believe anything they want as long as “it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Covid denial does both.
We estimate that over 250,000 of the reported cases between August 2 and September 2 are due to the Sturgis Rally. Roughly 19 percent of the national cases during this timeframe.
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Been watching 1960s and 70s episodes of Meet the Press and Face the Nation, when the format was still a mini-press-conference, a newsmaker questioned by several reporters in turn, not one-on-one anchor-newsmaker conversations. Tougher, more clinical. News shows should revive it.
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In Spy magazine in 1992 we reported on his speed habit, documented by a copy of his 1980s medical records: “Have you ever wondered why Donald Trump has acted so erratically at times, full of manic energy, paranoid, garrulous?”
JUST IN: Former
@ApprenticeNBC
staffer,
@CaslerNoel
, says Donald Trump is a “speed freak” who crushes up Adderall and snorts it
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This bigger tranche of texts to & from Mark Meadows is mostly Trump-inner-circle people panicking on 1/6. But this 1/5 exchange with MTG: why the fuck were the White House chief of staff and Lindsey Graham paying close attention to a freak who’d been a House member for 48 hours?
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Drug smuggler and loan shark whose pardon was brokered by Jared Kushner and Alan Dershowitz. A pardon that wrecked
@TheJusticeDept
’s deal with this loan shark to cooperate in the prosecution of fellow loan sharks. Win-win-win for all the gangsters.
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Watch at least the first 2 minutes of this perfect interview with guy who was one of Trump's swiped-documents lawyers until mid-May.
@Lawrence
is so well-prepped, so fair but fierce in real time. Every broadcast journalist & j-school student should study.
HOLY SHIT, y'all wanna see a body?
Lawrence O'Donnell thoroughly took former trump attorney Tim Parlatore to school. SAVAGE.
It pays to prepare. 👏👏👏
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Until now I hadn’t really known of this piece of the recent history, the Netanyahu governments’ de facto alliance with Hamas, intended to prevent a real Palestinian state and 2-state solution. This is the distinguished
@haaretzcom
journalist Gidi Weitz.
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Listened to
@JoeBiden
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@HowardStern
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As a teenaged German immigrant,
@POTUS
' grandfather moved in with his sister, who'd come 2 years before; he was a "chain migrant." After making a fortune as a brothel-keeper, he moved back home--but Germany quickly deported him for having originally emigrated to dodge the draft
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Such amazing grace. At his daughter’s funeral yesterday, Rob Tibbetts said that “the Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans. As far as I’m concerned, they’re Iowans with better food.”
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A 9-page investigative article about Donald Trump's fraudulent financial schemes in the April 1991 issue of SPY magazine, 3 months before he filed for bankruptcy the first time.
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None of the Republican Senators running for president (Cotton, Cruz, Hawley, Paul, Rubio, Tim Scott) were among the 20 Republican Senators who voted for the infrastructure bill.
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Great exposé of decade-long grift by 3 young right-wingers—created nonprofit fronts, raised $10M a year from donors, their marketing firms kept 99% of the money. Met as college Republicans—but no mention here of their Koch network training along the way. 1/2
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Katie Britt’s Republican response may be the most hamming, over-acting performance by a politician I’ve ever seen.
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An important and seldom-made argument we need to make for single-payer health care: it'd be good for American capitalism. It would free people to take any new job offered or to start businesses, and give startups and small businesses a leg up to compete with big business.
#2020
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At 11:21 pm last night,
@propublica
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@WSJopinion
published Alito’s lame dismissal of the story.
Oh, my, the questions:
First, who orchestrated this weird pre-buttal with the infamous WSJ Polluter Page, and did Alito get help from a PR firm?
If so, who paid?
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Before Kavanaugh’s hearing I was afraid, given all the positive chatter from people who know him, that despite all the profound disagreements I might find him impressive and likable. Nope. Disingenuous super-weasel.
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It isn’t two “different impeachment realities,”
@nytimes
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Don’t let norms of journalistic objectivity become a suicide pact.
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When Clinton’s presidential approval increased during his big scandal, I hatched my theory of the entertainer-in-chief. Now I wonder if part of Biden’s problem, especially after 16 years of Trump and Obama, is that people are disappointed by a president who’s not a riveting star.
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And when he learned 3/4 of Japanese cars & trucks sold in the U.S. are built in North America, was he embarrassed?
Pres Trump asks Japanese auto makers if they could build their cars in the US and not just ship them over.
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Here’s a grand bargain: businesses take on the additional cost of paying their employees a $15 minimum wage (with automatic cost-of-living increases), but thanks to government-funded universal health care they no longer have the huge cost of paying for their employees’ insurance.
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Not so long ago, Newsweek was a legit blue-chip news venue, Blue Cross Blue Shield a purely not-for-profit insurance organization, and the GOP a reasonable reality-based pillar of democracy. What other once-great American institutions misleadingly operate under their old names?
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Hitler: “All great civilizations” die from “contamination of the blood…the poison which has invaded the national body…[an] influx of foreign blood.”
Trump on migrants: “It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”
Trump spokesman: “A normal phrase that is used in everyday life.”
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Trump this morning: “The FBI…blatantly used their power to get a cognitively impaired Democrat elected President — in two elections." (Two elections?)
Trump just now: “Last week, weirdo…Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, kissed my ass.” (The dinner was in October 2019.)
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House last week and kissed his ass
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I seldom-to-never RT things of this sort. But this is genius.
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A remarkable historic moment. Ten of the last generation’s most senior and respected generals and admirals and 4 former secretaries of defense have in the last week said the president is unfit and a danger.
@PaulSlansky
gathered their statements.
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I follow the Trump story closely. But so many indictments and suits now—4 scheduled trials during the next 8 months, 2 more probable criminal indictments and trials—that I was entirely unaware of one.
To clarify:
After his and his children’s civil business-fraud trial in
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Chancellor Hitler’s flair for the dramatic introduced a sense of showmanship when it came to governing Germany.
President Trump's flair for the dramatic has introduced a sense of showmanship when it comes to nominating a Supreme Court justice.
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By the way, those Buffalo cops didn’t actually resign from the police force, which would’ve actually required sacrifice. They’re still employed, still getting paid, simply refusing to make themselves available for anti-riot SWAT duty.
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Correction: net gain for each of 50,000 votes, meaning Ossoff wins by 49,000 (1%) and Warnock by 85,000 (2%).
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In the last two and a half hours he’s tweeted 7 times attacking the Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto for saying a VA study found that taking hydroxychloroquine can kill you.
Real madness.
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Clint Eastwood definitively declaring himself anti-Trump is a good thing, period.
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@atrupar
And while our laws don’t affect the Vatican, someone tell Cawthorn that in 1905 the U.S. Supreme ruled that compulsory vaccination laws are constitutional because “the right of each individual person to use his own” liberty must defer to “the injury that may be done to others.”
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Seems like one of the largest ritual human sacrifices in history, possibly the largest.
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Until today, I'd not known the details of
@JohnKerry
's Vietnam service––in 3 months wounded 3 times and won a Silver Star and Bronze Star for heroism––or of the grotesque 2004 GOP effort to besmirch his record. Anytime you feel too kindly toward either president Bush, read up.
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Trump just said he greed to do 18 interviews with Bob Woodward because "I respect him very much just from knowing his name for so many years, not knowing his work, not caring about his work."
Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time
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Change of plan. I’m now planning to commit my federal felonies in eastern Virginia, and *soon*, because Judge T.S. Ellis III is almost 79.
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“Snorting Adderall causes more of the drug to reach the brain in a shorter amount of time. Snorting Adderall can can increase the risk of overdose. Signs of an Adderall overdose may include:
* confusion
* hallucinations
* anxiety and agitation”
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I saw right-wing conspiracy-mongering senator Tom Cotton on Fox News this morning and began re-thinking my disbelief in reptilian humanoids.
All of them first appeared on earth in the late 1970s and early 80s—during the right-wing paradigm shift. And rule of 3. Facts are facts.
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An ER nurse in South Dakota on the tragic co-morbidity of propaganda and covid.
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To impeach
@potus
, 24 of 241 GOP House members & 19 of 52 GOP Senators would have to vote with all Democrats. I can imagine getting there.
...Senators should focus their energies on ISIS, illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to start World War III.
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I only just now registered that he was impeached both times for encouraging crimes specifically to keep Joe Biden from succeeding him.
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